Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app’s menu items. Then use
the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to
execute that menu bar action.
Press ⌃F2 to move keyboard focus to the application’s menu bar.
Start typing the first few letters of a menu title to jump to that
menu.
Hold the Option key while expanding an outline view to recursively
expand all children. (The easiest place to test this is in Finder’s List
view.)
On modal dialogs/sheets, press Command + the first letter of the
button to press that button. ⌘. is the shortcut equivalent of the Escape
key.
Hold Control and Option while clicking on a window to switch focus
to that window without raising it.
Hold Command while dragging a toolbar icon to move it to a new
position.
By default, clicking inside a scroll bar will scroll partially
towards the clicked location. Hold Option while clicking in the scroll
bar to jump directly to the clicked location.
Hold Option while dragging the scroller to slowly scroll.
In a scroll view, use the Up/Down keys to scroll in small
increments. Hold Option to scroll in larger increments, and hold Command
to scroll to the beginning or end.
Hold Option while pressing the Page Up/Page Down keys to also move
the cursor while scrolling.
In a text field that treats the Tab key as an input, press
Control-Tab and Control-Shift-Tab to move focus to the previous or next
control.
Press ⌃⌘D while holding the pointer over a word to view an inline
dictionary definition of the word.
Press ⌃F6 to move focus to a floating window.
To quickly find text, select some text and press ⌘E followed by
⌘G.
Press ⌃⌫ to delete only the accent mark from the previous character
(e.g. é will become e).
In Fonts windows, enter *X to scale the current font size,
e.g. *1.5.
When entering text, press ⌥⇧K (on U.S. keyboards) to insert an Apple
logo.
Hold Command while dragging a Picture-in-Picture (PiP) video player
to move it anywhere without having it snap to one of the screen
corners.
Mission Control / Window
Management 😎
When a window is inactive, use the Command key to interact with it
without making it active.
Hold Control when pressing the Mission Control function key to only
show the current app’s windows. Hold Command when pressing the Mission
Control function key to show the desktop.
Hold Option while double-clicking a window’s corner to expand the
window to fill the screen.
Option-Click to switch windows while hiding the previous app.
Command-Option-Click to switch windows and hide all other apps.
In the Command-Tab app switcher, press the Up or Down arrow keys (or
the 1 key) on an app to view that app’s windows.
In the Command-Tab app switcher, hold Option while switching to an
app to un-minimize all its windows.
Press ⌘` to cycle between windows of the foreground
application.
Press ⌃F4 to cycle between windows across all applications in the
current desktop space.
Drag a window to the top of the screen and push it against the top
of the screen to enter Mission Control with that window selected.
Press ⌥⌘W or hold Option while clicking the red close button, to
close all of the foreground application’s open windows.
Press ⌥⌘M, or hold Option while clicking the yellow minimize button,
to minimize all of the foreground application’s open windows.
Hold Option while clicking the green zoom button to fill the window
to the screen instead of entering full-screen mode.
When configuring Hot Corners in System Settings, hold any or all of
Control, Option, Command, or Shift to only activate the corner while the
selected keys are also held down.
On a trackpad, use two fingers to double-tap (tap, not click) on an
app’s Dock icon to show all of the app’s windows. Alternatively, perform
the App Exposé trackpad gesture over an app’s Dock icon.
Hold Option while resizing a window to resize from the center of the
window. Hold Shift while resizing a window to lock the aspect
ratio.
Double-click a window’s border to resize that edge to fill the
screen. Hold Option while double-clicking to expand both edges.
In Mission Control, perform a scroll up over a group of app windows
to reveal the individual windows. Press the Space bar while holding the
pointer over any window to magnify it.
In Mission Control, Option-click another desktop space to switch to
that space while staying in Mission Control.
In Mission Control, drag the application icon underneath the windows
to move all of an app’s windows to another space.
In Mission Control app window mode, press Tab and Shift-Tab to
switch applications.
If a window was minimized in a different space, hold Command while
un-minimizing to restore it to the current space.
Hold Option while un-minimizing a window to un-minimize all windows
from that app.
If an app has windows in multiple spaces, click the app’s Dock icon
repeatedly to cycle through the spaces with that app’s windows.
If keyboard shortcuts are enabled for switching desktop spaces,
pressing a shortcut while clicking and holding a window will move the
window to that space.
In Stage Manager, hold Shift while clicking on a window to add that
window to the current stage instead of replacing it.
Save Dialogs 😎
Drag a file or folder from Finder into an open/save dialog to jump
directly to that file.
In save dialogs, press ⌘= to switch between the compact and expanded
layout.
In save dialogs, press ⌘⌫ to activate the Delete button, ⌘D to
activate the Don’t Save button, and ⌘. (or Esc) to activate the Cancel
button.
Press ~ to open a Go To File dialog prefilled with the home
directory. Press / to open it prefilled with the root directory.
Press ⌘R to reveal the selected item in Finder.
Turn Off Default iCloud
Save Location
I’m sure I recall a checkbox or option for this but a web search only
returns this command:
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false
Function Keys 😎
Hold down Shift and Option when changing the volume or brightness to
make smaller adjustments.
Hold down Option while changing the brightness to quickly open
Display settings, or while changing the volume to open Sound
settings.
Hold down Shift while changing the volume to audibly preview the
volume level.
When connected to an external display, hold down Control while
changing the brightness to adjust the brightness of the non-active
display.
Press and hold down on the Mission Control function key to
automatically exit Mission Control after letting go of the key.
Menu Bar / Notification Center
😎
Hold Option while opening the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth menus to access
extra options.
Hold Command while dragging a menu bar icon to move it to a new
position.
Add new menu bar items by dragging icons from Control Center to the
menu bar.
Option-click the date/time in the menu bar to toggle Do Not
Disturb.
Right-click a widget to change its size.
On a trackpad, swipe horizontally with two fingers over a
notification to dismiss that notification.
Dock 😎
Press ⌥⌘D to hide and show the dock.
Press ⌃F3 to move keyboard focus to the Dock. Then use the Left and
Right arrow keys to select an app, or type the first few letters of an
app. Press Enter to open the selected app, or press the Up arrow key to
open the app’s menu.
Hold Control and Shift while mousing over the Dock to temporarily
turn on magnification.
Quickly move the Dock to a different side of the screen by holding
Shift while dragging the resize handle.
Hold Option while resizing the Dock to resize in multiples of 16
points.
Hold Option and Command while clicking a running app’s Dock icon to
hide all other applications.
Open a file in a specific application by dragging the file to the
application’s Dock icon. If the application doesn’t accept the file type
by default, force open the file by holding Option and Command while
dragging the file.
If a dock icon is bouncing repeatedly, stop the bouncing by mousing
over the icon.
Hold Control and Command when right-clicking a Dock icon to only see
the default system menu options.
Hold Option and Command when clicking on a folder in the Dock to
open the folder in a new Finder window.
To open multiple items from a stack, hold Option while selecting an
item to open it in the background while keeping the stack open.
After opening a stack, hover the cursor over an item and press the
Space bar to preview the item with quick look.
Right-click the Launchpad dock icon to open an app from an inline
menu.
In Launchpad, hold Option to enter “jiggle mode” to re-arrange and
delete apps.
Add shortcuts to System Settings to the Dock by navigating to
/System/Library/PreferencePanes and dragging preference panes to the
Dock.
To add AirDrop to the Dock, navigate to
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/Applications in Finder
and drag the AirDrop icon to the Dock.
Spotlight 😎
Press ⌘B to search the web for the current query.
Press ⌘C to copy the full path to the selected file, or to copy the
result of the current calculation.
Press ⌘D to show a dictionary preview for the current query.
Press ⌘L to jump to the dictionary section in the results (if
present).
Press ⌘⏎ or ⌘R to reveal the selected file in Finder.
Use the name: filter to only search in the filename.
Add kind:folder to only search for folder names. Hold Command to
show the path to the currently selected file.
Screenshots 😎
After pressing ⇧⌘4 and while drawing the screen capture area, hold
Option while resizing to resize from the centre, and hold Shift while
resizing to adjust only one axis. After drawing the area, hold the Space
bar and drag to move the selected area.
After pressing ⇧⌘4, hold Control while taking the screenshot to copy
to the clipboard instead of saving to file.
After pressing ⇧⌘4, press the Space bar to select a window to
screenshot. Hold down Option while taking the screenshot to remove the
window’s shadow.
Right click on the floating screenshot preview to access additional
actions.
Remove Dropshadows from
Screenshots
To remove dropshadows from screenshots enter the following command
:
You have to log out or restart to see changes. Also bare in mind that
you cannot add the shadows back in by using the option
key which would have been neat.
Rebuild
the ‘Launch Services’ to remove duplicates in the ’Open
With…” menu.
Fire this command into the terminal and you’re good to go!
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
Refresh LaunchPad
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock
defaults write com.apple.finder QLEnableTextSelection -bool true && killall Finder
Refresh Icon Cache
Should you ever find a need to refresh icons here’s the ticket :
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.appple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \;sudo find /private/var/folders -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \;sudo mv /Library/Caches/com.apple.iconservices.store com.apple.ickillAll Dock
View Installed Files
from PKG Manifest (BOM)
To view what files were installed via a package you need to have a
look in the /var/db/receipts/. This folder holds all the
bill of materials files, otherwise known as BOM, left
by package installers. Once you’ve found the culprit issue the following
command to get a list of installed files :
lsbom -f <BOM FILE>
Fix Attempt for WindowServer
Sometimes the UI lags in macOS. Sucks. It’s
difficult to pinpoint the whys and wherefores of this phenomena but a
potential solution could be:
Don’t run all of these together: try each one in order and check if
it fixes the problem. The second part, process -a … is used
in the event that the process killed doesn’t come back.
After Safe Boot
Safe Boot( hold down shift while booting ) is useful
to refresh the system. System caches are deleted and will be rebuilt.
The problem is after booting normally you may find ram
usage is rather high. Should you find this enter this command to fix the
problem :
sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force
Disable SIP
Sometimes you may need to make some system modifications and that
means disabling SIP. Here’s how :
Reboot the computer and at the chime hold down the following
CMD+R+S. This will startup recovery mode in single
user-mode. The benefit of using single-user mode is how much faster it
is to boot into rather than the full gui version. Once you’re at the
prompt write this csrutil disable. Done.
Reset NVRAM
You know the drill. Hit these keys immediately after starting up the
computer :
⌃ + ⌘ + P + R
After about 20 seconds, or after two chimes, release and startup as
per usual. Change any settings that may have been reset.
Change Hibernate Mode
The default hibernation mode is “safe sleep”. This stores
the contents of RAM to file that is restored when the laptop runs out of
power. This sounds just swell but if one runs the laptop connected to
power and in clamshell mode all the time its a waste of space so let’s
change it.
# Use this to determine the current status (default is mode '3')pmset-g|grep hibernatemode# Change hibernate modesudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
After doing this you should restart to take effect. Any sleep images
in /private/var/vm/ can be deleted if not already.
Font Smoothing Post High
Sierra
Font smoothing has taken a turn for the worse on non-retina screens
in Mojave and requires some cajoling to get it
right.
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Restart or log out to take effect.
Enabling SSD Trim
When doing a clean install one usually has to re-enable trim on the
third-party SSD and then restart. By the way, if you need to do a few
commands that require restarting then doing them all together! Remember,
when running trimforce it will restart automatically so run that command
last.
sudo trimforce enable
Fix GOG Installers
Often GOG package installers do not actually install
anything. In order to get a working application try the following
instructions:
xar-xf$PACKAGEcd package.pkgtar-xvf Scripts
Have a look inside the package.pkg file for the
payload folder. Drag this folder out to another location
and rename $GAME_NAME.app. Test that it runs and then move
the application anywhere you see fit. Consider automating to
procedure.
Lockscreen
Background not Reflecting your Wallpaper?
¿El fondo de lockscreen no se parece al papel de empapelar? Sin
problema. Una carpeta necesaria no existe en su sistema. Vamos a
arreglar lo. Coge su UUID desde usarios & grupos
del preferencias de sistema y navega a /Library/Caches/. Si
una capeta nombrada ‘Desktop Pictures’ existe, entra en la o crea la
capeta con ese nombre. Dentro, crea otra carpeta con su UUID.
Listo.
Incorrect TMPDIR permissions
For whatever the system $TMPDIR pointed to the wrong,
unwritable, directory after a system upgrade. The typescript lsp
wouldn’t start in neovim due to this error so let’s fix it. Type this
commmand:
launchctl setenv TMPDIR "$( getconf DARWIN_USER_TEMP_DIR )"
launchctl setenv will set a given variable across the
whole system for both cli and gui applications whilst
getconf DARWIN… will get the correct user temp
directory.
Once you’ve run the command ensure you restart the terminal for the
changes to take hold.
Finder
Tips and Tricks 😎
After copying a file, press ⌥⌘V to move the file instead of pasting
a copy of it.
Press ⌃⌘N with multiple files selected to create a new folder with
those items.
Press Tab and Shift-Tab to navigate through files alphabetically,
regardless of the current sort ordering (only in Icons and List
view).
Hold Option while activating Quick Look to immediately launch into
full-screen view.
After opening Quick Look with multiple files selected, press ⌘⏎ to
display a grid view of all items. Use the arrow keys to navigate and
press Return to select an item to focus on.
Right-click on the “Open with” button to select a different app to
use to open the file.
In Columns view, hold Option while resizing a column to
simultaneously resize all columns.
In Columns view, double-click a column separator to auto-resize that
column. Hold Option while double-clicking on any separator to
auto-resize all columns.
In Columns view, click the empty space at the bottom of a folder to
go to the parent folder.
In Columns view, and when in a deeply nested file, press Shift-Tab
and Tab to navigate through the parent directories without losing the
path to the file.
Hold Option while dragging a file to make a new copy instead of
moving the original. Hold Command and Option to create an alias to the
file.
In List view, press ⌘+ and ⌘- to increase and decrease the row
size.
In List view, press ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ to select the top-most and bottom-most
item.
In List view, use the Left and Right arrow keys to collapse and
expand directories. When a file is selected, press the Left arrow key to
jump to the parent folder.
Press ⌘I to show the inspector for the current file. Press ⌥⌘I to
show a floating inspector that updates with the selected file.
Press ⌥⌘C to copy the full pathname of the currently selected
file.
Press ⇧⌘. to toggle showing hidden files.
Press ⌥⌘⌫ to immediately delete a file without sending it to the
Trash.
Merge folders by holding Option while dragging one folder on top of
another folder.
Set a custom icon for a folder by copying the new icon, inspecting
the folder (⌘I), and pasting the icon by selecting the folder icon in
the upper-left of the inspector window and pressing ⌘V.
Drag selected text into a Finder window to quickly create and save a
text clipping. (Text clippings are text files that can’t be edited and
don’t require a filename to be saved.)
Press ⌥⌘O to open the selected file and automatically close the
Finder window.
Press ⌥⇧⌘V to paste an item while preserving the file permission
flags.
Hold Command while dragging an icon in Icon view to align it to a
grid.
Restart Finder by holding Option while right-clicking the Finder
dock icon and selecting Relaunch.
Drag a folder to the new tab button (only visible if multiple tabs
are already open) to open the folder in a new tab.
Press ⌃⌘↑ to open the parent folder in a new window.
If the toolbar is hidden (⌥⌘T), Finder will open folders in a new
window.
Reset Finder Views
Finder can be a touch pedantic about remembering how it was
last displayed. Sometimes you may want to reset all folders to the
default view. Use this code to remedy it :
sudo find / -name .DS_Store -delete; killall Finder
Safari
Tips and Tricks 😎
Tab groups organise tabs spatially. Use ⌥⌘{↑,↓,←,→} to navigate tabs
in 2D space.
When a video is playing, right click the speaker icon in the address
bar or tab to enter Picture-in-Picture (PiP) mode.
Hold Option while closing a tab to close all other tabs except the
current tab.
Click and hold the back button to see recent browsing history. Hold
Option to see page URLs instead of page titles.
Drag selected text onto the Safari dock icon to quickly search the
web for that text.
Press ⇧⌘T to re-open the most recently closed tab or window.
Click and hold on the new tab icon in the toolbar to view recently
closed tabs.
Press the Space bar at the beginning of the address bar to change
the search engine and to see recent web searches.
Add kind:bookmark to Spotlight searches to search Safari bookmarks
and browsing history.
Shift-click a link to add it to Reading List.
Click and hold a bookmark in the bookmarks bar to edit its display
title.
Option-click the reload icon or press ⌥⌘R to force a fresh reload of
the current webpage.
Right-click the reader icon in the address bar to automatically turn
on Reader Mode for all pages on the current website.
After performing a web search and opening a result in the same tab,
press ⌥⌘S to go back to the search results page.
Press ⇧⌘I to create a new email message with the contents of the
current page.
Hold Option over the History > Clear History menu item to only
clear browsing history while preserving website data.
Extensions Vanished?
Run this:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -f -R /Applications/Safari.app
Debug Menu
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1
- use this command to enable the Safari debug menu.
This is useful for many reasons but in particular one can disable
autoplaying video. Incidentally, should you wish to use Safari
Technology Preview you can use the same command as above but
add amend it to read as follows :
com.apple.SafariTechnologyPreview.
Permanently Change User
Agent in Safari
To find user agent strings you can hover over the options in
Developer -> User Agent or search online.
defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\" user agent string here "\"
Disable Hyperlink Auditing
Beacon
nb. This should probably be in the legacy section… Source
Essentially, hyperlink auditing (<a ping>attribute) is designed to notify an arbitrary website when you
click on a link.
Command-click multiple mailboxes in the left sidebar to
simultaneously view all messages from the selected mailboxes.
Select part of a message’s text before replying or forwarding to
only include the selected text in the new message.
Select an attachment in a message before forwarding to only include
the attachment in the forwarded message.
Drag a file to the Mail dock icon to compose a new message with the
file already attached.
Press ⌥⇧⌘N to create a new tab.
Press the Space bar at the end of a message to go to the next
message. Hold Shift while pressing the Space bar at the top of a message
to go to the previous message.
Start typing the first few characters of the sender, subject, or
body to jump to that message in the messages list.
Press ⌥⌘↑ and ⌥⌘↓ to jump to the top-most or bottom-most message in
the messages list.
Save an extra copy of an important message by dragging it to the
Finder.
If a message bounces, use Message > Send Again on the bounced
message to re-send it to a different address.
To add a message to multiple folders, hold Command while dragging
the message to each folder.
Press ⇧⌘C to assign a color to a message.
Drag a message into the Notes or Reminders app to add a link to the
message.
Press ⌘R and ⇧⌘R while replying to a message to switch between reply
and reply-all.
Press ⌥⌫ to delete a message without automatically opening the next
message.
Command-click on the currently selected message to unselect it.
If a message has already been replied to, click on the reply icon in
the message list to open the reply in a new window.
When creating a new mailbox, add a forward slash to create a nested
mailbox.
After performing a search, select a mailbox from the left sidebar to
filter the search to that mailbox.
Hold Shift while launching Mail to reset the index.
Playing around with fonts can be fun but shifting back to
San Francisco isn’t possible through normal means.
Hark! A Solution:
defaults delete -app Mail MessageListFont. This command
will reset the font declaration for the list font.
Preview
Tips and Tricks 😎
Press ` to bring up a magnifier, and then press + and - to resize
it.
In a PDF document, re-order the pages in the document by re-ordering
the pages in the sidebar.
Merge two PDF documents by dragging pages from one document’s
sidebar to the other document’s sidebar.
In the save dialog for an image, hold Option while opening the
Format menu to access an extended list of formats.
Hold Option and the Space bar to activate the pan tool.
Hold Option while in text selection mode to switch to rectangular
text selection.
Calendar
Tips and Tricks 😎
Hold Shift while dragging an event to set a more precise time
instead of snapping to 15-minute intervals.
Click and hold the Accept button in a calendar invite to change
which calendar the event is accepted to.
Hold Option while pressing the Accept button in a calendar invite to
accept all events.
Hold Command while clicking any calendar’s checkbox in the left
sidebar to show or hide all calendars.
Hold Command and Option while clicking a calendar’s checkbox to only
show that calendar.
Add kind:event to Spotlight searches to search calendar events.
Resize the mini-calendar in the bottom-left to preview more
months.
With an event selected, press ⌃⌥↑ and ⌃⌥↓ to adjust the time of the
event. This also works with multiple events selected.
In Week view, press ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ to shift the view by a single
day.
Messages
Tips and Tricks 😎
Press ⌘R to directly reply to the latest message in the
conversation. Press ⇧⌘R to reply to the latest thread in the
conversation.
Press ⌘T to bring up the tapback selector for the latest message.
Use the 1-6 number keys to select a reaction.
Press ⌘E to edit the latest sent message.
Press ⌥↑ and ⌥↓ in the message input field to cycle through
previously sent messages.
Press ⌘1-9 to jump to a pinned conversation.
Right-click on a message and select Show Times to view exact
timestamps for each message.
Right-click the Messages icon in the Dock to quickly view and jump
to unread conversations.
Photos
Tips and Tricks 😎
Drag an item to the “My Albums” header section to quickly create an
album with that item.
After adding an item to an album, use ⌃⌘A to add other items to that
same album.
When editing an image, hold down the M key to compare the
modifications to the original.
Hold Option while launching Photos to choose a different photo
library to open.
Drag a photo from the Photos app into a Finder window to quickly
export the photo, or into the Mail or Messages app to attach the
photo.
When editing an image, double-click an adjustment slider to reset
it.
When editing an image, hold Option while holding the pointer over an
adjustment slider to extend the adjustment range.
Hold Option while clicking the rotate button to reverse the rotation
direction.
TextEdit
Tips and Tricks 😎
In rich text mode, press Option-Tab to insert an outlined list.
Press Option-Escape to autocomplete the current word.
Press ⌃⌥⌘P in the find text field (⌘F) to access advanced search
operators.
Hold Option while selecting text to make vertical text
selections.
The select line dialog (⌘L) supports the following formats: 1-3
selects lines 1-3 in the document +2 selects the 2nd line below the
cursor -2 selects the 2nd line above the cursor +2-4 selects 3 lines,
starting from 2 lines below the cursor -2-4 selects 3 lines, starting
from 2 lines above the cursor
Terminal
Tips and Tricks 😎
Press ⇧⌘A to select the output from the previous command.
Press ⌘L to clear the output from the previous command.
Press ⌃⌘V to paste and format text that is properly escaped for the
shell.
Press ⌃T while a command is executing to view runtime statistics
about the execution so far.
Press ⌘{↑,↓} to select the previous/next commands. Then press ⇧⌘A to
select the output of the currently selected command.
Press ⇧⌘I to set a title for the current window and tab.
Drag a file or folder into a Terminal window to insert its full
path. Alternatively, copy a file or folder in Finder and paste it in
Terminal to insert its path. Calculator
Press ⌘T to open a new window that keeps a running history of
calculations.
Press ⌘R to enable Reverse Polish notation (RPN) mode.
Press p to insert pi.
Right-click the number display and select “Large Type” to view the
current result in a large overlay window.
Use the Convert menu to perform various unit conversions.
In Programmer view (⌘3), click the individual binary bits to toggle
between 0 and 1. QuickTime Player
Grab a single frame from a video by pausing on the desired frame
(using the Left and Right arrow keys to navigate individual frames) and
pressing ⌘C. Photo Booth
Hold Option while taking a picture to skip the countdown.
Hold Shift while taking a picture to disable the screen flash.
When choosing one of the distortion effects (on the third page),
click and drag the cursor on the image preview to change the effects
origin.
Use ‘killAll Finder’ to refresh.
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE / FALSE
Update: no need for this anymore, simply hit
⇧⌘.
Enable Airdrop on
unsupported models
defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser BrowseAllInterfaces 1killAll Finder
Disabling Photos Photo
Scanning
To stop photoanalysisd from running and slowing down
Photos immensely, try the following command:
sudo launchctl remove com.apple.photoanalysisd# To re-enablesudo launchctl load com.apple.photoanalysisd
You may need to restart or logout to see changes but it seems to
survive subsequent restarts/shut downs and OS updates.
Catalina
The above command doesn’t seem to work on Catalina so try this
instead:
launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.photoanalysisd.plist.
Disable iTunes backup
defaults write com.apple.iTunes DeviceBackupsDisabled -bool YES
- What’s the point of backing up your iPhone? It’s not clear at all and
it’s a pain so let’s disable that shall we?