Over the break, I upgraded my 2020 27-inch iMac to macOS 14 Sonoma, which I’ve been running on my M1 MacBook Air for months. The process was simple and easy, and everything continued to work with no ...

Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because of cloud storage services like Apple's own iCloud, ...

Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature. Time Machine is an app that Apple ships with macOS and that helps ...

My external Time Machine drive isn't automatically mounting when connected to my Mac. I have to go to Terrminal and use sudo diskutil apfs unlockVolume to manually unlock the APFS volume for it to ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

Backing up your Mac is an essential step to safeguard your data against unexpected events such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or software issues. Apple’s Time Machine, a built-in feature ...

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...