Tags
A tag is a keyword or label that categorizes your question with other, similar questions.
macOS is the current marketing name for Apple's Macintosh Operating System. This OS was previously known as OS X, and Mac OS X before that (which itself succeeded the 'classic' Mac OS).
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iPhone is Apple's smartphone line. All iPhones are shipped with iOS, Apple’s mobile Operating System. This tag can include questions about hardware, software and accessories.
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Questions about the Terminal application or its terminal emulation should use this tag. Use **command-line** for questions about shells or command-line programs that do not specifically involve Terminal.
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Mac is Apple's computer brand. Apple currently produces several lines of Macintosh computers divided into two categories, desktops: Mac mini, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, and notebooks: MacBook, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro.
All current Macs ship with macOS. This tag is for any and all questions that relate to the actual hardware. For operating system-related questions, use the [macos] tag.
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Apple's touchscreen iOS based tablet. Use this tag for all generations and sizes of iPad
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iTunes is an application available for macOS and Windows. It is used to manage & play media and sync data to iOS devices.
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The default file manager used on the Mac OS, Mac OS X and macOS operating systems.
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Questions about configuring, troubleshooting or using connections that one device uses to talk to another.
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Display tag helps people find questions relating to internal displays, external displays, network displays and anything that lets you see visually data, status or alerts.
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AppleScript is a proprietary programming language in macOS to control and exchange data with applications.
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Safari is Apple's web browser. This tag is for Safari in macOS. For Safari on iOS, use the mobile-safari tag, and for Safari in Windows, use the safari-windows tag.
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Using programs and commands that do not have a graphical user interface (GUI) but are rather controlled by typing text commands into a terminal program, or shell.
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The process or product of preserving data for the purpose of recovery from a data loss event.
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Wireless local area networking, also known as "Wireless Internet"; stands for "WIreless FIdelity"
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Application software. Applications, or apps, for short, is software that runs on the computer.
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For questions about using Apple products and services with a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system in its various versions. Other questions about Windows are off-topic and can be asked on Super User instead.
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Time Machine is Apple's built-in backup software. Time Machine was first introduced on OS 10.5 Leopard.
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Usually referring to the startup process of a device or computer from an initial "cold" state rather than sleep or hibernation.
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Apple's built-in disk management utility for the mac. Erases, formats, and restores volumes and drives.
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The audio tag is used for questions involving speakers, microphones, connections between them and computers, and applications for dealing with it.
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Questions about Boot Camp, a utility included with OS X Leopard (10.5) and above that assists users in installing other operating systems on Intel-based Macintosh computers.
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macOS 10.15 Catalina is Apple's sixteenth major release of the macOS operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS Catalina was announced June 3, 2019 at WWDC.
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Use this to tag for questions about the USB interface or devices connected via USB.
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Photographs and photography in general. For the application, use "photos.app".
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Email is short for electronic mail. There are tags for popular mail clients including the mail tag in case your question is related to a specific program and not email in general.
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macOS 10.13 High Sierra is Apple's operating system for Macintosh hardware. macOS Sierra was announced June 5, 2017 at WWDC, Apple's annual conference for developers where new operating systems have been announced for the last several years.
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If your question pertains to a specific protocol, e.g., ssh or ssl (https), please use that tag instead. This is for general security of hardware, information, software topics where another tag isn’t presumed. iPhone security should use iPhone or iOS tag.
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macOS 10.14 Mojave is Apple's fifteenth major release of the macOS operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS Mojave was announced June 4, 2018 at WWDC and was released for public on 24 September 2018.
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