Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 14, 2024, at 3:32?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Third party apps have repeatedly been suggested here, to screen calls. Why are you interested this time?
Because I don’t recall ever seeing them mentioned on MacSupportCentral. I’ll look myself, but do you recall any comparisons among them. There are several on the Apple iOS App Store.
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
The Do Not Call Registry does not act upon violations from a single persons complaint(s). It acts after hundreds, possibly thousands, of complaints.?
Oregon’s Registry was more proactive, until the Federal one opened, then Oregon’s shut down. I was informed by the Oregon Attorney General’s office that a local auto glass shop got a $35,000 fine from my repeated complaints. I got zip, even thought it was my written complaints that won the case.?
Third party apps have repeatedly been suggested here, to screen calls. Why are you interested this time?
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On Jan 13, 2024, at 11:00, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Jan 13, 2024, at 11:16?AM, JR via groups.io <Yahoo_jr@...> wrote:
Thanks so much much for that. Must admit I hadn’t even considered that there might be 3rd party apps that help..
Looking at the home page on the Nomorobo… website, I learn that they list an FAQ advisory that my carrier’s (Spectrum) server side settings disable Nomorobo…. but they also say that Verizon (who provide the actual network services for Spectrum) plays nice with Nomorobo…, and that users can make specific local settings changes that will permit Nomorobo… to function on the Spectrum network.
For additional information, I reached out to live Spectrum support, and the person charged with helping me (his native language clearly was French, not English, and I did not ask where he was based), said that Spectrum does NOT recommend Nomorobo… but endorses “HIYA” instead. HIYA does have two apps listed on Apple’s iOS App store, so I’ll investigate those, but I’ll need to wait a bit because at the moment I have a family emergency and this is not the moment to be changing my phone’s configuration.
I’ll report back, but I’m also still hoping to get opinions or information as to whether filing a complaint with the Do Not Call registry against the chief current offender is of any use.
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I'm giving some thought to replacing my current 2012 Mac mini 6,1, which is configured as follows:
1TB SSD, replacing the original 500GB Fusion Drive
16BG RAM
My motivation for wanting to upgrade is to be able to use the newest versions of some of my apps. Also, I'm thinking of retiring in the next year or two, so this could be my last computer. I use the computer for email, web surfing, word processing, and a bit of light Excel work. I also stream radio shows, using Audio Hijack by Rogue Amoeba, save them as MP3's, and edit them with Fission by Rogue Amoeba. A 3-hour radio show can be up to 200MB, so I have that much data loaded into Fission when I'm editing a show. My data files consist of emails, various PDFs, Word documents, and Excel spreadsheets. I have 882GB free on the SSD, but I accumulate more data over time--not very fast, but I do. I don't use anything resource-intensive like Photoshop or Final Cut, and I don't foresee doing so. So here are the options off Apple's website:
Basic M2 Mac mini, 256GB SSD, 8GB RAM: $600
16GB RAM: +$200
1TB SSD: +$400
10GB Ethernet: +$100
I'm thinking I'd like to get 16GB of RAM and have the same amount of RAM I have now, but if the M2 Mac mini can somehow use RAM more efficiently, I'd be open to going for 8GB and saving the $200.
On the SDD, I'm well aware that the SSD couldn't be upgraded, or replaced if it failed. I'm not in danger of my SSD getting more than half full any time soon, but I understand that if the wear and tear is spread out over a bigger SSD, then the SSD will last longer.
If I go for 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD, we're looking at $1200, which I can afford. Does this sound reasonable, or like overkill? I don't think I need the 10GB Ethernet.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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Thank you very much.
Pat
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On Jan 13, 2024, at 6:44?PM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
?Hi folks! I’ve previously mentioned my Web site listing the best free software for the Macintosh computer:
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It has gotten to the point that, depending on what you usually do with your Mac, you may not need to buy any additional software for it. There are links to free versions of all the most popular types of applications on the site!
Please have a look, and I’d love to hear what you think of the site!
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On Jan 13, 2024, at 5:44 PM, Randy B. Singer <randy@...> wrote:
Hi folks! ?I’ve previously mentioned my Web site listing the best free software for the Macintosh computer:
Free Macintosh Software!
http://www.macattorney.com/free.html
Well, the site has proven to be really popular. ?So much so that I’ve drastically expanded it to make it even more useful. ?
The site now lists 165 programs! ?Every single one of them is extremely useful, well written, easy to install, and easy to use.
It has gotten to the point that, depending on what you usually do with your Mac, you may not need to buy any additional software for it. ?There are links to free versions of all the most popular types of applications on the site!
Please have a look, and I’d love to hear what you think of the site!
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
http://www.macattorney.com/welcome.html
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Hi folks! I’ve previously mentioned my Web site listing the best free software for the Macintosh computer:
Free Macintosh Software!
Well, the site has proven to be really popular. So much so that I’ve drastically expanded it to make it even more useful.
The site now lists 165 programs! Every single one of them is extremely useful, well written, easy to install, and easy to use.
It has gotten to the point that, depending on what you usually do with your Mac, you may not need to buy any additional software for it. There are links to free versions of all the most popular types of applications on the site!
Please have a look, and I’d love to hear what you think of the site!
__________________________________________________
Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 13, 2024, at 11:16?AM, JR via groups.io <Yahoo_jr@...> wrote:
Thanks so much much for that. Must admit I hadn’t even considered that there might be 3rd party apps that help..
Looking at the home page on the Nomorobo… website, I learn that they list an FAQ advisory that my carrier’s (Spectrum) server side settings disable Nomorobo…. but they also say that Verizon (who provide the actual network services for Spectrum) plays nice with Nomorobo…, and that users can make specific local settings changes that will permit Nomorobo… to function on the Spectrum network.
For additional information, I reached out to live Spectrum support, and the person charged with helping me (his native language clearly was French, not English, and I did not ask where he was based), said that Spectrum does NOT recommend Nomorobo… but endorses “HIYA” instead. HIYA does have two apps listed on Apple’s iOS App store, so I’ll investigate those, but I’ll need to wait a bit because at the moment I have a family emergency and this is not the moment to be changing my phone’s configuration.
I’ll report back, but I’m also still hoping to get opinions or information as to whether filing a complaint with the Do Not Call registry against the chief current offender is of any use.
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Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
Yes, Jim, and you have annoyingly brought this same complaint up 3 or 4 times, over the last 8 months. And I am generally, the only one that replies.?
The only other suggestion I have for you is to turn off the cell phones you own, and just use landlines. It won’t stop the spam calls, but at least you won’t have to waste time deleting them from the recent call logs.?
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On Jan 12, 2024, at 15:10, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Jan 10, 2024, at 12:12?PM, JAMES ROBERTSON <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?I’m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually.
That’s how I began this thread a few days ago. Brent took the bait and engaged, but we didn’t make much progress. The one change I made was to begin routing every call listed as “potential spam” AND bearing the checkmark that says it’s “verified by the carrier” to voicemail, wherein my outgoing automated message specifically states I don’t respond to telemarketing calls. I’ve noticed over the past two days that more than 50% of the calls that I’m receiving now come from a variant of the following number: ?855-570-xxxx. Typically, when I click the “voicemail” button on my Phone app those generate a “fractionally recorded” message that occasionally includes a return number to call (DIFFERENT from the caller ID number, but with the same area code and prefix. I’ve not paid attention to whether the number I’m instructed to call remains the same from attempt to attempt, but IF it is, does anyone here how likely am I to obtain some satisfaction by making an FTC complaint to the national “do not call” registry?
The government website lists quite high penalties for violations, but includes many exceptions, such as for political messages and charities, and the protections offered for cell phone accountholders seem to be less powerful than those who receive such slime on POTS lines.
Thanks
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 10, 2024, at 12:12?PM, JAMES ROBERTSON <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
?I’m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually.
That’s how I began this thread a few days ago. Brent took the bait and engaged, but we didn’t make much progress. The one change I made was to begin routing every call listed as “potential spam” AND bearing the checkmark that says it’s “verified by the carrier” to voicemail, wherein my outgoing automated message specifically states I don’t respond to telemarketing calls. I’ve noticed over the past two days that more than 50% of the calls that I’m receiving now come from a variant of the following number: ?855-570-xxxx. Typically, when I click the “voicemail” button on my Phone app those generate a “fractionally recorded” message that occasionally includes a return number to call (DIFFERENT from the caller ID number, but with the same area code and prefix. I’ve not paid attention to whether the number I’m instructed to call remains the same from attempt to attempt, but IF it is, does anyone here how likely am I to obtain some satisfaction by making an FTC complaint to the national “do not call” registry?
The government website lists quite high penalties for violations, but includes many exceptions, such as for political messages and charities, and the protections offered for cell phone accountholders seem to be less powerful than those who receive such slime on POTS lines.
Thanks
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 11, 2024, at 1:42?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
How are they “ from outside my contacts list but clearly from people I know”? How would the phone, Apple or your provider recognize you know them, unless you put them in your contact?
Brent, you and I seem to have a unique ability to talk past each other rather than TO each other.
My assertion was that either Apple or my carrier have some means of identifying incoming calls either as spam or likely from forged numbers. How they make those inferences I do not know, but clearly the inferences are sometimes incorrect. I receive calls daily from commercial entities who are not in my contacts list. Most of the time, neither Apple or my carrier mistakenly use that absence to conclude that the calls are malevolent or from forged numbers. However, I also receive calls many days from parties whose numbers are not check marked as valid or ARE declared likely to be spam, when in fact they are not. My point (my only point) in recognizing this is that these instances would make it unwise for me to just route all calls declared ?“likely spam” or NOT marked as “valid numbers” to my trash programmatically, because some of those attributions are incorrect.
landlines & POTS don’t do VM (in general) unless you press an extra key during the phone menu. Nor do they accept text or iMessages. Use a number that ends up on a cell phone, not one wired to a wall. I already stated much the same thing, adding that I don’t know a way to store and transmit a voice message to incoming callers who don’t identify themselves, and of course so far as I know there is NO way that I, as the recipient of an incoming call, can discern whether I should attempt to send a response via text to a cell phone or via voice to a wired POTS phone. My guess is that over the next year or two AI may provide carriers with increased ability to discern whether outgoing marketing calls do or do NOT provide the recipients inferential ability to detect whether a message identifying the caller is included AND whether the call originates from a source prepared to receive EITHER a text or spoken message reply, and if that occurs, then perhaps the percentage of such calls that can be trashed programmatically by the recipients could be increased.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
How are they “ from outside my contacts list but clearly from people I know”? How would the phone, Apple or your provider recognize you know them, unless you put them in your contact??
As to your outgoing messages, landlines & POTS don’t do VM (in general) unless you press an extra key during the phone menu. Nor do they accept text or iMessages. Use a number that ends up on a cell phone, not one wired to a wall.?
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On Jan 11, 2024, at 11:55, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Jan 11, 2024, at 12:01?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
You keep asking this every month or two, and the answer doesn’t change.?
For the most part, I’m just looking for information.
At some point, my carrier started marking some incoming calls as “possible spam” or “likely spam.”
More recently, I’ve been told “incoming calls marked by a checkmark are verified by the carrier.”
Quite often, the two disagree, and some calls marked as “likely spam come from outside my contacts list but clearly from people I know.
Bottom line, none of these is 100% accurate, but I would hope that either my carrier or Apple would devise an algorithm where I could programmatically have calls that carry EITHER of the above designations to be answered by a message that would state that unless the caller leaves an identifying message, the caller will be blocked.
One problem with that is that my OUTGOING message is treated by carriers and/or recipient phones as an SMS or iMessage. In order for it to be recognizable by business multi-extension systems or POTS phones as a voicemail, it would have to be just that (an audible rather than text response) and I don’t know how to make that happen from an iPhone.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 11, 2024, at 12:01?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
You keep asking this every month or two, and the answer doesn’t change.?
For the most part, I’m just looking for information.
At some point, my carrier started marking some incoming calls as “possible spam” or “likely spam.”
More recently, I’ve been told “incoming calls marked by a checkmark are verified by the carrier.”
Quite often, the two disagree, and some calls marked as “likely spam come from outside my contacts list but clearly from people I know.
Bottom line, none of these is 100% accurate, but I would hope that either my carrier or Apple would devise an algorithm where I could programmatically have calls that carry EITHER of the above designations to be answered by a message that would state that unless the caller leaves an identifying message, the caller will be blocked.
One problem with that is that my OUTGOING message is treated by carriers and/or recipient phones as an SMS or iMessage. In order for it to be recognizable by business multi-extension systems or POTS phones as a voicemail, it would have to be just that (an audible rather than text response) and I don’t know how to make that happen from an iPhone.
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
Jim, you’re arguing semantics.?
If I misrepresent myself, is that proper? Say over value my property to get a better loan. Spoofing is also a misrepresentation.?
Regulation is one thing, but prosecution is a whole different thing. Many, but not all, scam call come from Pakistan. US law enforcement and legal system have no power in Pakistan. So they cannot regulate those calls, stop or even slow them.?
And you are not getting replies on how to prevent your “recent” call log to prevent them from showing, is because no one considers it important enough to do anything. There is no “only list the call that are legit or I answer” option. I don’t even think the services that prescreen your calls and block the suspect ones or at least prevent them from ringing offer that option.?
You keep asking this every month or two, and the answer doesn’t change.?
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On Jan 11, 2024, at 08:19, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? On Jan 10, 2024, at 7:07?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Jim, look up and read the?Telecommunications Act of 1996. There is less illegal act happening than what you think.
I didn’t suggest the smarmy incoming calls were all ILLEGAL. I DO contend that telecommunications system regulatory code that DOESN’T make it illegal to “borrow” (read “steal”) use of legitimate phone numbers for nefarious or misleading purposes is missing some pretty important line items.
And, I’d maintain that the international nature of telephone communications systems should NOT cripple any individual country’s ability to regulate things within its own borders. Textbook example of THAT (actually an example of how one country CAN compel another to change things) is the EU’s knife to the heart of Apple’s chosen port for charging iPhones (and, by extension, keyboards, TV remotes, pointing devices, and a bunch of other hardware).
But, ?my question was a practical one, and I’ve not received responses that suggest there’s any programmatic way to prevent an endless accumulation of bogus incoming calls in my “recents” list.
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
On Jan 10, 2024, at 7:07?PM, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
Jim, look up and read the?Telecommunications Act of 1996. There is less illegal act happening than what you think.
I didn’t suggest the smarmy incoming calls were all ILLEGAL. I DO contend that telecommunications system regulatory code that DOESN’T make it illegal to “borrow” (read “steal”) use of legitimate phone numbers for nefarious or misleading purposes is missing some pretty important line items.
And, I’d maintain that the international nature of telephone communications systems should NOT cripple any individual country’s ability to regulate things within its own borders. Textbook example of THAT (actually an example of how one country CAN compel another to change things) is the EU’s knife to the heart of Apple’s chosen port for charging iPhones (and, by extension, keyboards, TV remotes, pointing devices, and a bunch of other hardware).
But, ?my question was a practical one, and I’ve not received responses that suggest there’s any programmatic way to prevent an endless accumulation of bogus incoming calls in my “recents” list.
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
Jim, look up and read the? Telecommunications Act of 1996. There is less illegal act happening than what you think.?
I would like to see spoofing regulated to only be legal by law enforcement with a subpoena.?
You only have to hit one if the side buttons on your iPhone to mute the ringer. Few leave a VM.?
No matter what laws they pass, it still happen if the caller is international as law enforcement.?
It got real bad with the advent of cheap cellular calls and VOIP. The first allowed cellular snd landline to mingle, and the second made it possible to use a computer to spoof, dial, and make the whole profess cheap. Just add bad intent.?
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On Jan 10, 2024, at 11:13, jimrobertson via groups.io <jimrobertson@...> wrote:
? ?I’m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually. First, I’m not even sure that ALL this incoming stuff is genuinely illegal (for example, calls from people or entities whose advertising is based on robocalls). While I doubt that I’d EVER be interested in what they’re marketing, but it could be genuine products or services, with only the blanket advertising itself the unscrupulous effort, because it’s so cheap for them to implement.
“Block this caller” is of little use, because their autodialers will just make the next outgoing call from a different-by-one-digit number.
The “verified by carrier” flag is of no help either, because I’m getting an increasing number of calls marked (accurately) as “possible spam” even though the calls carry the “verified by carrier” checkmark.
I’ve tried opening the phone app and responding with either just a “reject call” screen tap or with a message that says I’ll not answer unless the caller leaves an identifying message (the latter, of course, may just alert a scammer that there’s a REAL target at the end of his equipment’s automated outgoing call). Sometimes when I do this i DO generate voicemail, but virtually always what gets saved on my phone is just the last little bit of the message, which might say something like “(a synthesized voice phone number to call back)” and “have a great rest of your day.”
I have NO idea whether I’m helping my case even a little ?by tapping the “block this caller” feature (it MIGHT help, if the spammer’s automated equipment were intelligent enough to compile a database of called numbers that repetitively reject its automated calls from ?randomly or programmatically created bogus outgoing numbers, but I have NO idea whether that’s the case or not.
Ideally, I’d have a solution that wouldn’t require me to do ANYTHING actively. Automatically rejecting every single call that doesn’t come from someone in my contacts list won’t work, because I still have need to establish new business contacts or receive calls from people who have multiple numbers themselves.
Some days I get NONE of this nonsense; other days it could be as many as a few DOZEN calls. Sometimes calls from the same exchange and slightly different 4 digit number come in staccato fashion over the course of just seconds between them, almost as rapidly as I can delete them or refuse to answer
Is there any data that suggests one or another carrier has better-than-its-competitors tools to protect me from even receiving the calls? My guess would be that the carriers might be at risk if their screening tools prevented me from receiving a genuine call that I needed, so I don’t have much hope for that as an algorithmic solution.
Thanks for ANY helpful advice!
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Jim Robertson
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Are there better ways to delete persistent incoming spam calls?
?I’m tiring of having to delete obvious incoming spam phone calls manually. First, I’m not even sure that ALL this incoming stuff is genuinely illegal (for example, calls from people or entities whose advertising is based on robocalls). While I doubt that I’d EVER be interested in what they’re marketing, but it could be genuine products or services, with only the blanket advertising itself the unscrupulous effort, because it’s so cheap for them to implement.
“Block this caller” is of little use, because their autodialers will just make the next outgoing call from a different-by-one-digit number.
The “verified by carrier” flag is of no help either, because I’m getting an increasing number of calls marked (accurately) as “possible spam” even though the calls carry the “verified by carrier” checkmark.
I’ve tried opening the phone app and responding with either just a “reject call” screen tap or with a message that says I’ll not answer unless the caller leaves an identifying message (the latter, of course, may just alert a scammer that there’s a REAL target at the end of his equipment’s automated outgoing call). Sometimes when I do this i DO generate voicemail, but virtually always what gets saved on my phone is just the last little bit of the message, which might say something like “(a synthesized voice phone number to call back)” and “have a great rest of your day.”
I have NO idea whether I’m helping my case even a little ?by tapping the “block this caller” feature (it MIGHT help, if the spammer’s automated equipment were intelligent enough to compile a database of called numbers that repetitively reject its automated calls from ?randomly or programmatically created bogus outgoing numbers, but I have NO idea whether that’s the case or not.
Ideally, I’d have a solution that wouldn’t require me to do ANYTHING actively. Automatically rejecting every single call that doesn’t come from someone in my contacts list won’t work, because I still have need to establish new business contacts or receive calls from people who have multiple numbers themselves.
Some days I get NONE of this nonsense; other days it could be as many as a few DOZEN calls. Sometimes calls from the same exchange and slightly different 4 digit number come in staccato fashion over the course of just seconds between them, almost as rapidly as I can delete them or refuse to answer
Is there any data that suggests one or another carrier has better-than-its-competitors tools to protect me from even receiving the calls? My guess would be that the carriers might be at risk if their screening tools prevented me from receiving a genuine call that I needed, so I don’t have much hope for that as an algorithmic solution.
Thanks for ANY helpful advice!
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Jim Robertson
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Re: Chrome Themes: Highlighting Selected Text
I don’t use Chrome much, so I’m not familiar with its themes. ?I do know that in its default mode it should use the color scheme set by the OS. ?
In macOS you can set the highlight color for all apps that have not overridden it:
Monterey and earlier
Apple > System Preferences > General > Highlight color
Ventura and later:
Apple > System Settings > Appearance > Highlight color
I’m on Ventura and setting the highlight color in macOS Settings did change the highlight color in Chrome, with is still at its default color theme.
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On Jan 9, 2024, at 10:33 PM, Carol Botteron <cjbotteron@...> wrote:
The other day I opened my MacBook Pro* and the color theme on Chrome had changed (without my asking) to one I liked better than what it had before.? The tabs were sort of tan, not that I care but maybe it's a clue.? The best thing was that when I chose text to copy it, it was highlighted (in blue).? This was great because previously the selected text looked almost like the unselected text.? My vision is not great so I really liked the highlighting.
Today I opened the MBP (which I had left on) and the screen was black so I had to restart.? Chrome was back to a theme that did not highlight selected text.? I tried all the themes I could find, but no luck.
Can someone help me find a theme (or whatever) that will highlight selected text?? I don't care what color.? ?adTHANKSvance!
*16 inch, 2021, OS13.3.1.? Chrome was the next-to-newest version; I updated it to the newest version but still could not get the highlighting back.
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Chrome Themes: Highlighting Selected Text
The other day I opened my MacBook Pro* and the color theme on Chrome had changed (without my asking) to one I liked better than what it had before.? The tabs were sort of tan, not that I care but maybe it's a clue.? The best thing was that when I chose text to copy it, it was highlighted (in blue).? This was great because previously the selected text looked almost like the unselected text.? My vision is not great so I really liked the highlighting. Today I opened the MBP (which I had left on) and the screen was black so I had to restart.? Chrome was back to a theme that did not highlight selected text.? I tried all the themes I could find, but no luck. Can someone help me find a theme (or whatever) that will highlight selected text?? I don't care what color.? ?adTHANKSvance! *16 inch, 2021, OS13.3.1.? Chrome was the next-to-newest version; I updated it to the newest version but still could not get the highlighting back.
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Re: iPad Air DISABLED and not connecting to iMac
Oh my! ?
I too lost a son, when he was just 28, so I have some understanding of how it will have hit you. Nick would have been 53 last month.
If you’d like a friendly ear, you may contact me directly, here:- ? David_tj ?@ ?iCloud.com ? (no spaces)
Hopefully you are getting over your own personal health issues.
Lots of (((((HUGS)))))
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On 8 Jan 2024, at 17:34, Eileen via groups.io <neeliec2000@...> wrote:
Thank you David. Yes, I tried the suggestions in the link...no luck. I am heading to Tucson next week, so will try to make an appt with the Genius Bar to have someone help me. Oh...I do currently use my older iPad, but because there seemed to be some significant differences between the old and new, I just stuck the new one away. Then I lost my son, faced some serious health issues, dealt with hubby's cancer, etc., so I just wasn't focused on the new iPad.
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