Area screenshot locks the cursor

2026-05-18T20:57:04Z

I try to take a screenshot of a selected area on macOS using Command + Shift + 4 and I noticed that cursor gets locked at the position and I cannot move starting point to another position. Moreover, displayed coordinates change when I try to move it but actual starting point remains the same. Cursor moves if I click down the trackpad and then I can drag to mark with rectangle snapped area, but I cannot move the cursor without click. That's weird but I cannot find source of this issue.

Why can't I use a "⌃⇧Space" shortcut? [duplicate]

2026-05-18T17:56:41Z

I use macOS 26.3.1 and want to switch an input source by pressing ⌃⇧Space.

I go to System Settings → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts... → Input Sources and set the shortcut:

However, when I press ⌃⇧Space, I hear a short signal, and it's the only effect -- no input source switched.

Interestingly enough, other shortcuts like ⌃⇧= work fine. Is it normal? What is the problem with ⌃⇧Space?

How to grant permissions to an application from command line

2026-05-18T16:36:54Z

I have a testing farm of 300 machines. The machines on the farm are headless.

The farm is fed builds from Jenkins, for our continuous build pipeline, and run the application against the test suite. The test suite takes hours to complete.

The team is approximately 200 developers, which means we are pushing about 10 builds an hour to the testing farm. (There are other teams also using the testing farm of machines.)

The System Integrity Protection (SIP) has been disabled on all the farm machines, to avoid having to manually VNC into each of the 300 farm machines to click on the permission dialog multiple times during the test runs.

IT has issued an edict that we can no longer disable SIP, and must re-enable SIP on all the farm machines. (Despite that the machines are already sequestered from the internet, for security concerns.)

How can I give the application permission from the command line before launching the application and run its test suite?

I have an admin account access to all the machines.

The permissions I would like to pre-permit from the command line are:

kTCCServiceSystemPolicyDesktopFolder
kTCCServiceSystemPolicyDocumentsFolder
kTCCServiceSystemPolicyDownloadsFolder
kTCCServiceSystemPolicyRemovableVolumes

Those are the ones that I believe routinely requested while running the test suite.

The testing farm is running the latest OS, and is generally running at the most current release: macOS 26.4.1 (Tahoe)

Headless Mac mini disconnects SSH / remote sessions after macOS 26.4 update — Dark Wake Thermal Emergency triggered by mediaanalysisd in Power Nap

2026-05-18T15:35:31Z

After updating to macOS 26.4.1 (build 25E253) on 2026-05-13, my Mac mini M2 — used as a headless server with SSH, Tailscale, and AI-agent remote-control tooling — started dropping all incoming connections at random intervals throughout the day. Same hardware was rock-solid for months on the previous OS. The OS update package was downloaded on 2026-05-12 and installed during a reboot at 2026-05-13 21:25 (Asia/Taipei); the first disconnect event hit ~2 hours later (2026-05-13 23:40) and they've recurred 5–40 times per day since.

Symptoms

SSH, VNC, and Tailscale all become unreachable at the same moment (system-level event, not a single service crash)
After 1–10 minutes the Mac responds again
Console (when connected directly) shows the system was asleep during the gap
Started immediately after the 26.4.1 reboot, never happened on prior OS

What I've confirmed in the logs

Thermal-emergency-forced sleeps: 40+/day after the update vs zero before.

  $ log show --predicate 'eventMessage CONTAINS "Thermal pressure requested Sleep"' \
      --last 7d 2>/dev/null | grep -c "^2026-"
  40

pmset -g log shows clusters like:

  2026-XX-XX HH:MM:SS Sleep  Entering Sleep state due to
                              'Dark Wake Thermal Emergency':TCPKeepAlive=active

Who is holding sleep open during DarkWake: PreventSleep assertions show coreaudiod holding PreventUserIdleSystemSleep for 1+ hour spans. The audio client behind it is mediaanalysisd:

  $ log show --predicate 'process == "mediaanalysisd"' --info 2>/dev/null \
      | grep -E "AudioConverter|task progress" | head
  ... mediaanalysisd: Created a new in process converter ... 48000 Hz, aac ...
  ... mediaanalysisd: Media Analysis task progress: 1.05%

Trigger from the update: mediaanalysisd started MADServiceTextPrewarmingTask and MADServiceTextProcessingTask 6 seconds after the post-update reboot (2026-05-13 21:25:29). Daily event volume jumped from ~600/day pre-update (2026-05-09) to ~3,800/day after. The thermal-emergency events specifically started 2026-05-13 23:40, never before that on this machine.

Thermal escalation: log show --predicate 'subsystem == "com.apple.thermalmonitor"' shows the system climbing thermal levels 2 → 3 → 4 over a few minutes of DarkWake activity. At level 4:

  kernel: (RTBuddy) [SMC] SMC Thermal pressure requested Sleep during power nap
  powerd: DarkWake Thermal Emergency message is received
  powerd: Entering Sleep state due to 'Dark Wake Thermal Emergency'

The same mediaanalysisd workload runs fine for hours during FullWake (when I'm actively using the Mac). Thermal level stays at 0–1, fans ramp normally. The problem is specifically the DarkWake fan policy.

Question

What is the underlying mechanism, and how do I prevent it long-term without disabling Apple Intelligence / Photos / Live Text? Generic "reset SMC" and "killall mediaanalysisd" advice doesn't address the root cause.

How to enable iCloud Keychain to use passkeys on MacOS 26.5

2026-05-18T13:29:31Z

I'm getting this error from Chrome when trying to create a passkey:

Clicking on "Turn On" just takes me to "Apple Account" in System Settings, and there I don't see anything relevant, nor do I see any of the "Keychain" settings the web says should be there. What am I missing?

Is there any way to “Erase Junk Mail…” in iOS the same way one might with the context menu for Mail in macOS?

2026-05-17T01:30:22Z

I am using iOS 26.5 and macOS 26.5.

Is there any way to “Erase Junk Mail…” in iOS the same way one might with the context menu for Mail in macOS? Here is a screenshot of the context menu item in Mail in macOS for reference:

It is very nice and clean: Just select “Erase Junk Mail…” and et voilà! All of the junk mail is gone! But seemingly just in macOS.

There doesn’t seem to be an equivalent method in iOS. Unless I am missing something?

Update: To clarify things, if I “Select All” for trashing junk mail in iOS, the junk mail is moved to the “Trash.” And when it is moved to the trash, it seems to “whitelist” content that was once junk.

Since junk mail always is sent again and again, if I move an email from someone like “Josh Cantwell” from junk to “Trash” any future email from “Josh Cantwell” is whitelisted and then shows up in my in box at a later date. Clearly messing up the junk/spam detection.

That is why “Erase Junk Mail…” is cleaner; junk is junk until it is erased and gone.

Where is an audio driver for Windows 11 on 15-inch MacBook Pro A1398 EMC 2763 (late 2013)?

2026-05-16T18:28:14Z

I cannot find any valid audio driver for Windows 11 on 15-inch MacBook Pro 10,1 A1398 EMC 2673 early 2013. Does anyone know a valid audio driver for this model running Windows 11?

Boot Camp Services 6.0.6136 is installed, as well as the miscellaneous packages of drivers for Windows. Boot Camp was downloaded using a Mac of the same model.

I am not sure whether all drivers are here. When writing Boot Camp to an external media the Boot Camp Assistant completed whilst the progress bar was at 60% only. There is no "Realtek" folder in the drivers.

During the installation of Boot Camp, two drivers are blocked by Windows for vulnerabilities reasons.

I also could not get a newer version of Boot Camp like the 6.1.

The Cirrus Logic. Inc (CirrusFilter) MEDIA package for Windows is installed, in version 6.6001.1.38. I also tried installing CirrusAudioCS4206.exe from Boot Camp's Driver folder.

I event tried installing CirruAudioCS4208.exe.

In Windows Device Manager, there are two "High Definition Audio Controller" entries.

The icon for the second one has a yellow icon with an exclamation mark.

The hardware identifier is PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E20&SUBSYS_72708086&REV_04 The non working driver is provided by Microsoft, in version 10.0.26100.8328.

The driver files are dmk.sys, hdaudbus.sys and portcls.sys. Any attempt to update this driver tell that the best driver is already installed. But it just doesn't work!

The "Apple Software Update" app also tells that all Apple stuff is up to date.

Why is my Apple TV app not working on my Mac?

2026-05-16T12:16:18Z

My Apple TV app never plays any episode. It plays the promos and the recaps but blacks out when it has to play the actual episode. I've tried logging in and logging out, authorizing and unauthorizing, but nothing seems to work.

iPhone - Time in upper-left hand corner no longer becoming a "link" back to an active app

2026-05-06T18:06:40Z

Using an iPhone 17 Pro Max on iOS 26 Public Beta, for several months now, when I use an app such as Waze for navigation, the time in the upper-left hand corner is no longer becoming clickable when I leave the app while actively using the app for navigation.

I have no clue if I did something to cause this, but is there a way for me to resolve this?

Is it possible to write an AppleScript for Keynote that will change the color of a shape after I have clicked the shape?

2025-12-14T01:07:46Z

Is it possible to write an AppleScript for Keynote that will change the color of a shape after I have clicked the shape?

I'm trying to make a Jeopardy board and I need a way to show what is still available to select? Animation doesn't work because of the Build Order parameters. I have 0 programming abilities, even though I try really hard and just can't figure out if this is even possible?

macOS Safari won't follow hyperlinks if they appear low on the page; scrolled up just fine

2025-05-07T03:26:11Z

Lately, Safari fails to follow links if they're near the bottom of the window. Cursor change and hover highlight work as usual but a click doesn't follow the link. If I scroll the page up so the link is mid-window, then the link works. Sometimes I have to shrink the window to get the page to scroll.

Sometimes dramatically resizing the window--wide or narrow as possible--will get the link working at the bottom of the window. Sometimes a page reload will get the link not working again. Finally, it's rare but sometimes a low-on-the-page link does work. I don't see a common denominator yet.

I have no extensions enabled, and clearing website data had no effect. I added a new user account to my Mac and Safari works fine on that login. How do I even debug this?

UPDATE

On first launch of Safari, link behaves. Drag right edge of window back & forth then let go at a (probably) different size than original, and the bad behavior returns.

Same result with shift-click launch of Safari

UPDATE 2

Using Web Inspector, I set a breakpoint on the link's click event which is in some website-local javascript. When the link is scrolled low on the window the click even doesn't happen; scrolled high I get the breakpoint. So what could be making Safari not fire the click for an element it's happy to highlight?

Thanks for insight.

Music app keeps launching on login after update to sonoma 15.4

2025-04-14T22:43:49Z

After recent update to Sonoma 15.4, the Music app keeps launching on login.

I do not have the Music app in login items. but it keeps launching upon login. and if I quit it, it will launch again.

Tried removing the preferences of com.apple.Music.* in ~/Library/Preferences and there doesn't seem to have anything in

/Library/LaunchAgents /Library/LaunchDaemons

I have no bluetooth device speakers or headphones connected. only keyboard and mouse.

Any ideas to prevent Music app from launching?

How to prevent my iPhone from charging my Mac?

2024-11-03T06:50:17Z

I often leave my phone plugged into my MacBook over night. After switching to an iPhone with USB-C, it started charging up my Mac from the phone battery if the Mac isn't connected to power, which results in my phone being dead in the morning. I'm unsure whether the Mac's battery is already flat when this happens, or if it happens when the Mac is still sleeping. The battery settings on the iPhone show power being used by "USB-C Accessories".

Is there any way to disable this reverse charging behaviour?

Control which Bluetooth device get connected to by iPhone

2023-12-28T02:18:22Z

My iPhone has been paired with my earbuds and my car. In the list of devices, my earbuds are above my car. Whenever I turn on my car, however, the audio goes from my earbuds to the car. In order to avoid this, I don't want to disable BT on my car because when I do want the iPhone's audio to go to the car, it's inconvenient to re-enable it and wait for the connection.

How does the iPhone decide which BT device to connect to? I would have thought that the list would serve as a ranking, with the top device being most preferred (if it is present). Though the problem with that hypothesis, however, is that there doesn't seem to be a way for the user to choose where a device sits in the list. So it could very well be wrong, in which case I can see no obvious scheme for deciding which device gets connected to.

I can manually disconnect the car, but when I'm running around doing errands, I have to do this every time I jump in the car.

Batch moving voice memos to Linux PC

2023-08-30T15:16:06Z

I have over 600 of voice memos on iPhone 2020 SE (actually recorded on Apple Watch) ranging from a few seconds to a couple of minutes. How do I batch move them to a Linux PC, having the date of recording info without the woes of manually ticking 600 files? I've tried just selecting them and sending to Dropbox, but that is painfully unreliable:

Dropbox does not synchronize more than 10 files at once,
few out of those 10 are just left behind and unsynchronized by Dropbox,
the date of recording is lost when copying files this way.

UPD Using answers from How can I transfer large files from Linux to iPad over a cable or wifi? didn't help:

ideviceinfo keeps saying "ERROR: No device found!"
Using third-party file managers is futile since they can't "see" the recording files, those are considered some other kind of files by iOS for some reason.
FileMaster app actually can share the files "sent" to it, but then again, I'd have to tick 600 hundred files to send the files into FileMaster and then click 600 hundred times in its web UI to download the files. My question is focused on batch aspect of transferring.

Getting reminders on the home screen not the notification center

2023-03-30T15:15:44Z

I want to create reminders in the Reminders app and have them create pop-ups on my main screen, not in the notification center because if they are time-sensitive I might not see them right away.

Is there a way to harness reminder notifications to display prominently on the Mac display and not just Notification Center?

How do I write an "Automation" using Shortcuts to stop my workout?

2022-12-07T14:34:54Z

I often forget to stop my "Workout" that is running on my watch. I'd like an automation something like:

if workout is running AND
   in the area of the gym (Geofence) AND
   iPhone connects to my car (Bluetooth) THEN
  stop Workout or at least remind me to stop the Workout

This is partly a "is this even possible" type question because the Shortcut (I assume) will be running on my phone while the workout is running on my watch.

iOS 16 lock screen - calendar widget

2022-09-28T12:56:10Z

Since I upgraded my iPhone XS to iOS 16 I added a calendar widget on my lockscreen to show the next events of my day.

As shown on the screenshots below, the widget does not show the all-day event (neither for the current day or the next day). Is there a way to force the display of all day events on the widget ?

Can macOS Shortcuts be opened in browsers other than Safari, such as Google Chrome?

2022-07-19T21:32:18Z

I've noticed that when using other browsers, such as Google Chrome, links to custom macOS Shortcuts shared on iCloud don't show up as they do in Safari:

Is there any method for making user Shortcuts openable in browsers other than Safari in macOS?

Rename EFI boot entries (MacBook Air)

2022-03-23T19:30:23Z

I can't figure out how to rename boot entries on a MacBook Air 2012, i.e. those that appear when holding alt during boot.

The problem was initially that my EFI Ubuntu installation could only be booted with the boot entry called "EFI Boot", which wasn't very descriptive, but I could live with it. The current problem is that since I installed OpenCore (a third party boot loader that enables Big Sur on this Macbook model) it replaced the Ubuntu boot entry with its own entry, which uses the same name ("EFI Boot"). I'm assuming this replacement happened because of the name collision (?).

As I see it, the first step of the solution would then be to change the name of the current "EFI Boot" entry (that starts OpenCore) so that when I try to recreate the Ubuntu boot entry later the OpenCore entry won't get overwritten. I can't figure out how to do this.

What I've tried

I've tried customizing a suggestion from Apple Community that advised how to do it for an Ubuntu .efi (after mounting the ESP):

sudo  bless  --folder  /Volumes/EFI/EFI   --file  /Volumes/EFI/EFI/OC/OpenCore.efi  --label  "OpenCore"  --shortform  --verbose

The above command succeeded (in Big Sur), but had no discernible effect on the boot menu upon reboot.

I have also read several suggestions that I'm struggling to make sense/use of:

One answer only pertains to macOS (Monterey), and explains that its boot.efi resides on an APFS volume. To me it appears that — on my machine — there's a boot.efi on my ESP (FAT32) in /System/Library/CoreServices, so I don't think I can make use of that even if my goal were to rename an entry for macOS (which it isn't).
Another answer suggests that you'd just have to rename the volume an OS resides on, but I'm not trying to rename a boot entry corresponding to an OS on a particular volume. Even if I were, the answer implies mounting (?) a Linux filesystem as a volume in macOS, which isn't something that's readily available.
The third answer says that .VolumeIcons.icns should be on a Mac OS Extended formatted volume, and the name of such a volume will appear in the boot menu. I have no such volumes — only FAT32 (ESP), APFS (Mojave, Big Sur), NTFS (Windows 10) and EXT4 (Ubuntu). I have a .VolumeIcon.icns on the ESP though. But I still can't make sense of it since the question asks about renaming a boot entry for Windows, which I doubt is installed on Mac OS Extended. Even if it were, the entry I want to rename doesn't have its own volume to the best of my knowledge.

How can I have Numbers autofill interpolated values between two cells?

2022-02-22T14:31:13Z

How can I have Numbers autofill interpolated values in a range of selected cells (from the value of the first cell to the value of the last cell)?

I know how to do this with a formula but it's too awkward as I do this quite frequently. Therefore, I would like to use the Autofill function, or similar. But it doesn't seem to be intelligent enough to interpolate.

Ex: [7] […] […] […] [10] ➾ [7] [7.75] [8.5] [9.25] [10]

Keynote slide editing, Plus-sign on text box, how to AUTOMATICALLY Resize?, and does it have limits?

2021-12-01T21:41:26Z

I already know that, when editing a text box, if a plus sign (+) appears in the bottom center, then it's warning you that there's more text that you're not seeing, that's fine. And yes, I know how to Cmd-A, resize font, etc.

BUT I also seem to recall that you could somehow magic-click or use a hotkey combination that would tell Keynote to automatically resize the text so that you could see it all. I can't seem to find that now, but I'm sure I remember it.

I did check and Layout -> Shrink to Fit is already checked/enabled.

Questions:

Does anybody remember the hotkey or mouse click that would resize the text automatically, so it was all visible?
Is there maybe some font size limit that the automatic resizing won't go below some value?
Is there some other easy way to edit the text on the slide? I usually do want to reduce the amount of text, but for that I need to temporarily see it all. (beyond Cmd-A functionality)

Other Notes:

Using the default "white" template
Keynote version 11.2 on Intel iMac with up-to-date Monterey

Please feel free to make other suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Better way to access Safari website data on iOS?

2021-07-12T16:33:17Z

It is really irritating to have to one at a time delete hundreds of cookies/caches from websites I have never visited. (Would that Apple would allow us to block third-party cookies).

Is there an API that would allow me to build my own app in Xcode to handle it in a better way? Or something like Cookie 6 (macOS) for iOS? Or someone else’s open source that I can compile?

I’m not willing to jailbreak, nor to install something with source code not vetted by me or Apple.

For example, clearing all website data and then logging in to Facebook.com adds five third-party cookies. Three of them are from domains owned by Facebook, but do not end in Facebook.com. The other two are obviously from advertising services.

This is why I use DuckDuckGo for almost everything, and Safari only occasionally. DuckDuckGo lets me clear everything after a session. I use Safari for a few domains where I’d like to keep their cookies only, but the cost of that is consumption of storage space that doesn’t benefit me and prevents syncing all the music I’d like.

The cookies are less irritating than the consumption of limited storage space. But if third-party cookies are accepted, cross-site tracking is implied. Since I cleared all website data (recently), I have not visited any site with “math” in the name. Only Facebook, UniGen.us, and three SE subdomains. Yet I have a cookie from mathoverflow.com And Safari says it’s size is zero bytes. Obviously, it is at least one byte. But more of an issue are the megabytes of third-party local storage resulting in updates and Music syncs failing for insufficient space.

Search browsing history in Firefox on iOS

2021-07-09T13:17:31Z

Is there a way to search one’s browsing history in Firefox on iOS? I can scroll the history, but I don’t see a search feature.

Ultimately, I’d like to search for content and selectively delete it.

Relevant: https://ilias.ca/blog/2018/10/how-to-edit-firefox-for-ios-bookmarks/

How to show open tabs on other devices on Mac Safari?

2020-12-12T13:34:55Z

I want to show open tabs on other devices that share the same Apple and iCloud account, but for some reasons there is no open tab on Mac Safari when I click the top-right icon (the icon of two tabs overriding).

On my iPhone and iPad I can access the tabs opened on my Mac, but the other direction is not true. How can I open the tabs opened on iOS devices on Mac or maybe is it just a bug?

UPDATE

I found out that sometimes the tabs appear properly whereas other times they don't.

UPDATE 2

This might be a bug, but I think 60~80% of the time the tabs don't appear. I upgraded to macOS 11.1 but the problem still persists. Any workaround would be appreciated.

Boot Camp Issue with Mac Pro 3,1 and ATI Radeon RX580 graphics card

2020-09-16T10:16:57Z

I have a Mac Pro 3,1 with an ATI Radeon RX580 8GB graphics card, a dosDude Catalina (10.15.6) install on an internal SSD and and a Windows 10 Pro (latest Version and updates) install on an internal HD.

Both macOS and the Windows work fine along with all parts of the Mac. As I a have the Radeon card I do not have a boot screen until either Catalina has mostly started up or Windows has started to boot, so I cannot change the booting by holding down the Option key.

I previously ran El Capitan instead of Catalina, and with that I had installed in Windows the Boot Camp 4 drivers, which allowed me to select macOS from the Boot Camp Assistant and reboot from Windows into El Capitan. From El Capitan I could select the Windows drive in the start up disc control panel and reboot into Windows.

However, since upgrading to Catalina, I can still select the Windows drive in the start up disc control panel and reboot into Windows. However if I select macOS from the Boot Camp Assistant and reboot the Mac, it always reboots into Windows.

My current work around is to shut down, remove the Windows drive, reboot in to Catalina, select Catalina in the Startup Disk control panel, reboot into Catalina, shut down, re-install the windows drive, start up and it starts up into Catalina again with the Windows disk mounted. I can then just select the Windows drive in the start up disc control panel and reboot into Windows when I need to.

From what I have read it's an issue with boot camp not liking the APFS file system Catalina uses. I have also read that a newer version of Boot Camp would fix the issue. I have upgraded Boot Camp to version 6, but this cause other issues in Windows and in the end I had to format the windows drive and re-install it from scratch along with the Boot Camp 4 drivers.

Can anybody tell me how I can get this issue sorted out so I can just switch using Boot Camp?

Many thanks

Duncan

iCloud reminders (web site) - missing features?

2019-10-01T03:43:43Z

This Apple KB article implies that one can create new reminders lists, edit details of reminders set as alert time, change folders of reminders, etc.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH12088?locale=en_US

However, I don't see any of these options. I can add new reminders and edit notes, but I can't do any of the other things it states.

Is the iCloud reminders web interface neutered now? I don't have the "+ at the top" the article refers to.

As far as I can see, the only things I can do on the iCloud web site are:

add remidners
add/modify notes on reminders
change list colors/appearance
show/hide completed

I don't think there are any other possible functions - ?

Was hoping to use iCloud on the web as an interim since the macOS desktop reminders app won't sync with iCloud until Catalina.

Here is a screen shot taken on macOS Mojave with Safari 13.0.1...looks the same in the current version of Chrome for macOS as well:

Does the “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.” option in macOS have any effect on SSD drives?

2018-11-11T03:27:23Z

I completely understand the value of putting a hard disk (specifically) to sleep in some cases especially in the pre-SSD days of the past. It can save power, lower noise and such. But in the case of modern systems that are increasingly SSD-based, does this option have any value at all?

My MacBook Air (2018) running Mojave (10.14.1) has “Put hard disks to sleep when possible.” checked off by default (in System Preferences > Energy Saver), but this system uses an SSD.

Is this option only focused on hard disk drives and ignored by SSD drives?

I can’t imagine the internal SSD would ever “sleep” but correct me if I am wrong.

In short, does the “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” option have any effect on SSD drives in macOS?

Is there any native way to view HEIF/HEIC format (or the viewer-application) in El Capitan or Sierra without an upgrade of macOS itself?

2017-11-01T14:02:41Z

Is there any native way to view the HEIF/HEIC format (or the viewer-application) in El Capitan or Sierra without upgrade of macOS itself?

It is not yet possible to upgrade yet to High Sierra for me, but I'd like to natively view images from iPhone 8 and up generation, avoiding conversions to JPEG.

There been questions asked about convertors of .heic to .jpg, but I don't think it's reasonable to convert images (via the means of online convertors, specialized apps, Dropbox, etc.). Sooner or later .heic support will become normal, and all the online services and applications will finish the transition, so obviously there will be no need to convert to JPEG.

Is there any way to install some kind of plugin or extension to macOS to support HEIF/HEIC within the Preview app, or it may be there are good applications alike XnView or analogues, which support it out of the box?

Extract an image file of my signature from Preview?

2012-04-23T17:51:31Z

The Preview application in OS X Lion includes the ability to take a screen capture of your written signature and save it for later application in to any PDF file.

Where does Preview store the image file for this signature? Is it possible to extract the signature for use in another application like Adobe Reader?

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