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How to Refresh Website Icons in Safari Tabs

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Nurkholis Madjid:

It turns out the solution is quite simple. You just need to visit the website in private mode to make Safari refresh/reload everything including the favicon for bookmark. And then when you go back to non-private mode, everything is refreshed. Phew.

 Glenn Fleishman:

1. Quit Safari.
2. In the Finder, select Go > Go To Folder.
3. Enter ~/Library/Safari/Favicon Cache/ and press Return.
4. Use Select All (Command-A) to select the database and cached items.
5. Drag these to the trash or press Command-Delete.
6. Empty the trash.
7. Launch Safari.

How to Sort the Icons in Launchpad Alphabetically

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Update: This doesn't work on Mojave (Anyway to reset Mojave launchpad alphabetically?).

You can do this with terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool true; killall Dock

This will arrange all apple stock/system applications on the first launchpad page in the default order. On the second, third etc. page all the other apps will be arranged alphabetically.

Source: Resolved – Is there anyway to sort the icons in Launchpad alphabetically? | MacRumors Forums

How to Reset iPhone

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Soft Reset

The soft reset is a simple restart or reboot, which is useful if some of the apps aren’t responding properly.

How to reboot and reset your iPhone X or iPhone 8

iPhone X and iPhone 8 reassign the double press and hold to Emergency SOS, since it's a simpler, easier button combination that'll better hold up to the stress of emergency situations. But that means moving reboot to a new and more complicated button combo.

  1. Quickly click and release the Volume Up button.
  2. Quickly click and release the Volume Down button.
  3. Press and hold the Side button (sleep/wake, on/off).
  4. Keep holding down the Side button, even after the Shut Down screen shows up.

How to reboot and reset your iPhone 7

iPhone 7 doesn't have a physical Home button but a capacitive, Force Touch Home button. So, rebooting functionality has been moved to the volume down button.

  1. Press and hold down the On/Off button on the right side
  2. While continuing to hold the On/Off button, press and hold the volume down button on the left side of your iPhone.
  3. Hold both buttons as the screen turns off, and keep holding them until the screen turns back on and displays the Apple logo.

How to reboot and reset your iPhone 6s or earlier, or iPad

  1. Press and hold down the On/Off button on the right side (iPhone 6s or iPhone 6) or top (all other iPhones, iPods, and iPads) of your device.
  2. While continuing to hold the On/Off button, press and hold the Home button on the front of your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad.
  3. Hold both buttons as the screen turns off, and keep holding them until the screen turns back on and displays the Apple logo.

Resource: How to reboot and reset your iPhone or iPad | iMore

Hard Reset

The hard reset erases all the information on your phone, restoring it back to its factory state.

How to Make iTunes Match Finally Finish Matching and Uploading

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It took me 63 days to make iTunes Match finally finish matching and uploading. Step 1: Gathering information about your iTunes library went quite smoothly. Step 2: Matching your music with songs in the iTunes Store took days and days and days and wouldn't finish without following actions. When Step 2 was finally ready, Step 3: Uploading artwork and remaining songs started quite speedy, but finally I had to use same actions as with step 2 to proceed. When there were about 1000 songs remaining in step 3, iTunes started to crash and I had to take again the same following actions.

I tried all kinds of tips in Apple Support Communities for iTunes Match including turning iTunes Match on and off and using network bandwidth limiter. None of the tips were any great help.

So, what where my actions to make iTunes Match finish? Here you go:

  1. I used a VPN connection. Every time iTunes step 2 or step 3 jammed, I switched VPN connection on or off, and matching or uploading started to continue again.
  2. After iTunes started to crash, I started up Mac in a safe mode. In a safe mode iTunes Match seemed to work extremely well even without a VPN connection switching and iTunes match finally finished without a single crash.

So, after all, all the problems with iTunes Match matching and uploading were probably caused by some other application, but I haven't figure out which one. Anyway, now iTunes Match has finally finished and is complete and ready to go. Great!

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