Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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Tag guidance spotlight - is the hacking tag representative of group consensus?
I wanted to hi-light recent changes to the hacking tag on the main site.
I took out all the “dictionary” definition from the excerpt and made it 100% about usage guidance - what should be tagged and ...
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Rename and synonym [ibooks] to [books]
In iOS 12 iBooks was renamed to Books. Shouldn’t we rename the iBooks tag to Books and make iBooks a synonym of Books?
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Why is background app refresh a synonym of multitasking?
Multitasking is using several apps at the same time.
Whereas background app refresh is the app refreshing in the background even when not in use.
Why are they synonyms?
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Why is my Meta profile showing 0 score when I have over 10?
If you go on my profile on meta all tags have a core of 0. Whereas if you click on some one then tags that score is over 10!
Why is this?
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Rename [two-step-authentication] to [two-step-verification]
Apple IDs can be protected by
the feature two-step verification (legacy), currently tagged two-step-authentication,
the feature two-factor authentication, currently tagged two-factor-authentication.
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Rename and synonym [passbook] tag to [wallet]
iOS has a feature to store credit cards, loyalty passes and things like a digital wallet or passbook.
Wallet seems to be the English name replacing passbook entirely a few years ago (around 3).
On ...
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Merge the [refit] tag into [refind]?
There are currently 62 questions tagged [refit], and 58 tagged [refind].
rEFIt was a boot manager that made booting Linux on a Mac painless. It seems to have been superseded by rEFInd, which is still ...
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Inconsistent Tag Synonyms and individual tags for iOS and WatchOS
Inconsistencies
I have found several inconsistencies regarding tag synonyms. For example take the iOS tag: https://apple.stackexchange.com/tags/ios/synonyms
The synonyms are:
ios4 ios4.2 ios3 ios5 ...
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Please add a new tag “Shortcuts”
I'm gonna leave this pretty short because its pretty self explanatory. Shortcuts was recently released by Apple on iOS 12. I think we need a tag. I have enough rep to create the tag, but a tag for "...
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Filter questions with specific tag literally (excluding synonyms)
Is it possible to filter questions on Ask Different (or any Stack Exchange site) with a specific tag literally excluding the synonyms?
E.g. I am trying to list all the questions with tag sed, but the ...
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Create 'Telegram' tag
I was looking for some Telegram related questions, and noted there's no tag for it, although there are quite a few questions about that topic.
Can someone with the Create Tags privilege can create ...
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Merge whatsapp.app and whatsapp tags
whatsapp.app - 84 questions tagged
whatsapp - 5 questions tagged
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Rename [podcasts-app] → [podcasts.app] for consistency
I propose renaming the tag podcasts-app to podcasts.app for consistency with other app tags.
The majority of tags for apps on iOS, watchOS, and macOS end in .app to specify it is about the platform-...
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Removing tag synonym
I was doing a little bit of poking around today and realized that waterproof is a synonym for environment. Seems correct, right? Well, let's take a look at the description of environment.
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Make [watchos-*] tag synonyms of [watchos] to be consistent with [watchos-3]'s status
watchos-3 is currently a tag synonym of watchos. In less technical terms, this means any posts tagged with watchos-3 are actually tagged with watchos.
If you don't know what tag synonyms are, you can ...
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Remove [untagged] tag from locked question
How to Stop MacOS sierra from using background Data? is the only question to have the tag untagged.
As this tag makes no sense I tried to do the normal edit of the question to tag it correctly.
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Should we have an [ftps] tag?
Instead of doing sftp, we can go to Finder and connect to server using ftps://somesite.com. So ftps should be a valid tag if the user is inquiring about it.
The question is at: After connecting to a ...
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Generic dongle/adapter tag?
I think there should be a tag that can be used for questions that are about using apple's adapters, e.g. ethernet to thunderbolt for example.
Questions that might benefit:
Can I charge a MacBook Pro ...
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Rename [omni-focus] to [omnifocus]
OmniFocus is one word, however the tag omni-focus is hyphenated.
Can the tag be renamed omnifocus to reflect the correct word?
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Should [pf] and [little-snitch] be synonyms of [firewall]?
I've recently created the little snitch tag and I observed that it has been made synonym with firewall. Probably to be consistent with the already existing synonym relationship between pf and firewall....
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Misspelled tags, how to fix?
Rather ironically, the OP on this question misspelled spelling so we now have a tag called spelign.
Verify the automatic language detection
How are these dealt with?
I didn't just want to retag ...
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Rename [terminal] to [terminal.app] to make it clear the tag is for the macOS app
Should the tag terminal be renamed to terminal.app? I think this would help make it clear that the tag should only be used on questions regarding the macOS Terminal.app.
General command line ...
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Should [energy] be renamed to [energy-impact] or be a synonym of [power-management]?
energy-saving is already a synonym of power-management, but energy is separate. It is used on a variety of questions, mostly in unison with power-management for general energy questions, or when ...
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Rename [libre-office] to [libreoffice]
LibreOffice is one word, however the tag libre-office is hyphenated.
Can the tag be renamed libreoffice to reflect the correct word?
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Tagging the 2013 MacPro6,1
So, the MacPro6,1 doesn't seem to have a tag it belongs to — the tag wiki for mac-pro mentions, by date, all of the models except the new, completely-revised, 2013 model (and with good reason. It's ...
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History tag scope
The history tag is a hodgepodge of all sorts of things but I think it might be better off just deleted if it isn't going to collect apple-history (history of the company, computers, etc.—only found a ...
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Rename [ios10] to [ios-10] for consistency
It's happened again! Just like last time with iOS 8, can ios10 be renamed to ios-10 for consistency with the tags for the other versions of iOS?
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Should the [osx] tag be renamed to [macos]?
With the rename from OS X to macOS, should the tag be renamed too?
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Should products with “Apple” in their name have a dash?
Should a product name using "Apple" (ex. Apple Watch, Apple Music, Apple TV) have a dash between the word "Apple" and the other word?
I have noticed a difference between the tags apple-watch and ...
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Software tag vs. hardware tag
Some questions on Ask Different have a tag like iphone, when they are talking about the software used on it, ios.
Should we comment to tell users about this, or just edit it?
Here are some more ...
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In the “Top Users” tag section, what are these numbers?
As seen in the screenshot of tag osx's top users (in this case bmike):
There are two numbers, 2.6k and 983 before his avatar and various details. There are no headers detailing what these two numbers ...
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Linux tag = Unix
I just tried to retag a question as linux which was based on not finding a Ubuntu boot disk
However I see Linux is a synonym of Unix which surely is wrong for this group as the differences matter a ...
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Burninate [hackintosh]?
The hackintosh tag refers to using Apple operating systems on non-Apple hardware. Since this is explicitly off-topic on Ask Different, I would like to propose that hackintosh be burninated.
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Tag not longer presents
A few weeks ago, I suggested a new tag related to 4K. The suggestion had been accepted but right now I don't see the tag anymore.
Is this normal? There is some regulation related to the evolution of ...
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Merge [charge] and [charger] into [charging]
Merge charge and charger into charging (largest of the three)
This seems like a straightforward merge, similar contents. Might even be worth merging into power unless charging is significantly ...
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Rename [photos] to [photographs]
Sorry, I couldn't think up of a burnination zinger.
photos is ambiguous, as people may think it refers to the photos OS X application.
It should be renamed to photographs to avoid ambiguity.
There ...
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Merge contacts.app and address-book tags
Two seemingly identical tags:
contacts.app
Tag wiki:
Apple's address book client, renamed from Address Book in OS X 10.8
address-book
Tag wiki:
Apple's built-in contacts manager software for ...
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Time to face the [music]?
Is the tag music any use when the tags itunes, music.app and apple-music exist?
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Should there be a tag 'logic-pro-x'?
The title has it all...
My Reason
My reason is slightly silly but if anyone agrees please edit with maybe a better reason however this is it:
Well there is a 'garageband' tag so for people who need ...
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text-substitution and text-replacement tags
I'm too low of a reputation to create tags on this StackExchange, yet; and way too low to create synonyms … so would someone perhaps like to create the ‘text-replacement’ tag for iOS (and perhaps ...
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Recent answers to version-tagged questions
In How to open time machine progress bar window I asked a question regarding the version of OS X I had installed at that time, namely Lion. I got an answer matching that version, indicating that what ...
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Tag request: safari-9
To me, there are enough differences with prior versions of Safari and Safari 9 that a [safari-9] tag is worthwhile.
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Overhaul tags for Apple apps across OS X, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS
Currently tags for Apple Apps are all over the place.
At first I thought it would be a good idea to have separate tags for each app on each platform like having mail.app for OS X and mobile-mail for ...
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Burniate mobile-calendar.app tag
I accidentally created this tag instead of mobile-calendar to be inline with other tags like mobile-safari.
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Reverse [handoff] and [continuity] tag synonyms
I fielded a question this evening regarding an issue with Apple's Handoff functionality, which was introduced in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite. The tag handoff is only shown as a synonym of continuity.
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apple-music tag != music.app tag
I asked this question recently:
Music collection is not sorted by Album on iOS 8.4
And I noticed that an edit was approved to remove music.app tag and add apple-music tag.
My question has nothing ...
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Definition of PATH
I have just looked at the path wiki. It covers the meaning of path as the shell environment variables used to find things e.g. executables in $PATH man pages in $MANPATH
However path is also the name ...
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Should we make a new tag called 'rEFInd' in replacement of 'rEFIt'?
I have been asking a few questions lately about rEFInd and have had to use the tag refit.
Should we make an updated tag for rEFInd since rEFIt is outdated now? If we shouldn't then why?
This will ...
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Synonym for photos.app to photos
All of the newest questions in the photos tag refer to the new Apple Photos application. photos.app refers to the same thing. Could someone with enough reputation please make photos.app be a synonym ...
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Make “mdm” a synonym of “mobile-device-management”
mdm — 51 tagged, 20 this year
Mobile Device Management (MDM). A server platform that a company can deploy to centrally manage portable network-connected devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod ...
