Instagram now allows you to follow hashtags like regular accounts

Hashtags are key to discoverability on Instagram, as Engadget Editor Dan Cooper discovered when he spent a month trying to accumulate 100,000 followers on the service. And now, Instagram has made it even easier to use them, thanks to a new feature that allows you to follow hashtags.

This feature was previously being tested quietly, but now it is being rolled out to the general user base. You can follow a hashtag the same way you follow a friend: Search for a topic you like or click on a hashtag in an Instagram post. A new page will open with the option to follow the hashtag. You’ll see both top posts and recent stories from the hashtag in your feed, and you can unfollow anytime, the same way you would any user.

According to The Verge, Matthew Ogle led the charge for this feature; he was behind the Discover Weekly playlist at Spotify, which relies on both machine learning and a human hand to curate a personalized playlist for each listener every week. Ogle wants to bring the same touch to Instagram’s hashtags.

For those concerned about privacy, a note: The hashtags you follow are visible to anyone on Instagram who checks out your profile. It doesn’t look like there’s a way to turn this off, though if your profile is set to private, then only your followers will be able to see the hashtags you follow.

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Engadget is once again presenting the official Best of CES awards!

CES is just around the corner, which means the Engadget team is already in the thick of planning for the world’s premier consumer electronics show. We’re getting ready to try out all the latest gadgets and, of course, we’re pumped to be hosting the official Best of CES awards for the fifth year in a row.

Just as in years past, our team of intrepid editors will search out the cream of the crop, nominate a group of finalists and later select the winners. Oh, and you too will have your voice heard through the People’s Choice award. Want to know more? Head over to our awards hub or read further for a list of our award categories. And if you happen to represent a company who wants to submit a product for consideration, you’ll find instructions for that too.

These are the Best of CES award categories for 2018:

• Best Accessibility Tech: Technology that helps those with disabilities achieve healthier and more independent lives.
• Best Startup: The startup showing great sophistication and innovation while also demonstrating a clear path to real-world availability. Eureka Park will be a focus.
• Best Digital Health and Fitness Product: A product exhibiting the most innovative use of technology to improve users’ health and well-being. Example products include smart scales and activity monitors.
• Best Wearable: The best gadget at the show that can be worn on your person. Examples include smart watches, augmented reality glasses and any piece of wearable item (be it socks or shorts) that have sensors in them.
• Best Transportation Technology: Technology related to the ever-advancing science of getting from here to there. Example products include infotainment systems and advances in self-driving technology.
• Best Home Theater Product: This award is all about home entertainment. Example products include set top boxes, streaming players, tuners, audio systems and more.
• Best (Connected) Home Product: A product that belongs in the connected home. Example includes smart refrigerators, connected thermostats and smart lighting.
• Best Innovation (Disruptive Tech): The product or service that challenges the status quo with its innovative twist on technology.
• Best Phone or Mobile Device: The smartphone or related mobile device that most impresses with its combination of specifications, design and overall ability.
• Best TV product: The television that is deemed the best in terms of display, design and overall quality, or the product that might most revolutionize your use of that screen.
• Best Gaming Product: The product that best moves forward the broad field of gaming. Example products include game-specific tablets and PCs, video game consoles, controllers and gaming services.
• Best Unexpected Product: The product that turns heads on the International CES show floor without necessarily fitting into any defined product category. This product may not be the best of the best at the show, but it will be one of the most talked-about.
• Best Sports Tech: The product that changes the game, quite literally. These products will be found on the court, the field, the track or at the gym.
• Best PC or Tablet: The best laptop, desktop or tablet, judged based on its design and specifications.
• Best Robot or Drone: A drone or robot that is deemed the best of this unique category.
• Best Vision of the Future (Smart City): This category focuses on products designed to improve entire communities through the use of technology, shaping the way we will all live in the future. They may include technologically advanced public transportation solutions, smart streetlights or improvements to the power grid.
• Best of the Best Award: The device, service or technology in any category that stands clearly above the rest, judged based on its innovation and design quality.
• People’s Choice Award: The product from this year’s show that most captured the hearts and minds of our readers. The winner will be determined by viewers and readers.

If you’re looking to submit something for consideration, make sure you meet our eligibility requirements and then enter in all your information in this submission form. In order to be eligible, your company must have an official presence at CES and the product must fit within one of the award categories above. It does not have to be announced at the show, but it always helps. And, of course, it can’t be more than a year old. Submissions will stay open until 11:59pm PT on the evening of Saturday, January 6th, before press day kicks off on January 7th. Please include the following required items for a product to be considered:

• Product name
• Company name
• Product description
• Which of the 17 Awards category/categories your nomination should be considered for. Companies can submit their products for more than one category.
• Contact information for both media relations and internal point(s) of contact while at the show. We need to be able to reach someone on site in the event that you’re a finalist or winner!

Whenever possible, companies should submit the following materials as well:

• Photos (minimum 1,920 x 1,080, 300 DPI)
• Spec sheet(s)
• Press release(s)
• Release date
• Price

Good luck!

Twitter adds thread tools to help you craft epic tweetstorms

Multi-part tweetstorms are a staple of Twitter, for better or worse, and the social network wants them to be as easy to write as possible. After months of testing, it’s adding a thread feature that simplifies creating and posting a series of tweets. The composer now includes a “plus” button that lets you tack on additional tweets, with whatever you’ve written before still visible to help guide your train of thought. And when you’re ready, you can post everything at once — no more leaving people hanging while you write the conclusion to your thrilling saga. You can add posts after the fact if you need to write an epilogue.

The feature is rolling out to Android, iOS and web users over the “coming weeks,” so don’t worry if you don’t have it right away.

Between this and the recently expanded 280-character limit, it could be all too easy to go overboard. Wouldn’t it be better to write a Medium post if you’re crafting a lengthy narrative? And of course, many will point out that Twitter is offering blog-length writing tools and still won’t let you edit tweets if you make a mistake. With that said, this is likely to be both welcome and overdue. Some of Twitter’s most valuable users are the ones who post long threads discussing political policy or social issues, and they now have a more straightforward way of sharing their ideas.

Source: Twitter Blog

Steve Bannon and Breitbart spent months trying to sabotage Twitter

BuzzFeed News released a report today detailing efforts made by Steve Bannon, Milo Yiannopoulos and Breitbart News to damage Twitter. For about a year, they explored various ways to bring down the platform, tactics that included legal action, an anti-Twitter editorial campaign and attempts to push down the company’s stock price.

Following Yiannopoulos’ Twitter verification removal on January 9th of 2016, Yiannopoulos — Breitbart’s tech editor at the time — sent an email to Bannon saying, “This will be a week of pain for Twitter. What do you think about a stunt? Protest outside their offices, 50 people in Milo masks demanding my badge back? I want to underscore how petty what they did was and what it has revealed about the company and what the consequences are going to be.” Bannon was already against the platform because he believed it silenced conservative voices and over the next couple of months, the two, along with others like Chuck Johnson, discussed how they could get financial groups to short Twitter stock and push the already very low price down even further.

Bannon, Yiannopoulos, and Breitbart CEO Larry Solov also proceeded to look into potential lawsuits against Twitter with outside actors offering advice on various legal angles to pursue. However, communication amongst the group stalled and at one point Yiannopoulos said he would be looking into a legal course of action on his own.

As for the third prong of its Twitter war, Breitbart published 176 stories about Twitter between January 1st and August 17th — the day Bannon left Breitbart to manage Trump’s campaign. They covered all sorts of topics, all critical of the platform, with Bannon at times being very involved with the structuring of those stories.

However, while Twitter was clearly an obsession for Bannon and Breitbart, it appears that Twitter either didn’t see them as much of a threat or didn’t realize the extent to which they were targeting the company. “There were way bigger issues for Twitter to deal with in that time frame,” one former Twitter executive told BuzzFeed News. “There was continued speculation on whether Jack [Dorsey] could hold two jobs, decelerating revenue, and rancor about politics and more broadly about the election.”

Most of the Breitbart team’s efforts to damage Twitter seemed to have fallen flat, but their extensive attempts just continue to highlight the role social media plays in politics and elections and how political players are using these platforms to further their agendas, even from the outside.

Source: BuzzFeed News

iMac Pro Available With 8 or 10 Cores This Week, 14 and 18 Core Models Ship Early Next Year

Apple today announced that the iMac Pro will be released this Thursday, December 14, but YouTube reviewer Marques Brownlee says only 8-core and 10-core models will be available to order this week.

Brownlee in his hands-on video said the high-end 18-core iMac Pro will ship early next year, alongside an unannounced 14-core model that will apparently be added to the lineup for a total of four Intel Xeon processor configurations.

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The 10-core iMac Pro clocked at 3.0GHz earned a multi-core score of just over 37,400 on Geekbench, which is up to 93 percent faster than the latest 27-inch 5K iMac and up to 45 percent faster than the high-end 2013 Mac Pro.

The powerful desktop workstation can also be configured with up to 4TB of SSD storage, up to 128GB of ECC RAM, and up to an AMD Radeon Pro Vega 64 graphics processor with 16GB of HBM2 memory.

iMac Pro will be available to order on December 14, starting at $4,999, in the United States, Canada, UK, and several other countries. Apple has yet to provide exact pricing details on a configuration-by-configuration basis.

Note that in Australia, the iMac Pro launches December 15.

Related Roundup: iMac ProBuyer’s Guide: iMac Pro (Caution)
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Instagram Now Lets You Follow Hashtags in Your Main Feed

Instagram today announced that you can now follow any hashtag the same way you can follow normal accounts. Once you do, Instagram will use its algorithms to curate “highlights” from photos posted with that hashtag and place them within your main feed.

Similar to previous uses of Instagram’s algorithms, if you engage with these posts by liking them or commenting, the social network will search for similar content and present it to you in the future. You’ll be able to follow hashtags through searches in Explore or simply tapping on one already placed in another post.

To distinguish from a hashtag post and a normal post, there will be a “prominent button” above all hashtag posts. If something comes up that you don’t like, you can dislike the post via this button. Instagram said this won’t completely unfollow the tag, but it will help train the service on which parts of a specific hashtag you find appealing.

Image via James Bareham and The Verge
Matthew Ogle led the team behind the new feature at Instagram, and he previously worked at Last.fm and Spotify. When he was at Spotify, he was the product manager that helped launch Discover Weekly, and he told The Verge there are a few similarities to the origins of Spotify’s curated playlists and Instagram’s new hashtag-following option.

“Discover Weekly wasn’t about teaching an algorithm to understand and then recommend music. We taught an algorithm to look at what the community was already doing with this building block, the playlist, and to take the best of what the community was doing and extend it in a new direction,” says Ogle. “Hashtags are kind of the same way. You have something that is working organically on the platform, how do we add just enough additional structure so that more people can participate.”

Before the update, you could find hashtags mainly through searches in Instagram’s “Explore” tab. Explore would become personalized over time and showcase posts that the app thought you liked, but there were no “like” or “dislike” options to further fine-tune the tab.

The new update will be rolling out to Instagram users throughout the day.

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Phil Schiller Says iPad Pro Can Both Supplement and Replace the Mac

Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller believes the iPad Pro can be both a PC replacement and a supplementary device to the Mac.

In a wide-ranging interview with T3 about the iPad Pro and other Apple products, including the iPhone X, iMac Pro, HomePod, and AirPods, Schiller said the iPad Pro’s exact use case ultimately varies by customer.

What we’ve learned, truthfully, is that it’s both, and that depends on the user. For some people, iPad Pro is a replacement for their computer. Not that you throw away your computer. People don’t often do that.

Schiller added that, for many customers, the iPad Pro becomes their primary computing device, especially while traveling.

But that it becomes your primary computing device. The way you mostly hear about this is people say, ‘I use a computer at my desk’ or ‘I use a notebook at my desk, but when I travel, I travel just with my iPad Pro’. It is so great in that situation.

So for those customers, the iPad has become their primary device, but they don’t think of it in their brains as competing with their previous computer. It’s just the computer they spend the most time with.

Schiller acknowledged that this isn’t the case for everyone, as some customers may only use an iPad Pro for certain tasks where a tablet can provide a better experience, such as reading or watching movie and TV shows.

So depending on what those tasks are, for those customers they’re augmenting. And what we try to do is not tell the customer that either direction is the right or wrong way. It’s almost like they’re making a distinction between the two, even though the uses are overlapping, and one is replacing the other frequently.

Schiller referred to the iPad Pro as a computer on a few occasions, which contrasts with Apple’s latest “What’s a Computer?” ad for the tablet.

At the end of the video, a mother asks her young daughter “what are you doing on your computer?” and the daughter responds by asking “what’s a computer?” to imply that the iPad Pro is not a computer.

While the ad might suggest Apple’s increasing focus on the iPad over the Mac, Schiller ensured that the company “cares deeply” about its pro customers. “We love that so much is created on Mac,” he said.

To address the needs of those professionals, Apple is launching a powerful iMac Pro this week. The company is also working on a modular Mac Pro that will be accompanied by Apple-branded pro displays.

Interview: Apple’s Phil Schiller on How the iPhone X ‘Seemed Impossible at the Start’

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Twitter Launches New ‘Threads’ Feature for Tweetstorms

Twitter today announced the launch of a new “Threads” feature, which is designed to link multiple tweets together to make them easier to read.

Twitter users often share multiple numbered tweets on a topic or idea, and this practice is generally referred to as a “tweetstorm.” With Threads, two or more tweets can be linked, simplifying and streamlining the tweetstorm concept.

When you create a tweet on Twitter, you can use the “+” button to add more tweets to the original tweet in the compose window. All of your tweets can be drafted ahead of time and then sent out at once using the new “Tweet All” button.

Tweets can also be added to a published thread using the “Add Another Tweet” button, and when browsing Twitter, there’s a new “Show this thread” label that makes it easier to find a series of linked tweets.

Twitter says that the new Threads feature is designed for people who want to serialize a longer story or thought or provide ongoing commentary on a particular event or topic.

Threads is the second major change that’s been made to Twitter in recent weeks, following a decision to increase the character limit from 140 to 280 characters to give Twitter users more room to express themselves.

Twitter says the new Threads feature is rolling out to iOS, Android, and the web “in the coming weeks.”

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AMD’s Adrenalin Edition driver sports shorter name, longer feature list

On Tuesday, December 12, AMD refreshed its driver suite for Radeon graphics cards and discrete chips with a shorter name, but a longer list of features. It’s now dubbed the Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition, and sees updates to the features you already love, and new ones you may love even more. The new suite is compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 7, and is “unofficially supported” on Windows 8.1 via the Windows 7 version.

In a conference call with the press prior to the release, AMD’s Terry Makedon said that Adrenalin Edition won’t bring a huge performance update despite recent reports. The company doesn’t distribute “performance” drivers on an annual basis, but instead improves performance with each driver release.

For instance, Prey performance saw around 19 percent improvement between the first release of Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition released this time last year, and the new Adrenalin Edition. Overwatch saw a 14 percent improvement in that same period, and Mass Effect: Andromeda experienced a 10 percent improvement. Makedon said AMD has no plans to “hold performance back” for a big performance driver release.

But latency was an aspect AMD fine-tuned for this Adrenalin-powered release. The company is referring to the time between clicking a mouse button and seeing the resulting action on screen. Between now and the release of Radeon Software Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.1, AMD revved up the response time for Titanfall 2 to 23 milliseconds (ms) versus 28ms seen with the previous driver. For Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds, latency is now 41ms, versus ReLive Edition’s 50ms.

Compute Profiles are now an embedded feature. This were introduced a few weeks ago in a hotfix driver (aka Optional Update), and provides two different settings for GPU workloads: Graphics and Compute. Obviously you’ll want to select “Graphics” when playing your favorite games. The “Compute” profile is for cryptocurrency mining, which is optimized for increased hash rates. For example, this profile can increase Ethereum hashing from 22 megahash to 25 megahash.

So that’s just the start of Adrenalin Edition. The update is massive, so we divided everything into sections so you can take a breather or two before hitting the end.

Updated features

Radeon WattMan

With AMD’s power management tool, you can now save and load your own profiles in an XML format. You can also share these custom profiles, and/or use profiles that were created and uploaded by the community. Makedon delightfully said this is the third-most-voted feature by users through the Radeon software.

Radeon Chill

As before, the idea behind Chill is to save power. It dynamically adjusts framerates according to movement, so if you’re sitting in a tree waiting to pop a bullet into an opponent’s head with a sniper rifle, then Radeon Chill will lower the framerate. This reduction can save power: in Warframe, power consumed by the Radeon graphics chip can dip down to 69 watts, versus 302 watts at full force.

Makedon said there are markets where power usage is critical, such as internet cafes (iCafe) in China, that worry mostly about paying rent and electricity. AMD makes a special driver just for these establishments, and Chill is enabled by default by request. On the mainstream front, Chill is not enabled by default.

Chill now works on all games, not just a specific batch. Previously, AMD would test games to see if Chill works well, and then add them to a “white list” if they passed with flying colors. But now the algorithm has advanced to the point that AMD now uses a “black list” instead.

There are currently no games on AMD’s black list, but AMD will disable support for any troublesome game it discovers until it determines the cause for the problem, and implements a fix. Makedon said Chill is the second-most-voted feature by users through the Radeon software

Enhanced Sync

Considered as the “poor man’s FreeSync,” this feature enables FreeSync-style framerate control on any non-FreeSync monitor. The big news here is that Enhanced Sync is now supported on all Radeon cards and discrete chips that are based on the GCN architecture. It also now supports games that use Vulkan, multiple-GPU configurations, and Eyefinity multidisplay technology. Serving as the most-voted feature by gamers, it now available on laptops, too.

Radeon ReLive Part One

This is where the meatiest update comes into play, and starts with a new feature that actually resides next to the ReLive tab: Connect. This new area is divided into three tabs: Gallery, Accounts, and Resource Center.

Gallery
This is essentially a hub for your ReLive gallery so you can manage, organize, and upload your recorded gameplay and screenshots. You can view and trim your video captures and images, and share those moments on social networks. You can also queue video uploads to multiple platforms if needed.

Accounts
A control center where you manage all social accounts for streaming and uploading purposes. Supported networks include Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Mixer, StageTen, Twitter, Sina Weibo, and more.

Toronto-based StageTen is the latest service added to ReLive broadcast roster, and serves as the “premium” editing and broadcasting tool versus AMD’s “basic” ReLive features. According to Makedon, this new partner is the ideal solution if you want to stream on multiple channels, perform live editing, use advanced filters, and make loads of cash.

Resource Center
Makedon said this section will not be used for advertisements. Instead, you’ll find “informative articles,” real-time Radeon updates, and instructional how-to videos.

Radeon ReLive Part 2

Now we’ve arrived the ReLive prime. The changes and updates are many, so we’ve broken them down for easy consumption.

In-game chat integration
Rather than needing a second screen or PC to see all the comments stemming from your stream, they now appear in-game on your display. This feature supports Twitch, Facebook, Mixer, and YouTube. Facebook actually helped AMD bring Facebook Live chat to Radeon ReLive.

Improved gameplay performance
Examples include a 0.69 performance impact in Rocket League versus 1.86 percent using Crimson ReLive Edition 17.11.1, and 4.26 percent using GeForce Experience 3.10.0.95. Battlefield 1 now experiences a 2.13 percent performance impact versus the pervious 3.15 percent performance drop.

Vulkan support
Games include DOOM, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, DOTA 2, and The Talos Principle.

Borderless Region Capture Support
Up until now, ReLive only captured the entire screen. But with Adrenalin Edition, gamers can now capture what they want, such as an entire window, or a specific region of the screen.

Chroma Key Support
This is a feature that blocks out a specific color in your webcam feed. Typically, streamers drape a green or blue background on the wall behind them, and streaming software can convert that solid color into a transparency, so all gamers see is your pretty face in an overlay. ReLive now includes this ability, and will remove all solid RGB backgrounds. You can also fine-tune the transparency with color-removal strength presets to help filter out unwanted folds in your background.

AMD Eyefinity Technology Support
Capture gameplay spanning multiple monitors … how cool is that?

Separate Audio Tracks
ReLive now enables gamers to record microphone and game audio on two separate tracks for better editing.

And so on
Finally, there are two miscellaneous enhancements provided by Adrenalin Edition. First, you can enable or disable Radeon FreeSync per game versus the former global settings. There’s also find three new themes to pretty up Radeon Settings.

New features

Borderless Windowed Mode for multiple GPU setupsThis new feature speaks for itself: if you have multiple Radeon cards installed in your PC, then you can now run games in Borderless Windowed Mode.

Frame Rate Target Control for Vulkan
You can save power by capping the framerate in games that use Vulkan-based rendering.

Radeon Overlay

This is probably the coolest new feature introduced with Adrenalin Edition. It provides an overlay within your game for making quick adjustments to ReLive, Chill, Frame Rate Target Control, FreeSync, and Color via “more options and fewer clicks.” It can also be used to monitor/record your PC’s gaming performance, and the system information. This overlay works in games that support DirectX 9, 11, 12, and Vulkan. By default, pressing ALT+R enables this overlay, but you can assign the command to any key combination.

But wait! There’s more!

In addition to revealing all the additions and enhancement brought by the new Adrenalin Edition suite, Makedon also talked about three related topics. We’ll kick things off with AMD’s very first mobile app for iOS and Android-based devices.

AMD Link mobile app
For starters, your mobile device must be on the same network as your PC. Technically, having a smartphone and a PC using the same hotspot should work according to Makedon, but that type of connectivity isn’t officially supported until AMD performs additional testing.

To establish a link, Radeon Settings on the PC will produce a QR code that is scanned by the smartphone or tablet (and app), linking the two devices. You can add multiple PCs to the app as well, and just select the listed desktop or laptop you want to view.

Once linked, AMD’s app displays a navigation bar at the bottom of the screen providing access to Resource Center, Performance Monitoring, Radeon ReLive controls, News Feed, Notifications, and the app’s settings menu. Most of these are self-explanatory: notifications alert you to new driver downloads and features, ReLive provides external control of your broadcast and screenshot capability, and Performance Monitoring displays the current FPS, GPU speed, and so on. The app supports iOS 10 and newer, and Android 5.0 and newer.

Radeon Software for Linux
AMD is providing a separate suite for Linux gamers. Distributed through AMD’s website, it’s a single suite that provides open- and closed-source software stacks. It includes mainstream (AMDGPU) and workstation (AMDGPU-PRO) drivers, enabling customers to mix-and-match open- and closed-source software components

Vulkan
Finally, we’ve reached the caboose in the adrenalin-fueled announcement train. AMD is working on an open-source AMD Vulkan driver even though there’s one already available called RADV. Makedon said AMD wanted a more hands-on approach with Vulkan, providing faster support for its new hardware, and a direct integration of its Radeon GPU Profiler toolset. Third-party developers can contribute to AMD’s Vulkan project as well.

Editors’ Recommendations

• AMD crams desktop performance into ultra-thin laptops with its new Ryzen APUs
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How to forget a network on a Mac

It’s great that our laptops quickly remember familiar networks without having to ask for permission to connect, but sometimes you’ll want to forget a network manually.

If you’re having a hard time with your office or home Wi-Fi, sometimes all you need to do is remove the network from your Wi-Fi settings and re-connect. Here’s a quick guide on how to forget a network on a Mac in three easy steps. In particular, we’ll be using the newest version of MacOS, High Sierra.

Step one: Open Network Preferences

First off, go ahead and mouse up to your Finder bar, then click your Wi-Fi icon. This will open a big long list of all your nearby Wi-Fi networks. From here, click on Open Network Preferences at the bottom of the list.

This is where you’ll find all the advanced settings for your Mac’s networked devices.

Step two: Open Advanced Settings

You can add and remove network adapters here, you can turn Wi-Fi off and on, configure the settings for your individual Wi-Fi networks — whether you want to automatically connect to particular networks, or ask to join new networks. This is also where you can see your network IP address, which can be helpful for diagnosing other network issues. Keep this menu in mind in case forgetting a network doesn’t fix your Wi-Fi woes.

All we’ll be doing here though is clicking on Advanced down at the bottom, and moving on to our final step.

Step three: Remove Network

From here, you’re going to see a lot of options and preference panes you don’t need to worry about. This is the menu you’d use to manually add networks, look into your TCP/IP settings, your network hardware settings, and your Mac’s unique Wi-Fi Address. You can also drag the networks into the order you’d prefer to use, in case you routinely switch between one or more Wi-Fi networks during your day. To do that, just click and drag networks up and down the list, in order of your preferred priority.

The final step is the easiest one: just click the network you want to forget, then click the Minus icon at the bottom of the list. And that’s it, you’re done, your network is forgotten.

Hopefully that should clear up your network issue, try rebooting your Mac and reconnecting to the network if you’re still having trouble. And if you’re still having trouble after that, it might be time to check out one of our other guides, you might have a bigger problem on your hands.

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