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Start with adoption:
- Open the Mac App Store and select
View My Account.
- At the top, it should tell you that
there are apps to adopt; it may give you a
reason as in this figure. Click Accept.
- ou should receive confirmation that
the apps are now connected to your
account.
If you don’t see an option to adopt or
get an error in step 3:
- Open the Applications folder on your
Mac (in the Finder, Go → Applications is the
fastest way to navigate there.)
- Drag the five apps listed above or
any that you can’t launch or update to the
Trash. You will be prompted for an
administrative account and password.
Enter that.
- Empty the Trash.
- Return to the Mac App Store and
re-download the apps you deleted. These
are now registered properly to your Mac.
HOW TO SWITCH FROM
iCLOUD PHOTOS TO JUST
PLAIN PHOTOS
iCloud Photos provides a great service.
Deeply embedded into iOS, iPadOS,
macOS, and iCloud, with the feature
enabled, every photo you take and every
video you record is automatically
uploaded to your central iCloud account
and then synchronized as a thumbnail or
You may be asked to adopt Apple apps because of a motherboard replacement, Apple ID
issue, or seemingly at random.
