We continue to report on issues that occur after switching between accounts using the Fast User Switching capability in Mac OS X. Many of the issue we covered were new for some users in Mac OS X ...

We'd like to revisit a group of issues that occur when fast user switching is invoked under Mac OS X 10.4.x. Most fast user switching issues have to do with process ownership: when one user is the ...

In macOS Big Sur, Apple includes a feature that will be familiar to Windows users, called Fast User Switching. As the name suggests, it lets you switch user accounts quickly and easily, without having ...

Here's an oddity that I just recently started noticing: I have Fast User Switching enabled, and when I attempt to login to a secondary local user account by selecting that username from the list, the ...

Fast user switching (accessible from Login Options in the Accounts System Preference pane) makes it easy to keep two or more users logged in to a Mac at the same time. Instead of logging in and out ...

Ok I think the idea of Fast User Switching in XP is great, but the problem is that everything keeps running in the background so the computer gets slowed down... and each new person that does it ...

An apparent M1 Mac Fast User Switching bug is resulting in user reports that the screensaver takes over and leaves them temporarily locked out of their machines. The bug can be seen in the view below.

An unknown number of Apple Silicon users who have two or more accounts on their M1 Mac are seeing their screensaver spontaneously start and them being logged out. What happens is that a user can be ...

Apple has provided a way for years to lock your Mac's screen when unattended. Here's how to use the options within macOS. For security reasons, macOS allows you to lock your Mac's screen so that ...