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It sounds like you are are not able to boot your Mac successfully at this point and you get stuck as a screen with a spinning wheel. I would recommend the troubleshooting from the following article to help you get that resolved, named:
Disconnect, test peripheral devices and network cables
Note: 'Peripheral devices' refers to external devices other than what came with your Mac, such as hard drives, printers, or hubs that you connect via a USB or FireWire cable.
- Shut down your Mac. If necessary, hold your Mac's power button for several seconds to force it to power down.
- Disconnect all peripheral devices such as external hard drives or printers (leave only the display, a keyboard, and mouse connected).
- Disconnect any Ethernet cables.
- Start up your Mac.
- If you can start up this way, one or more of your peripheral devices (or installed software related to the device) is probably causing the gray screen issue. Connect one device, then restart your Mac to test for the issue. Repeat the process until you locate the device at issue. Make sure the device is powered if it needs to be to operate correctly. Check with the manufacturer of the device for support or possible software driver or firmware updates that may be available for the device. Try a different cable with the device if possible (such as a different USB or FireWire cable).
Note: If you have multiple peripheral devices and the issue only occurs when they are all connected, but not when each device is the only peripheral connected, see the Additional Information section below. - If you are using a desktop Mac with a third-party keyboard and/or mouse device, and the issue still occurs, try starting up with an Apple keyboard and mouse connected instead. Try starting with no keyboard and mouse connected, then connect them after start up. Also, try a different USB port on your Mac.
If the gray screen issue persists with no devices connected, go to the next section (with the peripherals still disconnected).
Perform a Safe Boot
Simply performing a Safe Boot may resolve this issue.
- Shut down your Mac. If necessary, hold your Mac's power button for several seconds to force it to power down.
- Start your Mac, then immediately hold the Shift key. This performs a Safe Boot. Advanced tip: If you want to see the status of a Safe Boot as it progresses, you can hold Shift-Command-V during start up (instead of just Shift).
Note: A Safe Boot takes longer than a typical start up because it includes a disk check and other operations. - If your Mac starts up as expected, immediately try restarting.
If the Safe Boot does not work, or the restart after a successful Safe Boot does not work, go to the next section.
Reset the NVRAM / PRAM
- Shut down your Mac. If necessary, hold your Mac's power button for several seconds to force it to power down.
- Reset the NVRAM / PRAM.
If the gray screen issue persists, go to the next section.
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All the very best,
Sterling
Sep 24, 2014 8:56 AM
WhatsApp added an option to chats today that allows the user to mute said chat forever. The Facebook-owned app and ecosystem previously only allowed a chat to be muted for 8 hours, 1 week, or 1 year. This was fine, sure, but what if you wanted to stay in a chat and never, ever hear a notification from the chat ever, ever again? Now that’s possible, if you dare.
WhatsApp’s become a lot like Facebook in the last few years, thanks in no small part to the acquisition of the former by the latter. Facebook started as a platform for connecting individuals attending college, but quickly became a nightmare of social decorum. Take for instance the “relationship status”: a single feature that launched thousands, if not millions of arguments between individuals between whom things could be described as… “it’s complicated.”
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Now, in 2020, WhatsApp has a whole bunch of unspoken social rules that ring similar bells. If you’ve been invited to a chat, and agreed to be a part of said chat, you’re in that chat for good. You wouldn’t dare leave the chat because WhatsApp has a feature that alerts everyone in the chat that you’ve left!
You can now mute a chat forever 🤫 pic.twitter.com/DlH7jAt6P8
— WhatsApp Inc. (@WhatsApp) October 23, 2020
It should be clear that a feature like this was built as social glue, making users feel like they NEED to stay attached, or they risk losing friends and/or associates. The only reprieve is the mute button, which allows you to avoid the chat without leaving the chat.
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This situation is very similar to the Facebook Unfollow button. Back in October of 2015, we wrote about how you could cut your Facebook stress to zero with that ONE button. Unfollow everyone you do not want to see without notifying them that you were no longer going to see their content. WhatsApp will likely continue to get features like this in the future, too – half-steps that keep you stuck.