Tips and Guides

In the past few months, I've seen many clients receive random text messages and WhatsApp messages from unknown numbers. Often it's just the word "hey" or sometimes they say something vague about having met at a party or plans to go golfing. If they really are someone you know who wants to

I often see people struggle to change the slider/toggle switches on iPhone and iPad. It makes sense to try sliding them because they look like something you slide. But you may find it actually works more reliably if you simply tap them.

Nearly everyone is accustomed to using the Copy and Paste commands on the Mac to easily copy data between apps, but fewer people know that you can also copy and paste between Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Apple calls this feature Universal Clipboard, and it’s so deeply integrated into macOS, iOS, and iPadO

Renting a car has become more interesting in recent years due to changes automakers have been making to car electronics. For example, Apple’s CarPlay is becoming a common feature on rental cars. That lets you run Apple Maps or Google Maps on your iPhone while displaying the map on the car’s built-

You’re on vacation with your family, staying in an Airbnb, with multiple Apple devices to connect to the apartment’s Wi-Fi. Typing the password repeatedly would be a pain, but luckily, Apple has added a password-sharing feature to all its operating systems. Once you enter the password on your iPhone

As scammers are always looking for new ways to trick us, they have come upon a new idea that seems to evade spam filters: Illegitimate invoices via a legitimate system. I've been seeing this a lot in the past couple of weeks. I'm not sure if the scammers are setting up new QuickBooks accounts or if

You probably know that you can drag files or folders to the Trash icon in the Dock to dispose of them. And you may know that you can select multiple items on the Desktop or in a Finder window by Command-clicking each one in turn (Shift-click to select a sequential range of items in a list view), aft

Much has been written about the performance benefits of Apple’s M1 family of chips, but you may not have realized that M1-based Macs can also run many iPhone and iPad apps. It makes sense, given that the M1 chip is a descendent of the chip that powers your iPhone. And the very same chip that powers

Over the past few months, there has been a spate of media reports about how people may have been tracked without their knowledge using AirTags , Apple’s elegant location trackers. Like many mainstream media forays into the tech world, the reports are often short on detail and sometimes unclear on t

Although the Mac’s Dock shows all your running apps, it’s often not the most efficient way to switch among them. Instead, turn to the App Switcher. You may know that pressing Command-Tab switches to the last-used app, making it easy to flip back and forth between two apps. However, if you press Comm

Do you need to be careful about how much data you use with your iPhone or iPad, either via cellular or Wi-Fi? That could be true for those with Internet data caps, people using an expenive international plan while traveling, and anyone in an area with slow data speeds. To reduce your data usage, tur

With the recent release of macOS 12.3 Monterey and iPadOS 15.4, Apple shipped Universal Control , the last major technology promised in its 2021 operating system upgrades. Universal Control enables you to use the keyboard and mouse or trackpad attached to one Mac to control up to three other Macs o

Unfortunately, it’s all too common to end up with multiple cards for the same person in our Contacts app, either precise duplicates or versions that contain different details. Further muddying the situation, many of us have multiple contact accounts—such as from Google or Microsoft Exchange—and some

Whether you have guests who want to get on your home Wi-Fi network, customers who need to join your business network, or attendees who want to use your conference network, it’s always fussy to share the network name and password. If an iPhone user has your Apple ID email address in Contacts, their d

We all have old electronics tucked away in our drawers and closets. It’s hard to admit that a computer, phone, or peripheral that cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars years ago has little or no value anymore. That’s doubly true if it doesn’t work anymore and even more so if it becomes a fire

Normally, when you rotate an iPad, the screen flips from portrait (vertical) to landscape (horizontal) orientation as appropriate. Rotating an iPhone has the same effect in some apps, though many are written to work only in one orientation. If you ever end up in a situation where your device’s scree

In iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Apple added a feature that would have been even more welcome before the advent of the App Library: the capability to manage apps from Search. But it’s still handy as a way to delete or position an app you can’t find on a Home screen page. Swipe down from the middle of the Ho

It’s unfortunate that the most recent iteration of the Magic Mouse has its Lightning charging port on the bottom, making it impossible to use while charging, unlike the Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad, which both work fine when plugged in. Luckily, the battery does usually last a month or two and