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Sure, we know that phone calls aren’t the most common thing people do on their iPhones these days, but it’s still important to be able to make and take calls. There are a wide variety of reasons that outgoing or incoming calls might fail, so the solutions vary equally as widely. Some may seem a litt
A large screen—or several screens!—increases productivity by helping you see more content at once. It’s a big help to refer to a Web page in one window while writing in another, for instance, or to check your calendar while composing an email. But the more screen real estate you have, the easier it
Have you noticed a little orange dot next to the icon for Control Center on the menu bar in macOS 12 Monterey? (And if not, you can’t miss it now.) Apple added that dot to alert you that something is using the Mac’s microphone. Click the Control Center icon to see which apps are using the mic. In ne
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.
Every so often, I encounter someone struggling to find and launch an app on their Apple Watch because they have trouble seeing and interacting with the icon-centric grid view layout. And frankly at that size all of the icons tend to look alike. If you’re in that camp, there’s a better way. In the iP
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
During its Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on June 6th, Apple took a brief break from showing off new features in upcoming operating systems to throw back the curtains on its new M2 chip and a pair of laptops that use it: an all-new MacBook Air and an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro. Preorders
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-
It’s that time of year again. Apple CEO Tim Cook and numerous Apple employees took the virtual stage again at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on June 6th to share what we can expect to see later this year in macOS 13 Ventura , iOS 16 , iPadOS 16 , and watchOS 9 . (Almost n
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
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