Tips and Guides

Learn about iPhone Medical ID in iOS 13, including medical details, emergency contacts, and how its lock-screen visibility setting works.

Learn how to drag the scroll bar in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 to move through long pages, plus a shortcut for returning to the top.

Learn about Share ETA introduced in iOS 13 Maps, which sends your driving arrival estimate to a contact and updates it when you are delayed.

Find your Mac, iPhone, or iPad model and software version using About This Mac or Settings. Learn which details to share when asking for help.

Explore the text-editing changes in iOS 13 and iPadOS 13, including cursor placement, selection, cut-and-paste gestures, and slide-to-type.

Learn about forward-delete shortcuts on MacBook and compact Magic Keyboards, including fn-Delete, Control-D, and deleting whole words.

Explore what Apple Wallet can store, from payment and membership cards to boarding passes and event tickets, with an overview of adding and using them.

Learn about restarting a completely unresponsive Mac as a last resort, including the risks to unsaved work and stored files.

Learn how Skip When Shuffling keeps holiday and children’s songs out of your everyday music shuffle in iTunes and the Mac Music app.

Learn how SMS login-code autofill works in iOS 12 and Safari on macOS Mojave, with a discussion of authentication-app alternatives.

This 2019 guide explains the Mac Guest account, how it separates a visitor’s session, and what happens to their files after logout.

Arrange your Mac’s Dock around the apps you use. Learn how to add, remove, and reorder Dock icons to fit your own workflow.

Understand the risks of sharing plain-text passwords and the one-time-link approach described in this introduction to One-Time Secret.

Learn about recording your iPhone or iPad screen, including microphone audio, where recordings are saved, and options for editing them.

Learn how to copy a phone number and paste it into the iPhone Phone app, with a note on copying numbers from a Mac through Continuity Clipboard.

Read about the battery recall for certain Mid-2015 15-inch MacBook Pro models and how to check a serial number with Apple.

This iOS 12.3 guide explains adding multiple Apple Account payment methods and choosing their order if the first payment method is declined.

Understand kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, and terabytes, how they relate to file sizes, and why megabits measure something different.