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You know you've heard that you're so-and-so megabytes over your data limit, or you need who-knows-how-many gigadoodads available to install something. But really, what do all of these gigabytes, megabytes, and kilobytes mean? The short answer is that many of these are insignificantly small and som
SSDs are great—they’re fast, durable, and reliable—but they’re also expensive, which results in many of us not having as much storage built into our Macs as we’d like, especially if you didn't choose to upgrade the storage when you bought your Mac, or for those who download videos in iTunes or take
Have you ever gotten an emergency alert on your iPhone, telling you about an abducted child or public safety emergency? That’s the Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) system, at least in the United States, although some other countries have similar systems. This system replaces the Emergency Bro
Got a bazillion tabs open in Safari for iPhone or iPad? Don't worry, it's not hurting anything. But here's how to close them all in one fell swoop if the clutter is driving you mad.
iOS 12.2 adds an easy way to check your warranty, or to sign up for AppleCare+ quickly and easily.
It’s maddening to want to read a serial number or other bit of fine print that you can barely see. But fret no longer—your iPhone or iPad makes a fabulous magnifying glass! Add the Magnifier button to Control Center in Settings > Control Center > Customize Controls. Then swipe up from the bott
There’s little worse than missing an important call or text because your iPhone was in Do Not Disturb mode or because the Mute switch was engaged. If there are certain people—a spouse, parent, or child—whose calls and texts you always want to break through the cone of silence, iOS has a solution:
When you click or tap a link in Safari, you generally don’t know where you’re going to end up. That’s fine most of the time, but what if you’re concerned that a site might be trying to trick you into going somewhere malicious? Safari provides an easy way to look at the URL under a link. On the Mac,
If you’re an Apple Music subscriber, you probably know that it can play music that’s related to a particular artist or track—just tell Siri, “Play a radio station based on the Beatles” to get a bunch of songs from the likes of the Rolling Stones, Simon & Garfunkel, and Elton John. That radio
If you use Apple’s AirPods, you’re probably a fan. Personally, I've found them to be one of Apple's most exciting products in years. They pair quickly and reliably with all your Apple devices, provide excellent audio quality, and sit comfortably in most people’s ears (more so than the wired EarPods)
When you’re viewing a message in Mail on an iPhone or iPad, you get five buttons: Flag, Move, Archive or Delete, Reply/Forward/Print, and New Message. But what determines whether that middle button is Archive or Delete? iOS hides that option in Settings > Passwords & Account
Most Apple users rely iCloud-related services for most everything. So if you can’t send or receive email, if photos aren’t transferring via iCloud Photo Library, or if some other iCloud-related service isn’t responding, the first thing to do is check Apple’s System Status page . It’s updated every
The Caps Lock key on Mac keyboards often feels extraneous, since it’s easy enough to hold the Shift key while typing multiple capital letters for acronyms like HIPPA or when you want to shout GET OFF MY LAWN! But if you need to do that on an iPhone or iPad, it’s annoying to keep tapping the Shift ke
Siri on the Mac hasn’t been as useful as on iOS devices, but with macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple enhanced the Mac version of Siri in a variety of ways, bringing it more in line with the capabilities on iPhone. Siri now knows about food and celebrities, but more interesting is how you can ask Siri to cont
If you’ve been good about backing up your iOS devices to iTunes on your Mac or to iCloud, give yourself a gold star! Both backup destinations are fine (personally, I prefer the seamlessness of backing up to iCloud), but there’s one potential downside to iTunes backups: they can consume a lot of spac
Browser tabs. They multiply like bunnies, and if you’re like anyone else, you have oodles of tabs open on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad. But you may not know that Safari has a great tab-management feature that lets you access all the open tabs on all your devices. (Make sure to enable the Safari switch
There are three types of people in this world: those who keep their Mac Desktop organized, those who don’t and don’t care, and those who don’t but wish they could. If you’re sitting on the Group #3 bench–you have oodles of icons scattered willy-nilly`around your Desktop, and it bugs the bejeebers ou
You probably fall into one of two camps: people who haven’t the foggiest idea what pressing Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 do on the Mac, and those who use those keyboard shortcuts regularly to take screenshots. Either way, macOS 10.14 Mojave makes it easier than ever to create a still image of
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