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Tap a credit or debit card to ride transit in the San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, DC. Learn how it works and when to keep a transit card.

Today, Apple released a big 26.2 update across all system software. In addition to bug fixes, security fixes, performance improvements, and further tweaks to Liquid Glass, Apple has also thrown in a few additional features. These features are generally applied across all applicable software. Becaus

Many iPhone users already know that you can store a state-issued driver’s license or ID card in Apple Wallet if you live in a participating state. For many people, this has made airport travel easier and has reduced the amount of sensitive information they need to show at places like bars or clubs.

Learn how to use, customize, or completely turn off the iPhone Camera Control button on iPhone 16 and 17. Plus how to use Visual Intelligence.

Today, Apple unveiled the new M5 chip and the first slate of products to receive it. All of these are available to preorder now with deliveries beginning on October 22. As with each generation, the M5 delivers about 20-50% more performance compared to the prior generation. All prices remain the sam

If you are a heavy user of copy/paste, you may be excited to learn that macOS 26 Tahoe, introduced last week , gains clipboard history! Now, every time you copy something, it can be later retrieved even after you have copied other content. However, for privacy reasons, it is not enabled by default.

Today, Apple released the big annual software updates across all systems. These are really big updates, and if you haven’t been following this news, you’ll be surprised to learn about two of the biggest changes: New versioning system unifies the names and makes it simpler to understand. Much like

If you’re still backing up your Mac to an AirPort Time Capsule, you may have seen a warning after upgrading to macOS 15.6 Sequoia: Disk Not Recommended for Backups . Future versions of macOS will no longer support Time Capsule disks for Time Machine Backups. or (if you have upgraded to macOS 26)

If you take a lot of screenshots on your Mac, you are likely filling up your computer, email, and your colleague’s email boxes with enormous files. This is because the default screenshot format on Mac is PNG, a nearly 30-year-old file format that doesn’t take advantage of modern advances in file com

If you’ve ever been in a crowded museum, farmer’s market, or shopping mall and realized your travel buddy has vanished, you know the mix of frustration and mild panic that follows. Luckily, Apple has a solution! Yes, Find Friends has been around since iOS 5 in 2011. It is great because you can see

As Apple does every June, today Apple unveiled the upcoming software for this fall. While WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) is an event for software developers, today’s keynote is a bit more geared to the general public so that people can see what to expect. All software was released in beta

Have you ever double-clicked a file on your Mac only to have it open in an app you don't like or never use? Maybe PDFs keep opening in Safari when you'd rather use Preview or Adobe Acrobat. Or perhaps every time you open a photo, it insists on launching Photos instead of your preferred image editor.

If you've ever seen a message on your Mac saying “Your system run out of application memory," you might wonder what’s going on, especially if you haven’t opened that many apps. The culprit is often something called a memory leak . But what does that mean, what is wrong, and how can you fix it?

Learn how to hide iPhone apps or lock them with Face ID in iOS 18 and iOS 26, plus where hidden apps go and what this privacy feature cannot protect.

Learn how to start using ChatGPT, write a useful first prompt, improve its answers, protect your privacy, and decide whether a paid plan is worthwhile.

A neat feature built into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS is that your devices will offer to share the Wi-Fi password if others near you try to connect to a network your devices know. However, for this feature to work, they must be in your Contacts, have an Apple device, and at times, it doesn’t activate as

In iOS 18.2, Apple enhanced the Find My app, enabling you to create a temporary link that shares the location of a lost AirTag or other Find My-tracked item. You don’t need to know the person’s email address or share any other information, and the link automatically expires after a week. It’s a grea

Although we think about HomePods as being useful for playing audio and responding to Siri commands, they can do more. HomePods can send a notification to your iPhone if their built-in microphones recognize the piercing squeals from smoke and carbon monoxide alarms. If you are away from home, that no