Delete Contacts More Easily in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16
Deleting contacts on the iPhone and iPad used to be a pain, especially if you wanted to trash multiple contacts. You had to open the contact, tap Edit, scroll to …
Merge Duplicate Photos and Videos in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and Ventura
It’s all too easy to end up with duplicate photos and videos in your Photos library. The most common way is to use the Duplicate command, but I’ve seen duplicates …
Sick of these new cookie popups? There’s an app for that!
Because of recent laws enacted, many websites have a popup banner that asks you to accept their cookies. There is usually an option to choose which specific types of cookies …
Apple Is Driving the iPhone to eSIM: Here’s What You Need to Know
Perhaps the most surprising change in the iPhone 14 line, at least in the United States, was the shift from using removable SIM cards to eSIM. Before you read on, …
Mail Gains Welcome Features in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS 13 Ventura
Email may not be as sexy a way to communicate as modern-day darlings like Messages, Slack, or Microsoft Teams, but it remains the workhorse of business and personal communications because …
iOS 16.1.1, iPadOS 16.1.1, macOS Ventura 13.0.1 released
Yesterday Apple released some minor updates that include unspecified bug and security fixes. If you have upgraded to iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or macOS Ventura, I recommend you install these …
Check the Weather on Your Mac and iPad, Finally!
At long last, Apple has plugged one of the most inexplicable holes in its app library—the lack of a Weather app for the iPad and Mac. In iPadOS 16 and …
Allow/Don’t Allow Paste popups driving you crazy on iOS 16? You can disable it
Each upgrade to iOS and iPadOS brings new security features. In the end, it’s better for security but there may be some difficulty along the way. One of the things …
New iMessage features in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura: Mark as Unread, Edit Messages, Undo Send, Report Junk, Undelete
After years of user requests, Apple has finally beefed up Messages with a few welcome features—options to mark conversations as unread for later reference, edit messages after they’ve been sent, …
Apple releases iOS 16, tvOS 16, watchOS 9, HomePod OS 16, macOS 12.6, Safari 16, and more
Today Apple released new software for all of their devices. Most of these are the big annual upgrades, but iPad and Mac are minor with the major annual upgrades slated …