How to Share 2FA for Team Access to a Single Account

When your team or family needs to share access to a single account (like for banking or social media), using two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS can be inconvenient—whose phone gets the codes? A better option is an authentication app. These ...

How to Make Productive Use of Generative AI Chatbots and Artbots

Artificial intelligence dominates the tech news these days, but it’s hard to separate the hype from the reality. Every large company seems to have some major AI initiative in the works. Even Apple, which tends to stick to its own ...

How to Retrieve Important Emails from Your Spam Folder

Spam filters are generally very effective—about 99% of the messages in your spam folder are likely to be actual spam. However, it can be frustrating when an important email gets mistakenly flagged as spam. Here's a simple method to help ...

Optimizing Your Mac for Better Sleep: Using Night Shift

Research suggests that exposure to blue light can trick your body into thinking it's daytime, making it harder to fall asleep if you work late on a Mac with a bright white screen, which emits a lot of blue light. ...

At WWDC, Apple Unveils Apple Intelligence and Previews New OS Features

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote was a lightning-fast (even in the full 1:44-long video—or try the 3-minute recap) look at what Apple is bringing to the software side of the Apple experience in the next year. Although some past keynotes ...

Apple’s New Password Manager

If you’re a business owner and a long-time Apple user, you’re likely familiar with iCloud Keychain for managing your company’s passwords. This built-in tool offers seamless autofill, sync, and recovery features ...

Simplify Finding Labeled Items with Your iPhone or Mac

If you struggle to locate specific items across multiple shelves of books, labeled boxes, or anything else clearly identified by text, here’s a simple solution: take well-composed photos that capture all the titles without glare. Later, you can easily search ...

Breach Exposes 73 Million: Proactive Security Measures Essential

In a recent statement, AT&T, the largest telecommunications company in the United States, revealed that they discovered a dataset for sale on the dark web. This dataset contained information for about ...

10 Ways Top IT Providers Outperform the Rest

What sets high-quality, reliable IT support apart from mediocre or substandard support? Is it lower prices? Flat-fee service? At The MacGuys+, we believe there are many deciding factors that separate even ...

Did You Know Most Mac Apps Keep Versions of Your Documents as You Work?

We all make mistakes, which is why Undo exists. Immediately choose Edit > Undo or press Command-Z to undo your last change. Most Mac apps support multiple levels of Undo, so you can keep pressing Command-Z to revert change after ...