Apple’s iCloud Keychain Password Management Is All Many People Need
Apple’s iCloud Keychain Password Management Is All Many People Need We constantly recommend using a password manager like 1Password, BitWarden, or Dashlane. But many people resist committing to yet another app or paying for yet another service. Isn’t Apple’s built-in ...
Disable Smart Quotes and Dashes on Your Mac
Disable Smart Quotes and Dashes on Your Mac Most people appreciate smart quotes and dashes for their polished look in professional documents. Your Mac likely converts single (') and double (") hash marks and double hyphens (--) into the more ...
Easily Select Non-Contiguous Text in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers
Great news for Mac and iPad users! Apple’s iWork suite—Pages 14, Keynote 14, and Numbers 14—now features non-contiguous text selection. Hold down Command to select multiple text chunks that aren’t next to each other. This makes formatting tasks, like bolding ...
Customize Your Lock Screen with Photo Albums on iPhone and iPad
A standout feature of iOS 16 was the Photo Shuffle option for customizing the iPhone Lock Screen, using machine learning to pick photos from categories like People, Pets, Nature, and Cities, and rotating through them on tap, lock, hourly, or ...
How to Show Battery Percentage in Your Mac’s Menu Bar
Want a quick way to see your Mac laptop’s battery percentage at a glance? By default, macOS only shows a battery icon in the menu bar, indicating how full your battery is. To see the exact percentage, you usually have ...
Apple Introduces New iPad Air, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro, and Magic Keyboard
After no new iPads throughout 2023, Apple has unveiled new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air and iPad Pro models, plus a more capable Apple Pencil Pro and a redesigned Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. The company also refined the iPad ...
Audit Your Trusted Device Lists for Greater Security
One of the ways companies protect critical account information is by remembering the devices you use to log in as “trusted devices” or “authorized devices.” Those logins will usually have been protected by two-factor authentication or another mechanism that guarantees ...
Want an Event List in Apple’s Calendar App? Try This Trick
Along with day, week, month, and year views, most calendar apps offer the option of a simple chronological list of events, which can be a handy way to see what’s coming up. Apple’s Calendar app on the Mac is unfortunately ...
Optimize Your Mac Display: Adjusting Screen Resolution
You can change the resolution of your Mac’s screen—how many pixels appear—to make text and graphics larger and easier to see or smaller to fit more content onscreen. In System Settings > Displays, Apple shows thumbnails for five likely possibilities. ...
Apple Podcasts Upgrade: Transcripts Now in iOS 17.4 & More
In the latest updates to iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, and macOS 14.4 Sonoma, Apple has introduced significant enhancements to its Podcasts app. One of the notable features is the inclusion of transcripts for all podcasts available in the Apple Podcasts ...
