Rearrange iOS Share Sheet Icons for Faster Access
When you want to share a Web page link from Safari to Messages, search within a page in Safari, or save a PDF to iBooks, you tap the Share
Understanding Desktop and Documents Folder Syncing
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to edit the same files on your iMac and your MacBook without copying them back and forth manually or using a service like Dropbox or Google Drive? That has been possible in Apple’s ...
Stay Focused in Apple Mail with These Handy Filters
It can be difficult to stay focused on a specific task in the Mail app when you keep getting distracted by incoming messages. Fortunately, you can reduce these distractions using the Filter feature that Apple added in macOS 10.12 Sierra ...
Graphic Alphabet Soup: What Are Different Formats Good For?
When it comes to graphics on the Internet, it’s easy to feel as though you’re swimming for your life in a giant bowl of alphabet soup, surrounded by shouting acronyms: GIF! JPEG! PNG! TIFF! What do those names mean? Why ...
Teleport Around Your Mac with the Sidebar
If your Mac resembles an absent-minded professor’s office with files and folders strewn hither and thither, getting to the right spot to open or save a file may have become slow and clumsy. Sure, in an ideal world, you’d organize ...
Sequels Rule! Reuse File Names in the Mac’s Save Dialog
If you frequently create files whose names vary from those of other files in the same folder by only a date, sequence number, or the like, you can ensure regularized file naming and save effort with this trick. When saving ...
Hey Siri, Could You Please Talk Less?
By default, Siri likes to chat, confirming what you say and speaking the results of your commands when appropriate. If you don’t like that, go to Settings > Siri > Voice Feedback and select either Control with Ring Switch (the ...
Have You Tried Falling Asleep to Music or Lectures?
Greetings from The MacGuys+, iBooks in iOS has a built-in sleep timer that can automatically pause playback after a specified amount of time, which is great for listening to an audiobook as you go to sleep (tap the Moon button ...
How to Quickly Select Items in a List from the Keyboard
Greetings from The MacGuys+, Even if you already know this tip, you may not have realized all the places where it works. When you find yourself in a list on the Mac, as in a Finder window, an Open dialog, ...
The Backup Triple Play that Can Save the Day
Greetings from The MacGuys+, As much as we hate to admit it, when it comes to losing data, the question is not “if,” but “when.” If you rely on your Mac for your job, or if your Mac contains valuable ...
