Siri in Mojave Now Supports HomeKit and Find My iPhone
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Siri on the Mac hasn’t been as useful as on iOS devices, but with macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple enhanced the Mac version of Siri in a variety of ways.
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Don’t Use Rules in Apple’s Mail to Send “Out of Office” Replies
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It’s helpful to unplug occasionally and ignore email while on vacation or otherwise away from your work routine. And it’s a good idea to set up a vacation auto-responder to tell correspondents what to do in your absence. It might be tempting to create such an auto-reply with a rule in Mail on the Mac, but resist the temptation!
Read MoreThe Secret Trick for Enabling Caps Lock When Typing in iOS
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The Caps Lock key on Mac keyboards often feels extraneous, since it’s easy enough to hold the Shift key while typing multiple capital letters for acronyms like HIPPA or when you want to shout GET OFF MY LAWN! But if you need to do that on an iPhone or iPad, it’s annoying to keep tapping the Shift key to switch to the uppercase keyboard for each letter.
Read MoreFile Messages Faster in Mail in Mojave
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In macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple exposed a feature of Mail that was useful, but hard to find and use…
Read MoreA Hidden Trick that Lets You Navigate Your iPhone with One Hand
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Unless you can palm a basketball, you may not be able to use an iPhone single-handed. But sometimes one hand is all you can spare. If you find yourself in such a situation, give Reachability a try.
Read MoreHere's How to Hide All Windows on Your Mac So You Can Work on the Desktop
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If your Mac is anything like ours, you end up with lots of apps open, each with one or more windows that obscure the Desktop.
Read MoreFix a Frozen Finder with This Quick Tip
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Finder freezes. They shouldn’t happen at all, and they don’t happen often, but it’s not unheard of for your Mac’s Finder to freeze, freak out, or otherwise stop responding properly.
Read MoreEnable Theater Mode to Prevent Your Apple Watch from Lighting Up at a Show
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Attend any live theater presentation, and someone will ask the audience to silence their cell phones. But what about your Apple Watch?
Read MoreNeed to Do Some Simple Math? Get Siri to Do It!
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If you’re reading this, chances are good that you’re not in elementary school, but it’s still easy to end up with a bunch of numbers you need to calculate...
Read MoreiCloud Photo Library Users: Do NOT Turn Off iCloud
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File this warning under “unless it’s absolutely necessary.” If you use iCloud Photo Library on your Mac, don’t sign out from iCloud...
Read MoreTrading Faces: Picking a Better Face for People Photos Recognizes
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Apple’s Photos app is remarkably good at identifying people in your snapshots and collecting all the pictures that contain a particular person into a group in its People view...
Read MoreSwipe Back and Forth between Web Pages for Easier Navigation
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For navigation, every Web browser offers back and forward buttons, generally represented by arrows in the upper left of the toolbar...
Read MoreHaving Trouble Switching Apps on the iPhone X? Try This.
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Since the iPhone X lacks a Home button to press twice for the app switcher, you’ll need to switch apps in a new way...
Read MoreApple Lowers Battery-Replacement Pricing for iPhone 6 and Later
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Did you hear about the battery-related controversy swirling around Apple at the end of 2017? There has been much hue and cry about how, starting with iOS 10.2.1, iOS has been slowing down iPhones with old, weak batteries to avoid unexpected shutdowns...
Read MoreDid You Know that Apple Pay Updates Your Credit Card Details Automatically?
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File this as reason number 17 why Apple Pay is better than plastic. Let’s say your credit card expires and your bank sends you a new card with a revised expiration date. Or perhaps your bank replaces your card with one that has a new number....
Read MoreFollow This Quick Tip to Put Calendar Events in the Right Place
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Apple’s Calendar apps in both macOS and iOS let you manage multiple calendars, some of which may be private and others may be shared with family or colleagues. That’s great, but if you create a new event on the wrong calendar, you may end up oversharing with colleagues...
Read MoreDon’t Use These Products to Clean Your iPhone (Or You’ll Wish You Hadn’t)
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All iPhones pick up fingerprints, and it’s all too easy to get your iPhone dirty with ink, lotion, makeup, dirt, food, and oil. If you’re faced with an iPhone that needs cleaning, resist the urge to spray it with window cleaner, rubbing alcohol, or ammonia, or, even worse, to scrub it with baking soda or Borax...
Read MoreHere’s the Fastest Way to Set Up a New iPhone
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When you’re unboxing a new iPhone, it’s time to think about how you’ll move your digital life from your old iPhone to the new one...
Read MoreYou Can Now Scan QR Codes with the Camera in iOS 11
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You’ve undoubtedly seen those odd-looking square QR codes on product packaging, a business card, or a flyer. In the past, you needed a special app to scan a QR code to see what Web URL, contact card, Wi-Fi network, or other piece of information it held...
Read MoreMerge Recognized Faces in Photos in Both iOS and macOS
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An extremely welcome under-the-hood change in iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra is that Photos facial recognition syncs across iCloud Photo Library...
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