Here'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.
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Fix 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...
Read MoreStop Paying Too Much for a Family’s iCloud Drive Storage
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Apple gives iCloud users 5 GB of free storage, but that fills up fast with iCloud Photo Library, iOS backups, iBooks, and more. Until iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, each person in a family had to buy extra iCloud space separately...
Read MoreHow to Get Back to Siri’s Web Results Quickly
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Ask Siri to search the Web and you’ll get five results back from Google (not Bing anymore!)...
Read MoreThe New Two-Swipe Shortcut for the Camera in iOS 11
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When you want to capture that perfect action shot or incriminating video, it’s a mad rush to open the Camera app as quickly as possible...
Read MoreAvoid Ransom Requests with a Unique iCloud Password
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We’ve been hearing reports from people whose Macs have been locked remotely via Find My Mac, with the criminals responsible holding access to the Mac hostage until they receive a ransom in Bitcoin...
Read MoreSiri Learned Five Languages over the Summer So You Didn’t Have To
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While you were basking at the beach this summer, Apple kept Siri busy taking intensive language classes...
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