How to Quickly Select Items in a List from the Keyboard
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Even if you already know this tip, you may not have realized all the places where it works...
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Stay Focused in Apple Mail with These Handy Filters
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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 and iOS 10—and you can look forward to working with it in the upcoming 10.13 High Sierra and iOS 11...
Read MoreHey Siri, Could You Please Talk Less?
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By default, Siri likes to chat, confirming what you say and speaking the results of your commands when appropriate...
Read MoreThe Backup Triple Play that Can Save the Day
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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 information—and whose Mac doesn’t have at least irreplaceable photos?—you must back up regularly or risk data loss. Seriously, full backups of your entire Mac are not optional...
Read MoreUse Command Keys to Open Safari Bookmarks or Tabs
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In 2015, Apple quietly changed the behavior of the Command-1 through Command-9 keys in Safari on the Mac...
Read MoreTake Advantage of Extra Features in Messages Group Conversations
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Using Messages on the Mac or in iOS is simple. Start a new conversation, enter someone’s phone number or email address, and start chatting. And if you want to talk with several people at once, type a couple of phone numbers or email addresses when you begin...
Read MoreTry This Easier Method of Flipping between iPhone Camera Modes
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The Camera app on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch can take three kinds of video and three types of photos, and the interface suggests that you switch between them by tapping or swiping on the labels below the viewfinder. Unfortunately, those labels are small and can be difficult to swipe accurately...
Read MoreGet Ready for iOS 11 by Identifying Old Apps that Won’t Work
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Now that Apple has released a public beta of iOS 11, we have confirmation that Apple is kicking some old apps off the back of the train. If you’ve been using an iPhone or iPad for more than a few years, it’s possible that some of your apps won’t even launch in iOS 11. Here’s what’s going to happen, and what you can do about it...
Read MorePSA: Hot Cars Can Kill iPhones
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Just as you wouldn’t leave your pooch in a car parked in the sun, you should be careful with your iPhone...
Read MoreGo Beyond Texting a Snapshot: Share Photos via iCloud Photo Sharing
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It’s easy to take lots of photos on vacation these days, and while a slideshow of all of them is a bit much, friends and relatives might like to see a Best Of collection. Or you might wish to share baby photos with your family or pictures of your new city with friends back home...
Read MoreHere’s How to Teleport to a Specific Mac Folder While Opening or Saving
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Ever wanted to jump to a particular folder on your Mac while opening or saving a file? You can, thanks to a clever Finder trick...
Read MoreGoing into Airplane Mode: Flying with Technology
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Since 2013, we’ve been able to use handheld electronic devices such as the iPhone, iPad, and Kindle at pretty much all times during airplane flights, including takeoff and landing. That was a big change from previous policy, which banned the use of personal electronic devices below 10,000 feet, forcing passengers to occupy themselves with books and magazines at the start and end of flights.
Read MoreSupercharge Your iPhone’s Keyboard with Google’s Gboard
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As much as Apple keeps improving typing on the iPhone and iPad, most people find tapping characters on the on-screen keyboard slower and more error-prone than on a physical computer keyboard...
Read MoreDial Phone Calls Directly from iOS Calendar Events
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Imagine that you’re adding a calendar event for a meeting with a contractor, and you want to make it easy to call them if you are running late...
Read MoreSay “Cheese!” Tips for Taking Mac and iOS Screenshots
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macOS and iOS have both long included built-in screenshot features that make it easy to take a high-resolution picture of what you see onscreen. (You can, of course, use a camera to take a photo of your screen, but that will never look as good.)
Read MoreUse This Site to Troubleshoot Netflix Streaming Problems
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Whether you watch Netflix on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV, the quality of the video—and whether it stutters or skips—is determined by the bandwidth of your Internet connection...
Read MoreSo What Is a Retina Display, Anyway?
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You’ve seen the term in Mac names—iMac with 5K Retina display, MacBook Pro with Retina display, and so on. But what is a Retina display, and why should you care? The short answer is Retina displays are high-resolution screens on which graphics are extra sharp and text is super crisp. Here’s the longer answer...
Read MoreWant to Strip Styles when Pasting Text on the Mac?
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When you copy text from a Web page, PDF, or word processing document, macOS usually includes the associated formatting, so the words you paste may end up in 37-point red underline if that was what the source text looked like. That might be okay, but more often you want the text to take on the styling of the text where you’re planning to paste it...
Read MoreGoldilocks and the Three PDF Apps: Which Is Right for You?
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PDFs are everywhere these days. Scanners generally create documents in PDF, ebooks are often distributed in PDF, and government agencies make their paper forms available as interactive PDFs...
Read MoreHow to Find Buried Options in the iOS Settings App
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iOS offers about 40 top-level categories in its Settings app and countless options in those categories. How can you find a little-used setting, particularly since Apple sometimes moves options during major iOS releases?
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