Make Sure to Get Sierra before High Sierra Ships
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Assuming Apple continues its previous practices, once macOS 10.13 High Sierra comes out, it will become impossible to download 10.12 Sierra for the first time...
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When Should You Upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, iOS 11, watchOS 4, and tvOS 11?
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To every thing there is a season, and we’re fast approaching the time when Apple harvests the fruit of the last year and releases new versions of macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS...
Read MoreHave You Tried Falling Asleep to Music or Lectures?
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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 below the volume slider). What if you prefer listening to content that's not in iBooks, like music or a college lecture?
Read MoreTeleport Around Your Mac with the Sidebar
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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 everything perfectly, but you’d also be flossing twice a day, calling your mother every Sunday, and eating more leafy greens. So let’s talk about a shortcut that lets you put off that big reorg for another day: the sidebar that graces every Finder window and Open/Save dialog...
Read MoreSequels Rule! Reuse File Names in the Mac’s Save Dialog
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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...
Read MoreGraphic Alphabet Soup: What Are Different Formats Good For?
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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 does your camera spit out JPEGs? What’s the best format for a Web graphic? Grab onto a capital O and let’s get some answers...
Read MoreHow 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...
Read MoreStay 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...
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