The Apple Watch Series 4 and above fall detection function transmits your location after a fall. Is this information sent as a text? If I have a talk-only phone plan without texting, for example, would the location still be transmitte…
Lees meerI'm using macOS Catalina. I have a 16GB microSD card that had Raspbian on it, which is 2 partitions: 45MB boot partition large Linux partition I needed to clear it, so I plugged the SD card into my Mac and did this: $ sudo bash -c 'gd…
Lees meerMy 15 inch 2018 Mac Book Pro with Mojave 10.14 randomly starts draining battery when plugged in. When I try to move the cable, change the power cable to a different USB slot nothing helps. The battery indicator is in charging state, but…
Lees meerwhen you install the BigSur Beta, does it upgrade the current installation of Catalina (if there is one) or will it always to a fresh install? Best
Lees meerDo you want to block a senders email address so that you don’t see their mails in your inbox anymore? Well, if you use the stock Mail app to access and organize your emails on iPhone or iPad, you’ll be pleased to know that this is a fairly simple an…
Lees meerI've discovered by accident that my Mac is running a localhost web server. I typed "localhost" into Safari and got "It works!" I get the same result when I go to http://127.0.0.1:80. My question is: How do I turn this thing off? I've tr…
Lees meerI cleared my system to install the BigSur beta: So I have 62 GB free space. But when Im in the installation process its shows the following: Just 28 GB free space. How can I fix this? when I look up my HDD via finder it shows me: So …
Lees meerWhen I go to sleep I tell a smart alarm app (Pillow) that I'm going to sleep. When I wake up I tell that same app that I'm awake. Between these two events, I would like for my iPhone not to vibrate or make any other noise. How can I ach…
Lees meerI have recently come back to using a Mac and want to use a download manager (DownZemAll https://setvisible.github.io/DownZemAll/) that I was using on Windows. While the website says it is "for Mac OS X", there is no actual installer ava…
Lees meerI have recently come back to using a Mac and want to use a download manager (DownZemAll https://setvisible.github.io/DownZemAll/) that I was using on Windows. While the website says it is "for Mac OS X", there is no actual installer ava…
Lees meerI've discovered by accident that my Mac is running a localhost web server. I typed "localhost" into Safari and got "It works!" I get the same result when I go to http://127.0.0.1:80. My question is: How do I turn this thing off? I've tr…
Lees meerI'm having a rather strange issue. When I opened my 13-inch 2020 MacBook Pro, right out the box everything seemed rather small. I went into the display settings and noticed the display setting was set to the "default." However, poking a…
Lees meerAs each year goes by, smartphones are becoming increasingly popular for their video recording capabilities. Today, we have several smartphones with multiple camera setups and advanced video stabilization that some of them come close to rivalling ded…
Lees meerWatchOS 7 is set to debut in the fall, bringing new features and refinements to the Apple Watch experience. However, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that not all Apple Watch models will be compatible with the upcoming version of watchOS 7, since the…
Lees meerI remember in older versions of MacOS there was a setting in: System Preferences -> iCloud -> Options @ iCloud Drive -> Optimize Mac Storage It's been known to cause all sorts of problems, so I want to make sure I disable it, but it is…
Lees meerFor my home network, I am still using the Time Capsule 4th Generation Router, from 2011. I realized that I may have overestimated the security of this device, as it apparently does not have a Firewall – it only has NAT. I am concerned a…
Lees meerFor my home network, I am still using the Time Capsule 4th Generation Router, from 2011. I realized that I may have overestimated the security of this device, as it apparently does not have a Firewall – it only has NAT. I am concerned a…
Lees meerContext Last year I got rid of two old Macs (one running macOS Catalina and the other with macOS Sierra, both were formatted in an attempt to reuse them for Linux). In the process I removed them from my Apple ID via: Preferences - Apple…
Lees meerFor my home network, I am still using the Time Capsule 4th Generation Router, from 2011. I realized that I may have underestimated the security of this device, as it apparently does not have a Firewall – it only has NAT. I am concerned …
Lees meerMacBook Air SMC Update v1.8 This update addresses a rare issue on some Apple notebooks where a battery that has accumulated more than 1000 charge cycles may unexpectedly shut down or stop functioning. https://support.apple.com/kb/DL168…
Lees meerWhen I go to sleep I tell a smart alarm app (Pillow) that I'm going to sleep. When I wake up I tell that same app that I'm awake. Between these two events, I would like for my iPhone not to vibrate or make any other noise. How can I ach…
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