Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.3.1 for Mac users running the Monterey operating system. The update addresses an issue where Bluetooth devices and game controllers were disconnecting from the Mac. Additionally, a display issue for Mac mini was …
Lees meerWant to quickly zoom into a webpage or document? If you use a Mac with a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can use a super easy tap gesture trick to zoom in and zoom out of web pages and documents. This is super useful if you want to get a closer look at…
Lees meerIf you are a Mac laptop user and you spend a lot of time at the command line, you may appreciate knowing that you can enable Low Power Mode on a Mac laptop through a terminal command. Enabling Low Power Mode through the command line on a MacBook Pro…
Lees meeriPad users can spice up their Home Screen by adding widgets, which can display useful information and other data from apps and sources right on the Home Screen of your device. The latest versions of iPadOS allow users to add widgets to anywhere on t…
Lees meerThe Notes app on iPhone and iPad is super useful, allowing you to jot down information quickly for all sorts of purposes. There are various ways to create a new note in the Notes app on iOS and iPadOS, some of them are quite fast and might be new to…
Lees meerIf you have attempted to use nano at the command line on MacOS recently, you may have noticed that the pico text editor is launched instead, via a symlink for /usr/bin/nano to pico. This is because the latest versions of MacOS remove the nano text e…
Lees meerGot an Apple Watch that is turned off and you want it to turn on, or perhaps you found an Apple Watch that is off and you want to turn it on to help return it to its owner? Turning on the Apple Watch is super easy but if you’ve new to the device you…
Lees meerAll Mac computers need an administrator account to be able to function properly and perform certain tasks, ranging from installing certain software, to changing some system preferences. A variety of situations can arise causing a Mac to lose an admi…
Lees meerEver wanted to blur your background while on a FaceTime call? Maybe it’s a busy room or a messy kitchen behind you. Fortunately, you can use the same Portrait mode you use for your selfies, right on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Portrait mode on the fr…
Lees meerDo you make use of the Reading List feature in Safari to save web pages for later? In that case, you may want to clear the list every now and then once you’ve read them. It’s kind of similar to why anyone would want to clear their browsing cache and…
Lees meerIf you use the Notes app frequently on the Mac to jot down information and store important data, you’ll be happy to know that the excellent Quick Notes feature has a super simple and near instantaneous keyboard shortcut to go along with it. What’s t…
Lees meerIf you have recently installed MacOS Monterey and regret doing so for whatever reason, perhaps incompatibility with some critical applications, general instability, or experiencing some other problems with MacOS Monterey that make it unworkable for …
Lees meerEmail signatures are appended to the bottom of emails sent when used, and if you routinely use the Gmail app on iPhone or iPad, or have it
Lees meerDo you want to stop your Apple Watch from locking automatically every time you take it off the wrist? This can be easily done by disabling a feature called Wrist Detection on your Apple Watch. And of course if this is disabled on your watch, you can…
Lees meerDo you want to add some songs that are locally stored on your Windows PC to your desktop iCloud Music Library? This could be music that you downloaded from the internet or just any other song you have that’s not available on Apple Music. You can get…
Lees meerAre you seeing a constant spinning icon indicator on your Home Screen, next to the wi-fi, location, and battery icons in the upper right corner? The spinning loading icon shows up when the iPhone or iPad is attempting to contact a remote server, or …
Lees meerThe iPad Air 5 with an M1 chip is a pretty great new iPad and it comes with a collection of nice new wallpapers too, but who says you need to buy a new iPad just to enjoy the wallpaper? You don’t. Instead, you can grab the full sized iPad Air 5 wall…
Lees meerFull screen mode on the Mac defaults to hiding the menu bar, and while you can swing your cursor to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar, some Mac users may prefer to have the menu bar always visible when in full screen mode. If you’d like t…
Lees meerUniversal Control allows a single mouse and keyboard on a Mac to control additional Macs and iPads, simply by dragging the mouse cursor over to those screens or devices. It’s a fantastic feature for Mac users who have several Macs and an iPad or two…
Lees meerWondering how you can check the health status of an SSD drive in your Mac? Thanks to a third party app called DriveDX, determining the health of a Mac SSD and other disk drives is easier than ever. Knowing the health of your disk is important for ma…
Lees meerApple has released macOS Monterey 12.3 to Mac users running the Monterey operating system. Notably, macOS Monterey 12.3 includes support for Universal Control, the hotly anticipated feature that allows a single mouse and keyboard to to control multi…
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