Tim Hardwick
Tim is a Senior Editor at MacRumors and has been writing for the site since 2016. Formerly a magazine journalist, his work has appeared in over 30 newsstand print publications and online brands covering a range of topics, from the latest trends in technology to the mysteries of ancient history.
Based in the UK, Tim's current role at MacRumors involves editorial oversight and how tos, in addition to covering daily news and contributing occasional reviews. Tim can be reached at tim@macrumors.com, Telegram (@waxeditorial) or Twitter.
Based in the UK, Tim's current role at MacRumors involves editorial oversight and how tos, in addition to covering daily news and contributing occasional reviews. Tim can be reached at tim@macrumors.com, Telegram (@waxeditorial) or Twitter.
Tim Hardwick's Articles
How to Access Control Center Without Touching Your iPhone's Screen
Activating Control Center on an iPhone with no Home button usually involves sliding your finger diagonally down from the top-right corner of the screen. If your other hand isn't free, this isn't very convenient, but fortunately there's another way of accessing Control Center that doesn't even require you to touch the screen.
It uses something called Back Tap, an accessibility feature that...
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Mark Zuckerberg Wants Meta's AR Glasses to Be Its 'iPhone Moment'
Mark Zuckerberg wants to make Meta's forthcoming AR glasses an "iPhone moment" that will cast him and the company in a new light, according to a former employee who worked on the project.
The comment was made to The Verge for a report outlining Meta's roadmap for AR glasses, which includes at least four different versions to be launched over the next six years.
According to the report,...
Apple Reportedly Finds Periscope Telephoto Lens Supplier for 2023 iPhones
Apple is believed to have struck a deal with a new supplier of telephoto lens components for a periscope camera system in future iPhones, reports The Elec.
On Wednesday, South Korean firm Jahwa Electronics said it plans to spend 191 billion won ($155 million) on building plants to produce new optical image stabilization (OIS) actuators.
According to an earlier report by The Elec, Apple...
How to Use Quick Notes in macOS
In macOS Monterey, Apple introduced a new productivity feature called Quick Notes that's designed to be a quicker way to jot down things on your Mac without having to go in and out of the main Notes app.
Quick Notes that you create appear in a special Quick Notes folder in the Notes app, where you can edit them to add tables, tags, and more in the usual way. Here's how to create your first...
How to Check if Rosetta Is Installed on Your Apple Silicon Mac
Rosetta 2 is the translation layer that enables a Mac with Apple silicon to use apps built for an Intel-based Mac. It works in the background whenever you use an app built only for Mac computers with an Intel processor, and automatically translates the app for use with Apple silicon the first time the app is run.
Rosetta 2 isn't included with a standard macOS installation, and has to be...
How to Trigger Actions and Shortcuts By Tapping the Back of Your iPhone
In iOS 14 and later, Apple includes an accessibility feature called Back Tap that lets you assign an action to be triggered when you double-tap or triple-tap the back of your iPhone. This article explains how it's done.
There are numerous actions that you can assign to a Back Tap on iPhone. You could use it for quick access to something –- launching a specific app or invoking the Control...
Pixelmator Pro 2.4 Adds New Layer Types, Vector Shapes, M1 Ultra Support, More
Pixelmator Pro 2.4 "Odesa" went live on the Mac App Store today, and the latest major update to the popular image editing app brings new layer types, new vector shapes, enhanced support for Apple’s M1 Ultra chip, and other notable additions.
The new color adjustments and effects layers let users nondestructively adjust colors and apply effects to entire layered compositions. With a single...
Plex to End Support for Podcasts on Friday
Plex is set to end support for podcasts on Friday, the company behind the media management platform has announced.
Web Shows on the Plex media server will also close this week, the company said in a post on the Plex forum, although most of the content the section hosted will still be available to users elsewhere on the platform.
As part of our ongoing effort to make sure we're spending our...
Disappearing Safari Tabs on iPhone or iPad? How to Find Them
Every so often, a seemingly small bug in Apple's operating systems survives the company's annual OS launches and continues to cause users huge frustration from one software update to the next.
The phenomenon of disappearing tabs in Safari is one such problem -– reports of multiple Safari tabs vanishing without a trace go back to at least iOS 13 and the issue still to this day blights the...
How to Fix Wi-Fi 'Blocking Encrypted DNS Traffic' Warning Message on iOS
Since iOS 14, Apple has supported encrypted DNS, which in a nutshell makes it much harder for snoopers on the same Wi-Fi network as you to see the domain names of the websites you are visiting.
Because Apple's mobile operating system supports domain name encryption, sometimes you might see a warning that the Wi-Fi network you're connected to is blocking encrypted DNS traffic.
This...
YouTube Says iOS Picture-in-Picture Coming to All Users 'in a Matter of Days' [Updated]
Following a lengthy testing period, YouTube's picture-in-picture support for iOS will begin rolling out in the next few days, allowing all users, including non-premium and premium subscribers, to close the YouTube app and continue watching their video in a small pop-up window.
Google in June announced that picture-in-picture support would be rolling out to both premium and non-paying YouTube ...
Can't Upgrade Your iCloud+ Storage Plan on iPhone or iPad? Here's How to Fix It
Every Apple device user is given 5GB of free iCloud storage to let them store their data in secure remote servers, but Apple also offers iCloud+, a premium cloud subscription service that gives you more storage as well as additional features like Private Relay and Hide My Email.
Apple offers iCloud+ with 50GB, 200GB, or 2TB of additional storage for $0.99, $2.99, or $9.99 per month. If...
File Icon Preview Thumbnails Not Showing in macOS Finder? How to Fix
Most Mac users will be familiar with Finder's ability to display icon previews for file types that it recognizes. The Finder icon for a JPEG image for example will show a small thumbnail-sized version of the image, which is useful for identifying the file without having to open it.
If Finder doesn't recognize an item (if it can't be matched with an installed application that can open it) or ...
WhatsApp Stops Auto-Saving Media From Disappearing Messages on iPhone
WhatsApp is changing the way the platform handles media sent over chats with disappearing messages enabled, reports WABetaInfo.
Going forward, WhatsApp will no longer automatically save images and other visual media to your iPhone’s Photos library if they appear within a chat thread that has disappearing messages turned on. The "Save to Camera Roll" option is now automatically turned off ...
How to Share Photos Between iPhone, iPad, and Mac With a Simple Gesture
This article shows you how to make use of a three-finger gesture to share a photo across your devices in super-quick time. It's a handy trick to have in your toolkit if AirDrop is playing up or your iCloud Photos are taking ages to sync.
Universal Clipboard is usually associated with copying and pasting text, but by using this gesture, you can make it work really well for sharing images...
Review: Ugreen's 4-Port GaN X USB-C Charger Offers Up to 100W Output in a Compact Design
Anyone invested in the Apple ecosystem will have had to confront the need for multiple USB-C ports when they're home and away, with iPhones, iPads, and Macs all vying for the connectivity these days. But in many cases, there's still a lingering need for USB-A to charge older devices, and that's where Ugreen's 4-in-1 100W GaN X Fast Charger comes in handy.
The charger packs three USB-C ports...
WhatsApp Starts Rolling Out New Voice Message Interface and Features
Voice messages or "voice notes" are often the preferred form of communication on WhatsApp, with on average around 7 billion sent over the platform every day, and today WhatsApp has announced several new features to improve the experience of using them.
The most notable change that recently came out of beta testing is out-of-chat playback, which lets you listen to a voice message outside of...
Facebook Messenger Gains New Slack-Style Shortcuts Command System
Meta (aka Facebook) today announced the introduction of Messenger "shortcuts," a new Slack-style command system that allows users to speed up communication and get messages to their intended recipients.
Building on the @username tagging method to direct a message to a specific person in a chat, the new system introduces @everyone for grabbing everyone's attention in a group chat, and /silent ...
Apple's Craig Federighi Explains Why iOS Auto-Updates Often Arrive Several Weeks Late
When it comes to downloading iOS software updates, Apple users can be reasonably divided into two camps: Those who manually seek out updates the moment Apple releases them, and those who are happy to let their device's Automatic Updates feature take care of everything in the background with minimal input on their part.
While it's generally acknowledged that manually tapping into Settings ->...
How to Get Charging Reminders and Notifications for Apple Watch
This article explains how to get daily Apple Watch charging reminders and "fully charged" Apple Watch notification alerts on your iPhone. Keep reading to learn how it's done.
Despite the fact that Apple Watch has been updated each year since it was first launched in 2015, the battery life of Apple's latest Series 7 smartwatch still only promises "up to 18 hours" of use on a single charge.
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