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In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, Apple introduced Messages-like reactions to FaceTime that lighten up your video with visual effects. Rather than triggering them with words, they are triggered using physical hand gestures. For that reason, it's easy to trigger them unintentionally. Keep reading to learn how to turn them off. When you're on a ‌FaceTime‌ video call on an iPhone or iPad, it's...

With the release of iOS 17.1, iPadOS 17.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, and tvOS 17.1, iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple TVs include support for pairing Nintendo Switch N64 controllers. Keep reading to learn how it's done. As many Apple Arcade games enthusiasts will know, Apple's mobile devices and Apple TV set-top box support some popular game controllers right out of the box. For example, these...

In iOS 17 and tvOS 17, you can view up to 30 days of recorded activity for security-related HomeKit accessories like door locks, alarm systems, and more. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Thanks to the latest version of Apple's Home architecture, you can now use the Home app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac to view activity history for smart home accessories including door locks, garage doors,...

In macOS Sonoma and Safari 17, you can turn websites into "web apps" that can live in your Mac's dock and be accessed much like any other app, without you having to open a browser. Keep reading to learn how it works. Thanks to a new option in Apple's Safari browser, it's now possible to take any website on the internet that you regularly visit, and turn it into a standalone "web app" that...

In macOS Sonoma and Safari 17, Apple has added a new web browsing feature for Safari called Profiles that's designed to help separate your browsing sessions into things like Work, School, or Personal. Keep reading to learn how it works. In macOS Sonoma, Apple has expanded on Tab Groups with a Profile feature that is designed to let you separate your browsing for different use cases. You can...

In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, Apple has added the ability to securely share passwords and passkeys with people in your contacts using a new shared password function. It's called Family Passwords, and here's how to use it. Family Passwords allows you to create a group of trusted contacts that you can share passwords and passkeys with across devices. (Passkeys let users sign in to apps and sites...

In iOS 17, if you change your iPhone's passcode and forget it soon after, Apple offers you a 72-hour grace period to fix it without getting locked out of your device. Here's how it works. In iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, it is now possible to reset an iPhone or iPad's new passcode with the previous passcode you used for up to three days after the change is made. In other words, Apple lets you use...

StandBy is a customizable Lock Screen mode in iOS 17 that activates only when an ‌iPhone‌ is positioned on its side (i.e. horizontally in landscape orientation) while connected to a charging cable, a MagSafe charger, or a Qi-based wireless charger. If StandBy mode on your iPhone is turning on when motion is detected at night, here's how to prevent it from happening. Subscribe to the MacRumors ...

In iOS 17 and MacOS Sonoma, Apple added the ability to open and annotate PDFs right in the Notes app. Keep reading to learn how it's done. In the latest version of iOS and macOS, Apple has updated the Notes app to support inline PDFs, which means you can insert a PDF into Notes and then read, annotate, and collaborate on the document. This functionality also works for scanned documents, and...

In iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma, Apple added new formatting options to Apple Notes, including block quotes and a new Monostyle style. Here's how to make use of them. Thanks to additional formatting options in Apple Notes, you can now add block quotes to your notes. Block Quote formatting makes it easy to visually offset a section of writing with a quote bar to the left of the text. Simply...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple introduced Messages-like reactions for FaceTime. Rather than being triggered by words though, they can be triggered by gestures. When you're on a ‌FaceTime‌ video call on a Mac running macOS Sonoma or later, you can trigger on-screen effects like hearts, balloons, confetti, fireworks, and more, with the effects flooding the display over the ‌‌FaceTime‌‌ window. You...

In macOS Sonoma, Apple changed how widgets work. Unlike previous versions of macOS, widgets don't have to be hidden away offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel. Now they can live right on your Mac's desktop – and they're interactive, too. Here's how to use them. If you liked how widgets lived in Notification Center, don't worry – you can still keep them...

In macOS Sonoma, widgets don't have to be hidden offscreen and largely forgotten in the Notifications Center panel, like they were in previous versions of Apple's macOS. Instead, they can be placed right on your Mac's desktop – and they're interactive, too. When not in use, macOS desktop widgets fade into the background by taking on a monochrome style, which makes them less distracting and ...

If you have an iPhone 15 and either an Apple Watch Series 9 or second-generation Apple Watch Ultra, you can use your watch to find your iPhone with the help of Apple's Precision Finding feature. Keep reading to learn how it works. The Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 share the same updated Ultra Wideband chip as can be found in the ‌iPhone 15‌ series, so if you have one of the...

Apple's iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 models feature an Action button to which you can assign a custom function. Officially, the Action button only supports one function, but there is a way to switch between two actions using a special Shortcut. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. On ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro and ‌iPhone 16‌ devices, the iOS...

Apple is set to release macOS Sonoma on September 26, and whenever a new operating system is released for the Mac, some users prefer to perform a clean installation. This article explains how to perform what is effectively a clean install of Sonoma using a built-in option that's available on Apple silicon-powered Macs and Intel Macs with a T2 security chip. Will My Mac Run macOS Sonoma?...

On iPhone 15 Pro and ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max models, Apple has introduced a physical, programmable Action button that replaces the traditional ring/silent switch above the volume buttons. The Action button can be programmed to perform several different functions, but the ability to switch between Silent and Ring mode has not gone away. By default, one long press of the Action button will mute your ...

Apple's iPhone 15, ‌‌‌iPhone 15‌ Plus‌‌, ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro, and ‌‌‌iPhone 15‌ Pro‌‌ Max come in the same size options as last year's iPhone 14 series, and share similar design elements with Apple's 2022 models, such as an all-screen design, Dynamic Island, and no Home button on the front. As such, the method of hard resetting or force restarting hasn't changed from the previous...

Apple's iPhone 15 Pro Max features a tetraprism lens system capable of up to 5x optical zoom, an improvement over the 3x zoom that's available in the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ and the prior-generation iPhone 14. The Telephoto lens on the iPhone 15 Pro Max features Apple's most advanced camera stabilization system yet, with a combination of optical image stabilization and an autofocus 3D...

On Apple's iPhone 15 Pro models, users can switch between three preset camera focal lengths when shooting on the main camera. This article explains what they are and how to enable or disable them on your iPhone. To take advantage of the enhanced camera system on the ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ and ‌iPhone 15 Pro‌ Max, Apple has added three popular focal length options for the main camera's...