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Set Up a Recovery Contact for Your Apple Account

Tuesday May 20, 2025 3:16 am PDT by
Losing your Apple Account password can make your digital life a misery, as it can leave you locked out of the account that you use to manage your Apple devices, unable to access your iCloud data and manage your app and service subscriptions. In this scenario, Apple can't just reset your password for you, especially if your have two-factor authentication enabled. Setting up a recovery key is ...
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Send Web Links That Jump to the Exact Text You Mean

Wednesday May 14, 2025 5:04 am PDT by
Sometimes when you share a webpage link with someone, you just want to bring their attention to a specific passage or sentence to make your point, rather than have them read through the entire article. In 2020, Google added a function to its Chrome browser called Scroll to Text Fragment (STTF) that helps you achieve this. It allows URLs to link directly to any visible text on a page. You may ...
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macOS Quick Tip: Copy and Paste Text Without Formatting

Wednesday May 14, 2025 5:03 am PDT by
If you're a Mac user with a Windows PC background, you'll probably know how to use the typical copy and paste commands in macOS. But there's a handy clipboard trick that's worth keeping in mind. In Windows, the Copy and Paste key combinations are Control-C and Control-V, respectively. On the Mac, it's very similar – all you do is use the Command (⌘) key instead of Control. But did you...
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Remotely Control Your iPhone Camera – No Apple Watch Needed

Tuesday May 13, 2025 8:59 am PDT by
Remotely controlling the shutter on your iPhone's camera lets you include yourself in the photo while avoiding the limitations of a selfie. For example, it allows you to take a picture of a wider scene with you included in the frame, which is ideal for landscape shots or group photos. If your iPhone is on a tripod, taking the shot remotely also reduces the risk of camera shake. Here's how to do...
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Boost iPhone Audio Features With This Simple Bluetooth Tip

Monday May 12, 2025 9:08 am PDT by
In iOS and iPadOS, Apple includes an option for users to specify the Bluetooth accessories they connect using pre-defined individual labels. Labeling your Bluetooth accessories helps to identify connected devices and improve audio notifications. Apple says that classifying Bluetooth accessories like this can also ensure that real-time Headphone Audio Level measurements are accurate....
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Turn a Long Webpage into a PDF with a Single iPhone Screenshot

Thursday May 8, 2025 8:08 am PDT by
In iOS and iPadOS, Apple includes a built-in screenshot feature that also provides you with the ability to capture an entire webpage on your iPhone or iPad that you can then save or share with someone as a PDF document. By converting full‑page screenshots into PDFs directly within Safari, you can preserve the exact layout and content of lengthy articles, receipts, or social media threads...
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Use This 3-Finger Trick to Quickly Share Photos on Apple Devices

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:42 am PDT by
Apple devices support a relatively unknown three-finger gesture that lets you share a photo across your devices in super-quick time. It's a neat trick to fall back on 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...
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Worried About iPhone Privacy? Do This With Control Center

Wednesday May 7, 2025 2:31 am PDT by
In iOS, the Control Center can be used to quickly take a picture, jot down a note, turn on the lights, control your Apple TV, and much more. It's useful and convenient because you don't even have to unlock your iPhone or iPad to use it. However, with that convenience comes a potential security issue. If you use Control Center to create Instant Notes, for example, you might not want anyone...
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How to Share Safari Tab Groups in macOS

Tuesday May 6, 2025 9:14 am PDT by
In macOS, Apple allows you to share Tab Groups in Safari with colleagues, friends, and family. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Introduced back in macOS Monterey, Tab Groups are designed to make organizing and preserving open tabs more manageable in Safari without having to have those tabs active. In a Tab Group, you can easily collect and save related tabs, which can be especially...
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Bookmark Multiple Tabs in Safari on iPhone

Wednesday April 30, 2025 8:55 am PDT by
In Safari on iPhone, it's not unusual for the number of tabs you have open to quickly get out of hand. Here's how to temporarily clean things up without losing your tabs. If you have no use for all your open tabs, you can simply select one, then press and hold on the tabs button in the bottom-right corner of the screen. This will bring up an option to "Close All [x] Tabs," X being the number ...
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Show or Hide File Extensions on Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Friday April 18, 2025 3:47 am PDT by
On computers and mobile devices, file extensions are the suffixes that apps append to filenames. When you see an item like "document.docx" for example, the .docx extension tells the computer and the user what the file is and what to open it with. Some users don't feel the need to see the extensions of files when viewing them in a file manager, but others prefer to have them displayed to help ...
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Select Faster on iPhone With This Two-Finger Trick

Friday April 18, 2025 3:41 am PDT by
Your iPhone has multiple touch and gesture capabilities that can enhance how you interact with apps. Some, like pinch and zoom, are well known enough to be considered second nature, but others are less obvious, like the one we're about to explain. Two-Finger Drag to Select Items If you have apps where you habitually tap on each individual item in a list to select them – emails in your...
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How to Get the Old Apple Mail Back

Friday April 18, 2025 3:40 am PDT by
With recent software updates, Apple has made some major changes to the way its stock Mail app looks and works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Keen to roll back these changes and revert to how Apple Mail functioned before the updates? Keep reading to learn how it's done. When Apple released iOS 18.1, it added a priority messages feature to the Mail app for devices with Apple Intelligence. Then in...
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iOS 18.4: Access Hidden Ambient Music Playlists

Friday April 18, 2025 3:38 am PDT by
In Apple's iOS 18.4 software update, there's a new Ambient Music feature available in the Control Center options on iPhone. It's free to use, and does not require an Apple Music subscription. It's also more customizable than most users probably realize. Keep reading to learn how. There are four different sound categories to Ambient Music, including Sleep, Chill, Productivity, and Wellbeing....
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How to Find Your Apple TV Siri Remote Using Your iPhone

Monday April 14, 2025 8:30 am PDT by
In iOS 17 and tvOS 17 and later, Apple includes a feature that lets Apple TV users locate a misplaced Siri Remote using their iPhone. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Prior to the launch of the latest ‌Apple TV‌ 4K, there were rumors that Apple would build ‌Find My‌ functionality into the ‌Siri‌ Remote. That didn't happen. Instead, Apple introduced a new iPhone option that...
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How to Mute Lengthy Email Threads on iPhone

Thursday April 10, 2025 3:37 am PDT by
When you're part of a busy group chat in Apple's Messages app, the notifications can come fast, and quickly become tiresome if you're not participating as actively as others in the same chat thread. That's why Apple includes a mute option to silence noisy chats. Apple includes a similar mute option in the Mail app, so you don't get a notification every time a new email in a particular thread ...
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Hard Reset or Force Restart Your iPhone 16e

Wednesday April 9, 2025 6:57 am PDT by
Unlike a regular restart, a force reboot is often the first port of call for resolving software issues impacting your iPhone 16e – like if the device is frozen, for example. If your iPhone isn't responding, and you're unable to turn it off and on normally, here's how to perform a force reboot. The method of hard resetting or force rebooting/restarting hasn't changed in recent years....
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Mastering the Mac App Switcher: Essential Tips and Hidden Tricks

Wednesday April 9, 2025 3:43 am PDT by
Most long-time macOS users will be aware of the Application Switcher. It's invoked using the Command+Tab keyboard shortcut, and lists all of the apps currently running on your Mac, enabling you to quickly switch between them. In this article, we'll run through the Mac App Switcher's most basic functions, and then highlight some of our favorite lesser-known App Switcher tricks that you're...
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How to Make Scroll Bars Always Visible in macOS

Wednesday April 9, 2025 3:27 am PDT by
Since macOS Ventura, Apple has made hiding scroll bars when not in use a default behavior of the operating system, but you can prevent this from happening if you know where to look. Keep reading to learn how it's done. If your Mac is running macOS Ventura, you may have noticed that it makes window scroll bars visible only when you are actively scrolling with your mouse or trackpad. Apple ...
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Quick macOS Tip: Create and Use Text Clippings for Productivity

Wednesday April 9, 2025 3:17 am PDT by
In macOS, a Text Clipping is a selection of text that you've dragged from an application to another location on your Mac, where it becomes a unique kind of standalone file. The relatively little-known feature has been around since at least Mac OS 9, and it offers a convenient way to save out pieces of text from pretty much anywhere for later use in another app or document. To create a...