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9 macOS Tahoe Tips You’ll Actually Use

Oct 2, 2025 - 7 Comments
MacOS Tahoe Tips

While the most obvious change to macOS Tahoe 26 is the newly rounded and translucent Liquid Glass interface appearance, there are also a variety of neat new features and customization options that you’re sure to appreciate easily well. Let’s review some of the most useful tips for macOS Tahoe that you’ll want to check out, … Read More

MacOS Tahoe 26 Feels Slow? Try These 6 Performance Tips

Sep 25, 2025 - 12 Comments
MacOS Tahoe 26 feels slower to some users but is usually easy to fix performance

Some Mac users who have updated to macOS Tahoe 26 feel like the new operating system runs slower than their prior MacOS installation did. Reports online suggest there can be general sluggishness and lagging performance, sometimes with frame rate drops and stuttering animations on the screen, or even when typing. Other users in various forums … Read More

Do You Miss LaunchPad in MacOS Tahoe? Using the New LaunchPad, Plus a LaunchPad Alternative

Sep 23, 2025 - 16 Comments
If you miss LaunchPad on MacOS Tahoe here is how to use the new version and an alternative

macOS Tahoe 26 adds some new features, but it also has taken a prominent popular feature away on the Mac, and that is the removal of the dedicated LaunchPad app from macOS Tahoe. LaunchPad is the simple app launcher that is kind of iOS-like and has been on the Mac for a longtime, visible in … Read More

I HATED iOS 26 Liquid Glass on iPhone, But Now I Like It

Sep 22, 2025 - 16 Comments
iOS 26 Liquid Glass opinions are shifting

I admit, I was a hater. I absolutely loathed the Liquid Glass interface on iOS 26. I thought it was obnoxious, distracting, excessive, confusing, ugly, hard to read. My initial impressions were really bad, it was so weird looking and off that it made me hate using my iPhone and I immediately regretted upgrading to … Read More

iOS 26 Battery Life Suffering? Here’s Why & How to Fix It

Sep 18, 2025 - 2 Comments
iOS 26 battery life reductions are typically easily resolved

iOS 26 is in the wild, and aside from the mixed reactions to the Liquid Glass interface, there are also wildly different reports of battery life performance post-update. A notable number of iPhone and iPad users are complaining throughout social media and online forums that iOS 26 battery drains faster than it did before, and … Read More

Hate Liquid Glass on iOS 26? 8 Tips to Improve Legibility on iPhone & iPad

Sep 17, 2025 - 12 Comments
Tone down the Liquid Glass interface in iOS 26 to improve legibility and usability

iOS 26 introduces a completely new design schema called “Liquid Glass” that has more transparency, translucency, movement, and shininess. To say that iOS 26 Liquid Glass is polarizing would be an understatement, as opinions on the new look could not be more extreme, with some users thinking it’s amazingly fantastic, and others like myself are … Read More

iPhone Touch Screen Unresponsive After iOS Update

Sep 17, 2025 - 2 Comments
iPhone touch screen unresponsive after installing iOS update

An annoying and somewhat alarming issue can occur for some iPhone users where the iPhone Touch Screen becomes unresponsive to touch after installing an iOS system software update. This often means the iPhone will seemingly successfully install the new update for iOS, but the lock screen can not be unlocked or swiped away, and touch … Read More

How to Stop iPhone From Auto-Updating to iOS 26

Sep 14, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to prevent automatic updates to iOS 26

Some years ago, Apple introduced a default setting on iPhone and iPad that automatically installs system software updates, including major updates like iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. If you do not want your iPhone or iPad to automatically update to iOS 26, you can make a settings adjustment to make sure that does not happen. … Read More

How to Prepare Your iPhone or iPad for iOS 26

Sep 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to prepare for iOS 26

iOS 26 is on the way, bringing a pretty significant software update to iPhone and iPad. With a variety of interesting new features and notable visual changes like the Liquid Glass interface appearance style, Messages group chat polling and custom backgrounds, new ringtones, Preview app, and much more, the excitement around the release is understandable. … Read More

How to Turn Off Location Based Naming of Voice Memos on Mac

Sep 4, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Voice Memos on Mac defaults to naming new voice memos by location but you can change that

The Voice Memos app is incredibly useful on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, but one thing that some users may wish to change is the Location Based Naming system that is automatically active with any created Voice Memos. We’ve previously discussed disabling location-based voice memo naming on iPhone and iPad before, but now we’re going to … Read More

How to Downgrade Safari Beta to Safari Stable on Mac

Aug 27, 2025 - 4 Comments
Safari Technology Preview

If you’re a Mac user who installed a Safari beta version on a stable version of MacOS to experiment with beta Safari features, it’s possible that you might want to downgrade the Safari beta back to a Safari stable version. This can be tricky because if you install a beta version of Safari onto MacOS, … Read More

How to Run gpt-oss (ChatGPT) Locally on Mac with LM Studio

Aug 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Running a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT’s gpt-oss locally can have multiple benefits, including providing offline access to an AI language model tool like GPT. If you’re a fan of LLMs, AI tools, and ChatGPT, you might be interested in running a local instance of gpt-oss, but even if you’re fairly new to AI … Read More

How to Downgrade from iOS 26 Beta to iOS 18

Aug 19, 2025 - 1 Comment
How to downgrade iOS 26 beta to iOS 18

If you’ve installed the iOS 26 beta on your iPhone or iPadOS 26 beta onto iPad, and found it a little too buggy, unstable, or you’re simply not interested in iOS 26 any longer, you’re certainly not alone. While many adventurous Apple users jump onto the beta train to explore the new operating systems, it’s … Read More

How to Switch Back to ChatGPT 4o from ChatGPT 5

Aug 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Switch from GPT 5 back to GPT 4o

ChatGPT is wildly popular for good reason as an incredibly useful artificial inteligence and LLM tool. But OpenAI recently introduced ChatGPT 5, and while generally every release of ChatGPT has been a significant improvement and well received, the same is not entirely to be said about the introduction of ChatGPT 5, which tends to regurgitate … Read More

How to Install tvOS 26 beta on Apple TV

Aug 8, 2025 - Leave a Comment
tvOS 26 beta can be installed now on Apple TV

Apple TV is getting revamped with tvOS 26 to include a variety of new features, including the new Liquid Glass interface look, Apple Music singalong features allowing you to use your iPhone as a microphone for Apple TV karaoke, new Apple TV screen savers and locations, and more. If you’re an Apple TV user, you … Read More

How to Fix a Mac Stuck in VoiceOver Mode & Talking

Aug 7, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Mac can get stuck in Voice Over mode where everything on the screen is described by your Mac talking to you

Have you suddenly discovered your Mac reading everything out loud on the screen, and then navigating with a thick black box around elements, and not acting normally with mouse clicks and keyboard input? Your Mac might be stuck in Voice Over mode. Voice Over mode is a powerful accessibility tool intended for visually impaired users, … Read More

How to Install iPadOS 26 Public Beta on iPad

Aug 4, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPadOS 26 windowing system and multitasking

With the availability of the iPadOS 26 public beta, there’s an uptick in iPad users who are intrigued by the beta and wish to try it out on their own devices. If you’re curious about running iPadOS 26 public beta on your iPad, read along to get things going, and to explore the beta right … Read More

How to Install macOS Tahoe 26 Public Beta on Mac

Jul 31, 2025 - 1 Comment

The MacOS Tahoe 25 Public Beta program has begun, bringing the beta operating system to all interested Mac users. If you’re curious about installing and running the MacOS Tahoe 26 public beta, you’ll find this walkthrough helpful as we cover the system requirements, compatible Macs, caveats, and installation process. MacOS Tahoe 26 is intriguing with … Read More

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