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How to Automatically Hide & Show the Dock on Mac

Jan 23, 2024 - 3 Comments
How to automatically hide and show the Dock in MacOS

Many Mac users like to use a feature that automatically hides and shows the Dock on MacOS, appearing when your cursor goes to the bottom of the screen, and disappearing when your cursor leaves that area. This offers a more minimalist experience and user interface, and it also optimizes screen real estate, by hiding the … Read More

Fix Step Count in Health App Updating Slowly on iPhone

Jan 19, 2024 - 1 Comment
iPhone Health app

If you’re the type of person who likes to keep track of their daily step count by using iPhone as a step counter, it is frustrating when the iPhone Health app step counter does not update as frequently as you’d like. Additionally, there are some challenges that are linked to specific step counts, and many … Read More

How to Change Apple Watch Faces by Swiping

Jan 18, 2024 - 4 Comments
How to swipe to change watch face on Apple Watch

You can quickly change your Apple Watch face by swiping on the watch face – that is, if you enable this feature first. While older versions of watchOS system software allowed users to switch watch faces easily by swiping, that feature was later changed because apparently some users were accidentally activating it. However, as long … Read More

How to Boot Into MacOS Recovery in UTM on Apple Silicon Mac

Jan 17, 2024 - 1 Comment
Recovery Mode booted in UTM on Apple Silicon Mac

If you’ve installed macOS Sonoma into a UTM virtual machine you may get into a situation where you’d either like to restore the VM from a Time Machine backup, or even reinstall Sonoma in the VM, or perform other actions on the virtual machine from Recovery Mode. But, as you likely have noticed by now, … Read More

How to Change Default Notification Sound on iPhone

Jan 16, 2024 - 1 Comment
How to change the default alert sound on iPhone

One of the fun ways to customize your iPhone experience is to change the default alert sound effect to something you like or prefer. For a long time, the default alert sound effect was Tri-Tone and could not be changed, and then with later iOS releases Apple changed the default alert sound to the Rebound … Read More

Where is Health App for Mac? Can I View My Health Data on Mac?

Jan 15, 2024 - 2 Comments
Health data and Health app on Mac?

Some Mac users are interested in viewing their Health data, workout data, activity and fitness data, all that is gathered from Apple Watch and iPhone, on their Mac. Recently, Apple added the Health app to iPad, so where is Health app for Mac? This should be easy, right?

How to See Your Target Heart Rate Zones for Apple Watch on iPhone

Jan 14, 2024 - Leave a Comment
See heart rate zone information from Apple Watch on iPhone

Many people get an Apple Watch specifically for fitness tracking, working out, activities, and to better learn about their health and fitness. One important metric to be aware of for cardiovascular fitness is your heart rate relative to your individual heart rate zone data, and Apple Watch will calculate this information based upon your age … Read More

How to Disable Journaling Suggestions on iPhone

Jan 13, 2024 - 5 Comments
How to disable Journal Suggestions on iPhone

The iPhone now has a Journal app, where you can jot down your day, highlights, including notes, pictures, videos, workouts from Apple Watch, and more, plus the Journal app even has journaling suggestions that are available as well. If you don’t find the suggestions of what to write about or journal about to be particularly … Read More

Fix “Could Not Connect to Apple Watch” Error on iPhone

Jan 12, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Fix the Could not connect to Apple Watch error on iPhone

Apple Watch users may potentially see an error message on their iPhone that states that “Could Not Connect to Apple Watch”, which then advises a few troubleshooting tips. Often those troubleshooting tips offered in the error message will fix the issue, but sometimes you need some additional help in fixing the error message and connecting … Read More

Fix M2 MacBook Air Running Slow with a Simple Settings Tweak

Jan 11, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Fix a Slow MacBook Air with a simple trick

Some M2 MacBook Air users have discovered their MacBook is running slow from time to time, perceiving what feels like dramatically reduced performance. Usually when this happens, the MacBook Air slows down when the Mac is running on battery power, but the workload being performed is not particularly abnormal or even demanding; maybe it’s a … Read More

How to Restore & Reopen All Closed Tabs in Safari on iPad

Jan 10, 2024 - 2 Comments
Restore closed tabs in Safari

If you’ve accidentally closed tons of Safari tabs on iPad or iPhone and want to restore them, or you lost all of your Safari tabs by trying to create a Safari Tab Group (a surprisingly common occurrence, what a feature bug), you are probably desperately wondering how you can recover and reopen all closed tabs … Read More

How to Install macOS Sonoma in a Virtual Machine with UTM

Jan 9, 2024 - 7 Comments
How to install macOS Sonoma in a virtual machine with UTM

You can install and run macOS Sonoma in a virtual machine, for free, with the use of UTM. UTM runs on Macs, iPhones, and iPads, but we’re going to focus specifically on installing macOS Sonoma in a UTM virtual machine running on a Mac. Yes this means you can run a virtualized macOS Sonoma installation … Read More

4 Great Free Menubar Apps for Mac You Should Check Out

Jan 8, 2024 - 3 Comments
Cool Mac menu bar utilities you should check out

One way you can improve your Mac experience is by adding some handy tools and items to your Mac menubar item. And, coincidentally, some of the best free utilities available for Mac, are also menubar items. We’re going to cover four of the best free menubar apps for Mac, which are sure to improve not … Read More

How to Search Reviews on Google Maps for Keywords

Jan 7, 2024 - Leave a Comment
How to Search Reviews on Google Maps for specific keyword matches

Many people use Google Maps to find out about businesses, parks, locations, and destinations, by reading the reviews. While it’s one thing to browse through all of the reviews and read them, it can be very useful to narrow down reviews for something specific, like a keyword. Thus, it’s a desirable capability to be able … Read More

How to Use Voice with ChatGPT on iPhone

Jan 6, 2024 - Leave a Comment
How to use voice chat with ChatGPT on iPhone

The official ChatGPT app for iPhone includes a voice feature, letting you speak with the chat bot and hear answers back from high quality voice options. Voice chat with ChatGPT lets you have hands-free interactions with ChatGPT, and can be very useful for a wide variety of purposes. If you haven’t used voice chat with … Read More

How to Copy Pictures from iPhone to PC Without iCloud

Jan 5, 2024 - 4 Comments
How to transfer photos from iPhone to Windows PC without using iCloud

If you have an iPhone with iCloud, and you also have a Windows PC that does not have iCloud setup, you may still want to copy the pictures off of the iPhone to the PC. This is a common situation that not everyone is familiar with, so we’re going to take the opportunity to demonstrate … Read More

How to Disable Inline Text Predictions on iPhone & iPad

Jan 4, 2024 - 1 Comment
How to disable inline text typing predictions on iPhone or iPad

The latest versions of iPhone and iPad system software include a feature that offers predictive typing, with typing suggestions shown inline as light gray words that are ahead of your cursor as you type. For example, if you’re typing “how ar” you might see the inline prediction suggest “how are you” as a way to … Read More

How to Disable Inline Predictive Text Typing on Mac

Jan 2, 2024 - 1 Comment
How to disable predictive text typing on Mac

The latest versions of MacOS offer an inline predictive text feature, which attempt to predict what you may want to type text. You’ll see this appear when typing in many Mac apps as there are words appearing in lighter gray in front of what you are presently typing, which you can complete typing of by … Read More

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