Where is “Hide My Email” on iPhone & iPad?

May 23, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Where is "Hide My Email" on iPhone

The “Hide My Email” feature on iPhone is incredibly useful, allowing you to create random unique email addresses that forward to your real email address inbox. This feature can help protect your privacy by allowing you to sign up for apps or services without sharing your real email address, while enhancing security from phishing attempts, … Read More

You Can Download & Play Fortnite on iPhone & iPad Again

May 21, 2025 - 1 Comment
Fortnite is available to download and play again on iPhone and iPad

Fortnite, the wildly popular online action game, is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users to download and play. The app has returned after Apple removed the popular game roughly five years ago while Apple and Epic engaged in an expensive drawn out legal squabble, which ultimately ended up disappointing and irritating … Read More

How to Use Surfshark DNS on Mac, iPhone, iPad

May 20, 2025 - 7 Comments
How to use Surfshark DNS on Mac, iPhone, or iPad for better privacy

Did you know that your internet service provider default DNS servers almost certainly track and log your online activity? Basically this means that every time you visit a website or use an internet-connected application from your Mac, iPhone or iPad, your ISP is aware of that. Many ISP’s will not only log and track your … Read More

6 Super Useful Continuity Features for Mac, iPhone, & iPad, You Should Be Using

May 19, 2025 - 1 Comment
Continuity features on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, are incredibly useful and worth exploring

Continuity is a broad set of features for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, that make using all three of the devices together as seamless and easy as possible. Many of the Continuity features also will undoubtedly improve your workflow, making using MacOS, iOS, and iPadOS even better together. We’re going to focus on six of the … Read More

Touch Bar Not Working After MacOS Update? Troubleshooting Black Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

May 15, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Touch Bar on MacBook Pro

A fair number of MacBook Pro users with Touch Bar equipped Macs have discovered the Touch Bar stops working or goes black after installing a MacOS update. Given that the Touch Bar serves as Function keys, F1, F2, F3 etc keys, as well as toggles for adjusting brightness, system audio, and accessing many MacOS and … Read More

Huge System Data Filling Storage on Your Mac? 7 Possible Fixes

May 14, 2025 - 15 Comments
Large System Data on MacOS consuming tons of storage capacity

Many Mac users are reporting that “System Data” is taking up huge amounts of disk storage capacity on their Macs. While this issue is reported more commonly with MacOS Sequoia, some users find the bloated System Data storage on older versions of MacOS as well. In many cases, the “System Data” in MacOS is taking … Read More

How Edit Photos Dark Mode on iPhone & iPad

May 9, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Editing photos in Dark or Light mode

As an iPhone or iPad user you’re undoubtedly familiar with using Dark Mode and Light mode for the interface, and you might even have automatic dark/light mode enabled on your device. But some users may like to use light mode in some apps, and dark mode in other apps, like when editing in the Photos … Read More

Release Candidate of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available, Public Release Coming Soon

May 6, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Apple Pride wallpaper for 2025

A release candidate build for iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5 is now available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs. For users not in the beta testing programs, what this basically means is that the final versions of these system software releases is coming soon, perhaps even next week. macOS Sequoia … Read More

Use a Proximity Gesture to Play Music from Spotify / Apple Music on HomePod with iPhone

May 5, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Play music from iPhone to HomePod with a proximity gesture

Whether you have a HomePod or HomePod mini in your own house, or you’re visiting elsewhere with a HomePod, you can quickly and easily play music from Spotify or Apple Music on the HomePod from your iPhone with a simple physical proximity gesture. This trick is so simple and useful but it’s not well known, … Read More

Put a Task, Goal, or Reminder in the Mac Menu Bar with One Thing

May 1, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Put an accolade for us why not

While many people find to-do lists to be useful, they can also be overwhelming if you have twenty items on the list. For some people, it might be easier to just have a single goal, task, or reminder, and that is the focus or important thing to remember, without any other distractions. That’s where One … Read More

How to Clear CoreSpotlight Metadata on Mac When Taking Up Large Amounts of Storage

Apr 30, 2025 - 3 Comments
Large CoreSpotlight metadata storage consumption

Spotlight is the powerful search engine built into MacOS that allows you to quickly find any file or data on your Mac disk drives. Part of what makes Spotlight so fast is that it uses caches and temporary files during indexing to quickly refer to data on your Mac, but sometimes those Spotlight files can … Read More

4th Beta of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Available for Testing

Apr 28, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia public betas

Apple has issued the fourth beta version of iOS 18.5, macOS Sequoia 15.5, and iPadOS 18.5, for users participating in the beta testing programs for apple system software. There are also new betas available for watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, if those are applicable to you. No significant new features or changes are expected in any … Read More

How to Change Location of Notification Banners on Mac with PingPlace

Apr 24, 2025 - 1 Comment
Pingplace lets you customize where Notifications arrive on Mac screen

Notifications arrive on the Mac as banners appearing in the top right corner of your display, but have you ever wished your could change the location of those notification banners and alerts? Maybe you’d prefer the notification banners to appear in the bottom right corner instead, or the top middle, or the bottom left? With … Read More

How to Stop iPhone Auto-Enhancing Photos from Camera

Apr 23, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPhone Camera

The latest iPhone models use a ton of auto-enhancing and software to adjust photos that you shoot with the camera, and much of that auto-editing happens immediately on-device after the camera snaps a photo, some of this is Deep Fusion, and some of it are numerous other features that Apple has incorporated into the iPhone … Read More

How to Customize Your Mac Mouse Cursor with Mousescape

Apr 21, 2025 - 1 Comment
Mousescape lets you customize your Mac cursor

Have you ever wanted to customize the cursor in MacOS? Perhaps you want to use a Windows-style white cursor on your Mac, or a grey 3d looking Linux style cursor, or even cursors from the Wii interface on your Mac? You can do all of that and more with a free app called Mousescape for … Read More

Beta 3 of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testers

Apr 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia public betas

In what must be the most exciting thing to happen on a Monday since the prior Monday, Apple has released the third beta version of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, and iPadOS 18.5. These new thrilling third beta versions are available to the developer wizards participating in the beta testing programs of Apple system software, … Read More

How to Disable Contact Photos in Mail on Mac

Apr 9, 2025 - 1 Comment
Hide the Contact Photos Mail Sender Icons on Mail for Mac

Apple has been busy mucking with the design and functionality of the Mail app, this time bringing Mail Sender Icons to the Mac Mail app. With this new introduction to clutter the Mail interface, you’ll see a Contact Photo or mail sender icon next to the mail sender name, subject, and preview of the mail … Read More

1st Beta of iOS 18.5, MacOS Sequoia 15.5, iPadOS 18.5 Released for Testing

Apr 2, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia public betas

While Apple may have just released the final versions of MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iOS 18.4, and iPadOS 18.4 to the general public, they’re already back on the beta train. This time around we’ve got the first beta versions of iOS 18.5, iPadOS 18.5, and MacOS Sequoia 15.5. It’s not clear what the focus of these … Read More

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