Can You Use New AirPods Pro 2 on Older iPhone or iPad?

Jun 20, 2025 - Leave a Comment
AirPods Pro

If you’ve recently acquired some new AirPods or AirPods Pro, you might be in a situation where you’re wondering if the latest models of AirPods work with an older iPhone or iPad. This is a very important question, since many people will be in a situation where they themselves either buy new AirPods or gift … Read More

Beta 1 of iOS 18.6 & MacOS Sequoia 15.6 Released for Testing

Jun 16, 2025 - Leave a Comment
New betas

Apple has issued the first beta versions of iOS 18.6 for iPhone, iPadOS 18.6 for iPad, and MacOS Sequoia 15.6 for Mac. These beta versions of system software are now concurrent with the next-gen iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and MacOS Tahoe 26 betas, which are also on the first beta. The new beta versions of … Read More

5 WWDC 2025 Videos to Watch (Liquid Glass, What’s Coming, Full Keynote, & WSJ Interview with Apple Execs)

Jun 11, 2025 - 2 Comments
new 26 version numbers for operating systems

If you’re a regular Apple user, you likely didn’t bother spending over an hour of your day to watching the WWDC 2025 keynote, where Apple announced the naming convention change for system software moving to year designations, along with the introductions of the new Liquid Glass interface, iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS … Read More

CodeEdit Might be the Best Free Code Editor for Mac

Jun 5, 2025 - 4 Comments
CodeEdit for Mac

CodeEdit is an increasingly popular, free, open source native code editor for Mac that offers a super lightweight and speedy alternative to other code editors for Mac like Xcode, Zed, Visual Studio Pro, and other similar apps and IDEs. CodeEdit offers a fast experience that feels like it was built for MacOS, with many of … Read More

How to Adjust Font Smoothing in macOS Sequoia & macOS Sonoma

Jun 4, 2025 - 1 Comment
The Mac Finder icon

Font Smoothing is a longstanding feature in MacOS that aims to make rendered screen text more legible, and it works by subtly blending the edges of display fonts with the background by using anti-aliasing. The idea is to reduce the jaggedness of screen text, but in practice nowadays it basically makes screen fonts on the … Read More

How to Enable iCloud Private Relay on Mac

Jun 3, 2025 - 2 Comments
How to enable iCloud Private Relay on Mac

iCloud Private Relay is a fantastic privacy feature that is part of the iCloud+ subscription that helps to protect your internet activity and browsing by obfuscating your IP address (via using a temporary IP address) and encrypting your DNS lookups, so that third parties can’t see what websites you’re visiting. The end result is that … Read More

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 - 3 Comments
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

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