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

PSA: Automatic Update Enables Itself with MacOS Sequoia 15.4 & iOS 18.4

Apr 1, 2025 - 19 Comments
MacOS update enables Automatic Updates for system software on its own

This is important and relevant to most Mac, iPhone, and iPad users: Installing the latest updates for MacOS Sequoia 15.4 for Mac, iOS 18.4 for iPhone, and iPadOS 18.4 for iPad, will forcibly enable automatic software update for system updates on your device. Some people may already have these auto-update features enabled on their devices … Read More

Second Release Candidate of iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 Available for Testing

Mar 28, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 beta and iPadOS 18 beta

Apple has issued a second release candidate (RC) build of iOS 18.4 and ipadOS 18.4, a day after releasing a 2nd RC build of MacOS Seqouia 15.4. Earlier in the week Apple introduced the first RC builds of these system software versions. iOS 18.4 and iPadOS 18.4 gain some new features and improvements to Apple … Read More

WWDC 2025 Starts June 9, iOS 19 & MacOS 16 Expected to Debut

Mar 25, 2025 - 6 Comments
WWDC 2025

Apple has announced that their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) will be held online from June 9 to June 13, 2025. There’s also set to be a special event in Cupertino California at the Apple Park campus on June 9. Typically these special events are when Apple debuts upcoming operating systems for iPhone, iPad, Mac, … Read More

Release Candidate of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, Available for Testing

Mar 24, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia public betas

Apple has issued the Release Candidate builds of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4. Release Candidate (RC) builds are typically the last version of a beta cycle before the software gets issued to the general public, indicating that final versions of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4 are coming soon, possibly … Read More

Beta 4 of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, Available for Testing

Mar 17, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia public betas

Apple has released the fourth beta version of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, and iPadOS 18.4, all of which are set to be fairly minor software updates but do include a handful of new features, and will also include the usual round of bug fixes and security enhancements. New features currently being tested in these … Read More

M4 MacBook Air with Dual Display Support, & Spec-bumped Mac Studio Released by Apple

Mar 5, 2025 - 1 Comment
MacBook Air M4 model in sky blue

Apple has released updated MacBook Air and Mac Studio models with spec bumps, and a new color option for the MacBook Air. The MacBook Air gains the M4 chip and is now available in a new light blue color option that Apple calls ‘sky blue’. Meanwhile, the Mac Studio gains the M4 Max and M3 … Read More

Updated iPad Air with M3 Chip Released by Apple

Mar 4, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPad Air M3 models

Apple has given the iPad Air lineup a spec-bump update to include M3 chips, but otherwise the new iPad Air remains pretty much the same as the previous M2 model.

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