Sometimes you might start downloading an app onto an iPhone or iPad but then decide you either don’t need the app, don’t want the app, or perhaps just don’t want to download the app right now, whether due to bandwidth or connectivity issues, or any other reason. If you need to cancel an app download … Read More

The Mail app on iPhone and iPad has been around since the beginning of those devices, and many people have grown familiar with how the Mail app works and behaves. But recently, Apple has been making a lot of tweaks and adjustments to the Mail app, and some of these changes are not necessarily welcome … Read More

One of the polarizing Mail for Mac features is “Follow Up”, which are suggestions on emails that Apple Mail thinks you should follow up with. The idea behind “Follow Up” suggestions in Mail is pretty simple; if you haven’t received a reply or heard back from a particular person or email, the last sent message … Read More

Apple has issued macOS Sonoma 14.7.3 along with macOS Ventura 13.7.3 for Mac users who are continuing to run those operating systems. These are security focused updates that are concurrent with the freshly released MacOS Sequoia 15.3 update for those running Sequoia, and are not expected to include any features or notable changes. Safari 18.3 … Read More

MacOS Sequoia 15.3 update is now available to all Mac users running Sequoia. The latest software update for Mac includes Genmoji support, which allows users with Apple Intelligence supported hardware to generate custom Emoji icons in Messages, along with changes to improve AI summaries, bug fixes, security enhancements, and some other minor changes. For Mac … Read More

iOS 18.3 for iPhone and iPadOS 18.3 for iPad have been released for all eligible devices. The new software updates focus on bug fixes, security enhancements, and bring some changes to AI features like Visual Intelligence and Apple Intelligence Summaries, the latter of which were generating inaccurate summaries and headlines which bothered some people. Since … Read More

Some iPhone and iPad users may occasionally notice that their iPhone app icons show up as blank white or grey icons with a grid like appearance on them of a cross and circles. If you’ve never seen this before, it can be confusing, especially since there is no clear indication on what the blank icon … Read More

Apple has issued a Release Candidate build of iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and MacOS Sequoia 15.3, to users who are participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. There are also RC builds for tvOS 18.3, visionOS 2.3, and watchOS 11.3 as well. Release Candidate builds are typically made available at the end … Read More

The beta testing release cycle continues, this time with iOS 18.3 beta 3, iPadOS 18.3 beta 3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3 beta 3, each being made available to users participating in the beta testing programs from Apple. No major new features are arriving in these beta versions, though macOS Sequoia 15.3 will bring Genmoji creation … Read More

As you may know by now, Apple Intelligence includes handy writing tools and summarization features. One of the more useful ways to take advantage of the Apple Intelligence features on iPhone, Mac, and iPad is to have the AI feature write emails for you. Can’t think of what to say? Or maybe you simply don’t … Read More

The Type to Siri feature on Mac is super useful, particularly now that Siri has Apple Intelligence features. Using Type to Siri is perhaps even more handy for Mac users than using the voice activated Siri commands, but some Mac users may find themselves accidentally triggering Type to Siri by inadvertently pressing the initiating command … Read More

Did you know that, by default, your Mac search queries entered into Spotlight, Safari, Siri, Lookup, and #images, are sent to Apple? While this information is anonymized so as not to be identifying, and Apple says it’s used to improve search results, many Mac users may not want this search information being shared with Apple … Read More

Some MacOS Sequoia users have discovered that the com.apple.mediaanalysisd directory in MacOS is taking up very large amounts of disk storage capacity with cache files. If you have discovered your Mac disk space has reduced since installing or updating to MacOS Sequoia, the inordinately large com.apple.mediaanalysisd cache file issue could be to blame. A variety … Read More

Apple has released iOS 18.2.1 for iPhone users, and iPadOS 18.2.1 for iPad users. The new software updates are said to include important bug fixes, and are therefore recommended for all users to install. No published security updates are included in the release, and it’s not entirely sure what the specific bug fixes are either. … Read More

Many Mac users, IT staff, and systems administrators like to have on hand full MacOS installers, for both current and prior versions of MacOS system software. Additionally, many advanced Mac users and IT professionals need to have readily available MacOS IPSW firmware files for performing restores to Apple Silicon Macs, for virtual machines, even for … Read More

Apple has released the first beta versions of iOS 18.3, MacOS Sequoia 15.3, and iPadOS 18.3, for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Apple system software. The upcoming updates are now in beta testing, and are expected to focus on bug fixes and security enhancements as usual. Some new features are likely to … Read More

Apple has released MacOS Sequoia 15.2 as an update for Mac users running the Sequoia operating system. The software update includes new Apple Intelligence features including ChatGPT support for Siri, Image Playground image generation tools, along with some improvements to writing tools AI. Aside from AI, you’ll also find new abilities to share items in … Read More

Apple has released iOS 18.2 for all iPhone users, and iPadOS 18.2 for all iPad users. The new software updates focus primarily on bringing new Apple Intelligence AI features to compatible devices, including support for ChatGPT integration with Siri, Image Playground image generation, along with smaller new AI features throughout various apps and the operating … Read More