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Recover 7GB of iPhone, iPad, & Mac Storage by Disabling Apple Intelligence

Feb 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Apple Intelligence

Don’t use Apple Intelligence? Don’t care to have Apple Intelligence write your emails for you or instantly create a business plan or any of the handy writing and summary tools? Whether you’re on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, if you recently updated to the latest versions of system software, then you’ll find that Apple Intelligence … Read More

Using AirTags for Dogs: Track Your Pet for Added Peace of Mind

Feb 6, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Using an AirTag to track a dog can be a really great idea

Using AirTags to keep track of a dog can offer some additional peace of mind, especially if you’re worried about your fuzzy companion wandering off. Whether your dog has a penchant to escape out of your yard, has a tendency to bolt, or simply likes to run off at any opportunity, AirTags can provide a … Read More

How to Cancel App Download on iPhone & iPad

Feb 5, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to stop and cancel an app download on iPhone or iPad

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

How to Find Screenshots in Photos App for iOS 18

Feb 4, 2025 - 2 Comments
Tap on Media Types to find Screen Shots

Ongoing complaints about the Photos app redesign in iOS 18 persist, with users who are frustrated with how difficult it can be to locate certain images or photos that once were easy for them to find. For example, if you take a lot of screenshots on your iPhone you might want quick and easy access … Read More

Touch Bar on Mac Showing “Touch ID to Sign In” or “Touch ID to Autofill” Requests in Safari? Here’s Why

Feb 3, 2025 - 2 Comments
Safari Touch ID random requests to sign in and autofill on Mac

MacBook Pro users with a Touch Bar equipped model may find themselves using Safari and have the Touch Bar constantly show a seemingly random “Touch ID to Autofill” or “Touch ID to Sign In” request, even if they’re using a website or a webpage with no forms, nothing to sign into, and nothing to autofill. … Read More

How to Restart, Force Restart, & Shut Down iPad Mini 7

Jan 31, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPad mini 7

The iPad mini 7 is a great little iPad and the first mini model to support Apple Intelligence. If you recently got an iPad mini 7, you might be wondering how you can restart the device, shut it down, and force restart the mini, all of which are common tasks for troubleshooting and even just … Read More

How to Turn Off “Follow Up” Mail Suggestions on iPhone & iPad

Jan 30, 2025 - 5 Comments
How to disable Follow Up Suggestions on Mail for iPhone and iPad

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

How to Disable “Follow Up” Mail Suggestions on Mac

Jan 29, 2025 - 2 Comments
Disable Follow Up Mail suggestions on Mac

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

How to Fix iPhone Blank White/Grey Icons with Cross & Circles

Jan 24, 2025 - Leave a Comment
What it means when iPhone icons are blank with cross and circles like a schematic or drawing

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

How to Use “Type to Siri” with Apple Intelligence on iPhone & iPad

Jan 23, 2025 - 1 Comment
How to use Type to Siri on iPhone or iPad

Using “Type to Siri” on iPhone and iPad is better than ever thanks to Apple Intelligence, and if you have a new enough iPhone or iPad. Type to Siri with Apple Intelligence includes ChatGPT integration, making it a notably more capable AI assistant, and it’s also much easier to access with the latest devices and … Read More

How to Have Apple Intelligence Write Emails For You on Mac, iPhone, iPad

Jan 15, 2025 - 2 Comments
Apple Intelligence written email, edit if necessary

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

How to Generate AI Images with Image Playground on Mac, iPhone, iPad

Jan 14, 2025 - Leave a Comment
An image generated in Image Playground

Image Playground is an artificial intelligence tool from Apple available for iPhone, Mac, and iPad, that allows you to quickly create and generate images and artwork based upon descriptions or even photos and people from your image library. It’s a fun tool to use, and also super easy.

How to Change Keyboard Shortcut for Type to Siri on Mac

Jan 13, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to change the Type to Siri keyboard shortcut on Mac

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

How to Stop Spotlight Search Data on Mac from Being Shared with Apple

Jan 10, 2025 - 3 Comments
How to disable data sharing with Apple from Spotlight search on Mac

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

Use “Type to Siri” on Mac Easier Than Ever in Sequoia

Jan 9, 2025 - 7 Comments
Type to Siri on Mac asking if you want to use ChatGPT

Siri has been considerably improved in recent MacOS versions, mostly because it’s now linked to ChatGPT. One of the other recent changes to Siri in modern MacOS versions is that it’s now easier to access the “Type to Siri” feature, no longer being relegated to an Accessibility setting that has to be enabled separately like … Read More

com.apple.mediaanalysisd Cache on Mac Using Tons of Storage? Here’s the Fix

Jan 8, 2025 - 3 Comments
com.applemediaanalysis.d cache folder taking up large amounts of storage on Mac

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

Why is There a Question Mark Icon in the Dock on Mac?

Jan 7, 2025 - 3 Comments
Question mark in the Mac Dock, what it is, why it is there, and how to fix it

You may occasionally find a situation where a question mark icon appears in the Mac Dock, sometimes it’s even several question mark icons. If you click on the question mark icon in the Dock, nothing happens. What is the question mark? Why is there a question mark icon in the Dock? How do you remove … Read More

4 iPhone Tips to Help Your Relatives and Loved Ones this Holiday Season

Dec 26, 2024 - Leave a Comment
iPhone tips to help your family devices

While you’re visiting family this holiday season, if you’re the family tech guru you might get asked some questions about iPhone. This year, why not be a little more proactive and sit down with someone less tech savvy, and with a few tweaks, improve their iPhone experience?

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