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Emoji Picker Shortcut Not Working in MacOS Sequoia? Let’s Fix It

Mar 7, 2025 - 1 Comment
Emoji and Symbols panel on Mac

Some MacOS Sequoia users have discovered the familiar handy Emoji keyboard shortcut to access the Emoji & Symbols panel is no longer working as expected. This can be immensely frustrating, especially if you rely on it for quick access to emojis in messages, emails, documents, and in general. While it might seem like a minor … Read More

How to Upload Documents to ChatGPT

Mar 6, 2025 - Leave a Comment
You can upload files and documents to ChatGPT

ChatGPT allows you to upload documents, which you can then describe, analyze, summarize, explain, or even get assistance with that particular document. ChatGPT works with just about any document type that you might be working with or come across in the world of tech and computers, including .pdf, .doc, .docx, .txt, .rtf, .xls, .xlsx, .csv, … Read More

PSA: Don’t Forget to Reboot Your Mac to Free Memory from kernel_task

Feb 28, 2025 - 11 Comments
Rebooting a Mac can help to free up huge amounts of memory and RAM usage from system tasks including kernel_task

This is a helpful reminder for Mac users that it’s important to periodically restart your Mac to maintain optimal system performance.

Quickly Edit & Cut Video Lossless on Mac with LosslessCut

Feb 27, 2025 - 5 Comments
LosslessCut video and audio editor

Whether you’re a regular video and audio editor or just have occasional needs to do so, you might appreciate using the handy free LosslessCut app, the “swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing”, which allows for lossless editing and cutting of video and audio files. LosslessCut lets you quickly extract, remove, add, and combine audio … Read More

How to Share an AirTag with Someone Else

Feb 25, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to Share an AirTag

Sharing an AirTag with someone makes it super easy for multiple people to track a single item through the Find My app and network. For example, maybe you want track some baggage as it is traveling around the country or world and share that AirTag equipped luggage with a friend or colleague, or maybe you … Read More

How to Turn Off AMBER Alerts on Apple Watch & iPhone

Feb 24, 2025 - 6 Comments
How to disable AMBER alerts on iPhone and Apple Watch

AMBER alerts are well intentioned and aim to help locate missing children, but can also be incredibly disruptive and jarring, thus many iPhone and Apple Watch users might want to disable AMBER alerts on their devices. By turning off AMBER alerts, you will avoid the sudden screeching loud alarm sound that is disruptive to whatever … Read More

iPhone Camera App Deleted or Icon Missing? Here’s the Fix

Feb 19, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Occasionally, some iPhone users have gone to use their Camera app and discovered the Camera app icon is missing from their iPhone Home Screen. Uh oh! Does this mean your Camera app was deleted? What do you do now? Don’t distress, fixing a missing Camera app on iPhone is usually pretty easy. The Camera app … Read More

How to Disable Apple Intelligence on iPhone, Mac, iPad

Feb 18, 2025 - 6 Comments
How to disable Apple Intelligence on Mac, iPhone, and iPad

Apple Intelligence is an intriguing and powerful set of AI features available on the latest models of Mac, iPhone, and iPad with modern versions of system software. These AI features are tied to ChatGPT and range from useful writing and summarization tools, to business plan creation, to writing emails on your behalf, image generation with … Read More

Install & Manage Homebrew Cask Apps on Mac Easily with Applite

Feb 17, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Applite is a free open source Homebrew cask manager app for installing Mac applications easily

Applite is a powerful free and open source MacOS application for streamlining the installation, updating, and management of third party apps using the Homebrew cask feature, without ever having to use the Terminal. Presented in an easy to use simple graphical interface, Applite is sort of like a third-party App Store that makes using Homebrew … Read More

How to Add a Shared AirTag to Find My on iPhone, iPad, Mac

Feb 14, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Add a shared AirTag to your Find My app

The popular AirTags trackers can be shared with others, and if someone has shared an AirTag with you then you’ll likely want to accept the invitation to track that object, belonging, pets, luggage, package, or whatever else is being tracked. While you will receive a notification about a shared AirTag, you might have dismissed it … Read More

How to Improve Photos Layout on iPhone with iOS 18

Feb 13, 2025 - 11 Comments
How to improve and fix the Photos layout redesign on iPhone

The Photos app on iPhone received a significant layout redesign in iOS 18 that has left many iPhone users annoyed or frustrated as the new Photos design is not necessarily intuitive or easy to use for everyone. Things have been moved around, albums or features they were using might be missing or harder to access, … Read More

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

Feb 12, 2025 - 3 Comments
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 - 3 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 - 6 Comments
Mail

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

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