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How to Disable “Follow Up” Mail Suggestions on Mac

Jan 29, 2025 - 3 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?

Use ChatGPT by Phone by Calling 1-800-ChatGPT for AI Voice Answers & Communication

Dec 20, 2024 - 1 Comment
ChatGPT by Phone

OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, has introduced a new phone-based ChatGPT client experience. By calling 1-800-ChatGPT (1-800-242-8478), you are able to have a phone conversation with ChatGPT to get AI answers by phone. Essentially the phone line for ChatGPT means that you can access and use ChatGPT entirely by voice, … Read More

How to Disable Mail Sender Icons on iPhone in iOS 18.2

Dec 19, 2024 - 12 Comments
How to turn off Mail sender icons on iPhone

Apple recently introduced a completely new redesign for Mail app on iPhone including a Mail Categories feature that many users have strong opinions about, and along with that design change are new large prominent sender profile icons, which sit next to every item in the inbox. These large prominent mail sender icons squeeze the Mail … Read More

How to Check Battery Life of iPhone

Dec 18, 2024 - Leave a Comment
Check iPhone battery life

The iPhone has pretty great battery life, especially when they’re brand new devices, but like all electronic devices that are battery powered, over time and with usage the battery on iPhone will drain down. If you are new to iPhone, you may be wondering how you can check the remaining battery life of iPhone, and … Read More

Mist Makes Downloading MacOS Installers & Firmwares Easy

Dec 17, 2024 - 1 Comment
Mist allows you to easily download full MacOS installers and firmwares

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

How to Disable Mail Categories on iPhone & Return to Old Inbox Style

Dec 16, 2024 - 39 Comments
How to disable Mail Categories on iPhone and iPad and return to the normal inbox

If you have recently opened the Mail app after updating to iOS 18.2 or iPadOS 18.2, you likely discovered that Mail now defaults to a Mail “Categories” view, showing distinct mail category inboxes; “Primary”, “Transactions”, “Updates”, and “Promotions”. Presumably Apple chose to redesign everyones inbox and enable Mail Categories by default on iPhone and iPad … Read More

How to Check Battery Cycle Count on iPhone

Dec 13, 2024 - 2 Comments
How to check iPhone battery cycle count

Some iPhone users may be interested in learning what the battery cycle count is on their iPhone. A battery cycle is counted when a full charge and discharge cycle has completed, and this number can help to determine battery usage, health, as well as longevity. Up until recently and with the latest model iPhone devices, … Read More

How to Lock iPhone / iPad Apps with Face ID or Passcode

Dec 12, 2024 - 1 Comment
How to require Face ID or Passcode to use app on iPhone or iPad

A handy app-specific security feature is available for iPhone and iPad that requires authentication with Face ID or a passcode before a chosen app can be launched. Essentially this lets you lock any iPhone or iPad app with Face ID or a passcode, and this lock applies even if your iPhone or iPad is already … Read More

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