Have you hidden any downloaded apps on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad? Perhaps, you’re looking to unhide some of those apps or see how many purchases you’ve hidden so far? In that case, you’ll be pleased to know that unhiding purchased apps is pretty easy to do on a Mac.
If you have a cellular Apple Watch and you’re planning to change the network provider that you use, you will have to reset or remove the current cellular plan on your Apple Watch first.
In this article, we’ll cover how you can remove or reset the cellular plans on your Apple Watch.
Modern versions of iOS and iPadOS offer widgets to be added to the Home Screen. By allowing widgets to live amongst apps, Apple instantly made them more usable and more important for iPhone and iPad users. It also introduced stacks.
Stacks are super widgets that house more than one standard widget. That not only brings more functionality to a widget but it also saves space – there is no need to have two widgets visible if you only need one at any given time. Switching widgets within a widget stack is a simple case of swiping on them, as it should be.
Setting up a new Widget stack is easy, and once you’ve started, you won’t want to stop!
Did you install an iOS or ipadOS app to iPhone or iPad that’s not from the Apple App Store by sideloading? If so, you will not be able to open this app on your iPhone or iPad right away and instead, you’ll get an “Untrusted Developer” message.
It appears that some users are having issues with iOS 14.5.1 and ipadOS 14.5.1, ranging from problems installing the update, to battery issues or a hot iPhone / iPad after install. These type of problems are usually rare, but they can happen to some users after virtually any system software update, and thus these circumstances are generally not specific to this release.
Like most iOS and iPadOS updates, these issues are usually easy to resolve if you experience them.
Do you use an Apple Watch alongside your iPhone? If so, you may be excited to know that you can now use your Apple Watch to quickly unlock your Face ID-equipped iPhone, this may be particularly handy when you’re wearing a face mask. That’s right, you no longer have to type in the passcode.
Do you want to convert some WebP images that are stored on your Mac to JPEG? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that you can get this done pretty easily on your Mac. The best part is that you don’t have to install any additional software on your computer, since the feature is natively available on macOS.
Plenty of us know that listening to music too loudly can impair our hearing in the long term, but how loud is too loud? Apple has offered historical data on how loud your earphones have been blasting music for a while, but with modern iOS and iPadOS versions, that feature is now available in real-time, and for the first time, on iPhone and iPad.
Did you know that you can create multiple keychains on your Mac, in addition to the default keychain associated with your login? Moreover, you can set other keychains you created as the default keychain on your macOS computer, which then become where your login and password credentials are stored. Most users won’t need to do this, but there are particular circumstances where it can be useful or helpful.
Apple has released Safari 14.1 for MacOS Catalina and macOS Mojave. It is recommended for all users of Catalina and Mojave to install the update.
The Safari 14.1 release features important security updates for WebKit and the Safari web browser in macOS Mojave (10.14.6) and macOS Catalina (10.15.7), containing the same patches that were included in macOS Big Sur 11.3.1.
The second beta version of macOS Big Sur 11.4 has been made available to users enrolled in the beta testing programs. Typically a developer build arrives first and a public beta version arrives shortly after.
The new beta arrives a day after macOS Big Sur 11.3.1, a security update release, became available to all Mac users.
Did you know that your Mac has hidden fonts that are disabled by default? If your Mac is running macOS Big Sur, Catalina, or later, you can access all these hidden fonts and install them for free.
Are you running low on iCloud storage space? Or perhaps you’re running low on local disk space on your Mac and you want to offload more data to iCloud? Considering most modern Macs don’t have user-upgradeable storage, if you are pinched for space you’ll need to either get an external drive, or rely on Apple’s iCloud to store some of your data.
Apple has released iOS 14.5.1 and iPadOS 14.5.1 as updates for iPhone and iPad users. The small updates include important security fixes and are therefore recommended for all to install.
Separately, macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 update is out for Mac, watchOS 7.4.1 for Apple Watch, and iOS 12.5.3 is available for iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air, iPad mini 2, iPad mini 3, and iPod touch (6th generation).
Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.3.1 update with an important security fix that is recommended for all macOS Big Sur users to install. The security patch update has arrived just a week after 11.3 debuted.
Separately, Apple also released iOS 14.5.1 and iPadOS 14.5.1 to address the same security issues for iPhone and iPad users, iOS 12.5.3 for older iPhone and iPad models, along with watchOS 7.4.1 for Apple Watch users.
Some Mac users may be interested in obtaining macOS Big Sur as a DMG file, so that they can use the disk image with a virtual machine, to create bootable media, for archival purposes, for cloning, or any other reason. It turns out that macOS Big Sur is available to download as an installer application, and from that you can build a macOS Big Sur DMG file, and that’s what we’ll show you how to do.
How’d you like the LED camera flash on the back of iPhone to flash when a notification or phone call comes into the device? Do you place your iPhone face down on the desk? Or, do you keep it in silent mode most of the time? In any case, you might be interested in taking advantage of its LED flash for notification alerts.
Did you know that your iPhone can automatically lower the audio level coming out of your headphones? That’s right, no more “RIP headphone users” moments when you’re watching YouTube videos. This feature is pretty easy to enable and use on iPhone and iPad.
