Ever had a problem with Group FaceTime not working as expected on your iPhone or iPad? It happens, but chances are you’ll be able to resolve the issue with some troubleshooting tricks.

Apple’s Group FaceTime feature offers a fun, free, and convenient way to video call up to 32 other people who uses an iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, or Mac. If you’re keen on staying connected with your friends and family during time apart, you might have already tried or considered using FaceTime for group video calls.

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Did you know that your iPhone may be able to inform you if you’ve been exposed to COVID-19? With the contact tracing API, Apple has been working with public health authorities in creating services and apps that can alert users if they’ve been in contact with a COVID infected person. Of course not all regions support the effort yet (and most states and localities do not), but over time support by health authorities is likely to improve.

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One of the most interesting additions that come with the iOS 14 update is the new App Library. Within this feature, Apple gives its users the option to move, delete, and hide unwanted pages of apps and clean up their home screen.

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Apple has announced an event for Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 AM PDT.

While Apple does not state the reason for the event, it is widely assumed to be when iPhone 12,o and perhaps some other products services will be announced.

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Do you want to save, export, or print the calendars stored on your iPhone and iPad as a PDF file? Thankfully, with the PDF Calendar app that’s available on the App Store, this is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure.

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What if we told you that your iPhone or iPad can listen for sounds such as doorbells, fire alarms, car horns, dogs, cats, sirens, door knocks, water running, babies crying, and more? Whether you have any sort of hearing impairment, or perhaps just a device sitting in another room or part of the house, you may have trouble listening to the sounds around the home.

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The Apple Watch has a ton of features that are designed to keep you safe. One of those is the ability to call emergency services if you take a fall and are unable to get back up. We’re going to show you how to enable this useful – and important – feature, as well as actually how to use it.

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Do you want to share a bunch of your photos with your friends and family? This can be easily done with the help of Shared Albums feature on the iPhone and iPad.

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You can now add widgets to the home screen of iPhone. This is one of the biggest changes to iOS 14 visually, and the ability to bring custom widgets to your home screen is already quite popular, making it one of the best new features in iOS 14. If you see a widget on the home screen of an iPhone, you can be certain that it’s running iOS 14 or later.

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Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.6 Supplemental Update for Mac users who are continuing to run the Mojave operating system release.

The update appears to resolve a series of performance issues that were experienced by some users who installed Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave. Some of the user reported troubles include extreme slowness and significant performance loss, high temperatures, loud fans, memory leaks, crashes of apps and the system itself, hanging on boot, among other mixed reports. Some users reported problems with Safari 14 as well, and those may be resolved in this update though that is unclear.

It should be noted that not all Mac users who installed Security Update 2020-005 for Mojave are impacted by these issues, but nonetheless all MacOS Mojave users are recommended to install the macOS 10.14.6 Supplemental Update.

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App Library is one of the best new features and biggest visual changes that iOS 14 has to offer for iPhone. With App Library, Apple intends to clean up your home screen that’s cluttered with apps that you’ve installed over the years with this new feature.

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Do you want to use Google Slides to work on PowerPoint presentations? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that Google Slides has native support for .ppt/.pptx files and you can even convert them to Google Slides, if preferred.

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Are you trying to figure out the model number of the iPhone you own? Well, you don’t necessarily have to find the box your iPhone came in just to get the model number, as you can check it right on your device.

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How would you like to be able to tap on the back of your iPhone to perform a specific action on your device? That’s what Back Tap offers.

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MacOS Big Sur beta 9 has been released to users who are participating in the beta testing program for the Mac operating system. Typically the developer beta is soon followed by a public beta release of the same build.

MacOS Big Sur, versioned as 11.0 officially (though from prior Mac OS release versioning it’s more like 10.16), includes a newly redesigned user interface complete with a refreshed window appearance, a new Dock look, new icons, more white space, and brighter and whiter user interface. Additionally, macOS Big Sur includes Control Center, a variety of new features for Safari, new additions to the Messages app that make it more on par with iOS and IPadOS versions, along with instant translation capabilities, and a handful of other smaller improvements and changes.

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Do you frequently download files from the web using Safari to your iPhone or iPad? Have you ever wondered where all these files are stored, and if you can change the default download location? If you want to adjust the download location that’s used for Safari downloads on your iPhone or iPad, then read on.

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Apple has released iOS 14.2 beta 2 and iPadOS 14.2 beta 2 to iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad users who are actively participating in the beta testing programs. Developer beta builds roll out first and are soon followed by the same build as public betas.

Separately, watchOS 7.2 beta 2 and tvOS 14.2 beta 2 have also been made available, along with macOS Big Sur beta 9.

Betas of iOS 14.2 and iPadOS 14.2 include a new Shazam control center option to identify music, and a handful of new Emoji icons.

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As you likely know by now, iOS and iPadOS device backups are handled differently in macOS Big Sur and MacOS Catalina compared to Mojave and earlier that ran iTunes. Instead of iTunes for device management, device syncing, backups, and restores are all handled in the Finder now instead.

We’ve already explained how to go about creating a backup of your iPhone or iPad using Finder, but what about restoring that iOS or iPadOS backup? The hope is that you’ll never need it, but here’s how you go about doing it if you’re using macOS 10.15 or later.

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