Want to share your location with someone easily? Tired of always having to give directions when you’re meeting up with your family, friends, and colleagues? Thanks to the location sharing feature within Apple’s Find My app, you can easily help someone to find you by sharing your location from iPhone or iPad, and in turn your location is accurately shared on a map.

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MacOS users may occasionally need to flush DNS cache on their Macs in order to access certain websites, domains, or for troubleshooting purposes. Flushing DNS cache is particularly common with web developers and network admins, but it’s used with some regularity by other advanced users too. This guide will walk through how to flush DNS cache in MacOS Big Sur and MacOS Catalina.

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Aside from the ongoing iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 beta tests, Apple has released a separate iOS 13.7 beta and iPadOS 13.7 beta.

The iOS 13.7 beta release seems to primarily focus on the COVID Exposure Notification system, which allows users to opt into COVID contact tracing through an app if one is available from local, state, or federal public health authorities (and for those wondering, these apps are not currently available in the vast majority of the USA).

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Some iPhone and iPad users may occasionally run into a frustrating issue where FaceTime calls keep hanging up, dropping connections, disconnecting, or otherwise failing, usually after being on a successful FaceTime call for a few seconds.

If you’re experiencing issues with FaceTime dropping calls, random disconnections, and hang ups, then read on to help troubleshoot the problem on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

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The Apple Watch is great at doing all kinds of things, but it really comes into its own when used as a triage device for all the inbound communications everyone receives. We all get way too much email, and being able to deal with it on the go without pulling out our iPhones can be liberating. Although not as liberating as ditching email completely – but really, who can do that? Not us, so we rely on marking emails as read right from our wrists.

And sure, you can mark them as unread if that’s your style, too. Indeed, you can mark emails as read or unread directly on Apple Watch, and it’s as simple as can be.

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If you’re unable to resolve any issue that you’re facing with an Apple device or service despite reading our articles, you can always get in touch with an official Apple Support agent for further assistance.

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Apple has released iOS 14 beta 6 and iPadOS 14 beta 6 for users enrolled in the beta system software programs for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The developer beta usually rolls out first and is soon followed by the same build arriving as a public beta release.

Separately, Apple rolled out new beta builds of watchOS 7 and tvOS 14 as well.

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Mac users may be interested to know they can see a list of visited websites by using Screen Time. This can be helpful if your child has a Mac for school use, or even for educational and office settings, or other environments where keeping an eye on web usage is desired. With Screen Time on the Mac, this is easy to do.

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Do you want to stop your iPhone or iPad from automatically downloading software updates to iOS and iPadOS? Regardless of what device you’re using, disabling automatic updates is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure on both iOS and iPadOS.

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iPhone and iPad users who have a Windows PC may be happy to know they can backup their iPhone or iPad to Windows PC by using iTunes. Since not all iPhone users have Macs or iCloud, this offers another backup solution for the PC-based user base. And if you’re not paying for iCloud, the chances are that you’re not backing up your iPhone or iPad data to iCloud on Apple’s secure cloud servers. Whether for redundancy or necessity, you can use iTunes software to locally back up all your iPhone and iPad data to your Windows PC, free of cost.

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Did one of your Apple devices go missing? Don’t start panicking, because you can use Apple’s Find My service to quickly locate your lost or stolen iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even AirPods within a matter of seconds.

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Ever wanted to install some new apps onto Apple Watch? Or perhaps you want to delete and remove apps from Apple Watch that you no longer want?

While Apple Watch comes with many great default apps bundled with the device, you can also install and remove third party apps too. So, we’re going to show you how to install apps and how to delete apps too from Apple Watch.

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Recent releases of iPadOS added a feature that few expected – but many were happy to see – in the form of the ability to alter the modifier keys on an external keyboard attached to an iPad. That includes Bluetooth keyboards, the Magic Keyboard, and even Windows keyboards that are in use with iPad.

This is a great solution for people who also change what modifier keys do on their Mac and have had to live with their muscle memory tripping them up when they make the switch to an iPad. That doesn’t need to be a problem anymore, and it could be a huge deal for the people it affects.

It may go without saying, but none of this applies to the iPad software keyboard. But if you’re using an external keyboard of any kind, whether it’s the iPad Smart Keyboard, Magic Keyboard, or a Bluetooth keyboard, you’re going to want to read on.

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Mac users can use iCloud Drive file sharing to easily share files and folders from iCloud Drive with other people. This cloud sharing capability also exists on iPhone and iPad, and it works similar to how Dropbox and Google Drive function, allowing for easy collaboration and sharing of files and documents easily.

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MacOS Big Sur beta 5 is now available to download for all users who are registered to participate in the beta testing programs.

Typically the developer build comes along first and is quickly followed by the same build as a public beta release. Anyone can download and install the macOS Big Sur public beta on a compatible Mac, but beta system software is best reserved for advanced users on secondary hardware.

The release of the fifth beta of macOS Big Sur comes just after iOS 14 beta 5 and iPadOS 14 beta 5 were also released, along with the fifth betas of watchOS 7 and tvOS 14.

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Do you want to download free music on to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch for listening offline when you’re not connected to the internet? You’re not alone, but you’ll be pleased to know that there are multiple ways to go about downloading free music to iPhone.

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Apple has released the fifth beta versions of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14. The new beta build is available now for all enrolled iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models, for both the developer beta and the public beta release.

Additionally, Apple released beta 5 of watchOS 7 and tvOS 14.

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Ever wanted to share a file from iCloud from your iPhone or iPad? Maybe you want to collaborate with other people on your iCloud files, folders, and other documents? With iCloud Drive, it’s fairly simple to share files and to invite others to view or edit your files right on your iPhone or iPad.

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