MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 Beta 3 Available for Testing

Jan 25, 2020 - 1 Comment

MacOS Catalina beta

MacOS Catalina 10.15.3 beta 3 has been for testing by Apple. Mac users who are currently enrolled in the Mac system software beta testing program will find the new beta software update available to download now.

The latest MacOS Catalina beta arrives a few days after iOS 13.3.1 beta 3 and iPadOS 13.3.1 beta 3 were released for testing for iPhone and iPad users.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 1 Comment

How to Automatically Download Apple Music Songs on iPhone & iPad

Jan 25, 2020 - Leave a Comment

How to Automatically Download Apple Music Songs on iPhone

How would you like to automatically download songs from Apple Music to your iPhone or iPad? That’s an option if you have subscribed to Apple Music.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Tips & Tricks - Leave a Comment

How to Sign Up for Free Apple TV+ Subscription for 1 Year

Jan 24, 2020 - 5 Comments

Get a free year of Apple TV Plus subscription

Want a free year of Apple TV+ subscription to enjoy all the Apple TV+ shows? Of course you do! If you’ve bought an iPhone within the past three months then Apple is offering a free year of Apple TV+ service with that purchase.

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By Paul Horowitz - Apple TV, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 5 Comments

How to Play Songs on Spotify with Siri on iPhone or iPad

Jan 24, 2020 - 1 Comment

Spotify

Siri now supports Spotify commands, meaning you can now use Siri to request specific music be played through Spotify on iPhone, iPad, or other Siri equipped devices with Spotify. And if the iPhone or iPad is outputting audio to Sonos or another speaker, Spotify will play directly through that speaker system.

Using Spotify to play songs and music by Siri request is incredibly simple, it’s just a matter of asking the proper questions.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 1 Comment

How to Edit Photos on iPhone & iPad

Jan 23, 2020 - 4 Comments

How to Edit Photos on iPhone & iPad

Editing photos on iPhone and iPad is now better, easier, and more powerful than ever before, as you’ll quickly see in this guide.

The default Photos app that’s baked into iOS has long provided some basic editing tools and a variety of filters for quite a while now. This was good enough for users to quickly add some extra flair to the photos they captured on their iPhones and iPads. However, for any further refinement, most people resorted to popular third-party editing applications like Snapseed, VSCO, Photoshop and more. Now, with the advanced photo editing tools that iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 (and later) Photos app brings to the table, you probably wouldn’t need to use a third-party photo editing app anymore. Apple has constantly improved the editing tools with each new iteration of iOS, but this time around, they’ve taken things to a whole new level.
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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 4 Comments

Beta 3 iOS 13.3.1 & iPadOS 13.3.1 Released for Testing

Jan 22, 2020 - 2 Comments

iOS 13 Beta and iPadOS Beta

Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 13.3.1 and iPadOS 13.3.1 for users in the beta testing programs for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

Separately, Apple also released new betas for Apple Watch and Apple TV as watchOS 6.1.2 beta 3 and tvOS 13.3 beta 3.

Currently there is no new accompanying MacOS Catalina beta available yet.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 2 Comments

How to Find Friends or Family with Find My (iPhone, iPad, Mac)

Jan 22, 2020 - 6 Comments

Find My app on Mac

The FindMy app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac can be used to easily find people, whether they are friends, family, or anyone else sharing their location with you. You can quite literally find them on a map where ever they are located with this feature, a very handy feature for many people.

We’ve already explained how to find a lost iPhone, iPad, or Mac with FindMy and now we’re going to show you how to find people, too.

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By Oliver Haslam - iPad, iPhone, Mac, Tips & Tricks - 6 Comments

How to Scan Documents with Notes App on iPhone & iPad

Jan 21, 2020 - 7 Comments

How to scan documents with Notes app on iPhone and iPad

Did you know you can scan documents with the Notes app by using your iPhone or iPad camera? Scanning documents is a great way of removing your reliance on paper and it makes it easier to find things in your digital life, too. The Notes app on iPhone and iPad is perfectly suited to the task and you already have it on your device. Here, we’re going to run through how to scan documents with the iPhone and iPad Notes app.

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By Oliver Haslam - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 7 Comments

How to Setup a VPN on Mac

Jan 20, 2020 - 13 Comments

How to setup a VPN on Mac

Need to setup a VPN on Mac? Setting up a VPN on MacOS is very easy, as this tutorial will walk you through the steps to accomplish a manual VPN configuration on the Mac.

VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, and VPN services are often used by businesses, enterprises, agencies, and individuals for a wide variety of purposes. Often consumers will use a VPN as a means of improving privacy, security, or being a bit more anonymous online, or to protect data that is being transferred from the Mac to the internet. Basically how a VPN works is that, when enabled, it routes data going to and from the computer to the internet through the VPN, wrapping it an encrypted layer. This is sometimes necessary for accessing internal networks for jobs and schools, and some users rely on VPN for privacy purposes.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Security, Tips & Tricks - 13 Comments

How to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook

Jan 19, 2020 - 16 Comments

Using Dark Mode on Facebook

Want to use Facebook in Dark Mode? If you’re a fan of dark mode for iPhone and iPad, you might also be interested in using Dark Mode on Facebook, the worlds largest social network.

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By Paul Horowitz - Tips & Tricks - 16 Comments

How to Stop Being Added to WhatsApp Groups on iPhone & iPad

Jan 18, 2020 - 2 Comments

How to Stop Being Added to WhatsApp Groups

With 1.6 billion users who’re active on a monthly basis, WhatsApp is hands down the most popular instant messaging service that exists today. Sure, it’s not as ubiquitous in the US market as Apple’s iMessage, but it’s still a dominating social networking platform across the rest of the world. WhatsApp recently started rolling out a group privacy setting that’s been in beta testing for the past few months. It’s a feature that users have been requesting for years and for very good reason.

WhatsApp now gives users full control over who adds them to group chats. Interested in finding out how? Well, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll be discussing exactly how you could set up the group privacy feature and stop random people from adding you to group chats.

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By Hamlin Rozario - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Change FPS in Fortnite

Jan 17, 2020 - Leave a Comment

How to change Fortnite frame rate

If you play Fortnite you might be interested in changing the frame rate or FPS of the game, which can result in smoother gameplay.

This tutorial will discuss how to change FPS settings in Fortnite to either increase or lower the frame rate of the game. The article screenshots covers adjusting FPS on iPad Pro but the process is going to be basically the same on Fortnite for Windows PC, Mac, iPhone, Android, Xbox, and any other platform you’ll find the game on.

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By Paul Horowitz - Games, iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - Leave a Comment

How to Bookmark All Open Tabs in Safari on iPhone & iPad

Jan 17, 2020 - 4 Comments

Safari on iPhone

Ever have tons of Safari tabs opened on iPhone or iPad and wished you could bookmark them all at once so you can easily refer to them all later? Now you can do exactly that on iOS and iPadOS, bookmarking all of your open browser tabs in one fell swoop.

With so many great websites on the internet it’s very easy to find yourself with many, many open browser tabs. But you probably don’t want to lose them all, so just closing them out isn’t always an option. That’s what bookmarks are for and Safari handles them better than ever with a new ability to bookmark all tabs at once, rather than bookmarking each tab individually.

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By Oliver Haslam - iPad, iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 4 Comments

How to Stop iPad from Getting iPhone Messages

Jan 16, 2020 - 7 Comments

How to Stop iPad Getting iPhone Messages

Ever wondered why your iPad is getting text messages from your iPhone? And have you ever wondered how to stop the iPad from getting iPhone messages? This article will show you how to disable the feature that allows all iPhone messages to be shared and received to an iPad.

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Where are Notes Stored on Mac?

Jan 15, 2020 - 25 Comments

The Notes icon for Mac

Want to access Notes data on your Mac? Wondering where Notes are stored on the Mac? This article will show you where Notes are stored locally on a Mac and how to access that data. This of course assumes you use the Notes app, with or without iCloud, and if so all Notes will be kept on the Mac locally, including locally kept notes, and caches of notes from iCloud. This stored Notes data includes all Notes texts, images, graphics, drawings, doodles, media, movies, videos, and any other data stored and kept in the Notes app.

This article is aimed for more technical users aiming for direct Notes data access. The vast majority of Mac users can access their Notes by simply launching the “Notes” application on the Mac and finding their notes data there.

Accessing the raw Notes data can be helpful for many purposes, whether you want to manually recover Notes, manually backup Notes data, manually restore Notes data, or access Notes data directly from MacOS or Mac OS X for any other purpose, be in for backups, digital forensics, curiosity, or anything else.

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By Paul Horowitz - Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 25 Comments

Beta 2 of iOS / iPadOS 13.3.1, MacOS 10.15.3, Released for Testing

Jan 15, 2020 - 1 Comment

Beta versions of iOS, iPad, macOS system software

Apple has released the second beta versions of iOS 13.3.1, iPadOS 13.3.1, MacOS Catalina 10.15.3, tvOS 13.3.1, and watchOS 6.1.2.

The new beta builds of system software for various Apple devices is available to download now for anyone participating in the beta testing programs, both as developer beta and as public beta versions.

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By Paul Horowitz - News - 1 Comment

How to Answer Phone Calls on AirPods

Jan 14, 2020 - 2 Comments

Answering and ending phone calls on AirPods

Handling phone calls with AirPods and AirPods Pro is a wonderfully convenient feature to use.

If you’re wearing AirPods and receive a phone call, you might wish to answer a phone call while wearing the AirPods earbuds.

And of course you can also hang up phone calls with AirPods too, so you’re not going to be stuck on a phone call that you answered and now want to get off of.

Naturally you must have setup AirPods with iPhone or AirPods Pro to be able to use this feature, as a lack of cellular capability will not allow for phone calls to arrive to the iPhone and AirPods.

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By Paul Horowitz - iPhone, Tips & Tricks - 2 Comments

How to Backup iPhone or iPad to Mac in MacOS with Finder (Sequoia, Sonoma, Ventura, Monterey, Big Sur, & Catalina)

Jan 13, 2020 - 14 Comments

How to backup iPhone or iPad to macOS Big Sur and Catalina with Finder

Wondering how to backup your iPhone or iPad in MacOS Sequoia, MacOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, MacOS Big Sur or MacOS Catalina? Since iTunes is gone, even the most experienced of iPhone and iPad users can be thrown for a loop when they come to back up their devices after updating a Mac to macOS Big Sur or Catalina. With the loss of iTunes, everything has changed, and now managing your iPhone and iPad is done via Finder. Don’t worry it still works fine, but it is different. We’re going to tell you how to use the Finder in macOS (Catalina or later) to backup an iOS or iPadOS device.

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By Oliver Haslam - iPad, iPhone, iTunes, Mac OS, Tips & Tricks - 14 Comments

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