Making Bluetooth connections with peripherals and other devices from your iPhone or iPad is a fairly simple and straightforward procedure for the most part, but sometimes you might run into connectivity-related issues.

In rare cases, you might be unable to successfully pair or connect a Bluetooth accessory to your iOS device, or you might have issues preventing you from even turning the feature on. This could be due to various reasons ranging from firmware issues to a faulty Bluetooth connection. Thankfully, this is pretty easy to diagnose and resolve in most situations.

If you’re one of those unlucky iOS users who can’t get Bluetooth to work properly, don’t fret. In this article, we’ll walk you through the necessary steps to quickly troubleshoot and fix possible Bluetooth connectivity issues you may come across on your iPhone and iPad.

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Do you want to use Google Docs to work on Word documents? If so, you’ll be pleased to know that Google Docs has native support for Microsoft Word documents, and you can even convert them to Google Docs, if preferred.

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Do you want to create a new keychain in addition to the default login keychain on your Mac? You can create as many keychains as you want in a macOS system to store your passwords in a pretty straightforward manner.

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The Apple Watch can be an amazing tool for all kinds of things, but keeping an eye on your email is one that is often overlooked. Fitness and health are understandably the main reasons many people buy Apple Watches today, but triaging notifications – and email in particular – can be a big deal when you have a miniature computer strapped to your wrist. You have full control over which emails appear there, too.

More specifically, you can configure which email accounts and folders can be seen in the Mail app on your Apple Watch. That ensures that the right emails are always there on your wrist while ensuring you don’t suffer from information overload. Something very common indeed.

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You can change the accent colors used in MacOS to better customize the appearance scheme to suit your individual preferences.

Accent colors impact the highlight color of menu items, files in the finder, buttons, and other interface elements, and you can pick from blue (the default), purple, pink, red, orange, yellow, green, or gray.

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Do you use Google Maps for navigation on your iPhone and iPad? If so, you might be interested in setting the app to automatically delete your search history.

As you may know, Google Maps defaults to saving your recent searches for places and directions, similar to a web browser. Those searched are saved to improve suggestions, and they show up as soon as you start typing in the apps search bar. It’s a handy feature, and you can easily clear this data from your iOS device if you have privacy concerns, or if you just want to remove outdated suggestions. And you can even set your iPhone to clear the Google Maps search history on its own.

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Now that you have that shiny new Apple Watch strapped to your arm it’s probably time to get some of your favorite music and podcasts onto it. After all, what’s the point of having a miniature computer on your arm if you’re still going to carry your iPhone around with you? Spoiler: there’s no point. Thankfully you can sync both music and podcasts to your Apple Watch using nothing more than your iPhone.

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Apple has released macOS Big Sur beta 3 to Mac users who are enrolled in the Big Sur beta testing program. Typically a developer beta version rolls out first, soon followed by a public beta, and though the Big Sur public beta program hasn’t started yet it is expected to in the near future.

Additionally, Apple also released iOS 14 beta 3 and iPadOS 14 beta 3 for users who are beta testing software on their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, along with new beta updates for watchOS 7 and tvOS 14.

MacOS Big Sur includes a redesigned user interface, Control Center for Mac, instant language translation in Safari, new Messages app features and capabilities, and many other new features and changes.

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Apple has released iOS 14 beta 3 and iPadOS 14 beta 3 for users who are participating in the beta testing programs for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Typically the developer beta rolls out first and is soon followed by the same build as a public beta.

Separately, Apple also released new betas for watchOS 7 and tvOS 14, along with a new update for macOS Big Sur beta 3.

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Your Apple Watch is a wonderful exercise companion and it can not only keep tabs on your workout but provide insights into your health as well. Apple Watch Series 2 and later can also be used to track swimming, just like running or other activities. But the way Workouts handles a swim is slightly different. Don’t worry, we’re going to walk – bad pun intended! – you through it.

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Did you buy a new Mac for your kid, maybe for school use, or just as a gift? If so, you might want to limit how long the Mac can be used on a daily basis and keep a check on their usage. Fortunately, this is pretty easy to do with Screen Time on the Mac.

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If you are interested in finding a COVID-19 testing location, Apple Maps may be able to help track down a place where you can get tested for the novel coronavirus.

Finding COVID-19 testing facilities near you, or even in a different region, is quite easy with Apple Maps. Here’s all that you will need to do:

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Did you know that you can undo and redo on iPhone and iPad with gestures? This is a very useful feature that is not well known, but once you master it you’ll be glad you did, and it works a lot better for some users than the “Shake to Undo” feature.

If you make mistakes while typing on your iPhone or iPad, you’re probably used to backspacing and editing your texts, but you might not necessarily be aware of the new gestures that have been added to iOS which makes text editing a lot quicker and easier.

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Want to downgrade iPadOS 14 beta and revert back to a stable release? By their very nature, system software betas aren’t generally known for their stability, and if you’re finding that iPadOS 14 isn’t up to snuff, you’re probably looking for a way to get out of dodge. Don’t worry, downgrading is a fairly simple thing to do, although you might find that keeping all of your data isn’t necessarily as easy as you’d hope. Even if you took a backup.

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Advanced Mac users may wish to convert a MacOS Installer application into an ISO file. Typically the resulting installer ISO files are used for installing macOS into virtual machines like VMWare or VirtualBox, but they can also be used to burn the ISO to media to create a boot disk. This offers an alternative to creating a bootable USB flash drive for MacOS installers as well.

This tutorial will walk through the steps to create an ISO file of a MacOS installer.

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Apple’s FaceTime feature offers a free and convenient way to make video calls with other iPhone, iPad, and Mac users. Although it works seamlessly for the most part, you could occasionally run into FaceTime problems and connectivity-related issues.

In some cases, you may find a situation where you’re unable to start or join FaceTime video and audio calls. Or, you could get disconnected while you’re in the middle of a FaceTime call. This gets even more frustrating when you’re unable to figure out the reason why you’re experiencing issues, and there could be several reasons why FaceTime isn’t functioning properly.

If you’re facing trouble with FaceTime calls on your iOS device, don’t fret. In this article, we’ll walk you through the necessary steps to troubleshoot and hopefully fix FaceTime on your iPhone and iPad.

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iPadOS 14 public beta is available for any curious iPad user to try out on their devices. Of course beta system software is less stable than final versions, so this is really only appropriate for advanced users, or those with a spare device they don’t mind lending to be in the beta test program.

For those interested in learning how to experiment with the iPadOS 14 public beta, we’re going to cover how to install it onto a compatible iPad, iPad Pro, iPad Air, and iPad mini.

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Do you want to quickly share photos, videos and other files from your iPhone to another iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad? Thanks to AirDrop, file sharing between nearby Apple devices is not only seamless, but it’s also a simple and fast process.

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