The iPad has a beautiful screen, there’s no doubt about that, but once you’ve handled it for a while you might notice the screen gets dirty. And of course if your hands are dirty, the display of the iPad will get dirtier more quickly. The dirty iPad screen factor really grows if you let children use iPads too, as the display can pick up whatever is on their hands and fingers. Perhaps the worst thing about the iPad is that it shows up fingerprints and smudges so easily, this is despite the fact that the screen has an anti-oil coating on it, and many of us like to keep that nice shiny black glass looking as pristine as possible.

So, how do you clean the iPad screen? Fortunately cleaning the iPad display is quite easy to do safely. This applies to all iPad models, including iPad, iPad Pro, iPad mini, and iPad Air.

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Apple has released the first developer beta of iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1 to users who are enrolled in the iPhone and iPad beta testing programs.

The issuing of a first point release beta could suggest that development of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13 has finished already (with the last version being iOS 13 beta 8), and thus Apple may be moving forward with beta testing the next scheduled release version. It could also mean that Apple is simply beta testing two future versions of iOS and iPadOS at the same time.

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Apple has released iOS 12.4.1 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The latest software update for iOS includes security fixes and is therefore recommended for all users to install on their devices.

Notably, the iOS 12.4.1 update patches the exploit used by the iOS 12.4 jailbreak.

Separately, Apple also released a new MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 supplemental update for Mac, along with small updates to watchOS and tvOS.

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Apple has released another new supplemental update to macOS Mojave 10.14.6. The supplemental software update includes bug fixes, security enhancements, and performance improvements, and is therefore recommended for all Mac users running MacOS Mojave to install. The new supplemental update will bring macOS 10.14.6 to build 18G95.

Specifically, the new supplemental update aims to fix an issue where some Mac laptops would shut down during sleep mode, and it also resolves a performance issue when dealing with large files. Additionally, an issue that prevented Pages, Numbers, Keynote, iMovie, and Garageband from updating has been resolved. The full release notes are included further below for those interested.

Additionally, Apple also released iOS 12.4.1 for iPhone and iPad, along with small updates to watchOS and tvOS.

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Want to disable your Instagram account? You can temporarily disable and deactivate an Instagram account at any time. Disabling an Instagram account is advantageous because it disables the account but that decision can be reversed at any time, allowing you to easily reactivate the IG account again. This disabling of an Instagram account differs from deleting an Instagram account permanently which can not be undone, whereas deactivating an Instagram account is easily reversible.

This article will show you how to disable an Instagram account, this can be temporary and reversible, and you can re-enable the Instagram account at any time as we’ll show you too.

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Spotify users may be wondering how to download a single song from Spotify. Maybe you just want to download a single song off a particular album, or perhaps you want to download an individual song from a playlist, or just download one song from anywhere else on Spotify. Even if you have Spotify premium, you may have noticed there’s not an obvious mechanism to download a single song from Spotify the way it is easy to download an entire album, but nonetheless downloading one song can be done if you know how, as we’ll demonstrate here.

This article will show you how to download a single song from Spotify on iPhone, iPad, and Android.

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You can adjust the screen brightness on Apple Watch using two different methods. One approach to increasing or decreasing Apple Watch screen brightness uses the device settings directly, while the other approach to changing screen brightness on the Apple Watch relies on using the paired iPhone. You can use either approach, and we’ll show you how to use both methods to change the screen brightness of an Apple Watch.

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If you have created a new APFS volume on a Mac for some purpose, perhaps to run a different version of MacOS on, you may eventually wish to remove that volume from the APFS container.

Deleting an APFS volume removes all data on that volume and is irreversible, so make sure that you are targeting the proper volume to delete, and be sure you have sufficient backups of any data you want to preserve.

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Apple has released iOS 13 beta 8 along with iPadOS 13 beta 8 for users enrolled in the developer testing program.

The accompanying public beta release is also available, labeled as a version behind (iOS 13 dev beta 8 is therefore iOS 13 public beta 7, etc).

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Need to get pictures from an SD card or digital camera to an iPad? If you want to import photos from a digital camera or SD card directly to iPad, then you can do so easily as long as you have the proper equipment. In this case, you’ll need an adapter that works with the particular iPad model. The rest is quite simple and you can import photos from an SD card or camera to iPad using the built-in Photos application.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to copy photos and videos from an SD card (or camera) that is connected to an iPad, iPad Pro, iPad mini, or iPad Air.

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A jailbreak for iOS 12.4 has surfaced and is now available using an application called “unc0ver”. The jailbreak exploits could also be used for more nefarious purposes by unscrupulous individuals, and is therefore best to avoid for the vast majority of iPhone and iPad users.

The unc0ver application works to jailbreak any iPhone or iPad running iOS 12.4 with any A7 through A11 device, meaning any iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that has one of those processors and that is running iOS 12.4 can use the jailbreak on that device. That includes iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 7, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 5s, iPad (2017), the original iPad Pro models, iPad Air, and several other devices.

Jailbreaking an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch circumvents the on-device security to allow for modification of system software and installation of third party software, and it can cause various serious security issues, stability problems, and other problems with an iOS device, and is therefore not recommended.

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Apple has released MacOS Catalina 10.15 beta 6 to those who are enrolled in the developer beta testing program for macOS system software.

Typically a developer beta arrives first, soon followed by the same build as a public beta release yet versioned a number behind. Therefore, MacOS Catalina beta 6 would be MacOS Catalina public beta 5. Dev beta 6 carries the build 19A536g.

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Occasionally, some users may wish to turn off the passcode on iPhone or iPad. Disabling the passcode on iPhone or iPad is easy, but it’s not necessarily recommended due to privacy and security reasons, so therefore it’s only wise to turn off the passcode on an iPad or iPhone for very specific reasons. By disabling the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch passcode, you essentially are turning off the devices security mechanism, and any data on the device will be become accessible by anyone immediately without any authentication.

This article will show you how to completely disable and turn off the passcode on iPhone or iPad, including the passcode encountered on the locked screens and for authentication in other Settings sections.

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Ever had your Mac get stuck on the screen saver? This can happen sometimes and when it does the Mac is unusable since the screen saver is quite literally stuck activated.

The most obvious symptom of this problem is just as it sounds; the screen saver is enabled and active, but the Mac won’t respond to anything and you can’t get the Mac to prompt the screen saver unlock or wake. Sometimes the screen saver can get stuck but it’s not active or moving at all too. In either case, the troubleshooting steps below should help to fix the stuck screensaver problem on a Mac.

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You can adjust a setting in Disk Utility for Mac to see all device disks and drives connected to a Mac. This will make it so that you can view the containing drive (like “Apple SSD”) rather than simply the partition or volume that is accessible by the user facing part of the file system (like “Macintosh HD”).

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Apple has released iOS 13 Public Beta 6 and iPadOS 13 Public Beta 6 to users who are enrolled in the public beta testing programs for Apple mobile operating systems. These new public beta builds match the iOS 13 beta 7 developer release.

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Apple has released the seventh beta versions of iOS 13 beta and iPadOS 13 beta for users enrolled in the developers beta system software testing programs.

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Want to change the screen brightness on Mac from the command line? You can use the Terminal to adjust screen brightness to be brighter or dimmer with a few different methods, as we’ll demonstrate here.

First we’ll show you a handy way to increase or decrease Mac screen brightness using osascript at the command line, and we’ll also show you a handy third party command line tool to change display brightness from the Mac Terminal as well.

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