Some Mac users may wish to turn off FaceTime on their computer, thereby preventing FaceTime calls from ringing on the Mac, and also turning off the ability to make outbound calls too.

By disabling FaceTime on the Mac, the Mac will not be able to accept, receive, or make any FaceTime calls, whether they are audio or video calls. This is an easy feature to turn off and on at any time, so you can also quickly re-enable FaceTime if you do want to use the feature on the Mac.

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Do you want to turn off the screenshot thumbnails that show up on the Mac screen? You may have noticed that if you take a screenshot on Mac a little screenshot thumbnail preview pops up in the bottom right corner of the display and floats there for a few seconds. You can interact with that little thumbnail to quickly markup a screenshot, but showing those screenshot thumbnails also appears too slow down how long it takes for the actual screen shot file to generate and be available to the file system.

If you want to disable the screenshot thumbnail preview in Mac OS, this article will show you how to do that.

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Apple is running a new television commercial for the Mac, featuring various people using Mac laptops in a variety of settings for music, programming, art, design, and more. The video is airing on television and online now, and has also been embedded below for easy viewing.

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Apple has released a supplemental software update to the freshly released MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 update.

The supplemental system software update apparently includes a bug fix to resolve an issue where some Macs were not waking from sleep properly, therefore it is recommended for all MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 users to install.

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Apple has issued the fourth public beta version of MacOS Catalina 10.15 for Mac users who are enrolled in the public beta testing program for system software.

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Apple has released MacOS Catalina 10.15 beta 5 to users enrolled in the developer beta testing program. A developer beta release usually arrives first and is soon followed by the accompanying public beta build.

Separately, Apple has released downloads for iOS 13 beta 5 and ipadOS 13 beta 5 for beta testers, along with new beta builds for tvOS and watchOS.

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Apple has released iOS 13 public beta 4 along with iPadOS 13 public beta 4. The latest public beta versions match the build of iOS 13 developer beta 5 which was released earlier.

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Apple has released the fifth beta version of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13. The iOS 13 beta 5 and ipadOS beta 5 releases are currently only available for developers who are participating in the beta system software testing programs.

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If you use Waze to navigate you may appreciate having the Waze app be front and center on CarPlay while you’re driving with iPhone. You might even be interested in replacing Apple Maps with Waze if you use the Waze app more than Apple Maps on your CarPlay vehicle.

This article will show you how to use Waze on Apple CarPlay with iPhone as your mapping and driving navigation app.

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Want to quickly invert a picture on the Mac? You can use the excellent bundled Preview application to invert any image, there is no need for any powerful or expensive photo editing tools. Just as it sounds, inverting a picture will take the colors of that image and reverse them to their opposite, so blues become yellows, whites become blacks, and so on.

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Want to remove Mail rules from Mac Mail? Or perhaps you need to disable Mail rules when an errant mail rule has wreaked some havoc in the Mail app?

Perhaps you created a Mail auto-responder and no longer need that mail rule anymore, or maybe you misconfigured a mail rule which is causing some issues with the Mail app and want to delete that. Whatever the situation, we’ll show you how to remove Mail rules from the Mail app of Mac OS. We’ll also show a troubleshooting trick to disable mail rules manually via the file system.

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If you want to run MacOS Catalina Beta alongside macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra, you can do so by adding a new APFS volume to the Mac if that Macs hard drive is formatted as APFS. This effectively creates a dual boot scenario for MacOS Catalina 10.15 and Mojave 10.14.x (or High Sierra), and offers an alternative approach to simply installing MacOS Catalina Beta on a Mac as the primary operating system. There are a few advantages to this approach, notably that you can use a single Mac for running the two operating systems, and you won’t need to designate storage capacity for Catalina as it will share the drive space with the other MacOS release and expand as needed.

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Want to disable Camera access for an app on iPhone or iPad? At any time, you can easily revoke camera access for any application on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. By turning off camera access for an app, that app will no longer be able to use either the front or rear cameras on an iPhone or iPad.

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For Macs using the APFS file system, you can add a new volume to an existing APFS container by using Disk Utility in MacOS. APFS is somewhat unique in that it allocates disk space on demand, meaning a containers free disk space is shared (compared to HFS+ or FAT where disk space is partitioned into defined allocations).

You can treat APFS volumes sort of like a Mac-specific partition, and you can even install different MacOS versions onto unique volumes, sharing the same available disk space between the Mac OS releases.

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Apple has made available iOS 10.3.4 for iPhone 5 and iPad 4, and iOS 9.3.6 for iPhone 4s and some earlier model iPad and iPad mini models.

The software updates for older iPhone and iPad devices include bug fixes and are not expected to include any major new features or changes.

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Apple has released iOS 12.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. The latest version of iOS system software focuses mostly on bug fixes and improvements and is therefore recommended for all users to download and install. There is also the inclusion of a migration feature for wirelessly transferring data from an old iPhone to a new iPhone during setup.

Separately, Apple also released iOS 9.3.6 and iOS 10.3.4 for older model iPad and iPhones, and Mac users can download MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 update or Security Update 2019-004 for Sierra and High Sierra depending on which system version they are running. Additionally, new updates to watchOS 5.3 and tvOS 12.4 are available for Apple Watch and Apple TV users.

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Apple has released the final version of MacOS Mojave 10.14.6 to all Mac users. There are no major new features in macOS Mojave 10.14.6, but the latest MacOS Mojave version includes various bug fixes and is therefore recommended to all Mac uses who are running MacOS Mojave.

Additionally, Mac users running macOS Sierra and High Sierra will also find “2019-004” security updates available for those releases along with a Safari update, and Apple has also released iOS 12.4 update to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users, along with updates for watchOS and tvOS.

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Wondering how to mark an email as unread in the Mac Mail app? Maybe you want to mark an email as read in Mail for Mac? If so, you may have noticed there’s no easy “Mark as Read” or “Mark as Unread” buttons in Mail for Mac, but that doesn’t mean you can’t change emails status to be unread or read.

Read on to learn how to perform this simple function to “Mark as Unread” and “Mark as Read” in the Mail app for Mac, we’ll cover three different methods to achieve this common emailing task.

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