The latest versions of Photos app for Mac supports a handy feature that allows you to copy and paste the edits you make to photos or videos.
Copying and pasting photo edits is useful since it allows you to apply the same edits to multiple photos quickly. For example, if you put some effort into making the perfect black and white image with the contrast just right, you could easily apply those same adjustments to additional pictures with the ease of copy and paste.
Let’s review how you can copy image edits, and then paste those image edits onto other photos (or videos) in the Photos app for Mac.
Apple has issued the second beta version of MacOS Ventura 13.2, iOS 16.3, and iPadOS 16.3.
The new beta versions are available now for developers, and typically the same build is released soon after for public beta testers.
No major new features or changes are expected in iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, or macOS Ventura 13.2, and thus far anyway the betas reflect that, suggesting the versions are likely going to focus on enhancements and bug fixes.
If you spend time in Zoom Meetings, whether hosting or joining, and you’re using a Mac or Windows PC, and perhaps you’re new to either platform or new to Zoom, you may be wondering how to raise your hand in a virtual meeting, and how to lower your hand.
Of course we’re talking about raising and lowering your virtual hand in Zoom Meetings, not literally doing so on camera, and it turns out it’s quite simple.
Google Chrome is a great web browser, but it is well known for being resource hungry. This has long been an issue, but the latest versions of the Chrome browser offer a reprieve that not only frees up resources in Chrome, but also makes the browser feel faster too when it’s under heavy usage and load. You’ll even find that it uses less memory, and less CPU as well.
If you have attempted to install Windows 11 lately, whether on a virtual machine like VirtualBox, Parallels, VMWare, UTM, dual boot / Boot Camp setup on a Mac, or even natively on PC hardware, you may have encountered an issue where installation requires an internet connection to be able to complete. This can be range from prohibitive to annoying, since if you do not have active connectivity, you won’t be able to finish installing Windows 11. Fortunately, this can be fixed.
To bypass the “Let’s connect you to a network” or “you’ve lost an internet connection” screens during Windows 11 installing, you can use the command prompt to get around the network requirements for Windows 11 installations.
The System Information tool in Mac OS is very useful for getting all sorts of details about your Mac, including hardware specifics, serial numbers, networking information, and software specifics like applications, fonts, language info, accessibility settings, and so much more.
The system report is so useful for troubleshooting, assessing, and diagnosing Macs, that it’s a common tool utilized by many sysadmins and tinkerers alike.
But you may have noticed that the Mac System Report tool is not immediately visible in the Apple menu with macOS Ventura, so we’ll show you three ways to find System Information on MacOS 13 and newer.
After a long run with the so-called butterfly keys, Apple redesigned the keyboards and key mechanisms on their latest laptops, including M1 MacBook Pro and M1 MacBook Air and newer models. While these keys are much less likely to jam and get stuck compared to the older butterfly keys, it still happens, where you press a key and it feels stuck, or it doesn’t type, or is generally unresponsive.
We’ll show you how you can remove a key from the M1 MacBook Pro or M1 MacBook Air keyboard so that you can fix a stuck key.
Making a duplicate copy of a photo on your iPhone or iPad is easy, but if you’re unfamiliar with the process you may not stumble into it on iOS or iPadOS. You can duplicate either photos or videos on your device through the Photos app.
The need to duplicate photos is somewhat obvious; many users may find themselves wanting to make a copy of a photo on their iPhone or iPad before they crop it, edit the photo, or modify it in any other way. Or perhaps you want to make a copy of a video before you edit it or trim it down, for example.
Since the process to duplicate photos on iPhone and iPad has changed in the newer versions of iOS and iPadOS system software, we’ll walk through the steps for devices running iOS 16 or later. Without further ado, let’s show you how you duplicate a photo, or duplicate a video, on the iPhone or iPad.
The latest iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models feature an always on display, that shifts to being dimmed when the iPhone is not in use, but the screen never turns off or goes completely black even when the lock/power button is pressed.
If you’d rather the iPhone 14 Pro screen turn off when not in use, like every other iPhone prior to the 14 Pro series, then you can disable the always on display of the iPhone.
Modern versions of MacOS default to hiding scroll bars until the user is actively scrolling. While this helps to add to a minimalist appearance, it can also make navigating apps, webpages, and preferences more challenging since there is no clear indicator that you can scroll, until you attempt to start scrolling. One way to make scrolling easier on a Mac is to make the scrollbars always visible.
The Mac defaults to going to sleep after a while when the display is off, but if you wish to change this behavior you can prevent the Mac from sleeping when the display is off. How this is accomplished in MacOS Ventura is a little different than before, however, so if you’re running MacOS Ventura 13.0 or newer you’ll want to take note.
There are various reasons why users may want to prevent the Mac from sleeping when the display is off, but we’ll those aside and show you how to make the change on your MacOS computer.
Want to turn off AirDrop so you don’t get inbound AirDrop requests on your iPhone or iPad? That’s pretty easy to do once you learn how, but accessing AirDrop is unclear for many users.
AirDrop is a very useful feature that allows you to wirelessly transfer photos, contacts, files, and other data between iPhones and Apple devices. For example, you can easily wirelessly transfer 100 photos from an iPhone to another person iPhone with AirDrop, or from an iPhone to a Mac or iPad, or vice versa.
Some YouTube users on iPhone and iPad have noticed that videos fail to play at random, instead showing an error message that says “Something went wrong. Tap to retry”.
YouTube is apparently aware of the issue, as it is being commonly reported by many iPhone and iPad users on Twitter and throughout social media.
If you experience the issue, it’s fairly obvious. You go to play a video, and it will randomly not play and instead show a black screen with an error message that states “Something went wrong. Tap to retry”. If you tap to retry, either nothing happens and the error message stays, or it spins and reappears.
Update the YouTube App on iPhone / iPad
The first thing you should do is update the YouTube app on iPhone or iPad, since YouTube will undoubtedly be fixing this issue with a bug fix update.
Go to the App Store > Updates and install updates to YouTube app on your device.
Update iOS / iPadOS
You will want to make sure your iPhone or iPad is up to date on the latest system software version available for the device.
Go to Settings > General > Software Update and install whatever system software updates are available on your device.
If you don’t have iOS 16.2 or iPadOS 16.2 or newer, install the latest versions until you do.
Reboot the iPhone / iPad
You can often temporarily resolve the “Something went wrong” YouTube error on iPhone or iPad by rebooting the device.
This will typically let you watch a few more videos, but it will likely happen again until the issue is resolved completely, or you update your apps and system software.
Amazon is back with some nice end-of-holiday-season deals, this time with a great price on the all new M2 iPad Pro 11″ model in Space Grey with 128 GB storage, and the matching black Magic Keyboard for the 11″ iPad Pro. Why not treat yourself or a loved one?
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The iPhone camera can measure a persons height, a feature that may be useful for a variety of purposes. Some users may wish to measure someones height from a photo, but with this iPhone trick you don’t need a photo at all, you just simply point the iPhone camera at the person you’d like to measure, and use a specific app to accomplish the measuring of height.
Some Mac users have discovered a “Confirm Mac Password” message in System Settings or System Preferences on their Mac, and while it can appear at random, it often shows up soon after installing a system software update. For example, perhaps you recently installed macOS Ventura 13.1 onto a Mac and now you see the “Confirm MacBook Pro Password” message in System Settings.
The full message reads something like “Confirm your device passcode to keep using iCloud. This passcode also protects access to data stored in iCloud”.
Finding this message requesting you to confirm the device passcode within the Apple menu > System Settings is a legitimate message, and it’s easy to resolve for the majority of situations.
HomeBrew, the command line package manager, has native support for macOS Sequoia 15, MacOS Sonoma 14, and macOS Ventura 13, so if you have recently updated to macOS Ventura or bought a new Mac with Sequoia/Sonoma/Ventura preinstalled, you’ll probably want to install Homebrew on the Mac running Ventura. Like most command line tools, HomeBrew is intended for advanced users that like to have a broad range of command line utilities available to them, this is really not something an average user needs to bother with.
If you have a multi-device household with different brand of AirPlay speakers, like a combination of Sonos speakers and Apple HomePod or HomePod Mini’s, you may be thinking it would be nice to be able to AirPlay music, podcasts, audiobooks, or other audio to all the speakers, despite them being different brands.
Thanks to AirPlay, you can do exactly that. It turns out that as long as the receivers are AirPlay compatible, it doesn’t matter what brands they are, so even mixed brand speaker households will be able to enjoy the lovely experience of either surround sound or audio playing throughout a house.
