Apple has released iOS 15.7.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 15.7.4 for iPad for older iPhone and iPad models with important security updates.

Specifically, iOS 15.7.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 15.7.4 for iPad are available for iPhone 6s (all models), iPhone 7 (all models), iPhone SE (1st generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini (4th generation), and iPod touch (7th generation), when these devices are not running iOS/iPadOS 16.x.

Separately, Apple has released iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 for iPhone and iPad, macOS Ventura 13.3 for Mac, and other updates for older Macs, along with Apple TV, Apple Watch, and HomePod.

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iOS 16.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 16.4 for iPad have been released by Apple. The software updates include new Emoji icons, security enhancements, bug fixes, and a few very minor features, like the inclusion of voice isolation support for cellular calls.

For users of older iPhone and iPad models, iOS 15.7.4 and iPadOS 15.7.4 is also available as a software update.

Separately, Apple also released macOS Ventura 13.3 update for Mac, along with software updates for MacOS Monterey, MacOS Big Sur, watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod.

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The final version of MacOS Ventura 13.3 is available as a software update for all Mac users running the MacOS Ventura operating system.

MacOS Ventura 13.3 includes bug fixes, security enhancements, and new Emoji icons for use on the Mac.

Separately, Apple has released iOS 16.4 for iPhone and iPadOS 16.4 for iPad, along with software updates for watchOS, tvOS, and HomePod. Mac users running earlier versions of MacOS Big Sur and MacOS Monterey will also find security updates available to download.

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If you have used the “Export Unmodified Original” option in the Photos app on Mac to export images or videos from the Photos app or iCloud Photos, you likely have noticed an optional toggle to enable that says “Export IPTC as XMP”. And if you’re like many Mac users, you are likely wondering what the heck IPTC as XMP means in the first place, and whether or not you should use it. Let’s dive in and see what this feature does, and you can decide if you want to use it or not.

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AI generated artwork offers an incredibly easy way for anyone to create wildly impressive visual creations of almost any variety, even without any artistic ability. If you can describe what you want to generate, it will be created for you, and quickly.

Bing Image Creator offers one of the most strikingly impressive, fast, and free AI image generators out there, and you can use it to create AI generated artwork of virtually any variety you can dream of.

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The “Hidden” photos album on iPhone and iPad offers a place to put photos on your device that you don’t want hanging around in your general Photos camera roll. But since the Hidden album is still visible to anyone who knows where to find it, even if you hide the Hidden album, if you want some more privacy for your sensitive or private photos, you can make sure to enable authentication to access your Hidden photos album.

Essentially what you’ll be doing is protecting access to your private photos in the Hidden album with whatever method you use to protect your device and authenticate with it, whether that is Face ID, passcode, or Touch ID, and you can do this on both iPhone and iPad.

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The “Recent Apps” section of the Dock on Mac shows the three most recently used apps that are not otherwise in the Mac Dock. This is a handy feature for returning to recently used apps, but if you wish to remove one of the apps from the Recent Apps section, you can do that too.

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Gmail is a very popular email service from Google, and if you have a Gmail account (or few) you may wish to add that Gmail account to the Mail app on your iPhone or iPad. Setting up Gmail to work with Mail on iOS and iPadOS is quite easy, and we’ll walk you through the steps.

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The Release Candidate (RC) builds of iOS 16.4, MacOS Ventura 13.3, and iPadOS 16.4 have been released to users participating in the beta testing programs for Apple system software.

Release Candidate builds are typically the finalized version of a beta cycle before the software is released to the general public, suggesting that the final versions of macOS Ventura 13.3, iOS 16.4, and iPadOS 16.4 are set to be made available soon, perhaps between now and sometime next week, though Apple often releases software updates on Tuesdays making March 28 a reasonable guess.

iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3 include bug fixes and enhancements, and some minor new features along with new Emoji icons. iOS 16.4 will include voice isolation for cell phone calls, and both iOS 16.4 and iPadOS 16.4 will add support for Safari push notifications (a feature the Mac has had in Safari for a long time).
iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3 all include 21 new Emoji icons, which include a donkey, ginger root, hair pick, goose, maracas, hand gestures, jellyfish, moose, pea pod, flute, amongst others.

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You are likely already familiar with how to right-click on a Mac when using a Mouse or Trackpad, either by using the control+click, two-finger click, or a literal right-click, but what if you don’t have access to a mouse or trackpad, the batteries died on your mouse/trackpad, or you simply don’t use either? Thanks the Mouse Keys feature of MacOS, you can still move the mouse cursor around, click, and even right-click, using only the keyboard on a Mac.

This is useful for many scenarios, whether for accessibility purposes or when working on a Mac without a mouse or trackpad, or if the mouse or trackpad are not working for whatever reason. Let’s dive into how to right-click using just the keyboard on a Mac.
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If you have a bunch of photos and videos stored in iCloud Photos, you may be wondering how you can download all of your photos and videos from iCloud Photos to your Mac local storage, or to an external hard drive. For example, let’s say you have 40GB of iCloud Photos that you want to download to an external disk drive attached to your Mac, you can do exactly that.

We’ll show you the simplest way to download all photos from iCloud Photos to your Mac, and you can choose whatever destination you want them to save to, whether local Mac storage, or an external disk.

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ChatGPT is a rather intriguing new artificial intelligence tool that can understand and generate human-like responses to natural language input. With constantly evolving abilities, it can answer everything from simple to complex questions, write code samples, write formal letters, create poetry, engage in back and forth dialog (and at a level that is worlds beyond the emacs psychotherapist or Siri), and so much more.

While anyone can access and use ChatGPT from the OpenAI website, if you find yourself using ChatGPT often, maybe to write emails for you, to summarize reports, write code, or whatever your use-case is, you can use the free MacGPT tool to get ChatGPT available directly in the menu bar of your Mac.

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Do you remember when Apple and Microsoft had a substantial public rivalry? Apple was the underdog, known for its innovative designs and user-friendly interfaces, while Microsoft was the goliath, better known for widespread adoption and the associated practicality.

This video from WWDC 2006 of Steve Jobs and Bertrand Serlet roasting Windows similarities to Mac OS will certainly refresh your memory of just how sharp that old corporate rivalry was. And in case you were wondering, this is pre-iPhone, back when Apple was still quite an underdog, and their primary product lines were the iPod and the Mac.

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Action Mode offers an impressive stabilizing function to recording videos, which can be particularly handy if you’re moving or active while recording something else that is also moving. Essentially, Action Mode stabilizes the video to turn shaky camera videos into smooth videos, and it works really well.

For example, maybe you want to record a video of someone running and you’re running alongside them, or maybe you want to capture video of you skiing down a moguled slope and you want to smooth out the results, Action Mode works well for these type of scenarios, and many other activities.

Action Mode is basically like a software gimbal for your iPhone, stabilizing your movements to capture smooth professional looking videos.

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Having the ability to unsend an email is invaluable, and if you’re a Gmail user on iPhone or iPad, or even the web, you’ll be happy to know there’s an Undo Send feature in Gmail.

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Apple has issued the fourth beta versions of macOS Ventura 13.3, iOS 16.4, and iPadOS 16.4 for all users involved in the beta testing programs for Apple system software.

iOS 16.4, iPadOS 16.4, and macOS Ventura 13.3 feature new Emoji icons, including a ginger root, donkey, hair pick, maracas, goose, moose, jellyfish, both sides to high fiving hands,
pea pod, flute, and more. Some minor changes may be included, with the biggest feature being support for Safari Push Notifications for iOS and iPadOS, a feature which has existed on the Mac for quite some time. Bug fixes and security improvements are also likely to be included in the releases.

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One of the better new features available for Messages on iPhone and iPad is the ability to edit sent messages. Editing messages allows you to correct mistakes and typos, adjust wording, rephrase things, or even send something completely different than the original message if you’d like to. There are many obvious use-cases for editing messages, and it’s a handy trick to learn for iOS and iPadOS users.

We’ll show you how you can edit messages sent from your iPhone or iPad, it’s really quite easy once you learn how it works.

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Network Locations are a prominent feature in MacOS since the very beginning of Mac OS X, allowing users to have different network settings profiles that can be used for different locations and networks. For example, a network location for home, and a network location for work. But with MacOS Ventura, Network Locations have either been moved or removed, depending on which version of system software you are running.

The Ventura Network Locations feature is just one of the many exciting and curious things about the redesigned System Settings experience in MacOS Ventura, which continue to keep users on their toes wondering if some particular settings and preferences have either been moved, hidden, buried, or removed entirely, and you won’t always know which is the case until you start poking around.

So, can you use and change Network Locations in MacOS Ventura? The answer is both yes and no, making the feature a bit like Schrodinger’s Network Locations, with yes being if you’re on a newer version of MacOS Ventura, and no for earlier releases that removed the feature.

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