If you regularly use WhatsApp to communicate and chat, you may be familiar with archiving messages on WhatsApp to hide them. But what if you want to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp?
That’s no problem, so if you’re looking to unarchive in WhatsApp read along.
You can add secure notes to your iCloud Keychain account and login entries if you’d like to. The notes can serve any purpose, but they can be particularly handy if you want to reference something specific to that login, whether a log of prior passwords, or the purpose of the account, or whatever else.
For example, lets say you have a specific login to a credit card saved in iCloud Keychain, and you want to attach a note to that keychain entry stating it is a business account only, that’s easy to do. Or maybe you have a Netflix login saved, and you want to add a note reminding you it’s your favorite aunts account and not yours, that’s easy too.
If you want to run Windows 11 on your M1, M2, or M3 Mac, you can now do that, and perhaps best of all, you can run Windows 11 in a virtual machine on the M-series Mac entirely for free.
We’ll be covering how to install, setup, and run Windows 11 ARM on any Apple Silicon Mac, whether it has an M1, M2, M3, M3 Pro, M2 Pro, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, or any other M chip does not matter, it will work just fine thanks to the UTM app.
Need to remove a password from an iWork document? Do you find it inconvenient to open password-protected Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents? Do you no longer need password protection on a particular iWork file? You’re certainly not alone in that regard, and fortunately it’s quite simple to remove a password from any Pages, Numbers, or Keynote file, making them easy to open and removing the encryption from the files.
The Mac Live Text feature offers the ability to select text directly within an image or photo, which you can then copy, define, lookup, search the web, or do with as you please. Using Live Text on the Mac is pretty simple, and like using Live Text on iPhone and iPad, you can use the feature directly in the built-in image viewing and image editing apps.
Mac users who want to get the most out of the Quick Notes feature may appreciate knowing that they can set a Hot Corner to make a new Quick Note instantly. When this is active, simply moving your cursor into the designated corner of the screen will open Quick Note.
The iPhone Pro models include a really great macro photo capability, allowing you to take super close-up macro photos of objects, items, textures, or whatever else you want to snap a macro image of.
Using the macro mode on iPhone camera is pretty easy but you’d be forgiven for not noticing how to activate the feature, since macro is not in the list of swipe accessible camera mode options. Let’s dive in and see how macro camera works on the iPhone Pro series with macro photos support, which is basically anything from iPhone 13 Pro or newer.
WhatsApp defaults to showing everyone your online status, displaying if you are currently online, and the date and time of when you were last online using the WhatsApp app. But what if you’d rather be a bit more private, and hide your WhatsApp online status? You can do that, and it’s easy to configure on WhatsApp for iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows.
Instagram now offers an option to view your feed in chronological order, meaning that you will see posts from people you follow that are the most recent, rather than based on the Instagram algorithm.
To use the chronological feed on Instagram, you will want to update the Instagram app to the latest version. The rest is super easy.
Want an added privacy boost for all of your WhatsApp messages, texts, conversation threads, and chats? You can set WhatsApp so that all messages will disappearing automatically, by default. Whether you want all messages to disappear after 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days, or not at all, you have that option. It doesn’t matter if you’re using WhatsApp on iPhone or Android either, the setting is available in every WhatsApp app.
Did you know that you can take screenshots on the iPhone without having to press any physical buttons on the device? If you’re one of those users who take screenshots on their iPhones regularly, you may find it useful to know there’s an alternative way to capture screenshots on the device. Whether you take screenshots of memes, conversations, or videos, or anything else, this trick may be useful to you.
Are you noticing blurry text on your Mac’s display while navigating through the menu and across apps? More specifically, has this been an issue ever since you updated to macOS Monterey or Big Sur, and on a non-retina display? If so, chances are, font smoothing is enabled by default, and for some users they feel like this can result in slightly blurry text in menus and across apps. If you don’t like this, you’ll need to disable the feature in MacOS.
Apple has released the first beta versions of iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, and macOS Monterey 12.4. The beta versions are available first to developers and typically roll out to public beta testers soon after.
Additionally, watchOS 8.6 beta 1 and tvOS 15.5 beta 1 are available to users beta testing on an Apple Watch or Apple TV.
Do you use Gmail as your preferred email service? If so, do you want to save a copy of all the emails you have received and sent over Gmail up until this date, locally to your computer, device, or hard drive? Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to save a backup of all your emails from Gmail, and you can do this from any device, whether it’s a Mac, Windows PC, iPhone, iPad, or Android.
Apple has announced that their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) for 2022 will be a virtual event, held online from June 6 to June 10.
WWDC is typically when Apple unveils new upcoming versions of system software, and this year we will likely see a look at iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, and watchOS 9. Beta versions of the new versions of system software are also typically made available to developers, and to public beta testers several weeks later.
Occasionally, Apple also debuts new hardware at WWDC events, so between the glimpse at new system software and potential for new hardware, many non-developer Apple enthusiasts also pay close attention to the WWDC keynote event.
The Google Chrome browser offers two ways to capture full size webpage screenshots. This can be necessary or useful for many web workers, whether they’re developers, designers, editors, managers, writers, analysts, or just about any other possible web-based gig.
The approaches we’ll cover to capture full size webpage screen shots with Chrome require the full version of Chrome for any desktop-level device, which includes Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chromebook. There are no plugins required, as we’ll be using built-in developer tools with Chrome.
If you’re accustomed to using Slack and you find the :emoji search and shortcut tool from Slack to be convenient, you’ll really appreciate Rocket for Mac.
Rocket is a fun Mac app that brings the Slack implementation of Emoji insertion to macOS, where simply typing colon, emoji name, return, prints out the emoji.
For example, typing :thumbs up and hitting return will immediately insert the Thumbs Up emoji. Or typing :heart return will immediately insert a heart Emoji.
Got a red dot on the screen of your Apple Watch? Wondering what the red dot is at the top of the Apple Watch screen?
You’re certainly not alone, as many Apple Watch users are wondering what the red dot means, and perhaps how they can get rid of it on their device.
