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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Want to unpair your Apple Watch from your iPhone for whatever reason? Maybe you want to pair it do a different iPhone, or unpair it for troubleshooting purposes?

If you are facing any sort of connectivity issues with your Apple Watch, perhaps it’s getting randomly disconnected from your paired iPhone even when it’s nearby, for example, you may find that unpairing the Apple Watch and then pairing it again can be helpful. Especially if the issue persists even after rebooting your devices.

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Like trivia? Love Siri? You’re in luck, because Siri can play True or False trivia games, right on your device. You’ll get 5 random questions on all sorts of subjects that you can answer true or false to.

Like any good digital April Fools Prank (or Siri experience), the first few efforts to play True or False with Siri failed with error messages. But as usual with Siri, repetition and persistence pays off, and on the third request the True or False trivia game began as expected.

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Want a stupid, goofy, harmless tech prank to play on someone this April Fools? Set the all new Windows Black Screen of Death (BSOD) error screen as the screen saver on their computer!

This trick works for both Mac and Windows, and it’s arguably even more funny on the Mac since, well, the Mac isn’t likely to be running Windows, thereby giving the unsuspecting target a pause – did they enter an alternate dimension where all Macs run Windows? Nope, it’s just April Fools.

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Apple has released iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 for iPhone and iPad, the update addresses an issue that was causing battery drain for some users, so if you’ve felt like your battery life has not been as great recently, you may want to install the update sooner than later. Some other small bug fixes and security improvements are also included in 15.4.1, making the update recommended for all iPhone and iPad users.

Additionally, Apple released macOS Monterey 12.3.1 for Mac to address an issue where Bluetooth devices and game controllers were disconnecting from the Mac.

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Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.3.1 for Mac users running the Monterey operating system. The update addresses an issue where Bluetooth devices and game controllers were disconnecting from the Mac. Additionally, a display issue for Mac mini was also resolved, and there are security patches in the 12.3.1 update.

Separately, Apple released iOS 15.4.1 to address a battery draining issue for iPhone users, along with iPadOS 15.4.1 for iPad, watchOS 8.5.1 for Apple Watch, and tvOS 15.4.1 for Apple TV.

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Want to quickly zoom into a webpage or document? If you use a Mac with a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can use a super easy tap gesture trick to zoom in and zoom out of web pages and documents.

This is super useful if you want to get a closer look at something, perhaps to see details of a picture, or some small text, a phone number, or anything else you want to get a closer look at.

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