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How to Stop iPhone From Auto-Updating to iOS 26

Sep 14, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to prevent automatic updates to iOS 26

Some years ago, Apple introduced a default setting on iPhone and iPad that automatically installs system software updates, including major updates like iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. If you do not want your iPhone or iPad to automatically update to iOS 26, you can make a settings adjustment to make sure that does not happen. … Read More

How to Prepare Your iPhone or iPad for iOS 26

Sep 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to prepare for iOS 26

iOS 26 is on the way, bringing a pretty significant software update to iPhone and iPad. With a variety of interesting new features and notable visual changes like the Liquid Glass interface appearance style, Messages group chat polling and custom backgrounds, new ringtones, Preview app, and much more, the excitement around the release is understandable. … Read More

How to Turn Off Location Based Naming of Voice Memos on Mac

Sep 4, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Voice Memos on Mac defaults to naming new voice memos by location but you can change that

The Voice Memos app is incredibly useful on Mac, iPhone, and iPad, but one thing that some users may wish to change is the Location Based Naming system that is automatically active with any created Voice Memos. We’ve previously discussed disabling location-based voice memo naming on iPhone and iPad before, but now we’re going to … Read More

How to Downgrade Safari Beta to Safari Stable on Mac

Aug 27, 2025 - 4 Comments
Safari Technology Preview

If you’re a Mac user who installed a Safari beta version on a stable version of MacOS to experiment with beta Safari features, it’s possible that you might want to downgrade the Safari beta back to a Safari stable version. This can be tricky because if you install a beta version of Safari onto MacOS, … Read More

How to Run gpt-oss (ChatGPT) Locally on Mac with LM Studio

Aug 21, 2025 - Leave a Comment

Running a Large Language Model (LLM) like ChatGPT’s gpt-oss locally can have multiple benefits, including providing offline access to an AI language model tool like GPT. If you’re a fan of LLMs, AI tools, and ChatGPT, you might be interested in running a local instance of gpt-oss, but even if you’re fairly new to AI … Read More

How to Downgrade from iOS 26 Beta to iOS 18

Aug 19, 2025 - 1 Comment
How to downgrade iOS 26 beta to iOS 18

If you’ve installed the iOS 26 beta on your iPhone or iPadOS 26 beta onto iPad, and found it a little too buggy, unstable, or you’re simply not interested in iOS 26 any longer, you’re certainly not alone. While many adventurous Apple users jump onto the beta train to explore the new operating systems, it’s … Read More

How to Switch Back to ChatGPT 4o from ChatGPT 5

Aug 12, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Switch from GPT 5 back to GPT 4o

ChatGPT is wildly popular for good reason as an incredibly useful artificial inteligence and LLM tool. But OpenAI recently introduced ChatGPT 5, and while generally every release of ChatGPT has been a significant improvement and well received, the same is not entirely to be said about the introduction of ChatGPT 5, which tends to regurgitate … Read More

How to Install tvOS 26 beta on Apple TV

Aug 8, 2025 - Leave a Comment
tvOS 26 beta can be installed now on Apple TV

Apple TV is getting revamped with tvOS 26 to include a variety of new features, including the new Liquid Glass interface look, Apple Music singalong features allowing you to use your iPhone as a microphone for Apple TV karaoke, new Apple TV screen savers and locations, and more. If you’re an Apple TV user, you … Read More

How to Fix a Mac Stuck in VoiceOver Mode & Talking

Aug 7, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Mac can get stuck in Voice Over mode where everything on the screen is described by your Mac talking to you

Have you suddenly discovered your Mac reading everything out loud on the screen, and then navigating with a thick black box around elements, and not acting normally with mouse clicks and keyboard input? Your Mac might be stuck in Voice Over mode. Voice Over mode is a powerful accessibility tool intended for visually impaired users, … Read More

How to Install iPadOS 26 Public Beta on iPad

Aug 4, 2025 - Leave a Comment
iPadOS 26 windowing system and multitasking

With the availability of the iPadOS 26 public beta, there’s an uptick in iPad users who are intrigued by the beta and wish to try it out on their own devices. If you’re curious about running iPadOS 26 public beta on your iPad, read along to get things going, and to explore the beta right … Read More

How to Install macOS Tahoe 26 Public Beta on Mac

Jul 31, 2025 - 1 Comment

The MacOS Tahoe 25 Public Beta program has begun, bringing the beta operating system to all interested Mac users. If you’re curious about installing and running the MacOS Tahoe 26 public beta, you’ll find this walkthrough helpful as we cover the system requirements, compatible Macs, caveats, and installation process. MacOS Tahoe 26 is intriguing with … Read More

How to Install iOS 26 Public Beta on iPhone

Jul 28, 2025 - Leave a Comment
How to install the iOS 26 public beta on iPhone

Apple has officially launched the Public Beta versions of iOS 26 for iPhone and iPadOS 26 for iPad. These public betas give everyday users early access to the latest features Apple is working on, without having to use the developer beta testing channel. If you’re a tech-savvy user who likes getting direct experience with new … Read More

How to Control Fan Speed on Apple Silicon Mac & MacBook Pro

Jul 16, 2025 - 1 Comment

While MacOS automatically manages the cooling fans on your Mac, there are some particular situations where MacOS is not necessarily the most efficient. Advanced users might find it advantageous to manually control the fan speed of your Apple Silicon Mac, particularly on a MacBook Pro (remember, the newest MacBook Air models do not include a … Read More

Manage Cluttered Mac Menu Bar Icons with Hidden Bar

Jul 14, 2025 - 3 Comments

Many modern Mac users have various apps that utilize menu bar items, whether for reminders, sports scores, a clipboard manager, watching system stats, or anything else. While menu bar items are super useful, a problem that can happen (especially with modern Mac laptops with the annoying Notch design) rather quickly is the menu bar being … Read More

How to Fix Wi-Fi Dropping in MacOS Sequoia & Tahoe

Jul 11, 2025 - 11 Comments
MacOS Sequoia can randomly drop wi-fi connections or disconect from a wireless network

Some Mac users who are running the latest versions of MacOS Sequoia and/or MacOS Tahoe beta have discovered an annoying issue where wi-fi spontaneously drops and the Macs internet connection is no longer available. The wi-fi dropping problem seems completely random, and there is rarely a cause or specific reason for the wireless internet connection … Read More

Contacts App Missing All Contacts on Mac? Here’s the Fix

Jul 10, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Contacts missing and an empty contacts list on Mac is stressful but easy to fix

Some Mac users have reported that the Contacts app is randomly missing all of their contacts, and the entire address book is suddenly blank on their Mac. This is obviously alarming, but the good news is that if this happens to you, it’s usually a pretty simple fix and your contact list and address book … Read More

See Sports Scores in the Mac Menu Bar with MenuScores

Jul 9, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Menuscores puts sports and games scores in your Mac menu bar

Sports fans might appreciate a neat little free Mac app called MenuScores, which places a game of your choice in the menu bar, which you can use to keep track of scores or game start times with a quick glance. It’s that simple, no frills, nothing overengineered or fancy, just sports scores in your Mac … Read More

Copy Files from MacOS to Mac Virtual Machine in UTM Easily with File Sharing

Jul 8, 2025 - Leave a Comment
Copy a file from the local Mac to the Mac virtual machine with FIle Sharing

If you use UTM virtual machines of MacOS on your Mac, let’s say to test out a beta version of system software (like MacOS Tahoe beta), you might be wondering how to copy files from the local host Mac, to the virtualized MacOS installation running in the virtual machine (in this case, with UTM). While … Read More

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