by Marilyn | Oct 18, 2019 | Article, How-To, iOS 13, iPad, iPhone, productivity, text, typing
Let’s be honest—text editing in iOS has never been anywhere near as good as it is on the Mac. We may be more accustomed to our mice and keyboards, but the Multi-Touch interface has always been clumsy when it comes to text. Apple keeps trying to improve iOS’s text...
by Marilyn | Oct 16, 2019 | Article, How-To, iPad, iPadOS 13, multitasking, Notes, Safari, Slide Over, Split View
With this year’s operating system updates, Apple has formally acknowledged that the iPhone and iPad have different uses and different needs. To that end, Apple has given the iPad version of iOS 13 its own name—iPadOS 13. The big changes include a desktop-class version...
by Marilyn | Oct 14, 2019 | Article, Explainer, Hardware, Mac, Security
If you own an iMac Pro, or a Mac mini, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro model introduced in 2018 or later, your Mac has one of Apple’s T2 security chips inside. On the whole, having a T2 chip in your Mac is a good thing, thanks to significantly increased security and other...
by Marilyn | Oct 11, 2019 | Safety, Tip
Whenever Apple releases hot new hardware, it’s tempting to order the latest and greatest and then put your old Mac or iPhone up for sale on a classifieds site like Craigslist. If you do that, be cautious about potential buyers—it’s increasingly common for a scammer to...
by Marilyn | Oct 9, 2019 | Mac, Tip, Troubleshooting
Apple likes to keep Mac names simple, but that’s not always helpful. For instance, if you want to add RAM to your Mac, it’s not good enough to know that it’s an iMac. You’ll need to know that it’s a 27-inch iMac with Retina display from late 2014. To find that out,...
by Marilyn | Oct 7, 2019 | Mac, productivity, Tip
There are plenty of situations where it makes sense to put a date in a filename, but if you don’t use the right date format, the files may sort in unhelpful ways. For instance, using the names of months is a bad idea, since they’ll sort alphabetically, putting April...
by Marilyn | Oct 2, 2019 | 3D Touch, iPhone, shortcut, Tip
Do you use 3D Touch on your iPhone? From 2015 through 2018, every iPhone from the iPhone 6s through the iPhone XS supported 3D Touch, other than the iPhone SE and iPhone XR. With 3D Touch, you could (sometimes) press a control, and then press a little harder to make...
by Marilyn | Sep 30, 2019 | Article, backup, iOS, Mac, Solution, Troubleshooting
Confession time. If there’s one topic we can’t stop talking about, it’s backups. Backups are essential, since no one can guarantee that your Mac or iPhone won’t be lost or stolen, be caught in a flood from a broken pipe, or just fail silently. It happens. You should...
by Marilyn | Sep 25, 2019 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, Catalina, Explainer, iOS 13, iPadOS, Restricted Content, tvOS 13, watchOS 6
As we get into September, it’s a good bet that Apple will be pushing out the next major versions of macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, along with the new iPadOS, which is iOS with iPad-specific tweaks. Apple previewed these new versions back in June, and they’ve been in...
by Marilyn | Sep 23, 2019 | keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
Traditionally, extended keyboards come with a Forward Delete key that, when you press it, deletes characters to the right of the insertion point, unlike the main Delete key, which deletes to the left of the insertion point. Forward Delete still exists on Apple’s Magic...
by Helen Serafini | Sep 18, 2019 | Article, Catalina, iTunes, Music, Notes, Photos, Podcasts, privacy, productivity, Reminders, Screen Time, Security, Sidecar, Solution, TV, Voice Control
In a break from Apple’s pattern of alternating cycle of releases, macOS 10.15 Catalina is not a refinement of 10.14 Mojave like 10.13 High Sierra was for 10.12 Sierra. Instead, Catalina boasts significant changes, both obvious things like new apps and less-obvious...
by Marilyn | Sep 16, 2019 | customization, iOS, Mail, notifications, Tip
Few people get so little email that they want an iPhone notification for every message that rolls in. But many of us have just a couple of people—our personal VIPs—whose messages are important enough to warrant an alert. If that’s true for you, and you want to know...
by Marilyn | Sep 12, 2019 | Apple Watch Series 5, Article, iPad, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, News
At its September 10th special event, Apple unveiled a slew of new products and services, including the iPhone 11, the Apple Watch Series 5, the seventh-generation iPad, Apple Arcade, and Apple TV+. The company also said that iOS 13 and watchOS 6 would ship on...
by Helen Serafini | Sep 11, 2019 | Apple Pencil, Dark mode, Files, Health, iOS 13, iPadOS 13, Photos, productivity, Solution, Voice Control
It’s hard to sum up iOS 13’s benefits succinctly because Apple has made so many improvements (we’ll get to what’s cool about iPadOS 13 later in the article). That means there’s something for just about everyone. Here are some of the changes we think you’ll most...
by Marilyn | Sep 9, 2019 | customization, Finder, Mac, Tip
Do you have a document that you open regularly, perhaps from your Desktop? If you’d like to make it stand out from other documents, why not give it a custom icon? This was common practice on the Mac back in the day, and it’s still possible in modern versions of macOS....
