by Marilyn | Jul 13, 2020 | customization, Dock, Home screen, iOS, Tip
If you have lots of apps on your iPhone or iPad, rearranging their icons on your Home screens by dragging from page to page is tedious. Although the new App Library promised for iOS 14 later this year will help you find apps, rearranging them will still be a manual... 
by Marilyn | Jun 12, 2019 | Dock, Mac, productivity, Tip
By default, Apple populates your Mac’s Dock with all sorts of apps and arranges them in a particular order. But there’s no rhyme or reason to the defaults, and you shouldn’t be afraid to add, remove, and rearrange apps on your Dock. To add an app, drag its icon from... ![Make More Space for Documents by Putting Your Dock on the Side of Your Mac’s Screen]()
by Marilyn | Oct 17, 2018 | customization, Dock, Mac, productivity, Tip
By default, Apple locates the Dock at the bottom of the Mac’s screen. If that location interferes with you seeing as much of your document windows as you’d like, you can set it to appear only when you move the pointer to the bottom edge of the screen. But there’s a... 
by Marilyn | Oct 17, 2018 | ASMC Archive, Dock, Mac, Mojave, productivity
The Mac’s Dock gives you quick access to frequently used apps, documents, and folders, and makes it easy to switch to a running app. In macOS 10.14 Mojave, the Dock has another feature: a list of apps you’ve used recently that aren’t on your default Dock. Icons for... 
by Marilyn | Nov 16, 2017 | App Switcher, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Dock, Home screen, How-To, iOS, iOS 11, iPad, multitasking, productivity, Restricted Content, Slide Over, Split View
With iOS 11, the iPhone and iPad interfaces continue to diverge, which makes sense, since the iPad is not merely an overgrown iPhone. Particularly when you pair an iPad Pro with a Smart Keyboard and Apple Pencil, you can now get real work done on an iPad more fluidly... 
by Marilyn | Sep 19, 2017 | App Switcher, Apple Pencil, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Control Center, Dock, Files, Instant Markup, keyboard, News, Notes, Restricted Content, Slide Over, Split View
Apple has long argued that you can use the iPad for productivity but hasn’t backed that claim up with the necessary features in iOS. Until now, that is, with the new iPad-centric capabilities of iOS 11. These changes mean that an iPad running iOS 11 is more like a...