by Marilyn | Feb 19, 2022 | iOS 15, iPadOS 15, Lock screen, productivity, search, Tip
Most of the time, when you unlock your iPhone or iPad, you want to launch an app. In iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, you no longer have to unlock the device, find the app on a Home screen page, and tap it. Instead, you can open an app directly from the Lock screen, assuming... 
by Marilyn | Feb 18, 2022 | App Library, customization, Home screen, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, Tip
Back in iOS 14, Apple added the App Library, which collects all the apps on your iPhone. With everything available in the App Library, iOS 14 was also able to provide the option of hiding Home screen pages, a boon for those of us with too many disorganized pages. In... 
by Marilyn | Oct 27, 2021 | DND, Focus, iOS 15, iPadOS 15, Tip, Troubleshooting
In iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, Apple expanded the concept of Do Not Disturb to what it calls Focus. You can create a Focus for different types of activities, so only specific people and apps can break through your cone of silence at appropriate times. Focus subsumes the old... 
by Marilyn | Jun 17, 2021 | Apple Card, Family Sharing, Tip
Apple did a good job rethinking some aspects of credit card use with the Apple Card, but one omission was the inability to share it with other family members. With the new Apple Card Family, once everyone has upgraded to iOS 14.6, you can add members of your Family... 
by Marilyn | May 27, 2021 | File Sharing, iPad, iPhone, Mac, privacy, Security, Tip
Given their integration into the Mac’s Finder, it can be easy to forget that online file sharing services like Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive can be accessed using a Web browser by anyone with your username and password. Obviously, you... 
by Marilyn | May 24, 2021 | Mac, Security, Tip
If you’re using QuickBooks Online with the service’s Mac app to manage your business’s accounting, you may have seen a message like the one below announcing that Intuit has stopped updating the QuickBooks Online app. This doesn’t affect your QuickBooks Online account,...