by Marilyn | Feb 1, 2022 | Article, Find My, How-To, notifications, privacy, Security, Troubleshooting
Apple’s Find My technology is a lifesaver when it works, enabling you to locate and potentially retrieve lost or stolen devices. It’s not perfect, even with the addition of the Find My Network, which drafts other nearby Apple devices to relay the location of a lost... 
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 | May 20, 2021 | iOS, Tip, Troubleshooting, updates
If you’ve turned on automatic App Updates in Settings > App Store on your iPhone or iPad, you might wonder how you’d know if an app was updated or what changed. To find that information, open the App Store app and tap your avatar icon in the upper-right corner.... 
by Jacek Brown | Apr 20, 2021 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, ASMC, ASMC Archive, email, Mac, Mail, productivity, Restricted Content, Solution, Troubleshooting
Email is a major part of all our lives, both personally and professionally, and as such, it can add up. Before you know it, you have years of email stored away—potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands of messages. Most of the time, that’s fine. Email doesn’t... 
by Marilyn | Apr 15, 2021 | Finder, iCloud Drive, Mac, storage, Tip, Troubleshooting
With iCloud Drive, Apple provides an Optimize Mac Storage checkbox that, when checked, stores the full contents of iCloud Drive on the Mac only if there’s enough space. However, you may wish to recover local storage space without selecting that option—luckily, that’s... 
by Marilyn | Apr 8, 2021 | Article, email, Mac, Mail, productivity, Solution, Troubleshooting
Email is a major part of all our lives, both personally and professionally, and as such, it can add up. Before you know it, you have years of email stored away—potentially tens or even hundreds of thousands of messages. Most of the time, that’s fine. Email doesn’t...