Have you ever filled up your voicemail box with keepsake messages you didn’t want to lose? Would you like to play your powered Mac’s music library using your iPhone or iPad as a remote instead of using your precious battery power?

These tips help you benefit from a couple basic audio capabilities of your Apple devices.

Save Your Voicemails

Voicemail is the single category of data that are stored on your cellular carrier’s server and cached on your iPhone. If you switch carriers, your saved messages don’t transfer.

If you have old messages you don’t want to lose, save them to your files. You can also do this with any message you want to keep without cluttering the server, as some carriers limit the number of voicemails you can store.

Open Phone and go to Voicemail. Tap a message. Then tap the Share button and Save to Files. Navigate to where you’d like to save the audio file. I recommend somewhere in iCloud Drive so you can access the recording on your Mac or any other device.

Remote Control Music on Mac

You can use Apple’s free iTunes Remote app to control Apple Music, iTunes, or the Apple TV app on your Mac using your iPhone or iPad. This way, you can make use of the high quality speakers you have attached to your Mac (or any on your network connected via AirPlay) without using your portable device’s battery to stream the content.

The app provides a familiar interface to browse or search your music or video library, see what’s coming next, and interact with your content almost as if you were sitting at your Mac.

Bonus: Got an Apple TV remote or other infrared remote? You can use it, too, to control your Mac from afar—for music and more. Just pair it with Remote Buddy and a Flirc adapter.

How will you make use of these tips? What tips would you like to see featured in a future edition of Mac Mondays?