Back to the Phone

Reflecting on past writings, I realize I’ve never dedicated a post to the Phone app. Two articles on the topic I’m most proud of are Announce Calls and Recent Calls, but neither really captures the glory of the predestined app. Previously, Phone was only available on iPhone and Apple Watch. The FaceTime app showed [...]

2025-10-26T22:47:59-07:00October 27th, 2025|Mac Mondays|

Slow Charger

Some portable Apple devices come with a power adapter (charger). This includes all MacBooks and iPads. Starting in 2020, Apple stopped providing a charger in the box of all new iPhones. The advertised reasons: to reduce waste and because most customers already have at least one power adapter that will work with a new [...]

2025-10-05T20:05:09-07:00October 6th, 2025|Mac Mondays|

Mailbox Madness

Organizing email is overwhelming. Just sayin’. In any case, Apple Mail has some valuable tools to help make navigating and sorting messages a little easier. Notably, you can move a message to a separate mailbox to make it easier to locate in the future, but Mail need not display the next message after doing [...]

2025-09-21T23:13:14-07:00September 22nd, 2025|Mac Mondays|

Is This Legit?

I regularly receive inquiries from clients who forward me an phishy email and ask, “Is this legit?” Starting earlier this year, my habit has been to respond with something like, “I see a multitude of reasons why it’s not. Would you like to list the ones you see?” I don’t always get a response. [...]

2025-08-31T20:42:22-07:00September 1st, 2025|Mac Mondays|

App Store Updates

Apple first offered automatic App Store updates in iOS 9 and iPadOS 13. macOS 10.12, released the year after iOS 9, was the first Mac version with the same feature. On mobile devices, the toggle for this feature was unified in version 13 under Settings > App Store > App Updates. On the Mac, [...]

2025-08-24T23:44:01-07:00August 25th, 2025|Mac Mondays|
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