When you go to search Messages on your Apple device, do you tend to come up empty? The search function has grown greatly in OS 26 but it can still be finicky. Plus, it’s important to know where to start. It never occurred to me that users may have different approaches to search. However, [...]
When I was in college, I learned to wrap power cables so they stay put, take up little space, and don’t get tangled. I was working for Ithaca College’s IT department and one of my supervisors caught me in the act of tossing a cable in a crate with dozens of others that had [...]
With iPhone, like many an electronic device, periodically something goes awry. The easiest fix: restart my iPhone. How you accomplish this feat, though, may depend on your agility and dexterity. As I outlined in When in Doubt, Restart, there is a particular method of pressing/holding buttons to force an iPhone or iPad to restart. Currently, [...]
When Mac Mondays was born over seven years ago (!), my first post was about System Preferences. I encouraged you to explore settings on your Mac so you can make it look and feel delightful to use. Relatedly, each application you use also has a settings area. To further refine your apps’ behavior, I [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In pondering what to write about today, I remembered that I’ve wanted to share some powerful features of Apple’s to-do app, Reminders. I previously wrote about the Getting Things Done philosophy in How Do You Do? In followup, I posted Part 1 of 2Do + Hours: A Solid GTD Pair, but never managed to [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
