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…
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Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive all have their place, but as of March 2020, Apple users no longer have to venture outside the Apple ecosystem for online folder…
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This is a twofer tip. You may not have known that every document window in macOS has long had a proxy icon in the title bar, next to the filename.…
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We regularly hear from people who think they need Adobe Acrobat DC to manipulate PDFs. Don’t misunderstand: Adobe Acrobat is the gold standard, but it’s complicated and expensive—$14.99 per month…
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Remember when we had to keep magnets away from floppy disks to avoid scrambling them? Modern storage is no longer vulnerable, but magnets and electromagnetic fields from consumer electronics can…
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We wanted to make sure that those of you who work on a Mac laptop with an external display know that you can close your laptop’s screen and keep working.…
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Multitasking has long been a mess on the iPad, not so much because it didn’t work but because it was tough to memorize the secret swipes necessary to put multiple…
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We’ve long recommended that everyone use a password manager like 1Password instead of attempting to memorize or write down passwords. Although there are other password managers, 1Password is the leading…
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With iCloud Drive, Apple provides an Optimize Mac Storage checkbox, but you can also reclaim local storage space by removing downloaded iCloud Drive files without turning that option on. Open…
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In the heyday of iTunes, Apple users stored their music, movies, and TV shows on their Macs and shared them with other Macs in their homes, as well as their…
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