If you regularly use WhatsApp to communicate and chat, you may be familiar with archiving messages on WhatsApp to hide them. But what if you want to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp? That’s no problem, so if you’re looking to unarchive in WhatsApp read along. How to Unarchive WhatsApp Chats Buried a WhatsApp chat in ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you regularly use WhatsApp to communicate and chat, you may be familiar with archiving messages on WhatsApp to hide them. But what if you want to unarchive a chat in WhatsApp? That’s no problem, so if you’re looking to unarchive in WhatsApp read along. How to Unarchive WhatsApp Chats Buried a WhatsApp chat in ... Read More ⌘ Read more
You can add secure notes to your iCloud Keychain account and login entries if you’d like to. The notes can serve any purpose, but they can be particularly handy if you want to reference something specific to that login, whether a log of prior passwords, or the purpose of the account, or whatever else. For ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you want to run Windows 11 on your M1 Mac, you can now do that, and perhaps best of all, you can run Windows 11 in a virtual machine on the M1 Mac entirely for free. We’ll be covering how to install, setup, and run Windows 11 ARM on any Apple Silicon Mac, whether ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Need to remove a password from an iWork document? Do you find it inconvenient to open password-protected Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents? Do you no longer need password protection on a particular iWork file? You’re certainly not alone in that regard, and fortunately it’s quite simple to remove a password from any Pages, Numbers, or ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/20 ... ⌘ Read more
The Mac Live Text feature offers the ability to select text directly within an image or photo, which you can then copy, define, lookup, search the web, or do with as you please. Using Live Text on the Mac is pretty simple, and like using Live Text on iPhone and iPad, you can use the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Mac users who want to get the most out of the Quick Notes feature may appreciate knowing that they can set a Hot Corner to make a new Quick Note instantly. When this is active, simply moving your cursor into the designated corner of the screen will open Quick Note. If you’re also an iPad ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The iPhone 13 Pro includes a really great macro photo capability, allowing you to take super close-up macro photos of objects, items, textures, or whatever else you want to snap a macro image of. Using the macro mode on iPhone camera is pretty easy but you’d be forgiven for not noticing how to activate the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
WhatsApp defaults to showing everyone your online status, displaying if you are currently online, and the date and time of when you were last online using the WhatsApp app. But what if you’d rather be a bit more private, and hide your WhatsApp online status? You can do that, and it’s easy to configure on ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Instagram now offers an option to view your feed in chronological order, meaning that you will see posts from people you follow that are the most recent, rather than based on the Instagram algorithm. To use the chronological feed on Instagram, you will want to update the Instagram app to the latest version. The rest ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want an added privacy boost for all of your WhatsApp messages, texts, conversation threads, and chats? You can set WhatsApp so that all messages will disappearing automatically, by default. Whether you want all messages to disappear after 24 hours, 7 days, 90 days, or not at all, you have that option. It doesn’t matter if ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Did you know that you can take screenshots on the iPhone without having to press any physical buttons on the device? If you’re one of those users who take screenshots on their iPhones regularly, you may find it useful to know there’s an alternative way to capture screenshots on the device. Whether you take screenshots ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/04/07/how-to-take-screenshots-without-pressing-a-button-on ... ⌘ Read more
Are you noticing blurry text on your Mac’s display while navigating through the menu and across apps? More specifically, has this been an issue ever since you updated to macOS Monterey or Big Sur, and on a non-retina display? If so, chances are, font smoothing is enabled by default, and for some users they feel ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released the first beta versions of iOS 15.5, iPadOS 15.5, and macOS Monterey 12.4. The beta versions are available first to developers and typically roll out to public beta testers soon after. Additionally, watchOS 8.6 beta 1 and tvOS 15.5 beta 1 are available to users beta testing on an Apple Watch or ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/04/06/beta-1-of-ios-15-5-ipados-15-5-macos-12-4-release ... ⌘ Read more
Do you use Gmail as your preferred email service? If so, do you want to save a copy of all the emails you have received and sent over Gmail up until this date, locally to your computer, device, or hard drive? Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to save a backup of all your emails from Gmail, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has announced that their annual Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) for 2022 will be a virtual event, held online from June 6 to June 10. WWDC is typically when Apple unveils new upcoming versions of system software, and this year we will likely see a look at iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS 13, tvOS 16, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you use Gmail as your preferred email service? If so, do you want to save a copy of all the emails you have received and sent over Gmail up until this date, locally to your computer, device, or hard drive? Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to save a backup of all your emails from Gmail, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The Google Chrome browser offers two ways to capture full size webpage screenshots. This can be necessary or useful for many web workers, whether they’re developers, designers, editors, managers, writers, analysts, or just about any other possible web-based gig. The approaches we’ll cover to capture full size webpage screen shots with Chrome require the full ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/04/04/capture-full-si ... ⌘ Read more
If you’re accustomed to using Slack and you find the :emoji search and shortcut tool from Slack to be convenient, you’ll really appreciate Rocket for Mac. Rocket is a fun Mac app that brings the Slack implementation of Emoji insertion to macOS, where simply typing colon, emoji name, return, prints out the emoji. For example, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Got a red dot on the screen of your Apple Watch? Wondering what the red dot is at the top of the Apple Watch screen? You’re certainly not alone, as many Apple Watch users are wondering what the red dot means, and perhaps how they can get rid of it on their device. What does ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want to unpair your Apple Watch from your iPhone for whatever reason? Maybe you want to pair it do a different iPhone, or unpair it for troubleshooting purposes? If you are facing any sort of connectivity issues with your Apple Watch, perhaps it’s getting randomly disconnected from your paired iPhone even when it’s nearby, for ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Like trivia? Love Siri? You’re in luck, because Siri can play True or False trivia games, right on your device. You’ll get 5 random questions on all sorts of subjects that you can answer true or false to. Like any good digital April Fools Prank (or Siri experience), the first few efforts to play True ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want a stupid, goofy, harmless tech prank to play on someone this April Fools? Set the all new Windows Black Screen of Death (BSOD) error screen as the screen saver on their computer! This trick works for both Mac and Windows, and it’s arguably even more funny on the Mac since, well, the Mac isn’t ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/04/01/april-fools-prank-f ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released iOS 15.4.1 and iPadOS 15.4.1 for iPhone and iPad, the update addresses an issue that was causing battery drain for some users, so if you’ve felt like your battery life has not been as great recently, you may want to install the update sooner than later. Some other small bug fixes and ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.3.1 for Mac users running the Monterey operating system. The update addresses an issue where Bluetooth devices and game controllers were disconnecting from the Mac. Additionally, a display issue for Mac mini was also resolved, and there are security patches in the 12.3.1 update. Separately, Apple released iOS 15.4.1 to ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/31/macos-monter ... ⌘ Read more
Want to quickly zoom into a webpage or document? If you use a Mac with a trackpad or Magic Mouse, you can use a super easy tap gesture trick to zoom in and zoom out of web pages and documents. This is super useful if you want to get a closer look at something, perhaps ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you are a Mac laptop user and you spend a lot of time at the command line, you may appreciate knowing that you can enable Low Power Mode on a Mac laptop through a terminal command. Enabling Low Power Mode through the command line on a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and MacBook is the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
iPad users can spice up their Home Screen by adding widgets, which can display useful information and other data from apps and sources right on the Home Screen of your device. The latest versions of iPadOS allow users to add widgets to anywhere on the iPad Home Screen too, offering an excellent way to customize ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The Notes app on iPhone and iPad is super useful, allowing you to jot down information quickly for all sorts of purposes. There are various ways to create a new note in the Notes app on iOS and iPadOS, some of them are quite fast and might be new to you, so if you’re an ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you have attempted to use nano at the command line on MacOS recently, you may have noticed that the pico text editor is launched instead, via a symlink for /usr/bin/nano to pico. This is because the latest versions of MacOS remove the nano text editor from the command line for whatever reason, and instead ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Got an Apple Watch that is turned off and you want it to turn on, or perhaps you found an Apple Watch that is off and you want to turn it on to help return it to its owner? Turning on the Apple Watch is super easy but if you’ve new to the device you ... Read More ⌘ Read more
All Mac computers need an administrator account to be able to function properly and perform certain tasks, ranging from installing certain software, to changing some system preferences. A variety of situations can arise causing a Mac to lose an administrator account, often if a user attempted to add a new admin account or new user ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Ever wanted to blur your background while on a FaceTime call? Maybe it’s a busy room or a messy kitchen behind you. Fortunately, you can use the same Portrait mode you use for your selfies, right on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Portrait mode on the front selfie camera of your iPhone and iPad works ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you make use of the Reading List feature in Safari to save web pages for later? In that case, you may want to clear the list every now and then once you’ve read them. It’s kind of similar to why anyone would want to clear their browsing cache and history once in a while. ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you use the Notes app frequently on the Mac to jot down information and store important data, you’ll be happy to know that the excellent Quick Notes feature has a super simple and near instantaneous keyboard shortcut to go along with it. What’s the keyboard shortcut to masterfully create an instant Quick Note? It’s ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you have recently installed MacOS Monterey and regret doing so for whatever reason, perhaps incompatibility with some critical applications, general instability, or experiencing some other problems with MacOS Monterey that make it unworkable for you, you may be interested in downgrading from MacOS Monterey back to macOS Big Sur, or whatever the prior macOS ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/21/how-to-downgrade-macos-monterey- ... ⌘ Read more
Email signatures are appended to the bottom of emails sent when used, and if you routinely use the Gmail app on iPhone or iPad, or have it ⌘ Read more
Do you want to stop your Apple Watch from locking automatically every time you take it off the wrist? This can be easily done by disabling a feature called Wrist Detection on your Apple Watch. And of course if this is disabled on your watch, you can turn it back on. The Apple Watch has ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you want to add some songs that are locally stored on your Windows PC to your desktop iCloud Music Library? This could be music that you downloaded from the internet or just any other song you have that’s not available on Apple Music. You can get this done using iTunes. Apple Music boasts over ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Are you seeing a constant spinning icon indicator on your Home Screen, next to the wi-fi, location, and battery icons in the upper right corner? The spinning loading icon shows up when the iPhone or iPad is attempting to contact a remote server, or load data. It looks like a spinning wheel made up of ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The iPad Air 5 with an M1 chip is a pretty great new iPad and it comes with a collection of nice new wallpapers too, but who says you need to buy a new iPad just to enjoy the wallpaper? You don’t. Instead, you can grab the full sized iPad Air 5 wallpapers right now, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Full screen mode on the Mac defaults to hiding the menu bar, and while you can swing your cursor to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar, some Mac users may prefer to have the menu bar always visible when in full screen mode. If you’d like to keep the menu bar ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Universal Control allows a single mouse and keyboard on a Mac to control additional Macs and iPads, simply by dragging the mouse cursor over to those screens or devices. It’s a fantastic feature for Mac users who have several Macs and an iPad or two, and it can really help propel productivity to a new ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Wondering how you can check the health status of an SSD drive in your Mac? Thanks to a third party app called DriveDX, determining the health of a Mac SSD and other disk drives is easier than ever. Knowing the health of your disk is important for many reasons, but it may be of particular ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.3 to Mac users running the Monterey operating system. Notably, macOS Monterey 12.3 includes support for Universal Control, the hotly anticipated feature that allows a single mouse and keyboard to to control multiple Macs and iPads. To use Universal Control with macOS Monterey and iPad, all connected devices must be ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/14/macos-monterey-12-3-update-download/ ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released iPadOS 15.4 for iPad, along with iOS 15.4 for iPhone, and macOS Monterey 12.3 for Mac. iPadOS 15.4 includes support for Universal Control, the feature which allows sharing a mouse and keyboard between a Mac and iPad, support for Face ID with a mask, a gender neutral Siri voice option, iCloud Keychain ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/14/ipados-15-4-update-released-universal-control-downl ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released iOS 15.4 for iPhone, and iPadOS 15.4 for iPad. The new software updates for iPhone and iPad include a variety of new features, along with security enhancements and fixes. iOS 15.4 includes iCloud Keychain notes, official support for using Face ID when wearing a mask, a gender neutral Siri voice option, an ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Full screen mode on the Mac defaults to hiding the menu bar, and while you can swing your cursor to the top of the screen to reveal the menu bar, some Mac users may prefer to have the menu bar always visible when in full screen mode. If you’d like to keep the menu bar ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you use WhatsApp as your primary messaging app, chances are that over time your photo library can become cluttered with images and videos from WhatsApp. This shouldn’t be a concern however, since WhatsApp makes it easy for users to manage the content shared via the app. For a long time, one of the most ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple released new green color options for iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 at the March 8 event, and aside from the enclosure being green colored, the green iPhones also include new green default wallpapers. How harmonious! But you don’t have to order a green iPhone just to get the green wallpapers. Thanks to the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you watch a lot of YouTube videos on your iPhone and iPad? If you’re someone who likes to fiddle around with the video quality settings rather than sticking to the one that’s automatically set by YouTube, you may have noticed that things have changed in the YouTube app on iPhone and iPad. The YouTube ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want to password protect your important Pages, Keynote, and Numbers documents, right from your iPhone or iPad? Thanks to a handy feature in the iWork productivity suite, you can easily encrypt your documents, right from iOS or iPadOS (or Mac), requiring the proper password to be entered before the documents can be opened by anyone. ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/11/h ... ⌘ Read more
If you want to remove the entire Shortcuts menu bar icon, you’ve probably already tried dragging the item out and removing it the typical way, only to find it not disappear. It turns out if you want to remove the Shortcuts menu bar item on MacOS, you’ll need to take a few extra steps. We’ll ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you want to make sure your important documents created in Pages, Keynote, or Numbers are safe and secure? If so, you may want to encrypt them with a secure password, which will protect the document from unauthorized access. If you’re looking to password protect your iWork documents, macOS makes it pretty easy. The Pages, ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/09/how-to-password-protect-pages-key ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released a RC (Release Candidate) build of macOS Monterey 12.3, iOS 15.4, and iPadOS 15.4 to users who are participating in the beta testing programs for system software. The RC builds typically indicate the final version of system software is just around the corner. Apple stated at the March 8 event that iOS ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/08/rc-of-macos-monterey-12-3-ios-15- ... ⌘ Read more
Apple held an event today where it unveiled a variety of new products and updates to existing hardware, including a new desktop Mac, new external display, a revamped iPhone SE, and an updated iPad Air. The Mac Studio, which kind of looks like a taller Mac mini, features an M1 Max or M1 Ultra processor ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/08/apple-releases-new-mac-studio-studio-display-iphon ... ⌘ Read more
If you use the Gmail web client from a web browser, no matter what device you’re on, you may be interested in making an email signature for use with Gmail. When you create an email signature for Gmail on the web, it will also carry over to using the same Gmail account with the Gmail ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you spend a lot of time in and out of Zoom meetings, you may have experienced an awkward situation where someone’s microphone is defaulting to being unmuted when they join a Zoom meeting, and something personal or unprofessional gets broadcast out to the entire meeting. To avoid this embarrassing situation yourself, you can toggle ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/07/automatically-mute-microphone-joining-zoom-meet ... ⌘ Read more
If you’re an iPad, iPad Pro, or iPad Air user, and you are trying to draw with your finger on the iPad on Notes app (or elsewhere with Markup) but find that it’s not working, there’s a simple explanation and solution to this problem. The reason you can’t draw on the iPad with a finger ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Have you ever wanted to quickly send a message on WhatsApp to a random phone number that you haven’t added to your contacts? And perhaps you just want to send that text through WhatsApp without adding them to contacts? You’ll be happy to know this is possible, with a bit of a workaround, thanks to ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you want to stop your HomePod Mini or Homepod from installing updates automatically? Perhaps you prefer to manually update HomePod, or you’re the kind of person who likes to make sure there aren’t any user reports of issues before updating your devices? Fortunately, Apple gives users the option to disable automatic updates for the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Mac users can quickly open Control Center in macOS with the help of a keyboard shortcut. And to make matters even better, the same keyboard shortcut works to open Control Center on any iPad using a keyboard too. If you’re a frequent Control Center user on MacOS or iPadOS, you should appreciate this tip. To ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you want to share a reminder, or a list of reminders with someone? Perhaps, you may want to send a shopping list to your a roommate, or a to-do list to your colleague? Sharing Reminders is pretty easy to do from the iPhone and iPad, provided the person you’re trying to send to has ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has announced an event for March 8, 2022, at 10 AM PST. The event will be virtual, taking place at the Steve Jobs theater from the Apple Park Cupertino campus. Rumors surrounding the lead-up to the event suggest a round of updated hardware is expected to be unveiled, including updates to the iPad Air, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Some privacy conscious WhatsApp users may which to enable disappearing messages for a particular text message thread or conversation. By turning on the disappearing messages feature, the messages in the chat will vanish automatically from all parties in the chat, at the specified time frame. This feature can be useful for many obvious reasons, so ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/02/how-enable-disappearing-messages-wha ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released the fifth beta versions of macOS Monterey 12.3, iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, watchOS 8.5, and tvOS 15.4 to users enrolled in the beta testing programs for device system software. The new beta versions continue to refine the beta experience, and are available now to download for developers and public beta users. iOS ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/01/beta-5-of-ios- ... ⌘ Read more
If you’re creeped out or bothered by the Street View cameras for Google Maps and Apple Maps taking pictures of your house, you can request for Google Maps or Apple Maps to hide, blur, and censor the address. When the request has been approved, the home address gets pixelated or blurred, effectively blocking any identifying ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/03/01/how-to-hide-blur-your-home-on-google-maps-apple-maps/ ... ⌘ Read more
Get a fancy new MacBook Pro 14″ or 16″ model with the powerful M1 Pro or M1 Max chip? These are feature packed laptops with plenty of oomph, and there are also some unique aspects to the hardware. Let’s take a look at some specific tips and tricks for the new MacBook Pro 14″ and ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The Mac includes a command line interface to run and interact with Shortcuts app. This could be potentially useful to some macOS users who rely on the Shortcuts app for scripting and automation, and who spend a lot of time in the Terminal The currently available shortcuts command line flags include ‘run’, ‘list’, ‘view’, and ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The latest versions of WhatsApp for Mac and Windows allow you to use WhatsApp on the computer without having a phone that is connected to the internet. For example, you can continue to use WhatsApp on a Mac while your iPhone is updating system software and offline during that process, or you can use WhatsApp ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Picture-in-Picture video mode is a popular feature that allows you to watch a video in an overlay panel while doing other stuff on your iPhone or iPad. While using Picture in Picture with YouTube should work for most users as expected (even without the YouTube Premium subscription), not everyone can get it working. Fortunately, we’ve ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/26/workaround-for-getti ... ⌘ Read more
The Apple HomePod Mini and HomePod is quite popular, and for many users it’s their first smart speaker. If you’re new to these devices, you may be unfamiliar with how some of the basics works, like playing music on HomePod mini. Considering that one of the main selling points of the HomePod is high-fidelity audio ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Have you ever wanted to send a confidential email that expires after a while? With Gmail for iPhone and iPad, you can easily do just that, choosing to send confidential emails that are passcode protected, and that expire in a set amount of time after they reach the recipients inbox. Additionally, the confidential emails can’t ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/24/send-confidential-expiring-emails-gmail ... ⌘ Read more
Some Mac users use bootable install USB drives for updating or installing MacOS Monterey onto a computer. If you’re wondering how to make a bootable macOS Monterey installer drive, we’ll walk through the process. This is generally for more advanced users, typically who wish to use a bootable installer drive for erasing and formatting a ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Beta testers in the Apple system software programs will find iOS 15.4 beta 4, iPadOS 15.4 beta 4, and macOS Monterey 12.3 beta 4 available to test on their enrolled devices. Beta 4 of iOS 15.4 adds a new Siri voice option, called American Voice 5, which appears to be a gender neutral tone. Betas ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/22/beta-4-of-ios-15-4-macos-monterey-12-3-ipados- ... ⌘ Read more
Low Power Mode allows you to prolong the battery life of a MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, or MacBook, by reducing energy usage on the device to optimize the battery performance. This is a fantastic feature for Mac laptop users on the go, since an unplugged laptop is only as useful as it’s battery life. Mac ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you’re looking to browse the web with a bit more anonymity and privacy than usual, the Brave browser offers a unique feature going beyond standard private browsing modes; and that is private browsing with TOR. Brave’s Private Browsing with Tor has all the standard private browsing mode features, like no cookie and browser history ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/21/use-brave-private-browsing-with-tor-to-hide-ip- ... ⌘ Read more
If you have a bunch of automations set up on the HomePod, chances are that over time you may have some automations that you eventually want to turn off, perhaps to avoid them functioning on a particular day or time. It’s easy to temporarily turn off a HomePod or HomePod mini automation. Home automation is ... Read More ⌘ Read more
As the Brave web browser gains popularity, Brave users and privacy-centric Mac users may wish to adjust the default web browser in macOS to Brave. That’s super easy to do on the Mac, so let’s check out how it works. If you’re unfamiliar, Brave is another cross-platform web browser option, but what makes Brave unique ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want to burn a CD on your modern Mac with macOS Monterey or Big Sur with the Music app? You can do that! Yes indeed, you can rip a CD on your good old modern Macintosh computer, so crawl out of your cave and dust off your caveman clubs, fellow troglodytes, because we are going ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Have a bunch of Terminal windows open on your Mac that’d you like to merge into a single tabbed window? No problem, you can stop juggling several different terminal windows and get them all sorted out into a nice and easy to manage single tabbed window, thanks to a handy feature built into the Terminal ... Read More ⌘ Read more
WhatsApp is an extremely popular messaging client for users on just about any platform, so if you’re interested in using WhatsApp on iPad you’re certainly not alone. While WhatsApp is actively working on a native client for iPad that isn’t available yet, you can still use WhatsApp on iPad easily. Setting up WhatsApp on iPad ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Python users on the Mac are likely aware that Python is being deprecated from macOS 12.3 onward, and will no longer be preinstalled on the Mac. But Python remains an incredibly popular programming language, and if you rely on Python you’ll likely want to continue to have Python available in macOS. It’s easy to get ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released the third beta versions of iOS 15.4, iPadOS 15.4, and macOS Monterey 12.3 to users enrolled in the beta testing programs. A developer beta build is typically available first, and soon followed by the same beta for public beta users. iPadOS 15.4 and macOS Monterey 12.3 include the much anticipated Universal Control ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/15/bet ... ⌘ Read more
Do you want to use a public calendar on your Mac to keep an eye on promotional and other public events? You can add this calendar using a URL to the macOS Calendar app pretty easily, similar to subscribing to public calendars iPhone and iPad. The best part is that this public calendar doesn’t even ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released macOS Big Sur 11.6.4 with an important security fix for users continuing to run the macOS Big Sur operating system. Separately, for Mac users running macOS Catalina 10.15.7, there’s a Security Update 2022-002 Catalina update available. The security updates appear to include the same fix that was issued recently in macOS Monterey ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/14/macos-big-sur-11-6-4-update-with ... ⌘ Read more
You launched Zoom on the Mac, you can’t join a meeting because Zoom requires an update, but the update to Zoom fails. Don’t panic! If you’ve tried to update Zoom on the Mac and the update installation is not working or outright fails, you’re not alone. For whatever reason some Mac users find that updating ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Did you know you can automate things with Homepod and Homepod mini? Even if it’s your very first smart speaker, you may already be familiar with using Siri to stream music, set alarms, make appointments, and other basic stuff. However, your HomePod can do a lot more than that, like automating tasks and things like ... Read More ⌘ Read more
The privacy-centric Brave web browser is gaining popularity, so it’s reasonable for iPhone and iPad users to wonder how they can change their default web browser to Brave in iOS or iPadOS. Fortunately, it’s really easy. For the unfamiliar, the Brave web browser has many privacy focused features, including built-in tracker blocking, ad blocking, and ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/12/how-to-set-brave-as-default-brows ... ⌘ Read more
There is some online discussion of battery drain occurring overnight on MacBook Pro and MacBook Air laptops, while the Macs are in sleep mode, with many users noticing the problem after updating to a recent version of macOS Monterey. While there does seem to be an uptick of overnight battery draining behavior with macOS Monterey ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/11/is-macos-monterey-draining-your- ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released iOS 15.3.1 and iPadOS 15.3.1 for iPhone and iPad users, respectively. The software update includes an important security fix, and also resolves an issue with Braille displays. Separately, Apple released macOS Monterey 12.2.1 to fix a Bluetooth battery draining bug when a Mac is sleeping, and an update to watchOS for Apple ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/10/ios-15-3-1-ipados-15-3-1- ... ⌘ Read more
Apple has released macOS Monterey 12.2.1 for Mac users, the update includes a fix for the issue where MacBook batteries would drain when the computer is in sleep mode and has Bluetooth enabled. The battery draining while in sleep mode issue we first covered in October 2021, but it recently generated wider negative press when ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/10/macos-monterey-12-2-1-update-f ... ⌘ Read more
Do you see someones birthday you want to remove from your iPhone Calendar? Is your iPhone Calendar full of birthdays that you don’t care about or don’t care to see? Want to delete these birthdays from your iPhone or iPad Calendar and are perplexed that there’s no obvious way to do so? Are you wondering ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Universal Control, the feature that allows a single Mac to control multiple Macs and iPads by sharing a keyboard and mouse, is surely the most hotly anticipated feature of macOS Monterey. Though it was delayed past the the initial release of Monterey, you don’t have to wait any longer to try out Universal Control and ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Want a vertically split set of Terminals on the Mac, so that you can have two concurrent terminals running side by side for executing their own commands? Of course you do, this is a staple feature of many terminal apps for linux and unix command lines, so having this feature on the Mac is a ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Apple has released the second beta versions of macOS Monterey 12.3, iOS 15.4, and iPadOS 15.4 to users enrolled in the beta testing programs for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The latest iOS 15.4 beta includes support for Tap to Pay for accepting contactless payments, along with official support for using Face ID with a mask, ... [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2022/02/08/beta-2-of-macos-12-3-ios-15-4-ipados-15-4-re ... ⌘ Read more
The Default Dock on macOS shows off many of the apps that come bundled with your Mac out of the box. Many users customize it right away by adding apps they use on a regular basis, and removing those they don’t. However, some people may prefer to have a cleaner Dock, and to minimize the ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Looking to share a Pages file from your iPhone or iPad with a colleague who uses Microsoft Word on a Windows PC? Since Microsoft Word does not support the .pages file format, they won’t be able to open and view the contents of the Pages file unless it’s converted first. But not to worry, because ... Read More ⌘ Read more
If you were disappointed to find out that WORDLE, the very popular word guessing game, has been sold to The New York Times, and will likely end up behind a pay-wall at some point, plus undergo who knows whatever other changes to fit the NYT style, you can preserve the original WORDLE game for yourself, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you sign in to your Apple ID on a lot of different devices, let’s say your iPhone, several Mac’s, a few Windows machines, an old PC, an older iPhone or iPad or two, or even an Android device? If so, you may want to check out how many devices are associated with your account, ... Read More ⌘ Read more
Do you use a Gmail account with the stock Mail app on your iPhone or iPad? If so, you may have noticed that whenever you try to delete an email or send it to Trash by using the swipe left gesture, you get an “Archive” option instead with Gmail accounts. If you’d rather be deleting ... Read More ⌘ Read more