How to Digitize Your Signature So You’re Ready for Online Document Signing

Over the last decade, and particularly during the last year of pandemic life, documents have become more likely to arrive in email or as downloads than on paper. If you need to return a signed document on paper, it’s easy to print and sign it before popping it in the mailbox. But what if [...]

By |2021-06-07T11:58:10-04:00July 2nd, 2021|iOS Tips, Mac Tips|Comments Off on How to Digitize Your Signature So You’re Ready for Online Document Signing

How to Make Sure Your iPhone Doesn’t Make Noise in the Night

You likely know that you can use Do Not Disturb to prevent random notifications on your iPhone from waking you at night—it’s easy to set a Do Not Disturb schedule for your usual sleeping hours. Another setting in there is important but often overlooked. If you ever use your iPhone during those Do Not [...]

By |2020-11-13T18:49:53-04:00November 24th, 2020|iOS Tips|Comments Off on How to Make Sure Your iPhone Doesn’t Make Noise in the Night

Here’s Why You Should Always Keep the Find My iPhone Feature Enabled

On the face of it, Apple’s Find My iPhone feature does what it says. If you lose your iPhone, you can identify its last known location by looking in the Find iPhone app or on the iCloud Web site, and you can make it play a sound. It’s great for tracking down a missing [...]

By |2018-09-13T16:17:08-04:00October 12th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Here’s Why You Should Always Keep the Find My iPhone Feature Enabled

A Simple Technique for Decluttering Your Reminders List

Productivity experts recommend offloading things you have to remember to a task-management app like Apple’s Reminders, which syncs your to-dos among your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. That’s particularly helpful for tasks you want to be reminded of in a few months or next year, but then those far-in-the-future tasks—especially repeating ones!—clutter your [...]

By |2018-08-08T17:50:12-04:00August 28th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on A Simple Technique for Decluttering Your Reminders List

Here’s How to Load the Desktop Version of a Web Site on an iPhone or iPad

Some Web sites have separate desktop and mobile versions, each theoretically providing the best browsing experience for its platform. Unfortunately, mobile Web sites sometimes leave out necessary features or hide content. That’s especially annoying if you’re browsing on an iPad, where the desktop site would work fine. If you run across such a site [...]

By |2018-08-08T17:47:17-04:00August 21st, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Here’s How to Load the Desktop Version of a Web Site on an iPhone or iPad

Tired of “Sent from my iPhone” as Your Email Signature?

When you use Apple’s Mail app on your iPhone to send email, the default signature is “Sent from my iPhone.” If you’d rather not advertise that fact with every email, or would prefer to change it to something more personal, don’t bother poking around in the Mail app itself. Instead, go to Settings > [...]

By |2018-07-07T11:40:35-04:00July 31st, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Tired of “Sent from my iPhone” as Your Email Signature?

Tired of Skewed Lines in Your Photos? Use the Camera App’s Hidden Level.

If you’ve ever photographed a sheet of paper or some other rectangular object, the image may have come out skewed because you inadvertently tilted the camera. The iOS 11 Camera app has a level feature to help you avoid this problem, but it’s so subtle that you may not have noticed it. To use it, [...]

By |2018-07-07T11:33:22-04:00July 10th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Tired of Skewed Lines in Your Photos? Use the Camera App’s Hidden Level.

Teach Siri How to Pronounce Names Properly

Siri is supposed to be a competent voice assistant, but sometimes Siri can’t even pronounce your own name correctly! Luckily, it’s easy to fix Siri’s pronunciation for any name. Just say to Siri, “Learn how to pronounce Jill Kresock.” (Siri defaults to “krehsock” rather than the correct “kreesock” in this case.) Siri first asks you [...]

By |2018-05-02T18:17:44-04:00May 8th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Teach Siri How to Pronounce Names Properly

Apple Pay Is Faster, Easier, More Secure, and More Private Than Using Credit Cards

You’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but have you set it up so you can use it to pay for purchases at checkout? If not, give it a try, since it’s one of those living-in-the future Apple technologies that feels like science fiction every time you use it. Simply put your iPhone, iPad, or [...]

By |2018-04-02T23:04:50-04:00April 27th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Apple Pay Is Faster, Easier, More Secure, and More Private Than Using Credit Cards

There’s a Hidden Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet in Your iPad

If you’re working on an iPad with a physical keyboard—either a Bluetooth keyboard or an iPad Pro with Apple’s Smart Keyboard—there are quite a few keyboard shortcuts you can use to work faster. Many are what you’d guess if you have Mac experience; for instance, Command-F generally maps to Find. But to see a [...]

By |2018-04-02T23:02:14-04:00April 24th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on There’s a Hidden Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet in Your iPad
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