Need to Limit How Much Your Kids Use Their Devices? Use Screen Time in iOS 12

It’s a constant refrain in many homes—a kid clamoring to use an iPad or iPhone to play games, watch videos, or chat with friends. As a parent, you know too much screen time is bad, especially when it affects homework or family dinners. At the same time, an iOS device may be essential for [...]

By |2018-11-02T13:39:11-04:00November 23rd, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Need to Limit How Much Your Kids Use Their Devices? Use Screen Time in iOS 12

Here’s How Apple Changed Sending a Photo in Messages in iOS 12

Before iOS 12, you’d tap the camera button in a Messages chat in order to share either a brand-new photo or a photo that had already been taken. In iOS 12, Apple changed things so tapping the camera button only lets you take a fresh photo. To find and send a photo that’s already [...]

By |2018-11-02T13:36:37-04:00November 20th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Here’s How Apple Changed Sending a Photo in Messages in iOS 12

So What Are All Those Stacks of Notifications in iOS 12?

It can be easy to become overwhelmed by iOS notifications, particularly if you have chatty friends or apps. In iOS 12, Apple corralled notifications by grouping them into stacks so you no longer see an endless screen of alerts. To expand a stack of notifications on either the Lock screen or in Notification Center [...]

By |2018-11-02T13:31:37-04:00November 13th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on So What Are All Those Stacks of Notifications in iOS 12?

In iOS 12, Do Not Disturb Can Turn Itself Off—No More Missed Alerts!

We love the Do Not Disturb feature in iOS—it’s essential for keeping notifications from waking us up at night or causing embarrassing light and noise in dark movie theater. But it’s long had a problem. When you invoked Do Not Disturb manually for a movie or doctor’s appointment, you had to remember to turn [...]

By |2018-10-01T14:20:23-04:00November 9th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on In iOS 12, Do Not Disturb Can Turn Itself Off—No More Missed Alerts!

Use Continuity Camera to Scan Documents and Take Photos Right into Mac Documents

Have you found yourself composing an email message on your Mac while staring glumly at the receipt or document you need to scan and attach to the message? Adding that scan to the message isn’t impossible, but until macOS 10.14 Mojave, it hasn’t necessarily been easy. It’s super simple now, thanks to a new [...]

By |2018-10-01T14:17:03-04:00November 2nd, 2018|Mac Tips|Comments Off on Use Continuity Camera to Scan Documents and Take Photos Right into Mac Documents

Apple Moved Control Center in iOS 12 on the iPad—Here’s Where to Find It

Although most of what’s new in iOS 12 are new features, one change for change’s sake may throw you. In iOS 11 on an iPad, you would bring up Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, just like on all iPhones other than the iPhone X. With iOS 12, however, [...]

By |2018-10-01T14:05:55-04:00October 30th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Apple Moved Control Center in iOS 12 on the iPad—Here’s Where to Find It

iOS 12’s Screen Time Feature Helps You Manage Your iPhone Usage

Do you frequently reach for your iPhone for a quick check of Facebook or Messages? It’s all too easy to let social media, the latest hot game, or even your work email intrude on your real life. If you’re uncomfortable with how much—and when—you use your iPhone or iPad, iOS 12’s new Screen Time [...]

By |2018-10-01T14:13:58-04:00October 26th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on iOS 12’s Screen Time Feature Helps You Manage Your iPhone Usage

Finally! iOS 12 Lets You Use Google Maps or Waze in CarPlay

Before iOS 12, Apple Maps was the only mapping app you could run on the dashboard in a CarPlay-equipped automobile. But Maps doesn’t always work well, and some people prefer directions from Google Maps or the Google-owned Waze. Once you upgrade your iPhone to iOS 12 and update to the latest version of Google [...]

By |2018-10-01T14:00:40-04:00October 16th, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Finally! iOS 12 Lets You Use Google Maps or Waze in CarPlay

Back Up Before Upgrading to Mojave or iOS 12!

Poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they can’t stop talking about and many will launch into frustrated rants about how too few people back up. Backups are always important, since you can never predict when your Mac or iPhone will be lost or stolen, melt in a fire, or just break. [...]

By |2019-05-09T17:47:14-04:00September 28th, 2018|iOS Tips, Mac Tips|Comments Off on Back Up Before Upgrading to Mojave or iOS 12!

Top Features of iOS 12 to Take Advantage of Right Away

Feeling left behind because you don’t have the latest iPhone or iPad? Don’t, because Apple has a present for you in the form of iOS 12. The new operating system promises to increase performance, particularly for older devices as far back as the iPhone 5s and iPad Air. But iOS 12 offers more than [...]

By |2018-09-06T19:03:22-04:00September 21st, 2018|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Top Features of iOS 12 to Take Advantage of Right Away
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