Several Apple Music users have reported that they are receiving the following error message while trying to play certain sets of songs: “This song is […]
Latest Articles
How To Delete An Apple ID
This article explains how you can permanently delete your Apple ID. For a long time, Apple did not offer the option to delete your Apple […]
How To Change Color Of Visited Links In Safari (macOS)
In this tutorial, I explain how you can easily change the color of clicked links on Mac Safari. You can create and use a custom […]
How To Articles
Activity Monitor: What It Is & How To Use It (Task Manager)
Activity Monitor shows a variety of processess in use, in real-time. So that you can view each of the processes running on the computer, and see how they affect the overall performance of your computer. Activity Monitor also lets you see hidden background processes. Activity Monitor is a utility app included in macOS. If you […]
How To Use Spotlight On Your Mac
Spotlight lets you find apps, documents, and other files and folders on your Mac. In fact, with Spotlight, you can search your Mac for anything. It is probably one of the most frequently used part of the macOS software. I, for example, use it constantly to quickly find what I am looking for on my […]
iPhone Screen Not Rotating? Fix
This article explains what you can do when your iPhone screen does not rotate. Your iPhone’s screen has two screen orientation (as you can see the image below): Landscape mode Portrait mode When you tilt your device on its side, the screen is supposed to follow and rotate to landscape mode. Your screen is supposed […]
Not Working? Fix It
Safari Visited Links Not Changing Color? Fix
Several users have reported that Safari do not change color for visited hyperlinks. Likewise, some users have further stated that Safari visited links no longer change color only on Google search results pages. This means that visited links are treated as never visited. Google (and Bing) mark results you visited as purple, while the default link color […]
Face ID Disabled? How To Fix
This article explains how you can resolve when you receive the “Face ID has been disabled” error. The exact error message is: A problem was detected with the TrueDepth camera. Face ID has been disabled. (see the image below) If Face ID is disabled, you may not be able to use Face ID to unlock […]
Unable to Activate, An Update Is Required To Activate Your iPhone, Fix
This article explains how you can fix the “Unable to Activate. An update is required to activate your iPhone” error. Several users have reported this issue. Users have said that they run into this error with a “No Signal” in the status bar, a shutdown button and an exclamation mark after they reset or update their devices. […]
Latest News
Number of Apple’s Autonomous Cars Decreases For The First Time
Apple kept continuing to increase the number of autonomous vehicles in California until November, 2018. In November, Apple had 72 autonomous vehicles (and 144 drivers) permitted to test on public roads, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. Apple kept this numbers until last week. And we learned from the California Department of Motor Vehicles […]
Apple Autonomous Car Fleet Grows To 72 Vehicles In California
Apple is continuing to increase the number of autonomous vehicles in California. The company now has 72 autonomous vehicles permitted to test on public roads, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles,. Last time we reported, Apple had 70 vehicles. Apple keeps adding autonomous vehicles to its test fleet at a steady rate. Here is […]
Apple Autonomous Car Fleet Grows to 70 Vehicles in California
Apple is continuing to increase its self-driving vehicles. According to the California Department of Motor Vehicles, Apple has now 70 cars approved for testing in the State. These car are being controlled by 139 approved drivers. Our last report was on July 18, and Apple had 66 cars. Apple added another 4 self-driving cars to […]
Tips and Tricks
How To Download Zip Files Without Unzipping
This short tip explains how you can stop Safari from automatically unzipping downloaded zip files. When you want to save a zip file on your computer, Safari will unzip .zip and .gz files after downloading. So what if you want to save as a .zip file without extracting. Zip files are compressed, archive files that […]
How To Reduce Bandwidth Usage On Your Mac
Do you want to cut down your Internet data usage? If so this article is for you. This article explains a few simple yet effective tips to reduce bandwidth usage on your Mac. In order to be able to use some tips explained here, your Mac should be running macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later. […]
How To Block or Allow Pop-Ups On Your Mac
This article explains how you can block or allow pop-up window ads on your Mac. Generally, pop-ups are forms of advertising. The good news is that you can easily configure your Safari browser to allow or block pop-up windows. How to block pop-ups in Safari Pop-ups are annoying. They are unwanted. Sometimes they may slow […]
Guides
How To Use Terminal On Your Mac
In this article, we explain what is Mac Terminal, how to use it and what it can do for you. In many macreports.com articles, we recommend our readers to use the Terminal app to troubleshoot various problems that our readers may be having with your Mac. Basically, Terminal is a command line interface (CLI – or […]
How To Use Network Utility on Mac
macOS includes an application called Network Utility. This means that you do not need to download or install this app. This app provides a variety of handy networking tools and details. You can use this tool for variety of purposes, from troubleshooting a connection to looking up information. How to find Network Utility: There are two […]
How To Run Traceroute on macOS
This article explains how you can perform a traceroute on your Mac. You may use traceroute to diagnose network routing issues (e.g., connectivity problems) and other related problems because it is a a network diagnostic tool. There are two ways to do this: Via the Terminal app Via the Network Utility app See also: macOS Won’t […]