When you look at the battery icon in the menu bar at the top of your Mac screen, you may see what looks like an electrical cord on the battery. If you haven’t noticed this symbol before, you may wonder if it is telling you something about the battery not charging properly. It’s true that … Read more
Most of the time, it isn’t really a big deal when a video automatically starts playing on a website you are visiting. However, if you are in a place where you are expected to be quiet or if you are browsing while on a Zoom call, a video that automatically starts up when you don’t … Read more
When you are trying to update or restore your iPhone using your Mac or iTunes on your PC, you may run into an error. Two common errors that indicate a problem connecting with or communicating with your device during an update or restore are error 9 and error 4013. The message you will see looks … Read more
For some years now, your hard drive’s icon no longer shows up by default on your Mac desktop. If you had gotten used to having that icon there, however, you might really miss it. This article will explain how to put your hard disk icon on your desktop; you’ll see how to put other icons, … Read more
I recently sent in my MacBook Pro for a battery replacement, and when I got it back, it kept showing the message “You shut down your computer because of a problem” whenever I would restart it. After doing some research, I could see that many users have had this problem with their Macs running Monterey, … Read more
I use right-click a lot on my Mac. I recently borrowed a friend’s MacBook, and one of the first things I did to make it usable was to enable a right-click for the trackpad. macOS offers a few different options for “right-clicking.” One of them actually involves clicking the right side of the trackpad. The … Read more
Sometimes, you may keep seeing a pop-up message on your Mac saying, “printtool is trying to modify the printer settings.” The message also asks you to enter your user name and password to modify settings. Lastly, this message may seem to appear randomly and intermittently. Sometimes, this message may appear every time you want to … Read more
Occasionally you may want to restart or reset the Dock on your Mac to fix various issues. If your Mac is showing one of the following behaviors, you may need to restart the Dock: The Dock is unresponsive or not showing. Your Mouse or Trackpad is acting bizarre. The Dock is not showing app icons. … Read more
With the release of iOS/iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey, Apple included the Private Relay feature. Private Relay is designed to help protect users’ privacy while they browse the internet and is available to iCloud+ subscribers and works in Safari. Why Private Relay? What does it do? Private Relay separates the information associated with your internet … Read more
You can download full macOS installers from the command line. You may want to do this for a variety of reasons, for example: You may want to create USB boot drive installers. This is a USB flash drive or secondary volume where you can store installer files. Then you can use this as a startup … Read more