Useful Tips and tricks to make your Apple user experience more streamlined. Explore these articles to learn how to automate tasks and customize your user interface.
One of the neat features of iOS 16 is the ability to turn on or off captions during FaceTime calls. This feature lets you see what is being said by the other person. Captions, sometimes also called subtitles, can provide content to users who are hard-of-hearing or deaf. They can also help people who are … Read more
Sometimes you may want to kill a process because a program is using a lot of resources or fails to respond and freezes. Sometimes, a process may have never shut down properly and needs to be killed. You may use Terminal to identify what processes are running, and you can also easily kill the application … Read more
Some users have reported that iCloud Drive is stuck on loading and never actually loads. More specifically, users have said that they see an “iCloud Drive is loading…” error message when they want to browse their iCloud Drive content in the Files app, as you can see in the screenshot below: You may run into … Read more
You can record the screen of your iPhone or iPad, and these recordings can also include sound. Sometimes you may run into issues with your screen recordings. For example, you may not be able to save your recordings, and thus, your recordings will be lost. One particular problem that many users seem to have is … Read more
This article describes what you can do when you are unable to open and view PDF documents in the Mail app on your Mac. Several users are reporting this issue. Users have said that they can only open a PDF attachment they receive via email when they save it to their Mac first. It appears … Read more
Sometimes you may see a popup message appear on your Mac saying, “Updated Time Zone Information Available. Restart to apply new time zone definitions.” You may wonder why you are seeing this message and if there is anything wrong with your Mac. It is important to correct this problem as wrong time zone information may … Read more
Your Mac has a neat setting that allows you to configure macOS to show all common filename extensions, such as .txt, .docx, or .jpg. This setting will let you differentiate what type of file you have and what app you can use to open it. File extensions are generally three or four characters long and … Read more
When you see something happening, and you want to start recording it as quickly as possible, it can take far too much time to go through the usual process of unlocking your phone, selecting the Camera app, switching to Video mode, then finally pressing the record (Shutter) button. Using QuickTake is the fastest way to … 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
If you have installed Spotify on your Mac, it will automatically open itself whenever you turn on or log in to your Mac. If you are not using the app frequently, you may want to change this as you do not need the app running all the time in the background. When an app is … Read more