You may see this alert message: “A software update is required to connect to your iPhone (or iPad)” when you connect your device to your computer with a USB cable. See also: iTunes backup password? The popup message says: “A software update is required to connect to your iOS device. Would you like to download and […]
iTunes Not Recognizing Your iPhone or iPad? Fix
You connect your iOS device to your computer (Mac or Windows) with your USB cable and iTunes does not detect your iOS device? This article explains what you can do to troubleshoot when iTunes does not see your iOS device, iPad or iPhone. When your device is connected to your computer, you can do various […]
How To Disable Update Adobe Flash Player Notifications
By default, Flash Player will check for updates automatically and when there is an update available, you will be notified and these notifications can be very annoying. See also: PDF Won’t Open: “Please Wait…” Message, How To Open For the past two weeks, I was bothered with the constantly popping up this Adobe notification asking me […]
What Does Blue Dot Mean On My Home Screen?
You may notice that blue dots appear next to some of your apps. And you may wonder why these blue dots appear sometime and what does that mean? See also: App Review Popups? These blue dots may appear next to some apps (left side of the app name – under the app icon, as you can […]
iPad Freezes or Stops Responding, Fix
You may experience that your iPad has become unresponsive. When your iPad freezes, it will not respond to any input (e.g., screen tapping, pressing buttons etc). This short article provides recommendations to help resolve this problem. Some of the symptoms include: iOS stops responding Nothing moves on the iPad’s screen Buttons do not work See […]
What Is Screen Time Password? How You Can Reset It
iOS 12 introduced a new feature: Screen Time. Screen Time lets you control how you spend your time interacting with your iPhone or iPad. This feature provides you with the information how you are using your time on your iOS devices. You get weekly screen time reports. This feature also lets you set time limits for […]
How to Turn Off Two-Factor Authentication?
We get a lot of questions from our readers wondering how two-factor authentication can be turned off. It seems that some users find that two-factor authentication is annoying and it is understandable that they may have various concerns about wanting to turn off two-factor; even though it helps enhance your account’s security by making it […]
How To See The Full Web Site Address In Safari URL Bar
By default, macOS Safari only shows the domain name of the web site you are viewing. It does not show the full, complete url. For instance, when you visit https://macreports.com/disable-auto-play-videos-safari-macos/, Safari’s address bar will only show macreports.com, as you can see below: You may want to change this setting for various reasons. For instance, you may […]
Mac: How To Troubleshoot Screen Flickering
Several MacBook users have reported that their screen displays are flickering. Some users have started that the problem would occur randomly. It seems that both retina and non-retina screens may experience this. It further seems that some screen flickering issues are so severe that it makes it almost impossible to look at the screen. See […]
I Disabled Wi-Fi in Control Center But Wi-Fi is Not Turned Off?
We get many questions regarding Control Center. Many users ask that why disabling Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth) is not turning off Wi-Fi (or Bluetooth). This is confusing for a lot of iOS users. Many users think there is something wrong with their iPhone or iPad devices because it will look like Wi-Fi keeps turning on after […]