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Tips for Getting Back to Work Faster After Restarting Your Mac
All too often, Mac users put off installing updates because of the bother of having to set everything up again...
Legitimately Worried That You’re Being Targeted Online? Try Lockdown Mode
Most people fall into one of two extremes when it comes to device security. Many believe they’re not interesting...
Improve Privacy by Removing Metadata from Office Documents and PDFs
When we share data with others, we do so intentionally—a law firm sending a client legal documents, for instance. But...
Learn to Identify and Eliminate Phishing Notifications
Email may be the most common form of phishing, but it’s not the only one. Modern Web browsers support a technology...
Sidestep MacBook Optimized Battery Charging When Necessary
Have you ever run into a situation where the battery icon in your menu bar is stuck at 80% even though your Mac has...
How to Add Important Metadata to Scanned Photos
Photos we take today with our iPhones and other digital cameras automatically have metadata associated with them,...
What to Do If Your iPhone Takes a Plunge
No one intends to drop their iPhone in a pool or fall off a boat with their iPhone in a pocket. But accidents happen....
A Practical Guide to Identifying Phishing Emails
Phishing is becoming an ever more common way for people to get in trouble when using the Internet. A phishing attack...
Protect Your iPhone Passcode by Using Face ID or Touch ID
This is troubling. Joanna Stern and Nicole Nguyen of the Wall Street Journal have published an article (paywalled) and...
The Amazingly Convenient Way to Scan Documents Using Your iPhone or iPad
On occasion, we all need to scan a document—an invoice, a recipe, instructions from a book—but far more people have an...
Six Ways of Making It Easier to Browse Your Favorite Websites
Everyone—or at least everyone reading this article—knows how to use a Web browser. But just because you can click...
Copy Gigabytes of Data Between Macs with Target Disk Mode
Apple makes it easy to move data between Macs. You can send files via AirDrop, attach them to an email message, put...
Practice with the Emergency SOS via Satellite Demo, Just in Case
In mid-November, Apple launched its new Emergency SOS via satellite feature for the iPhone 14 lineup. If you have an...
Merge Duplicate Photos and Videos in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and Ventura
It’s all too easy to end up with duplicate photos and videos in your Photos library. The most common way is to use the...