Hey Siri, Name That Tune!
Recently, Apple added Shazam to Control Center in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 - Here's how to use it.
Make Sure Your iPhone Doesn’t Make Noise in the Night
Check this setting to make Do Not Disturb just a little more silent.
Rearranging Apps on Your iPhone or iPad Just Got Easier!
You’ve likely seen our tip on using the Dock on an iPhone or iPad as a temporary holding place that makes rearranging apps easier. We’ve learned two new tips that help even more!
Don’t Worry about an Occasional “Not Charging” Message on Your Mac Laptop
Learn how Battery Health Management improves your battery’s lifespan by adjusting charging patterns to reduce the rate at which the battery chemically ages.
Too Many Home Screens in iOS 14? Here’s How to Hide Them!
The App Library in iOS 14 ensures that you can find all the apps installed on your iPhone without having to hunt through Home screens. So if you already have a lot of Home screens that contain a random assemblage of apps, it might be easier to hide those screens than to remove all the ...
Don’t forget to Enable Text Message Forwarding When You Get Your New Mac or iPad
You’ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad, but after you get a new device, it might be a while before you realize that it’s not receiving texts sent to your iPhone. It turns out that, when you get a new Apple device, you must manually enable it to […]
Did You Know You Can Close a Mac Laptop When It Has an External Display?
<img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/did-you-know-you-can-close-a-mac-laptop-when-it-has-an-external-display.jpg">We wanted to make sure that those of you who work on a Mac laptop with an external display know that you can close your laptop’s screen and keep working. Apple calls this closed-clamshell or closed-display mode. Of course, it requires that you connect an external keyboard and mouse or trackpad, via either USB or […]
Watch Out for iCloud Phishing Phone Calls!
We’ve been hearing reports of an uptick in the scam phone calls that claim to be from Apple. If you answer, an automated message tells you that your iCloud account has been breached and asks you to call a provided 1-866 number. Do not do this! Apple will never call you unprompted.
Use This New Setting to Prevent iOS Updates from Taking all your Free Space
The problem is that if you don’t want to update right away, that download consumes precious gigabytes of your free space in the meantime. In iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, Apple has finally provided a setting you can disable to prevent iOS from downloading updates ahead of time.
Check This Out! Older ScanSnap Scanners Get New Life with 64-bit Support
Unexpectedly, Fujitsu has now released ScanSnap Manager V7 with 64-bit support