by Terry McAdams | May 8, 2020 | Battery, iPhone, troubleshooting
A common question we hear is, “Why is my iPhone/iPad battery draining so fast?” Luckily, Apple provides tools that help you see exactly how your iPhone uses its battery over the last 24 hours and—with less detail—over each of the last 10 days. Plus, you can tweak...
by Terry McAdams | May 7, 2020 | iOS, privacy, Tip
Sharing your location works well when you’re out with friends or family and want everyone to be able to see where everyone else is. It’s easy to enable in various spots in iOS 13—in Messages, in Contacts, in the Find My app, and so on. You can share your location for...
by Terry McAdams | May 6, 2020 | iCloud, iOS, Mac, Photos, productivity, Tip
For quite a few years, Apple enabled users to download their iPhone or iPad photos to their Macs with a service called My Photo Stream. It wasn’t perfect, but it was free, and it did a decent job of ensuring that photos you took on your iPhone or iPad would end up on...
by Terry McAdams | May 5, 2020 | Mac, MacBook Pro
In a move that completes the transition of the MacBook line from the troubled butterfly keyboard to the Magic Keyboard, Apple has released a new 13-inch MacBook Pro. The company also doubled the amount of storage in each of the standard configurations while keeping...
by Terry McAdams | May 5, 2020 | Backup, Email, How-To, iCloud, iCloud Drive, iOS, Mac, Tip, troubleshooting
By default, Apple gives every iCloud user 5 GB of storage space. That disappears quickly, given how it’s shared between iCloud Mail, iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, Messages, and iCloud-enabled apps. Apple will, of course, sell you more iCloud space. $0.99 per month gets...
