by Terry McAdams | Mar 5, 2025 | Control Center, Mac, menu bar, Tip
With severe weather season about to get underway, this is a great feature to utilize, especially here in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma. In macOS 15.2 Sequoia, Apple added the option to display the current weather conditions in the menu bar but hid the switch deep...
by Terry McAdams | Oct 16, 2024 | Control Center, How-To, productivity
Control Center has been a part of our iPhone and iPad experience for over a decade, first appearing in iOS 7 in 2013. It provides direct access to important controls so we don’t have to hunt through Settings or apps. On the whole, it has been a welcome addition....
by Terry McAdams | Nov 28, 2023 | Control Center, keyboard shortcut, Mac, productivity, Tip
With macOS 13 Ventura, Apple brought Control Center from iOS to the Mac, providing a unified interface for features that users need to turn on and off regularly or that receive frequent adjustments, like screen brightness and audio volume. Clicking the Control Center...
by Terry McAdams | May 25, 2023 | Control Center, productivity, Tip
In iOS 15, Apple added the Voice Isolation feature to FaceTime calls to filter out noise around you while you’re talking, which is a boon if you’re making a call in a loud space or outside environment. With the recently released iOS 16.4, Apple has now brought that...
by Terry McAdams | Mar 1, 2022 | Control Center, iPad, iPhone, Tip, troubleshooting
Normally, when you rotate an iPad, the screen happily flips from portrait (vertical) to landscape (horizontal) orientation as appropriate. Rotating an iPhone has the same effect in some apps, though many are written to work only in one orientation. If you ever end up...
by Terry McAdams | Jul 6, 2021 | Apple Music, Control Center, iOS, iPad, iPhone, productivity, Siri, Tip
Don’t you hate it when a familiar song is playing but you can’t think of what it’s called? Or worse, when you hear a new track you really like but have no one to ask what it is? Never worry about that again, thanks to your iPhone or iPad. Back in 2018, Apple bought...
