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 | Feb 22, 2022 | iCloud, iPad, iPhone, Mac, Tip
There’s little more frustrating than running out of space, which always seems to happen at just the wrong time. Luckily, Apple makes it easy to check any time, before it becomes a problem. On the Mac, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu and click Storage. On an...
by Terry McAdams | Feb 3, 2022 | iPad, iPhone
The beauty of the iPhone camera is that it combines the ease of use of a point-and-shoot camera with the image quality of a DSLR. To take a picture, you simply open the Camera app, frame your shot, and tap the shutter button. Simple, but what’s happening behind the...
by Terry McAdams | Jan 18, 2022 | Apple Watch, HomePod, iPhone, Siri, Tip
Siri has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, and we’ve just discovered a new one. Let’s say you set iPhone alarms to wake up and remind you to take medication throughout the day. However, if you don’t have your iPhone handy when those alarms go off, it can be annoying...
by Terry McAdams | Dec 7, 2021 | Emergency SOS, iPhone, Tip, troubleshooting
Did you know that pressing and holding the side button and one of the volume buttons on an iPhone 8 or later brings up a screen that lets you power your iPhone off, show your medical ID, and invoke Emergency SOS? (On earlier iPhones, press the side or top button five...
by Terry McAdams | Dec 1, 2021 | iPhone, productivity, Tip
Thanks to Apple’s 2020 acquisition of weather company Dark Sky, the iPhone’s Weather app has learned some new tricks in iOS 15. (It still isn’t available on the iPad, oddly.) Most obvious is its addition of weather maps that can show precipitation, temperature, and...
