by Terry McAdams | Mar 12, 2023 | Mac, Messages, productivity, Tip
Occasionally, we hear from a client who needs to document a Messages conversation with timestamps, perhaps as part of a lawsuit. The only way to do that on an iPhone or iPad is to take a series of screenshots, but if you have a Mac, there are additional options. The...
by Terry McAdams | Nov 8, 2022 | Messages, productivity, Tip
Next time you’re flying to visit your Apple-using family or friends, send them your flight number using Messages when you leave. Then they can easily track your flight in the air and see when you’re arriving. Just text them the flight number prefixed with the...
by Terry McAdams | Oct 3, 2022 | Messages, productivity
After years of user requests, Apple has finally beefed up Messages with a few welcome features—options to mark conversations as unread for later reference, edit messages after they’ve been sent, and undo sending entirely. Plus, when you delete junk texts in Messages,...
by Terry McAdams | Jun 7, 2022 | Dictation, iCloud Photo Sharing, Messages, News, passwords
It’s that time of year again. Apple CEO Tim Cook and numerous Apple employees took the virtual stage again at the company’s Worldwide Developer Conference keynote on June 6th to share what we can expect to see later this year in macOS 13 Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS...
by Terry McAdams | Jan 25, 2022 | How-To, iOS, Messages, productivity, troubleshooting
Quick quiz: what does a red number badge on the Phone icon on your iPhone mean? You’d be right if you said that it indicates the number of missed calls or voicemail messages. The Mail and Messages apps also use a red badge to display the number of unread messages;...
by Terry McAdams | Oct 7, 2021 | iPhone, Messages, Tip, troubleshooting
Here’s a tricky situation that threw one of our clients for a loop recently. Texts they sent in Messages via iMessage (indicated by blue bubbles) to their son, letting him know they were stopping by weren’t being delivered, making their visits a surprise. But other...
