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 | 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...
by Terry McAdams | May 4, 2020 | Battery, iPhone, Tip, troubleshooting
If you’re plugging your iPhone in regularly but getting low-battery warnings when you shouldn’t, consider the possibility that something is preventing your iPhone from charging successfully while plugged in. If there’s no lightning bolt badge on the battery icon when...
by Terry McAdams | May 1, 2020 | iPad, productivity, Tip
When Apple released iPadOS 13.4 recently, it came with an unexpected feature: trackpad and mouse support. Apple plans to release a Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro that has a built-in trackpad in May as well, but in the meantime, you can control an iPad entirely via a...
by Terry McAdams | May 1, 2020 | Email, Internet, Tip
When you’re writing a blog post or email newsletter, you’ll eventually hit the question of how to capitalize words in a title. There is no one right way, but just as with poor spelling and grammar, randomly capitalized titles can reduce reader trust in your knowledge,...
