Many Apple users rely on mac.com, me.com, or icloud.com email addresses, along with plenty of other iCloud-related services. So if you can’t send or receive email, if photos aren’t transferring via iCloud Photo Library, or if some other iCloud-related service isn’t responding, the first thing to do is check Apple’s System Status page. It’s updated […]
If a new Mac has recently arrived in your life, it may be time to hand your old Mac down to a friend or family member, pass it on to a coworker, or send it back to Apple for recycling. Here’s what to do. Backup Before anything else, make a backup, just in case. Do […]
You may already use Apple’s Reminders app to track your personal to-dos, but it works well for lists of all sorts. Reminders is particularly helpful when you use it to share a list, such as a shopping list that anyone in your family can use when in the right part of town. The steps for […]
Poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they can’t stop talking about and many will launch into frustrated rants about how too few people back up. Backups are always important, since you can never predict when your Mac or iPhone will be lost or stolen, melt in a fire, or just break. […]
Apple recently added Messages to the list of services whose data can be synced through iCloud, and most people will want to turn on this new feature right away. With Messages in iCloud—available starting in iOS 11.4 and macOS 10.13.5—your Messages conversations will act the way you probably already thought they should: the same conversations […]
When Apple first announced macOS 10.13 High Sierra and iOS 11, one of the promised features was Messages in iCloud, a way of syncing your conversations in Messages via your iCloud account. Despite the fact that Messages already tries to sync its conversations between your devices, this feature proved difficult for Apple to deliver, and […]
For many of us, some of the fun of taking photos (or videos) is sharing them with friends and family. If we want to share just one photo, email or Messages works nicely, but for lots of images that showcase a vacation or other special event, we use iCloud Photo Sharing. iCloud Photo Sharing is […]
File this warning under “unless it’s absolutely necessary.” If you use iCloud Photo Library on your Mac, don’t sign out from iCloud. Also, don’t deselect the iCloud Photo Library checkbox in either the Photos options of the iCloud pane of System Preferences or in the iCloud preferences in Photos itself. Why not? Because, when you […]
iCloud Drive is an easy way to store data online—photos in iCloud Photo Library, iOS backups, documents from iCloud-savvy apps, and more—but Apple provides only 5 GB of free space. If each member of a family pays for extra storage, it can get pricey. But now Family Sharing groups can save money by sharing a […]
We’ve been hearing reports from people whose Macs have been locked remotely via Find My Mac, with the criminals responsible holding access to the Mac hostage until they receive a ransom in Bitcoin. First, if this happens to you, do not pay the ransom! Any Apple Authorized Service Provider or Apple Store can unlock your […]
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