With Apple’s HomePod smart speaker now available, it’s time to think about how a HomePod would work for you. We took a HomePod home as soon as they became available, so now we can share our experiences. Available in black or white, the 6.8-inch high device is meant to be placed on a kitchen counter, […]
With Apple’s Touch ID and Face ID features, you can unlock any Touch ID- or Face ID-equipped device, such as an iPhone or iPad, using your biometric information, that is, information based on your body, such as your fingerprint or the look of your face. You can also use this biometric information to pay quickly […]
A Mac laptop makes a great graduation gift—it’s both glamorous and practical, and sure to be appreciated by any high school student heading off to college. A chart at the end of the article shows the differences at a glance, and we’ll help you pick the perfect model by laying out your options in three […]
One of the core aspects of the Mac experience is saving files—when you create something in Pages or iMovie, you almost always want to save it for additional work or future reference. Because saving is so important, it’s easy, but you can get more out of the Save dialog by knowing a handful of tricks. […]
At the end of March, Apple released updates to all four of its operating systems, but iOS 11.3 was the most notable. It boasts a variety of new features and other changes—you can think of it as the midpoint update between iOS 11’s first release and iOS 12, probably coming next September. All remaining updates […]
Facebook has dominated the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from Android phones. And within the Facebook iOS app, the company pushes the Onavo […]
You’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but have you set it up so you can use it to pay for purchases at checkout? If not, give it a try, since it’s one of those living-in-the future Apple technologies that feels like science fiction every time you use it. Simply put your iPhone, iPad, or Apple […]
At a special education event on March 27th, Apple introduced a new 9.7-inch iPad that offers faster performance, support for the Apple Pencil, and a few new camera-related features. The company also released new versions of the iWork apps—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—that let users draw, sketch, and write with the Apple Pencil. Sixth-generation iPad For […]
Even nursery schoolers know that it’s nice to share, but the iPhone and iPad take sharing to a new level with the Share button. You may not have realized that the icon that looks like a box with an arrow coming out of it is called “Share,” but you probably have figured out that you […]
Modern life is infested with passwords, and nearly anything that you might want to do requires one: buying tickets, paying bills, and even reading magazines. Long ago, it might have been acceptable to use a single password on most Web sites, perhaps with a slight modification for an important site. But things are different now. […]
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