Tame the Tangle! Quick Cable Management Tips

Do you have a rat’s nest of random cables behind your Mac? Follow our quick tips to bring order to the mess, reduce the chance of accidents, and avoid de-graded data signals.

How to Mirror Your iPhone (or iPad) Screen to Your Mac

If you can show someone what’s on your Mac, you can show them your iPhone too! Here’s how.

Quickly Catalog Books or Other Named Items on Shelves

You can take advantage of Apple’s Live Text feature in Photos to catalog books, boxes, or any other items with text names. Think of it as a lazy person’s ad hoc database.

Select Non-Contiguous Text in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers 14

A new feature in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers lets you select bits of text that aren’t next to each other so that you can, for example, format them or copy them all at once.

Did You Know Most Mac Apps Keep Versions of Your Documents as You Work?

If you ever regret making a change too long ago to revert using Undo, try the versioning capabilities in many macOS apps that let you view, copy data from, and revert to previous versions of a document.

Display an Album of Photos on Your iPhone or iPad Lock Screen

If you like how the Lock Screen’s Photo Shuffle wallpaper rotates through photos but would prefer that it worked from an album you specified, you’re in luck! That’s now possible in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17.

Apple Introduces New iPad Air, iPad Pro, Apple Pencil Pro, and Magic Keyboard

Apple has released new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air and iPad Pro models, plus a new Apple Pencil Pro and Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro. We round up the new features and provide advice on what to consider for your next iPad.

Where Can You Control Automatic Smart Quotes and Dashes in macOS?

Smart quotes and dashes usually make your text look more professional. But if they’re problematic, you can turn off the feature that inserts them automatically or revert them on a one-off basis.

Audit Your Trusted Device Lists for Greater Security

We all accumulate “trusted devices” in our Apple, Google, and password man-ager accounts, but it’s important to remove devices you no longer use because they could be security risks.

How to Display the Battery Percentage in Your Mac’s Menu Bar

If you’re tired of trying to interpret how full your MacBook’s battery is from its menu bar icon, here’s how to get it to display a percentage as well.