Five Quick Tips to Ease iPhone and iPad Text Editing and Amaze Your Friends

Editing text on an iPhone or iPad will never be as easy as on a Mac, but with these tips, you can quickly position the insertion point and select words and paragraphs using your finger.

Energy Saver Can Shut Down Your UPS-Equipped Mac in a Power Outage

If you connect your Mac to your UPS with a USB cable, you can use Energy Saver to shut your Mac down automatically in the event of a power failure… before the UPS battery runs out.

Working Late on Your Mac? Turn on Night Shift to Help Your Sleep

Night Shift changes the colors of the screen as the sun sets to reduce the amount of blue light hitting your eyes.

Find Some Ham Amidst Your Email Spam

Spam filters work pretty well, but sometimes they incorrectly filter important mail into your junk folder. Here’s an easy way to find good messages (also known as “ham”) amidst the spam.

Share 2FA Setup for Team Access to a Single Account

When a team or family group needs to share 2FA codes, use an authentication app instead of SMS — or better yet, use a password manager that can both generate 2FA codes and share logins with a group.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.