If you change the credit card linked to your Apple ID because it expired or was stolen, your HomePod probably won’t recognize the new information and stop streaming Apple Music. Here’s how to get HomePod to see your updated information.
macOS: Prevent Settings Changes by Hiding System Preferences
If you don’t want anyone messing with certain System Preferences options, hide ’em! In this Quick Tip, we’re going to tell you how to do this on your own Mac—or even on someone else’s. If you have to do tech support for your family members, this could be sanity-saving.
macOS: A Fast Keyboard Shortcut for Mac Emojis
Andrew Orr tells us about a keyboard shortcut to bring up Mac emojis.
Can't Print? Try Resetting Your Printer's Network Configuration
There’s a little-known feature of most printer models that’ll let you reset any network configurations to their defaults, which can solve all kinds of communication problems and flakiness in those oh-so-frustrating devices. We’ll talk about it in today’s Quick Tip!
2018 Oscar Nominees: Best Picture Movies on iTunes
We searched for the movies in the ‘Best Picture’ category and found them in iTunes.
1Password Can Find Your Pwned Passwords: Find Out How
Agilebits has announced a tremendously important feature for 1Password subscriptions: the ability to see if your passwords are pwned passwords—here’s what you need to know about it.
iOS: How to Use Siri Hands Free From Your iPhone Lock Screen
Using Siri hands free with AirPods is great, but then I ran into a problem.
Need a Mac IRC Client? Here are 3 You Can Use
I spent a couple of days trying out different ones. Here are my thoughts.
How to Turn Off HomePod's Siri Light
If you don’t want a pulsing light on top of your HomePod every time you say, “Hey Siri,” here’s how to turn it off.
Use Reminders to set Multiple HomePod Timers
You can only set one timer at a time on the HomePod. But there is a workaround.
iPhone X: How to Go to Your Last App from the Home Screen
There’s a gesture that’ll let you go back to your last-used app from the Home screen on the iPhone X—without having to invoke the app switcher! In this Quick Tip, we’ll show you how.
macOS: 5 Ways to Find and Launch Mac Apps
There are multiple ways to find and launch Mac apps, and we’re here to tell you about 5 of them.
Photos: Editing Your Images with an External Program
Photos has a nifty little feature that’ll let you edit an image in Photoshop, say, and have the changes reflected in its library, no importing or exporting required! In today’s Quick Tip, we’ll cover all of the details—including a big ol’ caveat that you’ve gotta know.
macOS: Some Useful Mac Menu Bar Shortcuts You Can Do With the Option Key
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and I’m sure there are plenty more hidden Option key shortcuts I haven’t found yet.
4 Accessibility Apps That Help People With Disabilities
There isn’t a dedicated section in the App Store for accessibility apps so we’ve rounded up 4 great examples.
Need Your HomePod to Recalibrate its Sound for Your Room? Give it a Shake
Let’s say you moved some stuff around on the shelf where your HomePod sits and now it doesn’t sound quite right. Give your HomePod a gentle shake to recalibrate.
How to See Your Heart Rate Recovery on the iPhone
Your Apple Watch tracks a metric called heart rate recovery for three minutes after your workouts end; with this, you can get a pretty good idea of your cardiovascular health. In today’s article, we’ll show you how to find that data on your iPhone!
How to Hard Reset HomePod without an iPhone
This will be important if you need to reset your HomePod without access to the Wi-Fi network it already knows, or if you need to set it up with a different iPhone or iPad.
How to Control iTunes on Your Mac from Your Apple Watch
Controlling your Mac’s iTunes playback from your Apple Watch is incredibly easy, but you’ve gotta set it up first! In today’s Quick Tip, we’re going to walk you through the process, which we don’t suggest using to annoy your housemates by switching music from afar. (Just kidding—we totally suggest doing that.)
Here's How to Check for HomePod Software Updates
HomePod will do its best to keep its software up to date, much like Apple TV. If you want to make sure your smart speaker really is running the latest and greatest update you can do that, too, but it isn’t exactly intuitive. Read on to learn how.
