Apple’s Find My technology is a lifesaver when it works, enabling you to locate and potentially retrieve lost or stolen devices. It’s not perfect, even with the addition of the Find My Network, which drafts other nearby Apple devices to relay the location of a lost device, but it’s a heck of a lot better…

Quick quiz: what does a red number badge on the Phone icon on your iPhone mean? You are right if you said that it indicates the number of missed calls or voicemail messages. The Mail and Messages apps also use a red badge to display the number of unread messages; Settings uses one to indicate…

Have you heard the expression “expect the unexpected”? It is an attempt to inject a little levity into planning for the unthinkable event of dying without warning. No one expects to be hit by a bus, but these things do happen. This is always terrible, and it also adds another challenge for that person’s family;…

Before macOS 12 Monterey, if you wanted to sell, trade in, or give away your Mac, you had to boot into Recovery, erase the internal drive with Disk Utility, and reinstall macOS to ensure that the new owner would get a fresh start and couldn’t see any of your data. In Monterey, Apple has made…

Some people find it hard to find the mouse pointer at times, particularly on a large screen or when working in Dark Mode or in apps with dark interfaces. There is a solution for this. You have long been able to increase the size of the pointer generally and also zoom it temporarily by shaking…