In the Apple world, the account that controls access to all your Apple-related online services is the Apple ID. Buying apps from the App Store, putting photos in iCloud Photos, and sharing data between iCloud-enabled apps—all these actions rely on your Apple ID. If you’re a regular Apple user, you have an Apple ID associated…

When you connect to a public Wi-Fi network at places like airports, hotels, coffee shops, or schools, you might encounter a captive portal login page that you need to interact with to gain access to the network. This page might ask for login credentials, your name, or require you to agree to the terms of…

Apple’s iOS, iPadOS, and macOS offer flexible options for managing app notifications. You can choose whether an app should show no notifications, temporary banners, or persistent alerts. To adjust these settings, navigate to Settings > Notifications on iOS and iPadOS, or System Settings > Notifications on macOS. Temporary banners appear briefly and then disappear, making…

Apple’s prices for Thunderbolt, USB-C, and Lightning cables often seem unnecessarily high. $69 for a Thunderbolt 4 cable or $19 for a simple USB-C to Lightning cable? Unfortunately, when it comes to cables, you often get what you pay for. Happily, other reputable hardware manufacturers like Anker, Belkin, and OWC sell quality cables for less…

A side effect of the pandemic is that online videoconferencing improved drastically. Video calls happened before 2020, but videoconferencing wasn’t an everyday activity for most people. Now, with many people working remotely or in a hybrid model, it’s a fact of business life. To support videoconferencing tools, Apple has extended macOS’s basic webcam and microphone…

QR codes, those square, blocky codes you scan with your iPhone’s camera to load a Web page, have become ubiquitous. So much so that we seldom pause before scanning any QR code we see. But if you think about it, that’s the same as clicking random links in emails or texts, which is a terrible…