Apple is revving up to kick off its annual four-day shopping event on Friday, November 25, but don’t get too excited. Apple is once again offering gift cards with new purchases and once again, its newest products are excluded. As expected, the iPhone 1…
How to delete Other storage on a Mac
Storage space on your Mac is precious, especially if you have a 128GB, or even a 256GB SSD. Your Mac can start to slow down and not perform as well when your storage is almost full, at which point you might see a “Your Startup Disk Is Full” warning. So…
How to delete system data on a Mac
If you are struggling with not enough storage and trying to make more space on your Mac Apple helpfully outlines ways to save space and displays some mysteriously named elements taking up storage space. If you click on the Apple logo > About This Mac >…
iPhone 14 Emergency SOS via satellite FAQ: How the new life-saving feature works
Apple has announced that its newest iPhone 14 feature, Emergency SOS via satellite, is now available to users in the U.S. and Canada. Here’s everything you need to know. Do I need an iPhone 14 to use Emergency SOS via satellite?Yes, the feature is only…
PSA: If you bought the 128GB Apple TV 4K, you can only use half the storage
If you’re looking to get one of the new third-generation Apple TV 4K set-top boxes, we recommend springing for the 128GB model. Not for the storage space–64GB is more than enough when streaming apps are so small and the gaming experience on Apple TV is…
Best Black Friday Apple Watch deals
Black Friday comes but once a year–and this year it falls on November 25. In recent years, however, the deals season has expanded to cover the week leading up to Black Friday, Cyber Monday afterward (that’s November 28 in 2022), and often most of the m…
The USB-C to Apple Pencil dongle represents everything wrong with Apple
Welcome to our weekend Apple Breakfast column, which includes all of the Apple news you missed this week in a handy bite-sized roundup. We call it Apple Breakfast because we think it goes great with a morning cup of coffee or tea, but it’s cool if you …
How to improve AirPods battery life
Going wireless, whether you’re talking about a mouse, a speaker or a pair of headphones, is wonderfully convenient: who wants to worry about cables getting tangled up or snagged? But there are downsides too, and the most obvious of these concerns the b…
iPad mini vs iPad (10th gen and 9th gen)
At a Glance Our VerdictThe 2022 iPad (10th gen) gains a new design, with no Home button and USB-C instead of Lightning, but other than that there’s not much more on offer compared to the 9th gen iPad, which represented a giant leap up from its predeces…
How to use the iOS Sleep focus mode to track your sleep and reduce nighttime distractions
The thing that keeps me up at night is trying to understand Apple’s updated Sleep options that interact with Health and Focus in iOS/iPadOS 16 and watchOS 9, with some elements affecting macOS as well. This new relationship among features shouldn’t cau…