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Did You Know That Siri on a HomePod Can Control Alarms on Other Devices?
If an iPhone alarm goes off and your phone isn’t handy, ask Siri on a HomePod to snooze or stop it for you.
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Practical tips for getting more out of iPhone and iPad at work, from Messages and Mail to battery life and settings.
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How to Stop Forgetting Your Apple Gear with “Notify When Left Behind”
Turn on Notify When Left Behind in Find My, and your iPhone alerts you when you walk away from your AirPods, AirTag, or Mac.
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Avoid Inclement Weather by Enabling Notifications in iOS 15’s Weather App
Thanks to Apple’s 2020 acquisition of weather company Dark Sky, the iPhone’s Weather app has learned some new tricks in iOS 15. (It still isn’t available on the iPad, oddly.) Most obvious is its…
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FaceTime Gains Cool New Features in Apple’s Latest Operating Systems
FaceTime has joined the big leagues in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Mon-terey. Read on to learn about FaceTime links, its cross-platform Web app, spe-cial mic modes and video effects, grid view, screen sharing, and SharePlay.
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Pay Attention to the iPhone’s Emergency SOS Auto Call Feature
Holding the side and volume buttons on an iPhone can call emergency services automatically. Here’s how Emergency SOS works and how to avoid accidental calls.
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Print Mailing Labels for Your Holiday Cards with Apple’s Contacts App
Much of the work of sending holiday cards is addressing all those envelopes. How-ever, with the Contacts app on your Mac, you can easily print mailing labels for all your friends and family rather than writing addresses out by hand.
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Use Visual Look Up in Photos in iOS 15 to Identify Plants, Pets, and More
Visual Look Up in iOS 15 identifies plants, pets, artwork, and landmarks in your photos. Here’s how to use it in the Photos app.
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Live Text Digitizes Text in Photos in iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey
Perhaps the most magical feature of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey is Live Text, which turns words in photos and other images into text you can select and then copy, look up, or translate.
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With Apple Watch Faces, Too Much Choice Can Be Confusing
The Apple Watch has a lot to offer older people, including heart rate monitoring, atrial fibrillation detection, fall detection, and electrocardiogram recording. But if you are—or are helping…
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Sort Your Lists Differently in Reminders in iOS 14 and Big Sur
For many years, Apple’s Reminders app let you sort your lists, but in just one way that applied to all lists equally. That was a problem if you had a to-do list that you wanted to sort by Due Date…
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Apple’s 2021 Crop: Four iPhones, Two iPads, and an Apple Watch
September is traditionally when new iPhones are ripe for the picking, and this year’s crop is no exception. At its California Streaming event on September 14th, Apple unveiled four iPhone 13…
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Nightstand Mode Makes Your Apple Watch a Helpful Bedroom Companion
Most Apple Watch users charge their watch every night, putting it on a charger as part of a bedtime routine. If that’s you, make sure you’re not missing one of the Apple Watch’s best features:…
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