Apple Hardware and Compatible Accessories

Hi.
I'm not sure if this topic should be in the hardware forum instead.
It's about the time where I need to think about getting a new Macbook. I'm not sure on what to get and what would fit my needs.
I bought my current Macbook Air 11 inch in 2014. At this time, this lovely small computer was ment to only work as a travel computer on the go. For a lot of reasons, the computer quickly end up being my primary computer, which still surprise me today. I bought a computer with only 128 gb of storage but upgraded it to 8 gb of ram.

Hi all,
I am looking to buy a foldable bluetooth keyboard. My preferences would be a good quality bluetooth keyboard that is compatible with all OS's (Windows, oSX, iOS, Android etc), it should have a decent battery life and it should be compact enough of a pocket size. I do not like silicon ones, plastic or aluminium-coated is ok.
Thanks in advance for any advice.

I noticed that LS&S group is now selling the Orbit Bluetooth trackers. These are small and designed to help you locate a lost item. They have trackers that attach to a keychain, some which stick on to surfaces, and one which is a complete leather wallet. The website for the manufacturer is here:
https://findorbit.com/orbit_us/
but there are also competitors.

Almost a year into using the headphones that came with my iPhone 5S. Initially I started facing some strange issues with the sound volume on them. For example if I received a message on the what app. the volume would be suddenly turned up to full. Sometimes the music volume although turned up to 100% sounds like the music is coming from under a matress. Turning VoiceOver and restarting it sometimes fixes this.

Hi everyone, I just got an Otterbox Defender case for my 2nd generation iPhone SE. I really love the protection it gives the phone, but there's one feature I can't figure out how to use. The case comes with the holster with belt clip, and they talk about how you can somehow extend the belt clip in order to turn it into a kick stand so you can put the phone down, say, while you're on a call. I get how the clip rotates to different positions, but what i do not get is how you extend the clip. They show you how to do it in numerous videos, but that's not helping me.

I understand that these cases are difficult to install and remove even for sighted people.

So, are there any recommendations/accessible tutorials about how to go about putting the case on and taking it off your phone independently?

Hey guys,

So, I've got an iPhone 13 Pro Max Sierra Blue from AT&T, and just ordered the Shadow Black Otterbox Folio case. By the looks of things, and from what Aira tells me, it looks like it will be really incredibly nice. I do have a magsafe case made by Apple, (one of their official magsafe cases) as from what I'm understanding, the way these folio cases work, you put your phone inside a magsafe case, like this, or one of the Otterbox symmetry cases, and then, that will then magnitize on to the actual right inside of the folio case itself.

Before switching from PC to Mac, I used to share files between my PC and PacMate via USB ports. I plugged my PacMate into my Mac mini the other day and I did not find anything on the screen that indicated to me they could communicate with each other. I subsequently concluded this must be due to the fact that PacMate uses a Windows based OS. Am I correct in this conclusion and is there a way to get these two devices to share files? Thanks much.

Hi Everyone,
Before reading anything please keep in mind that I am a novice. Okay here's what I want too do I want to pair a new Keyboard with My iphone 6S plus. Now the way I want too do this is use my old keyboard too pair the new keyboard with My iPhone. is This Possible? and If so how. Thank you all very much for any help.
Regards,
Steve Cullen

Hi All,

I have a new iPhone 7 and I can't remember how to pair my Logitech H800 headphones, can somebody help? When I bought them I paired them with the 5s that I had at the time but I don't remember what I did.

My primary computer is a Dell 14z, running Win 7. Being that I have RP, I heavily utilize ZoomText 10.1 on this platform. My secondary PC is a Dell desktop mini-tower. It is an i5 with 8 GB RAM, 1.5 TB of HD space, running Win 10. I've installed ZT 10.1 on that machine as well. I had full intentions of migrating to the desktop and use the laptop on an as needed basis. That was a mistake.

So, you have this pen-friend device, costing extra, whereas your IPhone comes with builtin NFC reader.
I am surprised someone hasn't already created an app to completely replace Pen-friend with off the shelf NFC stickers costing literally nothing on Amazon and an IOS app.
Here's what the app can do: read the NFC tag, offer a dialog box after recognition, if there's a saved announcement/recording associated with whatever the tag already has, speak it out, with either TTs or play the audio recording.

I'm about to Percious the Phonak Audeo v30, and OF cores, we are using the Voice over most of the time. am thinking of buying the Phonak Wireless Compilot , anyone tried it? i tried it on the Phonak Shop, it seems ok with VOice over, but they do not allow long period of trial.
so, need your experience if this is ok with VOice over and Navigation apps or is there a better alternative? I noticed also that the pwer saving may be the problem, but is tehrea solution for this?thanks in advance

I have an IPhone SE running the latest update. I've noticed not all the time but sometimes my phone will feel warm after a full charge. Is this normal or is my charger going bad? I use a regular lightening cord to charge and my battery health is at 97 percent.
Thanks

My iPhone 5 goes off at exactly 20%....i charged it till it was 29% then i switched it off for a while.. Switched it on later on and it was 32% ...please what can i do to fix my iphone 5 going off at 20% ?

I have this great idea to improve the phone function for those who want to voice text while using the phone at the exact same time one of the problems that we come across is that when you’re on the phone with someone you want to text another person or the person you’re talking to either on FaceTime FaceTime audio or even just regular phone is that it does not have the ability to use the microphone to voice text at the same time.

Hey guys,
I’m having a really annoying issue with my series 5 on Watch OS 6.1.1. It’s a known issue that Apple is working on. Wondering if others are experiencing this, and if any workarounds.
I have 2 sets of wireless earbuds. Both function as they should. No issues when connected to phone. Also no issues when connected to watch, unless I initiate a call. When I make a call on Watch, call disconnects from buds and continues from Watch speaker. When call ends, buds reconnect.
Are you experiencing this? Have you found way to keep buds connected?
Thanks,
JP