In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to add a website bookmark to the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. This enables you to access the website with a double tap on a Home Screen icon , instead of having to open a browser and then select a bookmark or type in a website's URL.
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In the fifth of his series of podcasts devoted to Apple's new AirTag Bluetooth Tracker, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to rename an AirTag that's previously been added to your account.
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Set up your AirTag using your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
Apple in iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 added a new option to help Siri learn to select your preferred audio apps for listening to music, podcasts, and audiobooks.
In this podcast, Graham Langford gives us a quick tip of how to customize contact labels in iOS.
In this episode, Tyler Stephen shows us how to disable contact suggestions in the iOS Share Sheet, which can help declutter the view.
To do this, go to Settings > Siri & Search, and disable the "Show when sharing" toggle under the "suggestions from Apple" heading.
In this podcast from his series looking at some of what's new and notable in iOS 15, Thomas Domville Shows us how haptic feedback is now given to VoiceOver users when “No Item Discovered,” and tells us how it can be disabled.
In this podcast, Gabriel Oria takes us through a quick work-around which allows you to download your full Apple Music library to your iOs device, all in one go.
Apple has made many improvements to its Weather app with the release of iOS 16. One of these is an option to receive alerts for severe weather for a particular location.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through the steps to enable this option.
In this podcast, Tunmi Jubril demonstrates how to find and browse all of the movies and TV shows on Netflix which offer audio description.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how to force quit an app on Apple Watch.
Reasons you might want to do this include the app becoming unresponsive, frequently crashing, or you simply having a suspicion that the app might be the cause of a more general and system-wide issue.
As Thomas demonstrates, the process is simple - with the app open, press and hold the side button to show the power options. Then press and hold the Digital Crown to quit the app. 2 of 3
In this podcast Andre Louis gives us a quick tutorial on how to format an SSD as APFS on macOS.
On iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Apple has replaced the ‘notch’ that's been a feature of Face ID-equipped iPhones since the iPhone X with what it calls the Dynamic Island. The Dynamic Island is a small area of display pixels surrounding the pill-shaped cutout. It appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked, and changes size and shape to accommodate various types of alerts, notifications, and interactions such as music that’s playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directions from Maps.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through a new accessibility enhancement in iOS 16 that allows you to increase Siri's pause time, which causes the voice assistant to wait a longer period for you to finish speaking.
In this quick tip, Igna Triay shows us how to Pause an Audio or Movie Recording Using QuickTime Player On the Mac. Although this process is very straightforward, there is a step that might not be obvious to some.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through where to find and enable the iOS setting that prevents the side or lock button from ending calls.
Note that some in our community have recently reported issues with the side button not behaving as expected in regard to ending calls.
In this podcast, Kushal Solanki gives us a quick demonstration of the Read Aloud feature of Google's iOS app that will read a single or a number of articles aloud.
The app offers playback controls that allow you to pause or skip around in the “article.” Further, other articles can be added to the queue to create a playlist of articles.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how in iOS 16 you are now able to recover deleted conversations in the native iOS Messages app. Note that this will only be possible for up to approximately 30 days after the conversation was deleted.
New to the iPhone with the release of iOS 16 is the ability to report SMS/MMS messages as junk. This expands on the built-in "Report Junk" feature in Messages that previously only let you report iMessages. Now you can use the same option to report an SMS/MMS message as junk, which will alert Apple and your network carrier and delete the message in question.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
In the last of his series of podcasts devoted to Apple's new AirTag Bluetooth Tracker, Thomas Domville shows us how to reset an Apple AirTag to its factory settings. This removes the AirTag from your Apple ID, enabling you to set it up from new again or give it to somebody else to use.
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How to reset your AirTag