Don’t forget to Enable Text Message Forwarding When You Get Your New Mac or iPad
You’ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad, but after you get a new device, it might be a while before you realize that it’s not receiving texts sent to your iPhone. It turns out that, when you get a new Apple device, you must manually enable it to […]
Did You Know You Can Close a Mac Laptop When It Has an External Display?
<img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/did-you-know-you-can-close-a-mac-laptop-when-it-has-an-external-display.jpg">We wanted to make sure that those of you who work on a Mac laptop with an external display know that you can close your laptop’s screen and keep working. Apple calls this closed-clamshell or closed-display mode. Of course, it requires that you connect an external keyboard and mouse or trackpad, via either USB or […]
Watch Out for iCloud Phishing Phone Calls!
We’ve been hearing reports of an uptick in the scam phone calls that claim to be from Apple. If you answer, an automated message tells you that your iCloud account has been breached and asks you to call a provided 1-866 number. Do not do this! Apple will never call you unprompted.
Use This New Setting to Prevent iOS Updates from Taking all your Free Space
The problem is that if you don’t want to update right away, that download consumes precious gigabytes of your free space in the meantime. In iOS 13.6 and iPadOS 13.6, Apple has finally provided a setting you can disable to prevent iOS from downloading updates ahead of time.
Check This Out! Older ScanSnap Scanners Get New Life with 64-bit Support
Unexpectedly, Fujitsu has now released ScanSnap Manager V7 with 64-bit support
Use This Trick to Find a Missing App Window
Every so often, we hear from a Mac user with a seemingly impossible problem: a document window in some app is opening somewhere outside of the screen so it’s effectively invisible and they can’t work with it in any way.
You Can Approve App Authentication Requests with Your Apple Watch in Catalina
Use your Apple Watch to unlock apps and your Mac.
Here’s How to Set a Default Printer on your Mac
If you have access to multiple printers, you probably know that you can choose one from the Printer pop-up menu at the top of the Print dialog. But macOS has a feature that should make it so you don’t have to switch printers manually as often.
Find Files in the Finder Better by Specifying a Search Scope
This isn’t about periscopes or mouthwash—when it comes to searching, a scope is the area in which a search takes place. When you use the Search field in a Finder window to look for files and folders, you have the choice of two scopes: This Mac or the current folder.
Stop Group FaceTime Video Tiles from Bouncing with Recent Apple OS Updates
Group FaceTime has a feature that some find obnoxious: automatic speaking prominence that causes the video tile for the speaker to grow and move around.
