Holiday Travel Tip: Share Airline Boarding Passes Using Wallet and AirDrop
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/share-airline-boarding-passes-using-wallet-and-airdrop.jpg"></div>It’s common for one person in a family to handle booking airline tickets and thus to be in charge of checking in for the flight online and downloading boarding passes. If that’s you, what’s the best way to send each iPhone-wielding person in your family their own boarding pass? Rather than tussle with sharing the […]
You Asked, We Answered. How To: Bring Back the Battery Percentage Indicator in iOS 16
Back in 2017, when Apple added the notch to the iPhone X for Face ID, the resulting loss of usable screen real estate caused the company to remove the battery percentage indicator from the status area. Since then, you’ve only been able to estimate how much battery life you had left from the icon...
How To: Easily Share Wi-Fi Passwords with Other People and Devices
<img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/easily-share-wi-fi-passwords-with-other-people-and-devices.jpg">You’re on vacation with your family, staying in an Airbnb, with multiple Apple devices to connect to the apartment’s Wi-Fi. Typing the password repeatedly would be a pain, but happily, Apple has added a password-sharing feature to all its operating systems. Once you enter the password on your iPhone, whenever someone else—or another of your […]
How To: Hide Your Precise Location from Apps You Don’t Trust.
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/dont-trust-an-app-fully-hide-your-precise-location-from-it.jpg"></div>Most of the time, having your iPhone know precisely where you are is good. You want Maps to tell you exactly when to turn, not after you’ve passed an intersection. But too many apps abuse their users’ privacy. We strongly encourage you to stop using such apps entirely, but we acknowledge that it can be […]
Coming Soon: Most Pantone Color Books for Adobe Creative Cloud to Require Pantone Connect License
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/most-pantone-color-books-for-adobe-creative-cloud-to-require-pantone-connect-license.jpg"></div>Adobe says that Pantone Color Books will be phased out of Adobe Creative Cloud apps, starting with updates to Illustrator, InDesign, and Photoshop released after August 16, 2022. After November 2022, only three Pantone Color Books will remain: Pantone + CMYK Coated, Pantone + CMYK Uncoated, and Pantone + Metallics Coated. To access all other […]
Not Getting Your SMS Two-Factor Authentication Codes? Give This a Shot.
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/how-to-restore-missing-sms-two-factor-authentication-codes.jpg"></div>Many websites, from Adobe to Zendesk, let you receive two-factor authentication codes via SMS text messages. That’s good—any form of two-factor authentication is better than none—but you’re often effectively locked out of your accounts if those text messages don’t arrive. A simple fix is to call your cellular carrier and ask to have any blocks […]
What Now? Here is What to Do If I Get an “AirTag Found Moving With You” Message?
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/what-should-i-do-if-i-get-an-airtag-found-moving-with-you-message.jpg"></div>First, don’t panic. Most likely, you’re borrowing something with an Apple AirTag location tracker attached to it, or someone left something with an attached AirTag in your car. Second, tap the alert to open the Find My app, which displays a map showing where the AirTag has been with you, which might shed some light […]
Make Vacation Navigation Simpler with Favorite Addresses in Maps
<div class="media_block"><img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/ease-vacation-navigation-with-favorite-addresses-in-maps.jpg"></div>Imagine you’re on vacation, staying at an Airbnb and collecting tourist points in the surrounding area throughout the day. Since you’ll be heading back to your Airbnb regularly but may not remember its address reliably, it’s best to make it a favorite in Maps before you even leave home. That way, you can navigate to […]
Struggling With Glare and Reflections With Your Document Photos? Take a Step Back
<img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/use-the-iphone-cameras-zoom-to-avoid-glare-reflections-and-shadow.jpg">We increasingly need to take photos of documents—vaccination cards, driver licenses, passports, etc.—to submit for online verification. That’s often easier said than done, especially when taking a photo at night under lights that obscure the text with glare and shadows. Similarly, when photographing a screen to document a problem for tech support, it’s often difficult […]
Fix Those Damn Overzealous Auto-Correct Curly Quotes
<img src="https://www.creativetechs.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/how-to-recover-from-overzealous-auto-correct-curly-quotes.jpg">Most of the time, it’s appropriate when an auto-correct feature turns single and double hash marks into single and double curly quotes. However, there are times when the curly quotes are awkward for some reason or actively wrong. For instance, hash marks indicate feet and inches, as in 5′ 6″. You could attempt to disable […]
