iOS Tips
3D Touch:
- Turn 3D Touch off and on
- Using 3D Touch on iPhone 6s: a video tutorial
- Turn iPhone keyboard into a trackpad
- Adjust 3D Touch sensitivity
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the Messages app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the iBooks app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the Mail app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for Safari
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the Music app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the Photos app
- 3D Touchshortcuts for the Camera app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for the Phone app
- 3D Touch shortcuts for Apple Maps
Accessibility
App Store:
- Creating an iTunes account without a credit card
- Getting a refund from the App Store
- Requesting an App Store refund directly from your iPhone
- Restricting in-app purchases
- How to gift an app
- Refreshing the App Store app
- Fix the ‘Redownload Unavailable’ error
Battery:
- Ways to save battery life on iPhone
- Enabling Low Power Mode
- Show battery status of connected devices in Notification Center
- Force quitting apps to save battery life is a terrible idea
Calculator:
Calendar:
- Access List view
- Display calendar events as list view in Notification Center
- Disable suggested events
- Share iCloud calendars
Camera:
- Taking a photo while recording a video
- Enable 1080p Slo-mo videos on iPhone 6s
- Enable 4K video recording on the iPhone 6s
- Switch Panorama mode direction
Clock:
Contacts:
- Creating contact groups on iPhone or iPad
- Restoring contacts from iCloud to iPhone or iPad
- Find, merge, and delete duplicate contacts
- Recover missing iCloud contacts
- Transfer iPhone contacts to computer
- Scan a business card and create a new contact
- Deleting several contacts at once
- Disable suggested contacts
- Import Google contacts on iPhone
FaceTime:
Health:
- Exporting and importing your Health data
- Only transfer Activity and Health app data to a new iPhone
- Import your old Health and Activity data into your new iPhone
iBooks
- Saving PDF files to iBooks
- Have your iPhone read books to you
- Hiding iCloud books in iBooks
- Deleting books
iCloud:
- Deleting your iPhone or iPad backups from iCloud
- Managing your iCloud backups and storage from your iOS device
- What to do when there is not enough iCloud storage to backup your iPhone
- Setting up iCloud Keychain
- Sync bookmarks between Mac, iPad and iPhone
- Enable and disable the iCloud Drive app
- Manually select what apps can be backed up in iCloud
- Delete documents and data stored in iCloud
- Hide or show the iCloud Drive app on your Home screen
Keyboard:
Mail app:
- Quickly opening your last email draft
- Replying to a selected passage of text in Mail app
- Creating email signatures per account
- Creating email VIPs
- Adding HTML links to email signatures
- Edit, reorganize, and hide your mailboxes
- Setting up Hotmail on iPhone or iPad
- Sending group emails
- Creating a handwritten email signature
- Attaching iCloud documents to your emails
- Changing your email sender name
- Quickly trash all emails
- Sending large attachments with Mail Drop
- Annotate email attachments with Markup
Maps:
Messages:
- See time stamp for sent and received messages
- A funny Messages prank
- Sending group SMS
- Disabling repeat notifications
- Fix for iMessages not syncing across devices
- Prevent iMessage spam
- Deregister from iMessage
- Bulk delete attachments
- Set text messages to be kept for 30 days or 1 year (not forever)
- Set iPhone to automatically delete audio messages
- Prevent Messages from recording audio when you lift iPhone to your ear
- Stop an outgoing iMessage before it is sent
- Turn iMessage read receipts on and off
- How to back up and restore your SMS and Messages
Music:
- Deleting songs from iPhone or iPad
- Disable automatic Apple Music membership renewal
- Hide Apple Music
- Disable Apple Music Connect
- Replay Beats 1 shows
- Enjoy Apple Music at high bitrates on mobile data connections
- See what you recently listened to on Apple Music, Beats 1 Radio and more
- Sharing Apple Music playlists
Notes:
Phone:
- Create an iPhone ringtone using a song in iTunes
- Assigning specific ringtones and vibrations to contacts
- Undeleting voicemails
- Save your voicemail as a note or voice memo
- Backing up iPhone contacts
- Find and merge duplicate contacts
- Creating custom text responses for phone calls
- Block contacts
- Export contacts
- Change voicemail password
- Delete voicemails
- Carrier Settings Update: what it is and how to check for it
- Quickly redial the last number on your iPhone
- Choose which contacts appear in Phone app’s 3D Touch shortcut menu
Photos:
- Deleting photos from your iPhone
- Save storage space by deleting photos
- Selecting multiple photos at once
- Turn a Shared album into a public website
- Simple ways to back up your iPhone photos
- Transferring photos to your Mac
- Compressing photos
- Resizing photos
- Viewing photos metadata
- Removing location data from photos
- Rotating photos
- Straightening photos
- Viewing your photos on a map
- Turn a Live Photo into a normal photo
- Select multiple pictures at once
- How to share Live Photos
- View Live Photos on older devices
- Take this extra step after deleting items in Photos
- Turn off HDR photo duplicates to save space
- Best ways to store photos in the cloud
- Batch resize iPhone photos and videos
Privacy:
- Limiting ad tracking in iOS
- Stopping Verizon and AT&T from sharing your user data with advertisers
- Using Frequent Locations and Traffic Conditions features
- Understanding and managing Diagnostic & Usage Data
- Ten ways to increase privacy
- Keep your iPhone from knowing where you are going next
- Hide text & email notification previews from the Lock screen
- Understanding Location Services and what they do
Safari:
- Reopening recently closed tabs in Safari on iPhone or iPad
- Clearing Safari’s Offline Reading List cache
- Deleting specific pages from History
- View desktop version of a website
- Disabling frequently visited sites
- Turn webpages into PDF documents
- Search text in Safari
- Show Safari toolbar without having to scroll back up
- Choose where Favorites are saved in Safari
- Preview a link URL in Safari
- Erase Safari browsing history and data
- Subscribe to articles from websites with Safari’s Shared Links
- Increasing privacy in Safari for iOS
- Email full article text in Safari
- Turn off Frequently Visited Sites
- Quickly get your answers from a website you’ve searched before
- Change default search engine
- View, search and edit Safari passwords
- Disable suggested search terms
- Hide Favorites in Safari
- Use bookmark folders
Security:
- How to use Find My iPhone
- Setting parental controls and content restrictions
- View what fingers are assigned to Touch ID
- Add credit card information to iCloud Keychain
- Remove credit card info from iCloud Keychain
- Deactivating your Apple ID
- How to check for Activation Lock before buying a used iPhone
- Securing your iPhone or iPad with Find My iPhone Activation Lock
- Tracking a lost or stolen iPhone or iPad with Find My iPhone
- What to do if your iPhone is lost or stolen
- Activating Lost mode on Find My iPhone
- Erasing a lost or stolen iPhone or iPad
- Make your iOS device more secure with 6-digit passcodes
- How to untrust connected computers and devices
Settings:
- Quickly locating a specific setting
- Using Wi-Fi Assist
- Why and how to use a VPN
- Uninstall a VPN
- Remove iOS configuration profiles
- Change the click speed of the Home button
- Turn off all vibration on your iPhone
- How to find your iPhone IMEI number
- Disable ‘Shake to Undo’
- Prevent your iPhone from vibrating when it’s on mute
- Select Siri voices for VoiceOver, Speak Screen and Speak Selection features
Siri:
- Teach Siri how to call you
- Introduce Siri to your family and friends
- Have Siri help you find a nearby Wi-Fi hotspot
- Use Siri to toggle system settings
- Have Siri toss a coin or roll the dice
Videos:
- Using Home Sharing to watch videos from your iTunes library on iPhone or iPad
- Deleting videos from your iPhone
Voice Memos:
Other:
- 6 hidden keys on the iPad split keyboard
- How to find out if your iPhone is unlocked
- How to copy Instagram photos to Flickr
- Checking your device’s warranty status for service and support coverage
- Adding an iPhone or iPad template to screenshots
- How to delete apps
- Force remove a paired Bluetooth device from your iPhone
- How to get your frayed Lightning cable replaced for free
- Erasing everything on your iPhone or iPad
- Change the name of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch
- Deleting old iOS backups
- Setting up a new iPhone from an iTunes backup
- Setting up a new iPhone from an iCloud backup
- Disable Notification Center and Control Center on the Lock screen
- Silence Siri audio feedback when iPhone’s mute switch is on silent
- Migrating from Android to iOS
- Manage dictionaries and look up word definitions
- How to remove a software update download from your device
- How to know what an emoji means
- How to use your iPhone EarPods like a pro
- How to use Bluetooth headset with iPhone like a pro
- Access Wallet and Apple Pay on the Lock screen
- How to convert units and currencies with Spotlight
- 7 tips to get rid of junk files and recover storage space on iPhone
- Preview flight information and track flights
- How to sort iOS notifications
- Schedule Do Not Disturb mode
- Have your iPhone’s LED flash blink when a notification comes in
- Purge iPhone memory without rebooting
- Dim iPhone screen brightness levels below the normal threshold without jailbreaking
- How to control your Apple TV and iTunes content with Remote app
- 40+ ways to save storage space on iPhone and iPad
- How to filter mature language for Siri and Dictation
- Temporarily stop Background App Refresh for a single app until it’s reopened
- Touch ID not working? Try this
- Disable suggested places for Siri and Spotlight Search
- Disable Siri Suggestions in Spotlight Search
- Decrease ‘Other’ storage on iOS
- ‘Other’ storage on your iPhone and iPad explained
- How to record your iPhone or iPad screen
Mac Tips
Accessibility:
Mac App Store:
Contacts:
Dock:
- Simple ways to get more from the Dock
- Resetting the Dock to factory defaults
- Auto-hide and remove delay of the Dock
- Add space between app icons in the Dock
- Keeping apps in the Dock
Finder:
- How to restart the Finder
- How to set the default Finder folder
- How to split and merge Finder windows
- How to bring Windows-like cut and paste functionality to Finder
- How to make files always open with a specific app
- How to move files around in OS X Finder while maintaining permissions and ownership data
- Show hidden files and folders
- Closing all Finder windows at once
- Set windows to open in the size you want
- Copy a file or folder’s complete path
- How to show full file path in Finder window titlebars
- How to use Finder’s interactive Path Bar on Mac
Folder:
iCloud:
iPhoto:
iTunes:
- Setting up parental control restrictions
- Setting up an iTunes allowance
- Syncing an iPhone with multiple iTunes libraries
- Stop iTunes from launching and syncing when connecting an iPhone
- Transfer your iTunes library to a new computer
- Transfer your music to a new computer using iTunes Match
- Turn on half-star ratings
- Transfer purchased media from iPhone and iPad to a computer
- Move iTunes library to an external drive
Keyboard:
- How to add a keyboard shortcut to any Mac app menu command
- Creating custom keyboard shortcuts
- Enable key repeats
- Quickly dismiss an autocorrect suggestion on Mac
- 10 Safari keyboard shortcuts to know
Mail:
Menu Bar:
- Restarting the menu bar
- Rearrange and remove stock menu bar icons
- Automatically hide the Menu Bar
- Display an analog clock in your Menu Bar
Messages:
Mission Control:
Notification Center:
- Sort notifications by arrival time
- Activating Notification Center with a keyboard shortcut
- Adding more widgets
- Quickly enable Do Not Disturb
Other:
- Clean up your Downloads folder to regain storage space
- How to download Instagram photos to your computer
- How to clear duplicates from “Open With” menu on OS X
- Keep your MacBook awake while its lid is closed
- Turn Mac into a Wi-Fi hotspot
- Have your Mac make text summaries
- Recording screencasts
- Get icons from Mac apps
- Changing Mac app icons
- Changing your Mac computer’s name
- Show and hide file extensions
- Enable Dark mode
- Batch renaming files on Mac
- Creating custom keyboard shortcuts for Mac apps
- Enable text selection in Quick Look
- The difference between “Empty Trash” and “Secure Empty Trash”
- Disable the camera on your Mac
- Make files always open with a specific app
- Replicating Cut and Paste functionality
- Using Hot Corners
- Set applications to automatically launch at startup
- Creating folder shortcuts, aka aliases
- Enable the use of Tab between buttons
- Showing the Library folder
- Minimizing vs hiding apps
- Hiding apps except the active one
- Change the default image viewer
- Force quit an app
- Enable three-finger drag gesture
- Installing beta software on a separate partition
- Picking a startup disk at boot time
- Booting in Verbose Mode
- Choosing a different startup disk
- Deleting a hard drive partition
- Finding out battery cycle count
- How to use Mission Control
- Disabling the mouse pointer shake gesture
- Find your Mac’s Bluetooth version
- Send video wirelessly from your Mac to TV
- Fix “Fetching” delay when selecting “Open With”
- Fix: stuck progress bar below LaunchPad icon
- How to control your Mac with the Siri Remote
- Get your Mac to speak any selected text
- Recording just part of your Mac screen
- Identify the biggest space wasters on your Mac with DaisyDisk
- Disabling natural scrolling on your multi-touch trackpad
- Keep your Mac from sleeping, dimming, or showing a screensaver
- Rotate a video
- Hide device icons on your desktop
Photos:
- Creating new libraries
- Moving pictures to Google Photos
- Stop Photos from launching when plugging your iPhone
- Stop Photos from auto-launching when connecting an imaging device
- Set an image in Photos app as your desktop wallpaper
- Export image in their original format
- Removing duplicate pictures
- Move Photos library to a separate drive
Preview app:
- Batch resizing images
- Extract images from apps
- Quick Look preview multiple photos at once
- Quickly crop an image
Safari:
- Show the full website address
- Previewing links
- View the HTML source code of a web page
- Muting tabs
- Pinning tabs
- Open a new private window
- Reopen windows and tabs from your last browsing session
Screenshots:
- How to screenshot your Mac
- Capture an entire web page as an image
- Change default folders where screenshots are saved
- Change Mac default screenshot file format
- Change the default name of screenshots
- Remove date and time from screenshot names
- Removing the shadow effect from screenshots
- Taking a screenshot that includes the mouse cursor
Security:
- Opening apps from unidentified developers
- Finding a Wi-Fi password
- Stop your Mac from asking for a password all the time
- Using Gatekeeper to help secure your Mac
- About OS X System Integrity Protection aka ‘Rootless’ and how to disable it
System Preferences:
- Quickly locating a specific setting
- Customize your view of System Preferences icons on your Mac
- Manually remove System Preferences panes
- 11 System Preferences tricks
Terminal:
- Customize the look of Terminal
- Make your Mac speak
- Change how frequently your Mac checks for software updates
- Set your screensaver as the wallpaper with this Terminal command
- View and clear the command history of the Terminal app
- 10 fun and useful Terminal commands
Time Machine:
- How to use Time Machine
- Setting up Time Machine
- Encrypting backups
- Partitioning your Time Machine external hard drive
- Excluding files and folders from backups
- Viewing and restoring files
- Transferring Music or Photos to a new Mac
- Setting up a new Mac from a Time Machine backup
Troubleshooting:
- How, why and when to boot in Safe Mode
- How and why to boot in Target Disk Mode
- Start up from a bootable CD/DVD, USB thumb drive or external storage device
- Repairing disk permissions
- Fixing a slow, unresponsive and laggy mouse
- Get system diagnostic files
- The different Mac OS X startup tones and the problems they indicate
- Troubleshooting common software issues
- How to start up in Recovery Mode
- How to start up in Internet Recovery Mode
- Repairing Mac disk errors in Recovery Mode
- Installing or reinstalling OS X in Recovery Mode
- Using Safari in Recovery Mode
- Restoring your Mac from a Time Machine backup in Recovery Mode
- Why and how to stress test your Mac fans and CPU
- AirDrop troubleshooting guide
- About your Mac’s SMC and how to reset it
- How to reset your Mac’s NVRAM to solve common issues
- Experiencing Bluetooth problems on your Mac? Try this
Apps
Facebook:
- Stop videos from autoplaying in Facebook app
- Uploading HD photos and videos
- Disable Location History to extend iPhone battery life
- How to make a profile video
- Hide Facebook Messenger notification previews from the Lock screen for more privacy
- Download entire archive of your Facebook account data
- Download Facebook photos and videos
- Save videos from your Facebook News Feed
- Keep apps, games and websites from spamming your Timeline
- Disable video auto-play in Facebook’s desktop interface
Twitter:
Vine:
- How to hide revines
- How to save Vine videos
- How to block users on Vine, report abuse and flag sensitive content
- How to block strangers from messaging you
- How to delete comments
Deleting accounts: