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Apple’s intent with the Mac is for your experience to be as easy to use as possible. At the same time, there’s also a rich world of hidden features and settings to explore for those of us who aren’t content with default macOS. While you could mess with Terminal commands or comb every page of various settings menus to… Read more…

You’ve probably seen iPhone Home Screens that just look cool, sporting dynamic text, fun images, and custom icons…but even with iOS 16's new Lock Screen editor, there’s no way to use Apple’s built-in tools to make them. For that, you’ll need to look outward. Read more…

How to Disable Those Annoying ‘Suggestion’ Ads on Your Windows PC

When you buy a new Windows laptop, it keeps offering ads that are disguised as suggestions. But you already spent the money on the machine—you shouldn’t have to suffer through a bunch of ads on your brand new laptop, and you don’t have to. Here’s how to turn them off. Read more…

How to Bring Back the Classic Taskbar on Windows 11

The Windows 11 taskbar gets worse with every release, and the widget popups and expanded Search bar aren’t helping. Here’s an idea, though: What if you nuke the whole thing? What if you bring back the Windows 10 taskbar, so you can place it on any edge of the screen, or see full-width app names again? Microsoft, of… Read more…

Seven Ways to Declutter Your Mac Before the New Year

As you look forward to the new year and new beginnings in all areas of your life, your tech should not be ignored. Taking a few moments now to freshen up your Mac will make it cleaner and faster, so it can help you meet any other goals and resolutions ahead of you in 2023. Here’s how to do a quick end-of-year tune-up… Read more…

How to Never Lose a Safari Tab on Your iPhone Again

It only took Apple a decade or so, but you can finally pin tabs in Safari on your iPhone and iPad. The feature was worth the wait: When you close all tabs, it won’t clear the pinned tabs. By effect, you can turn your frequently visited websites into static web apps, without adding them to the home screen. Read more…

The Best New Widgets for Your iPhone Lock Screen

With iOS 14, Apple brought widgets to your iPhone’s Home Screen—with iOS 16, Apple wants to do the same with your Lock Screen. With this update, you can create multiple Lock Screens that you can cycle through at any time, and each Lock Screen can hold up to five different widgets: There’s a grid of four squares below… Read more…

The Easiest Way to Delete All Your Old iPhone Screenshots

You probably take screenshots every day, whether it’s a location you want to remember, a picture you want to save, or a text thread you want to share. Your Photos app is likely littered with screenshots from the past several months, if not years, crowding your photo library and taking up storage on your iPhone and… Read more…