Sep 26, 2018 | App Limits, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, battery, Blog, customization, Do Not Disturb, Downtime, iBooks, iOS 12, iPhone, Measure, News, notifications, performance, productivity, Restricted Content, Screen Time, Siri Shortcuts, Stocks, Voice Memos
Feeling left behind because you don’t have the latest iPhone or iPad? Don’t, because Apple has a present for you in the form of iOS 12. The new operating system promises to increase performance, particularly for older devices as far back as the iPhone 5s and iPad Air....
Apr 24, 2018 | Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Explainer, iPad, iPhone, privacy, productivity, Restricted Content, security
You’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but have you set it up so you can use it to pay for purchases at checkout? If not, give it a try, since it’s one of those living-in-the future Apple technologies that feels like science fiction every time you use it. Simply put your...
Apr 6, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Facebook, How-To, iOS, iPhone, Mac, privacy, Restricted Content, security
Facebook has dominated the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from...
Mar 16, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Explainer, iOS, iPhone, phone, productivity, Restricted Content
Junk calls are one of the great annoyances of the modern world. You’re minding your own business when your iPhone vibrates in your pocket. You pull it out, curious as to who’s calling, but don’t recognize the number. You may notice that it’s in the same exchange as...
Feb 15, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, customization, facial recognition, Mac, Photos, Restricted Content, Tip
Apple’s Photos app is remarkably good at identifying people in your snapshots and collecting all the pictures that contain a particular person into a group in its People view. At its top level, the People view shows a thumbnail photo for each person, picking one...
Jan 21, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, High Sierra, Mac, macOS, Restricted Content, Safari, Solution, Web site
Although macOS 10.13 High Sierra was light on new features, it did bring one welcome addition to Safari—site-specific settings. Imagine that you regularly visit a blog that you prefer to read using Safari’s Reader view. Rather than invoke it each time you visit, you...
