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How to set up automatic iCloud backups for your iPad
Many of you already know the importance of backing up your device, whether it be an iPad or an iPhone. If this is you, I apologize if you’ve heard this before, and I’m happy to hear that you are...
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How to Filter out Spam Invitations to your iCloud Calendar on your iPad
Tis the season to get unsolicited calendar invitations to your iOS devices via your iCloud account. I never knew this was a “thing” until I recently became part of a large spamming exercise to lure...
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How to use Single Sign-On to watch pay-TV on your iPad
Back at WWDC last June Apple announced a major update to Apple TV that leaned heavily on the use of Siri for search in addition to features like Live tune-in and the ability to manage Home Kit...
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Location Services on your iPad; what you need to know
When it comes to electronic devices, especially mobile phones, the big big buzz word these day is privacy. Makes sense, it’s a big deal. Almost as important as privacy is how you mange your privacy...
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How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication for your Apple ID on your iPad
If you’re running the beta for iOS 10.3 on your iPad then you’ve most likely already received a push notification from Apple encouraging you to enable Two-Factor Authentication for your Apple ID....
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How to Move the Cursor Using Trackpad Mode
With the new iPad just released, I expect that we will have some first-time iPad users stopping by looking for help with their new devices. Also, some of you who may be upgrading from an iPad 2 or 3,...
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How to Use Multi-Touch Gesture Navigation on an iPad
Just like last week’s tip on controlling the iPad’s cursor for selecting and editing using Trackpad Mode, the iPad’s multi-touch navigation features are easy to miss or forget about. In fact, I hadn’t...
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Managing Your iOS Cellular Data Usage
Even as “unlimited” data plans are now making a roaring comeback, the majority of iOS users are still on either tiered data plans, or have data thresholds past which they get their speeds throttled....
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Setting Up Two-Step Verification and Trusted Devices
I vividly remember reading Mat Honan’s horror story in Wired magazine about being hacked and having his devices, some of which wheren’t backed up, wiped out and his social media accounts taken over....
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Tips and Tricks: Using Find My iPhone
In honor of the thieves who almost got away over 100 smartphones at Coachella a couple of weeks ago, this week’s tip is how to set up and use Find My iPhone. Those thieves were thwarted when a few of...
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Tips and Tricks: Using Split-View in Safari on the iPad
After the introduction of true iPad multi-tasking in iOS 9, one of the biggest missing features was the ability to use this split view in Safari. Other browsers and apps rushed in to fill the void,...
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Tips and Tricks: Backing Up Your iOS Device
Backing up is something that you don’t think about until it’s ALL you can think about. You don’t really need it until the day comes when a device fails, and then you REALLY need it. As the old adage...
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iOS 11 Tips: Two-Factor Authentication Replaces Two-Step Verification
A little over two months ago, I wrote a Tips article covering Apple’s Two-Step Verification and Trusted Devices. This is a very important weapon in constant battle to protect your accounts from...
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Tips and Tricks: Lightning Not Striking?
I share this tip this week because, for the third year in a row, I find myself having the same problem. It seems that the Lightning Port of the iPhones 6, 6S and 7 all have a particular attraction to...
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Tips and Tricks: Synching Music to the Apple Watch
One of the reasons that I’ve never mentioned this tip before is because, until recently, I hadn’t used this feature myself. Until I got the Apple Watch 3 with LTE, that is. I used to use the Watch as...
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Tips and Tricks: Creating and Marking Up PDFs in iOS 11
As a contractor, I can tell you that PDF documents are the industry standard in my world. You don’t have to fuss with security settings or worry about them being altered the same way that you do with...
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Tips and Tricks: Apple Music Now Playing Navigation
One bit of frustration I have had with the Apple Music app on my iPhone is navigation. While the basics of finding music actually work fine for me, it is the process of backtracking later on where I...
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Tips and Tricks: Apple Unifies Trackpad Mode in iOS 12
Apple brought us Trackpad Mode, a way to move a cursor for easier text editing, almost three years ago. It debuted on the iPad in iOS 9. We also got an iPhone version of Trackpad Mode later that same...
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Tips and Tricks: Did You Know Siri’s Voice and Language Settings are Separate?
Many of you reading this may think it is one of those moronically obvious iOS tips that is just a waste of everyone’s time. However, if like me, you have been using Siri since its unveiling in iOS 5...
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Tips and Tricks: Password Autofill Now Supports 3rd Party Password Managers...
I vividly remember reading about Mat Honan, then of Wired Magazine, getting hacked by kids using social engineering tricks over six years ago. His entire digital life, including a laptop with family...
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Tips and Tricks: Reopen Recently Closed Tabs in Safari
Have you ever tapped the “X” or swiped on a tab in Safari in iOS only to remember a second later that you still needed it for something? Whether it’s instantly or hours later, it happens to me all the...
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Tips and Tricks: Open a Safari Link in a New Page With a Gesture
Did you know that you could do a two-finger tap on a link in Safari to launch it into a new browser window? If you didn’t, you aren’t alone. I may have heard about this gesture at some point, but like...
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Tips and Tricks: The iPadOS Floating On-Screen Keyboard
If I had to pick one thing I don’t enjoy about life with an iPad, it would be using the on-screen keyboard in landscape. I much prefer to use my iPad Pro in landscape most of the time, going back to...
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Tips and Tricks: Managing iOS 13 Bluetooth App Access Settings
If you recently upgraded to iOS 13, you may have noticed some new pop-ups asking you to approve an app’s access to Bluetooth. You may be shocked at just how many apps do this. Unfortunately, most of...
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Tips and Tricks: Managing Space While Using Apple Arcade
I tried Apple Arcade starting day one and I’m already a big fan. There was a really solid list of games available at release and Apple has kept new content steadily trickling out in the month since....
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How to enable Safari Split View in iOS 10
At WWDC last month we got our first glimpse of what Apple has planned for iOS 10 on the iPad. There will most likely be additional changes and unannounced features saved for when it’s released to...
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Learn How to Code on your iPad with Swift Playgrounds
During WWDC last month, Apple introduced an amazing new App that will be available to iPad owners running iOS 10 this fall. The App is called Swift Playgrounds, and it presents a unique way for users...
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“Hey Siri” on you iPad is capable of so much more than you thought
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Siri? A dictation assistant? A way to get help with directions? Someone to talk to and ask all sorts of ridiculous questions? Well,...
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How to Manage and Edit the Mailboxes on your iPad
The most widely used email client on iOS is the default Apple Mail app. Sure there are other email apps out there that are much more feature rich and great to use. However, the masses typically go...
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Tips and Tricks: iPadOS 13.4 Trackpad and Mouse Settings
The release version of iPadOS 13.4 is on the way, and if you follow Apple news, then you doubtless already know that support for mice and trackpads is included. Maybe you are even running the...
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