Happy New Year! We’ve rounded up a collection of some interesting and useful tips and tricks for the iPhone and iPad and mac that were covered in the last year.
Anyway, browse around and take a look at the link list below, and perhaps you’ll learn something new!
- Best Mac Tips
- Great Tips for iPhone and iPad
- Best Miscellaneous Tech Tips
- Best Troubleshooting Guides
- Best Terminal Tips
Best Mac Tips
- How to Add AirDrop to Mac Dock for Quick Access
- How to Display Calendar Events as a List on Mac
- How to Force Quit Multiple Mac Apps at the Same Time
- How to Show Hidden Files on Mac by Keyboard Shortcut
- How to Use Lock Screen in MacOS
- How to Hide All Other Windows Except the Currently Active Mac App
- Show all Geotagged Photos on a Map on Mac
- How to Make Windows Full Screen on Mac
- How to Duplicate Files or Folders on Mac
- How to Get Size of Files or Folders on Mac
- How to Search Emoji on Mac
- How to Boot a Mac into Single User Mode
- How to Search Safari History on Mac
- How to Delete Specific Safari History on Mac
- How to Recover Deleted Safari History on a Mac
- How to Restore Accidentally Deleted System Files on Mac
- How to Disable Remote Loading of Content and Images on Mac Mail
- Where to Download Old Mac Software
- How to See the Size of Updates in the Mac App Store
- How to Disable Touch Bar on MacBook Pro
- How to Record Phone Calls with a Mac
- How to Enable Dark Mode Theme on Mac
- How to Schedule Dark Mode on Mac
- How to Enable the Light Mode Theme on Mac
- How to Use Dynamic Desktops on Mac
- How to Clean Install MacOS Mojave
- How to Update System Software in New MacOS Versions
- How to Update All Apps from Mac App Store at the Same Time
- How to Get a ‘Save As’ Shortcut in MacOS Again
- How to Disable Many Mac Animations with Reduce Motion
- Tips for Working on a Mac at Night or in Low Light
- How to Make Group FaceTime Calls from Mac
- Get the Space Screen Savers from Apple TV on a Mac
Great Tips for iPhone and iPad
- How to Make a Memoji on iPhone
- How to Add a Second Person or Face to Face ID on iPhone or iPad
- How to Update All Apps on iPhone or iPad
- How to Enable Automatic App Updates on iPhone or iPad
- How to Enable Screen Recorder on iPhone or iPad
- How to Make Group FaceTime Calls from iPhone or iPad
- How to Play YouTube Videos in the Background on iPhone
- How to Actually Delete a Reminder on iPhone or iPad
- How to Move the iPad Keyboard
- How to Find a Lost iPhone with Siri
- How to Disable Fortnite Purchases on iPhone or iPad
- How to Search Emails on iPhone or iPad
- How to Use Portrait Mode on iPhone
- How to Select Multiple Photos on iPhone or iPad with a Drag Gesture
- How to Set Time Limits for Social Networking and Social Media Use with Screen Time on iPhone or iPad
- How to Remove Screen Time Limits on iPhone
- How to Disable Screen Time in iOS
- How to Share Wi-Fi Passwords from iPhone or iPad
- How to Take Long Exposure Photos on iPhone or iPad
- How to Customize Control Center on iPhone and iPad
- How to Make iPhone Speaker Louder Sounding with EQ Settings
- How to Make iPhone Answer Calls Automatically
- How to Save a Webpage as PDF on iPhone or iPad the Easy Way
- Fix Podcasts Playing too Fast on iPhone
- How to Use Field Test Mode on iPhone X, XS, XR
- How to Check Battery Health on iPhone
- How to Exit Safari Split Screen on iPad
- How to Remove Widget Clutter from the Today Screen on iPhone or iPad
- How to Enable an On-Screen Home Button on iPhone or iPad
- How to Save iPhone Messages
- How to Set an Email Auto-Reply on iPhone or iPad
- How to Offload Apps from iPhone or iPad
- Why Are Apps Disappearing from iPhone or iPad?
- How to Make iPhone Stop Vibrating Completely
- How to Mute Dialing Sounds on iPhone
- How to Crop Videos on iPhone or iPad with iMovie
- How to Delete iCloud Backups from iPhone or iPad
- How to Force Reboot an iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR
- How to Get Air Quality Information from iPhone
- How to Spell Out Words on iPhone or iPad
Best Miscellaneous Tech Tips
- How to run Windows 95 on a Mac as simply as opening an app
- Play an excellent Age of Empires clone, 0 A.D., on Mac, Windows, or Linux, and for free
- Play a ridiculous Jelly Mario game in your web browser
- How to delete all Google Search activity and history
- How to setup an automatic email responder on Gmail
- How to delete specific Chrome autofill suggestions
- How to change the Gmail appearance back to an older or different version
- How to delete a Facebook account
- How to download all your photos and videos from Instagram
- How to download all of your photos from Flickr
- Watch full movies on YouTube, for free
- Run the classic media player WinAmp on any computer in a web browser
- How to run a Hackintosh with MacOS Mojave on an Intel PC
- How to run MacOS Mojave in a virtual machine with Parallels, for free
- Get a Linux Shell on iOS with iSH
- Download 6 classic novels as audiobooks, free from Apple
- Prank someone with a broken screen glass wallpaper trick for iPhone or iPad
- Get Retro with Classic Mac OS tiling wallpapers
- How to use Cloudflare DNS on iOS
- How to use Cloudflare DNS on Mac
Best Troubleshooting Guides
- Why is there an alarm clock badge on my iPad Dock app icons?
- Why is there a cloud symbol next to app names on iPhone or iPad?
- How to fix the “cellular update failed” error on iPhone with No Service
- Tips for better battery life in MacOS Mojave
- How to Fix USB “Unlock iPhone to Use Accessories” Message (for iPad too)
- How to fix wi-fi problems in MacOS Mojave
- How to fix blank Voicemail problems on iPhone
- How to stop the wallpaper moving around behind icons on iPhone or iPad
- Where did the Details / Info button go in Messages for iOS?
- How to fix a ‘cannot get mail’ error on iPhone or iPad
- How do you access photos from Messages in iOS 12 on iPhone or iPad?
- How to force reboot an iPhone XS, XS Max, or XR
- How to fix Night Shift when it’s stuck enabled on Mac
- How to stop accidentally triggering Apple Pay on iPhone X, XS, XR with the side button
- How to reinstall macOS Mojave
- How to fix blurry fonts and text in MacOS Mojave (particularly for non-retina displays)
- Battery life tips for iOS 12
- How to delete iCloud backups from iOS
- How to delete apps from iPhone models with 3D Touch
- How to fix an unresponsive iPhone screen
- How to fix “Verification Required” errors in the App Store on iPhone or iPad
- How to exit out of Safari Split Screen on iPad
- How to disable Split Screen on iPad
- How to fix copy and paste not working on a Mac
- How to remove stuck Time Machine backups from the Trash on a Mac
- How to enable a virtual on-screen Home Button on iPhone or iPad
- How to get past the lock screen of iPhone or iPad if VoiceOver is on
- How to fix iPhone black screen issues
- Why does iOS say I have an incorrect password when joining wi-fi?
- How to reduce iOS System storage on iPhone or iPad
- How to check the SMART status of Mac hard disks
- Managing a missing iTunes Library.xml file
- Why are apps disappearing from my iPhone or iPad?
- How to restore deleted system files on a Mac
- Why are Messages out of order on iPhone or iPad?
- Why are podcasts playing so fast on iPhone?
- Why can’t I save pictures from Safari on my iPhone?
- Why is 3D Touch not working on iPhone?
- Why can’t Mac use a trackpad and mouse at the same time?
- Why is a single click registering as double-click on Mac?
- What to do when cellular data is not working on iPhone
Best Terminal Tips
- How to use diff to compare files at the command line
- How to count lines of a file from the command line
- How to get file permissions as octal numbers
- How to install Homebrew on a Mac
- 9 of the best Homebrew packages for Mac
- How to list all installed Homebrew packages on a Mac
- Where Homebrew packages are installed
- How to uninstall Homebrew packages from a Mac
- How to uninstall Homebrew itself, completely
- How to convert a bin / cue to iso
- How to check if System Integrity Protection is enabled or disabled
- How to install Python 3 on Mac
- How to start an instant web server with Python 3
- How to find all hosts on a network with nmap
- How to exclude words using grep
- How to boot a Mac into Single User Mode
- How to manage “command not found” Terminal errors on a Mac
- How to fix “operation not permitted” Terminal errors on Mac
- How to install node.js and npm
- How to install ftp on MacOS
- How to install telnet on MacOS
- How to convert iso files to VDI images
- How to view and remove extended attributes from files on Mac
- How to write image files to an SD card from the command line with dd
- How to access a login console from some versions of Mac OS X