News — iPad

New Back Tap Feature in iOS 14 Provides Two Customizable Shortcuts

Posted by Laurie Berg on Dec 10, 2020

We all have things we do regularly on our iPhones, whether it’s checking the weather, searching Google, or invoking the magnifier. Apple has long provided ways of making your most common actions easier to access.

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Advice for Successful Online Schooling

Posted by Laurie Berg on Sep 10, 2020

In a normal year, most kids would be back in school by now. But many schools to offer online instruction, and many families are now settling into a remote back-to-school arrangement. We’ve provided some advice on working from home in previous posts, but what about schooling from home? Here are some suggestions.

Tags: accessories, iPad, Mac

Two Quick Tricks You Can Use with the iOS Space Bar

Posted by Laurie Berg on Aug 24, 2020

Sure, you know that the Space bar in the iOS virtual keyboard types a space character. But did you realize that if you tap it twice, it inserts a period? (Probably, but if not, now you do.)

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How to Back Up an iPhone or iPad with Your Mac Running Catalina

Posted by Laurie Berg on Jun 15, 2020

One of the most significant changes in macOS 10.15 Catalina was the breakup of the long-standing iTunes app into separate Music, Podcasts, and TV apps. But what about backing up iOS devices, which you also used to do in iTunes? In Catalina, Apple moved this function into the Finder. So if you’ve upgraded to Catalina or bought a new Mac that comes with Catalina, here’s how you can continue to back up your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch in the Finder. One note first. If you haven’t been using iTunes to back up, manage, and sync media to your device...

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How to Choose Between iCloud Photos and My Photo Stream

Posted by Laurie Berg on Mar 16, 2020

For quite a few years, Apple enabled users to download their iPhone or iPad photos to their Macs with a service called My Photo Stream. It wasn’t perfect, but it was free, and it did a decent job of ensuring that photos you took on your iPhone or iPad would end up on your Mac. Then Apple introduced iCloud Photo Library, later renamed to iCloud Photos, which is a full-featured cloud-based photo syncing service. However, because it stores all your photos in the cloud, most people need to purchase more storage from Apple to use it. As a result,...

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