by MacEdge | Nov 10, 2020 | Apple Tips, Blog, iOS, iPhone
You likely know that you can use Do Not Disturb to prevent random notifications on your iPhone from waking you at night—it’s easy to set a Do Not Disturb schedule for your usual sleeping hours. Another setting in there is important but often overlooked. If you ever...
by MacEdge | Nov 5, 2020 | Apple Tips, Blog, Mac
Starting with macOS 10.15.5 Catalina, Apple introduced a battery health management feature that improves your battery’s lifespan by adjusting charging patterns to reduce the rate at which the battery chemically ages. (Find it in System Preferences > Energy Saver...
by MacEdge | Oct 9, 2020 | Apple Tips, Apple Watch, Blog
Ever since Apple introduced the Activity app to watchOS, you’ve been able to adjust your Move goal, which is measured in kilocalories, but your Exercise goal was locked at 30 minutes and the Stand goal at 12 hours. In watchOS 7, you can finally change these last two....
by MacEdge | Oct 8, 2020 | Apple Tips, Blog, iOS, iPhone
The App Library in iOS 14 ensures that you can find all the apps installed on your iPhone without having to hunt through Home screens. So if you already have a lot of Home screens that contain a random assemblage of apps, it might be easier to hide those screens than...
by MacEdge | Sep 30, 2020 | Apple Tips, Apple Watch, Blog, iPhone
If you have 20/20 vision or are still wondering why your parents have reading glasses, count yourself lucky. But if you’re like many people—over 60 percent of the population by some estimates, including most people over 45—reading the tiny text on your iPhone or Apple...
by MacEdge | Sep 22, 2020 | Apple Tips, Blog, Mac, macOS Catalina
Over the last few releases of macOS, Apple has been beefing up the Mac’s privacy controls so they more closely resemble what the company has done in iOS. You’ve undoubtedly noticed that when you first launch a new app on your iPhone or iPad, it often prompts for...
