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1 week ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You can stop your Mac from sleeping if you want it to stay on indefinitely. This might prove handy if you find it locking when you don’t want it to, like during a class or meeting. You don’t need to wiggle the mouse every few minutes to keep the screen on. There are a few different ways to set this up. The simplest and most permanent way is to disable sleep entirely in your Mac’s System Settings.
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1 week ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
Apple News+ Food is a great way to find recipes on your iPhone. It gives you personal recommendations and offers dozens of filters to find all kinds of recipes, from easy slow-cooker fare to gluten-free concoctions. Plus, all the recipes are nicely formatted, with easy-to-read instructions. And you can save recipes you like for later to build up a personal catalog of go-to dishes.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones |Microsoft Windows
How can you run Microsoft Windows on a Mac these days? Fifteen years ago, the answer was simple: Just install Windows using Boot Camp. Today, you have loads of other options — even though Boot Camp itself does not work on Macs with Apple silicon processors. You can use a virtual machine, pay to access Windows in the cloud from a web browser, use special software to get access to a couple of essential apps or simply Remote Desktop in to a PC. Which path forward is right for you?
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
How-To If you like working, sleeping, relaxing or meditating to ambient music — and you own an iPhone — you’re in luck. You can now play background tunes from Control Center on your iPhone. The feature is ad-free and doesn’t require a subscription to Apple Music.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You could have dozens of copies of the same images in your Photos library, taking up space on your phone and in your iCloud account. Luckily, Apple offers an easy-to-use little tool that lets you find duplicate photos and delete the copies, all right from the Photos app. These types of duplicate images can accumulate more quickly than you might expect.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You can quickly tag photos on your iPhone with the names of your friends, family members and pets so you can easily find pictures of them later on. The Photos app will detect pictures of people automatically — you just need to give them a name. I’ll show you how to fine-tune the results as well. I’ll show you how to find this long-standing feature in the new Photos app and make the most of it. Keep reading or watch our video guide.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
Vision Pro Guest mode is how you can share your Vision Pro with someone else. Because if you own one of Apple’s new AR/VR headsets, everyone you know is inevitably going to want to try it on. That’s where Vision Pro Guest Mode comes in. With the release of visionOS 2.4 and iOS 18.4, setting up Guest Mode is much easier than before. The old way still works — but to make sharing your headset more seamless, you should follow the instructions below.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
Believe it or not, there are actually quite a few helpful tricks Siri can do — besides setting timers and sending texts. Granted, there’s a lot of things Siri can’t do, especially with the recent news that the smarter, more capable Siri promised with Apple Intelligence and the total LLM-powered overhaul are both significantly delayed. Nonetheless, after many hours of research, I have come across six neat things you can ask Siri you might find surprising or handy.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | D. Griffin Jones
NowNew York CNN — Zelle, the popular person-to-person money transferring service, shut down its standalone app Tuesday — but the service itself is not disappearing. Zelle had warned of the shutdown last year, explaining in an announcement that only 2% of transactions happen on its app. A “vast majority” …
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You can easily change the default browser on your iPhone if you prefer to use Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge or any other alternative. Maybe you use a PC at home and want your bookmarks, history and passwords to sync to your iPhone. Or maybe you simply prefer something other than Apple’s Safari browser.
