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1 week ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
How-To The Apple Watch Translate app can help you quickly speak in a different language while you’re abroad, right from your wrist. Translate between 20 different languages by speaking out loud, play translations out of your Apple Watch speaker and build a list of favorite phrases you can play instantly.
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1 week ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You can save time — and make sure your messages always go out when they’re supposed to — when you schedule email from the Apple Mail app. You can set your mail to deliver at any date or time in the future, whether it’s next Monday at 9 a.m. sharp, in two weeks’ time or even years from now. If you work with someone in a different time zone, you can schedule messages to arrive just when they start their workday, which is especially helpful if the allotted time is in the middle of the night for you.
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1 week ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
With the new automatic mail categorization in Apple Mail, you can organize your emails and keep your personal inbox less cluttered. It’ll intelligently put all your newsletters, receipts and promotions into separate folders. If you struggle keeping up with your inbox, this feature is a great way to make your email easier to understand at a glance. Keep reading below or watch our quick video.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
Managing passwords is and always has been a giant pain. It isn’t the best system, but it’s the system we’ve got. Well, not if Apple can do anything about it. Passkeys are a new system that automatically signs you in to online services using your phone’s Face ID (or Touch ID) or your computer’s password. It’s one less thing to remember; it works without fiddling around with a password manager. Passkeys aren’t an Apple-exclusive feature.
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2 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
You can manually add a workout to Apple Fitness+ if you need to log some exercise while you weren’t wearing your Apple Watch. Maybe your watch ran out of battery at the start of your run, or maybe you simply forgot to turn it on. By adding a missing workout, you can give yourself credit for the exercise you did. This power could be used for evil as well as good. You could, hypothetically, say you ran a three-hour marathon every day last week. But you would only be fooling yourself.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
There are a few useful things you can do with an old Apple Watch after you upgrade to a new one. You might think of the Apple Watch as being a disposable product — because who would wear two watches? But there are actually quite a few surprising use cases for having a daily Apple Watch and a secondary watch. Keep reading or watch our latest video. Things you can do with an old Apple WatchThe Apple Watch is great for tracking sleep — even the different stages of your sleep through the night.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
Image Wand is a new feature in Apple Notes that turns rough sketches into full images — and creates images from scratch based on text prompts. Granted, it’s powered by Image Playground, so the imagery it creates isn’t exactly state of the art. Apple’s image-making tools still lag other AI systems. But if you’re a struggling artist, it may improve your squiggles. Image Wand is part of Apple Intelligence, the growing set of AI features that work on the latest iPhones, Macs and iPads.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
For the 10th anniversary of its launch, we compiled over a decade of Apple Watch history into a quick timeline. Starting with the original three collections — including models in solid 18 karat gold — all the way to today’s far more advanced (and sensible) Apple Watch Series 10 and Ultra 2. The Apple Watch was the first major product introduction of Tim Cook’s rein as Apple CEO. There was immense pressure on Apple to prove that it could still innovate without Steve Jobs.
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3 weeks ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
The Sigma BF is a beautifully designed camera unlike any other. While testing it for this review, I found the full-frame camera to be as easy to pick up as a point-and-shoot. It’s a pleasure to use — a love letter to minimalism, precision and the pure joy of old-school photography. With an aluminum unibody worthy of Jony Ive and a stripped-down interface that favors elegance over excess, this full-frame mirrorless marvel feels less like gear and more like art itself.
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1 month ago | 
cultofmac.com | D. Griffin Jones
If you ever lose access to your Apple Account or iPhone, you’ll be happy you set up a recovery contact in advance. Once you do, a trusted person can remotely unlock your iPhone for you if you can’t recall your password. It only takes a few moments to set up — and could be a huge weight off your shoulders if you’re desperate, frustrated and just want to unlock your Apple account. Once you designate a recovery contact (and they accept), you can easily ask them for help. Here’s how it works.
