Glenn Fleishman

Seattle

Editor and Writer at Freelance

Mastodon @[email protected] Bluesky @glennf.bsky.social The “flong” guy: https://t.co/w7j3XvhsuX for what THAT means. Type historian, Jeopardy champ

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How to avoid accidentally placing photos in the iCloud Shared Photo Library

6 days ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

Apple added the iCloud Shared Photo Library in iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura, dramatically improving sharing photos and videos with a group of people with whom you frequently exchange media. Shared Library, as it appears in the Photos app, is a kind of supercharged shared album that you might use with your family or a close friends group. However, it is usually the case we want to be circumspect about what we share: every picture we take is not one we want even a select group to see.
Add Protection from Scammers with Cybercrime Insurance

1 week ago | tidbits.com | Glenn Fleishman

Americans lost $12 billion to fraud in 2024, with a significant portion coming from phishing, smishing (SMS phishing), and social media trickery. Individuals have been tricked into handing over financial information, sending cryptocurrency, and even handing over bags of cash in a parking lot.
How to control folder opening behavior in the Finder

1 week ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

The Finder is one of the most customizable elements of macOS. However, Apple’s two interrelated settings for how folders open a Finder window don’t seem to have any effect and haven’t for years. Despite this, you can take control to get the desired outcome. You may want one or more of the following behaviors to happen when you double-click a folder within a Finder window, which may vary depending on what you’re trying to accomplish:Its contents replace what you see in the Finder window.
How to avoid CC'ing the Atlantic editor-in-chief in your messages

2 weeks ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

You are likely not planning a military action in another country, but the accidental inclusion of unintended invitees to a group text, email, or other discussion could still prove a problem—from embarrassment to losing friends, causing a family rift, or even being fired from a job.
Mail moving unexpectedly among mailboxes? Check your rules

2 weeks ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

iCloud.com’s Mail app hides a feature that can also trip you up. You can set rules at iCloud.com that affect incoming and filed messages on Apple’s servers before they reach the Mail app on your devices. These rules are separate from the Mac version of Mail and take precedence over any local filtering or sorting set on any mail software you use on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac. The effect of this can be that messages wind up in places you didn’t expect without any action on your part.
How to make your Mac text larger on a big display

3 weeks ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

Some people use their Macs to drive enormous HDTVs, letting them access a wide range of audio and video apps on a Mac and streaming video services while also retaining the security of the Mac operating system. However, it’s easy to run into a problem: the interface elements on the external display can wind up so small that you have a hard time making them out. You have a few ways to improve this situation, though readers have found that not all work in their circumstances.
How to avoid being scammed by a toll-collection SMS and similar smishing attempts

1 month ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

America is awash at the moment with a “toll-fee SMS scam.” As have alerted residents, you may receive an SMS from an unknown number claiming that you owe an unpaid toll and demanding that you pay. Because tens of millions of people have payment accounts linked to license-plate-based or RFID-scanned systems, it sounds credible. And if you don’t, you might think that your license plate was linked to your phone number in some government database.
How to control simultaneous notifications sounds across your Apple devices

1 month ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

The joy of push notifications is that they attract your attention when you need to know something has happened or someone needs to reach you. Apple lets you tune how notifications work so you’re not bothered too much—or too loudly. Some readers have found that, without intending to or without making any change, they receive audible notifications on all their Apple devices. That’s a lot of noise if have a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch. Here’s how to fix this problem.
Want to renew AppleCare+? You have to wait until it expires

1 month ago | macworld.com | Glenn Fleishman

My spouse’s notes indicated the AppleCare+ coverage on her iPhone was ending within a few weeks. Try as she might, she couldn’t find a way to renew coverage even though Apple’s documentation and her Apple Account said it could be extended. We finally called Apple: the answer was that until coverage expired, it couldn’t be re-upped. If you read Apple’s main support note on the topic, the company does tell us that–in anything but plain language.
Apple Aims to Boost Child Privacy with New Age-Related Controls

1 month ago | tidbits.com | Glenn Fleishman

In an era marked by competing desires for online child safety, parental control, and the need to abide by evolving government regulation, Apple hopes that changes it plans to roll out over the rest of 2025 will thread the needle on issues related to personal data disclosure for children.

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