For months now, whenever my wife or I asked our HomePods to play an artist or playlist, they would respond with “Sorry, I couldn’t find X in your library. You can ...

A long time ago, I had an app called Favs that collected everything I liked/hearted/bookmarked/whatevered across a ton of services (it was sadly abandoned). We’re ...

I just published issue 54 of the Finer Tech Newsletter. If you haven’t given it a try yet, it’s a twice-monthly handful of quick tips to help you get more out of your apps and Apple devices, served ...

A big reason I often stick with Apple stuff is that the entire tech industry is racing to see who can treat us with the least respect. The latest challenger is Sonos with its new “give us your data or ...

Clips is a clipboard, keyboard, and widget and one of my favorite new utilities for iOS 8. Put simply, it’s a way for you to copy multiple things to a scratchpad for pasting elsewhere. But my favorite ...

Apple’s third attempt at a watchOS is currently in developer beta, so the usual disclaimers apply: stuff might change, features might be added or removed, nothing is finalized, blah blah blah. For ...

Apple has an iPadOS preview page that highlights most of the features mentioned on stage at the WWDC 2019 keynote. It also has a comprehensive page that goes far more in-depth. Here are some of my ...

I’ve met some Mac users who want to be able to send iMessages without having the actual Messages app and all its tempting distractions open. Fortunately, there’s an easy way to do this from the Social ...

If you plug your iPhone or iPad into iTunes and mouse over the colored storage bar at the bottom of the device details page, you’ll see more information about what and how much stuff is on your device ...

For sure, points are to be awarded for the clever dystopian portrayal of capitalist surveillance through the mechanism of robotic Birds, capital B. But when introducing Safari as our protagonist and ...

I think we can do better. “Slop” evokes a tepid cylinder of condensed cream of mushroom soup, glumly wibbling in a chipped bowl. When I think of GenAI, I picture something closer to tropical insects ...

If you go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode and touch one of your registered fingers to the Home button, that page will highlight the finger’s entry there. This is useful if you’ve forgotten which ...