Sometimes you need to start recording instantly, whether you’re documenting an incident, catching a fleeting moment, or preserving something before it’s gone. On iPhone 16 and later, Apple built in a shortcut that makes it quick: press the Camera Control once to open the Camera app, then press and hold to start recording immediately. It
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Reading articles online has gotten increasingly frustrating. Ads are bad enough, but most websites pile on with pop-ups, newsletter prompts, recommended article sidebars, and multi-page pagination that makes you click through just to finish a story. You just want to read. If you’re on an Apple device, there’s a built-in fix: Safari Reader on iPhone,
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If you’ve had trouble moving from hunt-and-peck typing on the iPhone to the double-thumb typing approach many people prefer, consider QuickPath, better known as swipe typing. QuickPath isn’t new, but many people have never tried it seriously. With swipe typing, you put your finger down on the first letter of the desired word—say “giraffe”—and then
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Control Center has been on the iPhone since iOS 7 and came to the Mac in 2020 with macOS 11 Big Sur. For years, Mac users could only turn individual controls on or off. With macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple completely overhauled Control Center, letting you remove, rearrange, resize, and add controls, including ones from third-party
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How To, ProductivityHow to Drag Documents to Apps in the macOS App Switcher You undoubtedly know about pressing Command-Tab to bring up the macOS App Switcher and mousing to the app you want to switch to. Keyboard jockeys probably even know to keep holding Command down while pressing Tab or the right arrow to cycle to
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Stop Retyping the Same Things Over and Over If you find yourself typing the same email address, phone number, or awkward phrase multiple times a day, text expansion is worth knowing about. It’s a simple feature built right into macOS, iOS, and iPadOS that lets you type a short shortcut and have it automatically expand
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The Camera Control on iPhone 16 and later models is more than just a shutter button. It’s a touch-sensitive surface that lets you adjust camera settings without ever tapping the screen, which is pretty handy once you get it dialed in. Here’s how it works: lightly press or swipe the Camera Control to access settings,
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Good news if you’re a fan of Safari’s compact tab bar. The option, which saves vertical space by tucking the address bar into the current tab, disappeared in the early releases of macOS 26 Tahoe and iPadOS 26. Only Apple knows why it went missing (Liquid Glass?), but as of macOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4,
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