You can supercharge the Mac's help menu with this keyboard shortcut. With it, you can get to essential Mac commands more quickly than ever. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and ho...
https://www.cultofmac.com/682555/how-to-use-mac-menus-from-keyboard/
Want a quick way to move your photos, music and documents from your iPhone to your Mac? What about backing up your iPhone on the go? iKlips Duo is an innovative little gadget that will do both. I...
https://www.cultofmac.com/427547/how-to-transfer-your-iphone-media-to-mac-and-back-again/
When you’re out in the sticks somewhere, you might get to a place where there’s no signal. How will you ever find your way home (or to the next party) without your trusty Google Maps app? Wel...
https://www.cultofmac.com/426687/no-data-no-problem-how-to-use-google-maps-offline/
Apple released a redesigned support site for desktop and mobile Friday afternoon, using its official Twitter account to call it out. Now you’ll spend lest time trying to figure out the support ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/425883/apples-support-site-gets-a-much-needed-makeover/
Make the most of your Instagram feed with these eight killer Instagram tips and tricks that will make you an Insta-master. Learn how to put together video in the Instagram app itself, keep stalke...
https://www.cultofmac.com/424856/8-killer-instagram-tips-and-tricks/
The Apple Watch doesn’t need to prove itself to you. And contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t need a “killer app” to make it indispensable. In fact, the Apple Watch is an awesome device...
If you want to create amazing images like the one above, Enlight is a fantastic way to do so on the iPad (or iPhone). Most of us don’t want to take a huge amount of time, either, learning how t...
https://www.cultofmac.com/421751/how-to-create-stunning-double-exposures-with-enlight/
Once again, Apple has refreshed its iPhone and iPad line with some better (albeit smaller) iOS devices, the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. If you’re looking for all the details on these t...
Chances are, you’ve lost your iPhone a time or two, even in your own home. I’ve found myself stalking around the living room, kitchen, and even bathroom trying to remember just where I left t...
https://www.cultofmac.com/418306/how-to-find-your-lost-iphone-with-tile/
I’ve gotten so used to the sidebar in OS X that I’m at a loss when it disappears on me when using my Mac. If you’re the same way, here’s how to find it again, in both the Finder and in an...
https://www.cultofmac.com/417857/how-to-find-your-lost-sidebars-in-os-x-2/
Instagram’s location data can be a privacy nightmare but it also allows you to check out what other folks are taking photos of nearby. If you’re on vacation and want to see some stunning phot...
https://www.cultofmac.com/415171/how-to-find-instagram-photos-of-beautiful-nearby-locations/
Anyone can tap your profile in Instagram and see where you were when you took your snapshots. Creeped out, yet? Every time you take a picture for Instagram, the photo-sharing app keeps track of w...
https://www.cultofmac.com/414720/how-to-keep-stalkers-from-tracking-you-on-instagram/
Avid Instagram users like to know when new photos show up on the social media platform so they can be the first to like, respond, or even comment on their favorite Instagrammer’s pictures. You ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/413088/how-to-instantly-know-when-your-bff-posts-to-instagram/
If you’re looking to show a little local pride in Snapchat, the company made it pretty easy to make and upload your own so that you (and anyone else who’s in that location) can swipe right an...
https://www.cultofmac.com/412156/how-to-represent-your-town-with-custom-snapchat-geofilters/
It used to be that if you wanted to zoom any window on your Mac to see as much of the content inside it as possible, you’d hit OS X’s green button in the upper left of the window. As of OS X ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/410346/how-to-maximize-your-el-capitan-windows-without-going-full-screen/
As our digital lives converge across mobile and desktop devices like our iPhones and Macbooks, we rely on them knowing where we are at any given time. Safari suggestions, for example, count on kn...
https://www.cultofmac.com/409800/get-your-mac-to-tell-you-when-apps-are-using-your-location/
If you’re looking for some amazing new Retina-display-quality images to wallpaper your Mac, iPhone or iPad, you might want to head over to Apple’s “Start Something New” campaign web page....
https://www.cultofmac.com/406500/apple-hides-beautiful-retina-wallpapers-on-something-new-website/
Twitter user and developer Peter Steinberger shouted out to the Twitterverse when his App Store app kept showing an app that needed an update, but would never actually update, even with an iPhone...
https://www.cultofmac.com/404462/app-store-app-acting-weird-try-this-quick-fix/
This time of the year typically means gifts, both giving and receiving them. Surely some of you have gotten a brand new Macbook, iMac, iPhone or iPad (Pro, anyone?). If so, you might be looking a...
Sometimes I’m browsing a site like Cult of Mac on my iPhone and I’m looking for something specific, like a story about encryption, for example. Instead of swiping down the page and hoping I s...
https://www.cultofmac.com/403534/ios-tip-how-to-find-keywords-in-a-webpage/
Notification Center on OS X seems like a great idea, most of the time, until you get a ton of notifications about things you really don’t care about all at once. You’ve got to click all the l...
https://www.cultofmac.com/402036/pro-tip-set-your-mac-to-perpetual-do-not-disturb-mode/
Maps is shaping up to be a pretty great navigational tool with its tight integration in iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, as well as with much more error-free data. I use Maps as a sort of mobile, digit...
https://www.cultofmac.com/401433/pro-tip-how-to-get-quick-info-in-apple-maps-with-3d-touch/
Apple Pay is showing up in more places these days, but if you live in a town like mine, it can be hard to know exactly where those places are. Want to know whether that hip restaurant down the st...
https://www.cultofmac.com/400756/pro-tip-quick-way-to-find-stores-that-take-apple-pay/
If you’re enamored of the beautiful aerial screen savers on your new Apple TV and want to do something similar on your Mac, you’re in luck. SaveHollywood is a screen saver module that will wo...
https://www.cultofmac.com/397913/pro-tip-bring-your-mac-to-life-with-a-custom-video-screen-saver/
Not every Apple TV is in a household full of self-realized adults. Apple knows this and has set up some restrictions, similar to the parental controls on iOS. That way, you can make sure that yo...
https://www.cultofmac.com/396800/how-to-keep-kids-from-checking-out-bad-stuff-on-apple-tv/
The new Apple TV is out and it’s pretty fantastic. Running through setup is fairly simple, but we all could use a little advice on how best to make our choices along the way. With that in mind,...
https://www.cultofmac.com/395502/how-to-set-up-your-apple-tv-the-right-way/
Seriously, people, we have families to feed. Kittens to adopt. We need your ad impressions. The new iOS content blockers, as well as traditional ad-blocking browser plugins, threaten the wallets ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/391571/every-time-you-whitelist-cult-of-mac-a-kitten-is-born/
Let’s be honest: there are a handful of sites that you visit a lot, open in tabs in Safari. If you want to keep these tabs ready to go in every Safari window you open, even after you’ve quit ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/391318/how-to-pin-safari-tabs-in-el-capitan/
Whether you’re getting a new iPhone 6s or not, you’re going to want to upgrade to iOS 9 to take advantage of everything Apple’s new mobile operating system has to offer. iOS 9 is ready to r...
Are you getting something like following message on your Mac every time you log in? talagent wants to use the "local items" keychain. please log in with password. If so, you’re in luck, because...
https://www.cultofmac.com/386726/how-to-fix-weird-talagent-keychain-issue/
iOS 9 brings a bunch of battery-boosting features, most of which work right out of the box. But there’s one battery-saving feature you’ll have to enable yourself. Called Low Power Mode, this ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/385068/save-your-battery-with-ios-9s-low-power-mode/
Websites these days have another tool to engage you: the desktop notification. Many sites, this one included, allow you to opt in to a system of popup notices that encourage you to click through ...
https://www.cultofmac.com/329618/master-web-notifications-in-safari-and-chrome/
If you’re afraid of ever being in a dangerous situation without any witnesses or good samaritans nearby, you might want to consider downloading this new app appropriately named Witness. Calli...
My Apple Watch is getting a little crufty. I wear it every day, including when I sweat a lot — like during a run, for example. Recently, the Digital Crown started to get a little tough to turn....
Let’s face it: A time will come when your Apple Watch crashes or freezes. It’s gonna become unresponsive, but you’ll be ready thanks to this handy Apple Watch restart tip. When your Apple W...
In Mac OS X, you’ll spend much of your time in the Finder, the part of your operating system that manages files and such. While you might think you know all there is to know about it, the Finde...
https://www.cultofmac.com/319619/10-essential-finder-tips-for-mac/
With the advent of Apple’s motion coprocessor chip (the M8 in recent iOS devices), any apps that you download and grant permission to can use this data to enhance their offerings. This lets app...
https://www.cultofmac.com/319281/take-better-control-of-your-iphone-fitness-tracking/
The advent of iTunes 12.1 gave us a sweet new widget that lets you control iTunes from the Notification Center’s Today section, without ever having to switch to the app itself. You can even fav...
https://www.cultofmac.com/312037/enable-sexy-new-itunes-notification-center-widget/
I love the idea of being able to answer a phone call on my Mac, or even on my iPad. The convergence of this communication technology seems like it has great potential. In reality, though, I end u...
https://www.cultofmac.com/305581/keep-annoying-phone-calls-off-ipad-mac/
So, I sold my iPad mini WiFi today, in hopes I could head to my local Apple retail store and pick one up. My friend was headed down to the store to pick hers up, so I figured there were plenty in...
Every once and awhile, your Mac will decide not to eject a CD or DVD, for various reasons. It could be that it can’t detect the disk, it’s in an incompatible format, or that the disk itself i...
https://www.cultofmac.com/86420/ejecting-stuck-cds-or-dvds-from-your-mac-video-how-to/