How to Blur Background During FaceTime Calls on iPhone, iPad, & Mac

Ever wanted to blur your background while on a FaceTime call? Maybe it’s a busy room or a messy kitchen behind you. Fortunately, you can use the same Portrait mode you use for your selfies, right on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The Portrait mode on the fr…

Coming to Apple TV+: ‘Bad Sisters’ is a dark comedy with an ensemble cast

Apple’s list of currently available content for Apple TV+ continues to grow, but there’s an even faster-growing list of projects in the works. Films, limited series, specials, and multi-season series, Apple’s got lots of irons in the fire for all …

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Will the final Mac to transition to Apple silicon break all the rules?

Users of the current Mac Pro (which was introduced in 2019 and received only minor refreshes since) would likely say they’re mostly happy with Apple’s workstation. There may be qualms about the higher overall prices and the dated Intel Xeons proce…

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Mac Studio teardown concludes once and for all: SSD storage isn’t upgradeable

Apple’s Mac Studio has generated a lot of excitement since it started arriving on people’s doorsteps last week, as early adopters shared pics, benchmarks, and impressions of the newest Mac. Among the more interesting findings is the fact that the …

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If you pay for extra iCloud storage, you may have a refund coming

With just 5GB of free storage available with each iCloud account, most of us need to pay for a higher tier so we can back up our devices, photos, and files. If you’re one of those people, you have a refund check headed your way. Thanks to a new…

Apple explains why your iPhone’s battery is draining after an iOS update

Every time there’s a big iOS update–either a major yearly release or a particularly feature-packed point release like iOS 15.4–you’ll find users complaining that their battery doesn’t last as long as it used to. On social media, users will complai…

How is my Mac able to make a (FaceTime) voice call to a land line when my iPhone and iPad are switched off?

I have always assumed that when I make a voice call from the FaceTime app on my iMac, the call is being proxied through my iPhone. (In fact, the FaceTime UX says, Call Using iPhone; see attached image.) However, today I tried an experi…

How to Show Battery Percentage on iPhone 11

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Homebrew Command error: zsh: command not found:$

On the Terminal commandline I tried: $ brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac/master/Formula/osgeo-saga-lts.rb But I get this response: zsh: command not found: $ I also tried using brew tap osgeo/osgeo…

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This Android phone’s warning shot against Apple is a giant Nothing burger

In case you missed it on Wednesday morning—and you likely did—OnePlus founder Carl Pei’s newest venture, Nothing, held its first live keynote to introduce the company’s ambitions to the world. After about a half-hour of chatter, we learned two thi…

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