In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to assign your own keyboard shortcuts to menu bar commands that lack default shortcuts in macOS.
An example of where this may be useful is in System Settings, where many settings can be quickly accessed from the View menu, however none of these commands have default keyboard shortcuts mapped to them. To create your own shortcut for a command:
In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to schedule an email to send later using the Mail app in macOS.
Have you ever needed to send an email but didn't want to interrupt someone's work or personal time? With the Send Later feature, you can schedule emails to be sent at a specific date and time, making sure your message arrives at the most appropriate moment.
To do this, compose an email in the Mail app, interact with the "Send" group in the toolbar, and choose an option fromā¦
In this episode, Thomas Domville walks us through the steps to create vibrate-only alarms and timers on iOS. Many people rely on alarms and timers to stay on schedule, but not everyone wants to be awakened or alerted by sound. Vibrate-only alarms and timers can be especially useful for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as for situations where sound is not appropriate or allowed.
In this episode, Thomas Domville shows us how to schedule an email using the Send Later feature on the iOS Mail app.
Have you ever needed to send an email but didn't want to interrupt someone's work or personal time? With the Send Later feature, you can schedule emails to be sent at a specific date and time, making sure your message arrives at the most appropriate moment. Thomas walks us through the process step-by-step, showing us how to set a custom date and time for your email, asā¦
In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to configure your Mac to announce the time automatically.
To do this in macOS Ventura and later, open System Settings > Control Center > Clock options, and enable the "Announce the time" toggle. You can then choose how often the announcement will play, as well as the voice, rate, and volume macOS will use for the announcement.
In this episode, Kushal Solanki walks us through the process of creating a shortcut that will launch a FaceTime call to a selected contact.
Kushal explains that shortcuts are a powerful feature in iOS that allows users to automate tasks and save time. He starts by introducing the Shortcuts app, which comes pre-installed on every iPhone, and explains how to create a new shortcut.
Next, Kushal demonstrates how to add the FaceTime action to the shortcut, set whether it will be aā¦
With the upcoming releases of iOS 16.2, iPadOS 16.2, and tvOS 16.2, Apple is introducing a new feature called Apple Music Sing that allows Apple Music subscribers to sing along to their favorite songs. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to access this on an iPhone.
Key features of Apple Music Sing:
- Adjustable vocals: Users now have control over a songāsā¦
By default, VoiceOver does not start automatically at the macOS login prompt. In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to change this. The steps to do so are as follows:
On some older Mac models, if FileVault disk encryption is turned on, which is the default, VoiceOver should start when the Macā¦
In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates a new feature in iOS 16 that provides a customisable time window during which you have the opportunity to change your mind after you send an email.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and demonstrates the relocation of the audio messages function in iOS 16. This is now accessed by a iMessage app in the Messages app dock, rather than a button next to the text field where you type your message.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville demonstrates how in iOS 16 you are now able to recover deleted conversations in the native iOS Messages app. Note that this will only be possible for up to approximately 30 days after the conversation was deleted.
With the release of iOS 16, when sending messages using Siri, you can now skip the confirmation step. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how this works and how to enable it.
With Always On Display, your iPhone 14 Pro or later pro-model iPhone will dim the Lock Screen while still showing information, such as the time, widgets and wallpaper, all while using new technologies that make the display power efficient.
There is likely to be no utility to this feature for blind and some low vision users, so in this episode Thomas Domville shows us how to disable it.
To disable Always On Display, go to Settings > Display & Brightness >ā¦
In this episode, Thomas Domville shows us how to turn on the Mac-like startup and shutdown chimes that are available on all iPhone 14 and newer models. To do this, go to Settings > Accessibility > Audio & Visual, and double-tap the "Power on and off sounds" toggle.
Note that as this option is facilitated by the iPhone's boot rom, the read-only code responsible for starting the iPhone and initializing iOS, it is limited to the iPhone 14 and newer devices. See thisā¦
On iPhoneĀ 14Ā Pro and iPhoneĀ 14Ā ProĀ Max, Apple has replaced the ānotchā that's been a feature of Face ID-equipped iPhones since the iPhone X with what it calls the Dynamic Island. The Dynamic Island is a small area of display pixels surrounding the pill-shaped cutout. It appears whenever your iPhone is unlocked, and changes size and shape to accommodate various types of alerts, notifications, and interactions such as music thatās playing, your timer, an AirDrop connection, and directionsā¦
New to the iPhone with the release of iOS 16 is the ability to report SMS/MMS messages as junk. This expands on the built-in "Report Junk" feature in Messages that previously only let you report iMessages. Now you can use the same option to report an SMS/MMS message as junk, which will alert Apple and your network carrier and delete the message in question.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
Note that availability of this feature will depend upon yourā¦
New with iOS 16 is the ability to unsend sent iMessages. In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how it works.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville discusses and shows us how ā with the release of iOS 16 ā Apple has made it possible to view details of all the Wi-Fi networks your iPhone has connected to in the past and remembered. If iCloud Keychain is enabled on all your Apple devices, you'll even be able to see the Wi-Fi networks saved by those other devices. For example, you could use your iPhone to see all the networks your Mac or iPad has saved, and copy the password so that you can connect viaā¦
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through where to find and enable the iOS setting that prevents the side or lock button from ending calls.
Note that some in our community have recently reported issues with the side button not behaving as expected in regard to ending calls.
Apple has made many improvements to its Weather app with the release of iOS 16. One of these is an option to receive alerts for severe weather for a particular location.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through the steps to enable this option.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville walks us through a new accessibility enhancement in iOS 16 that allows you to increase āSiri's pause time, which causes the voice assistant to wait a longer period for you to finish speaking.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to customize the email signature that appears automatically at the bottom of every email you send from your iPhone.
In this podcast, Thomas Domville shows us how to add a website bookmark to the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad. This enables you to access the website with a double tap on a Home Screen icon , instead of having to open a browser and then select a bookmark or type in a website's URL.
It doesn't matter if you prefer using iCloud, Dropbox, or even OneDrive, or any other cloud storage service, there's a way for you to save email attachments on the iOS with Mail. Listen in as Thomas Domville shows us in how to save email attachments in the iOS Mail app.
In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to enable audio descriptions for the TV app, as well as for videos on supported websites in Safari on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Note that not all apps and websites that offer audio described content detect this setting, meaning you'll have to manually enable audio descriptions through the playback interfaces of such services.
To enable automatic playing of audio descriptions for the TV app and Safari on iOS and iPadOS, go to settings >ā¦