Innehållsförteckning för May 2023 från MacLife

> IMPORTANT UPDATES Apple has urged all users to install the latest security updates — iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, and macOS 13.3.1 — to fix a couple of serious security issues. It says of each: “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited,” which is as close as it gets to confirming that unpatched systems are at immediate risk. There are also security updates for older phones that still run older iOS versions, a move also indicative of serious vulnerabilities. The security updates have arrived not long after iOS/iPadOS 16.4 and macOS 13.3 Ventura, which delivered a number of enhancements: > 21 new emojis are introduced (31 if you count skin tone variations), the first new emojis in more than a year. > There…

REQUIRES macOS 13 or later, iOS 16 or later (some features require a recent iPhone) YOU WILL LEARN How to use Continuity Camera IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes GENIUS TIP If you tap Disconnect on the iPhone screen, you will have to connect it to your Mac with a cable to use it as a webcam again. APPLE’S CONTINUITY SUITE of features has been around for years. It’s this feature set that enables you to use your iPhone as a scanner for your Mac, for example. The latest addition to the suite, Continuity Camera (confusingly, it has the same name as the scanning and photo features), enables you to use your iPhone as a higher quality webcam for your Mac when making FaceTime, Zoom or Teams calls. In fact, you…

REQUIRES iPad, USB–C cables or adaptors YOU WILL LEARN How to use external storage and other devices with iPad IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes GENIUS TIP Your USB–C iPad can charge your iPhone, AirPods or Apple Watch. ONE OF OUR favorite things about the latest iPads is their USB–C port, which enables you to connect all kinds of devices. USB–C is the most recent and fastest version of the standard, and it enables you to connect more demanding devices such as fast external storage. It also lets you charge your iPhone, AirPods, or Apple Watch; just connect the appropriate cable to your iPad and it’ll share its battery. Your iPad can also move files to and from external drives and memory cards; connect to DisplayPort external displays; work with keyboards and…

FIRST LAUNCHED WITH iOS 7.1 in 2014, CarPlay turns your car’s in–dash display into an iPhone display and controller in one. And it works brilliantly. With your iPhone hooked up to your car using either wired or wireless connections, you can easily use travel–friendly versions of apps such as Phone, Music, Messages and Maps, and CarPlay supports a growing number of third–party apps too. Initially available on the 2014 Ferrari FF, CarPlay has now spread to over 600 car models from over 70 manufacturers, including household names such as Audi, GMC, Mercedes–Benz, and Volkswagen. Plus, it’s available on a wide variety of aftermarket car head units too (we’ve included some options on p55) so even if you own an older vehicle, you may still be able to use CarPlay. CarPlay’s…

AT APPLE’S WORLDWIDE Developers Conference in June 2022, Apple unveiled its plans for the future of CarPlay — and it looks incredible. While up until now CarPlay has been limited largely to a car’s in–dash display, its reach could soon extend even further, taking in any and all displays available in the car, including the instrument cluster. The aim is to create more of a unified and customizable in–car experience that’ll be better than the mishmash of interfaces and usability options that car makers offer now — and car makers seem to agree. Apple already has Audi, Ford, Honda, Jaguar, Land Rover, Mercedes–Benz, Nissan, Polestar, Porsche, Renault and Volvo on board, with others expected to join. This means that not only will next–generation CarPlay be able to offer up things…

YOU NOW KNOW how to create and schedule reminders, tag them, and create and manage lists, so it’s time to make them really useful. For example, by using the Smart Lists feature, you can create lists that include reminders based on tags, meaning you don’t have to manually assign them to a list. You can also collaborate on lists. For example, if you have a groceries list, you can share it with other members of your household so you can all add to it or check off items as you buy them. Items on lists can be geotagged so you are alerted when you arrive or leave a specified location. And you can make and save templates for lists that you create regularly, such as a packing list for trips. You…

From $339.99 (16GB, Basic Pen) From https://amzn.to/3lgFDSD Features 10.2–inch, 300 ppi, auto–adjusting front light, 16/32/64GB, USB–C, magnetic pen THE KINDLE SCRIBE is a large–screen Kindle with a pen included, allowing you to write on it, though it’s basic in that respect — more so than competing tablets like the reMarkable 2. A Premium Pen is available ($30 extra), offering an eraser and a shortcut button, which are useful additions if you need them. If you want to read books on a large–screen Kindle, the Scribe is an easy ereader to recommend. The huge pixel density means everything is super sharp and glorious on–screen. However, for journaling, note taking, and other writing tasks, the Scribe is a letdown. For students and academics, the Scribe only allows you to write notes as sticky…

THE FLEXIBILITY OF what you can do with your Apple gear is amazing. Apple tech is so versatile; there’s just so much you can achieve with a Mac, iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. In this in–depth guide, we round up some of the best tips and tricks that enable you to be more creative, productive, solve problems, and features you might not have anticipated. Want to use your iPad as a drawing tablet? You can. Would you like to ask Siri to remember where you parked your car? We show you how. Ever wanted to write a novel or screenplay on your Mac? Discover the best way to get started. You can get an ECG, blood oxygen test, and loud environment report directly from your Apple Watch too. For many of…

REQUIRES Notion (free, with IAPs), macOS 10.12 or later YOU WILL LEARN How to create and manage pages and databases in Notion IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes TIRED OF TRYING to manage your work and personal projects in a multitude of different apps? Instead of juggling the likes of Dropbox, Airtable and Trello, try Notion. It can handle anything you throw at it, from simple text documents to sprawling databases with countless contributors, and is super–simple to use no matter what you want to do. Notion’s key strength is its ease of use. It comes with a friendly interface that lets you drag and drop items, create databases and tables with just a click, and collaborate using tags and comments. That means you can plan your next holiday or keep track…

REQUIRES An Apple Watch, and someone else with an Apple Watch YOU WILL LEARN How to use the Walkie–Talkie app IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes GENIUS TIP If you use Focus modes on your iPhone and Apple Watch to enable Do Not Disturb settings, they include the Walkie–Talkie app too. OUR APPLE WATCH sometimes makes us feel like we’re living in the future; at last, we have the wrist–based communicators our comics promised us as kids. When someone calls, your Watch shows their name if they’re in your contacts. Tap the green button to talk, the red button to send the call to voicemail, or the “…” (More) option to send the call to your phone or reply with a text message. You can adjust the volume with the Digital…

Quick–fire questions & answers HOW TO USE M1 RECOVERY WHEN THE MOUSE WON’T WORK? Charge the mouse fully, then enter Recovery mode by holding the Power button until you’re informed that it’s loading. To pair your mouse again, press the Power button three times in slightly less than three seconds. You should then see the Bluetooth Setup Assistant to help you pair it. COULD I REPLACE THE HARD DRIVE IN MY MAC MINI 2014? Not easily. To access the drive in more recent Mac minis, you have to remove almost everything else from inside its case, including the logic board. This is shown at https://bit.ly/3lnewFP, requires special tools, and may need an upgrade kit if you’re replacing it with an SSD. > More memory or larger storage? My current Mac…

WHILECARPLAY OFFICIALLY made its debut in 2014, both the idea and some early implementations had been kicking around since 2008, one year after the original iPhone launched. That’s when Apple teamed up with Mercedes–Benz to release a car with a 30–pin input port that enabled the infotainment system to access and control a connected iPhone or iPod. The next major development came in 2010 with iPod Out, which Apple developed in conjunction with BMW. Officially announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) the same year, iPod Out enabled iPod and iPhone to output audio and video to a car’s infotainment system and receive instructions from its control dials, switches and knobs. That joint Apple–BMW project resulted in a cross–platform standard for iPod/iPhone connectivity that other car makers could adopt for…

$19.99 (standalone), $169.99 (universal license) From https://affinity.serif.com Needs iPadOS 15 or later, Apple silicon recommended A PRO–GRADE DTP app on the iPad? It’s true. The release of the second version of the Affinity suite of creative apps has seen Serif take a step that it chose not to with the previous iteration, which saw the Designer vector illustration app and the Photo image–editing app move to touchscreen town — but not Publisher. Publisher 2, therefore, has something to prove. Happily, it largely manages to show that having a full creative suite on an iPad is a good idea, and Apple’s introduction of Stage Manager into iPadOS couldn’t have come at a better time. While it’s probably still best to work with the app using a mouse, keyboard and external monitor,…

$149 From www.urbanista.com Features Light–powered charging case, 34–hour reserve battery, hybrid active noise canceling, ear detection, transparency mode, Bluetooth 5.2, IPX4 water resistance, eight–hour playtime IN ISSUE 193, we tested and reviewed Urbanista’s solar–powered Los Angeles headphones. Now, the company has transplanted its light–fueling tech into the more compact Phoenix earphones. In the Los Angeles, a solar–charging strip was integrated into the headband, but of course it works differently in the Phoenix earphones. Each earbud is too small to fit any kind of solar panel, so instead a roughly two–inch–squared light cell sits on one side of the charging case, which in turn juices up the earbuds. It works with artificial light too, not just sunlight. The result is a case that charges the buds forever, cable–free. The earphones get…

$199.99 From www.fiio.com Features 1.3–inch IPS color display, 9 hour battery life, Bluetooth with AAC, aptX HD, USB-C, 3.5mm and 4.4mm connectors, 0.57in x 1.56in x 3.29in, 2.4oz THERE ARE SEVERAL portable DACs now available that are primarily designed for use with smartphones. Fiio’s BTR7 isn’t as compact as some of its rivals, but its impressive range of features mean that it works well with a much wider selection of devices. We tested the standard version of the BTR7, which has a USB–C interface for use with Macs, PCs, and the latest iPads, but there’s also an “Apple Deluxe” edition available for $210 that includes a Lightning adaptor for the iPhone and older iPads. Unlike most portable DACs, the BTR7 has a rechargeable battery, which means it doesn’t drain the…

THE iPHONE 15 line due this year promises a big shakeup in several respects. Here is what we expect. First up, instead of Lightning, the iPhone 15 will have a USB–C port, as ordered by the EU for all devices sold in Europe as from the end of 2024. All models’ screens are likely to lose the notch and feature Dynamic Island, the variable interface element introduced in iPhone 14 Pro to camouflage the front–facing camera and other under–screen components. Aside from this, the 6.1–inch iPhone 15 and 6.7–inch iPhone 15 Max are said to have screen sizes and body designs much like the current model’s, with an aluminum frame and toughened glass front and back. By contrast, significant design changes are expected in the 6.1–inch iPhone 15 Pro and…

OVER THE LAST few weeks, the single most dominant tech story has been ChatGPT, and its eerily good ability to create written documents from an “AI” database. Well, I say “single”, but what’s been written about it has gone through so many transformations — from “Wow, this thing is amazing!” to “Oh, this thing is terrifying” to “This will make my life much easier” to “This will put me out of a job” to “I can get any information digestible” to “Ah, it just makes up facts sometimes” and “Oh no it also might throw in slurs”, and so on. A lot of talk about it has been focused on where people will access it in practice. Microsoft sees AI as a way to do the impossible and leapfrog Google…

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REQUIRES PDF Expert ($79.99/year), macOS 10.13 or later YOU WILL LEARN How to adjust your PDFs with a host of tools in PDF Expert IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes WHETHER WE LIKE it or not, most of us regularly work with PDFs. Editing these files can be unwieldy, provoking more frustration than anything — unless you have PDF Expert at your disposal. This app has an array of tools designed to help make managing your PDFs much easier. You can edit text, fill out forms and sign documents, banish blotches and unwanted imperfections, and rearrange pages with a quick click and a swipe. There are various reading modes (including Split View) designed to ease the burden on your eyes, while you can export to different formats to share with others. And…

REQUIRES A browser, and a bit of patience YOU WILL LEARN What Mastodon is and how to use it IT WILL TAKE 20 minutes MASTODON HAS BEEN a big beneficiary of Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover; with the social media site in apparent chaos and lots of previously banned users being allowed back on, many people have been looking for a more pleasant alternative. And for many, Mastodon is that alternative. It has very strong anti–abuse rules, and with a bit of effort you can make it just as easy to use as Twitter. It works a bit like email; in much the same way you can have yourname@iCloud.com or yourname@gmail.com, there are different Mastodon servers for different people. Mastodon calls them “instances”, and there are instances for journalists, drummers, environmentalists… and…

SHARE WITH US! EMAIL:ask@maclife.com FACEBOOK: facebook.com/maclife TWITTER: twitter.com/maclife Quick–fire questions & answers HOW TO REINSTALL THE MACOS 13.2 UPDATE? Because Apple changed how macOS updates work in Big Sur, they now have a lot more work to do and can’t be supplied as Installer packages in the way they used to. If you can’t update through Software Update, the only alternative is to use the full installer app, such as that in the Mac App Store. HOW TO KEEP SENSITIVE FILES ON AN EXTERNAL SSD? Using Disk Utility, add an APFS Encrypted volume to the existing container on that drive, giving it a robust password. Although perhaps not quite as secure as FileVault protection on your Mac’s internal storage, you can eject the volume in the Finder when you’re not using…

THERE ARE TWOmain ways to connect an iPhone equipped with CarPlay to your car’s infotainment system. The first is by plugging in your iPhone via your car’s built–in USB port using a USB to Lightning cable; the second is to do so wirelessly, usually via Bluetooth. Once that’s done (getting connected varies from manufacturer to manufacturer), you simply head to Settings > General > CarPlay on your iPhone, choose the name of your car, then flick the CarPlay switch to On. On the same screen, the Enhanced Integration can help your iPhone determine which apps that you have installed are also compatible with CarPlay. It will still work perfectly without it, although you may not be able to access all the apps you might expect. HEY SIRI The next steps…

SOME PEOPLE CREATE lists for every little thing and meticulously record every task. Others never make a note of anything and trust their memory not to let them down. Most of us fall between those two camps and write down important tasks while entrusting the rest to memory. However, with a tool like Apple’s Reminders close at hand, there’s no excuse for relying on memory. Using Reminders to “dump” everything you need to do can be very liberating, and reduce your stress levels. Here we’ll show you how to create a basic reminder, schedule it, add it to a list, and set notifications for when it’s time to complete the task. We refer to the quick actions menu in some steps — this lives above the keyboard on iOS and…

$99.99 Fromwww.logitech.com Features Bluetooth, easy–switch keys, hand proximity sensors, 5.19 x 11.65 x 0.82in, 17.86 oz Needs macOS 10.15 or later, Bluetooth Low Energy enabled device WANT A WIRELESS alternative to Apple’s Magic Keyboard? Then consider the MX Keys Mini for Mac. It combines an Apple–friendly aesthetic with all the shortcuts and key legends (Cmd, Opt, et al) a Mac user would need, with a built–in battery for Bluetooth LE connectivity and multi–device pairing. Its white keys on a silver base are a great match for Apple’s products. It’s compact and solidly built too, with rubberized strips on its underside to stop it slipping on your desk. Logitech’s “Perfect Stroke” keys are close to those in the latest MacBooks or the Magic Keyboard line — low profile and easy to…