Apple Stops Accepting Card Payments for Subscriptions, App Purchases
Apple has stopped accepting card payments for subscriptions and app purchases using Apple ID in India. This means that you are no longer able to use your Indian credit or…
The Best Way to Factory-Reset Your Apple Watch
Photo: charnsitr (Shutterstock) If your Apple Watch is on its way out, there’s one last thing you need to do before selling or exchanging it: Completely wipe it clean so…
How to Speed Up a Slow-Ass iCloud Sync
Photo: Momentum Ronnarong (Shutterstock) When you need to access data like contacts, calendar events, and photos across all your devices, iCloud is your best friend. And yet, it’s often our…
How to Pass on Your iPhone Data After You Die
Screenshot: Khamosh Pathak Our digital lives are heavily intertwined with our “real” lives, and Apple is finally starting to acknowledge that. The data that lives in our iCloud accounts is…
Apple Music Can Give You Spotify Wrapped-Style Stats, Sort of
Screenshot: Pranay Parab At the end of each year, Spotify’s Wrapped feature takes over social media, as seemingly all of your friends start sharing their year in music—the one song…
You Can Use Your Apple Watch to Automatically Unlock Your Mac
Photo: DenPhotos (Shutterstock) You might know about Apple’s feature that lets you automatically unlock your iPhone using the Apple Watch (when you’re wearing a face mask, at least). But you…
How iOS 15 Makes It Much Easier to Back Up and Wipe Your iPhone Before Selling It
Photo: ms_pics_and_more (Shutterstock) Is it time to let go of your iPhone or iPad? Are you upgrading to a newer, better model, or passing it on to a family member?…
How to Wipe Your Mac Without Reinstalling the OS
Photo: Farknot Architect (Shutterstock) Resetting a Mac has always been a headache: The only way to do it securely was to format the entire Mac and reinstall the OS. You…
How Apple Can Read Your Encrypted Messages
If you have an iPhone, and your friends mostly have iPhones, you probably use Apple’s Messages app to communicate with them. That’s the nature of things. And aside from the…
You Should Use Your iPhone’s New Built-in Two-Factor Authentication
Photo: Khamosh Pathak When it comes to protecting your accounts, the general consensus is to always use two-factor authentication, which traditionally uses a unique six-digit code that’s re-generated every 30…