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Did you know that by default, Safari on your Mac will open, on your behalf, movies, images, PDF and text documents, and any kind of archives, after downloading them?
At first glance, it looks like a super convenient thing to do.
No need to manually open those downloaded files.
Except for the fact that opening an infected file is one of the many potential hacking vectors on a Mac.
Did you know that since iOS 14.5 and macOS Big Sur 11.3 it's possible to add tags to your notes?
This is a great way to quickly filter and access notes that may be stored in different folders.
Anywhere in a note, just type the hashtag symbol followed by a word, for instance “#important”
After typing the space, the tags will become yellow.
On iPhones with a Home button, it's possible to add the battery percentage value in the top right corner of the screen so that it's visible at all times.
On iPhones with Face ID running iOS 15 or earlier, the top right corner only displays the battery indicator, not the percentage value.
But, don't despair, here are 4 ways to quickly get the battery percentage on one of those iPhones.
Provided that you already downloaded Pages from the Mac App Store in the past, here's how to do it:
Open the Mac App Store
Click on your account (at the bottom)
This will give you access to the "Purchased" pane.
Locate Pages and initiate the download from there.
You'll see a message telling you that the latest version is incompatible so it will download and install a previous yet compatible version.
Did you know that since macOS 10.15 Catalina, it's possible to customise the language for most apps, independently from the operating system language?
This can be useful when, like me, you need to quickly show an app in different languages and you don't want to switch the language of the entire operating system.
Desktop Macs should get backed up via Time Machine (TM) to an external drive permanently connected to it.
For MacBooks, using an external hard drive is feasible (and recommended) but not super practical.
Another solution for MacBooks (especially those without a built-in SD card slot) is to invest in a Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution, like those from Synology.
Did you know that since iOS 15, you can set the text size on an app-by-app basis?
The ability to increase or decrease the text size system-wide is an accessibility feature that came with iOS 7.
Up to iOS 13, the only way to change it was to visit Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Larger Text
With iOS 14, Apple introduced a "Text Size" button in Control Center which simplified the process of changing that parameter globally.
But, this chosen text size would be the same across all apps and the operating system.
Since iOS 15, the same "Text Size" button now gives us a toggle to set a chosen text size either for the currently active app or the entire system.
