SharePlay has made FaceTime even more fun, allowing you to stream content from your Apple devices with other people. With iOS 16, Apple added the ability to use SharePlay within the Messages app too, making the feature even more accessible. The idea

Making and receiving calls on the iPhone is easy, but it is also possible to customise the settings and tweak them a little to your tastes. In both the Phone and Accessibility settings there are a few features that you can play around with. You can e

Across every platform, GarageBand has introduced loops and patches for trending sounds, with ‘Glitch’ being one of them. Glitch as a genre rose to prominence in the 1990s but has since found a place in modern EDM and Pop music, giving rise to Glitch

Final Cut Pro’s Keyer effect enables you to make a clip’s green (or blue) background become completely transparent. By adding a clip to the layer below the green screen clip, you can make your subject appear in a new location. You can use this keying

Sometimes you’ll come across a photo online and wonder where it has come from. You may like to use it but you don’t want to infringe anyone’s copyright; perhaps you simply want to know what the image is showing, or quickly find similar examples. A re

Professional portrait photographers produce great-looking people pictures due to a combination of experience in directing people how to pose, and a range of assets such as lighting kits and studio backdrops. You can get pro-looking portraits armed on

Being able to record the screen of your device is very useful, and before it was incorporated into iOS, the process had to be carried out using the QuickTime Player app on your Mac (which you can still use). The screen recording feature is particular

Many apps were updated when macOS Ventura was released, but Font Book looks more like a complete rewrite than a few simple tweaks to an existing app. If you use fonts in design or writing apps, from TextEdit to Pages, get to know the new Font Book an

Created at Washington University in 1989, Pico text editor has been around for so long, yet hardly anyone knows it exists. It is bundled with the Mac and is a little-known utility included in macOS. Pico includes state-of-the-art features and functio

Our iPhone is usually able to capture high-quality video footage in a variety of locations, but in some situations it might struggle to capture comparably good sound. We took the iPhone 14 Pro Max to a noisy beach where the wind and wave-driven pebbl

RichCast is a curious tool that’s well worth exploring. It lets you create and share linear interactive stories that can be played by tapping buttons or verbally issuing instructions. It also has a host of built-in tools to make the development proce

Are you making the most of the Calculator app? Plus, did you know you don’t always have to launch the app itself? For example, you can actually perform calculations directly from Spotlight Search and see the results at the top of the screen. You can

The sharing features in iCloud enable you to let other people view files and even whole folders and their contents. They can even be given editing access so they can open and work on documents on their own iPhone, iPad or Mac. You will probably manag

The concept of Logic’s Track Mute and Solo buttons is based around the same features you’d find on a real mixing desk – the Mute button removes a track from the mix and stops it sounding, while Solo removes everything other than that track from the m

The steep rise in fuel costs, clean air zones, congestion charges, increasing traffic and lack of parking in big cities makes it undesirable to own a car. Public transport is often the best option. Whether you live in a city or just plan to visit, th

LEAKS AROUND THE iPHONE 15 SEEM TO BE ARRIVING THICK AND FAST AT THE MOMENT, WITH THE LATEST IMAGERY REVEAL FOCUSING ON THE MOST EXPENSIVE PRO MAX MODEL – AND THERE ARE A FEW CHANGES FROM THE CURRENT MODEL TO DISCUSS. The reveal comes courtesy of ren

There’s a limit to how much stuff you can store on your Apple Watch – install too many apps or make use of large amounts of media and you’ll likely discover that you’ve run out of room for more goodies. Indeed, having too little free space also means

Scroll through the Apple News app and you will probably see a few stories about major sporting events. However, you can see a lot more of the news stories that interest you by following your favourite football teams in the app. Give teams that are ra

Quick Notes is a great feature that allows you to take notes, or even sketches, from anywhere on your iPad, almost instantaneously. You can create a Quick Note with an Apple Pencil or similar stylus, by typing on the iPadOS keyboard, or even with you