Glenn Fleishman

Apple’s Photos app isn’t a walled garden. You can import images and videos into the app and export them back out, both in their original form and with any modification you made or as a transformed objected into a different format or resolution.…

From 1999 until 2016, Apple released and continued to sell a series of external digitally connected displays optimized for Mac users. The displays started with DVI connectors, shifted to the Apple-made ADC connection, then back to DVI, expanded to…

Apple changed long-standing display options in macOS Mail with the release of 10.15 Catalina. This no-longer-new version dropped the ability in Mail’s column view (via View > Use Column Layout) to manage columns widths, click to sort by…

Apple has increasingly required that Apple ID accounts (used for iCloud, purchases, and other purposes) are protected by two-factor authentication (2FA). This two-part system has you enter a password and then enter a code that’s available from all…

The Apple ID is the center of the Apple universe, particularly for purchases and iCloud synchronization. That becomes a tricky issue whenever a single person's Apple ID is used by multiple people, whether spouses, partners, or roommates, or—as is…

The Safari browser in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS can automatically retain information entered in fields on websites you visit and then automatically complete it on your next visit. This can be great! You don’t have to re-enter the same information, like…

In each successive release of iOS (and now iPadOS), Apple tweaks location permissions so that app developers have less and less ability to track you all the time. With the update to iOS and iPadOS 13, apps may only ask a user if they want to have…

The Photos smart album feature provides a powerful way to organize images by an extensive list of attributes, including date captured, photo exposure, picture orientation, and many other parameters. For sorting pictures, I’ve long recommended…

Apple TV runs the tvOS operating system, which is quite similar to the OS used for iOS, macOS, and iPadOS. That’s true down to how apps are registered within the system. Whatever Apple ID is logged in to the Apple TV is used to download free apps or…

A Mac is not a fortress, but it’s remained resilient against the worst sorts of attacks that have plagued Windows over decades and Android over years. Ransomware and other malware routinely appears to target macOS users, but it typically requires…

Those with long memories may recall that in the early days of the internet and for many years into it, there were two methods of retrieving email from a server: POP3 and IMAP. (POP and POP2 were long gone when the internet became open to all…

Leap years have been a fixture of the Julian calendar since it was put into effect in 45 BCE. A recent customer-service failure shows Apple still isn’t quite clear on the concept. It started innocuously enough. The rear-facing camera and flashlight…

Sometimes, you want your iPhone or iPad to never connect to Wi-Fi. Instead, you’d prefer it to always use cellular data. You can disable Wi-Fi, but you have to use the right set of options and sequence to ensure it remains off. Why disable Wi-Fi?…

It’s easy to feel that we live in a surveillance state, with every public and transportation space seemingly monitored by government cameras, companies placing video cameras in stores and offices, and every other car owner sporting a dashboard cam.…

FileVault is a robust full-disk encryption system that Apple released way back with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. It encrypts all the data on your disk at rest, so when your Mac is fully shut down, its data is unrecoverable without an approved account’s…

When you’re millions of miles from home, it’s hard to install an operating system update—but not impossible. From the dawn of the Space Age through the present, NASA has relied on resilient software running on redundant hardware to make up for…

The Finder window pulls together all sorts of different kinds of items that let you navigate among folders, find files, and perform search, among many file-related tasks. But you might be perplexed to find a question mark at the top of your Finder…

Cloud storage is a wonderful way to extend limited hard disk or SSD space on your computer to an accessible internet-reachable location. Many services combine synchronization and storage offloading. Synchronization ensures that files on every linked…

To follow up on previous advice on controlling how macOS takes screenshots, as described in “How to take better screenshot selections in macOS,” you can also choose to include or exclude a border and drop shadow when you just want to grab a window. A…

Making screenshots of parts of your Mac display can be a valuable tool when you’re trying to remember settings or a sequence of actions or explain them to someone else. I know that I’m an oddball as a technology writer, as I’m constantly capturing…