Category: LifeHacker

  • How to Stop Apple Music CarPlay From Crashing Until There's a Real Fix

    How to Stop Apple Music CarPlay From Crashing Until There's a Real Fix

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Over the last few days, we’ve seen lots of reports across Reddit and social media that Apple Music on CarPlay has been crashing unexpectedly. While we don’t know the specific cause, and there’s no confirmed fix yet, there are a few workarounds you can try while you wait. Read more……

  • How to Declutter Your Home: A Start-to-Finish Guide

    How to Declutter Your Home: A Start-to-Finish Guide

    Read full article: at LifeHacker It’s hard to argue that most of us have a little too much stuff lying around, but getting rid of your stuff can be difficult. Maybe you’ve formed a personal attachment to certain items or you truly believe you’ll have a practical use for it someday. Most of the time,…

  • How to Finally Go Paperless at Home, Because It's Past Time

    How to Finally Go Paperless at Home, Because It's Past Time

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Going paperless doesn’t need to be limited to office work. Between online bill pay and services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Zelle, CashApp, and Venmo, you can get rid of nearly all your finance-related clutter. But why stop there? Going paperless can apply to virtually every area of your life,…

  • How to Clean Your Earbuds, Because They're Even Grosser Than You Think

    How to Clean Your Earbuds, Because They're Even Grosser Than You Think

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Fungus and yeast infection-causing germs can build upon the earbuds as you jam them inside your ear canals, not to mention wax that visibly sticks to their surfaces. After sending an earbud swab out for analysis, Inside Edition even found pneumonia-causing bacteria such as staph aureus on regularly used earbuds,…

  • How to Unlock That Hidden Debug Mode for AirTags in iOS 14.5

    How to Unlock That Hidden Debug Mode for AirTags in iOS 14.5

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple’s AirTags have a hidden debug mode that you can access pretty easily on your connected device (ideally, an iPhone). And while the features found within aren’t going to give you magical tracking powers, you can at least enjoy some of the data related to AirTag tracking. That, and you…

  • How to Set Up Every iOS 14.5 Feature Worth Knowing About

    How to Set Up Every iOS 14.5 Feature Worth Knowing About

    Read full article: at LifeHacker It’s been just over a week since iOS 14.5 debuted, and we’ve spent a chunk of time going over the most interesting features the operating system has to offer. This is one update I wouldn’t wait to install, if for nothing else than it’s the only way your iPhone will…

  • How to Automatically Set Your iPhone Screen Orientation for Every App in iOS 14.5

    How to Automatically Set Your iPhone Screen Orientation for Every App in iOS 14.5

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple has added a few helpful new Shortcut actions to iOS 14.5. We’ve previously talked about one, which lets you drop a new “Take Screenshots” action into any of your programmed Shortcuts. Joining it is a a new action for your device’s Orientation Lock, which allows you fine-tune when you…

  • How to Get Started With Apple Fitness+

    How to Get Started With Apple Fitness+

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple is all about the three Ss these days: subscriptions, services, and saturation (for its new iMacs, at least). And while you can hardly blame the company for wanting to diversify its revenue, it can sometimes feel like there’s just a lot to buy from Apple—with a recurring monthly payment,…

  • How to Fix Your iPhone's 'App Tracking Transparency' If It's Grayed Out in iOS 14.5

    How to Fix Your iPhone's 'App Tracking Transparency' If It's Grayed Out in iOS 14.5

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple finally released its much-anticipated App Tracking Transparency feature with the launch of iOS 14.5, and it’s incredibly helpful if you want some fine-grain control over which apps can track other aspects of your digital activity. That’s assuming, of course, the feature isn’t grayed out for you. Read more… Read…

  • How to Get Early Access to iOS 14.5 Before Next Week's Launch

    How to Get Early Access to iOS 14.5 Before Next Week's Launch

    Read full article: at LifeHacker iOS 14.5 and iPadOS 14.5 are officially hitting iPhones and iPads next week, but you don’t have to wait until then to get your hands on the final release candidates of the new operating systems. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker