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How to Use a Hidden *Darker* Dark Mode Theme in MacOS Mojave

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If you like Dark Mode in MacOS, you may appreciate knowing that MacOS Mojave has a secondary secret darker version of the Dark interface theme available with slightly greater contrast, and it’s easy to enable despite being unlabeled and almost entirely hidden in plain sight.


The difference is subtle, but if you enable this you’ll end up with a slightly darker version of the dark theme in MacOS. Or if you happen to be using the slightly darker version of the Dark Mode theme already (and perhaps aren’t even aware of it), you can easily change to the slightly lighter version too.

How to Enable the Darker Dark Theme in MacOS

It turns out that switching the Accent colors in MacOS also impacts the Dark Theme, specifically if you choose the Grayscale / Graphite option as the color accent. The effect is a darker version of the Dark theme, here’s how to get this effect yourself:

  1. Go to  Apple menu and choose “System Preferences”
  2. Go to the “General” preference panel
  3. Choose the “Dark” theme if you have not done so already, then under the ‘Accent’ section choose the graphite / gray option furthest on the right
  4. How to enable the Darker Dark theme in Mac OS

  5. Wait a moment and you should see the Dark Mode theme shift to slightly darker colors with slightly higher contrast

Some users may not even notice a change as it is quite subtle, but if you use Dark Mode often you should be able to tell, particularly in low light situations as the contrast is slightly boosted, and the grays are a shade or few darker.

Toggling Darker dark theme and Dark theme in Mac OS

The animated GIF images flip between the two versions of Dark mode theme in the Mac Finder, as you can see it’s not a dramatically different appearance between the two, but the one with gray accent colors is notably darker and offers higher contrast than the other with a color accent chosen.

The Darker Dark theme in Mac OS

In still images, the screenshots below demonstrate the two variations of the Dark theme as well.

Here’s the standard Dark theme, with color accents:

Regular Dark mode theme in Mac OS

And here’s the darker Dark theme with the gray accents, which features darker grays on all interface elements, and a bit higher contrast:

The Darker Dark theme in Mac OS

Whether you find the differences to be subtle or not, it’s quite nice having two alternative versions of the Dark theme available, and the gray / graphite accent color looks quite nice with Dark mode too.

You can make this darker theme effect a bit more pronounced by disabling transparency in macOS too (which can also speed up some Macs), and you can also use the Increase Contrast option with Dark Mode if you’d like.

As long as you leave the gray/graphite accent color chosen, then you can toggle between enabling Dark Mode and Light Mode, or even using our trick to schedule Dark Mode in macOS Mojave, and the darker version of the Dark theme will be enabled.

And no, there are not two different versions of the Light theme, in case you were wondering.

Update: some versions of MacOS Mojave seem to not have the dual dark mode intensity options, while others do. Share with us your experiences in the comments below, including your system version.

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iOS 12.1.3 No Service or Cellular Data Problems on iPhone? Try These Fixes

written by applenws

Some iPhone users have discovered cellular data issues after installing the iOS 12.1.3 update, showing “No service”, no cellular data, no cellular reception bars, and sometimes seeing a “Cellular Update Failed” message similar to what was happening with some iPhones after installing iOS 12.1.2. This seems to mostly impact iPhones on particular cellular networks, but it’s not entirely clear why some iPhone devices will experience cellular data problems after installing the iOS 12.1.3 update while others don’t.

Often some of the routine fixes for cellular data not working on iPhone will resolve this problem, including making sure that cellular data is actually enabled and resetting network settings.

As you work through the troubleshooting steps below, be sure to check your cellular data connection after you have tried each of these steps.If one of these methods works for you, you don’t need to follow any others. And be sure to share what did (or didn’t) work for fixing your iOS 12.1.3 iPhone cellular problems in the comments below!

1: Reboot the iPhone, then wait 5 minutes

Try this first, this is based on a few recommendations from cellular carriers. Sprint says wait 3 minutes after restarting, but another cell provider said wait 5 minutes. This may allow a cellular settings update to download and load that can fix the problem.

You can perform a simple reboot on any iPhone by turning it off, then back on again. Holding down the Power button and then swiping to power down the device is typically all that is needed. Then wait a moment and press the Power button again.

For can also try a forced reboot, which is a much more abrupt restart of the iPhone. That process varies per iPhone and whether or not they have Home buttons that click or not, or none at all:

  • Force restart iPhone XS, iPhone XR, iPhone XS Max
  • Force restart iPhone X
  • Force restart iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone 8
  • Force restart iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus
  • Force restart iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, iPhone 6 Plus, 6, iPhone SE, 5s, 5, 4s, 4, etc with clickable Home buttons

Once the device boots back up, try using cellular data again.

Note after a reboot you can often check for a cellular carrier settings update on iPhone from the mobile provider by going to Settings > General > About and locate the Carrier section too.

2: Put into Airplane Mode & Reboot

Some users report that simple putting their iPhone into AirPlane mode for a short while, then rebooting is effective.

  • Toggle Airplane mode ON, wait 30 seconds, then reboot the iPhone (turn it off and on again), then turn Airplane mode back OFF once the iPhone is booted back up

If this works, great, though it’s not entirely clear why it would. Airplane mode can serve as a DNS cache reset in iOS so perhaps that mechanism is in play here, though DNS issues would be more likely to cause timeouts and errors when accessing services, rather than no cellular service at all.

3: Reset Network Settings on iPhone

You can also try resetting network settings in iOS. A downside to this approach is that you will lose all saved wi-fi passwords, any custom DNS entries, or other network specific settings customizations. Nonetheless, resetting Network Settings in iOS is an often tried and true approach to resolving network and cellular connectivity problems on the iPhone. Write down the important wi-ifi passwords for networks you’ll rejoin and any other important network settings first. The rest is easy to do, here’s how:

  1. Open Settings on iPhone, go to “General” and then to “Reset”
  2. Tap on “Reset Network Settings” and confirm that you wish to reset network settings by tapping the ‘Reset Network Settings’ button
  3. Wait a moment or two
  4. Optionally but recommended, reboot the iPhone again

Try using the cellular network now, it should work.

Bonus tip for Sprint users: for Sprint iPhones, you can do a different network settings reset specific to Spring specific network settings by dialing ##72786# then tapping on ‘ok’ at the various prompts to reset network settings and eventually restart the device.

4: Turn LTE to Data Only

  1. Open Settings, then go to “Cellular” and to “Cellular Data Options”
  2. Tap “Enable LTE” then select “Data Only”

This worked for some users when troubleshooting prior iOS cellular data problems with iOS 12.1.1 and iOS 12.1.2, so it may help for iOS 12.1.3 as well.

There are a variety of reports about this problem around the web, in Apple Support forums, various Apple fan forums, our comments section and inbound emails, and on Twitter including at Sprint and on the Twitter Apple Support account here, here, here, and elsewhere if you search for “iOS 12.1.3 cellular” or “iOS 12.1.3 mobile data” and similar search terms on Twitter. It’s always vaguely possible there’s some bug or other hiccup involved in the iOS 12.1.3 update or update process, and if that’s the case a future update will be released to fix the problem. But more likely, there is an issue somewhere with a setting on particular devices that are impacted, whether there’s some lingering old configuration or stale data cache, or some other issue behind the scenes that can be easily remedied with a reboot or network settings reset.

Anyway, if the above tips helped to resolve your cellular problems with iPhone and iOS 12.1.3, or if you found another solution to resolve any mobile data connectivity issues with iOS 12.1.3 on iPhone, please share with us in the comments below what has worked for you and what has not too. Include your iPhone model, cellular company, and what iOS version you’re running if possible.

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How to Uninstall VirtualBox on Mac

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If you have previously installed VirtualBox on the Mac but no longer need the application, you may be interested in uninstalling VirtualBox completely. Because VirtualBox places application components and dependencies throughout the MacOS file system, uninstalling VirtualBox thoroughly is not just a simple matter of dragging and dropping the application into the Trash, like how you can uninstall most other Mac apps.

Fortunately uninstalling VirtualBox is really quite easy, and the whole uninstall process can be automated and complete in short order on a Mac. We’ll also show you how to manually uninstall VirtualBox, which is quite a bit more involved, if you’re interested in that approach.


For some quick background for the unfamiliar, VirtualBox is an excellent free virtualization application available from Oracle, used by many advanced users for virtualizing other operating systems atop MacOS, like Windows 10 or Ubuntu Linux. It’s also cross-platform compatible, so you can likewise run MacOS, Windows, or Linux, on top of another Windows, Linux, or Mac. You can read tips about VirtualBox here, or browse our archives on virtual machines if interested. Anyway, this article is about completely uninstalling the VirtualBox app.

Most Linux users can uninstall VirtualBox easily with a simple command line string like so:

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox*

But on the Mac, VirtualBox is usually installed through a package installer. Fortunately Oracle provides an uninstall script on the install dmg, though most users overlook this.

How to Uninstall VirtualBox Completely from Mac the Easy Way

  1. Download the latest VirtualBox installer file from Oracle if you don’t have it already on your Mac
  2. Mount the VirtualBox disk image file and open that mounted dmg in the Finder
  3. Double-click on the text file named “VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool” to launch into a new Terminal window
  4. Uninstall VirtualBox tool for Mac

  5. Confirm that you wish to completely uninstall VirtualBox by typing ‘yes’ when requested (you can cancel by typing ‘no’ or closing the Terminal window)
  6. How to uninstall VirtualBox on Mac

When VirtualBox and all related components and kernel extensions has been removed successfully, you can close the Terminal window or quit out of Terminal app as needed.

Manually Uninstalling VirtualBox from a Mac: Locations of All Related Files, Directories, etc

If you prefer to be hands-on, you can also manually uninstall VirtualBox by parsing through “VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool ” to find the exact file paths or all VirtualBox directories, components, the application, bins, launch daemons, kernel extensions, and more. You will want to do this manually using the version of the installer that you installed VirtualBox with so that you don’t miss anything.

As of the time of this writing, the current VirtualBox app and associated file path list is as follows:

~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.virtualbox.vboxwebsrv.plist
/usr/local/bin/VirtualBox
/usr/local/bin/VBoxManage
/usr/local/bin/VBoxVRDP
/usr/local/bin/VBoxHeadless
/usr/local/bin/vboxwebsrv
/usr/local/bin/VBoxBugReport
/usr/local/bin/VBoxBalloonCtrl
/usr/local/bin/VBoxAutostart
/usr/local/bin/VBoxDTrace
/usr/local/bin/vbox-img
/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.virtualbox.startup.plist
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi/VirtualBox_constants.py
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi/VirtualBox_constants.pyc
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.pyc
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.7.egg-info
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/LaunchDaemons/
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxDrv.kext/
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxUSB.kext/
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetFlt.kext/
/Library/Application Support/VirtualBox/VBoxNetAdp.kext/
/Applications/VirtualBox.app/
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/vboxapi/
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxUSB
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetFlt
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxNetAdp
org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv
org.virtualbox.pkg.vboxkexts
org.virtualbox.pkg.virtualbox
org.virtualbox.pkg.virtualboxcli

Targeting those files and directories one by one for removal is probably easiest through the Terminal, but you could certainly do through the Finder if desired.

Obviously if you uninstall and remove VirtualBox, it won’t be on the Mac anymore, but you can reinstall it again at any point in the future if needed.

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How to Show Website Favicons in Safari for Mac

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Modern versions of Safari for Mac include favicon (favorite icon) support, offering a visual indicator of webpages in the titlebar and tab bar of the Safari browser. Nearly every other web browser on the Mac (and other operating systems) has had favicon support for quite some time, but this is a relatively new addition to Safari and to show the website icons in Safari for Mac you must first enable favicon support in preferences as the feature is not enabled by default.

For some quick background, most websites have favicons that help to differentiate a website URL when a site is active in a browser, bookmarked, or favorited. The small favicon is next to the webpages name when shown in a tab or window of a web browser.

How to Enable Website Icons / favicons in Safari for Mac

  1. Open the Safari app on the Mac if you haven’t done so already
  2. Pull down the Safari menu and choose “Preferences”
  3. Choose “Tabs”
  4. Toggle the switch for “Show website icons in tabs” so that it’s checked and enabled
  5. How to show safari website favicons on Mac

  6. Close out of Safari preferences

The website icons are immediately visible in any tabbed window in Safari or bookmark bar of Safari. Just look at the top of the tabs section of a Safari browser window to see the favicons.

Showing Safari website favicons on Mac

Of course if you decide you don’t like favicons in Safari, you can hide them again just as easily as you enabled them.

How to Hide / Disable Website Icons / favicons in Safari for Mac

  1. Open the Safari app on the Mac
  2. Pull down the Safari menu and select “Preferences”
  3. Select “Tabs”
  4. Toggle the switch for “Show website icons in tabs” so that it is not checked, thereby disabling favicons in Safari
  5. Safari favicons disabled on Mac

  6. Close out of Safari preferences and use the browser as usual

Hiding Favicons is the default setting in Safari, so this is just returning to that.

If you don’t find this feature available in your version of Safari it’s likely because it does not support favicons, as only modern releases of Safari support the display of website favorite icons. You can either update Safari to the newest version, or you can also download Safari Technology Preview which has the latest beta features available to it, including favicon support and other features that may appear in future releases (the tech preview is sort of like a public beta of Safari).

For anyone wondering, this works the same on the Safari final versions, as well as Safari Technology Preview and Safari Developer Preview builds as well.

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How to Show Website Favicons in Safari for Mac was last modified: January 23rd, 2019 by applenws
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How to Change Microsoft Office Theme on Mac

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The Microsoft Office suite of apps include distinct visual themes that make those apps easy to identify, for example Microsoft Word on Mac has a dark blue visual theme on the Mac, Excel is green, and Powerpoint is red / orange.

If you’d like to change the appearance theme of Microsoft Office apps, including Word, Excel, or Powerpoint on the Mac, so that they visually match the light theme or the dark mode theme appearance of Mac OS, you can do so with an adjustment in the Microsoft Office app settings.

How to Change Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) Theme on Mac

This change can be invoked from any of the Microsoft Office apps, and the theme change applies to all other Microsoft Office apps too. In other words, if you change the theme in Microsoft Word, it will impact the theme in Microsoft Excel as well, and vice versa. For the walkthrough here we are demonstrating this process in Microsoft Word.

  1. Pull down the “Word” menu and choose “Preferences” *
  2. How to change Microsoft Office Word Excel visual themes on Mac

  3. Go to “General”
  4. How to change Microsoft Office Word Excel visual themes on Mac

  5. Look under the ‘Personalize’ section to find “Office Theme:” and choose “Classic”
  6. How to change Microsoft Office Word Excel visual themes on Mac

  7. Exit out of Office Preferences

You will get a little notification informing you that changing the Microsoft Office theme will impact all other Microsoft Office apps.

The visual theme change occurs immediately, and assuming you choose Classic you will find the colorful window dressing is stripped and returned to match the grays of whatever the Mac OS theme is set to.

Microsoft Office and Word apps using default Mac visual appearance theme

Obviously what the appearance of Office looks like will depend on what the Mac default appearance theme is set to, and if the computer only supports the Light mode Mac theme then Office will look that way, whereas if the MacOS version is new enough and Office is updated to a recent version, the Office suite apps will respect the Dark Mode theme in Mac OS if that is in use.

* Note we are demonstrating this with the Microsoft Word app, but you can do the same from Excel or Powerpoint by pulling down the app-name menu (i.e.; “Excel” or “Powerpoint” menus, then choosing Preferences). All else is the same.

How to Change Microsoft Office App Themes Back to Colorful on Mac

You can reverse this change in any Microsoft Office app by returning to the “General” Preferences and selecting the “Colorful” Office theme.

  1. Pull down the Office app-name menu (i.e. Word, Excel) and choose “Preferences” *
  2. Select “General”
  3. Look under the ‘Personalize’ section to find “Office Theme:” and choose “Colorful”

Once again the change made in one Microsoft Office app will impact the other apps themes too.

Default Colorful theme in Mac Microsoft Word and Office

Whether or not you like the colorful theme or the classic theme is entirely a matter of personal taste. Many Office users really like the distinct colors of Office apps because it offers an immediate visual cue as to what app is actively in use, but other Office users may prefer to have Word, Excel, Powerpoint, or Outlook look more like the general appearance theme on the Mac.

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How to Disable Keyboard Backlighting on MacBook Pro or Air

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Keyboard backlighting is one of the best keyboard features on Mac laptops, illuminating the keyboard to help you see the keys better in low light situations. And let’s face it, it also just plain looks cool too. Most MacBook Pro, MacBook, and MacBook Air users like the keyboard backlighting feature, but there are some users who might not, and there also some scenarios where some Mac laptop users may wish to completely disable the keyboard backlighting feature.

This article will show you how to completely disable the keyboard backlighting on Mac laptops should you want to do so.

How to Disable Keyboard Backlighting on Mac Laptops

Here’s how you can turn off keyboard backlighting on MacBook Pro, Air, and MacBook:

  1. Go to the  Apple menu and to “System Preferences” then select the ‘Keyboard’ preference panel
  2. Under the ‘Keyboard’ section uncheck the box for “Adjust keyboard brightness in low light”
  3. Now press the “F5” key repeatedly (or fn + F5, or find the keyboard backlight button on Touch Bar) until the key backlighting is off

That’s it, keyboard backlighting will now be off. This is visibly obvious, so give the keys a look or take them into dim or dark lighting to confirm.

It’s important to turn off the “Adjust keyboard brightness in low light” setting first, otherwise you’ll find the keyboard backlighting sometimes turns itself back on again depending on what the ambient lighting situation is.

How to Disable Keyboard Backlighting on Mac Laptops

If you want to reverse this change and re-enable keyboard backlighting on the Mac laptop series:

  1. Go to the  Apple menu then to “System Preferences” and choose the ‘Keyboard’ preferences
  2. Under the ‘Keyboard’ section check to enable “Adjust keyboard brightness in low light”
  3. Press “F6” key repeatedly (or fn + F6, or find the keyboard backlight button on Touch Bar) until keyboard backlighting is back on and at the brightness setting you desire

If you’re trying to turn keyboard backlighting on again but see a keyboard lighting locked logo on the screen, it’s probably because the light sensor is being activated by a bright light in the room or from elsewhere. Nonetheless if you’re convinced there’s another issue, follow this troubleshooting guide if keyboard backlighting is not working on a MacBook and you’ll probably be able to fix it pretty quickly.

This applies to the backlit keyboards on MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air, as the Apple desktop keyboards don’t have keyboard backlighting.

If you know of another method to disable keyboard backlighting on Mac laptop, share with us in the comments below!

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How to Force Restart iPad Pro

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Sometimes you may need to forcibly restart an iPad Pro, usually because of some freezing software or buggy behavior, but sometimes just as a general troubleshooting step. Initiating a forced reboot on iPad Pro models with Face ID and without a Home button is different from the process was on earlier iPad devices. This article aims to show you how to force restart a new model iPad Pro.


This method of force restarting iPad Pro applies to both newer iPad Pro models with Face ID, including the 11″ screen size and 12.9″ screen size, where there is no Home button. So instead of pressing the Home and Power button to force a restart, you press down the other device buttons in a particular sequence. Here’s how it works:

How to Force Restart iPad Pro

  1. Press and release the Volume Up button
  2. Press and release the Volume Down button
  3. Press and hold the Power button, hold until you see the  Apple logo appear on screen

If you aren’t sure which buttons are which, this graphic should help.

How to force restart iPad Pro

You will know the iPad Pro forcibly restarted when the  Apple logo appears on screen, at that point the device will boot up as usual to the lock screen and home screen.

If the force restart fails, initiate the above process again. It may feel like you’re holding the Power button for a while before the iPad Pro restarts.

This may feel new for iPad users, but it’s actually moving towards unifying the force restart process other across iOS devices. Thus, force restarting iPad Pro is now the same as force restarting iPhone models without the Home button, including the force reboot process for iPhone XS, XR, XS Max, iPhone X, iPhone 8 Plus and 8, and iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, and presumably this method will be what carries forward on all future iPad and iPhone devices without a Home button, much like forced rebooting on pressable Home button iOS devices is the same.

Another change worth mentioning is adjusting to how to take screenshots on newer iPad Pro models, which is also different since there’s no Home button on the devices.

Force restarting is sometimes called hard restarting, and it’s different from a simple restart which involves turning the device off and back on again. You can initiate a regular restart in iOS by using the iOS Settings Shut Down feature, or by holding the Power button and choosing to turn off the device, then holding the Power button again until the device turns back on again.

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How to See Recent Files from iOS Home Screen or Dock on iPhone or iPad

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If you interact with the Files app frequently in iOS, you might be pleased to discover that the Files app offers a quick and easy way to see recent files, right from the Home screen of iPhone or iPad. Even better, you can launch recent documents directly from this quick Files access feature in iOS.

The recent files trick works on all modern iOS devices, but it’s slightly different with the iPad and non-3D Touch iPhone than from 3D Touch iPhone models.

How to View Recent Files from Home Screen or Dock of iOS

To view recent files directly from the Home Screen of iOS on iPad and many iPhone models, use the following method:

  1. Tap and hold on the Files app icon as seen on the iOS Home Screen or Dock
  2. Tap and hold on Files app icon

  3. See the recent files list, or tap on “Show More” to see even more recent files
  4. How to see recent files in iOS Files app

  5. Tap on any document in the Files popup to open that file in the associated app

If you want to get out of the Recent Items view of the Files app, just tap away from it, or tap the icon again and it will close. Or if you tap on a file that is shown, the file and app will open of course.

This basic functionality is the same on most iOS devices, applying to all iPad with the Files app, and all iPhone models without 3D Touch. With 3D Touch iPhone models, the approach is slightly different.

Seeing Recent Files from iOS Home Screen with 3D Touch

On iPhone models with 3D Touch or haptic feedback, use a firm press on the Files app icon to see the recent files list instead. Everything else is otherwise the same.

How to see recent files on iPhone Files app with 3D Touch

If you tap and hold without 3D Touch on the iPhone with 3D Touch, then you end up with the shaking icons that allows you to delete apps on the 3D Touch iPhone models.

The Files app in iOS offers a file system of sorts for iPhone and iPad users, and though it’s much more limited than Finder on the Mac, it still offers many common file system functionalities, like the ability to rename files, sort files, tag files, create new folders for your files, and more.

By the way, Mac users have many different ways to access recent files too, including the “Recents” Finder item (used to be called All My Files), the Recent Items submenus of the  Apple menu and Recents menus, optional Dock stacks, two-finger double tap on Dock icons, amongst many other methods.

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How to See Two Pages of a Pages Document Open Side-by-Side on iPad

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If you want to see multiple pages of a Pages app document open at the same time on iPad, you can use the “Two Pages” view to place a multipage document into a side-by-side view, sort of like a split screen mode but for viewing the same document. This allows you to see two pages of any open document on the same screen, without having to scroll around on the iPad like you would with the normal single page document view.

The Two Pages view is an option specific to Pages app on iPad, it’s not part of Split View or any of the other multitasking options on the iPad.

How to View Two Pages of a Document in Pages for iPad

Here’s how to access and use the Two Pages view on iPad with Pages app for iOS:

  1. Open Pages on the iPad, then open whatever document you want to view in two-page view
  2. Now tap on the View Options button that looks kind of like a window with a sidebar
  3. Two Pages view on iPad

  4. In the View Options pull down menu, toggle the switch for “Two Pages” to the ON position
  5. Two Pages view on iPad for seeing multiple pages at same time on iPad

  6. Two Pages view is immediately visible with the current document

Being able to see two pages of the same document open side-by-side is really useful for many reasons, whether you’re editing a document, reviewing something, proof-reading, or whatever else you use a word processor for.

This works fine when the iPad virtual keyboard is visible on screen, but arguably works much better when an external keyboard is attached to the iPad thereby freeing up more screen real estate by hiding the virtual keyboard (the Brydge keyboard for iPad is quite popular).

The Two Pages view is intended for a single document, rather than loading two documents side-by-side, which would be better accomplished with split screen view or another multitasking option on the iPad. If that’s what you require, you’ll want to be sure you have the feature enabled, particularly since some users have disabled split screen on the iPad if they found themselves accidentally ending up in it.

If you know happen to know of a method to load a completely separate Pages.app document into the Two Pages view of iPad Pages app, share with us in the comments below. This is a feature which would be great to exist natively much like it does with Safari Split View on iPad, but that’s not what the Two Pages view aims to achieve. If that’s what you require for now, it’ll require the use of split screen view on iPad.

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How to Save Voice Memos on the Mac as Audio Files

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If you have recorded voice memos on the Mac you may have then decided you’d like to save a voice memo as an audio file. The “File” menu on the Mac has contained the various save and export options since the beginning of the Mac platform, but for whatever reason the Voice Memos app on Mac currently does not have any “Save” or “Export” options within the Voice Memos app. So how do you save a file in Voice Memos for Mac? We’ll show you a few different ways.


To be clear, when you record a voice memo on the Mac, it saves automatically within the app. The purpose of the article here is to save an audio file directly, giving direct file access to the already recorded voice memo.

Save Audio Files from Voice Memos on Mac with Drag & Drop

Assuming you have already recorded a voice memo, you can save the recorded voice memos as follows:

  1. At the primary Voice Memos screen, locate the file on the left sidebar that you want to save
  2. Click and hold on the voice memo you want to save, then drag it onto the Mac desktop or into a folder within the Finder
  3. How to save Voice Memos as audio files on Mac with drag and drop

  4. The voice memo will save as an .m4a audio file, sharing the same name as the voice memo is labeled
  5. Voice Memos file saved as audio file on Mac

You can drag and drop the selected voice memo to just about anywhere on the Mac, gaining access to the .m4a audio file this way.

This is probably the best way to save a voice memo from the Voice Memos app on Mac.

Saving Audio Files from Voice Memos on Mac with Sharing

Another way to save audio files from Voice Memos on the Mac is by sharing the audio file, either with yourself or someone else.

  1. At the primary Voice Memos screen, select the voice memo you want to save by sharing
  2. Now click the arrow Sharing button in the upper right corner, then choose the method of sharing you wish to use; Mail, Messages, AirDrop, Notes, etc
  3. How to share voice memos on Mac to save audio file

This will share the recorded voice memo as an audio file with the recipient. You can also share with yourself this way, gaining access to the audio file which saves as a result.

The Sharing based approach is basically the same as with voice memos on iOS.

Another option is to go through iCloud Drive to gain access to the Voice Memos recorded audio files, since the Voice Memos are recorded and automatically saved into iCloud.

It might be strange to not have the normal “File” menu options in a Mac app given the history of the Macintosh, but the lack of “Save” and “Export” options in the File menu likely relates to the fact that Voice Memos on Mac is a Marzipan app, which means it’s basically an iPad app on the Mac. It’s possible these Marzipan apps will gain more features down the road, like gaining typical File menu and Save options, but only time will tell. For now, try the drag and drop method, or the sharing approach.

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Source: OSX Daily

How to Save Voice Memos on the Mac as Audio Files was last modified: January 16th, 2019 by applenws
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