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How to Check If Your AirPods Pro's Noise Cancellation Is Broken
Read full article: at LifeHacker Noise-canceling headphones can bring you peaceful, private listening in crowded places like buses or help you focus on work while posted up in a coffee shop or noisy office. They’re great when they work, but some AirPods Pro users are finding that a recent firmware update affected the performance of…
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Memorize How to Make Emergency Calls on Your iPhone
The start of the new year is as great a time as any to take a quick tour through your iPhone’s settings and make sure you’ve customized its Emergency SOS feature to your liking. Heck, you should really take a few minutes and memorize—really memorize—how this feature works. I hope you don’t ever need it…
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How to Get Apple Music Free for Six Months–Instead of the Usual Three
If Apple’s three-month free trial for new Apple Music subscribers hasn’t been enough to get you to abandon Spotify, how about a six-month trial? Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Keep Kids From Bypassing iOS 13.3's Communication Limits
When we got all excited about Apple’s new Communication Limits that allow you to restrict who your kid can talk to (and when), we didn’t realize Apple left a big loophole that makes it very easy for your crafty child to bypass these restrictions. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Manage Your Kid's Contacts in iOS 13.3
iOS 13.3 is here. While you wait for it to download and install onto your device, you have two options. You can scan through Apple’s list of fixes and changes—which only eat up a fraction of the time it takes to just download iOS 13.3—or you can stick with us, and we’ll show you how…
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How to Fix Your MacBook That Randomly Shuts Down
Is your MacBook Pro randomly shutting down, even with plenty of battery life left? You’re not alone; reports of MacBook Pros shutting off prematurely are showing up on various forums and support threads. So far Apple has confirmed the random shutdown behavior on the 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro, though Mashable reports a… Read full article:…
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How to Sign Up for Apple's Health Studies
Earlier this fall, Apple announced that they were launching three new research studies on hearing, heart health, and reproductive health in collaboration with universities. Now, there’s an app that will let you enroll. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Download and Install Older macOS Versions With Terminal
When it’s time to install a new version of macOS or download a new update, nearly everyone turns to the Mac App Store to start the process. While the App Store makes OS installations easy and relatively painless, it doesn’t always work—and it might be time to turn to Terminal (and a little creativity) instead.…
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How to Stop Staring at Your Phone All Day
What’s the longest amount of time you’ve gone recently without looking at a screen? I’d wager, for most people, the answer is just a few minutes or even seconds. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Get 13,000 New Fonts For Your iPhone and iPad
If you’ve been wanting to give your iPhone or iPad a little refresh, a new font can potentially be a way to do it. This week, Adobe’s Creative Cloud made 1,300 fonts available for free to anyone that downloads its Creative Cloud app from the App Store. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker