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How to Find an Apple Product's 'Reparability Score'
Read full article: at LifeHacker Thanks to new economic regulations in France, it’s now easier to judge the reparability of Apple’s products anywhere in the world. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Use Spatial Audio on AirPods Pro & Max
Read full article: at LifeHacker When Apple announced the launch of their pricey AirPods Max, they highlighted a new, unheard of feature: something they called “Spatial Audio”. Granted, “Spatial Audio” is a term made up by Apple to sell headphones, but it’s basically surround sound inside your headphones. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Limit Google's Apps From Tracking You on Your Apple Devices
Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple recently updated its App Store and iOS privacy policies to force app developers to be more transparent about their data collection practices. As a result, users have a little more insight (and, ideally, control) over what data various companies can track—and how. Even giants like Google. Read more… Read…
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How to Set Up Your New MacBook
Read full article: at LifeHacker Can you remember the last time you wiped your MacBook and reinstalled everything? I’d guess somewhere around “never,” but there are plenty of reasons you might want to Exterminatus your system, ranging from the serious (a major error with macOS) to the so-so (your system feels sluggish after all the…
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How to Set Up Google Stadia on iOS if There's No 'App'
Read full article: at LifeHacker As you recall, Apple runs its App Store with an iron fist. And it’ll be a cold day in Cupertino before the company allows game-streaming services to have regular ol’ apps—not unless the service submits each streamable game for review by Apple, which isn’t going to happen. And you can…
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How to Use Apple Fitness+
Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple Fitness+ launches today, and if you have an Apple Watch Series 3 or newer, you can try it out. The service will cost $9.99/month (or $79.99/year) but when you buy a watch (or upgrade yours), you get a month’s access for free. Read more… Read full article: at LifeHacker
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How to Restore Your M1 Mac if macOS Won't Reinstall
Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple’s first generation of M1 Macs is slick, but some early adopters are running into a strange error that can render a new computer unusable. Those attempting to perform a full restore of macOS on an M1-equipped Mac or MacBook before upgrading to macOS Big Sur might experience a system-stopping warning…
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How to Create a Countdown Widget in iOS 14
Read full article: at LifeHacker There are plenty of apps you can use to make countdown widgets on iOS 14. Don’t go searching for the word “countdown” in the App Store though, you’ll just get frustrated. I’ve been toying around with one called Countdown Widget Maker, and while it’s not free—very few are—it gets the…
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How to Stream Google Stadia on iOS/iPadOS
Read full article: at LifeHacker In a perfect world, we could download apps from a centralized, secure app store on our phones, and these apps would allow us to connect to other services we enjoy without any extra hassle. In the real world, you’re going to have to employ some clever workarounds if you want…
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How to Get Around YouTube's Block of Picture-in-Picture Mode in iOS 14
Read full article: at LifeHacker Just when we thought we’d come up with a clever hack to enable picture-in-picture mode for YouTube in iOS 14—a privilege YouTube would prefer to charge you for—the company has wised up and crafted a workaround that eliminates this specific hack. But there are still a few more tricks you…