Mar 8, 2018 | App Store, Apple Music, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Calendar, Explainer, Family Sharing, Find My Friends, Find My iPhone, iBooks Store, iOS, iPhone, iTunes Store, Mac, Photos, productivity, Reminders, Restricted Content
Family life is all about togetherness, but keeping track of who’s doing what when can be tough. Apple’s Family Sharing service makes it easy to share apps, media, and more within a family of up to six members, and it provides a few helpful digital housekeeping...
Feb 15, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, ASMC, customization, facial recognition, Mac, Photos, Restricted Content, Tip
Apple’s Photos app is remarkably good at identifying people in your snapshots and collecting all the pictures that contain a particular person into a group in its People view. At its top level, the People view shows a thumbnail photo for each person, picking one...
Jan 8, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, High Sierra, image editing, Mac, macOS, Photos, productivity, Restricted Content, Tip
In macOS 10.13 High Sierra, Apple significantly enhanced the editing capabilities of Photos, adding tools for adjusting specific colors, fine-tuning color and contrast via curves, and even focusing an image with vignetting. But it still lacks many features found in...
Dec 1, 2017 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, How-To, Mac, Photos, productivity, Restricted Content
It’s that time of year again, when we realize that if we’re going to do holiday cards, we should get started. You can take the easy way out and buy a few packs of generic reindeer cards at the drugstore, but with a little work in Apple’s Photos app on the Mac, you can...
Nov 8, 2017 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Blog, facial recognition, High Sierra, iOS, iOS 11, Mac, macOS, Photos, Restricted Content, Tip
An extremely welcome under-the-hood change in iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra is that Photos facial recognition syncs across iCloud Photo Library. Previously, people you identified on one of your devices remained unidentified on others. But what if Photos now...
Sep 19, 2017 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, camera, Control Center, customization, Do Not Disturb, Dock, iOS, iOS 11, iPad, iPhone, maintenance, Maps, Messages, News, Photos, Restricted Content
Even if you’re not buying a new iPhone this year, you can still enjoy a hefty dose of “New and Improved!” with Apple’s iOS 11, which provides a host of new capabilities. Hold on tight, there’s a lot to cover, and we have another article coming about the iPad-specific...
