Sep 18, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, backup, Blog, How-To, iCloud, iOS 12, iPhone, iTunes, Mojave, Restricted Content, security
Poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they can’t stop talking about and many will launch into frustrated rants about how too few people back up. Backups are always important, since you can never predict when your Mac or iPhone will be lost or stolen, melt...
Apr 24, 2018 | Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Explainer, iPad, iPhone, privacy, productivity, Restricted Content, security
You’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but have you set it up so you can use it to pay for purchases at checkout? If not, give it a try, since it’s one of those living-in-the future Apple technologies that feels like science fiction every time you use it. Simply put your...
Apr 6, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Facebook, How-To, iOS, iPhone, Mac, privacy, Restricted Content, security
Facebook has dominated the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from...
Feb 20, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Explainer, iOS, iPhone, Mac, macOS, maintenance, Restricted Content, security, tvOS, updates, watchOS
It seems like Apple releases updates to iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS nearly every week these days. It has been only a few months since iOS 11 and macOS 10.13 High Sierra launched, and we’ve already seen ten updates to iOS and seven updates to macOS. Some of these...
Jan 11, 2018 | 1Password, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Explainer, LastPass, password manager, passwords, Restricted Content, security
Passwords are the bane of our modern existence. Nearly anything you want to do, it seems, calls for a password. As the Internet’s reach extends beyond computers and into phones, TVs, appliances, and even toys, we have to enter passwords with increasing frequency and...
Dec 6, 2017 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Explainer, Face ID, iPhone, iPhone X, Restricted Content, security
Apple’s new iPhone X does away with the Home button, which has been a fixture since the original iPhone and has long served as the Touch ID sensor. To replace Touch ID, Apple developed a new facial recognition technology called Face ID. With Face ID, the iPhone X...
