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With the release of macOS Ventura, Apple updated its stock Mail app with several long-awaited features, including the ability to retrieve emails sent in error. This article explains how to use the new Undo Send Email feature. If you use Apple's Mail app for your email correspondence and you have macOS 13.0 or later installed on your Mac, keep in mind the Undo Send feature. Put simply, if ...

With the release of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and tvOS 16, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs now include support for pairing Nintendo Switch Joy-Con and Pro controllers. Keep reading to learn how it's done. As many Apple Arcade games enthusiasts will know, Apple's mobile devices and Apple TV set-top box support some popular game controllers right out of the box. For example, these devices have...

If you're listening to audio on your iPhone and bring it near to a HomePod mini, the Handoff feature will be activated. This article explains what Handoff is and how you can disable it. The ‌‌HomePod mini‌‌ and ‌iPhone‌ 11 and later models all have Apple's U1 Ultra Wideband chip, which allows the devices to more precisely locate and keep track of one another. The U1 chip also allows...

In watchOS 9, Apple includes a feature that allows you to control your iPhone with your Apple Watch. Keep reading to learn how it works. With the release of iOS 16 and watchOS 9, Apple introduced new accessibility features including the ability to control your Apple Watch with your iPhone, and vice versa. Both features are designed to make the Apple Watch and iPhone experience more...

Apple Watch Ultra models recently gained new low-power settings that can extend battery life up to 60 hours on a single charge, or what Apple calls "multi-day adventure battery life." This article explains how it works and how to set it up. When Apple introduced the ‌Apple Watch Ultra‌ in September, one of the touted features was that it boasts the best battery life of any Apple Watch,...

With the release of iOS 16.1, Apple is launching its new Live Activities feature for iPhone Lock Screens and iPhone 14 Pro models with Dynamic Island. Keep reading to learn what it does and how you can enable it. What Are Live Activities? Live Activities are lingering interactive notifications that stay up to date, allowing you to keep an eye on things happening in real time right from the...

Time to Walk and Time to Run are two features for Apple Fitness+ subscribers that offer audio stories from influential people that Apple Watch users can listen to with AirPods or other wireless headphones while walking or running. Got no time for Fitness+ Audio Workouts? Here's how to get rid of them. In the Workout app on Apple Watch, Fitness+ subscribers automatically receive Audio Workout ...

With iOS 16 and watchOS 9, Apple built out its sleep features with additional sleep tracking data and insights. Keep reading to learn how to set up sleep tracking for Apple Watch. Apple enhanced the built-in Sleep app on the Apple Watch in a big way in watchOS 9, introducing Sleep Stages. With Sleep Stages, the Apple Watch is able to tell you how much time you spent in REM, Core, or Deep...

With the release of watchOS 9, Apple introduced a range of quality of life improvements for Apple Watch, one of which is the ability to create Calendar events right on your wrist. Keep reading to learn how. In watchOS 8 and earlier versions, the Calendar app on Apple Watch limited you to viewing events you've scheduled or been invited to in the past six weeks and for the next two years (in...

As part of Apple's accessibility push in watchOS 9, Assistive Touch now includes Quick Actions that let you respond to Apple Watch alerts with hand gestures. This article explains how to use them. In watchOS 8, Apple introduced a new accessibility feature called Assistive Touch that allows users to control their Apple Watch using gestures and arm movements. With watchOS 9, Apple has built on ...

On iPhone, pressing the Side button ends the current call. But in iOS 16, you can disable this default behavior. Keep reading to learn how. Whenever you make or receive a call on your iPhone, you can press the Side button on your handset at any time to end the call. This can be either a convenient method of hanging up, or, if you're prone to pressing it by accident, an embarrassing way of...

In iOS 16, Apple added a built-in currency conversion feature to the Camera app. This article explains how you can use it. When Apple released iOS 15 in 2021, it introduced a Live Text feature that can automatically recognize text that appears in your camera's viewfinder, allowing you to copy or share it. With iOS 16, Apple adds a new trick to Live Text – the ability to convert currencies...

In iOS 16, Apple introduced a new Apple Watch Mirroring feature that lets you see and control your Apple Watch screen from your paired iPhone. Apple Watch Mirroring is designed to make the watch experience more accessible for people with physical and motor disabilities, but it can be useful to anyone. Keep reading to learn how to use it. With Apple Watch Mirroring in iOS 16, Apple utilizes...

In iOS 14.6 and later, Apple includes an accessibility feature that allows you to unlock your iPhone using just your voice. Keep reading to learn how it works and how to set it up on your iPhone. For several years now, Apple's iOS mobile operating system has included a voice control feature that enables users to control a variety of system functions on their iPhone using only their voice as...

Sometimes the volume buttons on an Apple TV Remote or Siri Remote can become unresponsive for no obvious reason. This article outlines what you can do to get them working again. Usually when the remote that comes with Apple's set-top box stops functioning properly, it's either due to a hardware fault and the remote needs replacing, or the battery just needs recharging via the supplied...

In iOS 16, Apple has added a new "Copy and Delete" option to the screenshot interface on iPhone. This article explains what it's for and how to use it. Whenever you take a screenshot on your iPhone and tap on the preview thumbnail that appears in the corner of the screen, iOS brings up an image editing interface that lets you easily highlight, draw on, and crop the image before saving it or...

Clean Energy Charging is a new feature in iOS 16.1 that aims to decrease the carbon footprint of the iPhone by optimizing charging times for when the grid is using cleaner energy sources. Keep reading to learn how you control it. For users in the United States, iPhones running iOS 16.1 will try to reduce your carbon footprint by selectively charging when lower carbon emission electricity is...

In iOS 16, Apple has made it possible to view the password of the Wi-Fi network you're currently connected to. Keep reading to learn how it's done. Oddly enough, before iOS 16 was released, if an iPhone user was connected to a Wi-Fi network but couldn't remember the password they had originally used to connect to it, there was no way to view that password on their device. This situation...

In iOS 16, Apple introduced a range of quality of life improvements that make using an iPhone a more enjoyable experience, and one of those tiny improvements is the ability to sort playlists in Apple Music. Previously in iOS, playlists in ‌Apple Music‌ were automatically sorted by the order in which the songs were originally added to the playlist, with the first songs appearing at the top and...

Unveiled with the debut of AirPods Pro 2, Adaptive Transparency is designed to allow the AirPods to block out loud sounds without blocking out all noise. This article explains how to use it. Alongside Active Noise Cancellation, first- and second-generation ‌AirPods Pro‌ feature Transparency Mode, which uses outward-facing microphones to let you hear the world around you. Apple took...