Taking a screenshot of your device
If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.
Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
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If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.
Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.
Keeping your devices up to date is always very important, software updates allow bugs to be fixed, security issues to be addressed and new features to be added to all your devices. You'll usually get notified if there are any updates for your devices, but here we'll run through the most common machines and how you can check to see if you have any updates waiting to install.
There's a great feature in Safari on the iPad and iPhone that can help you keep track of websites that you want to come back to regularly. It's called Reading List and it also allows you to read the website as it was when you stored it, even if you don't have an Internet connection on your device.
When you're writing an email or a document on your iPhone or iPad, you'll often want to correct typos or edit the text as you would when you're using a desktop PC. This is nice and easy on both the iPhone and iPad and we'll show you how.
Various apps on your mobile devices and Windows and Mac computers need different permissions in order to operate. Skype for example will need permission to access the camera and microphone. We'll show you here how to check what app is using what permissions, and how to change it.
Temporary Password is a good way to send passwords securely, as it is a one time only use link, that way when you send over the link to someone in an email, once you confirm they have the password it's not going to be stored in your emails.
If you replace your iPhone or iPad, it's easy to get it back up and running on the new device by using your iCloud backup and we'll show you how to do that here.
Following any large scale cyber incident, such as the recent CrowdStrike issue that took down millions of Windows PC, there's always a surge of scam emails trying to cash in on that event so we thought we'd go into a bit more depth about how to spot and avoid online scams.
The built in Notes app on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch can be a very powerful tool, it's also very easy to use so we thought we'd run through some of the more advanced things that Notes can do.
If you've subscribed to any Apple services, such as Apple Music or have a subscription payment set up for any iPhone or iPad apps, such as Netflix, news app etc there's an easy place to check on this subscriptions and cancel them if needed.
In this tip, we'll show you how to check what services you're subscribed to.
Occasionally, when you send an email you might get an email back telling you that it couldn't be delivered. There are many reasons why an email fails to get delivered. The return email will usually tell you what the problem is and we'll run through a few of the more common reasons here.
Did you know that you can check the washing instructions for your clothes with your iPhone? In this Super Tim Tip, we'll run you through how to do it.