10 Apple Watch Series 5 tips and tricks

Apple Watch Series 5 builds upon the major redesign and all the great features of its predecessor with such improvements as an always-on display, new sensors and a few other perks. To help you get the most out of your brand-new watch, we’ve put together a quick video tutorial highlighting some of the best tips, tricks and lesser-known features of Series 5.

BoardBanner13 makes notification banners more notch-friendly

If your jailbroken iPhone sports the controversial notch at the top, then we’ve got some exciting news for you. A newly released jailbreak tweak called BoardBanner13 (iOS 12~13) by iOS developer PeterDev can modify your handset’s incoming notification banners to make them a lot more notch-friendly.

As depicted in the screenshot examples above, BoardBanner13 pushes the notification banner up and into the notch at the top of the display, effectively filling all the screen real estate that is normally ignored by Apple’s native banner notification implementation. The tweak is purportedly based on a concept that surfaced on Twitter earlier this month.

How to show and adjust the keyboard in GarageBand

Keyboard in GarageBand on Mac

While you can add Apple Loops and import samples to use in your GarageBand creations, you can also use an onscreen keyboard to make music. On Mac, you can use the keyboard as it appears on a piano or organ in addition to musical typing with your computer keyboard. And on iOS, you can tap to open the keyboard and adjust its settings easily.

For making music in GarageBand your way, here’s how to show the keyboard on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.