Do you find the live photos and videos automatically playing in the Photos app to be unnecessary or distracting? In this brief tutorial, we will guide you on how to turn off this feature.
We’ve shown you how to create Scenes with the Home app which let you control multiple accessories at once based on your actions like arriving or leaving. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through how to set up Automations.
With Automations, you can have your accessories respond to each other. For instance, you can have a light turn on when your smart lock unlocks the front door. Or you can have your smart thermostat adjust the temperature at a certain time of day.
Depending on the smart home accessories you use, you should get some great suggestions here for setting up Automations in the Home app.
Automating tasks is a terrific way to get things done faster. One thing you can do is set your Mac Calendar to automatically open a file for you when an event starts. And you can do this right in the Calendar app itself. But what if you want to open an app for taking notes, add a reminder to your list, or to start your day quicker?
We’ll show you some handy ways to use the Calendar Alarms feature in Mac Automator to speed up those types of tasks.
If you’re creating a presentation in Keynote that you want to play automatically without any interaction, this is easier to do than you might think. You can set up the slideshow to start playing when you click and then go through each slide automatically. And with this, you may want to display those slides for specific amounts of time.
To help you create the perfect slideshow, this tutorial shows you how to set up a self-playing presentation and time your slides in Keynote.
Follow iDownloadBlog’s step-by-step tutorial to learn how to add Automator workflows that are saved as Quick Actions to the Touch Bar of your Mac. Doing so will let you easily run your favorite macOS automation shortcuts at any time because they’ll be just two taps away.
If you like using Quick Actions on your Mac to do things faster, why not make your own? This tutorial shows you how to create custom Quick Actions for Finder.
With the power of iOS automation, you can open a different app when you tap the app icon of another app. Confused? It's pretty awesome and useful for several cases.
Shortcuts, Screen Time, iMessage effects, better Siri, streamlined Apple ID management and other iOS features are coming to your Mac with the major new macOS 10.15 software, which will be previewed at WWDC 2019 on June 3 ahead of launch some time this fall.
Your iPad supports Picture in Picture (PiP) videos in apps and webpages, but this handy mode isn't universally supported across all video-streaming websites. Crucially, PiP is unsupported by YouTube.com's iPad interface on Safari. But there's a shortcut for that, too—thanks to the power of iOS automation, you can enforce Picture in Picture on YouTube and other websites.
The Smart Folder feature in Finder on Mac is a handy way to automatically place items into a folder for you. This saves you time, reduces the risk of missing items, and helps you work more efficiently.
In this tutorial, we will go over how to create and use Smart Folders on your Mac in order to increase productivity.
Darkened interfaces look good in apps, not so much on websites. The problem is, web content remains a major source of visual inconsistency as far as the popular Dark Mode feature is concerned. Thankfully, you can get a Dark Mode-alike environment on almost any website thanks to a handy Dark Mode V2 shortcut for your iPhone and iPad.
In this quick tutorial, we will show you how to decline a phone or FaceTime call with a text message on your iPhone or iPad. We will also show you how to save quick custom replies and use a workaround to auto-reply to incoming phone calls and texts.