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How to scrub through the video of a Live Photo on iPhone
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How to dramatically speed up Apple Watch software updates
Downloading watchOS software to your Apple Watch is a tremendously slow process. But did you know you can make your Apple Watch update faster?
In this tutorial, we show you how to dramatically speed up the utterly slow process of sending the watchOS installer files to your Apple Watch.
How to view available keyboard shortcuts in every Mac app
Veteran users are privy to the power of the Mac modifier keys. Those special keys on your Mac's keyboard, like Command (⌘), Option (⌥), Control (⌃), and others, are most commonly used in conjunction with regular keys as feature shortcuts.
Frequently-used macOS commands have their dedicated keyboard shortcuts, many of which are the same across apps like copy/paste and undo/redo. Others are app-specific.
Memorizing regularly used keystrokes boosts your productivity and multitasking prowess, but Apple doesn't provide an easy way to view all the keyboard shortcuts in any given app.
You can, of course, view and customize some of the system and app shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, but wouldn't it be nice if there were a better way?
Thankfully, there actually is.
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How to quickly cycle through your open tabs in Safari on iOS and Mac
Learn how to cycle through open tabs in Apple’s Safari browser on the iPhone, iPad, and Mac using a familiar gesture, an on-screen button, or a keyboard shortcut.
Safari tip: quickly jump to the rightmost tab
If you’re going to make the most of Safari as your desktop browser, it might make sense to memorize some of the best keyboard shortcuts to supercharge your browsing workflow.
This is especially true for folks who have dozens of open tabs at any given time. Safari for Mac provides you with many productivity-infused keyboard shortcuts that save time, including a trio of essential keyboard combinations for quickly switching between your open tabs.
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The macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 software update brought out yet another powerful shortcut for quickly getting to the rightmost tab. This is a handy productivity feature for those times when you have more tabs than fit Safari's tab bar.
It's only available on Macs that run macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or higher so be sure to update your copy of macOS to the latest version available by choosing App Store from the Apple menu, then click the Updates tab.
How to jump to rightmost Safari tabTo get to the rightmost open tab in Safari for Mac, press Command (⌘)-9 on the keyboard.
Again, this particular shortcut requires that macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 or later be installed on your Mac. If you have an older macOS edition, pressing the same shortcut will select your ninth tab from the left. In case you didn't know, you can jump quickly to any of your first eight tabs by pressing Command (⌘)-1 to Command (⌘)-8.
macOS High Sierra 10.13.4 and up allows jumping to the rightmost open tab using Command-9
You can cycle through your open tabs even faster with a trackpad gesture: when there are more tabs than fit in Safari's tab area, use your trackpad to swipe left or right over the tab bar to scroll through your open tabs like a pro.
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And if your Mac has the Touch Bar feature, you can touch an icon displayed on the Touch Bar to jump directly to the corresponding tab or scroll through all of your open tabs by swiping left or right over the Touch Bar area.
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How to understand iPhone battery health and manage CPU throttling
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How to find and delete duplicate songs in Apple Music and iTunes
In this tutorial, we will show you how to find and delete all duplicate songs in your Apple Music or iTunes library on your Mac or Windows PC. Doing so will clean your media library and help reclaim local disk space.