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Unlike many other smart speakers, there is no physical switch to mute the HomePod’s microphone.
However, you can disable the always-on “Hey Siri” feature using the iPhone Home app or by asking the speaker. This turns off the microphone at the software level and stops it from always listening in on you.
Go through these troubleshooting tips if Siri on your HomePod is unable to play specific songs, playlists, or artists on Apple Music when you ask it to.
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.
Learn how to enable lines and grids in the background of your notes for a more organized and efficient note-taking experience on iPhone and iPad.
Here’s how to quickly convert a colorful PDF to black & white or gray tone using the built-in Apple Preview app on your Mac.
Facebook takes advantage of facial recognition in several ways.
Whether you want to show off your beautiful wallpaper or simply want your setup to look different from the millions of other iPhones out there, one of the best ways to do that is to use widgets, create a blank Home Screen with no app icons, or add blank icons to your Home Screen. In this tutorial, we will focus on the latter.
These invisible icons will allow you to create empty spaces on your Home Screen to either let the wallpaper shine or arrange your app icons in a very specific way. For example, you can place all the empty icons on the top, which will push your meaningful app icons down, making them easier to reach when using your iPhone in one-handed mode.
This tutorial will show you how to create blank, transparent iPhone icons with no jailbreak required.
You can digitally sign PDF documents on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch without needing any third-party app. Here's how to use Apple's built-in Markup feature to add your signature to a PDF file or manually sign a document.
Learn how to open a note in its own window to make it float over the Notes app or to keep it on top of all other app windows on Mac.
In this guide, we'll show you how to stop displaying Maps directions and receiving alerts for every upcoming turn on your Apple Watch.
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.
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.
TUTORIAL: 11 must-know Safari keyboard shortcuts for Mac
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.
TUTORIAL: 3 ways to reopen recently closed tabs in Safari for Mac
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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