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GOOGLE IS SHUTTING Stadia, its cloud gaming service, saying “it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected.” Google will also be refunding all Stadia hardware purchases made through the Google Store, and all game and add–on content purcha

• iMac 2017 and later • iMac Pro • MacBook 2017 and later • MacBook Air 2018 and later, but not 2017 • MacBook Pro 2017 and later • Mac mini 2018 and later • Mac Pro 2019, but not late 2013 ALL APPLE SILICON Mac models are supported. Unlike in Monter

VENTURA BRINGS THE greatest change to the Mac’s human interface in over 22 years: Stage Manager, a new way to manage active apps and windows. This centers working windows on its Stage, keeping others in its Cast on the left. It works with Mission Con

BOTH APPLE’S MAIL app and Messages have become more tolerant of human error, in letting you unsend when you want. These work quite differently: Mail does this by delaying dispatch of messages by up to 30 seconds, during which you can change your mind

PASSKEYS, INTEGRATED IN Safari from version 16 and coming soon to other apps on Mac, iPhone and iPad work differently from passwords as it keeps your private key safe in your keychain, and only releases its paired public key. This should be immune to

ALTHOUGH THERE ARE no major changes in the Photos app, lots of improvements make it better to use. When Photos analyzes images in your library, it looks for duplicates with contents that appear identical. Any it finds are listed in a new section in i

SYSTEM SETTINGS REPLACE System Preferences in a layout closer to those in iOS and iPadOS. However comfortable you might be with those on your devices, you’ll need to take some time to learn where they’ve all gone in Ventura. Go straight to nested set

FACETIME HD AND other cameras built into Macs, even that in the $1,599 Studio Display, pale in comparison with the quality and special effects available in iPhones. Continuity Camera enables you to use the camera in most recent models of iPhone as a

Using Passkeys is easier with Touch ID authentication. All Apple silicon Macs support this, and notebooks have it built into their keyboard. If your wireless keyboard doesn’t, consider replacement. You can’t use Touch ID over Universal Control, as it

The Music app can find either duplicate songs or exact duplicates. Select the song and use File > Library > Show Duplicate Items, holding the Opt key for only exact duplicates. You can share several photos at once in a collection, which tiles them to

The Apple Watch Series 8 is virtually identical to last year’s model, with the same rounded–corner case design with an edge–to–edge Always–On Retina display in 41mm and 45mm case sizes. It’s still dust–resistant to IP6X and water–resistant up to 50m

It’s been a long time coming, but Apple has finally released the next generation of its flagship in–ear headphones: AirPods Pro. We’ve been happily using the originals for the last couple of years, but when the Beats Pro came out last year — and real

> Ulysses > iA Writer > Scrivener > Pages > Microsoft Word > Bear WHETHER YOU WRITE for a living or just jot down the odd idea here and there, the chances are you’re going to need a good writing app for your Mac. But what’s the best port of call? We

THE SIX APPS can more or less be divided into three camps: Distraction–free apps such as Bear and iA Writer, straightforward prose editors like Word and Pages, and more in–depth offerings like Ulysses and Scrivener. While iA Writer will win favor fro

Free (Pro subscription $4.99/month, $29.99/year, $59.99 lifetime) From focusedwork.app Made for Mac Needs macOS 12 or later Focused Work is an app that’s designed to help you with two problems related to working on your Mac. The first is when you can

$9.95 From coconut-flavour.com Needs macOS 10.12 Lots of detailed information Includes info on SSDs Can print reports Not obvious why % remaining differs from macOS indicator EXCELLENT macOS provides some detail on the health of the battery in your M

$4.99 From papersplea.se Made for iPhone, iPad Needs iOS 11.0 or later Lucas Pope’s border control thriller was a sure thing on a touchscreen. The nature of the game — stamping passports at the immigration desk of a totalitarian country in 1982, solv

With the advent of iOS 16, widgets are now firmly a part of the mobile experience on Apple devices. The latest development is the addition of Lock Screen widgets, which put controls at your fingertips without requiring you to unlock your iPhone or iP

THAT TIME OF year has come around again. Summer has turned to fall and Apple has launched a new version of iOS, in this case version 16. It’s the nearest thing you can get to a new iPhone without actually, well, buying a new iPhone. As usual, this ne

Lock Screen widgets are similar to Home Screen widgets. They pull data from apps and display it in a predefined space on the Lock Screen, and you can choose which apps to display. Developers can make widgets for their own apps, just as they can for t

THE UPDATE TO Maps isn’t as huge as it was in iOS 15, but there are some impressive new features. The app is also now becoming a strong competitor to the likes of Waze when it comes to planning routes for driving. You can add stops to your routes whe

After launching on iPad and Mac last year, Quick Note has finally come to iPhone in iOS 16. Notes in list and gallery views are now grouped chronologically, using categories such as Today and Yesterday. Plus, there are new filters in Smart Folders, e

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APPLE’S PODCASTS APP had a difficult start. Its first incarnation, around a decade ago, demonstrated the worst excesses of Apple’s dalliance with skeuomorphism, where an interface’s design replicates real–world switches and buttons regardless of how

PODCASTS’ INTERFACE IS similar to the one in Music, which is no surprise, on the Mac at least, as they both evolved from iTunes. So, for example, both have sections called Listen Now and Browse that work in exactly the same way. Listen Now is Apple’s

NOW THAT YOU know how to find, follow and play podcasts, it’s time to learn how to control the way podcasts play back on your Mac, iPhone or iPad. We’ll also show you how to minimize the amount of storage space podcasts take up on whichever device yo

REQUIRES You’ll need an iPad/iPhone and your Mac YOU WILL LEARN How to remotely control your Mac IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes YOU’RE MILES AWAY from your Mac, and you need to access something on it that isn’t stored in iCloud or another cloud storage serv

REQUIRES Bluetooth and Wi–Fi enabled, sending and receiving devices must be within 30ft of each other YOU WILL LEARN How to send and receive files using AirDrop IT WILL TAKE 5 minutes WHETHER COLLABORATING WITH colleagues or sharing a memorable photo

REQUIRES macOS 11 or later, 8GB of memory (16GB recommended), Slapdash (slapdash.com) YOU WILL LEARN How to use Slapdash to control cloud apps IT WILL TAKE 15 minutes SPOTLIGHT IS ONE of the key tools of macOS, and you probably use it so much you don

REQUIRES Mac, iPhone or iPad YOU WILL LEARN How to extract more info from your photos IT WILL TAKE 30 minutes LIVE TEXT IS a technically impressive feature when it comes to retrieving information from or about the photos in your Library. However, Vis

REQUIRES An Apple Watch, an iPhone, iOS 10 or later YOU WILL LEARN How to access the useful information Maps provides IT WILL TAKE 10 minutes DO YOU REMEMBER the first time you used Maps on your Apple Watch? We do, because it made us feel concerned.

YOU WILL LEARN How Continuity links Macs and Apple’s mobile devices IT’S BEEN ABOUT a decade since Apple first introduced AirDrop (see p88), a feature which provided a quick and easy way to wirelessly transfer files between Macs, back before iCloud a

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