For documentation work, one size doesn’t fit all. Adam Engst finds that ScreenFloat’s floating windows, export options with ...

Remember when Apple products had personality? Colorful iMacs, handles on iBooks, texture you could feel? Adam Engst argues that Apple’s obsession with luxury aesthetics has led to a decade of cold, ...

As promised, Apple has released the first versions of all its 2026 operating systems, including a few new Apple Intelligence features. Many of you are thinking about upgrading. But would it be better ...

Since its introduction in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple’s Time Machine has become one of the Mac’s most essential features, providing transparent, fully automatic, full-machine backup to an external ...

For more help with cables, check out Glenn Fleishman’s new book, Take Control of Untangling Connections. It answers common questions and aids in troubleshooting problems. You’ll learn how to recognize ...

Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface design brings transparency and blur effects to all Apple operating systems, but many users find it distracting or difficult to read. Here’s how to control its ...

Californians will soon be able to add their driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet, providing a seamless and secure way to present driver’s licenses or state IDs using just an iPhone or Apple ...

The search engine has been a key Internet tool since the early days. Before the Web was a thing, I fondly remember Archie (from “archive” without the “v”), which indexed filenames on FTP servers, ...

While writing “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App” (10 November 2025), I commented that the Unified view’s Calls screen was more attractive if you had contact posters for ...

When I was preparing inline graphics—the little images embedded in a line of text—for my Take Control of Numbers book, I was almost finished when I remembered that the filenames needed to adhere to a ...

Everyone expected Apple’s announcement of Apple Intelligence, but the details on security, privacy, and safety still came as a (welcome) surprise to a security community already accustomed to Apple’s ...

I have been writing professionally for nearly 35 years, and I like to think that I’ve gotten pretty good at it. Between TidBITS and the TidBITS Content Network articles I create for Apple ...