The MacBook Air and MacBook Pro have a notch at the top of the screen that contains the Center Stage camera, camera indicator LED, and True Tone and ambient light sensors. Unfortunately, that notch obscures menu bar icons as they pile up. Utilities such as Bartender and Ice offered solutions, but in macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple provides a built-in
Has an older app stopped opening after you upgraded to macOS 27 Golden Gate? The missing piece may be Rosetta, Apple’s software that lets Intel-based apps run on Macs with Apple silicon. Even if you installed Rosetta years ago, Apple’s release notes say it isn’t automatically restored after the upgrade. Fortunately, macOS 27 still supports it. With your Mac connected
Want a quiet ringtone without making your kitchen timer easy to miss? In iOS 27, you can set alarm and timer volume separately from ringtone volume. By default, they’re still linked, so you’ll need to change a setting. Go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics, find Alarms and Timers, and turn off Match Ringtone Volume. Drag the slider below it
Quitting a Mac app doesn’t always stop everything it’s doing. Some apps leave background processes running to sync files, check for updates, or finish other work. In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple makes this activity more visible: you’ll see a notification the first time an app continues running after you quit, and hovering over its Dock icon reveals a Running
The new Live Rewind and Siri Recap features in the Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 sound convenient enough. Live Rewind lets you recall anything said in a conversation in the past 15 seconds, while Siri Recap takes notes throughout the day to create an Apple Intelligence summary. That’s fine unless a meeting covers sensitive information like
If you’ve kept Outlook for Mac in its older, familiar interface, you may need to switch soon to keep receiving email. Microsoft says legacy Outlook for Mac will stop connecting to Exchange Online mailboxes starting in October 2026. Those are the mailboxes commonly used for business email through Microsoft 365. Before switching to the current Outlook for Mac, back up
If you use Shared Albums to collect job-site photos or share progress with clients, new options in macOS 27, iOS 27, and iPadOS 27 change image quality and whose iCloud storage the photos use. New permanent shared albums preserve the full resolution of your photos and videos, but count against the album owner’s iCloud storage, including photos and videos uploaded
As AI becomes more capable and widespread, we’re seeing more clients whose employees install AI skills and adapt various open-source projects. These free resources can be immensely useful, but can you trust them? An AI skill is a set of instructions that tells an AI assistant how to perform a task, such as organizing files. A GitHub project is a
Apple’s annual September event delivered more than the usual annual iPhone and Apple Watch updates. Alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, new Apple CEO John Ternus led the unveiling of the iPhone Duo—Apple’s first foldable iPhone—the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 with new health-sensing and listening capabilities, and the AirPods 5 with Active Noise
The latest scam making the rounds preys on your trust and sociability. You receive what appears to be a party invite from a friend via an invitation service like Paperless Post or Punchbowl. The email legitimately comes from your friend’s account, which has been compromised, but clicking any link in it takes you to a fake site that asks for