Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Like other popular web browsers, Safari allows you to choose the default search engine you want to use when you search for something on the web with your Apple device.
Safari comes pre-configured with Google set as its default search engine, but you can easily change that to Bing, DuckDuckGo or one of several other popular search engines if you choose to do so. [Read more…]
Question from Gloria: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me find a solution to a problem we’re having with my husband’s iPad.
He recently started using Facebook to keep in touch with the grandkids and some of our other family members.
The problem is he’s completely deaf and he can’t hear the notification alerts when someone sends him a message on the iPad.
Is there any way to have it light up with every new notification?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Click here to sign up for my free Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Apple has just released an emergency update to iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 to patch a very serious security flaw.
In a nutshell, this flaw allows NSO Group’s really nasty Pegasus spyware to infect Apple devices that are running one of the affected versions of iOS.
Question from Delaney G.: Hi Rick. I want you to know that I just found your site and literally spent two hours reading your tips.
I really like the way you explain things in simple terms that anyone can understand. Fascinating stuff for a non-techie like me!
I’d like to ask you a question if you don’t mind.
I read the article where you explained why iPhones don’t need to have an antivirus app running on them.
My family has three iPads that we use every single day. Does the same thing apply to them too?
In other words can we safely skip installing an antivirus app on our iPads?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
Question from Barry: I need to do some maintenance on my leaf blower so I downloaded the owner’s manual to my phone.
The file downloaded just fine but when I try to open it I get an error message saying there’s no app for opening PDF files on my device.
What am I doing wrong? I really need to open this file so I can work on my leaf blower.
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]