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How to Sync Messages Across Your Mac, iPhone​, and iPad

Recently, after upgrading to a 16-inch MacBook Pro, I noticed that Messages sent from my iPhone didn’t appear on my Mac, and vice versa. It took me a while to figure out the problem. However, I did. If you're facing the same problem, here’s what you should do.

Scanning Documents with iOS 13 and iPadOS 13

You may have a printer with a built-in scanner, or perhaps even a dedicated scanner. But if you don’t — and you have an iPhone or iPad running the latest operating system versions — your Apple mobile devices can step in as a perfectly capable document scanner. We’ll show you how!

How to Add Hot Links in macOS Pages Documents

Pages in macOS conveniently allows you to add “hot links” to its documents. You can link to webpages or other Pages documents.  To link to a webpage or email: Select the text that you wish to link. From the toolbar,...

How to Restore Data From Time Machine Backups

Time Machine is certainly an easy-to-use app for backing up your data. It's free, and comes installed and ready to use with the Mac OS. In many of our Rocket Yard guides, we’ve often suggested that you perform a backup...

Using an External Drive as Your Startup Drive: Part 2

Using an external device as your Mac’s primary startup device can offer a number of advantages, as we outlined in Using an External Drive as Your Startup Drive: Part 1. This can include having increased storage space, faster performance, the ability...

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