New Shortcut to remove and bypass Paywalls in Safari
1-click download to add a convenient helper to your «Share»-menu for removing paywalls instantly.
Add Japan‘s «Suica» public transport card to iOS Wallet (English how-to)
A guide with screenshots to create a virtual Suica card on iOS.
Type a not equals sign ≠ or wavy equals sign ≈ in iOS on an iPhone or iPad
Since iOS 13 Apple added additional special characters missing on the default keyboard in iOS earlier – now signs like ≠ or ≠ are at your fingertips.
Disable either @icloud or @me email address for sending new mail in iOS
Here is where you can find the «Allow sending from» iCloud email setting to select only one preferred email address for Mail app.
Retrieve lost iOS backup password after upgrading to macOS Catalina
When having lost the password of an encrypted iOS backup after upgrading to macOS Catalina – a Time Machine backup came to the rescue!
Is Apple finally rolling out iCloud Sync for Messages at WWDC 2018?
The iCloud sync for Messages is back in new Beta releases for iOS 11 and macOS High Sierra – official release planned for WWDC 2018?
Where’s the missing not equals sign ≠ in iOS on the iPhone or iPad?
There are a few special characters missing from the default keyboards in iOS – how can you bring missing characters like ≠ to iOS?
iCloud Sync for Messages gone from macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 betas
Apple did now completely remove the iCloud Sync feature for Messages; not only from iOS 11 but also from the recent macOS High Sierra Beta.
OS X: launcher for iOS Simulator and bypassing Xcode
On OS X, the best way to almost natively test apps or websites is by using the so called “iOS Simulator” (now named simply “Simulator”) which is available as part of the installed Xcode Development Tools.
So to bypass Xcode for starting the Simulator, I wrote a simple Automator application which directly launches the Simulator.app – you can download it in this post or create it yourself following the instructions.
Did you know that the Reminders App in OS X has intelligent text interpretation? (example inside)
Apple’s very own Reminders.app, available on OS X, iOS and iCloud, comes with a very neat yet helpful feature: intelligent interpretation of a new reminder/to-do text. On iOS devices using Siri, you can not only tell it what and when to remind you about, but Siri is also intelligent enough to understand in which of your reminders lists that new reminder should go to!