A while back, Google ditched the slider that let you zoom in and out on Google Maps, keeping only the plus and minus buttons that acted as the slider’s termini. Perhaps you’ve grown accustomed to clicking the plus and minus buttons to control the zoom level in Google Maps or simply use a mouse or …

The tried-and-true method of deleting a file on a Mac is to drag it to the trash or right-click on the file and select Move to Trash. And then when you accidentally open the Trash folder and realize how many files you have stashed there, you go ahead and empty the trash. With OS X 10.11 El Capitan, Apple introduced …

The Internet was built for procrastinators, which I believe describes all of us. It is all too easy to go down a wormhole where you follow one link to the next, only to resurface a hour or more later with that pile of work you were avoiding still sitting there. If you, like the rest of us, need help reining …

Part of Siri’s charm for me is her British accent that lends an air of assurance to her answers. Apple’s assistant, however, can be a bit too forward at times, inserting herself into conversations when she has not been addressed. There is a setting that lets you silence Siri without disabling the feature. With this setting, you can toggle Siri’s …

Before reading any further, I’d like you to check your iPhone’s storage. Go ahead, I’ll wait right here. Head to Settings > General > Storage & iCloud Usage > Manage Storage. Did you find that after Photos & Camera, the app occupying the most of your iPhone’s storage space is the Messages app? That was the case for me. The …

I spend more time checking email on my iPhone than I do on my MacBook these days. Thanks to OS X Daily, I now have a better way to deal with email attachments on my iPhone. And my iPad, for that matter. The solution? Save them to iCloud Drive. Here’s how: When you have an email with an attachment, instead …

WeatherIf is a weather app that doesn’t require you to open an app to check the weather. Instead, it streamlines your weather forecasting operations by sending you notifications. After installing WeatherIf, you will need to launch the app to set up your notifications and then won’t need to touch the app after that. There are five notifications based on different …

YouTube over the years has become an impressively large music repository, a development that the YouTube mobile app never fully grasped. The mobile YouTube app is geared for YouTube’s raison d’etre of watching videos, which is why the separate YouTube Music app is needed. The YouTube Music app is free for iPhone and for Android, but a YouTube Red subscription …

A thorough search of Gmail typically requires three steps: 1. Keyword search of your inbox by entering search terms into search box at top of page. 2. If not found, then opening Spam folder by finding it in left-hand panel (or entering in:spam in search box) and performing same keyword search again. 3. If not found, then opening Trash folder …

When you come across a link in an app on your iPhone or iPad, sometimes the link opens a page in an app’s own built-in browser and other times it opens a Safari-based page in the app via iOS’s Safari View Controller. The latter is a better experience because it remembers any accounts you are logged into in Safari and …