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Our iPhones and iPads are perfect for data collection in the field; they’re portable, don’t require the use of a keyboard, and can connect to the cloud from almost anywhere. Apple’s free Numbers spreadsheet app is a perfect tool for analyzing data that’s captured on mobile devices, and it also has a relatively unknown feature that creates easy-to-use entry forms. Today I’ll show you how to create a form with Numbers on the iPhone and iPad.

As a longtime tech writer, I'm sometimes asked how I get ideas for articles. Some of them come from readers who ask questions that intrigue me. The other day, an email arrived asking “I have an iMac running 10.13.6 and somehow when I start my Mac it tells me that my date and time is incorrect, but it’s not so I was wondering would you be able to explain to me in an easy way that I can understand: what’s going on?” Here's what the problem is, along with a solution.

I don’t know about you, but I use Apple’s iCloud Drive a lot. Subscribing to a full 2TB of storage for my wife and me, we store everything out there — scanned documents, all of our photos, you name it. On the iPhone and iPad, there’s a Files app that gives you one-tap access to iCloud Drive and any other local files or cloud services, but there’s no such app for Mac. In this short article, I’ll show you how easy it is to add an iCloud Drive Button to the macOS Dock for one-click access to your content in the cloud.

Today while I was visiting a relative I thought I’d check my email, and lo and behold, there was an invitation to apply for the new Apple Card. Now, I need another credit card like I need to have brain...

There are several ways to delete mail in the macOS Mail app. But note that to delete a message from a Mail notification or with a swipe, the “Move discarded messages” option in Viewing preferences in Mail must be set...

Like many developers and tech writers, I wanted to start working with macOS 10.15 Catalina as soon as I could. A vacation and some oral surgery delayed my experimentation, but I decided to give the new OS a try in...