Paris Buttfield-Addison has regained access to his Apple Account after a tainted gift card locked him out. But his saga highlights serious risks associated with Apple Gift Cards that should make ...

A failed update left 1Password’s app package empty on multiple Macs, rendering it non-functional. The good news: reinstalling ...

After trying to redeem an Apple Gift Card, Apple developer and author Paris Buttfield-Addison was locked out of his Apple Account with no explanation. Despite extensive media coverage and contact from ...

After 30 frustrating minutes trying to fix a broken holiday playlist, Adam Engst finally found the culprit: a “Skip when shuffling” option he had enabled last year and forgotten about. Is there a ...

Following its traditional mid-December schedule, Apple has released the 26.2 updates across its operating systems, featuring a mix of focused enhancements and bug fixes. The most surprising new ...

Humor columnist—and inveterate iPad misplacer—Dave Barry shares an embarrassing incident: The reason we laughed is that a year and a half ago, I placed this very same iPad on top of this very same ...

I rarely write about Apple’s infrequent executive shuffles. People come and go, but most of the time, it doesn’t significantly affect everyday Apple users. However, this week’s changes could have a ...

Last week’s Do You Use It? poll about contact posters received relatively few votes, largely because I merely mentioned the poll in “How to Set Contact Avatars and Posters on the iPhone” (17 November ...

I coach weekly indoor track workouts for the Finger Lakes Runners Club from November through April. Somewhere between 40 and 70 people show up every Tuesday to follow my instructions while running in ...

Although we don’t publish self-serving letters gushing about how wonderful TidBITS is, over our many years of publication we’ve received numerous awards, listed below in chronological order. You may ...

In the latest episode of the legal thriller involving the Apple Watch’s blood oxygen sensor, Blake Brittain of Reuters reports: A federal jury in California said on Friday that Apple owes ...

While writing “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App” (10 November 2025), I commented that the Unified view’s Calls screen was more attractive if you had contact posters for ...