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There’s Nothing Better Than Peace of Mind: 7 Safe Living Strategies for Single People

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Although living alone has its own benefits for lowering stress, you may be more concerned about home security. Many smart home technologies may also be helpful, in addition to commonplace advice like getting to know your neighbors, shutting your blinds at night, and configuring your doors to automatically lock. For your protection while hanging alone, … Read more

With the release of iOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, the last piece of the iPhone Mirroring jigsaw is now accessible. If you’re a part of the Apple ecosystem, iPhone Mirroring is a useful wonder in and of itself: Use your Mac to connect to and operate your iPhone if it’s close by but not accessible, such as in a bag or even just out of reach. However, drag & drop across devices was not a capability at launch. Similar to moving files between two windows on your Mac desktop, you may now copy files and add them to documents that are already being worked on. The logo of CNET Tech Tips I’ve discovered a number of benefits to using iPhone Mirroring beyond drag and drop, apart from the obvious ease of not having to pick up the phone. In fact, after the introduction of iOS 18 and MacOS Sequoia, I’ve noticed that I use it often on my iPhone 16. Here are a few scenarios in which iPhone mirroring may be useful to you. See also: How to Use iPhone Mirroring to Control Your iPhone From Your Mac Along with a slew of additional goodies like animated text messages and the option to personalize your iPhone’s home screen, iOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1 are now available. Oh, and there’s also the much-discussed Apple Intelligence technology. Take a look: MacOS Sequoia Brings iPhone Mirroring to Macs 03:39 When your iPhone is in a different room or in a bag or handbag The simplest use case is when you want to use your phone to access something, but it’s hidden in a bag, out of reach, or you can’t get up—or you can, but the sleeping dog or cat on your lap wouldn’t like the interruption. Using iPhone Mirroring to connect is much more practical. Using iPhone Mirroring, an iPhone in a backpack in the distance is wirelessly linked to a MacBook Pro in the front. With iPhone Mirroring on MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18, you may access your iPhone even if it’s in a bag or out of reach. CNET/Jeff Carlson However, if you need to use your iPhone from work and you have unintentionally left it at home, this capability isn’t functional over long distances. The iPhone and Mac must be within Bluetooth range of one another for iPhone Mirroring to function, which is based on Apple’s Continuity technology. When using an iPhone app to check in Did you not have your phone with you and miss your daily Duolingo check-in? iPhone Mirroring can connect if your Mac is, ensuring that you continue your winning run. Or maybe you need to complete today’s Wordle challenge, but using your phone while working might be too noticeable. If required, it is simple to conceal or hide the discrete iPhone Mirroring window. iPhone mirror: Why is Duolingo used? Even if your phone is not close by, continue your Duolingo streak. Image courtesy of Jeff Carlson/CNET When using an application rather than a web interface Some well-known services still function far better in applications than in web interfaces. Yes, Instagram, you are in our sights. A better user experience or more choices are often available when posting from an app. You can publish using a mouse pointer rather than a finger since iPhone Mirroring allows you to virtually access the iPhone’s UI. CNET’s Instagram profile page appears on a MacOS iPhone that has been mirrored via iPhone Mirroring. Compared to their online equivalents, apps such as Instagram get additional features. Image courtesy of Jeff Carlson/CNET I take a lot of screenshots for business and take even more pictures for me, all of which wind up in my Photos library, so when you want to move things across devices fast. After then, those photos are synchronized to my Mac over iCloud, albeit sometimes it appears to happen at a speed that is best characterized as “when the phone gets around to it.” I often use AirDrop between devices when I need something on my Mac immediately, which is functional but less convenient than I would want. But now that I have the iPhone Mirroring program installed on my Mac, I can drag and drop a variety of files—not just pictures—between my iPhone and the Mac. That also applies in both directions: To move a movie or crucial PDF to the mirrored iPhone, drop it onto it from a Mac Finder window. Hands dragging a file from the MacOS Finder to the iPhone using iPhone Mirroring on a Mac laptop next to an iPhone on a stand. Files may be dropped from a Mac to an iPhone that is mirrored and vice versa. Apple/Jeff Carlson/CNET Screenshot When you don’t want unnecessary apps on your Mac System extensions, starting items, and other background activities that you probably aren’t aware are operating most of the time are all part of MacOS’s lengthy history. For instance, these accessory files are dispersed across certain major program suites like a box of Legos that has been dropped. Although such components still use CPU and storage power, the resource drain is often minimal. iOS, on the other hand, has always been designed as a siloed system, with each program having its own secure storage and tightly regulated channels for communicating with other applications. Installing a mobile version might help you prevent the app creep that occurs under MacOS, especially for programs you need to have around but don’t use often. You may continue to use an app like this on your Mac without contaminating MacOS with all the attendant clutter that is often loaded thanks to iPhone Mirroring. When you would like to use your bank’s app rather than a computer to log in Unfortunately, a number of these recommendations center on the idea that “an app is better than a website,” and banking websites are often the best example of this. By utilizing iPhone Mirroring to log in using the iOS app rather than a web browser on your Mac, you may be able to access your bank accounts or investments more easily and securely. Although it could be a more convenient choice, you still need to verify the iPhone app when you launch it since you can’t use Face ID or Touch ID on the device. A MacOS screen with the Bank of America app mirrored on an iPhone. Make use of safe applications that are exclusive to your phone, like the Bank of America app. Image courtesy of Jeff Carlson/CNET When you want to access your phone’s hidden and protected applications Sensitive applications may be hidden in iOS 18 or opened with authentication (like Face ID). iPhone Mirroring enables you to access them when the phone is not close by, if you prefer to use them on your phone rather than via an app or web interface on your Mac. As you would anticipate, the iPhone Mirroring software needs to authenticate via the Mac. To unlock protected applications or reveal the phone’s hidden folder, enter your Mac’s login password, use Touch ID, or authenticate with your linked Apple Watch. Three iPhone mirroring windows demonstrate how to choose the hidden folder, verify with your password, and finally see the folder’s applications. Use iPhone Mirroring to get access to the Hidden app folder. CNET/Jeff Carlson screenshots When you want to demonstrate what’s on the iPhone during a presentation iPhone Mirroring is a much simpler choice than other ways if you need to show anything on the iPhone during an online or in-person presentation, even if this is a smaller subset of use cases. The most popular approach, apart from setting up an above camera, has been to use a cable to connect the iPhone to a Mac and watch the phone’s screen in QuickTime Player. At that point, you would still have to use your hands to control the phone. With iPhone Mirroring, you can now use your Mac’s trackpad or mouse and keyboard to control the phone while it’s linked wirelessly. This method’s primary drawback is that turning it on interrupts the mirrored connection if you do need to do anything on the phone. We would also want to see an adjustment made to one streaming restriction. The ability to use AirPlay to transmit media from an iPhone to a Mac is one underappreciated feature of Apple products. It’s time to relax and enjoy a film or a TV program episode of your choice. You may choose the Mac, which has a bigger screen, as the destination after starting it on the iPhone. Starting a movie that plays on the Mac’s screen would be convenient since iPhone Mirroring allows you to operate an iPhone that is out of reach. But in the case of iPhone mirroring, digital rights management stifles that notion. The image stays dark even though you can launch an app like TV and start a program. The Netflix logo on a phone Using Netflix with iPhone Mirroring results in a dark screen. Martin James/CNET If you broadcast using AirPlay with iPhone Mirroring is on, you will also see that dark screen. This only works if you physically operate the phone and stream to the Mac.

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With the release of iOS 18.1 and MacOS Sequoia 15.1, the last piece of the iPhone Mirroring jigsaw is now accessible. If you’re a part of the Apple ecosystem, iPhone Mirroring is a useful wonder in and of itself: Use your Mac to connect to and operate your iPhone if it’s close by but not … Read more

Use This iPhone iOS Feature to Map Your Hikes This Spring

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Now that daylight saving time is over, there is more sunshine to enjoy, which brings with it spring vacation and summer vacations. After months of monotonous work, traveling may be thrilling and rejuvenating, but nothing is worse than having a fantastic time only to have it destroyed by losing your personal items. You should learn … Read more