The MacMost Question and Answer Forum is a place where you can ask how-to questions about your Mac, iPhone, iPad and other Apple products. MacMost specializes in tutorials, tips and techniques of the “how-to” variety, as opposed to “fix-it” questions that are more about something not working as expected.11/12/21
My wife has just bought a new iPad Air because her old one started giving trouble over battery charging problems .Anyway we transferred all her stuff onto her new iPad but her email and messenger would not work properly.Is it possible to clean the iPad to factory finish and start ... (1 Comment)
11/11/21
I watched your recent YouTube video on using Shortcuts app to copy text on the screen and it works great. Thanks for that.
I wanted to set up a keyboard shortcut, ⌘ + u to copy the URL of the active Safari tab in Mac.
Added a Shortcut like this: https://cln.sh/AkySMA. It works ... (4 Comments)
11/11/21
I have some MP4 videos on my Mac and I want to be able to watch on my iPad but with no iTunes I don’t know how to get there over?
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Max Watson
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11/11/21
How do I delete emails from all3 devices; Mac, iPhone, and iPad when I delete them from one?
It is extremely time consuming having to delete emails from all 3 devices.
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Joy
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11/11/21
When I have typed a document using dashes and then check “spelling and grammar”, why does it want me to ‘correct’ the dashes to long dashes? And why is there no long dash on the keyboard for me to use to avoid this? It seems the only alternatives are a ... (2 Comments)
11/10/21
Is there a way to permanently capture a formula generated value prior to it changing again via the formula?
Example: If my cell formula is A1+B1=4; I want to, prior to it being changed via the formula, permanently preserve the value “4” (in another cell and not subject to ... (6 Comments)
11/10/21
Gary, I just installed Monterey on my iMac. In Safari, when you open a new window, I’m now showing “Shared with You” windows” below my Favorites, how do I remove this feature? Interesting, I also installed Monterey on my older 12in MacBook also, this ... (2 Comments)
11/9/21
I can’t get Finder windows to stay the same size to save my life. I have tried holding option or holding control or holding command while resizing, as well as any combination of the three. I feel like I can get it to stay every once in a while, but if I open downloads from ... (3 Comments)
11/9/21
Hi, Gary,
I’ve been trying to take an image and make it a smaller size so I can place several of these into a note, in Notes.
No matter what I do when I paste what I think is a resized image into a Note composition pane, the image is pretty big, remaining its original ... (2 Comments)
11/8/21
Hey Gary,
Reading a PDF in Preview about Space/Time. Not super long, but read enough for now and want to place a bookmark to return to.
⌘ D places a bookmark(I guess)in the sidebar. Nothing visible on the document. Closed Preview, reopened it, clicked on the ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
How do I create 2 sets of Widgets with 8 Shortcuts in each Widget. There are no icons on my iPhone Home Screen and I use the Swipe Right Finger Gesture to get Shortcuts. The single Shortcut Widget is too large even for iPhone Pro Max screen – only 8 are shown. Stacking the ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
Gary, I’ve purchased a number of the new Apple AirTags – Clever little devices – I think one of your tutorials on them would be great – just a suggestion.
If you decide to do it, here is a problem I’ve run into and not sure how to address the issue. Whenever ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
Thanks for your many videos of help. I have a situation where I need to sort a given number of rows and columns within a table leaving the header row intact.
By way of example. I have row 2 as a header, columns A & B as ‘headers’ and I want to sort columns E ... (1 Comment)
11/5/21
I am adding my Outlook and Gmail account to mail app. Once added, it is starting to download all the mails from outlook and gmail servers from the beginning. It already downloaded almost 4GB data. I am trying to find the solution to stop this or at least limit the download.
1. ... (3 Comments)
11/4/21
Is it possible when printing an email, to make it larger. I am finding when I go to print an email the type is so small you can barely read it. Thanks so much.
Because I like a hard copy I want to be able to read it without getting a magnifying glass. I am able to read the ... (5 Comments)
11/4/21
I recently purchased new Macbook pro, and I am all new to Apple products now and I am very satisfied with everything. Now I have a question about one folder in Finder which I dont know what is it for. Its called “on my mac”. I can choose whether it will or will not be ... (2 Comments)
11/4/21
I need to be able to copy a table from Safari to numbers or excel. The extension copy tables does not work well in Safari as it does not support a plain text option. The same extension works well with Chrome and Vivaldi. To use it with Safari, I would have to modify my excel ... (4 Comments)
11/3/21
Are pinned tabs still possible in Safari 15.x now that tab groups are available? Thanks.
Just thinking ahead about how I might deal with the couple of pinned tabs I’ve grown accustomed to in Safari and whether I’ll have to tab-group them to get a similar experience in ... (2 Comments)
11/3/21
Found unknown source (not from Apple or identified developers) apps that look suspicious
Hi, when I look at my Macbook Pro’s system information and then, software, apps. I see a bunch of (under the “obtained from” column) source “UNKNOWN” apps. ... (2 Comments)
11/2/21
Is there a way of having a video, blurring it out and then overlaying a picture(or video) on top of it as the audio is still playing and then revert back to the clear video. E.g. I have a video interview then I want to blur the image and replace it with a photo and then return ... (1 Comment)
