Even without a cord your AirPods can swap between audio devices in a snap! Here’s what you need to know.

AirPods have a very particular set of skills: They’re scary-good at pairing and maintaining a connection with your Apple devices. But picture this: You’ve got your AirPods in, the TIDAL app is loaded up on your phone, and you’re swaying to Beyoncé’s Die With You. Suddenly you get a FaceTime call and decide to take it on your Mac (because you look fly when you’re sitting at your desk). You click to answer the call, but you can’t hear what the person’s saying. You’ve just gotta swap your AirPods’ audio source to the Mac and you’re good to go!

Here are some top tips for getting in the swing of the audio swap!

Some thoughts before we begin

Before we dig into things, I want to take a second to explain how the AirPods listening experience could be improved ever-so-slightly. Apple has built in a powerful set of features dubbed Continuity that make moving between iOS and macOS …

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How do you use Family Sharing to share iTunes, iBooks, and App Store purchases with family members? Like this!

Family Sharing lets you share your iTunes, App Store, and iBooks purchases with everyone in your group. You can create child accounts so that kids have to ask permission to buy content, and you can designate other group members as parents/guardians so that they can give permission. You can even share photos and reminders in a snap.

Here’s how to do all the things with Family Sharing!

How to set up Family Sharing on iPhone and iPad

What you need to know about Family Sharing
Overview of Family Sharing features
Limits on creating Family Sharing groups
How to enable and get started with Family Sharing on iPhone and iPad
How to accept a Family Sharing invitation on iPhone and iPad

Before you can start sharing purchases in both iTunes and the App Store, you’ll have to set up Family Sharing. You’ll want a parent or head of the household to do the initial setup. During this pr…

How do I setup and use my iCloud Photo Library on iPhone and iPad?

Updated April, 2017: Updated all screens & steps to match most recent version of iOS, added How to Optimize iPhone Storage or Download your Original photos using iCloud Photo Library on iPhone and iPad, How to upload photos automatically to your iCloud using iCloud Photo Library on iPhone and iPad, and How to enable iCloud Photo sharing using the iCloud Photo Library on iPhone and iPad steps.

The iCloud Photo Library lets you store all your pictures and videos online but still have fast, local access on your iPhone and iPad: It does that by uploading everything you take with or save to your iPhone or iPad and downloading everything you import on your Mac!

You can either keep all of it on your device, or you can let iCloud Photo Library intelligently manage your storage for you, keeping recent, favorite, and frequently accessed pictures and videos available and leaving older and seldom accessed content up on the…

How do you limit the times your children can access the internet at home? With Timed Access Control on your AirPort router!

Are your children getting messages at 3 a.m.? Playing Pokémon Go when they should be doing homework? Are you finding it impossible to get off the internet at night and get the sleep you need? Well, Timed Access Control is here to help!

If you’re a concerned parent who wants to limit your children’s access to the internet, or you simply what to take control of when and how the internet can be accessed in your home, Apple’s AirPort Extreme and AirPort Express routers and the Timed Access Control feature were designed to do just that.

How to find the MAC addresses for the devices you want to control

Before you begin, you’ll need the MAC address of any device you want to add to Timed Access Control. The MAC address is the unique identifier of that device’s network card.

How to find the MAC address of a Mac

You can find a MacBook or desktop Mac’s MAC ad…

Look at your desk right now. It’s boring, isn’t it? What do you have? A flower? Maybe a paperweight (AKA a rock) your kid made you in kindergarten? Chip crumbs?

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The Motion Ferrofluid Liquid Desk Sculpture from Concept Zero is a fascinating desk toy that uses a proprietary suspension fluid to hold ”ferrofluid”, a liquid that becomes ”profoundly magnetized” when in the presence of a magnetic field. So, you get two magnets — one for each side of the vial — and you place them on opposite sides. The magnetic field between them pulls the ferrofluid in all directi…

Beyond the soundbite, these are the Next Ten Words.

Brian Hall, currently of Doppler Laps, formerly VP of Microsoft Devices, joins Gartenberg and Ritchie to discuss Microsoft Surface and its position relative to Apple with creatives and pros.

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