How To
This section is dedicated to helping you use and make the most out of your Apple products. iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch—if it can make your life better, we’ll show you all the techniques you need to know to get the most out of what you have.


How to Set Up and Disable Touch ID and Face ID
Five wrong fingers locks out Touch ID, which is useful under duress.
How to Set Up Automatic Security Updates on Apple Devices
Apple patches most flaws before they are exploited, if you let it.
Latest How To
Photos in iOS 27: Keywords, Shared Albums and More
Shared Albums can finally carry full-resolution photos, once you upgrade them.
Apple Intelligence in Calendar, Maps, and More in iOS 27
The one-tap password change needs a site that supports it, and almost none do.
iOS 27: How to Use Intelligent Actions in Shortcuts
The Use Model action lets you pick where each step runs, on device or in…
How to Use Write With Siri and Edit With Siri
Summary, Key Points, List and Table are gone as buttons but still work if typed.
What’s New in Mail and Messages in iOS 27
Apple says Smart Reply adopts your writing style, and in testing it did not.
How to Activate the New Siri on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch
Apple removed the iOS 26 double-tap shortcut, and the Mac’s contextual menu now hands Siri…
How to Use ChatGPT With Siri AI
ChatGPT requests skip Private Cloud Compute, so signing in changes where your words end up.
How to Turn On the New Siri on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Enabling it takes seconds, but the indexing afterward took well over a day.
The Apple Intelligence Accessibility Features in iOS 27
Apple’s own Settings pages still use names that do not match the interface.
Apple Intelligence in Photos: What’s New in iOS 27
Every generative edit is tagged with an invisible SynthID watermark.
