Gordon's Tech

Nobody expects Apple to bring Apple ID switching to iPadOS -- even though there's a version of it for managed devices . Technical and re...

Someone who has your iPhone passcode can lock you out of your Apple iCloud and Apple ID services -- as well as take control of your iPhone a...

iOS 12.1 Files.app will open Google Drive hosted ePub files directly in Books.app (formerly iBooks). I don’t know how new this is, but tappi...

If multiple devices share a Store Apple ID they will show up in Apple ID Devices . They will also show in iTunes (for that Store Apple ID),...

One of Apple’s “ original sins ” is the proliferation of Apple IDs and the inability to merge or manage them. I have four that I know of wi...

Experimenting with Screen Time I enabled a passcode on my personal iPad after I’d enabled “Share Across Devices” [1]. I then found I could d...

Prior to iOS 12 if you’d set a restriction passcode the only way to change it was to remove restrictions — which deleted things like blackli...

The “Share purchases on iPad with family members” chapter of my iOS 12 iPad user guide tells me Family Sharing is still limited to children,...

I updated my iPad to iOS 12. Books gave me this notification: Changes you make to your library on this device sync only to devices running...

Even since iOS 11 editing in Appigo’s Todo Cloud.app has been buggy for me on iPad and iPhone alike. Just aggravating. Feels like they faile...

Maybe this worked.  Or not. See update. Our five family members have long shared one store Apple ID. We’ve done this before there was Famil...

I had a longish holiday break this year, so naturally I spent part of it fighting with another technology regression .  This regression was...

“iTunes cannot sync voice memos … because the Voce Memos app is not installed … You must download the Voice Memos app …” Got this error mes...

You know how you look for something on the web and you can’t find it? That’s because it can’t be done with the base OS and nobody talks abo...

iTunes on my Mac shows 138 movies of which 135 have purchase dates. Those 135 were purchases from Apple starting in March 2009. If I visit ...

My 94yo father lives in a veterans long term care facility located in Ste Anne de Bellevue, a small community at the west end of the island ...

As part of my  Father longterm care iPad videoconferencing project  I compared cellular data use during an approximately 5 minute videoconfe...

My father has been doing well in a Quebec long term care facility for veterans (in Canada that has historically meant WW II, he’s in his 90s...

Please don’t put data into iOS Notes. Really, it’s quite horrid [1] If you do you may find it’s stuck there. We ran into this when my daugh...

With iOS 8.3 Apple made an undocumented change that will make a few kids happy. No, not the post-update dialog that will lead many parents ...