Do you ever wish there was a quicker way of replying to a text or email? There actually is, and I have a nifty little trick up my sleeve to show you how to speed up sending texts and emails. It's a ...

The iPhone got access to Shortcuts way back in iOS 12, giving you ways of combining different apps and tasks together to get stuff done—from calculating journey times and texting someone the details ...

I live in Germany, and even though my German is fine, I often get beaten by notices and signs. In my native England, signs and notices are snappy. They use few words, and often annoying slogans, to ...

I use a script on my Mac (created and kindly made available by Lorenzo at TRMS) that inserts a timestamp and title into a text field. (The script is useful when making a Zettelkasten-style note.) Now ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reviewer with over a decade of experience writing about consumer tech. She has a special interest in ...

One notable addition to iPadOS 15.4 and iOS 15.4 is the appearance of ‘scan text’, a shortcut that can copy handwritten and printed text and put it in the Notes app. Apple demos the new Scan Text ...

Thanks to iCloud, Apple’s OS X Mavericks and iOS 7 let you use the same Shortcuts for text entry on your Mac as on your mobile device. Here’s how to enable and use the feature. You’ve been able to ...