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Your iPhone Messages conversations could be hiding years of storage-hungry videos. Open a conversation, tap the name at the top, and review its shared photos and videos. Delete attachments you no longer need, but remember that Messages in iCloud syncs deletions across devices.

Don't trust an important webpage to stay online forever. In Safari on iPhone: Page Menu > Share > Markup > Done > Save File To. You can save a PDF copy of instructions, receipts, reservations, or other important pages. What webpages do you always save?

Switching email apps is easy. Retraining your fingers? That’s the hard part. Mail Keys maps familiar Gmail keyboard shortcuts to Apple Mail so your muscle memory can come with you. Which shortcut could you never give up?

You can hand someone your unlocked iPhone without giving them easy access to every app. Touch and hold an app > Require Face ID > Confirm. That app now requires authentication to open. Your passcode can still unlock it, so keep that private too.

Movie night shouldn’t be an hour of scrolling followed by going to bed. Faro is a free iPhone app that recommends movies based on your ratings. Tap “Help Me Choose” and get a handful of picks. No ads. No tracking. Nothing to buy. What’s your go-to movie recommendation?

Your iPhone is on Silent Mode, but some calls are too important to miss. Open Contacts > Select Person > Edit > Ringtone or Text Tone. Enable Emergency Bypass. That person can make your iPhone play a sound even when Silent Mode is on.

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Some of your favorite family memories are buried in a text thread. Thread Saver for Messages exports conversations from your Mac into a PDF, photos included. Its developer tested it with 7,000+ family messages.

Accidentally deleted an important iPhone text? It might not be gone. Open Messages > Filters > Recently Deleted. Select the conversation and tap Recover. Deleted messages are generally recoverable for up to 30 days.

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Your Magic Mouse has no built-in tap-to-click option. This free, open-source app adds it, including two-finger right-click and double-tap to double-click. No account required. Are you a tapper or a clicker?

How much space is System Data taking up on your Mac? Before deleting random files from Library folders, check System Settings > General > Storage. Start with Documents and Applications you recognize. Get our free Mac storage guide at the link in our bio.

Ever wish you could turn one perfect moment from an iPhone video into a photo? In iOS 27: Open Photos > Play Video > Pause on Frame > More > Save Video Frame as Photo. No screenshot or cropping required. Do you usually shoot photos, videos, or both?

Ever find the same person saved three or four times in your iPhone Contacts? Open Contacts and look for View Duplicates underneath My Card. Your iPhone can identify potential duplicates and help you merge them. How many copies of the same contact have you found?

Your Mac can remove photo backgrounds without Photoshop or a paid app. In Finder: Control-click an image > Quick Actions > Remove Background. macOS creates a new image with the background removed. Great for presentations, profile pictures, and social posts.

Looking for a photo of your passport or driver's license? Your iPhone may have already organized it. Open Photos > Collections > Utilities > Identity Documents. Apple Photos can automatically group recognized identification documents, saving you from scrolling through thousands of pictures.

Your iPhone can warn you when you leave your AirPods or another supported Apple device behind. Open Find My > Devices > Select Device > Notifications. Turn on Notify When Left Behind. You can even exclude trusted locations like your home. One setting worth enabling before your next trip.

Do you wait for your Apple Watch workout countdown or skip it? Tap the screen during the countdown to start tracking immediately. What Watch shortcut should more people know? Get our free Mac Storage Guide through the link in our bio.

Moving files to an external drive isn't the same as backing them up. If that drive holds your only copy, one drive failure could mean losing everything. Copy your files, verify they open, and make sure you have a separate backup before deleting the originals. Free up Mac storage without risking your data.

Digging through an old iPhone text conversation? Tap near the top of the screen, just below the back arrow, to jump back through the thread. Tap again to go farther back. Pilot Pete shares his accidental discovery on Mac Geek Gab 1163.