June 2024
Leave your AppleID alone
21/06/24 Filed in: Apple ID
I'm in the process changing my email address over to a new one since there's so much junk mail associated to my old Comcast email. What should I do about my AppleId?
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I really don’t advise you change your AppleID. Keep in mind this is a username much more than an email address. You can always add another email address to your AppleID. Apple doesn’t care about the validity of the email. They only see it as a unique identifier. It just happens to look like an email address to you. In other words, leave your AppleID alone.
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I really don’t advise you change your AppleID. Keep in mind this is a username much more than an email address. You can always add another email address to your AppleID. Apple doesn’t care about the validity of the email. They only see it as a unique identifier. It just happens to look like an email address to you. In other words, leave your AppleID alone.
Time for an iPad in my life?
20/06/24 Filed in: iPad
You always give me input as to which model to purchase and have not steered me wrong. I’m thinking I’d like to purchase the new iPad Pro to tote/travel instead of my MacBook. I’m not sure which memory size to get, I don’t understand that technology. Your opinion would be appreciated
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Making the jump over to iPad only huh. Well, it’s a bigger jump in my opinion than you’d think. If you are a frantic typer then you’ll be needing a good quality keyboard. There are plenty of crappy ones out there. If it’s going to be your main work machine then a keyboard is crucial. But if you’re just traveling with it and will still be using your laptop then that’s a totally different story. Having an iPad as a complimentary device to your laptop is great because you can use it as a second display via Sidecar, Apple’s on board display software.
Space is not too much of an issue. I’d say you’re totally fine with 1TB on an iPad. The pencil will be a question. I use mine a lot with my iPad as I sketch mockup drawings of things I’m working on or idea. It’s basically a digital note pad but I’ve been surprised at how much I use it. The pencil is way over priced and you may lose one before you learn to keep up with it better (personal experience) but it’s great if drawing, sketching, brainstorming on paper is your type of thing.
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Making the jump over to iPad only huh. Well, it’s a bigger jump in my opinion than you’d think. If you are a frantic typer then you’ll be needing a good quality keyboard. There are plenty of crappy ones out there. If it’s going to be your main work machine then a keyboard is crucial. But if you’re just traveling with it and will still be using your laptop then that’s a totally different story. Having an iPad as a complimentary device to your laptop is great because you can use it as a second display via Sidecar, Apple’s on board display software.
Space is not too much of an issue. I’d say you’re totally fine with 1TB on an iPad. The pencil will be a question. I use mine a lot with my iPad as I sketch mockup drawings of things I’m working on or idea. It’s basically a digital note pad but I’ve been surprised at how much I use it. The pencil is way over priced and you may lose one before you learn to keep up with it better (personal experience) but it’s great if drawing, sketching, brainstorming on paper is your type of thing.
Checking IMAP trash settings across devices
18/06/24 Filed in: Mail
I have all my settings set to not delete deleted messages forever .. I just realized that I have no deleted messages past 6/12/2024
This is the very FIRST imap account I have ever used. Because of this reason. I can never find any old messages and now I know why. What am I doing wrong?
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Your trashed mail can live in one of two places on an iMAP or exchange account. Locally on the device or in the cloud. This means you then have two different trash folders. To complicate matters, your mailbox behavior settings (how long trash can sit before it is automatically merged…30 days, a year, when quitting mail, etc…). These settings do not sync across devices so you'd need to check both the settings on the phone as well as any computer you have you mail set up on. So even if you have your mail set to never delete trash, on a different device you might. So to sum up, where is each mail app moving deleted messages and how long are they set to live there?
To find out, in iCloud you have to dig pretty deep…
Settings: iCloud: iCloud Mail: Mailbox Behaviors: then on the next window you can adjust deletes/archived, how soon to delete, and which mailbox your trash will be sent to. (Cloud or local…"on my phone)
On the computer, Mail: Settings: Mailbox behaviors, and you should then see very similar settings. Remember, the settings don't sync so you'd need to make them the same on each device.
This is the very FIRST imap account I have ever used. Because of this reason. I can never find any old messages and now I know why. What am I doing wrong?
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Your trashed mail can live in one of two places on an iMAP or exchange account. Locally on the device or in the cloud. This means you then have two different trash folders. To complicate matters, your mailbox behavior settings (how long trash can sit before it is automatically merged…30 days, a year, when quitting mail, etc…). These settings do not sync across devices so you'd need to check both the settings on the phone as well as any computer you have you mail set up on. So even if you have your mail set to never delete trash, on a different device you might. So to sum up, where is each mail app moving deleted messages and how long are they set to live there?
To find out, in iCloud you have to dig pretty deep…
Settings: iCloud: iCloud Mail: Mailbox Behaviors: then on the next window you can adjust deletes/archived, how soon to delete, and which mailbox your trash will be sent to. (Cloud or local…"on my phone)
On the computer, Mail: Settings: Mailbox behaviors, and you should then see very similar settings. Remember, the settings don't sync so you'd need to make them the same on each device.
2019 iMac is running slow. What else is new?
18/06/24 Filed in: general troubleshooting
My 2019 iMac is running slow. How long should I expect to get out of this computer?
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2019 should give you at least 3 more years of faithful service. People say “my computer is slow” they mean one of two things, my actual computer is slow, or my internet is slow. I think in your case you mean the actual computer. Slowness of general tasks is split into two categories. Hardware or software. Most of the time is it hardware’s fault. The main question to ask here is…Is the hard drive a solid state, fusion (hybrid) or a SATA? If it’s an SATA (spinning drive) then that’s 100% the problem. Solid States do not generally have slowness issues unless the problem was software. I can’t remember which version you have but if you’d like to find out, you can go to “about this Mac”, select More Info, select storage and it should tell you there.
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2019 should give you at least 3 more years of faithful service. People say “my computer is slow” they mean one of two things, my actual computer is slow, or my internet is slow. I think in your case you mean the actual computer. Slowness of general tasks is split into two categories. Hardware or software. Most of the time is it hardware’s fault. The main question to ask here is…Is the hard drive a solid state, fusion (hybrid) or a SATA? If it’s an SATA (spinning drive) then that’s 100% the problem. Solid States do not generally have slowness issues unless the problem was software. I can’t remember which version you have but if you’d like to find out, you can go to “about this Mac”, select More Info, select storage and it should tell you there.
eSIM turned off iMessage
18/06/24 Filed in: iMessage
Ever since I changed my eSim, now I'm only getting green text messages.
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Should be an easy fix…On your phone, go to Settings:
Scroll down to Messages:
Be sure that iMessage is turned on: (You may be asked to log in to your Apple ID.)
Under “Send & Receive” be sure that both your email AND phone number are checked.
Start new conversations from Phone.
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Should be an easy fix…On your phone, go to Settings:
Scroll down to Messages:
Be sure that iMessage is turned on: (You may be asked to log in to your Apple ID.)
Under “Send & Receive” be sure that both your email AND phone number are checked.
Start new conversations from Phone.
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