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The Amazingly Convenient Way to Scan Documents Using Your iPhone or iPad

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The Amazingly Convenient Way to Scan Documents Using Your iPhone or iPad

On occasion, we all need to scan a document—an invoice, a recipe, instructions from a book—but far more people have an iPhone or iPad than a hardware scanner. Luckily, Apple has built a scanning capability into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS for some years now.

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How to Share a Contact Card without Sharing Everything in iOS 16

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How to Share a Contact Card without Sharing Everything in iOS 16

Apple makes it easy to share contact cards on the iPhone or iPad—just scroll down in a contact and tap Share Contact. But what if you don’t want to share every piece of data on that card? 

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It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

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It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

Apple has long provided a microphone button in the keyboard to invoke dictation on the iPhone and iPad. But, it wasn’t always easy to hit, and you had to switch back to the keyboard to fix the inevitable mistakes.

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Use Quick Look to Preview Spotlight Results in Ventura

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Use Quick Look to Preview Spotlight Results in Ventura

Use Quick Look to Preview Spotlight Results in Ventura

When you search using Spotlight on the Mac, it provides a decent amount of information about each result, including name and other metadata.

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Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos

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Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos

Protect Your Hidden and Recently Deleted Albums in Photos

Photos has long provided a hidden album you could use to hold images you wanted to keep a little more private. Until this year, however, it was security through obscurity: anyone who knew to reveal the album in Settings > Photos on an iPhone or iPad or by choosing View > Show Hidden Album on the Mac could see its contents.

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