A well attended and lively meeting. David M took us through Settings in relation to: Wifi Calling, Data Roaming, e-SIM, Personal Hot Spot, Notifications, Sound & Haptics and finally for this session Focus. David P showed how using features built in to Safari can help you to remove clutter, find sites more easily and set up scenarios which fit different aspects of your life when searching the Web. We covered using: Bookmarks, Reading lists, History…
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Nine members were at an old, and new, venue, Wallington Village Hall, for a Q&A session. One Q we wanted A to: do we want to move here on a more permanent basis? The final, narrow verdict, was to continue a trial period until the end of the year. For one thing the childrens' dance class were a little noisy, but in many respects the venue is excellent. More Apple-related questions involved…
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Mick took us through the various steps in trouble shooting a Mac. First don’t panic. As a first step shut down and reboot. If no change try disconnecting all accessories. Failing that Safe Boot/Safe Mode. This procedure is different on Apple Silicon and Intel chips but fully described on Apple help pages on the internet. The final step is try Recovery Mode, again all instructions are on the Internet. In Recovery mode…
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Brian gave us an interesting talk on a subject I don't remember ever being covered at a meeting - 3D Photography. He explained how you take two almost identical photos - almost identical as one is from the position of your right eye, the other from the position of the left - and then merge them using appropriate software. You can also 'fake' the effect using just one photo but using two is better than one! Brian had…
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Questions had been asked about managing Albums within Folders in Photos so we looked at how this can be done. It is even possible to have Albums within sub folders within Folders! Before embarking on a 1:1 problem solving session there was time to only 'trail' a topic for the July meeting - how to manage Safari and organise your searching using Bookmarks, History, Reading Lists, Tabs, Tab Groups and Profiles.…
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Eight members came to Warsash for David's talk on iOS Settings. There were many settings, and many questions, so (in a very good way) there was little time for much else, barring discussions on considering options for a new venue. …
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David Moon ran through various IOS settings focusing on the iPhone. He was using an iPhone 11 running IOS 17.5 so some members present with older phone and systems did not have all the feature covered. Whilst is was generally agreed to be a very useful, we concluded that we should only cover fewer points in any single session to give people more time to follow hands-on.
John Marriott wanted to…
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David gave us a fairly comprehensive run through of the editing facilities available on Mac and iOS. It was news to several members how much was there meaning that unless you were really seriously into editing there would be no need for more sophisticated software.
He then looked at some non-Apple apps which add to the capabilities of the iPhone camera. Spectre enables you to take a photo of say a building…
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We looked at what functions could be activated by tapping on the back of an iPhone, the way to access numbers on an iPad keyboard without changing the alphabetic keyboard and how one could do calculations on an iPad without downloading a third party app. As a response to a question about using What3Words we explored identifying locations and navigating to a What3Word location. A variety of 1:1 topics were addressed.…
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We had a discussion about legacy, making it possible for designated people to have access to your computer and related accounts. David M showed us Apple’s offer but it seem very limited and requires a death certificate to enable. Trevor C makes full use of 1Password for holding all key information which his wife can access on his demise. Mick too similarily makes use of 1Password. The conclusion was that members are well…
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