Productivity & Business

Having trouble figuring out how to word that important business email? Or maybe you’re quite sure how to word a text to your friend. Apple’s Writing Tools are here to help. Find out how to use Apple Intelligence to rewrite texts.

The Driving Focus allows you to send a customized auto-reply text on your iPhone to friends and family, explaining that you're unable to respond right now, but in a friendly way without relying on cold, scripted replies. Let's dive into how to set up the automatic text reply on your iPhone!

Apple Watch Timers are incredibly useful for keeping everything on track, and they are easy to set. But sometimes, you have to scroll a long time to find the time you need in the Timers app. I'll teach you how to pin your most used timers to the top of the app for quick access.

Sometimes you may find yourself scrolling on your phone and come across something that you want to save. You can always take a screenshot, but that screenshot might get lost among your other photos when you need to find it again. A great solution for this problem is adding the screenshot to a Quick Note. Now, the next time you happen to see the perfect chicken noodle soup recipe, you can save it directly to your notes in only a few quick steps!

By adding Siri Suggestions to your iPad Home screen, you can get easy access to apps you frequently use. This widget can also give you insight into which apps you're spending your time on based on what Siri suggests. We'll show you how to add the Suggestions widget to your iPad Home screen.

In the latest version of iOS, you can link your notes together. If you have tons of disorganized notes, you can add hyperlinks to them so that you can quickly navigate to related notes.

Stage Manager is one of Apple's solutions to multi-tasking. For the iPad and the Mac, Stage Manager was introduced to create a more streamlined, easy-to-use experience when switching between multiple apps or windows. However, the feature can be tricky to use, and you may want to turn off Stage Manager. Luckily, it's quite simple on both iPad and Mac.

Scribble is a super fun feature available on the iPad that allows you to use your Apple Pencil to handwrite text into any text field you would normally use the keyboard for, and it will automatically turn into typed text. Not only is the feature surprisingly accurate at picking up even messy handwriting, but there are also written commands that you can perform, like slashing through a word to highlight, that make this feature very convenient!

If you updated to iOS 17 recently, you might have noticed autocorrect is behaving a bit differently than you’re used to. Now, you’ll see suggestions inline while typing, which can be accepted by tapping the space bar. However, if you find yourself accidentally hitting the space bar without wanting to accept the suggestion, you may want to disable these new predictions.