MacFormat August 2020

If you’ve been lucky enough to have been able to work from home for the last few months, you’ll have no doubt developed a renewed interest in Apple’s productivity apps – Keynote, Numbers and Pages. And with good reason; they’ve matured incredibly from their early days as part of Apple’s iWork suite and can go toe-to-toe any day against the likes of Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Starting on page 14, you’ll discover the incredible things you can do with each app, as well as quick and easy ways to collaborate with others using iCloud, and how to share your documents with people who use other office apps. You’ll be amazed by what you can do. Turn to page 50 and you’ll discover more ways to stay productive with our…

If you’ve been lucky enough to have been able to work from home for the last few months, you’ll have no doubt developed a renewed interest in Apple’s productivity apps – Keynote, Numbers and Pages. And with good reason; they’ve matured incredibly from their early days as part of Apple’s iWork suite and can go toe-to-toe any day against the likes of Microsoft Office and Google Docs. Starting on page 14, you’ll discover the incredible things you can do with each app, as well as quick and easy ways to collaborate with others using iCloud, and how to share your documents with people who use other office apps. You’ll be amazed by what you can do. Turn to page 50 and you’ll discover more ways to stay productive with our digital detox…

Jo Membery Operations Editor Jo’s hoping Apple will include a Wine O’Clock update to iOS 14. It’ll ping you the second the kids are asleep and remind you to uncork the Chardonnay. Paul Blachford Art Editor Paul’s hoping macOS 10.16 will include an automatic page-layout function, so it can look like he’s working hard… even when he’s not. MACFORMAT CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Due to the current situation, this month’s MacFormat has fewer pages than usual. We’re aiming to get things back to normal ASAP. Thank you for your continued support.…

Jo Membery Operations Editor Jo’s hoping Apple will include a Wine O’Clock update to iOS 14. It’ll ping you the second the kids are asleep and remind you to uncork the Chardonnay. Paul Blachford Art Editor Paul’s hoping macOS 10.16 will include an automatic page-layout function, so it can look like he’s working hard… even when he’s not. MACFORMAT CORONAVIRUS UPDATE Due to the current situation, this month’s MacFormat has fewer pages than usual. We’re aiming to get things back to normal ASAP. Thank you for your continued support.…

By the time you read this, Apple will have held its first virtual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). The event on Monday 22 June is scheduled to deliver a week-long round of in-depth sessions on all aspects of Apple platforms, from the next major updates to macOS and iOS, to iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS. There’s also a strong possibility that an all-new iMac could finally be unveiled. And Apple is expected to announce the Mac transition to ARM CPUs too. While a complete do-over of the iMac has long been expected, leaker Sonny Dickson added fuel to the fire in June by hinting that the new model will “use iPad Pro design language with Pro design-like bezels, T2 chip, AMD Navi GPU and no more Fusion Drive” on Twitter. This suggests…

By the time you read this, Apple will have held its first virtual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC). The event on Monday 22 June is scheduled to deliver a week-long round of in-depth sessions on all aspects of Apple platforms, from the next major updates to macOS and iOS, to iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS. There’s also a strong possibility that an all-new iMac could finally be unveiled. And Apple is expected to announce the Mac transition to ARM CPUs too. While a complete do-over of the iMac has long been expected, leaker Sonny Dickson added fuel to the fire in June by hinting that the new model will “use iPad Pro design language with Pro design-like bezels, T2 chip, AMD Navi GPU and no more Fusion Drive” on Twitter. This…