MacFormat的November 2022目录

You’re truly spoiled for choice in this month’s MacFormat. Not only will you discover in-depth reviews of the new iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14, Apple Watch Ultra, Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch SE and AirPods Pro 2 – but we’ve also assembled no less than 163 top tips for Ventura, the latest version of macOS, which will hopefully be available by the time you read this. Of these, we’re most excited about three things: the iPhone 14 Pro, the Apple Watch Ultra and, of course, Ventura – all of which reveal fascinating new directions for the Mac, the iPhone and the Apple Watch. The iPhone 14 Pro, of course, gets the Dynamic Island, which has turned the blank space around the TrueDepth camera into a new interactive area containing…

A pple has announced to developers that it plans to increase App Store prices around the world. It will make for uncomfortable reading given the cost of living crisis. The change will affect apps and in-app purchases in various nations, including Chile, Japan, Pakistan, and Vietnam, plus any country that uses the euro as a currency. Apple did not specify how much prices are set to increase, but said the new fees will come into effect “as early as 5 October, 2022”. Developers can price their apps according to set tiers, and it is those tiers that are changing. For example, the first euro tier is going up from €0.99 to € 1.19 (while the very highest tier listed will rise from €999 to € 1,199). Apple added that developers can…

IT WILL TAKE ›10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN ›How to secure logins, sensitive info, private notes, and more YOU’LL NEED ›1Password 8 for Mac, macOS 10.15 or later We all know we need to use strong, unique passwords for our accounts, but doing this for every single login is a slog. No wonder so many people reuse ‘Password123’ for everything. But there’s a better way – use a password manager. 1Password is one of the best there is, and it can generate and save strong, unique passwords so you never even need to think about them. All you need to remember is a master password – and if you have an AppleWatch, you can unlock the app with that instead. It even goes beyond passwords. The app can save your…

IT WILL TAKE ›5 minutes YOU WILL LEARN ›How to create new calendar events in watchOS YOU’LL NEED ›watchOS 9 When it comes to OS updates, watchOS gets the least attention. This year is no exception: there’s no watchOS equivalent to Stage Manager on iPad or to the iPhone’s new ability to cut pets and people out of photos. But that doesn’t mean watchOS updates aren’t important. watchOS 9 makes your Apple Watch more customisable, more useful and more powerful than before, and while many of the improvements may seem far from headlinegrabbing they will actually save you a lot of time in the months to come. The updates to the Watch Calendar app are a great example of that; the app now enables you to navigate more quickly to…

S ystem Settings replace System Preferences in a layout that’s closer to those in iOS and iPadOS. However comfortable you might be with those on your devices, you’ll need to take some time to learn where they’ve all gone in Ventura. 1 Find direct links Go straight to nested settings by searching for them by name. You’ll be offered links to save you from having to navigate the new hierarchy of System Settings. Search for ‘Stage Manager’ and one of the hits takes you direct to its settings. 2 Alphabetical list There’s a long, alphabetical list of the most commonly used settings in the View menu, which doesn’t repeat top level items. If you can’t find Date & Time, look here first. Menu bar or Control Panel? Put more controls…

The last couple of decades have seen Apple transition from being a maker of hardware and software, into a full-blown media company that secures distribution deals for movies and buys screening rights to major sports leagues. Since it started selling music downloads in 2003, Apple has added movies and TV shows to rent or buy, books, magazines, streaming music, streaming TV shows and movies, games, and, of course, apps. Most recently of all, it’s entered the realm of Peloton and the like by enabling you to subscribe to exercise classes through Apple Fitness+. All of these can be bought, rented or subscribed to from your Mac or iOS device. But the way in which you do so, and just as importantly, the way in which you cancel a subscription, is…

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ON TEST… > Anker 777 Thunderbolt Docking Station > Belkin Connect Pro Thunderbolt 4 Dock > CalDigit Thunderbolt Station 4 > Kensington SD5700T Thunderbolt 4 Dual 4K Docking Station > Plugable Thunderbolt 3 & USB-C Dual Display Dock > StarTech Thunderbolt 3 Dock Every model of Mac has a different set of ports depending on its age and form factor. Desktop Macs tend to have more and laptops fewer due to their more compact size but many of us find ourselves in need of extra ports, often ones that our Mac does not already have. Docks have evolved into remarkably powerful devices that not only expand your USB options but also your display output choices, frequently adding Ethernet, memory card readers and more. Thanks to the Thunderbolt standard, these docks…

> £28 FROM ohanaware.com > NEEDS macOS 10.13.6 or later VERDICT > MacBook battery sleep analysis that’s so valuable it should be built into macOS. ★★★★★ + Unique sleep chart + Access to settings Discovering why your Mac laptop suffers bouts of insomnia has been almost impossible. Until now. Sleep Aid reveals everything your laptop got up to overnight, and then helps you fix what’s going wrong. Sleep Aid, which only takes 200MB of memory, analyses your Mac’s sleep history, and provides a chart with details of how well your Mac slept, what interrupted it, and what woke it at the end. Select a period of insomnia and the sidebar explains the details, lists potential causes, and suggests what you should change to eliminate similar episodes. In simple cases, that…

EXPECTED APR 2023 UPDATED APR 2021 iMacFrom£1,249 Ever since the Bondi Blue iMac debuted in 1998, Apple’s all-in-one desktop computer has been setting standards for design and performance. The current 24in model is certainly Apple’s finest yet – thanks to its 4.5K (4480x2520) Retina display and the Apple-designed M1 chip, which is available with either an 8-core CPU/7-core GPU at the entry-level, or an 8-core CPU/8-core GPU on the mid-range and top-tier versions. All models come with 8GB of memory as standard (upgradeable to 16GB), with solid-state drive (SSD) storage ranging from 256GB on the entry-level and mid-range versions to 512GB on the top tier, although you can add more – up to 1TB on the entry-level and up to 2TB on the mid-range and top-tier models if you wish…

W hen Apple launched the iPhone 14 range, it kept the non-Pro models on last year’s A15 chip. That looks set to continue with the iPhone 15, with a new report claiming Apple will improve the process used to make the iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 chips – but not those in the regular iPhone 15. Right now, iPhone chips are made with TSMC’s first-generation three-nanometre (3nm) process, known as N3. According to Nikkei Asia, Apple will shift to TSMC’s second-generation N3E process for the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max next year. That should mean improved performance and power efficiency, the report claims. The non-Pro models will not get this upgrade, though, meaning a regular iPhone 15 chip (which could be the A16) will stick with N3. As…

APP OF THE MONTH When Apple announced Continuity Camera at WWDC, it seemed to ‘Sherlock’ an app called Camo, which also lets you use an iPhone as a webcam. Now, Camo has struck back with a major update. Camo now offers a variable frame rate setting, letting you tweak video from 15fps up to 60fps. It also packs in video stabilisation, which is ideal if you get camera wobble from using a standing desk or a mechanical keyboard, or if you just type heavily. Elsewhere, there’s a smart zoom feature that uses a higher-resolution video feed when cropping in. That means it relies less on digital zoom, resulting in better image quality. With virtual rotation, you can shoot in landscape or portrait without physically moving your device. And there’s a…

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FROM I nmany ways, the iPhone 14 Pro is the best iPhone out there. It has a bunch of fresh new features, and is the first (along with the Pro Max) iPhone in five years without the notch (it has something new!), while an Always-On display, improved adaptive-refresh-rate screen, and pixel binning for photography finally bring the iPhone 14 Pro series into alignment with its Android competitors. It’s worth noting that Apple doesn’t ramp things up quite so much on most of the new features. We get more zoom options on the cameras, but not greater zoom range. We’ve got pixel binning, but at four pixels-per-large-pixel, not, say, nine, as on Samsung’s Galaxy S22 Ultra. We consider the new Dynamic Island to be the biggest innovation. It’s a clever way…

> Cupertino is making a big deal of the bands you can choose with the Apple Watch Ultra. (Note: you can use any 44/45mm strap you own or like the look of, but you have to pick one of the following at purchase). We tested the Watch Ultra with the Oceanic Band and we can’t say we love it. It looks a bit, well, Lego in its design, although it’s sturdy as heck and is designed to stay put during ‘high speed watersports’. The Trail Loop is a simple slip-on and velcro strap, with elastene for comfort. We wish we could have tried it, as it felt comfortable in our tests, but it wasn’t to be. The final option is the Alpine loop, which uses a hook to secure it…

W hen it comes to greatsounding wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro (2nd generation) have knocked it out of the park. Designed to work seamlessly across your Apple devices, they offer fast pairing, useful features and incredible sound for the money, despite costing £249. The changes Apple has made don’t look radical on the outside – the earbuds and case look largely the same as the previous generation – but there are differences. For one, Apple has changed the position of the external microphones, so they now take up two separate housings on the outside of the earbuds. This, Apple says, enables them to deliver 2x better Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) than before. The new AirPods Pro also feature touch-based volume controls on each stem. This is in addition to the…

IT WILL TAKE ›45 minutes YOU WILL LEARN ›How to merge contact details with documents in Pages YOU’LL NEED ›Mac (running Big Sur or later), iPhone (iOS 14 or later), or iPad (iPadOS 14 or later) The ability to merge contact details with documents has been missing from Pages for almost a decade. But now, the ability to send the same letter to lots of different people without having to create a new document manually and copy and paste into each one is back in Pages 12.1. Mail merge is one of those features that if you need it, it’s indispensible and if you don’t you probably haven’t even noticed it was missing. However, for a tool that aims to be an alternative to the likes of Microsoft Word, it…

YOU WILL LEARN What a GaN charger is, why it’s an improvement on current chargers and what they can do for travellers. The next generation of chargers work much smarter, and with greater efficiency Key fact GaN chargers generate less heat than regular models, and transfer power more efficiently. This means they can be built with several outlets, charging multiple devices at once, including notebooks. The future of mobile device charging belongs to GaN chargers. GaN chargers are cool. Not in the informal statement of approval sense, but they’re quite literally cool. By using gallium nitride (GaN for short) instead of silicon for their transformers, GaN chargers generate less heat when charging. This means the components can be packed closer together in the unit, making them smaller and easier to…

V entura brings the greatest change to the Mac’s human interface in over 22 years: Stage Manager, a bold new way to manage active apps and windows. This centres working windows on its Stage, keeping others in its Cast on the left. Stage Manager integrates with Mission Control and Spaces to hold your focus by bringing order to large displays, and making best use of smaller ones. 1 Toggle control Enable the Stage Manager menu bar control in System Settings > Control Centre. Simply å-click on its icon in the menu bar whenever you want to toggle it on and off. 2 Set its options Customise it to control whether its Cast is hidden, and whether multiple windows of an app are shown individually or grouped. 3 Clear the Stage…

A lthough there’s no major change in Photos, lots of smaller improvements like finding duplicates and batch editing make it even better to use. 1 Eliminate duplicates When Photos analyses images in your library, it looks for duplicates with contents that appear identical even if files have different formats or metadata. Any it finds are listed in a new section in its sidebar, so you can check them and accept its offer to merge them into one. 2 Display in HDR If your Mac’s display supports high dynamic range with HDR, enable Photos’ Settings > General > View Full HDR so that your display will be automatically adjusted to show images in HDR. 3 Batch edit images When you have a batch of images to which you want to apply…

FaceTime HD and other cameras built into Macs, even that in the Studio Display, pale in comparison with the quality and special effects available in iPhones. Continuity Camera lets you use the camera in most recent models of iPhone as a camera integrated with your Mac. If you don’t yet have a tripod or stand, look for dedicated mounts from Belkin and others to make this ideal for FaceTime and movie making. 1 Turn your iPhone into a webcam Connect your iPhone XR or later using USB or Wi-Fi as a Continuity Camera. Depending on the model, this offers Portrait mode, studio lighting effects, Desk View and Centre Stage options, and you can also use it as a microphone. 2 Smarter Notes folders Notes’ Smart folders have extensive new filters…

U ntilrelatively recently, if you wanted to listen to or buy music on your Mac, rent or buy a movie, or subscribe to a podcast, you would head for the same app: iTunes. Now, you have three apps to navigate, depending on what you want to do. Despite the increase in the number of apps, though, it’s now, if anything, easier to find what you want. iTunes had become a sprawling mess of an app; its replacements are a big improvement. However, and a little confusingly, the iTunes Store lives on. There’s still an iTunes Store app in iOS 16 and the store in the Music app still bears its name. In the TV app, however, it’s just called Store. The iTunes Store app sells music, TV shows and movies,…

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Apple working on auto Shazam > Future iPhones could pause music and videos when you look away, according to a new Apple patent. This would be done with the goal of saving battery life on your device. The patent also details how Apple could enable new features based on when you are paying attention, such as by activating Shazam if your devices think you are bobbing your head to music (which may be detected by AirPods). Some iPhones already have attention-aware features, such as Face ID requiring you to look at your screen. But this patent suggests Apple is pondering how it could take the tech further. We’ll have to see if Apple ever implements it.…

1 Insta360 ONE RS 1-Inch 360 Edition > £499.99 > insta360.com > Insta360 is well-known for its top-notch 360° video cameras that capture great footage in a tiny, pocketable package (see MF383). If you like the company’s existing products, there’s a new addition to the line-up in the form of the ONE RS 1-Inch 360 Edition. It packs a 6K video resolution of 6144x3072 pixels and dual one–inch sensors into its compact frame. Those twin sensors enable the camera to excel in low-light conditions which, along with its Leica f2.2 aperture lens, means you’re not held back by the time of day you’re shooting at. In addition to 6K video footage, Insta360 ONE RS 1-inch 360 Edition also enables you to capture 21MP 360° photos. And with its bite-sized…

NEW IDEAS Your in-depth guide to getting more from your Apple kit Contact us Email your queries and your questions to letters@macformat.com macOS >ç is the Command key, which is also labelled cmd. >å means the Option key, labelled alt or opt. >≈ means the Control key, labelled ctrl, and shown as ^ in shortcuts in the menu bar. >ß is the Shift key. ∫ is the Delete key, which deletes to the left. ƒ+∫ deletes to the right. >† is the Tab key, which shifts the focus between some controls. iOS >A tap is a brief contact of (usually) one finger on your device’s screen. >To drag is to move a finger across the screen to scroll or pan around content. >Swipe means move one or more fingers across…

IT WILL TAKE ›10 minutes YOU WILL LEARN ›To manage events with this Readdle app YOU’LL NEED ›Calendars (from readdle.com), macOS 11 or later, optional subscription  Apple’s Calendar app is fine for managing your day-to-day appointments, but it’s no great shakes. Swap it out for the (similarly named) Calendars from Readdle, though, and you’ll have a more modern way to keep track of everything. Calendars boasts a plethora of power tools, from natural language entry to integrated reminders. It syncs across Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, works with popular videocalling apps like Zoom and Google Meet, and lets you create new events with Siri. Got events that you frequently add to your calendar? Calendars lets you save time by with its Shortcuts feature. These work like templates that are stored…

IT WILL TAKE ›10 minutes  YOU WILL LEARN ›You’ll learn the different ways to multitask on iPad YOU’LL NEED ›You’ll need anM1-powered iPad for Stage Manager Genius tip! ›Stage Manager works best on iPads that are connected to external displays, especially larger displays that have lots of room for multitasking. Ever since the very first iPad was unveiled way back in 2010, users have demanded Macstyle multitasking – and Apple has tried various ways to deliver it, with mixed results. In addition to the two existing ways to multitask, Slide Over and Split View, some recent iPad Air and iPad Pro models now have a third option: Stage Manager. Stage Manager is in iPadOS 16 (and macOS Ventura), and it’s the most Mac-like interface Apple has used on the iPad.…

B oth Apple’s Mail app and Messages have become more tolerant of human error, in letting you unsend when you want. These work quite differently: Mail does this by delaying dispatch of messages by up to 30 seconds, during which you can change your mind; Messages still sends immediately, but gives you up to 15 minutes to cancel or correct each message. 1 Send it later You can now schedule your email to be sent in the future, rather than trying to remember to send it later yourself. Click the menu to the right of the Send button and select one of the suggested times, or Send Later to set any time and date you want. 2 Email reminders Fed up of forgetting to respond? Set Mail to remind when…

N avigationin Maps has had many small improvements, although as these rely on details only available for some areas, expect them to roll out progressively over the coming year. 1 London cycling only Maps supports cycling routes only in certain cities around the world, including central London, and US states. 2 Gradient profiles Walking routes not only warn of steep gradients, but also show a gradient profile for the route, even when walking away from city centres. 3 Open to visitors Opening hours for visitor attractions have now been moved down to the top of the Details section towards the end of Place Cards. 4 Multi-stop driving routes only Multi-stop routes are only available for driving. Other modes of transport are better assembled as multiple linked routes anyway. 5 Fare…

New security updates Rapid Security Response updates are a new way for Apple to push urgent patches to address important vulnerabilities in macOS and its apps like Safari. Instead of requiring a large installer and restarting macOS, these are applied without fuss, and can be removed if needed. Ensure System Settings > Software Update lets your Mac receive and install them. 1 Use Touch ID if possible Using Passkeys is easier with Touch ID authentication. All Apple silicon Macs support this, and notebooks have it built into their keyboard. If your wireless keyboard doesn’t, consider replacement. 2 No remote Touch ID You can’t use Touch ID over Universal Control, as it only works with the Mac or device the keyboard is paired with. 3 Rosetta for Intel Support is downloaded…

Music,TV shows and movies are only a few of the digital goodies Apple now offers. You can buy books in the Books app, subscribe to newspapers and magazines in News, get access to hundreds of games in Apple Arcade, and pay for premium versions of podcasts in the Podcasts app. And Fitness+, Apple’s suite of exercise classes is now available to all iPhone owners instead of being restricted to those who also have an Apple Watch. Add to all that the subscription options for third-party apps, different tiers for iCloud storage and the Apple One grouped plans and it can quickly become complicated, with lots of different subscriptions to keep track of. The good news is every subscription you pay for via Apple is available to view on any device on…

> £149.99 FROM marshallheadphones.com > FEATURES 2x 10W full range drivers, 2x passive radiators, 2x 10W class D amplifiers, 60Hz-20kHz frequency range, Bluetooth 5.1, USB-C port (charging only), dust- and water-resistant to IP67, builtin rechargeable battery with 30+ hours’ play time, 68x160x76mm, 700g You can stack the Emberton II, but a single speaker can turn the sound up to 11 Mac FORMAT VERDICT > An incredible range of audio prowess for a portable speaker. ★★★★★ + Great sound quality + Water- and dust-resistant + Long-lasting battery - No built-in microphone For Those AboutTo Rock (We Salute You)maybe the name of the 1981 album from Aussie rockers AC/DC, but it could equally apply to anyone who fires up this portable Bluetooth speaker too. For not only does the Marshall Emberton II…

€27.95 publicspace.net NEEDS macOS 10.14 or later (about £30) FROM Mac FORMAT VERDICT > You’ll need to train yourself to use it, but if you do, Vitamin-R will help you become more productive and focused. ★★★★★ + Customisation options + Works well with other apps Vitamin-R takes the Pomodoro technique of breaking down work into manageable chunks, and expands on it with extensive customisation. There’s a new compact mode which reduces information displayed to the objective and the duration of the time slice. Alternatively, you can display every piece of info available, including appointments pulled from Calendar, and then ‘switch off’ those you don’t need one at a time. There’s also a ‘dock-less’ mode. This relies on another You can view as much or as little information as you want…

Mac Hardware Mac format VERDICT A strangely unique and inventive game cursed with way too much repetition. ★★★★★ +Brilliantly creative +Fun gameplay -Repetitive grind -Poor story exposition Air Twister is an on-rails arcade shooter from Yu Suzuki, the legendary creator of Out Run, Virtua Fighter, and Shenmue. It’s a throwback to the classic arcade era of the 1980s and 1990s but, for all its positives, it ends up feeling frustratingly repetitive. You play as Princess Arch, a flying superhero who must defeat an array of weird and wonderful aliens who are invading her home planet for some reason. We say ‘for some reason’ because there’s initially no exposition at all. Your character floats around the screen shooting enemies and dodging their projectiles in a kind of fantastical bullet hell-lite experience.…