How to Find Airpods When Offline– If you’re one of the millions of people who have invested inApple’s AirPods, you probably take them for granted. But if they were to go missing, you might feel a little frustrated. That’s because AirPods are not exactly cheap – they start at $89...
The terms pairing and connecting are often used interchangeably to describe hooking up your earbuds to a device. But there is a difference. A bit like the formal introduction, pairing is what happens the first time your device meets your wireless earbuds. Your phone, watch, and earbuds make...
Apple doesn’t let you simply book a Genius Bar appointment–the company wants to attempt to solve your problem online first. After you click “Get hardware help” you go to a website where you’ll have the options to either “View your products” or “View support activity.” Click “...
The first place to start is by ensuring that your AirPods have enough battery. Naturally, you cannot use your headphones to their maximum potential if you don’t have enough charge on your device. To charge your AirPods, simply put them in your AirPods case. You can check how much your h...
We use a Bruel & Kjaer 5128 to perform noise isolation and frequency response tests, as seen with theApple AirPods (3rd generation). Acoustic isolation can also be considered a measurement of how well the headphone attenuates (the opposite of amplification) the ambient noise around you. It’s...
Double-tap the Side button (sometimes referred to as the Power button). Look at your iPhone to verify your identity. Hold the device near the contactless terminal to complete the transaction. If you’re using Apple Pay online or in an app, things are slightly different – you double-pr...
Here are some initial steps to try: Clean your iPhone’s charging ports and remove dust from the rest of your device. Disconnect your Bluetooth devices (e.g. your AirPods). Remove everything from the lightning or USB-C port (depending on whether you have the iPhone 15 or an older device...
In this post, I describe the most basic form of 2FA, which uses an authenticator app installed on a mobile phone to provide a secondary form of proof of identity when necessary. In that case, the two factors are the classic "something you know" (your sign-in credentials) and "something...
You now have your one password in the iPhone's or Mac's clipboard and can paste it into the new browser. It's quicker to do than to describe, yet it's not something you'd want to do repeatedly. So there is another way to get all of the passwords out of Safari at once. I...
instruments to tell you the exact frequency response curve of a set of headphones. If you’re intimately familiar with these graphs, they can be helpful, but most folks need something a little less clinical, so we try to describe what we hear using language that anyone can relate to. ...