Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2025 i MacLife

BY AND LARGE, the camera on your iPhone does a fine job of capturing a subject’s true colors. If there are problems with color in a shot (such as green and magenta tints, or blue and orange color casts), then these are easily fixed using the sliders in Photos’ Color and White Balance panels. However, Photos also enables you to perform more creative color adjustments to catch the eye on social media feeds. Thanks to macOS Photos’ Selective Color panel, you can target specific colors in a shot and change their hue, saturation, and luminance (brightness) values. This extra level of control enables you to alter the color of a subject’s clothes, darken the sky to make clouds pop out more, and even create a “spot color” effect, where a…

ON THE MAC, Preview is one of our most–used apps: it’s where we fill out forms, annotate PDFs, and quickly adjust, strip the backgrounds from and combine multiple photos. It’s also one of the apps that people have most wanted on their iPhone and iPad, so its arrival in iOS 26 will make those people very happy: the mobile version of Preview in iOS/iPadOS 26 contains most of the key features found in the Mac version. FUN WITH FORMS Preview on iPhone and iPad is surprisingly powerful. You can highlight, annotate and add comments to documents; take advantage of your device’s camera to scan printed documents; see all the data about images, and even use your device to fill out forms and complete many parts of them automatically via AutoFill.…

$249 From www.apple.com Features features H2 headphone chip, Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), charging case with USB–C/wireless charging, up to eight hours’ battery life (AirPods)/24 hours (case); dust, sweat, and water resistant to IP57 LAUNCHED ALONGSIDE THE iPhone Air, iPhone 17 series, and Apple Watch Series 11, these could be your next favorite earbuds. Apple has made the world’s best–selling headphones smarter than ever, while also giving them a subtle redesign that has not only made them smaller, but also ensures they fit more snugly, securely, and comfortably in your ears. Chief among the new features is a sensor on the inside of both earbuds, which measure your heart rate and track over 50 workouts. It has also tweaked the design of the earbuds so they fit better in your ears…

From $99/year From www.elementsapp.io Needs macOS 13 or later HOW THE WEB has changed in the 21 years since Realmac Software brought us one of the first template–based website editors in RapidWeaver. Its new successor, Elements, is aimed at a broader market, from those building their first website to teams of professionals, indeed anyone who wants to develop visually rather than primarily in code. It’s built on Tailwind, an extensive open–source CSS–based framework that makes theme customization simple using CSS variables. It features rich transitions and animations, and most importantly trims unused CSS to minimize the storage space required for websites. Elements is far more than a friendly front–end to Tailwind, though. Each Elements project for a website is stored in a convenient bundle and has an overall theme based…

IT’S HARD TO keep secrets these days. As we reported last issue, pretty much all the details of the iPhone 17 lineup, and other products that were announced in Apple’s “Awe–dropping” event in September, were leaked ahead of time. Now, some sources have revealed more new products expected to be announced before the end of this year. Apple has always imposed strict confidentiality rules on employees. In late September, the US Labor Relations Board withdrew complaints that Apple was acting unlawfully in doing this, which may embolden Apple to clamp down harder. However, the latest leaks have come from less expected sources. The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has disclosed “device identifier” numbers of new, unreleased MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Vision Pro models. UPDATED PRODUCTS The model numbers are…

THERE WAS MUCH anticipation when the next version of macOS was announced at WWDC25. What would it be called? What new features would it bring? Where would it take Apple Intelligence? Thankfully, it didn’t disappoint. In a widely anticipated move, the old numbering system was abandoned. While the previous version was macOS 15, the new one is macOS 26, reflecting the year in which it is current. This is true across Apple’s hardware, so instead of iOS and iPadOS 19, visionOS 3, watchOS 12, and tvOS 19, all of this year’s operating systems are suffixed with “26”. Though the numbering system has been revised, the naming conventions remain the same. Once again, the latest version of the Mac operating system refers to a California landmark. Tahoe (pronounced “Ta–hoe”) is a…

DUCKDUCKGO IS A privacy–focused search engine that’s also available as a web extension and as a standalone web browser for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. In this tutorial, we’ll explore some of the key features of the DuckDuckGo Mac web browser. You can either install DuckDuckGo from the App Store or download it from the website, https://duckduckgo.com/mac. Upon launching it, you’ll be taken through the setup process, in which you can activate various options. These include making it your default web browser, although you may want to use it as an alternative option for websites or sessions for which maintaining your privacy is paramount. While many web browsers — such as Google Chrome — are built with data collection in mind, DuckDuckGo is focused on protecting your data and privacy. To…

FOR NEARLY A decade, custom ringtones on iPhone have been a bit awkward. Rather than do things the obvious way by having a custom ringtone option in Settings > Sounds & Haptics, Apple really wanted you to buy ringtones from the iTunes Store (which you can still do). So it parked custom ringtones in GarageBand instead, making you create a new project, import audio, and then export it again as a ringtone. In iOS 26, you’ll be relieved to discover that custom ringtones are much simpler. You don’t need to open anything other than the Files app, and you don’t need to import or export anything. In this tutorial, we’ll look at both versions: the GarageBand method from iOS 18 and earlier, and the new, much faster version in iOS…

HAVE YOU EVER touched your iPhone and flinched because it feels too hot? You’re not alone. This happens more often than you may think, especially if a device is juggling a lot of background processes, or if it’s running particularly demanding apps. Tasks such as playing games, editing videos, or using Apple Intelligence can put a serious strain on the processors, causing them to generate heat. You may also feel the device heating up when it’s being charged or if you’re in a warm environment, but the situation could be much worse. Over the years, Apple has developed a series of measures aimed at cooling the iPhone. To ensure the device remains thin, silent, and energy–efficient, they have stopped short of including a fan — an age–old solution that regulates…

WHEN YOU UPDATE your Apple Watch to the latest watchOS, you’ll make a big jump: the successor to watchOS 11 isn’t watchOS 12, but watchOS 26. That’s to fit with Apple’s new year–based naming policy — so is the new Watch operating system 15 times better than watchOS 11? Not quite, but there are definitely more than 15 really important and useful upgrades that make this the latest, greatest version of watchOS yet. The first thing you’ll notice when you update your Apple Watch is that Apple has given it a fresh new look to match the Liquid Glass design of your Mac, iPhone and iPad. Moreover, Apple has redesigned the Watch Face Gallery and the Workout app, which also gets a new AI–powered helper, plus there are lots of…

BACK IN 2002, Apple released what remains, to me at least, the most iconic and classiest Mac of all time: the iMac G4. It featured a flat–screen liquid–crystal display connected via an adjustable arm to a base containing the processor, hard drive, and DVD drive (remember those?). The screen could be swiveled and angled to the exact position you preferred, a bit like a table lamp. In fact, the whole design was reminiscent of a table lamp, making it look both retro and futuristic at the same time. People loved this design at the time, and they still love it now. And if the latest rumors about what Apple is cooking up come true, it could be about to make a comeback. According to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, Apple is…

Head to Apple’s Newsroom web page and you won’t find a mention of Vision Pro in the Quick Links there. Apple’s spatial headset may have arrived with a bang when it was announced in June 2023 but, in comparison to its key products (iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch, AirPods), there’s been relatively little to report since. Instead, the spatial computer has, it could be argued, got Apple backed into a corner pondering the future for its headset experiment. But Apple isn’t about to give up. At least not yet. As it stands, Apple does have plans, and they go beyond the recent visionOS 26 update which, it must be said, added some interesting extras. These included customizable spatial widgets such as Clock, Photos, Music and Weather that seamlessly integrate into your…

ALTHOUGH KEYNOTE WON’T, as yet, allow you to use Apple Intelligence to generate an entire presentation from scratch, you can still use the AI system introduced last year to make them look more impressive. If you’re not sure that your text is hitting the mark, or you’re scratching your head wondering what to write, Apple Intelligence can come to your rescue — more so if you also grant access to ChatGPT, which adds a few more useful features that you’re sure to reach for. Thanks to Image Playground, you don’t even need to spend ages looking for suitable images — or, for that matter, photographs that have the necessary copyright clearance. Instead, you can have Apple Intelligence generate images for you in a host of styles, and instantly drop them…

THE MULTITASKING IN iPadOS 26 is vastly improved, and unlike iPadOS 18’s Stage Manager, it’s available to everybody whose iPad can run iPadOS 26 — and that means it’s available on some iPads that are powered by A–series processors. The first big change will appear when you update your iPad: you’ll be asked if you want to enable multitasking, or if you’d rather have apps run in full–screen mode only. Instead of the previous options, which gave you full screen, Split Mode and Slide Over, there’s now a choice: multitasking, yes or no? If you enable multitasking, your apps will open full screen, as they’ve always done. But now, instead of the three little gray dots at the top of the app’s window for your multitasking options, things are much…

From $399 From www.apple.com Features 42mm or 46mm sizes, Apple S10 chip, Always–On Retina LTP03 display, up to 24 hours of battery life (normal use) or 38 hours in Low Power Mode, GPS, mobile connectivity options, speaker with audio playback WHILE THE APPLE Watch Series 11 looks to be almost identical to its Series 10 predecessor, under–the–hood changes make it a great upgrade option for anyone with an older Apple Watch. The chief of these is much longer battery life. While previous Apple Watch models barely lasted longer than 18 hours a day, the Series 11 can last up to 24 hours, with up to 38 hours possible in Low Power Mode (two more than before). Plus, it now has Ion–X front glass, making it two times tougher than the…

$399 From www.enabot.com Features 3K Ultra HD video, 137° wide–angle lens, infrared night vision, 5MP camera, 5,000mAh battery, 32GB microSD card (expandable to 256GB), 10mm obstacle crossing, 15° slope smoothing, 11cm clearance under furniture ACCORDING TO ENABOT, the EBO Air 2 Plus is a means to connect to friends and family whatever the distance. Out of the box, you get an almost–spherical robot and charging dock. The robot has four wheels at the base, connected by rubber tracks, and is available in Luna White, Orbit Gray, and Nebula Purple. The robot has a range of on–screen eye designs that blink realistically, wake on approach, and follow you around the room as you move. The dual screens also display the time and/or date, or the face of a loved one while…