Macworld Live Text was introduced as a new feature in macOS Monterey, and it allows you to use the text in an image. It’s a feature that’s quite helpful—for example, if you’ve ever been in a meeting or lecture, and snapped a picture of a whiteboard filled with written information, you can now select the text in the photo, copy it, and then paste it into a document. There are a lot of ways you can use the Live Text feature, and it’s a huge time-saving production tool. Live Text is also in iOS and iPadOS, and because you probably use the cameras on those devices often, you might use Live Text on your iPhone and iPad more than you would…

Macworld If you own any computer for any length of time, inevitably there’s going to be some mess to clean up. The CleanMyMac X utility will clear out the junk from your Mac to help it run smoothly.   This data cleanliness utility is a one-click solution to Mac maintenance. Once you start it, the smart assistant built into the program walks you through what it’s doing. Using its constantly updated database, it finds junk apps, broken downloads, hidden files for programs you’ve long since deleted, and other crud and cruft you can live without. The assistant will even highlight apps you need to update and find and isolate malware and other problems that may be slowing down your Mac.…

Macworld The Mac’s cursor (Apple actually calls it a pointer) is designed with a white outline and black fill. It’s a good combination, making it easy to spot no matter what is on screen. But man, is it boring. In past versions of macOS, you can’t change the cursor color without using a third-party utility. That changed in macOS Monterey, though. You can easily change the colors of the cursor to something that is easier to catch with your eyes or just add some flair to reflect your personality. The video below shows how it’s done in macOS Monterey, but below that are instructions for both Monterey and macOS Ventura. At a glance Time to complete: 5 minutesTools required: macOS…

After spending two weeks using the beta versions of watchOS 10, iOS 17, iPadOS 17, macOS Sonoma, and tvOS 17, we discuss our experiences and highlight our favorite new features from each of the updates on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos ‌watchOS 10‌ is a major update for the Apple Watch, overhauling its entire user interface. The update refocuses the Apple Watch around a scrollable view of widgets, remaps the buttons, and rearranges the Home Screen of apps. Almost all of Apple's stock apps have received complete redesigns centered around a vertically scrollable view of pages. The update also brings Time in Daylight tracking to Apple Health and adds…

Macworld Learning piano is one of the best ways to develop your musical talent. A lifetime subscription to Skoove makes it easy to find time for lessons, without needing to find space for a baby grand, at the best price on the web.   Skoove has over 1 million players and 4.5 out of five stars on the Apple App Store for its ease of use and wide song selection with dozens of popular songs across a range of genres and difficulties from beginner to advanced. Skoove’s AI tools recognize notes and guide you to the right ones to help you improve, teaching you to play by ear, while also picking out the best lessons to bolster your skills. Skoove…

Apple yesterday released the first ever beta of visionOS and the SDK that will allow developers to create apps for the Apple Vision Pro headset. visionOS can only be explored through Xcode right now, but we thought we'd take a hands-on look to see what we can glean about the headset experience from the operating system. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. Testing out ‌visionOS‌ is as simple as getting the latest Xcode 15 beta and the ‌visionOS‌ 1.0 simulator, but to be honest, there's not a whole lot to see that Apple didn't already tell us about. You can only see the operating system on the screen of your Mac, so it's not what the headset…