Consider trying this app on your IOS devices if you are a regular user of Reminders. Download Remind Me Faster. This small app uses natural language to help you get something off your mind easily and quickly with natural language. Reminder Me Faster is a free app but the natural language processing is a premium feature that you have to pay for. But it’s a one-time cost and, it’s about the same price as a one month subscription to Todoist.
iPhone Tips
- Use control center to operate the flashlight/torch. When on, touch your finger on the icon to change beam width and brightness.
Shazam is included in your iPhone to identify a song. You can add it to Control Center using the Recognize Music control. You can also use Siri? Just say, Siri, what’s this song?
Tired of Siri’s voice? Change it Settings>Apple Intelligence & Siri>Voice. Now choose from American, Australian, British, Indian, South African.
Tired of being punished by some music on Hold? Try this, Settings>Apps>Phone>Hold Assist Detection. This automatically detects when you are on hold so you can do something useful. iPhone will notify you when it’s time to pick up.
Screen Unknown Callers – you have three choices, Never, Ask Reason for Calling, and Silence (goes straight to voicemail and displayed in Recents list. Settings>Apps>Phone>Screen Unknown Callers
Another way to make your phone yours, is to add a custom ringtone for certain callers. Go to Contacts App, press Edit and scroll down to Ringtone and select one. You can also download songs to use also.
Use text comments over and over, such as address block, legal statements or other boilerplate? Then use Text Replacement at General>Keyboard>Text Replacement. Use + icon and three or four letters in the Replace block and then your text in the With block. This is available in Mac, iPad and IOS devices.
On your IOS device you can make a website appear as an app on your Home Screen, open the website, tap Share, then tap More. In this menu, tap Add to Home Screen. Then change the name to anything you like”
Here are a few more for your Mac. Liquid Glass makes the iconic elements of MacOS both fresh and familiar, with powerful new ways to personalize. Go to System Settings, click Appearance, then choose an icon and widget style.
Make your folders stand out so they’re easier to find. Control-click or right click a folder, click Customize Folder, then choose a color, symbol, or emoji.
In Spotlight, conveniently browse and search for items based on category, like apps, files, actions, or the Clipboard. Open Spotlight, then press the Right Arrow key to choose where to search. Also, complete hundreds of tasks right in Spotlight without lifting your hands off the keyboard. Just type an action, like Send Message, New Event, or Create Note
When you get a text in a different language, you can easily translate it to communicate across languages. In Messages, click to choose between showing both languages, or just the translation.