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Just discovered your Apple TV doesn’t have in-built VPN settings? All is not lost. In fact, there are several ways to get around the problem – meaning you can unlock access to the content you want, while maintaining your privacy. Here, we explain how to use NordVPN with your Apple TV and why it could be a good idea to do so.

4 ways to use NordVPN with Apple TV

Below are four ways you can use Apple TV with…

A former Apple employee has shared his best tricks for iPhone, a list with all kinds of advice

These iPhone tricks have been shared by a former Apple employee

It is increasingly difficult to find good tricks for the iPhone, almost all of them have already been discovered. However, we can find many of these tricks from people who have worked directly at Apple. And a good example is Tyler, also known as hitmidocameraroll on TikTok, former Apple employee who has shared many tricks interesting for iPhone.

It is likely that many users do not know some of the most classic tricks, especially if they just arrived on the iPhone. We’ve collected just a few that Tyler has shared, but he has many more.

Select multiple items with two fingers

This is an ideal trick in many system…

If I had to choose between Apple Music and Spotify, I’m certainly on the side of Apple Music.

Not knocking Spotify, but I prefer Apple Music for several reasons: I like how Apple Music looks and feels — it fits neatly in with the rest of my Apple devices — and its high-res streaming is solid.

Still, there’s one big thing I wanted that Spotify has had forever and Apple Music has always lacked: collaborative playlists. 

My Apple Music library is filled with playlists that I share with my friends and family, but unlike with Spotify, there’s never been a way for me to collaborate on those same playlists. 

That is, until now.

Apple released iOS 17.3 on Monday, which brings several new features to the iPhone, including better protection from phone theft, new wallpapers for Black History…

Apple Watch users are facing a problem with their batteries draining too fast. This started after the latest software update, watchOS 10.1, which came out in October.

User Complaints

 
People with Apple Watch Series 9 and older models are not happy. They say their watch battery dies quickly after the update. On Reddit, a Series 9 owner said, “After the 10.1 update my battery only last like 2-3 hours at full charge.” Another person shared, “Mine charges to 100% and then dies within 2 hours.” A Series 8 user also had the same problem.

Apple’s Response

Apple knows about this and is planning to fix it. A note to their Service Providers, which MacRumors saw, says an update will come out soon. Apple also tells users how to check their battery health in the…

Apple is taking aim at a tool the ad industry uses to monitor internet users by cracking down on “tracking parameters” from web links. 

Users encounter tracking parameters on URLs from an ad campaign circulating on social media or over email. The URL can contain special text to help marketers confirm that users are clicking their links through a marketing campaign. 

An example of a tracking parameter
(Credit: SEMRush)

However, tracking parameters can also help the ad industry profile a user’s web-browsing activity by indicating which sites they used to view and click on a marketing campaign. That privacy risk is causing Apple to take action. 

“Some websites add extra information to their URLs in order to track users across other websites,” the company says. “Now this…