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I use ApplePay several times a day, if a site doesn't offer ApplePay I use the Virtual card number associated with my Apple Cash card. This past week my wife wanted to try some gummy's to help neuropathy but from walking through the process I felt something wasn't right. When I got ready to pay & this time used the Apple Virtual number I was immediately told it was a fraudulent site, a scam & not only did the payment not go through the site was immediately deleted from my device. Try to use this on sites that don't offer ApplePay & see if Apple protects you as it did me. Also I'm not leaving my card info at numerous sites that can be hacked. John.

I recently upgraded my phone to iOS 18.1.1. I also am a heavy user of Reminders. One of the "non-improvements” apple added to this latest iOS is that reminders show up in the calendar. It is annoying as as annoying can be. I called Apple and they said there is no way to turn that feature off. However the person I talked to created a ticket. Right now it is at level 3 and as people call in to complain about the issue they add those complaints to the ticket. As they add complainants to the ticket it will increase the ticket to level 2 and eventually (if enough people complain) it will reach level 1. If that happens the complaint goes to the engineers who hopefully will provide a fix. So I am asking all my friends who have iOS 18 to call apple and complain. (Call even if you don’t use reminders). If you do use reminders and like that the reminders show up in calendar then follow your heart. If you do call then you will have my undying gratitude. Also please pass this on to all your Apple iPhone user friends and aquaintances. Here is the number to call: 1 (800) 692-7753 Thanks to all of you who do this. Harry

Has anyone installed iOS 18? Why do you think of it?

This is not Mac-related, but I have a brand-new Dell laptop battery for sale if anyone can use it. Purchased it for my husband's PC. Wanted to back up his hard drive before I took the computer apart to replace the battery. Procrastinator that I am, by the time I figured out how to back up the hard drive, the hard drive died and we ended up buying him a new computer. So this was never used and no longer needed. Here is a link with all the specs. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07X2HHG35/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Asking $20. Thanks!

On Pages, for example, all Keyboard shortcuts are grayed out. I've gone to Sys. Settings-Keyboard- Restore Default on various options, but still no activated K. S. on Pages. What did I do wrong? OS 13.7 Mac Mini

On my Macintosh I created a second user to be able to test stuff. PIA is enabled but it says it is connecting through Indianapolis Yet when I open a browser window I get a message in Romanian. When I log on to google it thinks I am in Romania and wants to know if that’s okay. In my primary user account this doesn’t happen? Should I delete this second user?

I currently use A2 Webhosting for my website. In 2021 I paid $215.00 for three years. Today they want over $700.00 for three years - a little more than 3 and 1/2 times the amount from three years ago. Can anyone recommend a less expensive web host for me? Thanks. Harry

Hey folks, I've been having real trouble with Apple's mail of late. * I wrote two emails, and sent them. Despite having left my laptop open, the emails never got sent after their 'Undo send delay'. In fact, when I poked around in Mail.app more carefully 2 days later, both were stuck in Outbox > Scheduled. Neither could be sent, either by opening them and sending them, or by dragging them to drafts and then sending. So... I had to copy and paste their contents and resend them. * I wrote a very long, possibly contentious email, and saved it as a draft (which is what I do whenever an email needs extra care). The next day, the draft was gone, so I had to rewrite the email. * I could not find the confirmation email for a bus ticket I bought last month. I had to have had the original email at some point, since I already used one half of the round trip. It was not in my trash, though other emails from the same day were happily in the trash. I called to get it resent. It never arrived. So I got the bus company to send it through an email forwarding address from my alma mater. It arrived. What would cause instability like this? Is it because I have waaaaaay too many emails I still drag around? It could be dementia starting to set in, too, but before jumping to that conclusion, I'm wondering what I could do to try and fix something more mechanical. Thanks for any info or ideas, Bill

Hi all, I've run into a problem at home, where my iPhone suddenly will start downloading at less than 1 Mbps instead of the usual ~90 Mbps, and upload at ~30 Mbps instead of the usual ~90 Mpbs. My laptop will still be uploading and downloading full speed at the same location as the phone. Neither restarting my iPhone, nor turning of private relay fixed the problem, but power cycling the router has fixed the problem 2 out of 2 times, so it seems that the problem is with the router (or with something my iPhone is doing to the router's memory). What would cause this? Bill

Has anyone updated to macOS Sequoia 15.0.1? Any concerns or problems? Thanks.

I hope you can read this, it’s pretty foreboding. John We’re about to enter the digital dark ages The long-promised digital apocalypse has finally arrived, and it was heralded by a blog post. Published on July 18, the post's headline sounded pretty arcane. "Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available," it declared. Read in Business Insider: https://apple.news/A_SPBrLuHQhGLKpFC1msWLg Shared from Apple News

Bummer! John Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched Hackers can harvest encruption keys from Macs and MacBooks. Read in Mashable: https://apple.news/AVuEeWAokSfiwZUTENCBVyw Shared from Apple News

Good morning, Does anyone use any ad blocking software for Safari on the iPhone? I've seen a few (AdGuard, Wipr, AdBlock) and wanted to hear from someone with some "real world" experience with them to see what you use and how you like them. Thanks! Beth

Analysis Is Apple thinking differently enough? https://louisvillecourierjournal-ky.newsmemory.com/?publink=0b3bd2b79_134d43e

My older brother, 86, who lives in Connecticut, is in a nursing home/rehab facility. He will probably be there the rest of his life. He gets dialysis three times a week and is currently applying for medicaid. For the second time in 3 months he has lost his fairly new iPhone. He found it the first time but we have been searching for six weeks and have been unable to locate it. We contacted the dialysis center, the transportation company, the nursing home and the hospital where he is now - in a state of delirium due to who knows what - he clawed at his dialysis port and developed sepsis. He seems to be doing okay now and will be returning to the nursing home in a day or two. Anyway we are looking for used cell phone to send to him. We plan to get a lanyard for it so he can keep it around his neck 24/7. If any of you have an older unlocked iphone (or Verizon) you are not using and are willing to sell it to us reasonably it will be greatly appreciated. He just needs to be able to make/receive calls, texts and maybe do email so it doesn’t have to be sophisticated - just a decent battery and the ability to be wiped clean so I can reset it for him. (A friend recently got a new iPhone and gave us her old iPhone 6s (11-12 years old). However she doesn’t know her iCloud password so we can’t wipe the phone - we can’t even update the OS because it requires a connection to a computer with iTunes! Thanks to everyone on this list for all you do. Harry

Hi all, I have a question about Apple Mail and rules and devices. Suppose I have two devices. Problem 1: If my rules are on device 1, but I open device 2, then the rules do not get applied. Problem 2: There does not appear to be any way to sync rules across devices Solution: I put them directly on my iCloud account (via the web interface), so they will get applied no matter what device I use. This works well enough that I now have somewhere between 100 and 200 rules. Downside: The web interface for the rules is so weak, it resembles Coors Light. There is no way to search for a rule. There is no way to sort rules. Sorting rules by hand is slooooow, and seems to not stick, unless you want to move one rule per day, and then wait for the order to become fixed. (I once tried sorting rules by hand, but the time it takes to stick is long enough that I ended up with a mess.) Question: Does anyone know a quicker or better way to work with iCloud's rules (other than forwarding all their email to another server and applying rules there)? Thanks, Bill

I am scanning slides with my new (to me) Epson V600 photo scanner. It’s doing a great job. But it does something I don’t understand. It scans the slide twice - 1st time is normal but the second is a blank white but the image of the side is barely visible - It’s almost like a translucent white mask over the slide. Yet when I save the slide the white isn’t visible at all - there is only one image not two. Can anyone explain what’s going on - cause this method takes twice as long!! BTW I am using the lastest version of VueScan to do the scanning.

I ran an update on the Epson Scan software and now it sees the V600 - thanks.

Lee, I checked my app. I always use the professional option. My number of samples was set to 1 - so I don’t know why the second pass. I’m going to set it to 2 and see if that makes a difference. I’ll get back to you. Harry