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After using AirPods Max for a while now, some users have reported experiencing an issue with the headphones that occurs when switching them between active noise cancelation and transparency modes. Pressing the noise control button on the right ear cup is meant to toggle ‌AirPods Max‌ between the two modes seamlessly, but sometimes only one of the ear cups will switch modes in response,...

Apple in December 2020 debuted AirPods Max, a pair of wireless over-ear headphones that share many of the features of AirPods Pro, but in a more premium package. If you've just received a pair of Apple's new headphones, you'll be raring to use them to listen to music, take phone calls, use Siri, and more. Keep reading to learn how to set up and connect them to your devices. Update Your...

Apple Fitness+ combines with Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV to provide the convenience of being able to work out whenever you like and wherever you are. Another convenient feature is that you can pause a workout on these devices at any time and then resume it just as easily when you're ready to continue. This article describes the pause and resume functions on Apple Watch, iPhone,...

Apple on Tuesday released an iOS 14.3 update for HomePod and HomePod mini, which Apple's release notes said included "general performance and stability improvements," but it actually failed to mention a new feature that allows the head of a household to assign primary users to different HomePods in the same home. ‌HomePod‌ can automatically recognize voices to personalize music requests,...

With the first wave of AirPods Max orders now arriving into the hands of customers, as always there are bound to be a few hiccups encountered when trying to connect and use the over-ear headphones with different devices for the first time. If you're experiencing issues, the first thing you should do before anything else is reset the headphones and see if that resolves the problem. If that...

When you finish an Apple Fitness+ workout, Apple provides a summary that shows an overview of the workout time, active calories burned, total calories burned, and your average heart rate, but you may want to see these metrics in more detail at a later date. Luckily, they're all saved in the Fitness app. Here's how to access them: Open up the Fitness app on iPhone (this was previously...

On the iPhone and the Apple TV, Fitness+ is installed automatically when upgrading to iOS 14.3 and tvOS 14.3, but that's not the case on the iPad. If you want to use Fitness+ on an iPad, you need to manually download the app from the App Store. It's not clear why Apple didn't just add the Fitness+ app to the iPad when updating to iPadOS 14.3, but it's as simple as any other app to...

In some workouts, you'll also see a Burn Bar that lets you compare your effort to others who have done the same workout. It is available for High Intensity Interval Training, Treadmill, Cycling, and Rowing workouts. The Burn Bar is meant to be motivational, and it adjusts based on your weight to allow for an equal comparison when it comes to calories burned. To calculate your performance,...

One of the perks of Fitness+ is the option to download Fitness+ videos to your library for offline viewing, a handy option if you're planning to travel somewhere that doesn't have an internet connection but you don't want to miss a workout. First, you need to save the video that you want to download to your favorites by following the instructions in our how to on saving videos to a list. After ...

If you come across an Apple Fitness+ workout that you particularly enjoy, you might want to save it to your playlist so that you can repeat it again later. Open the Fitness app. On iPhone, tap the Fitness+ tab. Find the video that you want to save. Tap on the "Add" button. To get to your saved workouts, go to the main Fitness+ interface and then scroll down to the bottom where your ...

There are multiple different workout types in the Fitness+ app, including yoga, high impact interval training, core, strength, treadmill, cycling, rowing, dance, and mindful cooldown. Apple has a limited amount of content available at this time, but plans to grow the number of Fitness+ videos on a weekly basis. Luckily, it's easy to find the specific content that you're looking for. Open...

Apple Fitness+ is Apple's latest subscription service, offering home workout options for Apple Watch users across a range of different fitness categories like yoga, cycling, running, core, and more. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. The Fitness+ service is designed to work with an Apple Watch, with videos able to be watched on iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV. Starting a...

When you're doing a workout through Apple Fitness+, there are some minor customizations you can make to the metrics that are displayed on the screen. With a connected Apple Watch, you will see the workout time, heart rate, total calories burned, and active calories burned, along with your Apple Watch rings in the corner. Most of this is not customizable, but you can select whether to show...

With the launch of iOS 14.3, iPadOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2, and tvOS 14.3, Apple introduced its latest subscription service, Apple Fitness+. Fitness+ is designed to work with the Apple Watch, providing workouts that can be done on an iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV, with the Apple Watch tracking your fitness progress. You can sign up for Fitness+ using an ‌iPhone‌. Fitness+ is priced at $9.99 per month...

Apple in watchOS 7 and iOS 14.3 added a new cardio fitness feature that lets Apple Watch owners keep track of their cardio fitness levels through VO2 max measurements. VO2 max is the maximum amount of oxygen that the body can use during exercise, and it can be improved through physical activity. Prior to watchOS 7.2, the Apple Watch was only able to estimate higher levels of VO2 max with...

With the release of the iPhone 12 series, Apple has expanded its Night mode feature that debuted in last year's ‌iPhone‌ 11 to the TrueDepth and Ultra Wide cameras, and introduced new options for shooting brighter pictures in low-light conditions, such as the ability to use Night mode in selfies and portrait shots. Thanks to Time-Lapse, you can also use Night mode in low light conditions to...

Apple's AirPods Max over-ear headphones include a feature called Automatic Head Detection that allows the audio routed from a connected device to seamlessly switch to ‌AirPods‌ Max the moment you put the headphone cups on your ears. This also means ‌AirPods Max‌‌ can automatically pause the audio track when you remove the headphones, and resume playback when you put them back on again,...

For the controls on its AirPods Max over-ear headphones, Apple took a leaf out of its Apple Watch design manual and added a rotatable Digital Crown on the top of the right-hand earcup. The larger Digital Crown on the ‌AirPods Max‌ is used to control the volume of the headphones' output, but depending on your muscle memory and sense of direction, it's easy to accidentally turn the volume level ...

Apple's AirPods Max over-ear headphones include a single noise control button atop the right-hand earcup that allows you to cycle between Active Noise Cancelation mode, Transparency mode, or turn off both modes. Noise Cancellation blocks out external sounds, while Transparency lets in sounds from the outside world. Depending on how and when you use your ‌AirPods Max‌, you may prefer one mode...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS. Fortunately, in such cases you can still get to Disk Utility from macOS Recovery. On Intel-based Macs, pressing the Command-R key combination immediately on booting invokes Recovery mode. On Macs...