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You can paste the image first. In the Finder use
your image QuickLook (space bar) to open the image,
wherever you then right-click and choose Copy Subject.
want, including
Messages. You can then paste that image into
any application that will accept images
from your clipboard, like Messages,
Mail, or Notes.

IT EVEN WORKS ON
PAUSED VIDEOS!

If you’re playing back a video in the Photos

app, you can pause it and select the subject

just as if it was a still image. This doesn’t

really work on every video on the web,

though—especially if that video uses its own

player. The workaround is to take a

screenshot and then copy the subject out of

background. It even works with Handoff that image. It’s an extra step or two, but it’s a

between your iPhone and Mac. much more reliable method than grabbing

the subject straight from the video. ■

HOW IT WORKS IN
MACOS VENTURA

As you would expect, this

works on your iPad with

iPadOS 16 as well. But it’s

actually built into macOS

Ventura (fave.co/3POCAdP),

too! In Safari or Photos, right-

click any image (or tap the

touchpad with two fingers) and

choose Copy Subject to copy

it to your clipboard. If you’re

using some other application

(or a different browser), save This feature is also built into macOS Ventura.

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iOS GAME CONTROLLER The most popular iPhone games are made
for touch, with an interface you can read
RIOTPWR XBOX on a small display. That’s not secret. But
CLOUD GAMING there’s a big market for games that not
CONTROLLER FOR only work with a controller, but are really
iOS: WIRES FOR meant to be played with one. The new
THE WIN Amazing Bomberman (fave.co/3CAC5RJ)
on Apple Arcade is a great example—sure,
BY JASON CROSS there are touch controls, but it’s a whole
different experience with a controller.
IMAGE: RIOTPWR
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There’s also all the game-streaming holder slot and Lightning wired

services: Xbox Cloud Gaming (fave. connections to minimize latency and keep

co/3pKBIMT), Stadia (fave.co/3KnjSJ4), your iPhone charged up. It’s a good idea,

Luna (fave.co/3QVipMP), and so on. Apple but narrow in focus—this controller is really

may make it harder than necessary to use only for iPhone gaming, because it has no

these services by forbidding them from wireless capability at all and requires a

having apps in the App Store, but the web Lightning port.

apps provide a pretty good experience AN XBOX CONTROLLER
once you get them set up. (SORT OF)

These days, Apple has made it much

easier to use a good game controller Physically, the RiotPWR controller is an

with your iPhone. You used to have to Xbox controller. Its shape, size, buttons,

buy an MFi certified controller, but ever sticks, and D-pad all mimic those of the

since iOS 14 added Xbox and PlayStation Xbox Series S/X controllers, with only the

4 controller support, a steady stream of slightest of differences. There’s an Xbox

iOS updates has expanded the list to lots button between the View and Menu

of different Bluetooth game controllers. buttons—shifted down and made smaller to

Just pair the controller in Settings → make room for the slot into which you place

Bluetooth and

you’re ready

to play.

Still, there may

be some benefit to

a dedicated iPhone

game controller.

The Xbox Cloud

Gaming Controller

from RiotPWR tries

to provide the best

of both worlds:

familiar Xbox

design and

features, and a

built-in phone The permanently attached Lightning cord is longer than it should be.

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the phone holder.

There’s also a share

button to the left of

the D-pad (double-tap

it to take screenshots).

While the layout is

definitely Xbox, the

functionality isn’t. The

controller has no USB

hookup, and no

wireless support of

any kind. You can’t

use it with your Xbox,

or Mac, or PC, or Pass-through Lightning power and an audio jack are handy features.

Android phone. The

iPhone holder is a simple plastic clamp with controller; just plug it in to your iPhone (or

a hinge, and it plugs into the top of the an iPad with a Lightning connector) and

controller. It looks awkward, but the you’re in business—no awkward setup or

placement is actually quite nice when pairing required.

you’re immersed in a game. The cord is about 2 feet long when it

Though the lightweight plastic feels a only needs to be about 6 inches long,

little on the cheap side, especially the which leaves a lot of annoying dangling

D-pad, you really do get an authentic Xbox extra at the back. I suppose the idea is that

controller feel. The sticks and buttons feel it’s long enough to plug into an iPad or an

like those on an Xbox controller, and the iPhone on a desk instead of in the mount,

layout, placement, and measurements are but if you really want to do that I suggest

just right. using a wireless Bluetooth controller.

WIRES EVERYWHERE The wired connection has a few
benefits. It’s lower latency than Bluetooth,

The lack of batteries and wireless makes and while that’s not a big deal for local

the controller wonderfully light, but it means gaming, the game-streaming services are

you’ve got to plug in your iPhone to use it. laggy enough without introducing more

There’s a permanently attached Lightning controller latency. It also passes through

cable coming out of the back of the audio to the audio jack at the bottom of the

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controller, so you can

use wired

headphones.

Speaking of

pass-through, you’ll

find a Lightning

connector next to

that audio jack at the

bottom. If you don’t

mind more wires

when you’re gaming,

you can plug a

USB-to-Lightning

cable in there to pass

through power to The value of RiotPWR’s controller is that the wired connection

your iPhone. Gaming shaves off a bit of latency.

drains your battery

fast, so that’s handy if a little clunky. Sadly, and of course Xbox consoles. There are

this is for power only. You can’t plug the lots of clip-on phone holders for $15 or less

controller into a Mac or PC (or (fave.co/3AtEZF0).

console) with a USB-to-Lightning For most users, that’s going to
be a better solution. The value of
cable to use it (we tried!). mmmh

VERDICT Xbox Cloud Gaming the RiotPWR is that the wired
Controller connection shaves off a bit of
RiotPWR’s Xbox Cloud Gaming latency, passes through audio to
controller is a good solution, but PROS a wired headphone jack, and
narrowly focused. And at a price passes through power if you plug
of $70, you should be very sure • Legit Xbox controller the controller in. You’ve got to
you want exactly these features. design. really want those features to pay
more and give up the far greater
An official Xbox controller • Lightweight. flexibility of a regular official
(fave.co/3Cvcw4x) is about $50, • Pass-through Lightning wireless Xbox controller and clip
and can be used via Bluetooth
charging.

CONS

• Only works with iPhone
and Lightning iPads.

• Wired connection only.

PRICE

$69

with your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. It COMPANY combo. But if you do, it’s a great
works with PCs, Android phones, solution for iPhone gamers. ■
RiotPWR

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FEATURE TO P 5 M ACOS V ENTU R A FEATU R ES

Apple during its WWDC keynote thumbnails of your other windows
took the wraps off macOS 13 placed in a vertical row off to the side.
Ventura, the next major version When you click on a thumbnail, the open
of the Mac operating system. A window transitions to the thumbnail row,
beta test version of Ventura is available to and the clicked window takes center
developers now, with a public beta coming stage. If an app has multiple windows
in the next few weeks. The official release open, you can cycle through them in the
to the general public will happen this fall. thumbnail row.

Ventura has a ton of new stuff, but If you have a group of windows that go
we’re highlighting the top features here. together for a task you’re working on—for
example, a Safari windows for a store,
1. STAGE MANAGER Notes with a shipping list, and Maps to get
directions to the store—you drag
Mac users tend to work in multiple apps thumbnails to the center of the screen and
and files at once, which leads to dozens of create a grouping. You can also drag files
open windows. You can use Mission from the Desktop onto an app thumbnail
Control to sort your windows, but it’s still to open those files in that app.
overwhelming to find the one you need.
The new Stage Manager helps you get 2. iCLOUD SHARED
control of those windows. PHOTO LIBRARY

Stage Manager can be activated in iCloud Shared Photo Library is one of
Control Center, and it places your active several collaboration features Apple is
window in the center of the display, with
introducing in macOS
1. Ventura. You can now
create a photo library and
share it with up to six
family members to create
a shared collection of
photos.

Members can pick and
choose which photos and
videos to add to the
collection, decide to share
all photos and videos that

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they take, and edit and
delete items. The Photos app
will make suggestions on
which photos to add to a
collection based on the
members of a group.

3. CONTINUITY

CAMERA: THE

iPHONE WEBCAM 3.

Apple gets a lot of grief for

the quality of the FaceTime

camera included with Macs. The 4. PASSKEYS IN SAFARI

company’s fix for this isn’t to upgrade its Passkeys is a feature in Safari that basically
lets you use Touch ID instead of a
camera, it’s to introduce a new feature password for a website. A unique digital
key is created for the specific site you
called Continuity Camera. But to use this want to access, and when you want to log
in, the key is submitted to the site and you
feature, you need an iPhone 11 or later authenticate it using Touch ID on a Mac or
Face ID on an iPhone or iPad.
running iOS 16.
Apple said that a Passkey can’t be
Continuity Camera is like Universal phished, since you can’t inadvertently
hand over a Passkey to a hacker, and
Control in that you can mount an iPhone to since Passkeys aren’t saved on a web
server, they can’t be revealed in a leak.
the Mac, and macOS Ventura automatically And Passkeys are synced across your
Apple devices.
senses the device and wirelessly connects
Apple said it is working with the FIDO
to it. You can then use the iPhone camera Alliance (fave.co/3RiEHI2) to make sure
that Passkeys work on non-Apple devices.
in FaceTime and other apps. (More specifically, Passkey Apple’s
implementation of the FIDO password-less
Continuity Camera has features such authentication standard). From the

as Center Stage (which keeps you in the

center of the frame) and Portrait mode.

The new Studio Light feature uses the

iPhone flash to provide better lighting, and

the new Desk View creates a two-shot

view, one of the person, and another of

the desktop in front of the Mac. Studio

Light requires an iPhone 12 or later

running iOS 16.

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4. will also support Live
Text (introduced in
keynote, it looks as if you need to scan a macOS Monterey),
QR code displayed on a non-Apple device which allows users to
to access a Passkeyed account. search text in an image.
Actions can now be
5. SPOTLIGHT IMPROVEMENTS performed within
Spotlight, so you could
Spotlight, the built-in search feature for use Spotlight to, for
macOS, has a refined interface so that it’s example, start a timer,
more uniform across its run a shortcut, or create
platforms. The other a document.
new features help
make Spotlight a more In a move that
viable way to interface seems to compete
with the Mac. directly with Google, Spotlight will offer
more-robust results when you’re using it to
Quick Look, the search for information on things such as
feature that provides a movies, TV shows, personalities,
large preview of an businesses, and sports. Spotlight will fill its
image, finally works in results window with more information for
Spotlight and finally you to peruse. ■
can find media in your
Photos library. Spotlight 5.

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FEATURE

HIDDEN FEATU
YOU PROBABLY MIS
IN THE iOS 16 BETA

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URES iOS 16 IS PACKED WITH NEW FEATURES,
SSED AND SOME OF THE COOLEST ONES
A DIDN’T GET MENTIONED ON STAGE.
BY JASON CROSS

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FEATURE 13 HI D D E N FEATU R ES IN iOS 16 BETA

The WWDC keynote was nearly but here are 10 smaller iOS 16 details we
two hours packed with awesome think are worth pointing out.
new features for the iPhone
(fave.co/3BziW1V), iPad (fave. 1. SUPPORT FOR SWITCH
co/3TD4XyW), and Mac (fave. CONTROLLERS (AND OTHERS)
co/3POCAdP), new Mac hardware (fave.
co/3NFo4nO), and even a very early sneak iOS 16 officially includes support for
peek at next-generation CarPlay (fave. multiple new Bluetooth game controllers,
co/3AApmvO). including Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons and
Pro Controllers, so you’ll have even more
Despite the marathon keynote options when you play games. This
presentation that brought dozens of new support extends to tvOS and iPadOS, too.
features, there are so many changes in
iOS 16 that quite a lot had to be left out. 2. LOCKED FOLDERS
Some were covered in the iPadOS and IN PHOTOS
macOS presentations—improvements to
apps like Mail are coming to all devices— As an extra privacy measure, the Hidden
and Recently Deleted folders in Photos are

WWDC 2022’s marathon keynote introduced dozens of new features in iOS 16.

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locked by
default now so
someone
won’t
accidentally
stumble upon
them. You use
your iPhone
login
credentials
(Face ID,
Touch ID, or
passcode) to
access them.

The notifications that come in on the iOS 16 lock screen can be customized.

3. PHOTOS banner with a counter if you want to keep
DUPLICATE DETECTION everything super tidy.

In the Photos app’s Albums view, you’ll find 5. WEB PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
a new Duplicates option in Utilities. It
automatically finds identical images and During the keynote, Apple noted that
lets you merge them, combining captions, Safari in macOS Ventura will support web
keywords, and favorites into whichever push notifications. That’s coming to iOS
duplicate image is of the highest quality. and iPadOS as well, but not right away—
So now you can keep your photo library a Apple lists the feature as “coming in 2023”
little cleaner. for its mobile OSes, which is probably a
good thing, to be honest.
4. LOCK SCREEN
NOTIFICATION LAYOUTS 6. MORE OFFLINE
SIRI FUNCTIONS
When Apple showed off its fancy new lock
screen, it only demonstrated notifications Speaking of Siri, if you have an iPhone 12
arriving in a stack, but that isn’t the only or later, it will do even more offline than
option. You can set it to list view if you before. Most Home control functions,
want to see them all covering up your Intercom, and Voicemail functions will
fancy lock screen like before, or a single

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FEATURE 13 HI D D E N FEATU R ES IN iOS 16 BETA

Most Home network you wish to get the password
control functions for. This will take you to a screen with a
can be controlled lot of options and information. The
offline in iOS 16. Password field will have dots instead of
the password, but just tap that and your
iPhone will authenticate you with Face
ID or Touch ID and display the password
in plain text, with a prompt to Copy it if
you wish.

8. HANG UP WITH SIRI

Speaking of Siri, you can finally hang up a
phone call or FaceTime call with Siri. It’s kind
of weird that it took this long. Sure, the other
person will hear you say it, but so what?

operate without sending anything to 9. BETTER BLURRING
Apple. You obviously need a network ON iPHONE 13
connection to communicate with your
HomeKit hub, for instance, but all If you have an iPhone 13 or iPhone 13 Pro,
processing stays on your iPhone and
nothing goes beyond your local network. you’ll get better bokeh in a couple of

7. SEE YOUR WI-FI PASSWORDS You’ll be able to take better photos in iOS 16
without needing to upgrade your iPhone.
With iOS 16 you can finally see the
passwords for your saved Wi-Fi networks
in plain text! You can then easily copy
them to the clipboard to share if
necessary. Or you can just see it to read
the password out loud to a friend for
whom the usual seamless Apple Wi-Fi
sharing (fave.co/3Q1KXTF) isn’t available.

Simply open Settings, then Wi-Fi.
Tap the info button (i) next to the Wi-Fi

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noticeable ways. In Portrait shots, objects Apple has
in the foreground—in front of the subject— improved Hide
will get a blurring effect. And in Cinematic My Email in
mode videos, the depth-of-field effect has iOS 16.
better accuracy around things like hair and
glasses. And we’re still amazed at the
on-demand cutouts it’s doing with lock
screen photos.

10. REMOVE MORE custom domain with people outside your
APPLE APPS Family Sharing group. From the iCloud
Mail settings you can purchase a new
Apple has allowed us to remove some of domain or enable catch-all aliases right
its pre-installed apps since iOS 10, and it’s from iCloud Mail settings.
adding three more (fave.co/3TsiKIn) in iOS
16: Find My, Clock, and Health. However, 13. MEMOJI IMPROVEMENTS
Apple notes that some built-in Find My
features will still work and some Apple What can we say? We like Memoji (fave.
Watch features might be affected. co/3CYBObF). And they’re getting a
number of meaningful improvements in
11. HAPTIC KEYBOARD iOS 16 (and iPadOS 16 and macOS 13).
SUPPORT There are more sticker poses, and you can
use all the sticker poses for your contact
The built-in iOS 16 keyboard will now have image. There are 17 new and updated
an option for haptic feedback as you type, hairstyles, more headwear, more noses,
so it’ll feel a little more natural to tap the and more neutral lip colors. It should be
glass. Sadly, this doesn’t appear to be easier than ever to make your Memoji
coming to the iPad just yet. match your look and your style. ■

12. iCLOUD+ IMPROVEMENTS

The Hide My Email and custom email
domain features of iCloud+ are getting a
little more useful in iOS 16. Hide My Email
is integrated directly into QuickType
keyboard suggestions, so it should always
be available in third-party apps. And your

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WORKINGMAC Tips, tricks, and tools to make you and
your Mac or iOS device more productive

You can take it with you: How to
destroy the data you leave behind

While many people want to ensure families or others can access their email, photos,
and other information after they die, some want it locked away forever.

BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

Asadly common question for this sort of posthumous access. Apple
Mac 911 since the start of the added an option in late 2021 called Digital
pandemic was how to deal with Legacy (fave.co/3cqWCxk) that lets you set
someone’s online accounts up your iCloud account in such a way that
and data stored on computers and mobile you can make it a simple task for
devices after they’d died. In most cases, appointed people to retrieve specific data,
preparations have to be made to provide like photos and contacts.

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WORKINGMAC HOW TO D ESTR OY TH E DATA YOU L EAVE BE HI N D

But a reader

recently asked the

inverse question: How

can data be locked

away forever in the

event of a death?

Some people have

secrets; others are

intensely private;

others wish to be

forgotten. The author

Franz Kafka burned For items you do want to leave behind, set up a place that can be
an estimated 90 universally accessed. For example, upload the pictures you want to
percent of his work leave to a Google account.

while alive. He died of

tuberculosis at the age of 41, leaving Here’s how to set things up to avoid

instructions to his dear friend and literary losing access during your lifetime and

executor Max Brod: “Everything I leave largely ensure your data dies with you if

behind me…in the way of diaries, that’s what you want. (Please note that this

manuscripts, letters (my own and others’), is a column at a computer publication. I am

sketches and so on, to be burned unread.” not a lawyer, and none of the following

(Brod ignored this instruction, which has comprises legal advice. Consult experts

prompted a century of second-guessing.) when making precise plans.)

Modern strong, whole-device WHAT YOU WANT TO
encryption makes it feasible to prevent LEAVE BEHIND
anyone from obtaining your locally stored

data once you’re gone. For cloud-stored Assuming you want some documents,

data, it’s possible there’s no technical way photos, or other details available to family,

to ensure an account that contains files or heirs, descendants, friends, or the public,

details encrypted only by the cloud identify those first. I’d recommend storing

provider could be made irretrievable. You that information and regularly refreshing it at

may need to leave some instructions a site that allows inexpensive storage and to

behind and hope for a more faithful Max to which you could provide someone a

carry them out. password for access after your death.

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For instance, set up a Google account Password manager password: Except

that’s separate from any you use for other for iCloud Keychain, set a strong

purposes, and pay the company’s yearly password that you memorize and

data storage fee for amounts greater than otherwise make unavailable to other

the included space if necessary. parties. You may want to create and retain

Then keep everything else securely a recovery kit, which password managers

locked away. produce, in case you forget the

PASSWORDS AND SECOND password. But if you store that kit in a
FACTORS place other people might find, they could
use it just as easily to unlock passwords

It’s never a bad time to improve your for all your email and online accounts.

password strength, confirm the ones you (iCloud Keychain relies on device

use are good enough, and enable passwords and biometrics; see below.)

stronger account protections. Strong passwords: To prevent people

Password manager: Use 1Password, from guessing your passwords, make sure

DashLane, LastPass, or iCloud Keychain to that at all services at which you store

generate and manage all your passwords. private data or leave a record of what you

Some of these apps let you store other do, you have what’s currently considered a

information securely within them. This strong password. That’s at least 12

centralizes your password storage, making randomly generated characters from a

a single locked vault. But also… password manager or randomly selected

words that form a password 20

characters or longer. (Use

passkeys [fave.co/3wE1Nkm]

when they become available at

Apple, Google, and Microsoft

later in 2022 for even more

complete protection.)

Two-factor authentication

(2FA): While 2FA deters easy

access to your account by

those without your credentials,

We recommend you use a password manager such as it can also be another lock that
1Password (pictured). keeps accounts secure.

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WORKINGMAC HOW TO D ESTR OY TH E DATA YOU L EAVE BE HI N D

One weakness of leaving accounts (fave.co/3cA0Vq6). Because of how Apple
behind is that a relative or another party throttles and controls password input to
who obtains access to your phone deter cracking, its password doesn’t have
number—not even your phone—may be to be nearly as long as ones stored
able to trigger a sequence of account elsewhere in which a password cracker
recovery steps even at sites that support could obtain the encrypted form of the
2FA. See below under “Leave instructions” password and perform trillions of offline
for thoughts. brute-force tests.

PREPARE WITHIN THE APPLE iCloud: Using iCloud at all could leave
ECOSYSTEM your data available after you’re gone. Most
iCloud sync services are encrypted only
If you’re entirely in the Apple ecosystem, by Apple (fave.co/3CFxo9g), meaning
here’s how to prevent anyone else from someone with account access could
obtaining your data. (Many of these tips access and download that data. (iCloud
suffice for the living and the dead.) Keychain is end-to-end encrypted,
avoiding that issue.) However, if you don’t
macOS: Enable FileVault. With a strong enable Digital Legacy, described above,
account password for all accounts enabled it’s unlikely Apple would let anyone log
to log in via FileVault, the Mac’s data is into your account. Apple also has a
effectively unrecoverable. (Intel Macs with process to delete a deceased person’s
a T2 Security Chip and all M-series Macs account (fave.co/3RejPSc).
automatically encrypt all data on the
internal startup volume, but without On devices that offer Touch ID or Face
FileVault enabled on those machines, the ID unlocking, these biometric methods are
Macs can boot and decrypt the startup ostensibly impossible to bypass. After
drive before you enter your password, you’re no longer among us, your
making it easier to crack.) biometrics pass with you. (There are some
gruesome suggestions online that it might
iOS/iPadOS: Since the iPhone 5s for be possible to unlock devices of someone
iPhones and the iPad Air (2013) for iPads, who has just died; I think that’s an unlikely
Apple has built full-device encryption into scenario for the vast majority of us.)
its mobile gear. A device has to be
started up and unlocked to enable access Apple automatically disables biometric
to data stored on it. Set a strong access after 48 hours of a device not
passcode—six digits minimum, but being unlocked in any fashion, reverting to
preferably a longer alphanumeric one password-only unlocking.

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states, your executor

will have no legal

authority to access your

digital assets.” Instead,

you’ll have to provide

someone you trust with

instructions on what

you want to be done.

You might leave money

to that person with

the stipulation they

carry out your wishes,

Biometric security methods such as Face ID and Touch ID are but whether an
extremely difficult to work around. executor can manage

LEAVE INSTRUCTIONS compliance with that,
ABOUT CREDIT CARDS, it’s hard to say. (Again, I am not a lawyer:
BANK ACCOUNTS, This is an area for which you should find
PHONE NUMBERS, AND local legal advice.)
ONLINE ACCOUNTS
Data in the cloud or at online accounts
remains vulnerable unless it’s encrypted

Even if you don’t have substantial assets using keys held only by you or generated

you think you will leave behind, it’s best to and stored on your devices. For the

have a will and find a friend, family former, that would include Backblaze for

member, or lawyer that you can trust to act online backups, where you and only you

in your interests as your will’s executor. possess your backups’ encryption key. For

That person can manage the financial the latter, many iCloud services rely on

aspects of shutting down services. For end-to-end encrypted secured by keys

instance, an executor can alert all financial only held on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac,

institutions and credit card companies such as iCloud Keychain (noted earlier),

about your death and send a copy of the Health data, Wi-Fi passwords, and your

death certificate to freeze spending from Safari browsing history and bookmarks.

your accounts. You could rely on benign neglect:

However, as the legal-information site Without regular interaction, many accounts

Nolo notes (fave.co/3QXOT9f), “In most simply go defunct. A lack of an active

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credit card or a failure to respond to access or recovery by texting links or

security notifications could cause a site to codes to a phone number. You should

shut down an account. With password ensure an executor will retain your number

preparations made above, ostensibly no for a period of time with the stipulation that

one will be able to access the account they cannot use it for account access, or

even if it remains active indefinitely. have the number frozen or shut down to

But you can’t fully count on that: Sites avoid another party gaining access.

get hacked. You probably want someone Shut online accounts: Many services

to take more aggressive steps. let an appropriate party notify them to

While you are able to, create a list of all shutter an account. A copy of the death

the sites, banks, phone companies, and certificate is typically needed. Each service

other services related to phone numbers, is different, so your appointed person may

text messages, data storage, and other have to perform a fair amount of research.

services so a party you trust could It might take 30 to 60 minutes per account

methodically shut things down that an to find the current instructions at the time

executor can’t: of your passing, generate the paperwork,

Secure your phone number or and follow up.

numbers: Some sites allow account Wipe devices: Depending on the state

or country and local

rules, you may be able

to ask someone to erase

your devices. With

proper device security,

that may be impossible.

Further, Apple devices

that support Activation

Lock will generally be

unusable if you were to

die with Find My Mac,

iPhone, or iPad

enabled—the device will

at least be erased, but

Some credit card companies will shut down an account after a unusable to any
period of inactivity. subsequent person. ■

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How to stop email read receipts
in Apple Mail

Since the feature was never implemented as a mail standard, there’s no good
way to find out if someone has read your message.

BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

Back in 2001, Macworld writer Instead of becoming a standard and
Deborah Shadovitz explained routine part of email over the last 20 years,
an in-progress standard for read receipts—as they’re generally
email messages (fave.co/ called—became a key part of a privacy
3QWxaPu) called Return-Receipt, the name battle. Does a sender have the right or
based in part on a line sent in the privilege to know whether and when a
metadata portion of the message by your recipient has read their message, or even
email software. if they’ve forwarded it to other people?

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Outlook lets you request a read receipt, but when images are loaded, effectively
few modern email clients will honor that reveals that the email message was read,
request at all or by default. at what time that occurred, and at what IP
address, a loose way of identifying
Some email software includes an someone’s whereabouts on the internet.
option to enable a read receipt. In Outlook Each time the message is forwarded or
on the web, for instance, you can click read, those instances can be logged as
New Message, click the ellipsis (…) button well with some marketing and mailing list
for more options above the message, software.
choose Message Options, and check Read
Receipt. For email within an organization, As part of the ongoing cat-and-mouse
an administrator may configure Outlook or game between privacy-forward
another mail server to provide this kind of companies like Apple and marketing
“message read” acknowledgment. firms and app makers that fail to gather
advance permission for disclosing
But most mail apps don’t include a way private information and personal
to ask for a read receipt as most mail apps decisions, these invisible tracking pixels
symmetrically won’t generate a receipt, are now largely blocked.
making it unreliable.
If you don’t load images in your email
Third-party plug-ins and some app, the tracking pixels can’t perform their
marketing-oriented email hosts and apps magic. Some apps, such as Postbox (fave.
can embed a consent-free tracking “bug”: co/3R1MZo6), specifically look for and
a transparent 1-by-1–pixel image that, block those pixels. You can also get
rendered as part of an HTML message MailTrackerBlocker (fave.co/3EHSQZ7), a
free extension for macOS Mail (already
updated through macOS 13 Ventura) that
blocks the best-known trackers.

Apple built a more comprehensive
solution into Mail starting in iOS 15,
iPadOS 15, and macOS 12 Monterey with
Mail Privacy Protection. This feature uses
a proxy method: Apple downloads all
remote images for messages received
on your Mac using a proxy method that
also separates your IP address from the

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macOS, go to

the Mail app,

choose Mail →

Preferences,

click the

Privacy tab,

and check the

Protect Mail

Activity box.

If you don’t

even want a

sender to

know you’ve

You can block the best-known trackers using MailTrackerBlocker, a received the
free extension for macOS Mail. message,

you can

message. Apple’s system doesn’t reveal paradoxically disable Protect Mail Activity,

anything about when you read a then enable or check Hide IP Address

message as a result—only that a and Block All Remote Content. This

message was received. prevents loading media or anything else

You can enable it in iOS and iPadOS in stored remotely when a mail message is

Settings → Mail → Privacy Protection and rendered. Any attachments will load

enabling Protection Mail Activity. In normally. ■

Protect Mail Activity severs the loading of remote content in email from your location and from
the time at which you opened the message.

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Migrate a dead Mac to a new one
without erasing the new Mac

If you have just a set of files on your old Mac or in a Time Machine backup, you can migrate
selectively or just browse files.

BY GLENN FLEISHMAN

When your Mac dies or an Dead display: Assuming attaching an
iMac’s or laptop Mac’s external display to your iMac or laptop
screen fails, you probably didn’t work, you can use Target Disk Mode
have files on it you want to to mount your old Mac as a volume on your
bring to a new Mac. There are several new Mac. See my column “How to share a
paths you can follow: Mac’s drive with another Mac, whether Intel
or Apple silicon” (fave.co/3cr79IS).
External Time Machine volume: If you
had an external Time Machine volume Internet backup: If you can’t retrieve
connected, you can plug the drive into a your files through the above methods and
new Mac. you had your Mac connected to an
Internet-hosted backup service, visit that
Networking Time Machine volume: If service’s site to find options. Typically, you
you were backing up over the network to install the backup software on your new
a Time Machine volume, you can connect Mac, log in with your credentials, and
to that volume from the replacement Mac.

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If you had an
external Time
Machine volume
connected, you can
plug the drive into a
new Mac.

select files to restore in place or as a navigate backups by date, with each

download. If the amount of data lost is truly backup appearing as a time-stamped

enormous, some services will deliver to folder. (If you see a list of disk images,

you for a deposit fee an SSD or hard drive first double-click the one with your old

with files you can return after restoring. Mac’s name to get to that set of time-

With a Time Machine volume stamped folders.)

connected directly to your Mac or a Time Because of how Time Machine stores

Machine volume mounted over a network files, each folder contains the equivalent

from another Mac, you can: of all the files in the backup from your

Use Migration Assistant: You can use old Mac. You can browse and copy

Migration Assistant to select a Time specific files or folders. ■

Machine backup and

restore all or part of

it. I described in a

recent column (fave.

co/3AwIr1H) how to

use Migration

Assistant to migrate

a single user’s data.

Browse

backups and select

files: With a Time

Machine volume

mounted, you can You can browse backups by date on a Time Machine volume.

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Parallels Desktop full: New features
in Parallels Desktop 18

Parallels Desktop allows you to run multiple operating system, including Windows, Linux,
and more, on your Mac. Our full review includes the new features in the latest version.

BY CLIFF JOSEPH & KAREN HASLAM

For many Mac users, running to test applications and services on
Windows applications is a alternative operating systems—the only
necessity. Perhaps your way you can install macOS alongside
employer uses software Windows is on a Mac, because Apple
that’s available only for Windows, or won’t allow installation of macOS on
requires use of a website that relies on anything else.
some Windows-only technology. Or
perhaps you are wanting to play Windows When Apple moved to Intel CPUs
games on your Mac. Or maybe you need back in 2006, running Windows on a
Mac became easier thanks to the

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introduction of Apple’s own Boot Camp, the ARM-based M-series of chips also

which made it easy for users to run both means running a non-ARM version of

Windows and macOS natively on their Windows is problematic. But luckily there

Mac. But times have changed, and Apple is an ARM version of Windows, although

has now transitioned from Intel to its own getting hold of that has been a challenge

M-series chips and left Boot Camp in the (until now).

past, as it is not an option for M-series The latest update to Parallels Desktop

Macs. (Macs that use Intel processors will is version 18. We’ll discuss what’s new in

still be able to use Apple’s Boot Camp to this version below before running through

dual-boot and switch between Windows some of the best features in Parallels

and macOS). Desktop that have been introduced over

Luckily there are other options for the years.

those wanting to run more than one WHAT’S NEW IN PARALLELS
operating system on a Mac, and one of the DESKTOP 18?
best is Parallels Desktop.

Parallels Desktop for Mac (fave. As always, Parallels Desktop is updated

co/3cnD9xP) is an excellent solution for every year to coincide with the launch of

running guest operating systems within the latest versions of the macOS. So, as

macOS, and thanks to a regular cycle of expected, the new Parallels Desktop 18 is

annual updates—that generally coincide now compatible with macOS Ventura—

with updates to

macOS itself—

Parallels

Desktop has

ruled the roost

in the Mac

virtualization

market in

recent years.

That’s not to

say it’s

completely

plain sailing.

The move to Corel VideoStudio 2022 in Windows 11.

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both as the main host operating system, machines to use up to 62GB of memory
and as a guest virtual machine—as well and 18 CPU cores, in order to provide
as the latest version of Windows 11. Of improved performance. Unfortunately,
course, there was a problem when Apple Parallels told us that the multiple GPU
began to introduce new Macs based on cores on the M1 and M2 chips are
its own Apple Silicon chips, as Parallels controlled solely by the macOS itself, so
running on Macs with M1 or M2 Parallels doesn’t allow you to also specify
processors was no longer able to run the the number of GPU cores used by your
Intel version of Windows (or to use an virtual machines.
existing Boot Camp partition to create a
Windows virtual machine). Other new features include support
for Stage Manager in macOS Ventura, so
There is a version of Windows—called that your Windows apps will get tucked to
WoA, or Windows on ARM—that uses the the side of the screen alongside all your
same ARM technology as Apple’s M1 and Mac apps. There’s also improved support
M2 chips, and that could run on Macs with for USB audio and video capture devices,
those chips. However, WoA isn’t normally and even game controllers for Windows
licensed to individual users, which meant games too.
that owners of M1 and M2 Macs faced both
technical and licensing problems if they The Business Edition of Parallels Desktop
wanted to run Windows on their Macs. 18 includes new features to help large
organizations quickly roll out Parallels virtual
Thankfully, Parallels Desktop 18 finally machines to multiple users, while the Pro
seems to have solved these problems, Edition for developers provides improved
and now includes the ability to download networking features and a command-line
and buy the ARM version of Windows 11 interface to speed up testing.
directly within Parallels itself.
That’s all good news for owners of
Parallels also states that WoA now Macs with M1 or M2 processors, but
allows you to run most older software and there’s a bit of bad news too, as the price
apps that were originally written for the of Parallels Desktop 18 has increased for
Intel version of Windows, so you shouldn’t the first time in quite a few years. The
have any compatibility problems when standard version for home users and
running virtual machines that use WoA. students now costs $99.99/£89.99 per
year, while the Pro Edition costs
On high-end Macs, such as the Mac $119.99/£99.99, and the Business edition
Studio with its M1 Max and Ultra chips, is $149.99/£119.99.
you can now configure your virtual

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PARALLELS DESKTOP FULL Over the years Parallels Desktop has
REVIEW gained a wealth of feature that take

Parallels Desktop is virtualization software advantage of the fact that multiple

that allows you to create a virtual machine operating systems can run side by side.

that runs Windows, and other operating For example, version 17 improved the

systems, on your Mac as though they ability to copy and paste text and graphics

were another Mac app. Unlike Apple’s between Windows and Mac apps, and you

Boot Camp—which meant you had to shut can drag and drop images into Windows

down the Mac side of things completely directly from Mac applications like Photos

and then reboot your Mac into Windows— and Safari, too.

Parallels lets you run Mac and Windows Parallels also attempts to make things

apps side by side at the same time. as simple as possible for the user with its

This means you can view the Windows Coherence mode that lets Windows apps

desktop within its own window floating on seamlessly coexist alongside native

the Mac desktop, expand Windows to macOS apps, rather than inside a separate

full-screen size so that it hides the Mac virtual machine window.

desktop altogether, or even shrink Incidentally, you can run more than just

Windows down to a small preview that sits Windows using Parallels. There are a

in a corner on the Mac desktop so that you number of supported operating systems,

can keep an eye on the Windows side of many of which are free to download and

things while working in other Mac apps. use, such as BSD Unix, Ubuntu, Debian

and different versions of

Linux. Over the years

Parallels have improved

support for these

operating systems and

has made some behind-

the-scenes improvements

that can help you manage

multiple virtual machines.

If you’ve ever

wondered what Linux is

all about, installing and

You can cut and paste between Mac and Windows applications. using a version via

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Parallels is a relatively painless way to try with Windows 11 and its BitLocker data
it out. Download a version of Linux, set up encryption features.
a virtual machine, install the OS, and test
it out. If you like it, keep it around. If you RUNNING MULTIPLE VERSIONS
don’t like it, just remove that virtual OF MACOS
machine’s file from your hard drive, and
it’s gone for good. It’s not only Windows, Linux, and company
that you can run in your virtual machines.
RUNNING WINDOWS It’s also possible to run a version of macOS
as both the host—the primary operating
There is no doubt that most people using system on your Mac—and as a guest virtual
Parallels are doing so to run Windows on machine. This means you could run the
their Mac, and Parallels has made it newest version (or test the latest beta
super-easy to upgrade older Windows version) of macOS as a virtual machine
virtual machines to the latest version in before deciding whether to fully install it
just a few clicks. onto your Mac.

However, running Windows has There are, again, some limitations with
become more problematic since Apple M-series Macs. They can’t run anything
switched from Intel to its own ARM-based older than macOS Big Sur simply because
M-series of chips. The X86 version of that was the first version of macOS written
Windows will not run on ARM. Luckily for an ARM-based system.
there is a ARM version of Windows, and
luckily, as we said above, Parallels PERFORMANCE
Desktop 18 makes it easier for users to
get hold of this illusive version of the Good performance is vital when running
operating system. Windows or Linux in a virtual machine on
your Mac, so over the years Parallels has
If you have an Intel Mac, you’ll still be made improvements to memory allocation
able to run most versions of Windows and graphics performance.
going right back to Windows XP. That’s not
to say there aren’t issues running Windows Running two (or more) operating
on older Macs. For example, Windows 11 systems on your Mac at the same time
requires a special security chip known as means you need plenty of memory, disk
TPM 2.0 to run, which Macs lack, but space, and—above all—processor power
Parallels 17 found a way around this by to run your virtual machines efficiently.
adding a virtual TPM chip that can work Fortunately, modern multi-core processors
can run routine apps such as the Windows

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introduced an

Automatic Resource

Manager that can

monitor your virtual

machines to determine

how much memory and

processor power is

required for the apps

you’re running, and then

automatically allocate

the required resources

for you. Thanks to this

On older Intel-powered Macs you can run old versions of macOS. feature, you are not in

the dark about which

versions of Microsoft Word or Excel using virtual machines are consuming your

virtualization with no trouble at all. You do precious system resources.

need plenty of memory to run macOS and Another helpful addition, which arrived

Windows alongside each other, though. with Parallels Desktop 14, is a Free Up Disk

To get the most out of Parallels, you’ll Space feature. While the software was

want to give your Mac as much RAM as already able to manually reclaim valuable

you can afford—1GB is a good starting storage space from individual virtual

point, as you’ll then have enough RAM to machines, this option allowed the

run Parallels alongside a few other consolidation of snapshots (which are

applications. However, 2GB is much saved states of your virtual machines) so

better, particularly if you’re going to run they take up less space. Users can also

multiple OSes at the same time or run a resume or shut down tasks, and archive

lot of large applications within your lesser-used virtual machines for even

virtual machines. more space savings.

You can specify how many of your Mac’s

processor cores and how much of its PRICE AND OPTIONS

memory is allocated to each virtual machine. There are several options for buying

However, that can be a little confusing for Parallels Desktop, depending on how

new users who aren’t familiar with you’re likely to use it. Fortunately, there’s a

virtualization technology, so Parallels 17 14-day free trial available at www.parallels.

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com so you can try the program for a while Corel hasn’t had a great record of

and decide which option is best for you. supporting the Mac over the years—

Parallels Desktop 18 marks a price although the release of CorelDraw for

increase for the first time in a few years. the Mac after a gap of almost 20 years

The standard version for home users and did at least suggest the company hadn’t

students who just need to run a few key forgotten about Mac users altogether.

Windows apps (or games) now costs Rather than simply submerging

$99.99/£89.99 per year (it was Parallels Desktop within the labyrinthine

$79.99/£69.99), or a one-time purchase of depths of Corel’s own website, Parallels

$129.99/£104.99 (was $99.99/£79.99). continues to maintain its own identity and

Existing users can upgrade to the new its own website, and progress has

version for £54.99/$69.99—it’s the same continued unabated.

price whether it’s the home or pro edition, Whether buying Parallels Desktop for

and this is also an increase on previous Mac for the first time or taking the annual

versions where the upgrade cost upgrade plunge, I wouldn’t hesitate to

$49.99/£39.99. install the latest version. Parallels

The Pro Edition, which includes Desktop isn’t the only virtualization

additional features for developers who software available for Macs—its main

want to test and debug their applications, rival, VMWare Fusion, is also regularly

now costs $119.99/£99.99, and the updated—but Parallels is the most

Business edition, which adds a frequently updated version

number of admin and mmmm and boasts the more
maintenance tools for impressive features. Its status
businesses and organizations, Parallels Desktop as the leader in this field was
is $149.99/£119.99. These are emphasized when Apple
PROS

• Yearly update cycle.

only available on annual • Can choose a perpetual used Parallels Desktop to
subscriptions, but that does license or subscription. demonstrate a number of
include upgrades. Windows apps and games
CONS running on prototype ARM
VERDICT Macs during its 2020
• Price increase for latest Worldwide Developer
We’ll admit we were a bit version. Conference, and if Parallels
worried when we heard that
• Virtual machines require a
lot of memory and
processor power.

PRICE

$99

Corel had taken over Parallels COMPANY has Apple’s backing, then its
at the end of 2018. After all, future should be good. ■
Parallels

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I think it’s just vapor. It won’t
hurt my kid like cigare es, right?

The vapor that’s inhaled from
e-cigare es contains harmful
chemicals that can cause
irreversible lung damage.
And e-cigare es have nicotine,
a toxin that’s addictive and can
change your kid’s brain.
Those are the facts.
Talk to your kid about vaping.
Get the facts at

TalkAboutVaping.org