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Styles and filters to simplify your photo editing

How to ‘grade’ your shots’ colours and tones with the minimum of effort

Capture your fun day out in a sophisticated sequence

Shoot and edit a family activity to create a slick movie sequence that you can share on social media

Get the Hollywood look with a slick cinematic sequence

Create an atmospheric cinematic sequence using cinematic shooting and editing techniques

Rock-out with the Wham and Wah FX units

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Work with Apple Loops in your Logic Pro projects

Tap into a library of pre-recorded parts played by pros to enhance your Logic Pro tracks

Get started with the Console app in macOS

Check your Mac is running okay, read system logs and track down problems using the Console app

Use the DuckDuckGo browser and get more privacy

The non-tracking search engine now has a Mac-only privacy-focussed browser

Create and store secure private notes in Keychain

Browse websites and services, then add extra information with peace of mind

Create public calendars and subscribe to them

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Print calendars straight from your Mac’s Calendar app

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Rediscover past versions of the Mac’s system software

Go retro and run old versions of Apple Mac operating systems, software and games in through your Safari browser

Create interactive experiences using RichCast

This free app lets you produce and publish voice-activated adventures and more without any coding knowledge

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Use Visual Lookup to get info on photos

Identify objects, plants, animals, buildings and more using Visual Lookup in the iOS Photos app

Turn recipes into shopping lists on the iPhone

Use the iPhone’s ability to read text in photos to create lists from printed items, such as recipes

Access your account features in Maps

Customise the settings and report incidents on the iPhone

Digitise handwritten messages in the Notes app

Scan printed or handwritten text before selecting the bits you want

Set Apple TV & YouTube video quality on iPhone

Improve picture quality or save mobile data and storage space

Create manga characters using machine learning

You don’t have to be an amazing artist to draw your own manga

Instantly identify songs using Shazam

Need to know the name of a song and who recorded it? Then utilise the Music Recognition button in iOS

Make your iPad read out text for you

Enable the text-to-speech feature in iPadOS and you can listen to what’s written on the screen

The best widgets for your iPad

Widgets are a relatively new addition to iPadOS, but they offer excellent utility when chosen wisely

Translate languages on your Apple Watch

If you need to communicate with someone in a different language, raise your wrist and speak

Control your heating from your wrist

Here is yet another use for your Apple Watch, that will come in handy every single day

View live video in Apple TV’s Picture in Picture mode

It’s now possible to view footage in Picture in Picture mode while you’re doing something else

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