Q: Sometimes the cursor disappears from the screen of my five-year-old MacBook Air laptop. If I open and close the "lid" of the laptop, the cursor eventually reappears. What's wrong? Does it indicate ...

Update: Federighi is also interviewed on the same topic in a special episode of the AppStories podcast. Creating the iPadOS cursor without compromising the touch-first nature of the iPad was no easy ...

Dock responds to AppleScript In response to our coverage last week on ways to kill the Dock in order to remove the puff of smoke drawing artifacts, we noted that there are more than a few ways to skin ...

OS 26.2 adds Edge Light, a feature that uses your Mac’s display to improve lighting during video calls. Here’s how it works.

Apple recently introduced a new cursor experience in iPadOS — one that software engineering chief Craig Federighi says was by necessity a combination of how users interface with the Mac, and the Apple ...

Without a cursor, your Mac would be pretty hard to use. In fact, it would be all but impossible to use, save for a few keyboard shortcuts. The cursor is what makes it so easy to navigate around your ...

Press Command + Shift + 5 to open the Screenshot app or screenshot utility. This will bring up a toolbar at the bottom of your screen. You can now capture your full-screen screenshot, and the mouse ...

Today Things, the excellent task manager, was updated with enhanced support for the iPad’s new cursor just in time for the Magic Keyboard’s arrival. While you could use the iPadOS cursor in the app ...

My High Sierra Mac crashed earlier while using Chrome to browse NotAlwaysRight. It will only start in safe mode now, which is a problem for another day, but a really annoying issue is that the mouse ...

Today Apple released the latest updates for its suite of software platforms, most notable of which are iOS and iPadOS 13.4. Timed with the release of the latest iPad Pro models, the hallmark features ...

My GF recently got AutoCAD 2011 on her new Mac, and while it performs admirably in all other aspects, using AutoCAD 2011 could be smoother. As it is now, the cursor is really jerky whenever a mouse ...