OS X (originally Mac OS X) is a series of Unix-based graphical interface operating systems (OS) developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It is designed to run on Macintosh computers, having been pre-installed on all Macs since 2002.
There are many ways to identify the bundle ID of any macOS app using the Mac itself.
The following steps will help you to identify the bundle ID of a Finder app using the Terminal. Replace the app name written in step 02 with the exact words of your desired app name.
Step 01: Open Terminal on your Mac.
Step 02: Run the following command:
(more…)After using your Apple Mac, iPhone or iPad for more than 2 to 3 years upgrading the operating system multiple times you may realise after upgrading system some features like iCloud, Mac / App Store App Downloads and Updates, Keychain Sync, Safari Passwords Sync, Contacts Sync are not working across devices.
(more…)Precautions:
1. If you are on iPhone and iPad first backup your device using Mac. And also backup your iPhone and iPad photos using Apple Photos.
2. If you are on Mac backup your Mac using TimeMachine
The dilemma of choosing between UILabel and UITextView starts when you want to display text in your Apple iOS, iPadOS or macOS Catalyst App.
I have even gone through this process of choosing UILabel or UITextView to display text on my app.
So I have made a small numbered list to help you out to choose the right option…
Choose UILable to display text:
Here is Sample Code for UILabel:
(more…)Sometimes you want to hide Navigation Bar from a particular view without manually deleting it from Main.storyboard,
So here I have documented how to do it programmatically instead.
Step 01: Copy the following code to your ViewController’s Swift file’s ‘viewWillAppear’ method for which view you want to hide Navigation Bar on its load on your iPhone, iPad or Mac’s (Catalyst) app screen.
override func viewWillAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
super.viewWillAppear(true)
self.navigationController?.setNavigationBarHidden(true, animated: true)
}
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When Google released Material Design Guidelines they introduced many new design elements and one of them was Fab Button i.e. Floating Action Button
Normally we see the Fab button in Android Mobile Apps but a lot of Apple iPhone, iPad and Mac App Developers has started using the Fab button in their design.
Here we will see how to add the Fab button programmatically in your iOS, iPadOS and macOS app on any view including UICollectionView or UITableView.
Step 01: First declare the UIButton variable in your View Controller
var fabButton = UIButton()
Step 02: Add this code to viewDidLoad()
(more…)If you are having a problem with loading or browsing particular/specific website then you can follow the below steps to resolve that problem.
Step 01: Navigate to your TP-Link router’s web interface. i.e. Normally http://192.168.0.1/
Step 02: Log in to your TP-Link router’s Administration Web Page
Step 03: Go to > Advance > Network > Internet > Click on Advanced Settings
(more…)After downloading and installing Android Studio for Mac but I noticed my Mac started heating too quickly with fan running at full speed and there was also performance issue.
So I decided to completely uninstall Android Studio from Mac, I used following command and I have also documented it below if you want to perform same process for uninstalling Android Studio from your Mac.
Open Terminal.app from Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app and execute following commands
(more…)Imagine you have downloaded a file from a website or especially Google Drive shared folder and when you select the same file on your local Macintosh HD and use the ‘Command + I’ command on your Mac’s Keyboard what you see is a long list of gibberish URL the file you downloaded from under ‘Where from’ section.
It looks something like this:
Now you want to get rid of this Where from section gibberish from your file or all files inside the folder, You may ask how to do it? The answer simply follows these simple steps.
To remove specific ‘Where from’ attribute from file:
Use the ‘xattr’ command with the ‘-d’ flag and then describing the command to delete specific attributes. Here ‘Where from’.
(more…)I was planning for long time but never implemented Google Analytics for my Apple iOS Apps to get real data about my app usage. I thought it was more of work to implement analytics in app with framework using cocoa-pods which will in a way will slowdown my app performance.
But with the news of Apple is vary serious about and already is about privacy and data collection with online ads for Safari Browser on Mac and system wide privacy settings on Apple iOS 14 for iPhone. I am happy that I never implemented third party analytics framework or never added ad network to get revenue out of my apps. My apps are already paid and I don’t want to mess-up user experience with impromptu in-app advertisements.
(more…)Prerequisites:
1. I assume you have added your primary and same Apple ID / iCloud Account on your respective Mac and iPhone.
2. You have enabled iCloud Sync for Messages App on your iPhone and Mac in iCloud Settings.
3. You are using the latest release of macOS operating system, the latest release of iOS operating System and latest release Safari Browser.
Once above prerequisites are met we can proceed further…
Note: You can autofill security codes from your iPhone to Safari on Mac. This is Safari only feature.
To set up Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone follow below steps:
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