 A feature of Safari in macOS 26 is that is brings the colour from the web page you are viewing into the search bar and tab bar area - which can, depending on the colour, can sometimes make these bars impossible to read.
I had to do a bit of searching, but finally found where I could turn off the feature to 'Show Colour in Tab Bar'
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 After upgrading to iOS 26, I found that a feature that I used regularly on my iPhone had changed. It related to Screenshots (known on the iPhone as Screen Captures) - the feature where you can take a photo of what's on your screen.
Previously, when I took a screen shot (which, on my iPhone 12 was by quickly pressing the on/off switch and the volume-up switch at the same time), a little thumbnail would appear at the bottom left of the screen. It would disappear after a few seconds and the screenshot would then be found in my Photos. Or I could tap that thumbnail while it was still there to view the screenshot, crop it, mark it up, send it, etc. When I upgraded to iOS 26 and started using my new iPhone 17, I found that my screenshots were behaving differently. The appeared in full screen, and forced me to make a decision about what to do with them - which was a pain. Here's how I switched back to the old way of dealing with screenshots.  The photos App in iOS 26 has undergone another significant change, one that I think improves the clunky design that came with iOS 18.
You now can easily switch between your Library view (which is your timeline showing all your photos in 'date taken' order) and your Collections view (which allows you to see the photos grouped and presented in different ways. That Library can then be sorted by Date Added, and can be filtered to only show certain types of media. In this week's handy hint, we take a quick look at these two main views and then a few tips for navigating the Library view - especially for those of you who, like me, have a very large Photos Library.  In a separate Handy Hint, I describe how I used the 'Find my Car' feature of the iPhone to ask Siri to give me directions to my car when I lost it in a big car park.
Just recently, an iTandCoffee Club member found that this feature was not working for her, and contacted me to find out what she could do to make it work. 17/10/2025 0 Comments The frustrations (and time) associated with setting up a new iPhone (Updated)! Update 17th October 2025If you read the below report of my initial attempts to set up my new iPhone, you will see I was having persistent issues with syncing of iCloud data to the new iPhone and had to resort to re-setting my phone to factory settings and starting again. While this did resolve the issues with downloading of my large Notes library (which got 'stuck' and wouldn't continue, leaving me without access to my important Notes), it did not help with the downloading of my big Photos library. Several days after the reset, the count of downloaded Photos in my Photos library was not changed. A call to Apple Support proved fruitless. So, a week after the reset, I resorted to manually forcing the download of photos. I selected a year's worth of photos at a time, then chose the Share option, then Save to Files. This forced the download of the selected photos and, when that download was done (which took a while each time), I cancelled out of that Save to Files process. This left the photos downloaded By the 14 day mark, I finally had all my photos on the iPhone - and syncing has been working OK since. Phew! I am none to wiser about what caused the download issues, but have seen on forums that this issue has impacted lots of people. One suggestion was that it may be caused by an overload on Apple servers, wit lots of people who, like me, have recently received their new iPhones, setting up these new iPhones at the same time. One thing I also need to correct in my original article. The iPhone 17 and 17 Pro do have SIM card trays for physical SIMS. It is the iPhone Air that is eSIM only. So I was able to put my Belong physical SIM into my new iPhone without converting it to an eSIM. Here's the full article, reported 4th October 2025I received my new iPhone 17 Pro on Monday this past week, and it has been quite the exercise this time getting set up on my new iPhone. In fact, after 6 days, my iPhone is still not set up.
It is now Saturday, and it has been a 'work in progress' for the past 5.5 days - even though I restored from an iCloud backup, which should have brought everything from my old iPhone to my new iPhone. Unfortunately, even with an iCloud Backup, there is still lots of setup to do when you get a new iPhone and data to download from iCloud. Here's my list if issues and setup tasks so far - and I'm sure that there will be more that I discover each time I use an app/account for the first time on this device.
Usually when I get a new phone, I am thrilled with the improvements it delivers.
I used to purchase a new iPhone every year or two and always noticed the improvements. I have held onto my latest iPhone (a 12 Pro) for 5 years - so I was expecting to be amazed by how much better my new iPhone 17 Pro would be. So far, that has not been the case - and here's why.  Just last week, I was preparing a presentation for class that I had to present for a local library.
I wanted in include a couple of slides that provided links and QR codes for a few iTandCoffee pages (see example in image above). I have previously generated QR codes using Chrome. I went to generate the QR code for a particular web page, and found that the way you use to be able to do in Chrome had obviously changed. It took a bit of searching before I finally found the location of the Create QR Code option. Here's where I found it in Chrome on my Mac. 2/10/2025 0 Comments What to do if adding a credit card to your Wallet fails when setting up new iPhone When setting up my new iPhone this week, one of the several 'glitches' that occurred was that I couldn't verify two of the credit cards that were in my Wallet.
Even though the content of the Wallet was restored to my new iPhone from the iCloud backup, I still needed to re-verify them for the new device. For one, it told me that I had to contact my bank to verify it. For the other, it said that the card did not support Apple Pay - even though I had used it frequently on the old iPhone. Here's what I had to do to solve the problem.  This week, my brand new iPhone 17 Pro arrived from Apple.
It can be quite an exercise setting up a new iPhone, even if you restore everything from iCloud backup or transfer from your previous device. One of the long list of setup 'glitches' came with setting up my credit cards in the Wallet on my new iPhone. Adding one of my cards was completed without issue, but two Commbank cards could not be verified - so I had to contact the Commbank support line. And, of course, I got put on hold with that annoying hold music. Past experience told me that my time on hold could be long - giving me the opportunity to try out a brand new feature of iOS 26, Hold Assist. 11/9/2025 0 Comments How do I see my iPhone/iPad/Mac photos in order of 'recently added' instead 'date taken'? I have had a query from an iTandCoffee Club member about exporting photos from WhatsApp.
Her issue is that the photos were taken a long time ago, so when saved to Apple's Photos library, it is impossible to find them - given that the library is sorted in 'date taken' order. How can she see her photos in order of 'recently added'? |
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