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If you have ever tried adding a new entry to a Numbers spreadsheet on your iPhone, you will know how fiddly it can get: tiny cells, lots of zooming, and taps that often land in the wrong place.

Lee shows a feature built right into Numbers on iPhone and iPad that tackles this problem directly, using a growing vinyl record collection as his real world example.

Along the way, you see how a form can adapt to different kinds of data, handling everything from simple text and dates all the way to specialised entry controls. It is one of those features that is easy to miss, but once you know it's there, you're likely to never go back and type straight into a table.

When you pass away, everything stored in your Apple Account — photos, messages, notes, documents, years of memories — could be locked away permanently. Most people assume a family member can simply log in with their password, but Apple's Terms and Conditions explicitly prevent this, and Apple can close the account entirely if they discover the holder has died.

Fortunately, Apple has had a built-in solution since 2021 called Legacy Contact. In this show Lee walks you through everything you need to know to protect your digital estate. You learn how to set up a Legacy Contact (you can have up to 5) on iPhone, iPad, and Mac in just a few minutes, what data your chosen person will and won't be able to access, how to store your Access Key so it can actually be found when it's needed. You also find out the important fact about subscriptions: they don't cancel themselves! Lee also show you how your loved one's survivor goes about requesting access through Apple's Digital Legacy portal.

Your iPhone and Apple Watch are packed with features designed to help in a genuine emergency — but they only work if you've set them up in advance. In this video, Lee walks you through several essential safety features: Medical ID, Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, Heart Rate alerts with ECG, and Check In. This gives you everything you need to make sure your devices are ready when it matters most.

Five minutes of setup today could make a real difference when you need it most.

As a follow-up to last week's show, Lee looks at some updates to the Music and Podcasts apps on iOS and iPadOS that may have gone unnoticed.

Both applications have received a lot of attention and in this video, Lee shows you how to use the Music app to look at upcoming concerts in your area, as well use some of the new features, like AutoMix transitions and Offline Lyrics. You also see how the Podcasts application can auto-generate chapters as well as discover video podcasts.

iOS and iPadOS 26 were released in September 2025 and since then, we've had four 'dot' releases that brought with them new features. In this Tip video, Lee looks at some of the features you may have missed, starting with tweaks to Liquid Glass you can make through to a much requested change to Reminders. With an old iPadOS multitasking feature coming back as well, there's a fair amount in here worth checking out.

The iOS Files app was introduced in 2017 and it's fair to say that it doesn't sit front and centre of the iOS experience in the same way that Finder does for macOS. That's not to say it doesn't have it uses. In fact, if you spend just a little time with it, you'll see that it's a really handy way to access files across multiple applications on your device.

In this video, Lee walks you through, end-to-end to give you a solid grounding in the foundations of the app.

In last week's show we laid the groundwork for this week's video by looking at the basics of Reminders, Apple's built-in task manager.

In this episode, Lee dives in a little deeper and walks you through organising your various lists using Subtasks, Sections and tags. He also shows you some example scenarios for using Smart Lists that you may want to adopt. You also learn how Apple Intelligence can help populate your lists with reminders on the fly.

Lee wraps up the series by showing you some useful automations using Shortcuts that may give you some inspiration for upping your Reminders game even more.

Apple have spent a lot of time focusing their recent advertising campaigns on promoting the Sleep Score feature that has been added to Apple Health, however the ability to track your sleep quality with Apple Watch has slipped under the radar for many people.

In this Tip video, Lee looks at how to set up Sleep Tracking on your compatible devices, setup sleep goals, schedules, focus modes and more, to ensure you have the knowledge required to make the most of this important feature.

Reminders has undergone something of a renaissance in the last few years and is now a serious option for the majority of Apple users who want a tool for organising their tasks. For years, it was regarded as simplistic, however now there are features that are persuading some power users to make the switch from other task management apps.

In this first screencast of a two-part series, Lee walks through the basics of creating tasks directly in Reminders as well as externally. He also looks at strategies for creating groups and lists to keep your tasks organised. This lays the foundation for Part 2, where you will learn about Tags, Smart Lists and Reminders automation.

AirDrop has been around for a long time now, however Lee finds that when he talks to family and friends, whenever files or photos need to be shared between them, it never appears to be the first thing they think about using. It's a shame as when it's used properly, it is so much quicker than other methods of File Transfer.

In this video, Lee offers a refresher in how AirDrop can be used to share files between devices with the same iCloud account, as well as with others. He also goes over NameDrop, Proximity Sharing and SharePlay, more recent additions that can all be useful in the right context.

To use AirDrop you need iOS 7 or later, macOS 10.10 or later.

The NameDrop, Proximity Sharing, and SharePlay via AirDrop features all require iOS 17 or later.

Whilst helping his daughter with her finances before heading off to college, Lee found himself using the stock Calculator app on both iPhone and iPad and realising there was a lot more to it than he realised. He already knew about several of its features, but there was a fair amount left to discover, making it an excellent topic for a Tuesday Tip Video. In this screencast, you learn how to use the Scientific Calculator, Maths Notes, built-in unit Converter, and more.

When the Action Button was introduced to the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max in September 2023, it replaced the traditional mute switch, which had been present since the 2007 iPhone. So many people just converted this button back to muting the device! There's so much more you can do with it though, and in this video, Lee shows you how he does indeed still use it as a mute switch, but also as an input button for tasks, ideas and memories at the same time.

iOS and iPadOS 26 brought with them something a little unexpected this year. The Preview application found its way to the mobile platforms! Whilst it doesn't bring with it all the features of its desktop counterpart, it's a more than adequate application for annotating and marking up your PDFs and image files. It also includes the Forms Editor and in this video, Lee goes over the features of Preview for iPhone and iPad so you can start using it today.

The version of Preview demonstrated here requires iOS or iPadOS 26.

Have you ever glanced at your iPhone and realised that you're down to your last 10% of charge with no charger in sight? Or set off on a trip knowing that the charge on your iPhone isn't going to last the day and you left your battery pack at home?

Low Power Mode to the rescue.

Lower Power Mode optimises your battery life by switching off non-essential services and gives you extended power just when you need it. In this tip video, Don takes you through the basics of Low Power Mode. He also shows you to create an automation in Shortcuts that turns on Low Power Mode automatically based on your battery's charge level.

It's that time of year again where we get ot play with the new features that are landing on your favourite Apple devices. Today, we look at iOS and iPadOS 26 and the big news is of course, the new Liquid Glass design which represents the most significant design change on your devices since iOS 7, back in 2013.

Whilst that change is the most noticeable, there is a lot to get your teeth into with the new versions of iOS and iPadOS. In this video, Lee walks you through some of the most significant updates, including the new Window Management features on iPad that bring some form of parity with the Mac, improvements to the Phone and Messages app on iOS, and much, much more.

Terminology is celebrating its 15th birthday this year and to celebrate, it's undergone a massive redesign from the ground up. For those of you who don't know what this wonderful application can do, then this video may surprise you. I use it as my go-to tool for researching a subject or topic when I'm working on the iPad or iPhone. Yes, it started life primarily as a dictionary and thesaurus however over the years it has grown into so much more, and with hooks into some of your favourite AI services, such as ChatGPT, it's the Research app you may not have known you needed

The iPhone (and iPad) screens are a delight to behold. Super high resolution with bold bright colours. I get bored pretty easily with the same wallpapers so I came up with a solution to quickly capture new wallpapers from social media, and change them on my devices with a simple tap of the lock screen.

This tutorial takes you through all of the steps to do the same,

The Apple Watch is regularly touted as a life saving device. It feels like every WWDC and every keynote we get a video about real life cases of people using specific health and safety features to avoid the worst. It’s easily the best part of this product and in this video you’ll find out about those features. Use your watch to monitor your heat rate for any irregular highs or lows, detect falls or crashes, and create a medical ID so paramedics can easily identify essential information in an emergency. We’ll even show you how to use the Check-in feature of iMessage to keep others aware of you journey and keep an eye on you.

Raycast have an extensive offering on Mac. Not only as a replacement for Spotlight but as a repository of different app extensions. The company have now released an offering on iPhone and iPad with some shared features in Notes, Snippets and Quicklinks, as well as an extensive AI assistant. This incorporates many of the different GPT models to assist you in writing, researching and learning.

Apple continues to lead the way in making technology more accessible.  One of its latest features turns the AirPods Pro (2nd generation) into a powerful tool for hearing support.  In this video, Lee demonstrates how to test your hearing using your iPhone and AirPods, and how to enable Hearing Assistance to make conversations clearer and easier.