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My emails have been hacked! What do I do? Notify all your contacts, friends and family to ignore the recent email and NOT send you money or respond to the email. This includes someone to send the message on your behalf.  Or create/use a secondary email to send a notification email to your friends/family group or distribution list NOT to send you money or respond to the email. (Be sure to put all the contacts in the BCC and send to groups of no mare than 50 contacts at a time) 1. Contact a Computer Tech to help cleanup and verify your email settings are properly configured, change your password and setup 2 factor authentication 2. Determine the extent of the Hack and if your original email can be secured you can continue to use it OR you might need to create a new email address What's a podcast? On-Demand Streaming Radio Shows Apple has a podcast app on their Computers and iOS devices ~Open the app to search for a show by name or host. ~Choose follow to add the show and newly added ...

Recording Voice Memo 1. Search for the Voice Memo app on your iPhone. The app comes standard with iOS. 2. Tap the Red Dot to start recording 3. Tap the Red Square to stop recording 4. The most recent recording will appear on the top of the saved recordings Tap the title to change it Scan a Document Start by placing the Document you want to scan flat or standing with a contrasting background 1. Search for the Notes App 2. Tap the Piece of Paper with a Pencil to create a new Note 3. Tap the Paperclip 4. Tap Scan Documents 5. The camera will turn on 6. Hover your device over the document you want to scan and automatically your phone will can the document 7. Scan additional pages to create a multi-page pdf document 8. Click Save to finish the scanning Send a Scanned Document saved in Notes 1. Open the note with the scan 2. Tap the title of the scan 3. A menu appears 4. Tap Share 5. Choose how you want to share the scanned document View Past Notifications Pull down from the top right of the...

  Get Rid of Predictive Typing in Emails (only accessed on webmail, i.e. gmail.com, hotmail.com, ...) Go to settings Choose Mail Outlook/Hotmail go to "Smart Suggestions" turn off the settings Gmail go to General then, "Smart Compose" turn it off Keep the Predictive Typing that appear by pressing TAB Avoid the AI on your emails by using Macintosh Mail to access your emails (get to Macintosh Mail in the Applications Folder) My Safari doesn't work with my Bank or other websites. It tells me it's not compatible or out of date. Safari stops updating itself when your operating system is out of date. So Safari won't have the newest and necessary security credentials and settings. Work Around is to use an alternate browser like Firefox (Mozilla), Chrome (Google), Brave, Edge (Microsoft) How do I learn to use...? Ask copilot.microsoft.com ( Co-Pilot), Google.com (Gemini) Try to use all the products connected to the provider of your email. Gmail = Google Products...

Syncing multiple devices Unifying essential services Checking/Canceling subscriptions Syncing Devices (Tablet, Smartphone, Computer) Apple Devices (and Windows computers) - Sync using iCloud     Use your Apple ID & Password     Go to Settings to view iCloud and the settings for each of the Apple Apps like Contacts, Photos, Calendar, Notes, Reminders, Books, Podcasts, etc.     Compare your devices to one another to be sure the same apps are On (syncing) or Off (not syncing) Check your iCloud Storage     **Beware of emails or text messages that say to upgrade your iCloud Storage. Many of them are scams! ****Check your current iCloud Storage yourself! Go to Settings, click your name, click iCloud and on the top a bar graph will appear showing you how much storage you have allocated and how much of the storage you used. If you need to add more storage click "Manage Storage" choose the next storage size or downgrade if you're no...