You launch a game and Steam throws up a dialog instead of the title screen. Your local save and your cloud save don’t match, and it wants you to pick one. Click the wrong button and you can wipe out hours of progress in a single confirmation. A Steam cloud save conflict just means your … Read more
You check your Screen Time report expecting to see your iPhone usage. Instead, the numbers under your iPhone’s name look like your iPad’s habits. Or your kid’s device shows hours that clearly belong to yours. Nothing is technically missing. It’s just sitting under the wrong label. Screen Time showing wrong device data is a distinct … Read more
You’re listening to music on your Mac. Your phone rings. Your AirPods switch to your iPhone instantly, exactly as expected. Call ends, you walk back to your desk, and nothing happens. Your Mac stays silent while your AirPods stay stuck on your iPhone, waiting for you to manually click Bluetooth and select them yourself. AirPods … Read more
You click the Steam icon. Nothing happens. Check Task Manager, and there it is, running in the background, using memory, doing absolutely nothing visible. No error message. No crash. No window. Just silence. You’ve probably already tried running it as administrator and reinstalling it twice. Steam won’t open on Windows 11 is one of the … Read more
You walk up to your Mac, Apple Watch on your wrist, expecting the screen to unlock automatically like it always has. Instead, you’re stuck typing your password manually. You’ve checked Bluetooth, confirmed Wi-Fi, verified your Apple ID matches. Everything looks right. It still doesn’t work, at least not consistently. Apple Watch not unlocking Mac often … Read more
Phone Link shows “Connected.” Messages come through fine. Photos sync without a hitch. Then you try to make a call from your PC, and nothing happens, or the call connects but you can’t hear anything. If the rest of Phone Link works, it’s easy to assume the calling problem must be something else entirely, but … Read more
You click Sidecar, select your iPad, and wait. Then the message appears: “Unable to Connect to iPad. The device timed out.” You restart both devices, sign out and back into your Apple ID, toggle Wi-Fi and Bluetooth off and on. Nothing works. If this sounds familiar, there’s a specific fix buried in Apple’s own developer … Read more
You copy a link on your iPhone, walk over to your Mac, hit paste, and nothing happens. Handoff works fine for everything else, apps show up in your Dock, activities transfer smoothly, but copy and paste between devices just doesn’t. That’s a narrower, more specific problem than general Handoff issues, and it has its own … Read more
You turn on Work Focus on your iPhone, expecting your Mac to go quiet too. Instead, notifications keep popping up on your Mac like nothing happened. You check the settings, everything looks right, and it still doesn’t sync. Before you assume something’s broken, there’s one specific cause almost every guide skips past. Focus Mode not … Read more
You’ve got your MacBook lid closed, an external monitor doing the heavy lifting, and Universal Control letting you move your cursor seamlessly onto your iPad. Then, a few minutes in, the connection just drops. You reconnect, it works again, then drops again. If this sounds familiar, you’re dealing with a real, persistent issue that’s been … Read more