Year: 2021

How to make Safari remember passwords on Mac

Dan Uff October 9, 2021 0

Let's face it, passwords suck. You have to have one password for one website, another for another, and so on, and so on, and so on! You try and keep a notebook of them, but what if someone got a hold of that notebook? What if Safari can not only remember your passwords, but also sync them between iCloud devices? Well....It can on both Mac and iOS. This article will cover how to set it up on Mac.

When you first use Safari, it'll ask if you wish to save passwords. Clicking YES will enable you to do the below.
Open Safari.
Go to Safari > Preferences.
Click on the Passwords Tab.
Enter the Administrator's Password.
You can now view and/or edit any saved password on the list.
That's it.

How to turn Tab Colors OFF in Safari

Dan Uff October 8, 2021 0

Earlier this week, we covered most users of the newest Safari web browser complaining about the tab design and the colors of them. If you're one of them, and don't like the colors, here's how to turn them OFF.

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Go into Safari.
Choose General.
Find the "Tab Layout" section.
Deselect the Show Color in Tabs option.
That's it.

You can do the same thing if you've rather have the color in the tabs.

Scaled Down ‘Apple TV+’ App Now Available on 2016 and 2017 LG Smart TVs

CompuScoop Staff October 7, 2021 0

Apple has started making a scaled down "Apple TV+" app available on select 2016 and 2017 LG smart TVs. The app is appearing on LG's content store in several regions including Germany, Poland, and the Nordic countries, and its existence is confirmed in an LG support document.

First spotted by FlatpanelsHD, the app interface looks very similar to the standard Apple TV app, but it only allows owners of the older webOS-based TVs to watch TV+ content. The iTunes Store and Watch Now tabs have been removed from the top navigation menu, leaving just three options there: ‌Apple TV+‌, Search, and Settings.

The fully fledged ‌Apple TV‌ app, which is available on select Samsung, LG, and Vizio TVs, allows users to stream TV shows and movies from ‌Apple TV+‌, access à-la-carte ‌Apple TV‌ Channels and their iTunes libraries, as well as buy or rent more than 100,000 shows and movies from the iTunes Store. The same services can also be accessed on select Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices.

Via: MacRumors.com

Safari users complain about new tab layout

CompuScoop Staff October 5, 2021 0

Safari 15 for Mac comes with a tab redesign that’s led users to complaints about the way the browser indicates which tab is active, among other things.

John Gruber for Daring Fireball:

I despise the new tabs even when the “Show color in tab bar” and “Compact” layout settings are turned off. They don’t look like tabs. They look like buttons…

The “Separate” layout, with “Show color in tab bar” off, is the closest you can get to Safari’s previous tab design. These new “tabs” waste space because, like buttons, they’re spaced apart. Tabs that look like real-world tabs aren’t just a decorative style. They’re a visual metaphor. My brain likes visual metaphors. It craves them. And my brain is very much comfortable with the particular visual metaphor of tabs in a web browser window. Buttons do not work as a metaphor for multiple documents within a single window. Thus, trying to use the new Safari 15 on Mac (and iPadOS 15, alas), I feel somewhat disoriented working within Safari. I have to think, continuously, about something I have never had to think about since tabbed browsing became a thing almost 20 years ago.1 The design is counterintuitive: What sense does it make that no matter your settings, the active tab is rendered with less contrast between the tab title and the background than background tabs? The active tab should be the one that pops.

Joe Rossignol for MacRumors:

Apple has also inverted its shading of tabs, with an active tab now having darker shading and inactive tabs having lighter shading. The change has annoyed Gruber and other users, as evidenced by this Reddit thread with nearly 1,000 upvotes.

In a Safari 15 window with two tabs open, especially from the same website, Gruber said determining which tab is active is basically a guessing game. Gruber acknowledged that it is easier to discern the active tab when more than two tabs are open, but he said the confusion with exactly two tabs should have been reason enough to scrap the design change.

“I can’t tell you how many times I closed the tab that I needed because of this,” one Reddit user expressed in frustration.

Unfortunately for users who do not like the new design, Apple has not made any changes to the shading of tabs in either the Safari 15.1 beta or the latest version of the experimental Safari Technology Preview browser.