Learn how to encrypt folders on your Mac or lock them with the password to secure sensitive files and keep your data safe using built-in and third-party tools.
How to encrypt and password protect folders on Mac
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How to set the default view and sort order for a folder on Mac
Learn how to set the Finder on your Mac to always open a specific folder in your favorite view, with the files sorted and grouped in the order of your choosing.
How to find and delete duplicate files on Mac
In this tutorial, we will show you how to scan your Mac's drive to find and delete all duplicate files. This will help free up space and reduce clutter.
How to add a folder from your Finder Sidebar to the Dock on Mac
Learn how to quickly add a folder from your Finder’s Sidebar to the Dock on your Mac for even faster and easier access to those folder files.
How to customize folder icons on your Mac
Find out how to replace the default folder icon with a custom photo or logo to personalize your Finder experience on Mac.
How to create and use Smart Folders on Mac
Learn how to enhance your Mac's organization and boost productivity by creating and using Smart Folders in Finder.
How to customize the Finder Sidebar on your Mac
Learn how to customize the Finder sidebar on your Mac and make it your own with handy shortcuts to your drives, folders. network shares and more.
MotionPicture lets you use animated GIFs and video files as iPhone wallpapers
Despite Apple’s attempts to step up its iOS wallpaper experience in recent years, with dynamic wallpapers, Live Photos, and motion, it still leaves a lot to be desired. Fortunately, a new jailbreak tweak called MotionPicture by iOS developer Dev4i can help with this.
As you may have already inferred from the tweak’s name, MotionPicture lets you have moving wallpapers on your handset's Home screen and Lock screen. Furthermore, MotionPicture works with various file types, giving you the flexibility you deserve for a personalized experience.
Organize your Home screen’s app icons into stacks with Zenith
Perhaps one of my favorite jailbreak tweaks of all time was Apex 2, an organization mod for your iPhone’s Home screen that permitted you to have nested app icons instead of folders.
Apex 2, was unfortunately never updated for iOS 11, and so iOS developer Muirey03 took things into his own hands. The result? A brand-new jailbreak tweak called Zenith is now available in Cydia.
Shortcuts Focus: creating a folder for your shortcuts
With iOS 12's Shortcuts app, power users can easily automate repetitive tasks by chaining multiple actions together. Your shortcuts are managed and organized in the Shortcuts app, but displaying them to the user as a list via another shortcut is quite challenging. This is where Easy Folder comes into play. This awesome shortcut, create by Reddit user “e10withadot,” acts as a virtual folder to which you can add any number of shortcuts, then easily pick one to execute via a popup menu at run time.
How to add a recently opened files folder to your Dock
Learn how to add a folder to the Dock of your Mac that automatically gathers your recently opened files in real-time for convenient one-click access.
How to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder window
Do you have a hard time finding a folder on your Mac? Do you wish there was an easier way to access your data? A simple feature of macOS makes it simple to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder windows. Here's how to do it.