Category Archives: Warnings

You want AppleCare+, and you want to buy it from Apple!

You want AppleCare+, and you want to buy it from Apple! There are many places to buy a new iPhone, and ALL of them push their own iPhone insurance or some hybrid product, including AppleCare+. Do yourself a favor and buy your AppleCare from MacMedics, or you can buy it right on your new iPhone […]

Apple says: Don’t sleep on iPhones, power adapters, or wireless chargers, or place them under a blanket, pillow, or your body.

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There have been some mentions of this warning found in the iPhone user manual. It’s good advice! Also mentioned: Beware of non-Apple charge cables and power adapters. “Don’t sleep on a device, power adapter, or wireless charger, or place them under a blanket, pillow, or your body, when it’s connected to a power source. Keep […]

My own mother lost access to her Facebook account(s) because she had never set up Two Factor Authentication.

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My own mother lost access to her Facebook account(s) because she had never set up Two Factor Authentication. And yes, I checked! She WAS using a unique password only for Facebook, which was a suitable number of letters and numbers. She uses Facebook to support the books she has written about gardening. She had quite […]

Thanks for saving my laptop! MacMedics is the BEST!

“I was unfamiliar with MacMedics until today, and I cannot possibly articulate how happy I am with my experience! I was greeted with a smile and an eagerness to help me the minute I walked in the door. I admit I was reluctant to make the appointment since I always go to the Apple Store […]

Let’s talk about two-factor authentication.

Let’s talk about two-factor authentication. I’ve posted about this before, but my own mother, who put eleven years of hard work into her Facebook page to support the books she has authored, and her business Facebook page got hacked a few days ago. She did not have two-factor authentication turned on. The sad thing here […]

Last week my team and I rescued data from a 2009 MacBook Air with a bad logic board.

Last week my team and I rescued data from a 2009 MacBook Air with a bad logic board. This was the first MacBook Air that had two kinds of hard drives. The more common drive was a 1.8” spinning mini hard drive, the same one that Apple used in the iPod Video and Classic. The […]

World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke!

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World Backup Day was yesterday; today is April Fools’ Day. Backing up your data is no joke. I’m on a mission to ensure that all my customers have their data backed up. Almost every day, we see somebody lose some data in one way or another. The most common misconception is that customers think they’re […]

Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X flew away.”

Customer: “Damaged iPhone X – Please let me know if you guys can fix it. MacMedics: “Sure, What’s wrong with it?” Customer: “I was driving and recording at the same time, and I put my hand out of the sunroof, and my iPhone X 256 GB flew away from my hand because I was driving […]

Shoulder Surfing, it’s back and it’s your iPhone PIN code they are after!

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Shoulder Surfing, it’s back! Thanks to the Accidental Tech Podcast (https://atp.fm/) for tipping us off to this video article from the Wall Street Journal. This is a two-pronged attack. 1. Theves can resell your iPhone when they have your PIN Code, as they can turn off Find my iPhone. 2. The bad guys can steal […]

Yet another senior citizen MacMedics customer got ripped off for $6000!

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Yet another senior citizen MacMedics customer got ripped off for $6000! If fact, this high-value slick scam is so common that while I was checking out one customer who got taken for $6000 that he is NEVER getting back, another customer who ALSO got rooked for $6k in 2022 was also in the store at […]