I struggled to update my ten year old iPhone because it didn’t have enough free storage. I followed this guidance (from Perplexity) to create some free space. (I also temporarily deleted the Apple Music app and reinstalled it after the operating system update.)
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Virtual Payment “Cards”
Something I’ve just become aware of – the ability to create and use on-off payment details for online retail purchases. This is a facility that’s appearing with the new payment cards – Revolut, Monzo and payment/transfer systems – Wyse. In essence you can setup your account to use payment details just once from your account and then they will be removed from your card, thus enabling you to protect the source of your payment.
Here’s a short presentation of what you can do, using Revolut as an example …
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Presentation 14th May 2026: Privacy & Security Settings
I’m loading this onto the website before the meeting so that you can download the PDFs and have them available to help you with what is a quite information intense subject.
The Presentation is quite a large document, so perhaps best to download and save, or just view online here which you can view in full-screen by clicking on the icon to enlarge in the bottom right-hand corner of the presentation box below …
You CAN download from the link in the bottom right-hand corner of the presentation box above as a PDF, but you are now able to download it as a Powerpoint presentation, from the ZIP file, which you will have to uncompressed to run.
The guide (do not print without looking at it first – large document – perhaps better to download and save on your device …
Here’s a short guide that’s easier to show to someone who’s not been to the sessions …
… and a couple of other notes. This one details why/how you should continue to use a Password Manager for those sites that haven’t implemented Passkeys as well as storing Passkeys …
… and then a couple of links that might be worth checking to review how you can move Passkeys to another device …
Moving your passkeys with the Apple Passwords app
… this is not just restricted to Apple, of course, and then if you’re a 1Password user you might like to look at this …