This is senior editor Dan Moren. We take networking for granted these days, but it’s still a complicated beast. If you want to go under the hood, Apple includes a suite of tools on your Mac to help ...

Apple's macOS Big Sur update introduces new battery usage tools and brings back battery life time estimates, but deprecates the Network Utility tool. In macOS Big Sur, there's a battery Usage History ...

Network Utility was a fixture of macOS from its early days through macOS 11 Big Sur, when Apple dropped it, instead directing users to use command line tools. Apple’s argument seemed to be that the ...

Last week, Apple released macOS 14.6.1, macOS 13.6.9, iOS 17.6.1, and iPadOS 17.6.1 to fix problems with turning Advanced Data Protection on and off. In macOS 11 Big Sur, Apple deprecated Network ...

If you have a Mac, there is no need to download new software to test your LAN speed. Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Lion and Mountain Lion computers include a built-in Network Utility that will test your ...

The Mac’s Systems Preferences Network applet enables configuring network settings, while the Network Utility (found within Applications\Utilities) provides a graphical interface for troubleshooting ...