Joanna Stern

Slow Wi-Fi? Incessant notifications? Slack taking over your life? You aren’t alone. WSJ’s Joanna Stern provides daily solutions to readers’ tech problems. She has gathered them here.

The latest version, iOS 13.5, includes features like faster unlocking by people wearing face masks, Covid-19 exposure-notification app support and improved group FaceTime calling

Contact-tracing apps aim to help health authorities trace paths of coronavirus infection, and in many cases, to notify users that they’ve been near a person infected by Covid-19. Yet while trying to solve one big problem, they create a lot more small ones.

After years of trying to fix its flawed butterfly keyboard, Apple has put an end to it. The latest MacBook is the last to receive the new “magic” keyboard, based on an older, more reliable design.

A combo of high performance, neat camera tricks and a tried and trusted design make the new $399 iPhone SE one of the best Apple values in years.

The $399 second-generation iPhone SE is now Apple’s most affordable smartphone and looks almost exactly like the iPhone 8, yet has a faster processor. It also has a smaller screen and home button.

The coronavirus pandemic means we must wear masks, which makes unlocking our smartphones more difficult. There are hacked solutions, but the best advice is from medical pros who have dealt with this for years.

Many are facing bigger concerns than new gadgets right now, but laptops are crucial in this moment of self-isolation, and Apple’s latest entry-level model rights all its past wrongs. Too bad about its webcam, though.

Thanks to the Great Stay-at-Home Experiment of 2020, gadgets are backordered, but there’s plenty you can do with your old ones.

All it took was a pandemic to make Facebook’s privacy-challenged products seem highly appealing.