Apple Vision Pro User Guide
- Welcome
- Let others use your Apple Vision Pro
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- Capture
- Clock
- Encounter Dinosaurs
- Mindfulness
- Numbers
- Pages
- Shazam
- Shortcuts
- Tips
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- Use built-in privacy and security protections
- Keep your Apple ID secure
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- Sign in with passkeys
- Sign in with Apple
- Automatically fill in strong passwords
- Change weak or compromised passwords
- View your passwords and related information
- Use shared password groups
- Share passkeys and passwords securely with AirDrop
- Make your passkeys and passwords available on all your devices
- Automatically fill in verification codes
- Sign in with fewer CAPTCHA challenges on Apple Vision Pro
- Manage two-factor authentication for your Apple ID
- Create and manage Hide My Email addresses
- Protect your web browsing with iCloud Private Relay
- Use a private network address
- Use Contact Key Verification on Apple Vision Pro
- Copyright
Solve crossword puzzles in Apple News+ on Apple Vision Pro
Apple News+ subscribers can solve daily crossword and crossword mini puzzles. Nonsubscribers may be able to play a few puzzles for free.
Note: Puzzles aren’t available in all countries or regions.
View the Puzzles feed
To view the Puzzles feed, do one of the following:
Tap Puzzles in the sidebar.
Tap Today, then tap the Puzzles group.
Follow the feed for a puzzle type
After opening the Puzzles feed, tap Crossword or Crossword Mini, tap , then tap Follow.
A Puzzles category appears in the sidebar with the puzzle types appearing below. To make them favorites, tap Edit, tap next to a puzzle type, then tap Done.
Choose a puzzle
Apple News+ subscribers can solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles. You can choose to solve new puzzles or puzzles from the archive. Each puzzle has a difficulty rating—easy, moderate, or challenging.
Go to one of the following areas to find a puzzle:
the Puzzles group in the Today feed
the Puzzles feed in the sidebar
the feed for a puzzle type (crossword or crossword mini)
Tap a puzzle to open it.
The Puzzles group in the Today feed may display a featured clue, and squares for the letters in the corresponding word. You can enter your answer right in the Today feed, and when you’re done, tap to open the puzzle.
Solve puzzles
You can navigate and solve crossword and crossword mini puzzles in multiple ways. For example, you can display puzzles in the traditional grid view, or instead choose to show clues and answers in a list. You can tap squares to select words, or choose clues from a list.
Grid view: Tap a square to show the clue below the puzzle, then use the keyboard to enter the answer. You move to other squares as you type. You can also tap < or > next to the clue to move to the previous or next clue.
List view: To show clues and answers in a list rather than the traditional grid, tap . Tap to return to grid view.
You don’t have to solve puzzles all at once; you can return at any time. The timer pauses while you’re away.
Puzzle options
If you’re unsure of an answer you’ve entered, you can get a little help. Tap , where you find the following options:
Autocheck: Tap Autocheck to check the letters you’ve entered, and any letters you enter later. Any incorrect letters are marked with a slash.
Check Square, Check Word, Check Puzzle: Tap an option to see any incorrect letters, indicated by slashes.
Reveal: Tap Reveal, then tap Square, Word, or Puzzle to display the correct answer.
Note: When you reveal the entire puzzle, it’s completely filled in and considered to be solved.
Clear Puzzle: If you’d like a fresh start, you can clear a puzzle’s answers and reset the timer.
Puzzle settings
Tap , then tap Settings to change these settings:
Show Timer: Tap Show Timer to show or hide the timer that appears above each puzzle. (You can also tap to show or hide it.)
Highlight Linked Clues: Some puzzles have clues that reference other clues. You can choose whether to highlight the words that correspond to these clues.
Always Autocheck: If you turn on Autocheck while solving a crossword or crossword mini, it stays on for all puzzles of that type until you turn it off.
Skip Filled Squares: By default, after entering a letter, the next empty square in the puzzle is selected. Turn this setting off to select the square to the right or the square below, whether or not it’s filled.
At End of Word: Choose Advance If Complete, Always Advance, or Don’t Advance.
You can also tap to learn more about the puzzle, and share it with Messages, Mail, and more.
View past puzzles
View puzzles from the archives: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, then swipe up to view the most recent puzzles in the archive.
View the complete puzzle archive: Open the Crossword or Crossword Mini feed, swipe up, then tap next to Archive. You can also tap , then choose Crossword Archive or Crossword Mini Archive.
To show sorting and filtering options, tap . You can sort both archives from newest to oldest or oldest to newest. You can filter crossword puzzles by completeness and difficulty. You can filter the puzzles in the crossword mini archive by completeness only.
Get Puzzles notifications
Swipe to the bottom of the sidebar, then tap Notifications & Email.
Turn on notifications for Puzzles.
Remove the Puzzles group from Today
In the Today feed, swipe up to Puzzles, then tap .
Tap Block from Today.
When you block Puzzles, the group no longer appears in your Today feed.