The TextEdit app that ships with every Mac could soon be making its way to iOS. Its icon was spotted on an iPad during a recent demonstration at WWDC, but Apple has made no mention of the app’s ...

If you don’t write all the time, then you probably don’t need a full-featured word processor, such as Microsoft Word () or Apple Pages (). But you still may want a flexible tool for handling text that ...

Poor little TextEdit! Despite having a rich history—starting life as Edit in the Next’s NextStep operating system before becoming a feature in Mac OS X—the app gets little regard. But it deserves our ...

For some silly reason, OS X’s TextEdit app’s default format is rich text. If you prefer plain text, Defaults Write points out that you can easily set that as your default with a Terminal command. All ...

Mac users authoring text snippets, composing content, writing copy and otherwise drafting notes and ideas commonly turn to macOS’ own TextEdit. While it’s a competent text app, there’s no natural ...

I'm working on a program that is writing a UTF-8 text file. This process works fine. What doesn't work fine is that TextEdit.app (and others) does not recognise it automatically as a UTF-8 text file, ...

iOS 8 returns to the spotlight as freshly leaked screenshot of numerous app icons surfaces online via Chinese social network Weibo. Healthbook, Preview and TextEdit app icons feature alongside a new ...