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Let’s say you’re listening to music using your fantastic Bluetooth speaker and you get a call. When you answer that call, it will probably default to your iPhone. But what if you want the call to automatically default to you speaker? Or your headphones? You can choose where your call audio defaults to in your settings on iPhone. Here’s how to set your speaker or headphones as the default audio on iPhone.

Sometimes, whether it's an ex or an obnoxious telemarketer, a person just won't get the message and stop calling you. That's when it's time to block their calls. There’s no need to put up with unwanted messages or calls. Enabling call blocking for a specific number means you will no longer receive phone calls, FaceTime calls, text messages, or iMessages from that number. Here’s how to block unwanted calls and messages.

Your ringtone on iPhone lets you know when you have an incoming call or text. Since you’re likely to hear the sound often, it’s nice to choose one you like. You can choose to use a ringtone that Apple has built-in. But you can also use ringtones you’ve purchased within the iTunes Store on your iPhone. Here’s how to change your default ringtone on iPhone.

I had no idea this was a thing until I started looking for an answer. Let me explain: my mom has been slowly adjusting to using an iPhone. With her old flip phone, she merely closed the phone to hang up the call. But with an iPhone, you have to press the big red dot on the screen. But for her, it felt more intuitive to press the Home button. So she found herself thinking she’d hung up the phone when she hadn’t. This let me to search for an easy solution. There’s no setting on iPhone that allows you to use your Home button to hang up a call, but you can use a different button. Here’s how to hang up your iPhone with the click of a button.

Dial Assist on iPhone is meant to automatically add international and local prefixes to numbers you call. This is designed to be helpful, particularly when calling internationally since using the correct prefix is important. But people who travel often may simply save the full number with prefix in their contacts, making Dial Assist redundant. Our web editor, Sarah Kingsbury has had her own issue with the feature working, which inspired this tip. Here’s how to turn dial assist off on iPhone.

A couple years back, Apple decided to give U2’s album, Songs of Innocence to all iPhone users. To which iPhone users replied, “how do I remove this damn thing?” If you’ve recently discovered this album on your iPhone, you may have wondered how it got there. Well if you want to remove that U2 album, we’ll cover how to delete the U2 album on iPhone and from your iTunes library. Deleting U2’s Songs of Innocence album from your iPhone is easy, but there’s a special trick for deleting the U2 album from iTunes. No worries, we’ll cover everything you need to know. Here’s how to remove U2 album Songs of Innocence from iPhone and iTunes.

Removing a song from your Apple Music library is as easy as adding a song. If the song you’re deleting is downloaded on your iPhone, you’ll have two options when removing it: Remove Download and Delete from Library. We’ll go over what each of those mean and how to delete songs from your Apple Music library below.

3D Touch on iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 6s, and 6s Plus allows you to jump into a specific place within an app using Quick Actions. This is done from Home screen by 3D Touching an app icon. Options for jumping into the app will pop up and you can select one. For example, the Settings app has Quick Actions for jumping to the settings for Wi-Fi, Battery, Bluetooth, and Cellular Data. Here’s how to jump into apps with 3D Touch on iPhone.

iCloud Music Library on iPhone with Apple Music allows you to amass a huge collection of songs without those songs taking up download space on your iPhone. But our iPhones (especially the iPhone 7) have enough storage for most music listeners to keep it local, if desired. Apple Music doesn’t currently offer a one-step solution to downloading all your songs for offline listening on your iPhone. But I have a workaround you can use with iTunes on your computer. If you’re trying to make all your music available offline in Apple Music, this will be the easiest way to do it—at least until Apple hears our cries for an easy way to download all songs at once. In the meantime, here’s how to make all your music available offline in Apple Music.

You can personalize ringtones on iPhone by assigning different sounds and songs to individual contacts. That way when a friend calls, you’ll immediately know which friend it is based on the sound. You can set a personalized ringtone for each individual contact on iPhone if your heart so desires. This ringtone customization has been around for awhile, so your iOS should have no problem even if it’s a little older. Here’s how to assign personalized ringtones to individual contacts on iPhone.

Do you ever find a number you want to call that isn’t automatically highlighted on iPhone? Don’t go back and forth trying to remember that seven-digit code, just copy and paste it into the Phone keypad. Some numbers you find when going through apps on iPhone are highlighted blue. Those numbers allow you to simply tap the number and select call. But I’ve also come across numbers I needed to call that weren’t highlighted. When that happens, here’s the easiest way to call that number on iPhone: copy and paste a number into phone keypad.

If you have multiple numbers and email addresses associated with FaceTime, you can set which one will appear as your caller ID. Setting your caller ID will allow the person receiving your call to always see the same contact and know it’s you. Your caller ID can be your phone number or linked email account, depending on your preference. We'll cover how to change your Facetime caller ID in a just a few easy steps. 

Like Photos, when voicemails are deleted they move to a Recently Deleted folder, which allows you to recover a voicemail you didn’t mean to delete or need to listen to again. How long voicemail messages remain in your Deleted Messages folder depends on your carrier. I have Verizon and the oldest deleted voicemail in my folder is from ten months ago. You can also clear the deleted messages, permanently deleting them from your iPhone. Here’s how to recover a recently deleted voicemail on iPhone.

With iOS 10, Siri can announce incoming calls. When the iPhone has an incoming call, Siri will let you know who is calling out loud. This iOS 10 feature is an accessibility feature but it’s also helpful when you’re running, biking, or keeping your iPhone in your pocket. Luckily, unlike some other iOS 10 features, Siri announcing incoming calls isn’t limited to newer iPhones. Here’s how to get Siri to announce incoming callers with iOS 10.

A lot of people are asking, "How do you use Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10 on iPhone?" The feature itself is pretty easy to use, but it can be a little glitchy. If it's not working, check to make sure your phone is running iOS 10 or later. Here, we'll go over some troubleshooting tips you can do to get Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10 working again.

What is Voicemail Transcription in iOS 10? It allows you to simply read a transcription of the voicemail sent to you. Once read, you can listen to the voicemail if you feel like the transcription missed a piece of information. You can also let Apple know whether or not the Voicemail Transcription was useful. The feature is still being improved, but it certainly is nice to have. Here’s how to use voicemail transcription in iOS 10.

There’s a lot or a little you can access from your Lock screen on iPhone, depending on the settings you choose to enable. For easy access to features you often use, you can customize what is available from your Lock screen and turn on features such as Siri and Reply with Message. However, if you're concerned about privacy, there are some features you may want to turn off. Here’s how to customize iPhone Lock screen access.

SIM cards (Subscriber Identity Module cards) are how carriers connect your iPhone to their network; they also makes it easy to keep your number when switching phones. If you get a new iPhone, you may end up needing to remove the SIM card from your old phone and insert it into the new iPhone. You may also want to switch one SIM card for another when traveling abroad in order to use a local carrier. Most modern phones have SIM cards, and if you have an iPhone 4s or later, your phone definitely has a SIM card slot in case it’s needed. Here’s how to remove or insert a SIM card from your iPhone.

I don’t know about you, but I record a lot of Voice Memos. They’re a great way to capture a random thought or idea to save for transcription later. However, what if you want to save those memos on your computer? You can easily sync your voice memos to your computer the way you sync your music. Of course, you'll need to use iTunes to do this, but it's a simple change to make. Here’s how to transfer your Voice Memos from iPhone to your computer.