I take a screenshot on my iPhone several times a day, so I'm happy that Apple has introduced a new way to take a screenshot. One of the new iOS 14 features Apple has rolled out is Back Tap, a set of shortcuts that allow iPhone users to double or triple tap the back of their phones to perform various tasks. Back Tap is a great iPhone accessibility feature for people with reduced dexterity or limited vision, but being able to take a screenshot with a few taps on the back of our iPhones is convenient for everyone. Let's learn how to take a screenshot on your iPhone using Back Tap. Back Tap works with the iPhone 8 and later, including the iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone 11, 11 Pro, and the new iPhone 12 line.
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How to Find Imports in the Photos App on an iPhone & iPad
By Leanne Hays
Are you wondering, "how do I find my photos and videos I imported to my iPhone?" There's a section just for imported media in the Photos app where you can easily find all the images and videos you've saved from text messages, the web, and more. We'll show you how to find Imports, and filter for pictures, video, edited media, and favorites, so it's easier to find the image or video you're searching for.
Coolest Ways to Use Markup on the iPhone
By Olena Kagui
Markup is a nifty iPhone feature that allows users to doodle, magnify, and place text on images and PDFs in the Photos, Mail, Notes, Files, and Messenger apps. Whether you need to add a signature, insert text or draw shapes onto existing documents or images, Markup has you covered. Learn to save time when signing digital documents as well as add your personal flair to your images. Markup is a powerful tool that is great for business as well as entertainment and is compatible with the Photos, Messages, and Mail apps.
Are you wondering how to organize photos on your iPhone? You can make a folder to hold multiple photo albums and other folders! Unfortunately, you can't move already existing photo albums into an album folder you create; hopefully, that feature will be added in a future operating system. Let's go over how to add a folder to the Photos app on your iPhone.
How to Draw Perfect Shapes on Your iPhone or iPad
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article will tell you how to draw perfect shapes on your iPhone and iPad. Whether you just like to doodle or are looking to mark up your photos, you might be interested in how to draw shapes on your iPhone perfectly. Maybe you want to add a heart to a photo of you and your family but don't like the way yours look, or you're trying to create a geometric pattern in your notes app, or want to teach a child about shapes and how they're made. Whatever your reason, learning the trick to draw shapes on your iPhone or iPad perfectly can save you from downloading third-party sticker or design apps. Perfect shapes make for easy drawing on your iPad and iPhone, so let's get started!
Why Is Location Search Not Working in Photos on iPhone?
By Erin Smith
Location Services on your iPhone lets Apple apps (like the Camera app) and third-party apps (like your banking app) figure out where you're located while using your phone. When iPhone Photo Location Services is turned on and you take a photo, it'll tag your photo with your current location. This way, you can search through the photos that you took on your vacation to Bora Bora or in your own hometown. Location Services uses Wi-Fi or cellular data plus GPS services to find your location. If you're connected to data or Wi-Fi but your photos aren't being tagged, we have a few simple fixes for you to try. Here's how to get Photos Location Services working again.
In the past, iPhone users had to use a photo caption app to caption their photos. Now, with iOS 14, iPhone photographers can add captions to photos right in the Photos app. If iCloud photo library is enabled, these captions will sync to the cloud and be visible on all Apple devices signed in with the same Apple ID. This also means that we can now do a photo search by caption, as well as an iPhone search by image or by location, as we could with previous operating systems. We've already gone over how to add captions to iPhone photos. Now, let's go over how to search your iPhone pictures for the photo you're looking for using captions.
An iPhone camera is all you need to capture exciting action photography. Burst Mode and Live Photos each have sligtly different functions, and can be used in different situations to help you capture the best shot every time. We'll discuss which mode will also capture sound, which mode allows you the easiest selection between different stills, and where you might use each. Here's how and when to use Burst and Live photo functions on your iPhone.
How to Get the Photos App to Stop Showing You People You Don't Want to See
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article will tell you how and why to use Suggest Less in the People album of your Photos app. The People album on your iPhone can be full of all sorts of wonderful suggestions of photos to look at and memories to revisit. But, like anything based on algorithms, it doesn't always hit the mark. It's helpful to tag faces in the People album on your iPhone because you can search and keep track of the people in your photos easily, but just because you tag someone doesn't mean you want their picture popping up in a memory. Memory videos of your family can be wonderful, but you don't need a whole collage of that acquaintance that shows up at all the same events as you. Luckily, you can tell Photos to Suggest Less of any person tagged on your phone, and make sure only your top people are regularly suggested to you. Let's dive in! For more great tips on how to get the most out of your Photos app, check out our Tip of the Day.
Review: Philips Hue Play Smart Lighting
By Mike Riley
Due to its early establishment in the consumer autonomous lighting space, the Philips Hue brand has been one of the most successful and prolific in the home automation market. The Philips Hue Play product line intends to elevate their capabilities beyond simply turning lights on and off by augmenting the home entertainment experience. Are these expensive enhancements worth the aesthetic response they elicit when activated? Read on to find out.
Apple introduced the ability to take full page, or scrolling, screenshots in Safari with iOS 13. In addition to web pages, users can take a full page screenshot in the iPhone Notes app and iPad Notes app. This means that, rather than capturing only the section of the note that's visible on your display, you'll now be able to do a full page screen capture on your iPhone or iPad. Let's get started learning how to screenshot a whole note on your iPhone or iPad. You can use this tip to learn how to take a full page screenshot on the iPhone SE (first generation) and later models, including the iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, iPhone 11, and the iPhone 12 series. You can also take a full page screengrab in the Notes app with the Pad Air 2 and later, all iPad Pro models, the iPad 5th generation and later, and the iPad mini 4 and later.
How to Filter Photos in the iPhone Photos App in iOS 14
By Erin Smith
I don't know about you, but I have a lot of photos and videos on my iPhone, and it's not usually easy to find the exact one I'm looking for. I especially don't want to have to scan through unedited versions while looking for the edited version of a photo; it's so hard to tell by the thumbnail if I'm picking the right one. Fortunately, iOS 14 updates to the Photos app have brought us a lot more tricks for filtering and finding photos on your iPhone. Here's how to use filters in the All Photos section of your Photos app.
New Ways to Use the Photos & Camera Apps in iOS 14: Sort, Caption, Organize & Filter Photos
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article covers all the new features in Photos and Camera apps in iOS 14 including how to add captions to photos, how to filter photos, the best way to organize photos, how to create a memory or make a slideshow from an album, how to save mirror selfies to your camera roll, and how to take burst photos on the iPhone using the volume controls. Some of the most exciting new features introduced with iOS 14 are in the Apple Photos and Camera apps. Let's take a look at what's new and how best to utilize these features.
How to Use Effect Suggestions in the Photos App in iOS 14
By Hannah Nichols
In iOS 14, the Photos App has some great new features. One of the new features is Effect Suggestions, and it uses intelligent suggestions to improve the quality of the photos you took with the iPhone Camera. This new iOS feature will help you edit your photos to be the best possible. Effect Suggestions selects photos that could be improved by adding a filter, adjusting the light, creating a loop, or by utilizing other effects available on your iPhone.
How to Customize Which Photos Each App Can Access (New for iOS 14)
By Hannah Nichols
Customizing which photos individual apps can access is a great security feature. Now, you do not have to allow every app to access all of your photos. You can grant access to a few photos or even just one depending on what you are using the app for. In this article, you will learn how to customize the photos an app can access on your iPhone. This is a feature new to iOS 14. You must have iOS 14 on your iPhone in order to utilize this setting.
How to Add Captions to iPhone Photos in iOS 14
By Erin Smith
Did you know that iOS 14 comes with a built-in feature that allows you to add captions to photos on your iPhone? Users no longer have to seek an extra app to add captions, and any captions added in the iPhone library will sync to the cloud if iCloud Photo Library is enabled. This means captions created on your iPhone will be visible on all of your devices that have access to the iCloud. I’ll freely admit I’ve been waiting for this update for ages; this will make searching iPhone photos using Siri and the photo search bar much simpler and more accurate. Here’s how to add captions to iPhone photos.
How to Remove a Photo from the Photos Widget on the iPhone (New for iOS 14)
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article tells you how to remove a featured photo from the Featured Photos widget on iPhone. The Featured Photos widget that is available with iOS 14 is a fun way to look back at some of your best memories without having to scroll through your entire camera roll; but since your iPhone curates this selection for you, not everything it chooses will be Home Screen worthy. If you don't want to be presented with a photo of you blinking or of a product you meant to buy later on your Home Screen, read on to learn how to edit Featured Photos to remove unwanted shots.
Here we’ll take a look at what this feature does, how to create shared albums, and how to share photo albums on your iPhone in the Photos app. We share a lot of moments with friends, and those moments are best captured by photos and memories. Unfortunately, it’s often hard to consolidate all of the photos taken at an event or gathering, especially if many people took pictures, or you tend to forget like I do. Apple has risen to the occasion by adding the Sharing Suggestions feature to the iPhone Photos app.
How to Automatically Save Pictures Taken in the iPhone Notes App to Your Camera Roll
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
Being able to add pictures to your Notes app is a fun and useful way to increase its value. Whether you want to snap a picture of a shopping list, grab an image for a project, or help yourself remember what image goes with which words, taking pictures with the iPhone Notes app is a great option. It can be frustrating, though, when we expect a picture we took to be in our camera roll only to find it's only in the Note where we originally took the pictures. Here how to save Notes app pictures to your Camera Roll in iOS 14.
The 2 Fastest Ways to Organize Photos on an iPhone
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
Forget scrolling through your entire camera roll picture by picture to find vacation pictures or to create a compilation of your favorite people, and instead group them quickly and save them all at once into an album or memory for your enjoyment whenever you want to look. Here are the two quickest ways to organize photos on your iPhone. Since the Photos app isn't the most intuitive when it comes to sorting, you may be wondering about the best way to organize photos on the iPhone in a quick and easy way. While there are several different ways to do this, including downloading photo organization apps, there are easy and streamlined ways to sort your photos quickly and without complication in the iPhone Photos app.
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