By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
One of the more charming features of iOS 14 are the extra widget options you can add to your Home screen. Adding these can range from fun, such as adding featured photos to take you back to your favorite moments, to useful, such as having the weather front and center for your daily planning. Luckily, widgets are easy to add so you can customize your home screen to your exact taste. Let's get started.
By Leanne Hays
iPadOS 14 is finally here! If you haven't received an Apple software update notice on your iPad, be patient; Apple rolls out its new iPad software update gradually, beginning on the release date. Apple's new iPadOS update includes overall improved speed and performance, as well as updates to apps, augmented reality, the Apple Pencil, and many other improvements and fixes. Ready to update to the latest iPadOS update, iPadOS 14? If you've been wondering, "how do I update my iPad?", we’ll cover which iPads are compatible with iPadOS 14, how to get the iPadOS 14 download, and how to update to iPadOS 14 so you can begin to take advantage of the new iPad software capabilities and features right away.
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 are meant to buy later on your Home Screen, read on to learn how to edit Featured Photos to remove unwanted shots.
By Leanne Hays
iPad and iPhone emojis are a great way to add a little flair to messages and other text you type in the Messages app, or any other app that lets you use your iPad or iPhone keyboard. Now, with iOS 14, Apple has made iOS emojis easier to find and use than ever before with the new emoji search feature. Let's learn how to use this emoji finder to quickly locate the emoji you want on your emoji keyboard.
By Erin Smith
AirPrint is one of the coolest Apple features, in my opinion. I no longer have to save and send something to print it, I can just print directly from my Apple device! Unfortunately, the appeal of this feature that means it really bugs me when I can't get AirPrint to work on my iPhone, iPad, or other compatible devices. Fortunately this problem is most commonly caused by something that can be easily fixed. Here's a step-by-step guide to fixing the "no AirPrint printers found" error.
By Leanne Hays
Apple's latest iOS update, iOS 14, allows iPhone users to pin their most important contacts and group texts to the top of the Messages app, making it faster and easier to send a text message to the people you message the most. You can pin up to nine text threads, which will appear at the top of your Main Messages page as circular icons. It's quick and easy to pin a contact or group message to the top of your Messages, and, if you change your mind about it later, it's just as fast to unpin it. Let's learn how.
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article will help you get into your iPhone if you can't remember your passcode, as well as offer some tips on how to keep track of and remember your passcode. The realization that you forgot your iPhone password can range from frustrating to terrifying. Perhaps you just got a new iPhone and can't yet remember the code, maybe it's a new one you haven't opened in a while, or maybe your brain is just stubbornly not giving you the information. Whatever the reason, when try after try yields nothing but an increasing time that your iPhone is disabled, it's time to look into other options. Let's look at how to unlock your iPhone if you forgot the password.
By Cullen Thomas
Learn how to add, customize, and use widgets in iOS 14. Want to add widgets on your iPhone's home screen? We can finally do it. The update to iOS 14 has let iPhones add widgets not just in the Today View, but on the Home screen too. In iOS, Widgets have previously been off to the side, stuck on the Today View which you access by swiping left on the Home screen. While the widgets can offer all kinds of useful data, leaving them buried in a special drawer, all scrunched together, definitely limited their usefulness. With the release of iOS 14, you can add them anywhere you want, set them to one of three sizes, and even customize their contents. This brings a lot more versatility and customization to the iPhone Home screen.
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
A new feature introduced in iOS 14 is the iPhone App Library. The App Library automatically sorts your apps into folders and also offers an alphabetical directory where you can search for any app you have downloaded. This takes away the difficulty of searching through your Home screen for lesser-used apps, and offers helpful suggestions when you're not sure which of your apps would best suit your purpose. In the mood for a game, but don't know which one? See them all in one place. So let's take a look at how to use the App Library.
By iPhone Life Team
This article shows the quickest ways to silence the Apple Watch, as well as different ways to mute Apple Watch notifications, including enabling Apple Watch Theater Mode. Here's how to mute the Apple Watch temporarily or for longer durations.
By Erin Smith
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.
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
This article will tell you how to access, use, and customize your App Library. One of the improvements iOS 14 brings is is greater iPhone organization options, and perhaps the best example of that is the new App Library. Not only does it help you clean up your Home screen to prevent endless scrolling through pages of apps, but enables you to manage the apps on your iPhone in a straightforward and intuitive way. Read on to learn how to organize your apps using the new App Library on iOS 14.
By Leanne Hays
Apple Music is a paid music streaming service that offers over 60 million songs, ad-free. Despite this huge library of songs, there's an ongoing Apple Music vs. Spotify debate over which music streaming service is more versatile. Now, with iOS 14, Apple Music is adding features like Autoplay that make it more user friendly and well rounded. So, what does Autoplay mean, and how do you turn on Autoplay and turn off Autoplay in the Apple Music app? Let's find out.
By Erin Smith
Has your iPhone or iPad suddenly stopped automatically connecting to known wireless networks such as your home Wi-Fi? This is a common question for iPhone 11 users but sometimes comes up for other Apple devices as well. It doesn’t necessarily mean the internet is not working on your iPhone. It’s more likely that a setting on your device is the culprit, but it’s easy to fix. Let’s learn how to change or reset your Wi-Fi settings so that your device will connect automatically to Wi-Fi again.
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
In addition to the AirPod settings in your iPhone’s Bluetooth menu, Apple’s AirPods Pro have many features to explore in the Accessibilty menu that provide different ways on how to customize your AirPods and change the settings on your AirPods Pro. Whether it is adjusting your AirPods’ click speed, click duration, or noise cancellation features, you are one step closer to customizing your AirPods for your next long-distance run or lunchbreak at work. In the AirPods Pro settings in the Bluetooth menu, users can adjust Noise Control options and take an Ear Tip Fit Test, but in this article, we will teach you how to customize your AirPods and how to change settings on AirPods Pro through the Accessibility menu in your iPhone’s Settings.
