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Who Accepts Apple Pay? A List of Stores + How to Find Apple Pay Locations Nearby

By Paula Bostrom

From big chain stores to small businesses, Apple Pay is accepted at over four million locations. Still, it's not always obvious whether or not a retailer accepts Apple Pay. If you want to know where Apple Pay is accepted, there are a couple different methods to use. I’ll include a general list of stores that you can use Apple Pay at; but it would be nearly impossible to list all the stores, which is why I’ll also give you some tips on how to find Apple Pay locations near you. You can actually view places that take Apple Pay in the Maps app on your iPhone or iPad, which is the most accurate way I’ve found for knowing what stores, whether local or corporate, accept Apple Pay. So, who accepts Apple Pay? Let’s take a look at where you can use Apple Pay.

How to Download Apple’s New Clips App on iPhone or iPad

By Conner Carey

Apple recently released a new app for iOS 10.3 users and beyond. The new Clips app can be downloaded on iPhone or iPad. In short, the Clips app is a video creation app that allows you to add captions, effects, filters, and music, and then share it with your friends. I was skeptical of the app at first, thinking it would be gimmicky. But after writing a full-length how-to on using the app, I’m impressed with its features, particularly the ability to record and have the app automatically turn your voice into captions. The Clips app removes the social part of social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram in favor of focusing on the awesome shareable videos you can create. Here’s how to download Apple’s new Clips app on your iPhone or iPad.

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How to Keep Your Camera From Tracking Your Location on iPhone

By Rheanne Taylor

Having a difficult time remembering where that picture from your spontaneous trip to the beach was taken? Or at what time you captured that beautiful sunset? The great thing about geotagging on iPhone is that you’ll never be left wondering when or where a particular photo was taken again—but for many, that might not be such a good thing. If revealing your location is a concern, you can easily turn this feature off. Here’s how to keep your camera from tracking your location on iPhone.

How to Hide a Photo from the People Album on iPhone

By Conner Carey

The People album on iPhone with iOS 10 or later allows you to group photos of individual people together in their own album. One feature we recently discovered is the ability to hide specific photos in a person’s album. Let’s say there’s a photo of them you don’t want others to see if they were to look at their album, you can hide the photo so that it’s not easy to find. Here’s how to hide a photo from a People album on iPhone.

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How to See Lyrics on iPhone While Listening to Music

By Becca Ludlum

How you view lyrics on iPhone will vary depending on what music streaming service you use and how you decide to display lyrics. Apple Music in iOS 10 adds lyrics to songs but usually only popular songs, which means you may still want to use an app to add or view lyrics that can’t be displayed by Apple. Don’t worry though, we’ll go over lots of ways in which you can see lyrics on iPhone while playing your music, from Apple Music to Spotify and more. We’ll also cover our favorite websites and the best app for adding and viewing lyrics. Here’s how to see get lyrics on iPhone while listening to your music.

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How to Delete a Playlist on iPhone

By Conner Carey

Creating and sharing Playlists in Apple Music on iPhone is one of my favorite features. Sure, it’s simple and it’s been around forever, but creating playlists never gets old to me. However, old playlists tend to pile up. Before you know it, you’ve got fifty playlists and about five that you actually listen to. If it’s starting to get out of hand, you can simple delete a playlist (or many). Here’s how to delete a playlist on iPhone.

iCloud Guide: Top Tips for Understanding and Using iCloud

By Guest Author


When Apple introduced iCloud in the summer of 2011, it was groundbreaking in recognizing the need for a hassle-free method of updating information and content across devices. A lot has happened to iCloud since that introduction. Today, with 800 million worldwide users and growing, Apple's iCloud is THE GLUE that binds all our Apple devices and all our information together. So to stay in tune with these changing times, it's essential that we familiarize ourselves with iCloud and its key features. To give iCloud its due, iPhonelife is partnering up with our friends at AppleToolBox to explore and discuss some of the common questions that iFolks have around using iCloud. We'll also give you a sneak peak into some of the planned features in iOS 10.3.

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How to Let Senders Know You Have Read Their iMessage on iPhone

By Sarah Kingsbury

Read receipts notify the senders of iMessages when the recipient reads the message. This is either great or evil depending on your perspective. My colleague and his wife both have read receipts turned on on their phones. That way if a timely iMessage doesn't get read right away, they can call each other instead. Other people prefer that the senders of messages not get notified. That way there is no pressure for an immediate reply. Whichever camp you fall in, you'll need to know how to to turn read receipts on or off.

How to Enable and Use Apple Maps Extensions (Lyft, OpenTable, etc) on iPhone

By Conner Carey

With iOS 10, Apple Maps got a huge, and needed, upgrade. The Maps app is now capable of doing a whole lot more, including connecting to third-party apps on your device. For example, let’s say you want to make a restaurant reservation. If you have your reservation app-enabled for use with Apple Maps, then you can look for a restaurant, make the reservation, and get directions all within the Maps app. Here’s how to enable and use Apple Maps extensions on iPhone.

How to Transfer Photos from iPhone to Computer (Mac, PC, iCloud, & Airdrop)

By iPhone Life Team

If you’re looking to transfer photos from your iPhone to your computer, you have lots of options. The classic way of getting your pictures off iPhone is to use the built-in Photos app both Mac and PC offer. This method of importing photos involves plugging your iPhone into your computer. But you can download photos to your computer wirelessly by using iCloud, or if you have a recent Mac, you can use Airdrop for an incredibly easy transfer of your photos to computer. Getting photos off your iPhone may be frustrating but it doesn’t have to be. Our devices have become our go-to cameras, which means we can’t avoid importing our pictures from iPhone to computer forever. Whether you have a Mac or PC, we’ll cover transferring pictures from iPhone to computer for each. Then we’ll cover using iCloud and Airdrop as popular alternatives. You've got plenty of photos to import from iPhone; don't leave them there without backup pictures. This article will make transferring your pictures from iPhone or iPad to computer (Mac or PC) a breeze.

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