Smart Office Gear: Best Accessories for Workplace Productivity
By iPhone Life Team
The iPhone Life team has rounded up some of our favorite productivity-boosting tools and gear to recommend to all of you. Whether you're looking for just the right wireless printer, a keyboard cover for your iPad, a set of headphones, or a standing desk to keep in shape while you work, we've got you covered. Read on to find the gear that you need in your work life.
Best Job Search Apps to Build Your Career
By Anjerika Wilmer
Are you ready to change jobs or looking for the next rung on your career ladder? Peruse our list of free job search apps to find the best way to make your move. Whether you're just starting out in the job market or a seasoned professional, looking for temp, freelance, or a full-time gig, we've got you covered.
In every issue of iPhone Life magazine, we feature the iPhone Home screens of people from different walks of life, so our readers can see how they use iPhone apps to meet a variety of needs. In our Spring 2019 issue, we featured Malvika Sheth, who uses her iPhone for uploading fashion, beauty, and travel videos, and maintaining her social media profiles and website. If you have a story and apps you'd like to share, email me and we may feature you in an upcoming issue of the magazine!
The 10 Best Apps for Making & Listening to Music
By Kenneth Boshell
Whether you're a music maker, a music lover, or both, you're probably on the lookout for the best apps to record songs or find new favorites. We've rounded up ten free and paid apps; some, like Pandora, YouTube, and Amazon Music are well known, others are more obscure. Whether you'd like to learn a new instrument or improve your skills, listen to favorites or discover new artists, we have the app for you.
Hurricanes. Floods. Fires. Disaster can strike at any moment, and our most precious memories are often the most vulnerable. Recently, I started going through my old photo albums to scan and upload my pictures and negatives to a hard drive for safekeeping. Of course, it’s not just photographs that we want to preserve. Vinyl albums, cassette and VHS tapes, analog photography, and even old diary pages are subject to the ravages of nature, storage space, and time. Fortunately, new technologies make it possible for us to preserve and protect our memories in the digital realm. From USB-equipped turntables to flatbed scanners large enough to copy an entire sleeve of images, the means of archiving your most precious memories are only limited by your imagination. But don’t worry, we imagined for you and have a list of devices and apps we think you’ll love.
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8 Best Habit Setting & Goal Tracker Apps for Your iPhone
By Hallei Halter
Do you have new habits you would like to create, but don’t know how to begin? Feel like you start working toward a new goal only to find that you can’t quite keep it going or reach a finishing point? Here are our picks for the best apps that can help anyone with forming and tracking a habit or setting and completing a goal.
In every issue of iPhone Life magazine, we feature the iPhone Home screens of people from different walks of life, so our readers can see how they use iPhone apps to meet a variety of needs. In our Spring 2019 issue, we featured magician and clown Brandon Baglivo, who uses his iPhone for researching magic tricks, planning publicity, and even setting up family activities. If you have a story and apps you'd like to share, email me and we may feature you in an upcoming issue of the magazine!
10 Best Apps for Language Learning, Brain Games, Math & More
By Kenneth Boshell
Education doesn’t have to stop once you're an adult; we should continue learning and growing so we can evolve and adapt as human beings. Whether you choose to play brain games from Lumosity, pick up some new math skills from Kahn Academy, or learn Spanish language vocabulary from Duolingo, lifelong learning has many benefits. This sort of personal bettering can increase positivity, help out at home and abroad, and result in fiscal rewards through our jobs as we demonstrate further education and better-developed skill sets to our employers. Let's go over ten of our best picks for free and paid apps that will help you on your lifelong learning journey.
7 Apps for the Writer, Painter & Musician in Us All
By Melanie Newell
Looking to add more color, creativity, and self-expression to your life with your iPhone? I’ve sifted through a sea of choices to find this lineup of creativity-boosting apps geared toward the writer, artist, and musician in us all. Try using any of the following apps to turn up the fun in your life with drawing, painting, singing, journaling, and even karaoke!
Smart Safety Gear: Top Tech for Protecting You & Your Family
By Briana Dicks
In a world full of smart gadgets all claiming to benefit you, it can feel like the options are endless with every store and website jam-packed with “must-have items.” I was specifically searching for things that could provide me a daily added measure of peace of mind. Simple, smart safety items that could potentially protect me, my kids, my home, and my belongings. So, I asked myself, what will benefit me the most? What do I actually need? And what is most worth the money at its effective cost point? What I found was that I needed just a few items to give me the total confidence and peace of mind I was searching for even when I couldn’t devote my all of my time and attention to whatever they were protecting.
Wedding Planning Made Easy: Best Apps & Top Websites
By Kenneth Boshell
When planning our wedding, I began noticing my then-fiancé seeming stressed out all the time; I offered to help offload the work, and soon learned she’d been doing most everything by hand. I knew there had to be a better way, so I started playing around with apps to see which ones I liked the best (spoiler, it’s Trello!). Most other apps perform about the same; it’s just a matter of investing in one, whether that be the Knot, the WeddingWire, or Pinterest. Wedding planning can be difficult, but you’ll make it through by following this guide!
How My Kids Inspired Me to Change My Phone Habits
By Briana Dicks
Do you remember when the first smartphone came out? It was only a little more than a decade ago. A couple years later, my husband told me he wanted to upgrade from his old-school flip phone to an iPhone 4. Let me tell you, I was not on board. I remember complaining that he would be on it all the time—just like all our friends who had already converted. Fast forward to today, and I myself am the proud user of an iPhone X and am sad to say that my behaviors are probably worse than those of my friends all those years ago. It took me a while to realize I had a problem.
10-Minute Apps for Exercise, Meditation, Journaling & Brain Fitness
By Melanie Newell
We all want to be healthy, and we want it to be easy, effortless enough to work into our busy lives jobs, errands, and other important tasks we pursue daily. Here's a selection of exercise, journal, gratitude, and meditation apps, some free, some paid, for you to use to meet your self-improvement goals. I’ve downloaded (and subsequently deleted) countless apps while researching this article. I’m proud to say the apps I settled on can and (probably) will improve your health and well-being in 10 minutes or less a day.
Supercharge Your Workouts: 6 New Ways to Get Fit with WatchOS
By Sarah Kingsbury
The Apple Watch has many awesome features and useful capabilities. One of the standout offerings of the Apple Watch is the Workout app. With the release of watchOS 5 last fall came new fitness-tracking features that can help you achieve a better level of physical and mental health. Read on to learn six tips for getting in shape with watchOS 5. Note: Sadly, watchOS 5 is incompatible with the first-generation Apple Watch.
Get Focused: 8 iPhone Apps for Staying on Task
By Tamlin Day
Do you have trouble staying focused? Yeah, me too. In fact, while researching this article, I found myself drifting off to other tasks that definitely needed to be done right away (plot twist; they did not, in fact, need to be done right away). It’s hard to say how much time we waste just worrying about how much time we waste. If, like me, telling yourself, “I have to focus!” feels more abusive than it does helpful, you’re probably dealing with an interruption to one of your executive functions. And while your smartphone use can be a symptom of an attention problem, it can also become part of the solution.
I admit, I was one of the last people at iPhone Life to own an iPad. I just didn’t see the use in it. My iPhone could do whatever I needed; and for those times I needed a bigger screen and a keyboard, I had my laptop! Well, after two months with the iPad Pro, I see the appeal, particularly when it comes to being more productive in my creative pursuits. The following apps have become my favorite solutions for everything from learning new skills to efficiently accomplishing my artistic goals.
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In every issue of iPhone Life magazine, we feature the iPhone Home screens of two or three people from different walks of life so our readers can see how they use their iPhone apps to meet a variety of needs. In our Summer 2019 issue, we featured best-selling author Gretchen Rubin, who uses her iPhone for managing photos, preserving memories, reading magazines, and transportation. If you have a story and apps you'd like to share, email me and we may feature you in an upcoming issue of the magazine!
Insomnia Gear & Apps: Track Your Sleep & Improve Your Rest
By Leanne Hays
All of us have had to plow through at least one difficult day of school or work after a less-than-optimal night of sleep. But what happens when a rough night becomes the norm? The Centers for Disease Control collects data about the sleep habits of Americans and reports that one in three of us are getting fewer than the recommended seven hours of sleep per night. Whether you can’t fall asleep, can’t stay asleep, or both, insomnia is not only miserable but bad for your health. I’m one of those insomniacs who wakes up more nights than not after about four hours of shut-eye, and who’s unable to drift off again for at least an hour or two. If you’re like me and have spent many wakeful hours wishing you could just relax and sleep, it’s time to find some help. I’ve been researching why insomnia occurs, as well as testing iPhone gear and apps meant to deliver a good night’s sleep. Here, I’ll share the tips, apps, and gear that have been most effective so far in my quest to cure my insomnia.
In every issue of iPhone Life magazine, we feature the iPhone Home screens of two or three people from different walks of life so our readers can see how they use their iPhone apps to meet a variety of needs. In our Summer 2019 issue, we featured mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Helen Peralta, who uses her iPhone for training, planning, publicity, and recreation. If you have a story and apps you'd like to share, email me and we may feature you in an upcoming issue of the magazine!
Ever since Apple’s virtual assistant Siri debuted with the release of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5 in 2011, using our cell phones has become quicker and easier. So why are you still navigating your device with taps, swipes, and gestures when you could be using Siri? Whether you are a seasoned or rookie iPhone user, Siri will allow you to take control of your device, save time, and be more productive.
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