iPhone Life - Best Apps, Top Tips, Great Gear

When is the next iPhone coming out and what can you expect from Apple’s 10th anniversary iPhone? We’ll answer those questions and dive into iPhone 8 images, price, and all the latest rumors. The 10th iPhone anniversary is expected to be a big one, but Apple is reportedly having trouble merging its iPhone 8 design with reality. One thing seems certain, the new iPhone 8 has to exceed expectations. It’s the 10th anniversary, and users have grown increasingly annoyed by the lack of innovation in new iPhones. Can Apple rise to the challenge? Here’s our iPhone 8 rumor roundup with info on Apple’s big 10th anniversary event, including iPhone 8 rendered images, potential release dates, and more.

Technology has become a crutch for everything we do: eating, working out, listening to music, and so on. One of the most important technological tools we rely on is GPS apps. We use navigation apps to travel everywhere. Very seldom do people use physical paper maps to get from point A to point B; it’s all about the apps. However, not every iPhone user loves Apple Maps. These alternative iPhone maps apps can help us do anything from using public transportation to driving our own vehicles and everything in between. They can tell you how long your trip will take, where to get gas, and even where to stop and eat along the way. Here are a few of my favorite free navigation apps that I use all the time.

I was surprised that the LectroFan micro Wireless speaker ($34.95) was more than a portable Bluetooth speaker, given its compact size and attractive price. The tiny speaker does double duty as a white noise sound machine, which can help you sleep better by drowning out background noise.

Wearables like the Apple Watch may be in the news, but My Wraps has a fun twist on the market segment. The Wraps Wearable Earbuds (starting at $20). are fun, creative, and colorful earbuds that you actually wear on your wrist when you aren't listening to music. Speaking of not listening to music, some of their models also include integrated microphones for phone calls. Wraps includes small, medium, and large ear tips.

Is Apple’s new Clips app a replacement video editing app for iMovie? Not quite. The Clips app taps into the Instagram/Snapchat generation, offering an extremely easy platform in which users can create video stories and share them with friends. While Clips is a pretty awesome free video editing app, it’s not going to fulfill the same purposes as iMovie. For the video editing professional, Clips isn’t going to cut it for complex projects. But for the everyday person, it’s a fun new way to create professional-looking videos that are easily shareable with friends and via social media. I’ll go through everything you need to know to start creating and editing videos with the Clips app. This is the latest Apple app, and it seems that its main purpose is, simply, fun.

Looking at the current social, political, and environmental circumstances swirling around our planet today, I'm reminded, more than ever, of the importance of caring for our environment and paying forward any appreciation we happen to have for this world we live on. At iPhone Life, part of doing that comes in the form of honoring mobile-friendly companies that have placed the greater welfare of the planet front and center. This year's winner of the iPhone Life Earth Day award will be the company that we feel exemplifies sustainable and ecologically-friendly business practices. Read on, after the break, to see which tech company we feel is leading the way with its Earth-first practices. This year, as in years past, we are announcing an Earth Day Award winner, as well as first and second runners up. And this year's recipient of the annual iPhone Life Earth Day Award is...

Need iPad and iPhone help? Sign up for iPhone Life Insider and I’ll help you with all of your iPhone troubleshooting and iOS-related issues. Here’s a question from an Insider who wants only certain contacts from their Favorites to be able to call them when do not disturb is on.

Instagram is my favorite form of social media. We’ve been trying to convince our web editor, Sarah Kingsbury to get an account for months. And she finally did once I invited her to join, which was easy to do within the Instagram app since she’s also my Facebook friend. If you have friends on Facebook who don’t know the join Instagram, here’s how to invite them to give it a try.

In the Spring 2017 of iPhone Life magazine, I wrote a roundup of HomeKit-compatible home-automation gear, which included Elgato's Eve Room indoor temperature and humidity sensor, its Eve Door & Window wireless contact sensor and the Eve Energy electricity toggle switch. This brief post reviews two more members of the Eve family, the Eve Motion ($49.95) wireless motion sensor and the Eve Weather ($49.95) wireless outdoor sensor.