Handoff can help you be more productive by making it easy to switch between iPhones, iPads, and Macs. This is especially true when you need to transfer an unfinished email to your Mac because it's getting too long to type on your iPhone, or when you have to leave your computer and need to finish your email on an iPhone or iPad. Here’s how to start an email on your iPhone and finish it on your Mac or iPad.
By Conner Carey
Periods come at the end of almost every sentence, which means we’re doomed to continually tap the Numeric Keyboard button on the iPhone or iPad Numeric Keyboard. But, it turns out there’s a text shortcut for typing a period with only the space bar.
By Conner Carey
A little known trick of the Apple Watch is that you can use it as your shutter remote for taking pictures with your iPhone. When you open the Camera app on your Apple Watch, you’ll see whatever the iPhone’s camera can see. This is perfect for taking family photos since you can station the iPhone on a tripod, join the group, and tap the button or activate the three-second timer right from your Apple Watch. Here’s how to take iPhone photos using your Apple Watch.
By Rheanne Taylor
Gone are the days when sharing photos and videos meant tediously transferring them from your camera to your computer via wires and SD cards. Thanks to email, AirDrop, and the ability to upload content directly to social media, sharing memories with your friends and family has become easier than ever. Apple has taken that ease even further, allowing you to instantly send photos and videos directly from the Messaging app. Here’s how to instantly send photos in messages.
By Conner Carey
By default, your iPhone or iPad will continually check for new mail and immediately "push" it to your device as a notification. This ensures you get new emails as soon as they arrive. However, the Push setting can also end up draining more battery since your device is checking for new emails continuously. Here's how to change your mail Fetch settings iphone and save a little more battery.
By Conner Carey
The process of deleting contacts on iPhone is not obvious. Unlike other apps on iPhone that let you tap Edit and multi-select for easy deletion, the option for deleting contacts on iPhone is hidden within each Contact’s information card. But once you know how to delete one, it’s easy. Here’s how to delete a contact on iPhone.
By Abbey Dufoe
You may have noticed that your Message alerts sound twice: once when you get the message and again two minutes later, if you haven't opened it yet. If this isn’t your cup of tea, there’s an easy way to change it. Let's go over how to turn off the two-minute text reminder on your iPhone!
By Alex Cequea
For the average iPhone user, there’s just never enough power. Seriously, if I’m away from an outlet for too long, I start to go into a mild panic attack. In all these years of mobile innovation, Apple has not yet been able to crack the code to unlimited battery life. Sigh. Maybe on the iPhone 10?
By Conner Carey
By default, when you raise your wrist, the Apple Watch screen wakes up. Also by default, it shows you the Watch Face, assuming you want to see the time and have access to complications. But perhaps you’d rather see the most recent app or activity you were using instead. You can change the setting for Wake Screen from Watch Face to Last Activity. Here’s how to automatically reopen an app on your Apple Watch.
By Conner Carey
Signing a contract via email used to entail a printer, pen, and scanner. But now you can do the whole thing right on your iPhone in the Mail app. Once you’ve perfected your on-screen signature, you can continue to use the same one and even change what color it is. To do this, we’ll use the Markup feature that was introduced with iOS 9. Here’s how to sign a PDF document in the Mail app.
By Conner Carey
There are plenty of keys and character variations that the small keyboard of the iPhone simply can’t fit on the screen. However, accented characters and other extra options are available—they’re merely hidden so as to take up little space. You can use this tip anytime you’re using the iPhone’s onscreen keyboard to see more options. Here’s how to view alternate characters on the keyboard.
By Conner Carey
Whether you want to use this feature to take travel journaling notes about your adventures or to remember a particular place you went that you liked, saving a Map location in Notes is easy to do on your iPhone. You could add the location to your Map Favorites as well, but placing the location in Notes gives you a chance to add extra information. Here’s how to save a map location in notes.
By Conner Carey
I love that I can answer calls on the Apple Watch. I never miss a call because my watch lets me know one is coming in. However, talking to your wrist, especially in public, isn't ideal. No problem! You can hand off the call from the Apple Watch to your iPhone. Here are two different ways to transfer a call from your Apple Watch to your iPhone.
Having a recent iPhone backup can prevent the loss of important data in the event your device is ever stolen or destroyed. To keep that stored data secure, it's important to encrypt the backup. In fact, some things, such as your passwords, Health app data, and Wi-Fi settings, can’t be backed up unless the backup is encrypted.
By Rheanne Taylor
This year at Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference, Craig Federighi announced a couple of new changes to the Photos app that many of us were excited to see—myself included! The following are two of the main changes you can look forward to seeing in the near future.
By Conner Carey
Panorama Mode in the iPhone Camera app is an awesome way to capture the full shot. Instead of being limited to the edges of your screen, Panorama mode allows you to move your phone and capture a wider shot. Your phone then stitches the multiple shots into one long, beautiful image. Panorama mode is particularly perfect for taking photos of landscapes or city horizons. However, you may want to switch what direction Panorama mode captures in. Turns out, it’s easy to do. Here’s how to switch directions in Panorama Mode.
By Conner Carey
Monday, Apple held its WWDC keynote event on the first day of the convention. We saw previews of all the latest software coming out this Fall, including the larger-than-expected iOS 10 update. And within that update is the revamped, redesigned Apple Music. But is Apple doing enough to keep its now 15 million paid subscribers? Or should we abandon the comfort of the Apple ecosystem for the features of Spotify? We can’t know for sure until iOS 10 is installed on our iPhones, but let’s look at what Apple did share about the new and improved Apple Music. Does it measure up?
By Conner Carey
The Contacts app is the place where all your family, friends, and random people you met at a conference five years ago and haven't spoken to since come together. However, people change their email addresses and phone numbers every now and again, so being able to edit those contacts is essential. Here’s how to edit a contact.
By Rheanne Taylor
When it comes to peoples’ iPhone and iPads, there’s one complaint that I hear more than all others: why must I keep these annoying built-in apps that I never use on my iPhone? I, for one, have never used either Apple’s Stocks app or its Compass app, and yet there they are, sitting relentlessly on my device taking up space—space that I would prefer to reserve for my photos and third-party apps that I actually enjoy.
By Sarah Kingsbury
It's like the Interrupting Cow joke that delights school-age kids everywhere; you activate Siri and start speaking your request, only to be interrupted by, "Here's what I found on the web." At which point you probably say something like "If you'd just let me #$@%ing finish, Siri, you'd know I'm trying to call my wife, not do a web search!"
I can't help you with your anger issues, but I do have a very simple solution to your problems with Interrupting Siri. Here's how to get Siri to stop interrupting you and listen to your entire question.
