Apps

Many modern social media apps now include a feature that will notify you if someone takes a screenshot of your conversation or of a photo or video that you sent. So, it makes sense to be wary about taking screenshots of your iMessage conversations. Is that caution warranted? Does iMessage notify when you screenshot? Find out below!

A personal voicemail greeting ensures that people know they've reached the correct person, and makes them feel more comfortable leaving a voicemail. Plus, you can use custom voicemail greetings on iPhone to give special instructions to callers! Here's how to change your voicemail greeting. 

Keeping your iPhone and iPad Wi-Fi-connected while at home reduces cellular data usage and ensures a fast internet connection. It's best to turn Wi-Fi off when you leave home, though, to avoid connecting to unsafe networks and to reduce the battery drain that happens when your iPhone searches for available Wi-Fi networks.

Sometimes, figuring out how to go back on your iPhone can be more confusing than one would think. How do you return to the previous screen if you went from one app to another? How do you go back to the previous page within the same app? In this article, we'll answer all your questions about how to go back on your iPhone or iPad.

Having password-protected notes is one of the best features of the Notes app. However, when you unlock one note, all notes with the same password will unlock as well. If your notes are scattered throughout your Notes app and you're worried about leaving any unlocked notes open, there's actually a simple trick that lets you lock all unlocked notes again with one tap.

The iPhone has a bunch of great native apps that can really help you get your work done. But one of the best, little-known apps that come on your iPhone is the Measure app and its hidden spirit level. The level on your iPhone, while sometimes imperfect, does a pretty decent job of gauging how straight your paintings are hanging. There are a few keys to getting it to work right, but this has helped me out in so many circumstances where I did not have access to a spirit level.

Driving in an unfamiliar area and not sure how fast you should be going? Google Maps’ speed limit feature shows you the speed limit for the road you are currently driving on so that you can travel safely. Here’s how to enable this convenient feature.

Having a contact picture pop up with a name on your iPhone screen helps to reduce confusion. We'll walk through how to add iPhone contact photos (or a contact emoji if you prefer this fun option to a photo). In either case, having a contact pic appear when that person calls helps to differentiate between contacts.

Can you hide messages on your iPhone? If you need to know how to hide text messages on your iPhone in Messages or a secret messaging app, we can help. You can lock or hide messages, and hide alerts for the Messages app, so your personal information stays private. There are even some secret text messaging apps for iPhones.