The Messages app allows iPhone users to pin their most important contacts and group texts to the top of the Messages app, making it faster and easier to send a text message to the people you message the most. You can pin up to nine text threads, and if you change your mind, it's just as easy to unpin contacts in Messages. We'll walk you through both!
By Brian Peters
Shared albums are useful, but it can be easy to lose the notifications about the invitations if they are not accepted right away. If you need help accepting invitations to shared photo albums with your friends and family, we'll show you how to do it, whether the invite was sent five minutes or five months ago.
The Do Not Disturb setting is pretty handy, especially when you’re at work or sleeping. This feature allows you to receive all your usual notifications, minus the disruptive sounds and vibrations that tend to come with them. But what if someone on your favorites list (like your brother, mom, best friend, etc.) has an emergency and can’t get ahold of you? Well, there’s an easy way to let their call pass through the Do Not Disturb barrier. Here’s how to let Favorites contact you when Do Not Disturb is turned on.
By Becca Ludlum
Did you accidentally delete a text message and now you need to get it back? Fortunately, there are several methods to get back deleted text messages, so no need to worry! We'll go over how to retrieve deleted messages using the new iOS 16 method, plus a few other tips and tricks to recover deleted text messages on an iPhone if you have older software.
By Rhett Intriago
One of the best features of AirPods is their long-lasting battery life. Thanks to the charging case, you can get up to 30 hours of listening time on the latest AirPods models. But how long do AirPods take to charge? In this article, we’ll go over the answer to that question, and others.
By Conner Carey
How do you put a live picture on your Lock screen? Apple offers cool iPhone wallpapers for free, but you can also make your own Live Photo iPhone wallpapers. Here's how to activate live wallpaper so your iPhone background is animated!
By Rheanne Taylor
By Erin MacPherson
If you want to share eligible Apple Pay Family Sharing purchases but not have to ask the Family Organizer or be asked every time someone wants to buy something on the Apple Family Sharing account, there's a way to make funds available so that the Family Organizer's primary payment method doesn't have to be charged for each individual's purchases.
By Amy Spitzfaden–Both
Curious about what a certain lyric in a song is, or just want to sing along? You can view Spotify lyrics when listening on the mobile app or desktop app. It's only available for songs that offer that feature, though, so you might not have this option for every song. Still, it's easy to view and even share lyrics, so let's learn how to see lyrics on Spotify.
By Olena Kagui
The best way to scan pictures is by using an old-fashioned scanner. However, there isn’t always one at hand when we need to digitize photos. Luckily, it is possible to scan photos with your iPhone camera; all you need is good lighting. There are also more professional photo scanner apps available to make scanning photos a breeze.
By Conner Carey
Screen Recording is a useful tool for any time you need to capture something on your iPhone, either to share with others or to review later. iOS has a simple tool for screen recording built right in, and we'll show you how to use it to make sure you're capturing the sounds you want and nothing else.
By Olena Kagui
Chromecast is a dongle created by Google that lets you stream content from your phone to a TV. If you have a Chromecast built in or plugged into your television, you can use third-party apps to cast streaming apps or mirror your iPhone and watch free movies or other content on a bigger screen with better sound.
By Rachel Needell
The first few times you use the Zoom app on any given device or after an update, you may not have allowed Zoom to share your screen on the Mac. Additionally, sometimes when you click the button to go to Settings to fix the issue, it doesn't open to the proper settings menu to enable screen sharing on your Mac. Here's a step by step guide for how to share screen on Mac during a Zoom call.
By Leanne Hays
This article will tell you what to do if you encounter an error connecting to the Apple ID server. Have you ever tried to log in to your iCloud account, use your iTunes login or App Store login, or use any other Apple ID login, and gotten an "Error Connecting to Apple ID, Verification Failed" message? Don't worry; we have nine troubleshooting steps you can take if you receive this Apple ID verification failed error message. Let's get started.
By Rhett Intriago
Autocorrect is an exceptionally useful feature built-in to iOS, as long as it works right. Sometimes it doesn’t correct the words you want it to or it will change a word to something that you didn’t mean. When that happens, you want it fixed right away. Fortunately, we have solutions for when autocorrect is not working on iPhone.
By Leanne Hays
Group messaging is a convenient way for everyone in the conversation to communicate with each other and share information. If you belong to or have started several group text conversations, giving them each unique names may be useful, so you don't send the wrong comment to the wrong group! We'll show you how to name a group text, so you can easily find your text thread when you need it.
By Ashleigh Page
Is Find My iPhone not working for you? Or perhaps the Find My Friends function is giving you trouble? Whether you're having issues viewing the location of your Apple device or friend, we'll show you how to check, troubleshoot, and properly enable the needed settings.
By Erin MacPherson
If you find a lost iPhone, we'll walk you through how to find out who is the owner of the found iPhone, and how to get into a locked iPhone to find the info you need to return it. Follow the steps in this guide to return the lost or stolen iPhone with as little hassle as possible.
By Leanne Hays
iCloud photos not syncing can be pretty alarming as there is a risk that you’ll lose treasured memories if something happens to your iPhone. There are several ways to fix photos not uploading to the iCloud photo storage, and we’ll walk you through each one. These troubleshooting steps will teach you how to upload photos to iCloud without worry.
By Rachel Needell
None of us love change, unless of course it's a relaxing vacation somewhere peaceful. For a lot of Apple Watch lovers, the changes made to the pinging sound you use to locate your iPhone via your Apple Watch have been very unwelcome. Lots of people are asking, "Can you change the Apple Watch ping sound?" We've got the answers, but you're not going to like them.
We've been busy at iPhone Life creating new guides and updating our existing ones. With all the ongoing changes to the latest iPhone operating system, we've been updating our guides with fresh steps, videos, and screenshots! The Messages Apps is integral to iPhone users, and the Guide updates is available to help you stay in touch with loved ones like never before. This updated in-depth guide is available exclusively to iPhone Life Subscribers later this month.
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