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How to Delete Documents & Data on iPhone or iPad

Aug 8, 2016 - 27 Comments
Delete Documents and Data on iPhone

If you have noticed your iPhone is low on storage space, or perhaps you are just browsing your storage settings, you might discover that certain apps have a large “Documents & Data” storage footprint and inordinately large storage burden in iOS. We’ll cover what Documents & Data actually are, and also how to delete the … Read More

Watch the Rio Olympics Live on iPhone or iPad

Aug 7, 2016 - 25 Comments

Want to watch live coverage of the Olympics? You can easily watch any of the 2016 Rio Olympic games and competitions live right from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch (or Android too, but we’re obviously focusing in iOS), meaning you can watch any game and any country and any sport you want, you don’t … Read More

Apply Image Adjustments to Other Photos on Mac with Copy & Paste

Aug 6, 2016 - 9 Comments
Paste photo adjustments on Mac

If you have spent a while adjusting a picture to your liking in Photos app for Mac, you can easily apply those image adjustments and edits to other pictures in Photos app as well. This is accomplished through a handy but little-known copy & paste adjustments ability, and it’s quite easy to use.

How to Hide Contact Photos in Messages on iPhone

Aug 5, 2016 - 20 Comments
Hide and show contacts in Messages for iOS

The iOS Messages app defaults to showing assigned contact photos alongside each message thread, but if you’d rather those pictures are not shown alongside your iMessage chats, you can now toggle the thumbnails off on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This makes the Messages app chat screen a bit more simple looking, removing any picture … Read More

How to Use WhatsApp for Mac

Aug 5, 2016 - 12 Comments
WhatsApp

Want to use WhatsApp on a Mac? Now you can. WhatsApp is a very popular cross-platform messaging client from the iPhone and Android world that is now easily used on a Mac or Windows PC, so if you’re one of the many millions of people who use WhatsApp for communication, you can enjoy the experience … Read More

iOS 9.3.4 Released as Important Security Update [IPSW Download Links]

Aug 4, 2016 - 32 Comments
iOS 9.3.4

Apple has released a small but important security update versioned as iOS 9.3.4 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

New Apple Commercials: “Human Family” for iPhone, and Pitching iPad Pro as “Computer”

Aug 4, 2016 - 17 Comments
Human Family iPhone commercial

Apple has started running a few new advertisements, one of which markets the iPad Pro as a “computer”, and the other which demonstrates the iPhone camera by showing various portraits of humans as portrayed in images, videos, and Live Photos. Each commercial has been embedded below for easy viewing.

Enable Additional Photos Adjustments in Mac Photos App

Aug 3, 2016 - 5 Comments
Advanced image editing adjustments on Mac Photos app

The Mac Photos app serves as a photo manager and image editor, and while the default toolset for picture adjustments is sufficient for many users, you can enable six additional photos adjustments to gain even more control over your pictures. We’ll show you how to enable image adjustment tools for Sharpen, Definition, Noise Reduction, Vignette, … Read More

Turn Standard into Administrator Account in Mac OS X

Aug 3, 2016 - 15 Comments
From Standard to Administrator account on Mac OS X

Many Mac users have multiple user accounts on their computer, some of which may be created for other people to use, perhaps a separate work account, or a guest account, and so on. Typically when you create a new user account on the Mac it is a “Standard” account, which gives that user access to … Read More

How to Enable or Disable Apple Pay Lock Screen Access Shortcut on iPhone

Aug 2, 2016 - 8 Comments
Enable or Disable the Apple Pay access shortcut from lock screen

iPhone owners who have set up Apple Pay on their devices can use an optional shortcut to access the feature from the locked screen.

Fix iOS Stuck on “Verifying Update”

Aug 2, 2016 - 52 Comments
Fix iOS Stuck on Verifying Update screen

Many users who are installing iOS updates (whether beta or final versions) encounter an issue where a spinning pop-up indicator message saying “Verifying update…” appears stuck on screen. This is a fairly common issue that is somewhat annoying because while the iOS update is verifying, the entire iPhone or iPad is unusable. Fortunately, fixing a … Read More

How to Turn Off “Hey Siri” on iPhone and iPad

Aug 1, 2016 - 14 Comments
How to disable Hey Siri to turn off Siri voice activation in iOS

The “Hey Siri” voice activated control feature on modern iOS devices is a great feature that many people find tremendous use with, but not everyone enjoys it. Some users may wish to disable “Hey Siri” on iPhone or iPad, which will prevent the voice activated ability from listening for the appropriate commands, but turning off … Read More

Beta 4 of iOS 10, macOS Sierra, tvOS 10 & watchOS 3 Download Available

Aug 1, 2016 - 2 Comments
MacOS Beta and iOS Beta

Apple has released the fourth developer beta versions of iOS 10, watchOS 3, tvOS 10, and macOS Sierra 10.12. Additionally, the third public beta versions of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra are now available.

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