iPhone

The iPhone is a smartphone from Apple that runs the iOS mobile operating system. Between its apps, communication features, the camera, mobile internet access, and other functionalities, the iPhone has quickly become an integral part of many peoples tech lives.

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Pin an iCloud-Enabled Note to the Mac Desktop from Notes App

Aug 13, 2012 - 13 Comments
A note floating on the Mac OS X desktop

The new Notes app in Mac OS lets you tear off notes and to float over the Mac OS X desktop. You can think of this as the Stickies app on steroids, and not only does it look better, but you can share directly from the Note. Best of all, if you have iCloud set … Read More

Quit Multiple Apps At Once on iPhone & iPad Using Multitouch in iOS 6

Aug 11, 2012 - 9 Comments
Quit Multiple Apps at Once in iOS with Multitouch

Did you know you can quit multiple running apps at the same time on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch? Thanks to multitouch support, you can actually quit as many apps as you can get your fingers on (literally). Here’s what to do on any iOS device running versions 6 or prior:

Run an Apple II Simulator on the iPad and iPhone with XScreenSaver

Aug 10, 2012 - 2 Comments
Apple 2 Simulator on iPad

iOS users who long for 1979, it’s time to rejoice. Just like you can run an Apple II simulator in Mac OS X, you can now run that same piece of computing history right on your iPad, iPod touch, or iPhone. It’s all part of the free XScreenSaver package for iOS, which includes a huge … Read More

How to Fix iMessage Not Syncing Between a Mac & iPhone / iPad

Aug 9, 2012 - 50 Comments
iMessage settings on iPhone

As you probably noticed when configuring iMessage on a Mac, you use an Apple ID during the set up process. This allows iMessage to sync all messages between any Macs and any iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad you may have using that same Apple ID, allowing all Messages app conversations to sync and be the … Read More

How to Use a 24 Hour Clock on iPhone & iPad

Aug 8, 2012 - 6 Comments
Show the Military Time as 24 Hour Clock in iOS

The iPhone and iPad default to use a 12 hour clock in the USA and Canada, but you can easily switch to 24 hour time (often called Military time) through a quick settings adjustment in iOS. The 24 hour clock can be desirable for many users, and even outside of military time it’s used widely … Read More

Change the iPhone Simulator to 640×1136 Resolution

Aug 8, 2012 - 4 Comments
Modifying the iPhone simulator resolution

With rumors and some new evidence suggesting the new iPhone display will have a 640×1136 screen resolution, developers and designers may find it interesting to alter the iOS Simulator to accomodate such a resolution. This can be done fairly easily by adding a basic text file to a directory, and then altering a plist file … Read More

New iPhone’s Bigger Screen to Have 5th Row of Homescreen Icons?

Aug 7, 2012 - 3 Comments
iPhone 5 rendered image

The next iPhone has been said to have a larger 4″ display for some time now, but new evidence from 9to5mac possibly confirms longstanding speculation on how that extra 0.5″ of display space may be used with the device. Rather than increasing the size of icons or adding a widget area, it appears as though … Read More

Get Crash Reports & Logs From iPhone or iPad Without Xcode

Aug 7, 2012 - 4 Comments
iOS Crash Log

Whether you’re troubleshooting app crashes, beta testing an app, or you just want to help an iOS developer out after you’ve discovered a particular bug, you can retrieve crash reports from any app on an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device once it has been synced to a computer. Finding crash report data for iOS … Read More

iOS 6 Beta 4 Available for Developers to Download

Aug 6, 2012 - 1 Comment
iOS 6 beta 4

iOS 6 beta 4 has been released for developers, the update comes as build 10A5376e and is available for all iOS 6 compatible hardware. Registered developers can download the beta update through Over The Air, or login to the Apple Dev Center and get the IPSW directly from there. Alongside the fourth beta of iOS … Read More

Create a Shortcut for Typing eMail Address Quickly in iOS

Aug 4, 2012 - 14 Comments
iOS Text Expansion tip

One of the most frustrating things to type on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch keyboards is an email address. Typing out a name, then tapping the “.?123” button to access special characters for the @ sign and numbers, then tapping it again to type more letters, than tapping it yet again to type a … Read More

How to Delete Multiple Photos Directly on iPhone

Aug 3, 2012 - 8 Comments

There are now a few ways to delete pictures from the iPhone; you can bulk remove photos by date, and you can delete all iPhone photos by connecting the device to a computer, but what if you need to delete a group of pictures together of your choosing, by simply forming a selection of pictures … Read More

Delete All Photos from iPhone At Once

Aug 2, 2012 - 53 Comments
Delete all iPhone photos at once

Pictures can take up a lot of space on an iOS device so it’s a fairly reasonable thing to want to delete them all from an iPhone to clear up some space. We’ll cover a few of the easiest ways to delete all the pictures, some directly on the iPhone itself, and the others you’ll … Read More

Save a Number from a Text Message to Create a New Contact Quickly on iPhone

Aug 1, 2012 - 1 Comment
Save a number from a text message and create a new contact on iPhone

Remember the old days when someone would send you a text message with a phone number, and you’d either have to memorize it while you dialed or even worse, get a pen and write it down, just to add it to a new contact immediately after? Those days are long gone, and even better with … Read More

See the 6 Day Weather Forecast Quickly on iPhone from Notification Center

Jul 31, 2012 - 4 Comments
See the weather forecast on iPhone in Notification Center

Want to see what the weather is going to be like for the next 6 days?

Next iPhone Launch Date Set for September 12 [Updated]

Jul 30, 2012 - 4 Comments
Alleged iPhone 5 picture

Apple will launch the next iPhone on September 12, according to a rumor from the typically reliable AllThingsD. Citing sources, they say Apple has an event planned for an unspecific topic for the second week of September, and suggests the event will be for the new iPhone launch. Pictures of what is claimed to be … Read More

Reset AutoCorrect on iPhone or iPad to Fix Improper Word Corrections

Jul 30, 2012 - 8 Comments
The iOS Keyboard

Autocorrect in iOS is pretty smart and usually gets things right, it also learns your habits and frequently typed words and will start autocorrecting what you type to the words you have used in the past. This can be a blessing and a curse, because if you accidentally corrected a word to a wrong one … Read More

Pictures of “iPhone 5” Surface, Show Larger Display & Metallic Backplate

Jul 29, 2012 - 17 Comments
Alleged iPhone 5 picture, showing back of the device

Pictures claiming to be an assembled next-generation black iPhone have surfaced through Japanese mobile repair shop iLabFactory (their website is currently down, but 9to5mac has posted all images). The device shown has similar styling to an iPhone 4/4S but with an elongated chasis to accomodate the larger 4″ screen, and what looks like a dark … Read More

Stop iPad Screen from Dimming or Locking Automatically

Jul 24, 2012 - 24 Comments
Stop iPad screen from dimming and locking itself

The iPad screen defaults to automatically dim itself and then turn itself off to black after a fairly short amount of time of inactivity. That’s great for preserving battery life of iOS devices, but if you’re like me you keep an iPad or iPhone alongside you full time while working as a control panel for … Read More

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