TeamViewer is a popular software that offers a free and convenient way to share your iOS device’s screen to someone who’s willing to offer you technical assistance from a remote location.

People primarily use TeamViewer on Mac & Windows PCs as a remote control software to access desktops in a different location and provide technical support. Although you can’t remotely control an iPhone or iPad using TeamViewer on a computer, the screen sharing feature should be good enough for any sort of guidance in most cases. This wouldn’t be possible without the built-in screen recording feature that Apple introduced alongside the release of iOS 11.

If you’re trying to use TeamViewer on your iOS device for remote assistance, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, we’ll walk you through the necessary steps for sharing your iPhone or iPad screen with TeamViewer.

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Instagram, the most popular social media platform for sharing photos offers a free and convenient way to make video calls and group video chats. You can make or join these calls directly from an iPhone (or iPad too if you’re running the iPhone app on iPad).

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More advanced Mac users may wish to have the user ~/Library folder always visible in their Home directory for various reasons.

With MacOS Catalina, you can have the user Library folder always shown and visible by toggling a settings option in the Finder.

This article will show you how to do that, with the end result being that the active users ~/Library folder is always visible in their Home folder.

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WhatsApp offers a free and easy way to make and join video calls directly from iPhone. Whether you’re looking for yet another video chat solution, an alternative to FaceTime, or you just have large network on WhatsApp, it’s another option for making video calls. So if you miss seeing your friends, family, and colleagues for any reason, perhaps while you’re staying at home in self-isolation due to the global pandemic, you can try making a video call with WhatsApp.
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Do you accidentally touch the Touch Bar on MacBook Pro and trigger an action without meaning to? Then a free little third party app called Bar None may be what you’re looking for.

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Skype is one of the most popular video calling services that lets you stay connected with friends, family, and coworkers regardless of where you or they are, using just your iPhone or iPad (or other devices too).

Beyond just video chat and group video chat, Skype also lets you share your devices screen. That’s what we’re going to focus on here, so read on to learn how to share the screen of iPhone or iPad over a Skype call.

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Wondering about enabling and using iCloud Photos on iPhone and iPad? If you have a lot of photos and own multiple Apple devices like iPhones, iPads, and Macs, enabling iCloud Photos could be one of the more convenient features available to you. iCloud Photos enables the seamless and automatic syncing of all your photos and videos across all of your devices, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and more, and it works flawlessly (most of the time anyway, but always backup your photos and important stuff separately from the cloud).

Enabling iCloud Photos on an iPhone or iPad is a simple affair, so long as you know where to look.

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Wondering how fast your current internet connection speed is? It’s super easy to find out how fast your internet connection is, all you need is a web browser to find how fast or slow your internet service is.

We’ll be covering how to check internet connection speed using a Mac with any web browser, but technically this connection speed testing process is the same on any other computer or device with a web browser too, including any iPhone, iPad, Windows PC, Linux, Android, or other hardware.

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As you may already know, Skype makes video calling easy, but did you know that you can also make group video calls with Skype from iPhone and iPad too?

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Skype offers an easy way to make video calls from iPhone and iPad, and the recipient on the other end of the video chat can be on virtually any other platform, including iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. If you’re interested in learning how to make video calls with Skype from iPhone or iPad, read on.

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If you’re using Zoom meetings for teleconferencing, you may find it useful to know how you can share the screen of iPhone or iPad from Zoom. This can be helpful for many reasons, whether to go over work together, show a presentation, walk through something, or any number of other purposes for screen sharing.

Zoom makes sharing the screen of iPhone and iPad quite easy, but like anything else you need to know how it works. This article will show you how you can screen share using Zoom in iOS and iPadOS.
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Apple has released new beta builds of iOS and iPadOS 13.4.5 for users who are enrolled in the beta testing programs for iPhone and iPad.

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Google Duo is a simple video calling solution that lets you connect with your friends and family in direct video calls and with group video calling, and you can make or join those calls directly from an iPhone and iPad within a matter of seconds – even if the other people are using Android.

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Trying to reach out to your friends, family members and colleagues during this quarantine period? Thanks to popular video calling services like Google Duo, you’re just seconds away from reaching out to them, and you can video chat with anyone even if they using an Android rather than an iPhone or iPad. You can even make group video calls with Duo too, but for our purposes here we’re going to focus on direct one on one video chatting.

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If you’re one of the millions of people using Google Hangouts for group video calls you may appreciate learning how to share your screen with other participants in the video chat.

Google Hangouts video conferencing and screen sharing is useful for meetings, presentations, work, school, personal calls, and so much more, whether you’re in an office, at home, working from home during quarantine, or any other situation. But Google Hangouts Screen Sharing functionality is limited to the business-oriented Hangouts Meet, which comes bundled with G Suite.

If you make use of Google’s G Suite for your business or educational needs, you might be interested in taking advantage of the screen sharing feature that Hangouts Meet has to offer. Here we’ll be cover how you can share your screen with Hangouts Meet on both the iPhone and iPad.

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Mac users can download full complete MacOS installers directly from the command line. This is an incredibly useful feature particularly if you want to build USB boot drive installers, you manage multiple Macs, or you simply want to have full access to a complete installer application of MacOS for any other purpose.

With this particular trick, you can download complete “Install MacOS” application packages directly from the Terminal application, and it works to get full installers of macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra too.

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Want to bookmark a web page or website in Safari on iPhone or iPad? Bookmarks make revisiting websites and webpages super easy, and are an excellent way to keep track of things on the web.

It’s fairly easy to add and manage bookmarks in Safari, but if you had no clue how to use it, you’ve come to the right place. This article will demonstrate how you can bookmark a web page in Safari on your iPhone or iPad.

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Mac users can pair and use Playstation 4 controllers with their Mac, which makes for an excellent gaming experience.

The ability to pair PS4 controllers to the Mac has been around a while, but with MacOS Catalina 10.15 onward, it’s easier than before (you can pair Xbox One controllers to Mac now too just as easily).

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