Auto-brightness automatically adjusts the display brightness of an iPhone or iPad depending on surrounding ambient lighting conditions. Some users love this feature and some users don’t, and there are Settings options to both enable and disable auto-brightness on iPhone or iPad.

If you want to change or turn off auto-brightness on iPhone or iPad running iOS 16, iPadOS 16, iOS 13, iOS 14, iPadOS 13, iPadOS 14 or later, you may have noticed the setting is no longer in the location it was before. This has led some users to believe the feature no longer exists, but it has just been relocated.

This article will show you how to find and adjust the auto-brightness setting on iPhone or iPad running modern iOS or iPadOS system software. These settings will apply to all modern iOS and iPad versions, as well as all modern devices like iPhone 11, 12, 13, and iPhone 14 too.

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Occasionally some Mac users may come across an SWF file that must be opened or accessed. If you have a SWF file that you need to view, play, or open on a Mac, you can do so with a variety of freely available tools.

SWF is the file format for Adobe Flash files, and you may encounter SWF files in various different situations, typically for web related or design work when working with web animations, some types of web video, graphic work, interactions, and other similar web content.

This tutorial will show you how to easily view and play a SWF file on Mac, we’ll cover a few different methods so you can use whichever works best for you.

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Want to use a Playstation 4 controller with iPhone or iPad for gaming? You can enjoy gaming on your mobile device more than ever by using a PS4 controller with iOS or iPadOS, and it’s quite easy to setup and get going. This can be a huge deal for gamers who prefer to use physical controls over on-screen ones and after years of hoping and wishing to use the much-loved PS4 controllers with iPhone and iPad, the feature is finally here.

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Wondering how to use the new ultra-wide angle lens camera on iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro? It’s quite easy, and it can look fantastic for many photographic situations.

The iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, and iPhone 11 Pro Max all include an ultra-wide camera lens, this article will detail how to use the camera feature to snap ultra wide angle pictures.

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iCloud can be used on a Windows PC, which is particularly helpful to iPhone and iPad users who have a PC but not a Mac, or Mac users who have installed Windows 10 in Boot Camp, or even to those who have both Mac and Windows computers, and want to be able to access all of their iCloud content through the PC as well as their other Apple devices. This includes the ability to access iCloud Drive, iCloud Photos, iCloud data syncing like contacts, emails, and bookmarks, and more.

This article will walk through you how to download, install, and setup iCloud for Windows.

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If you’re shopping this Black Friday for gifts, either for your loved ones or even yourself, consider checking out the Amazon Black Friday deals.

• Check out Amazon.com deals

Some of the best deals on Amazon for Black Friday are broken into categories, but there are some particularly great deals on Apple products:

• Check out Amazon Black Friday Deals section with rotating categories and sale items
• Check out deals on Amazon Fire tablets, Kindle e-readers, Alexa, Echo
• Check out Apple deals on Amazon.com
• iPad 10.2″ (latest model) for $279 (down from $329)
• AirPods for $135 (down from $159)
• Apple Watch Series 4 for $329 (down from $429)

Many of these prices may change often, so if you find a deal you like it’s probably best to jump on it, though some of the deals could persist through Cyber Monday.

It’s Black Friday week, so naturally tons of products and goods are on sale through Amazon. And as an added bonus, if you make any purchases through the links to Amazon here you will help to support this site by way of the Amazon affiliate program, which gives us a small commission on the sale of goods with no cost to you, and those funds go directly to help support the existence of this website. Win/win, right?

Happy Thanksgiving, and enjoy your easy shopping experience with Amazon!

If you’d like to change the layout of app icons on the Home Screen of iPhone or iPad, you can do so easily. This allows you to place apps where you use them most, to tidy up the devices home screen, or to customize how you want your Home Screens to look on an iPhone or iPad.

Moving apps and organizing them and arranging them on the iPhone or iPad Home Screen is easy, but like many other features it has changed slightly over time. If you’re wondering how to move apps around on the Home Screen, then this article will detail how to move app icons around in the latest versions of iOS and iPadOS for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.

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If you’re the kind of person who frequently uses e-mail for job, personal, or business-related purposes, you might find it hard to manage all the mails you constantly receive in your inbox. Popular email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, etc. have their unique ways to prioritize emails by letting uses star or flag important mails.

However, Apple has decided to take flagging to a different level with the recent Mail app in modern iOS and iPadOS versions, adding a great new feature to help differentiate emails. The stock Mail app that’s baked into iPhone and iPad devices now allows users to flag emails with different colors. This nifty feature makes flagging better than most other third-party email apps when it comes to handling emails, as users can assign a flag color to a set priority level and categorize them based on importance.

If you’ve always wanted this functionality, you might be keen on trying this out for yourself. Well, you’ve come to the right place then, as we’ll be discussing exactly how to flag your emails as different colors on the iPhone and iPad.

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Lost an iPhone, iPad, or Mac? Losing something is not only really irritating, but depending on what you’ve misplaced it can be a costly endeavor, too. Thankfully Apple offers a way to try and find lost iPhones, iPads, and Macs and it’s called Find My. Now there’s an app by the same name available for all three devices, and we’re going to focus on the Mac here to help you locate missing Apple devices.

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Apple has released their annual Holiday commercial for 2019, and as is usually the case, it’s touching and sentimental.

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Two new gorgeous abstract wallpapers grace the lovely big screen of the all new MacBook Pro 16″, but you don’t have to buy the latest Mac laptop to enjoy these wallpapers yourself. Just check the links below to grab the wallpapers yourself right now.

The wallpapers come in an impressively high resolution at 6016 x 6016, meaning they’ll look great on virtually any screen or device, so whether you want to spruce up a Mac, iPad, Windows PC, iPhone, or anything else that you want to spruce up.

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Memoji Stickers offer a fun way to use any custom Memoji as iMessage stickers within Messages conversations on an iPhone or iPad. Furthermore, the Memoji stickers work in other messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook, Discord too. Essentially, Memoji stickers are the personalized Memoji feature combined with iMessage Stickers, and they can be used in all sorts of fun ways to slap onto messages and decorate conversations you’re having on your Apple device.

This article will show you how you can create and use Memoji stickers on an iPhone or iPad.

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You may occasionally need to convert an HEIC file to JPEG on the Mac, perhaps because someone sent you an iPhone picture in the HEIF / HEIC file format, for compatibility purposes, or for any other reason.

This article will show you how to concert an HEIC file to JPEG file on the Mac using the Preview app, which is bundled with every Mac OS release.

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Want to delete and erase all Siri and Dictation history associated with a Mac from Apple servers? Additionally, can opt out of future audio storage and review of Siri recordings from a Mac. You can do both of these with the latest MacOS system software release, and this article will show you how.

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MacOS Catalina 10.15.2 beta 3 has been released by Apple for testing by Mac users enrolled in the Mac system software beta testing program.

Usually a developer beta build becomes available first, soon followed by the same beta build as a public beta version.

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Apple has released the third beta version of iOS 13.3 and ipadOS 13.3 to users enrolled in the beta system software programs for iPhone and iPad.

Typically a developer beta version rolls out first, soon followed by a public beta release.

Separately, Apple has also released new beta builds for MacOS Catalina 10.15.2, watchOS 6.1.1, and tvOS 13.3.

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Have you ever wanted to put a passcode lock on an iPhone or iPad app? If you want to prevent people from having access to specific apps, even if they have access to your iPhone or iPad and know that devices lock screen passcode, you’d need an app passcode. The problem is that iOS and iPadOS don’t have a mechanism for securing an app like that. But there’s a workaround that uses Screen Time to do much the same thing, it just needs a little work to set up. Once configured, you’ll effectively have an app passcode locked, though there are some limits to this as you’ll see.

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Apple has released iOS 13.2.3 and ipadOS 13.2.3 for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, which includes bug fixes and improvements for devices running prior builds of iOS and iPadOS 13 system software.

The latest point release bug fix update resolves some issues with search features on the devices, an issue with Messages displaying content in the details view, resolves another issue with background activity, and fixes a problem with Mail app fetching new messages. The full release notes are included below for those who are interested. It’s possible that other bugs and minor adjustments have been made in iOS 13.2.3 and iPadOS 13.2.3 as well.

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