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01/10/2025 6:15 pm

iOS 17.2 Has 60 New Features and Changes for iPhone You Won't Want to Miss

Apple just released its biggest update to iOS 17 yet, and there are 60 exciting new changes for your iPhone. With iOS 17.2, you get a brand new app, more Apple Music enhancements, upgrades in Messages, and a new security feature that was announced last year, as well as changes for Weather, notificat ...more

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07/30/2024 7:36 pm

iOS 17.6 Has 13 New Features and Changes for iPhone You Need to Know About

As the iOS 18 beta continues, Apple's still investing time into fixing up iOS 17. Compared to iOS 17.4 and iOS 17.5, which both had over 30 new features and changes, iOS 17.6 is a relatively small software update for iPhone. But there are still some important things to know about. Apple released iOS ...more

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07/10/2024 9:07 pm

20 Surprisingly Practical Uses for Apple AirTags

Apple AirTags are super helpful for keeping track of your keys, backpack, and other frequently misplaced items, but there are some pretty clever things you can do with them beyond finding regularly used stuff. Apple sells its smart trackers — small, circular white discs 1.26 inches in diameter and 0 ...more

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01/18/2024 4:17 pm

Water, Lemon Juice, Vinegar, or Nothing: Should You Even Bother Rinsing Chicken?

There's an ongoing debate about whether or not it's safe or even desirable to rinse meat before you cook it. Many fall into the anti-rinsing camp, saying that it's not effective at dislodging bacteria, especially on poultry, as we've discussed before. Meanwhile, some argue that rinsing certain meats ...more

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10/16/2023 8:09 pm

100+ Secret Dialer Codes for Your iPhone

There's a lot more to your iPhone's dialer screen than just entering phone numbers and hitting the green call button. It's not very obvious, but there are secret codes that you can enter on the dialer to find out information about your device, help troubleshoot issues, and mask outgoing calls, to na ...more

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09/21/2023 11:25 pm

Apple Notes' Biggest Feature in Years Lets You Finally Link Your Notes Together

Apple Notes has received many improvements over its lifetime, but noticeably absent year after year was the ability to easily add quick links in notes to other notes for reference. The latest software updates for iPhone, iPad, and Mac finally address this with a simple note-linking tool. Note-to-not ...more

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07/27/2023 4:03 pm

6 Valuable iPhone Features That'll Make You Wish You Didn't Live in the US

You may think your iPhone has all the features you could ever need or want, but that may change once you discover the features and services you're missing out on by residing in the United States. To sell iPhone models in other countries, Apple has to abide by each country's local laws and regulation ...more

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07/25/2023 11:33 pm

Gift Guide: Must-Have Phone Accessories for Movie Lovers

There's never been a better time for streaming videos on your phone. With so many options available (including a potential mobile-only Netflix tier) and so many new smartphones having large screens, there's a good chance you know someone who mainly use their phone for videos. And if you looking for ...more

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07/25/2023 11:33 pm

Gift Guide: The Best Android Accessories to Buy for the Techy Person in Your Life

Need a unique gift idea for the techy person in your life? Look no further than that phone they always have in their hand. There are plenty of great accessories, apps, subscriptions, and other smartphone-related goodies that will improve their quality of life, and thoughtful gifts like that are alwa ...more

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07/25/2023 11:32 pm

Gift Guide: Must-Have Phone Accessories for Photographers

With smartphone cameras and software getting better and better every year, more and more users are getting passionate about photography. So when you're shopping for a gift to get someone, if they have a smartphone, chances are they'll more than appreciate some tools and accessories for taking better ...more

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06/29/2023 1:18 am

How to Set Multiple Timers on Your iPhone to Run Side by Side

Although the Clock app in iOS has undergone some designchanges over the years, you still can't set more than one timer on your iPhone. Oddly enough, Apple's own HomePod speaker added this feature, mimicking the timer on Amazon's popular Echo smart speakers. Fortunately, through Apple's Shortcuts app ...more

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12/23/2022 5:52 pm

iOS 16.2 Has 39 Huge Changes You Need to Know About Before Updating Your iPhone

Apple's latest big software update includes an entirely new Apple app, a controversial change in the TV app, better Siri control, an improved Shortcuts app, interesting Safari upgrades, Apple Music Sing, and more. Keep reading to see what iOS 16.2 has to offer your iPhone. The iOS 16.1 update appear ...more

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10/26/2022 1:10 am

Apple Books Just Got Its Biggest iPhone Update in Years

Apple finally gave the Books app for iPhone the attention it deserves, making the experience even better for reading e-books and listening to audiobooks on the go. You can even do more with Books in custom shortcuts you develop. We've had Apple's convenient book reader and bookstore since iOS 4 when ...more

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10/21/2022 7:17 pm

The Best Wordle Spinoffs You Should Be Playing on Your Phone

There are two types of people in this world: those who recognize Wordle grids of yellow, green, and gray/black blocks and those who do not. No matter which category you fall in, there's a Wordle-inspired game that's perfect for you. The viral success of Wordle, the daily five-letter word guessing ga ...more

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10/04/2022 7:46 pm

All the Apps with Lock Screen Widgets for Your iPhone

Apple's just ushered in a new era for widgets on your iPhone. With the iOS 16 update, each of your lock screens can have up to five widgets. While Apple's apps were the first to get lock screen widgets, third-party developers can code their own ones into their apps — and here's a list of every app w ...more

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09/04/2022 3:38 am

Make Your iPhone Automatically Close Old Tabs So Safari Doesn't Become a Hot Mess

It's easy to accumulate hundreds of Safari tabs on your iPhone, which makes hunting for specific tabs more difficult, especially when they're spread across different groups. Having too many tabs can even slow down Safari itself. You can close all tabs in a group quickly, but not if you want to save ...more

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08/25/2022 10:11 pm

Upgrade Safari on Your iPhone with These Powerful Add-Ons

You may use Safari on your iPhone or iPad to open links and browse the web, but there's so much more it can do for you. On updated software, you can implement third-party Safari extensions in your browser that go above and beyond content blocking, sharing, and performing basic actions. Safari did ha ...more

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08/20/2022 9:25 pm

How to Change the Default Snooze Time on Your iPhone's Alarm Clock

While hitting snooze won't help you much if you fall back asleep, it can help you wake up more gently. However, your iPhone's default nine-minute snooze may be too long or too short for your preferences. If you tend to fall back asleep quickly, you might be better with a two-minute snooze. In case y ...more

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07/18/2022 7:56 pm

Do This to Use Picture in Picture for YouTube in iOS 14

Aside from home screen widgets, one of the most exciting updates to the iPhone with iOS 14 is Picture in Picture mode. With it, you can watch minimized versions of videos on top of other apps so you can multitask like a pro. However, not every service is on board with Apple's new features. YouTube i ...more

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07/18/2022 7:32 pm

All the Apps That Work with Picture in Picture for iPhone

Since iOS 9, the iPad has had Picture in Picture mode, which lets you minimize a video that you're watching into a floating overlay so that you can multitask in other apps while it plays. For iPhones, it came a little later, first appearing in iOS 14. It's not just for the Plus or Max displays eithe ...more

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05/24/2022 10:21 pm

How Your iPhone Can Help You Read Faster with a Bionic Reading App

Apple News. Facebook. Twitter. Reddit. LinkedIn. These are just a few of the apps you probably have on your iPhone or iPad that keep you up to date on today's events. Unfortunately, they can also cause information overload. But a new viral speed-reading tool thinks it can help you process your daily ...more

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04/16/2022 10:45 pm

You're Not Getting a New MacBook Pro Any Time Soon

Apple continues to suffer production delays caused by COVID-19 era factory closures, and the products taking the biggest hit are its customized 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro configurations. Long story short, you'd be lucky to get one of those 2021 MacBook Pro models by the end of June 2022. In a r ...more

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04/11/2022 9:01 pm

Every App You Can Use FaceTime's SharePlay Feature with Right Now

SharePlay is arguably one of the most significant features to hit FaceTime since group calls, and it's still hard to find apps that support shared experiences in FaceTime. Apple does list a few apps, but there is no official index of all the apps with SharePlay integration. That's where we come in. ...more

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01/13/2022 12:11 am

8 Ways Your iPhone Can Make Emailing More Secure

Privacy is a growing concern in the tech industry, but Apple has fallen behind many of its peers when it comes to email security. Fortunately, iOS 15 changes that. Your email address is the key to a vast amount of personal information, not to mention a stepping stone into your other online accounts, ...more

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12/01/2021 1:02 am

If You're Not Using Safari Extensions on Your iPhone, You're Missing Out

You've probably already used a few Safari Extensions on your Mac, but if you haven't explored Safari's web extensions on your iPhone yet, you're missing out on some fantastic possibilities to increase productivity, make tasks easier, filter out noise, and bring more fun to your browsing experience. ...more

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11/03/2021 10:42 pm

Speech to Text Adding an 'Oh' Before Every Comma? Here's the Fix

Many users have reported Android's speech-to-text feature adding an 'Oh' before each comma. How annoying is that? Fortunately, Reddit user Jay-jay1 has found a solution to this pesky problem. This quick-fix should make your 'Oh' so annoying problem disappear. If every time you dictate a comma to you ...more

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05/26/2021 11:45 pm

Could These 26 Features Show Up in iOS 15's Upcoming Beta? We Really Hope So

When Tim Cook, Craig Federighi, and other core Apple leaders take the stage for WWDC 2021 on June 7, we'll hear a lot about exciting new things to come. We're likely to see what's in store for watchOS 8 and macOS 12, but more importantly, we'll get a glimpse at what iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 will be like ...more

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05/07/2021 10:14 pm

Fingerprint Web Apps & Servers for Better Recon & More Successful Hacks

Web applications are ubiquitous in the modern online world, and knowing how to attack them is an increasingly valuable skill. But the key to a successful attack is good recon since it's easier to be focused and efficient with the more information you have. There are many fingerprinting tools availab ...more

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05/07/2021 7:58 pm

Laggy Touch ID on Your iPhone? There's a Fix for That

While Face ID might have taken over as Apple's favorite authentication method, Touch ID is still very much alive. The tech is usually speedy and accurate, but you might have noticed that it's been a bit laggy recently. If that's the case, you should know that Apple actually fixed this issue. Here's ...more

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05/06/2021 8:51 pm

All the Apps That Work with iOS 13's Dark Mode

Out of the more than 200 new features Apple included with iOS 13, perhaps none is more anticipated than system-wide dark mode. Finally, we no longer need to blind ourselves when responding to an iMessage late at night or checking Reminders to see the following day's tasks. But this benefit also appl ...more

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04/24/2021 12:13 am

Bookmark This: Complete List of Netflix's Hidden Genre Codes

The biggest problem with Netflix (which is hardly a real problem) is the overwhelming amount of content available for streaming. Browsing through profile-specific categories might help narrow down your search on something to watch, but some of those categories come and go without warning, and it's i ...more

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04/19/2021 7:25 pm

How to Switch Between Bluetooth Accessories in 1 Tap on Android

Back in Android 9, Google took away the expanding mini-menu for Bluetooth connections. The way it used to be, you could long-press the Bluetooth toggle in your Quick Settings, then the panel would turn into a fast-access menu for Bluetooth settings. It was a fairly minor feature, but dropping it has ...more

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04/01/2021 4:02 pm

How to Download Reddit Videos on Android

Reddit has been pushing for more first-party content over the last couple years. So instead of just being a place to submit links, you can now upload photos and videos directly to Reddit's servers. But unlike Imgur, Gfycat, and other popular file hosts, Reddit doesn't give you an easy way to downloa ...more

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03/31/2021 7:11 pm

iOS 14 Lets You Customize the Charging Sound for Your iPhone!

The sound your iPhone makes when you connect it to a power source has been the same for a long time. Unfortunately, it was never possible to change that chime to something different without jailbreaking first, which opens your iPhone up to malware and hackers. Thankfully, iOS 14 has changed that. Th ...more

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03/30/2021 1:58 am

Mark Your Calendar Now — The Internet Will Be Useless on Thursday

I absolutely loathe it, and I'm certain I'm in the majority, yet we still do this nonsense every year. Take one day and make it to where every headline you read and every link you click are completely useless. Slap a bunch of corporate logos on last year's memes and pollute feeds everywhere with ast ...more

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03/29/2021 6:56 pm

4 New & Noteworthy Indie Android Apps of the Week — March 26 Edition

I'm always looking for solutions to problems people are having with their smartphones. This means I spend a lot of time browsing forums and release sites looking for new apps. In doing so, I find a lot of apps that don't quite solve a major problem, but are nonetheless pretty cool. I came across fou ...more

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03/03/2021 11:29 pm

9 Things You Should Be Doing to Make Your TikTok Account Secure from Hackers

You should feel relatively safe to watch and post videos on TikTok, but like with any online service, you're always at the mercy of hackers. It's unfortunate, but anyone can become a target for arbitrary reasons. Maybe your TikTok videos are controversial. Maybe someone has a personal vendetta again ...more

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03/02/2021 6:42 pm

Auto-Remove All the Extra Junk in URLs You Share from Your iPhone

URL tracking codes: you'll see them on almost every link you copy online to share with friends and followers. It could be tens or hundreds of extra characters appended to the end of a URL, which websites and marketers use to tell how you got to the link in the first place. These excess tracking toke ...more