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How To: Use Widgets In iOS 8
With iOS 8 comes a whole new way to use your apps. Some third party apps (apps made by people other than Apple) now work with your notifications center, which means, you can quickly access more content from a wide variety of apps just by swiping down from the top-most part of your screen.
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4 Uses of Airplane Mode That Don’t Involve Airplanes
Unless you’re flying a lot for whatever reasons, you may not be using Airplane mode on your iPhone that often. But did you know there are other reasons for its usefulness? This is especially important lately due to the FAA relaxing restrictions on the use of electronic devices while in flight. So let’s find out. Read More →
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Apple Initiates iPhone 5 Battery Replacement Program
Has your iPhone 5 battery been suffering? Have you been charging your iPhone more frequently? Perhaps your device is among those that Apple will replace the battery, at no cost to you!
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How To: See When A Text Was Sent on iOS 7
“Wait… when did I send that text? I forget when I sent it. I wish there was a way to see that.” There is! With iOS 7, you can easily see the timestamps of all the texts within a message thread.
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How To: Close Apps on iOS 7
With the introduction of iOS 7 came lots of new features and changes. One change is the way in which you manually close an app.
The old way was to bring up that “quick app switching” bar at the bottom, put it in “jiggle” mode, and then carefully touch that little red circle to close the app. The new way still involves the “quick app switching” feature but now it looks different. Once you get to the quick app switching view, simply swipe up on the screenshot of the app you wish to close. I can walk you through it below.
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How To: Share Photos, Videos, and Documents with AirDrop
You’ve seen the commercials for other smartphones where they bump phones to share files, right? Well, Apple’s version of this doesn’t require you to “bump” anything. It’s called AirDrop and I’ll show you how to use it.
Sharing files with someone is always possible with email, but AirDrop makes it even easier with email out of the picture. If you’re next to the person (or people) you want to share with, you can utilize AirDrop to securely share your document or photo.
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How To: Quickly Respond to Calls with a Text
You get a phone call. You can’t really talk at the moment but you also don’t want to just ignore the call. But don’t worry! Your iPhone has the ability to quickly respond to the person via text message with a single touch.
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How To: Combine and Stitch Photos Together on Your iPhone
So you took some good photos of that trip to Niagara Falls. Now what? How about stitching some of them together to make a nice presentable masterpiece of the highlights? There are a few apps that can do this but the most popular is Pic Stitch.
With Pic Stitch, you can quickly combine your photos into one image. There are many options to spice it up and different patterns to choose from. In the end, you can easily upload the photo to your social networks or even order prints from Walgreens!
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How To: Block Someone
Everyone has once in their life wanted to block somebody. Whether it’s that one annoying guy or that telemarketer that keeps calling, having the ability to block some people can be very handy.
When you block someone, you will not recieve phone calls, messages (texts), or FaceTime calls from them.
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How To: Use Caps Lock on Your iPhone
Have you ever needed to type something on your iPhone in all capital letters, but every time you tapped the shift button you type one letter that’s capitalized but all the letters you type after that are lowercase letters? That can get pretty frustrating. However, there is a solution. Your iPhone has a Caps Lock feature, which works just like the Caps Lock on your computer. You can simply turn Caps Lock on and have all the letters you type be capitalized.
This quick tutorial will teach you how to enable the Caps Lock feature on your iPhone and then how to turn Caps Lock on and off when typing on your iPhone keyboard.
