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How To: Turn on Auto-Update for Apps

November 3, 2017 · by Sam

It is generally good to keep your iPhone apps updated–as app updates usually contain new features or bug fixes.

Apps are updated all of the time, and depending on how many apps you have downloaded on your iPhone, every day there could be a lot of apps to be updated. When you turn on automatic updates for apps, new versions of apps that you currently have on your iPhone will automatically download when updates for those apps become available.

This post will explain how to turn on auto-updates for apps–just note the tip at the end of the post about how to avoid using data from your iPhone’s cellular data plan when updating apps.

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Quick Tip: Turning Rotation Lock (Orientation Lock) On and Off

October 25, 2017 · by Sam

When turned on, rotation lock (sometimes referred to as “orientation lock”) keeps your screen from rotating when you move your iPhone–like when you rotate your iPhone to the left, right, or upside down. Rotation lock will lock the orientation of your iPhone’s display in portrait mode (portrait mode is where you hold your iPhone with the home button at the bottom). Note that rotation lock does not let you lock your iPhone in landscape mode (landscape mode is where you hold your iPhone with the home button on the right or left).

Turning rotation lock on and off on your iPhone is really easy, and this post explains how to do it.

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How To: Speed Dial using Workflow on Your iPhone

October 18, 2017 · by Tom

Old flip phones have always had that one advantage over all smart phones. You can quickly call a specific person with a single touch. No fuss or headaches. Now, with Apple’s Workflow App, you can set up a button on your home screen to call a specific person. Just one touch!

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How To: Change the Wallpaper on Your iPhone’s Home Screen and/or Lock Screen

October 10, 2017 · by Sam

One of the ways you can personalize your iPhone is by changing the background wallpaper of your home screen and/or your lock screen to display the wallpaper that you choose (such as a photo of your family, your favorite sports team logo, etc.).

This post explains what your iPhone’s home screen and lock screen are and how you can change the background wallpaper on one or both of them.

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How To: Quickly Free Up Space on Your iPhone

October 4, 2017 · by Tom

Over time, no matter the capacity of your iPhone, you will eventually need to free up space, and sometimes you’ll need to do so quickly. I’ll go over the best 3 ways to do so quickly and effectively.

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Quick Tip: Turn Auto-Brightness Off/On in iOS 11

October 1, 2017 · by Sam

“Auto-brightness” is a setting that is intended to save battery by automatically brightening or dimming your iPhone’s screen based on the ambient light where you are.

When the “auto-brightness” setting is turned on, if you are in a dark place then auto-brightness will automatically dim your iPhone’s screen (as you generally would not need your iPhone to be really bright in order to be able to read your iPhone in a dark place), and if you are in a bright place (like outside in sunlight) then auto-brightness will automatically brighten your iPhone’s screen so you are able to see the screen.

The “auto-brightness” setting is automatically turned on in iOS 11. However, if you are like me and prefer to have your screen brightness held constant all of the time, then “auto-brightness” can get pretty annoying. Luckily there is a way to turn it off, and here is how.

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How To: Share Photos, Videos, and Documents with AirDrop

January 14, 2014 · by Tom

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: Combine and Stitch Photos Together on Your iPhone

January 7, 2014 · by Tom

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: Pay for Starbucks with Your iPhone Using Passbook

December 29, 2012 · by Tom

Imagine the next time you get Starbucks: you pull out your iPhone, the cashier scans it, and you're done! Now how tech savvy would you look then? Pretty cool. We want all our Simple iPhone readers to learn this so they can impress their friends. We'll run through the steps to do this right here.

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How To: Use Speed Dial on Your iPhone

December 28, 2012 · by Tom

One of the first features of cell phones was the ability to speed dial certain contacts. It saved us all lots of time. Can it be done on the iPhone? Yes!

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