iOS

The biggest caveat is that it only works with major email providers. Think Apple, Gmail, Yahoo!, Hotmail, Mail.com, and a few others. You can't use it to check the settings of your work email, for instance, not even if your employer uses Gmail on the back end, at least not with my testing. That out…

In iOS 9.x, swiping through your running apps is a fairly swift operation, and it's easy to overshoot the app you want. In iOS 9.2, with Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Reduce Motion turned on, swipes in the App Switcher advance through running apps one at a time. While you need to experience it…

So what you’ll do to use this feature is first attach an image to a message. For pictures from your Camera Roll, you can do that either from your Photos app using the “Share” button or by tapping within the body of your email to bring up a menu. From that menu, you can navigate…

We've had a chip on our shoulder ever since 2007, when Apple rolled out the iPhone, and the iPhone (and later the iPad) eclipsed the Mac as Apple's bigger money maker. Many of us are convinced that it'll just be a matter of time before Apple kills off OS X. Converged iOS and OS X…

Live Photos Live Photos is a new feature included with iPhone 6s and 6s plus. Whenever you take a photo the phone also captures a couple of seconds of video on either side of the shot. When you open the image in your photo app you can press on the image and bring that picture…

iOS 9.1 adds a taco emoji. All is well with the world. The new emoji offerings include a unicorn, new smiley faces, devil horns hand, middle finger, and several other graphics—and the long national tragedy of the missing taco emoji has finally been overcome. Live Photos now senses when you're lifting your camera so the…

If necessary, touch the arrow on the right of that menu to navigate to the “Add Attachment” option. Pick that, and you’ll see your iCloud Drive files.  So you can use this, obviously, to attach anything you’ve stored within iCloud Drive; however, if you touch the “Locations” option in the upper-left, you can also enable…

Lightroom gets cool new features, drops Creative Cloud requirement Previously, you could download and use Lightroom for iOS for free, but without Lightroom on the Mac and a CC subscription, it ran as a 30-day trial. Taking away those restrictions opens up Lightroom to a much wider audience. Adobe also added new features like Target…

iOS 9 introduces a new feature to the iPhone called “Low Power Mode.” Like Apollo 13 on the way to the Moon, it shuts down non-essential services in an effort to maintain an emergency lifeline. That is, enough juice to make and hold an emergency phone call, be located or utilize Wi-Fi. Here's how to…

These are playable on other iPhone 6s or 6s+ devices if you send it via iMessage, and I tested one on an iPad Air (gen 1) and an iPad 3, and both worked fine. You can also play them on an iPhone 5s or higher. If you send it to an older device, or one…

In any case, 3D Touch allows us three new features—Peek, Pop, and Quick Actions. In addition to sounding like stuff that happened that year that you went to summer camp, these abilities do different things when you press with varying levels of force on your screen. In general, a Peek is a lighter press to…

iOS 8 Introduced Wi-Fi Calling and iOS 9 introduced what's called Wi-Fi Assist. They're two distinctly different features. The first has no downside, but the second could, and it's turned on by default in iOS 9. Let's look at the difference. 1. Wi-Fi Calling This is a feature that allows the iPhone user to use…

Here's how to make sure you have a current backup for your iPhone if you're using iCloud: Tap Settings Tap iCloud Tap Backup Tap Backup Now Use iCloud's settings on your iPhone to force a backup and see when your last backup happened The Backup screen in iCloud's settings also shows when your last successful…

Apple fixes a handful of bugs with iOS 9.0.1 update The iOS 9.0.1 update also fixed an issue where timers failed to play, corrected a problem that caused paused video to appear distorted in Safari and Photos, and fixed a problem where custom APN setups in profiles could cut off cellular data. The update weighs…

What are Content Blockers? Content Blockers filter what comes from online servers into your Web browser. That can include certain types of code, online trackers, Web cookies, images, and even complete sites. No content blockers (left), and content blockers in action (right) Most people equate ad blockers with content blockers because they are—for practical purposes—pretty…

1. Contacts in Email. What happens here is that you may have, in the past, received an email from someone who is not in your Contacts list. That email may contain a phone number. Later, when you get a phone call from that number, instead of showing up as “Unknown,” iOS 9 will suggest that “maybe”…

As you can see, if you’re touching the on-screen keyboard with two fingers, it’ll helpfully fade out to show you that you’re ready to do some fancy text-selection stuff. So as I noted, this has two important functions. First, if you don’t have any text selected, it’ll let you move your cursor within your text.…

Put another way, only an encrypted backup will save your passwords, Wi-Fi settings, website history, and Health data. While all iCloud backups are encrypted, doing an Encrypted Backup in iTunes requires a couple of simple steps. Here's how: First, connect your iPhone to your Mac or PC. Secondly, sync it. You don't technically have to…

So to do this, just open your phone app, touch the “Voicemail” tab at the bottom, and then select the message in question. When you do so, you’ll see the familiar “Share” arrow appear. Touch that, and you’ll get choices for what to do with that voicemail. So obviously you can share the voicemail with…

KeyRaider malware steals Apple IDs from jailbroken iPhones “KeyRaider has successfully stolen over 225,000 valid Apple accounts and thousands of certificates, private keys, and purchasing receipts,” PAN's report said. “The malware uploads stolen data to its command and control (C2) server, which itself contains vulnerabilities that expose user information.” Once hackers have victim's Apple IDs, they…

It's immediately obvious that blocking content which causes web pages to load slowly also means blocking ads. In fact, it almost primarily means blocking ads. Today's standardized web ads are delivered using a series of cascading scripts, meaning one script triggers another and then yet another until one of them has an ad to display.…

Stop procrastinating and install iOS 8.4.1. It has some seriously important security fixes. The Ins0mnia threat is pretty serious because it can run on iOS devices without crafty hacks. Bad guys simply needed to code otherwise legit apps to trick iPhones and iPads into thinking they're in debugging mode. That disables the auto shutdown for…

First, load up Apple's Retail site, apple.com/retail. When you get there, feed it your zip code to get the list of stores in your area. Once the list shows, you can choose one: Here's the list I get in my area. What a pretty store! When you get the details page for the store, you…

On the security of iOS 9, however, Apple says this: The default for passcodes on your Touch ID–enabled iPhone and iPad will now be six digits instead of four. If you use Touch ID, it’s a change you’ll hardly notice. But with one million possible combinations—instead of 10,000—your passcode will be a lot tougher to…