iOS

If you’ve got the same setting on for your Mac, it’ll do this as well if you’re not around any network you’ve previously joined: So to stop this and get rid of those annoying pop-ups, you’ll visit Settings > Wi-Fi on your iPhone or iPad and then toggle off “Ask to Join Networks.” On your…

Once those load, scroll to the very bottom of the page, which is where you’ll find all of your restoring options. If you click the “Restore Bookmarks” one, you’ll see the archives available for recovery. You’ll really want to pay attention to the caveats it gives you, too (note that this will replace ALL of…

Scroll down a bit on the subsequent screen, and you’ll see the “Attachments” section near the bottom. This contains all of the recent images and files that’ve been sent in that conversation. Neat! My friends and I…we have fun. Tap a picture to view it in a larger size, and then you can swipe through…

If you tap on that “Notifications” tab I’ve indicated, you’ll see all sorts of info from the apps you’ve allowed to send you such things.  Wow, they send me A LOT of news. One of the lovely things about this easily accessed list is that you can interact with the items on it. If you…

iOS 9.3.1 Release Notes The real problem was apparently the way some third party apps were misusing an iOS API, as noted by 9to5Mac. One might assume that Apple changed the way the API can be called or changed the way misuses were handled in order to stop the problem. I installed the over-the-air version…

Researchers find encryption flaw in Apple's iMessage system Apple partially fixed the issue in iOS 9.0, and will fully patch the flaw with iOS 9.3, expected to ship after the company's “Let us loop you in” media event on Monday, March 21. What we know right now is that researchers found a way to intercept…

Tap the suggestion of the group you’re looking for, and your device will fill in all of the addresses. Well, that’s just the weirdest group ever. So how do you know what groups you can currently send to? Well, if you visit the Contacts app and tap the “Groups” button in the upper-left corner, you’ll…

When you tap the URL bar within Safari on iOS, you’ll see a screen similar to this one: Below your favorites, there’s a list of your frequently visited websites. This is obviously intended as a handy way to get back to places that you haven’t necessarily bookmarked yet, but I think that list could get…

Apple's OS X, derived from the legacy BSD UNIX (from late 1970s), was born in the mind of Steve Jobs and engineers at NeXT more than 20 years ago. It came to fruition at Apple in March 2001. It was a product of its time. iOS was launched for the iPhone in 2007 and designed for…

Times are changing. Those bad guys who would break into your device now have advanced algorithms and so much computing power, they can easily outsmart your most devious passwords. Nevertheless, there is one thing you can do to ensure the quality of your chosen password—one you rely on. The Holy Grail is Still Unreachable for…

Every crisis brings new opportunities. When I first read the news that Apple is reportedly already working on new ways to improve iPhone and iCloud security, I started thinking about the implications. For background, see: “FBI Wants into our iPhones, so Apple is Making Them More Secure.” Jeff wrote: Sources speaking with the New York…

_______________________ On February 18, Apple issued an update to iOS 9.2.1 (ver 13D20), provided an explanation and also an apology as reported by TechCrunch. Some customers’ devices are showing ‘Connect to iTunes’ after attempting an iOS update or a restore from iTunes on a Mac or PC. This reports as an Error 53 in iTunes…

…and then press and hold there for a moment to get a new menu to pop up. See that “Paste and Search” option? Tap that, and your copied text will become your new Web search, lickety-split. If what you copied was a URL, though, the command will read “Paste and Go” instead.  As you can…

Stuck installing app… so frustrating, but there is a fix The trick to getting out of the perpetual stuck-on-install loop with iPhone and iPad apps is to delete the problem app. Since using tap-and-hold to show the app delete button doesn't work, you have to go about it in a different way. Here's what to…

 Attempt to rejoin the network after you do that, and maybe luck will be on your side so that’ll be all you have to do. But if that doesn’t fix things and you’re sure that your network is functional (as in, you can go online from a different device with no problems), then it’s time to…

Let me tell you a story…. One of my favorite military aircraft of all time was the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. Take a great aluminum airframe, insert a powerful (for its time) J-79 turbojet engine, add analog instruments and radios, and include a 20 mm cannon, and you had a Mach 2 beauty of an air…

At issue are carriers in the European Union who are supposedly concerned that very few users switch away from iOS. According to The Telegraph, that's “in part because of the technical hassle of transferring data.” Those carriers think customer unwillingness to ditch iPhone “weakens their hand” in negotiating with Apple. From The Telegraph's report, the…

iOS 9.3 is loaded with enough new features to be iOS 10 iOS 9.3 includes a new night viewing mode to reduce the blue cast and shift on-screen colors towards warmer reds. The intent is to help cut down on disrupting our circadian cycle so we sleep better. Individual Notes can be locked so no…

Think of Speedify as your own personal Internet connection manager; it watches your Wi-Fi and cellular data connections to see what's fastest, and also checks to make sure you really have a path out to the Internet. For example, if you've ever been stung by an open Xfinity Wi-Fi network that doesn't really get you…

Facebook’s iOS app is a notorious background battery eater and, despite some attention and updates aimed at solving this problem, it remains so to this day. While it’s simple enough to just remove the Facebook app and access the site in Safari, this leads to missing out on Notifications, Live Photos and other features. Good…

SkySafari is an excellent sky simulation and charting app for iOS. With it, you can view the sky at any date and time, identify objects in the sky, read about celestial objects, learn the constellations and even control an amateur telescope. On December 15, SkySafari 5 Pro was released, with Basic and Plus versions to…

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…