iOS

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…

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…