Apple Apologizes For Error 53 and Offers Update to iOS

_______________________ 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…

iOS 9: Using "Paste and Search" in Safari

…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…

How to Delete iPhone Apps Stuck on Installing Updates

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…

iOS: Solving Network Connectivity Problems

 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…

How To Limit Facebook's iPhone Background Battery Usage

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…

Check Your Email Settings with Apple's Mail Settings Lookup

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…

iOS 9.2: 'Reduce Motion' Brings Control to App Switcher Swipes

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…

iOS 9: Using Mail Markup with Photos

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…

7 Tips for iOS 9 on iPhone 6s and 6s Plus

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 Released with New Emoji, Live Photos Fixes

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…

iOS 9: New Ways to Add Email Attachments

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…

Adobe Sets Lightroom for iPhone, iPad Free from Creative Cloud

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…

How to View Live Photos in iOS 9

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…

iPhone 6s/6s Plus: How to Use 3D Touch

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…

Upgrading to an iPhone 6s? Don't Forget to Backup First

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…

iOS 9.0.1 Released with Setup Assistant, Alarm Fixes

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…