How to Force Restart an iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, or 15 Pro Max When It's Frozen, Glitchy, or Won't Turn On

How to Force Restart an iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, or 15 Pro Max When It's Frozen, Glitchy, or Won't Turn On

blognet   Friday, March 22, 2024   Comment  

The iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max are Apple's most powerful iPhones to date with features like USB-C connectivity, improved camera capabilities, and faster CPUs. But no matter how impressive these phones are, they can still freeze, become unresponsive, or get stuck when powering on — and a force restart is how you get things working again. A simple restart can often resolve minor bugs and glitches on iOS 17 and later. But a force restart — sometimes referred to as a hard reboot, hard reset, or force reboot — becomes necessary when your iPhone's screen isn't... more

Tired of Contacts Showing Up in Your iPhone's Share Sheet? You Can Hide Some of Them or Remove Them All

Tired of Contacts Showing Up in Your iPhone's Share Sheet? You Can Hide Some of Them or Remove Them All

blognet   Tuesday, March 19, 2024   Comment  

If you're sick of seeing some of your contacts' faces in the sharing menu every time you share photos, apps, webpages, or other content on your iPhone, or if you want to keep nearby eyes from sneaking a peek at the people you frequently share things with, you can make some or all of them disappear. Having suggested contacts at the top of your iPhone's share sheet can be convenient, but all those faces, monograms, and Memoji can make the sharing menu cluttered. More importantly, having them there can give away who you've been chatting with recently and through which apps, not to mention they... more

Use Your iPhone to Hear the World Around You Better, Spy on Conversations, Listen to Your Heartbeat, and More

Use Your iPhone to Hear the World Around You Better, Spy on Conversations, Listen to Your Heartbeat, and More

blognet   Tuesday, March 19, 2024   Comment  

What started as an accessibility setting for hearing aids turned out to be a super helpful tool for anyone with a good set of Bluetooth headphones. The problem is that most iPhone and iPad users still don't know about it. If you're one of them, you need to see what this underrated gem in iOS and iPadOS can offer you. The feature is called Live Listen, and it's been around for Made for iPhone hearing aids since 2014. While it was and is beneficial for people with hearing impairments, Apple truly made it a killer feature when it made it compatible with AirPods and Beats wireless Bluetooth... more

7 Things Hiding in Your iPhone's App Icons You Probably Haven't Noticed Yet

7 Things Hiding in Your iPhone's App Icons You Probably Haven't Noticed Yet

blognet   Monday, March 18, 2024   Comment  

Apple likes hiding things in its software, including secret apps, hidden iMessage effects, status bar customization, nameless icons, and red screen mode, but some of its best Easter eggs are right in front of you on the Home Screen. Some of Apple's app icons on iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and earlier versions have hidden meanings, useful but easy-to-miss details, changing visuals, and other clever elements. While most app icons are pretty straightforward, Apple UI designers made the following iPhone and iPad apps a little more special. Jump to an app: Clock Maps TestFlight Flashlight Podcasts... more

How to Turn a Viral TikTok Sound Bite or Song into Your iPhone's Next Ringtone

How to Turn a Viral TikTok Sound Bite or Song into Your iPhone's Next Ringtone

blognet   Friday, March 15, 2024   Comment  

There seems to be no end to all the viral TikTok sound bites and trending TikTok songs, and there's a good reason why they are ingrained in the fabric of our pop culture. TikTok's short audio clips can evoke laughter, tears, and a wide range of other emotions, and many of them just happen to be the perfect length to add to your iPhone's or iPad's arsenal of ringtones. Unfortunately, you won't find any "Set as Ringtone" option on your favorite TikTok videos. Still, you can take advantage of TikTok's video-saving option and automatically convert the video into an audio file that'd be perfect as... more

Make Siri Say Whatever You Want Every Time You Connect Your iPhone to a Charger

Make Siri Say Whatever You Want Every Time You Connect Your iPhone to a Charger

blognet   Thursday, March 14, 2024   Comment  

Whenever your iPhone's ringer is on, you'll hear Apple's iconic "Connect Power" chime every time you connect it to a wired or wireless power source, which lets you know that charging has started. There's no way to disable the sound without turning on Silent mode, but there is a way to make Siri automatically say whatever you want after a successful connection. We previously used this trick to make a custom sound or song play whenever the iPhone is connected or disconnected from a charger. But making your iOS device speak a word or phrase to you every time power is detected can be an even... more

How to Take Scrolling Screenshots of Entire Webpages, Text Documents, and More on Your iPhone or iPad

How to Take Scrolling Screenshots of Entire Webpages, Text Documents, and More on Your iPhone or iPad

blognet   Wednesday, March 13, 2024   Comment  

When you take a screenshot on your iPhone, it's automatically saved to your Photos app. You can ignore the screenshot thumbnail or swipe it away, but you shouldn't. If you open the screenshot editor instead, you'll gain access to your iPhone's most useful screen capture tool: full-page screenshots. Full-page screenshots, also known as scrolling screenshots, allow you to capture an entire webpage, not just what's visible on the screen. And they're not just handy on websites — they also work in text documents, spreadsheets, HTML files, presentations, and media. This feature has come a long way... more

5 Hidden Features in Safari's 17.4 Update for iPhone and iPad You Didn't Know About

5 Hidden Features in Safari's 17.4 Update for iPhone and iPad You Didn't Know About

blognet   Tuesday, March 12, 2024   Comment  

The latest 17.4 update for Safari includes a prompt for EU users to choose a different default web browser available in their region. It also gives us new ways to customize the Favorites Bar on an iPad. And Apple Cash virtual numbers are now supported as an AutoFill suggestion. But there are also some hidden changes in Safari 17.4 for iOS and iPadOS that you might not ever notice unless you keep reading. Don't Miss: 32 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone on iOS 17.4 1. More Toggle Switches WebKit developers can now add interactive HTML switches to their webpages, which look like the... more

Unlock Your iPhone's Many Hidden Text-to-Speech Features to Make It Read Virtually Any On-Screen Content

Unlock Your iPhone's Many Hidden Text-to-Speech Features to Make It Read Virtually Any On-Screen Content

blognet   Friday, March 08, 2024   Comment  

Speech-to-text technology can be seen on your iPhone in various places, from the Dictation tool to Apple's new behind-the-scenes, auto-created transcripts for podcast episodes. Your iPhone also has some pretty impressive text-to-speech capabilities. With them, your iPhone can read webpages, documents, or whatever text is on the screen out loud to you — only some of these tools aren't easy to find. Sure, you can listen to free audio stories in Apple News or subscribe to hear audio versions of select News+ stories. And there are plenty of audiobooks available in the Books app. And you can use... more

32 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone on iOS 17.4

32 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone on iOS 17.4

blognet   Friday, March 08, 2024   Comment  

The last iOS software update was a modest one, but iOS 17.4 has a lot more for your iPhone, including changes to emoji, Podcasts, security, Safari, widgets, Apple Cash, CarPlay, and more. Many of the exciting changes in iOS 17.4, as well as iPadOS 17.4, apply to users in the European Union (EU), which complies with the requirements set by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). But there are still quite a few new features and changes for everyone in the U.S. to enjoy. Apple's iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 were released on Tuesday, March 5. They come 40 days after the first betas appeared and 40 days after... more

30 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone on iOS 17.4

30 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone on iOS 17.4

blognet   Tuesday, March 05, 2024   Comment  

The last iOS software update was a modest one, but iOS 17.4 has a lot more for your iPhone, including changes to emoji, Podcasts, security, Safari, widgets, Apple Cash, CarPlay, and more. Many of the exciting changes in iOS 17.4, as well as iPadOS 17.4, apply to users in the European Union (EU), which complies with the requirements set by the Digital Markets Act (DMA). But there are still quite a few new features and changes for everyone in the U.S. to enjoy. Apple's iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 were released on Tuesday, March 5. They come 40 days after the first betas appeared and 40 days after... more

Your iPhone Just Got 118 More Emoji — Here Are All the New Characters and Variations

Your iPhone Just Got 118 More Emoji — Here Are All the New Characters and Variations

blognet   Tuesday, March 05, 2024   Comment  

There are now more emoji on your iPhone's keyboard that you can send as reactions or stickers or insert wherever else you use emoji — and it's about time. It's been nearly a year since the last emoji update for iOS, and we only received support for 31 new ones then. The new iOS 17 software update brings almost four times as many. The last batch of new emoji for iPhone appeared last March on iOS 16.4 and included pushing hands, a shaking face, fresh hearts, a jellyfish, and 14 others from the Unicode 15.0 character set. This current wave of new emoji comes from the Unicode 15.1 update and was... more