How to Identify Any Song Playing on Instagram, TikTok, and Other Apps on Your iPhone Using Shazam

How to Identify Any Song Playing on Instagram, TikTok, and Other Apps on Your iPhone Using Shazam

blognet   Friday, April 05, 2024   Comment  

Since Shazam became available on iPhone, it's been easier than ever to identify a song playing somewhere in the background. You could hear something you like while watching a movie or sitting in a coffee shop, and all you have to do is open the Shazam app and have it listen for you. But what about music playing on your iPhone via Instagram, TikTok, and other social media apps? There's plenty of great music you can discover while scrolling through social media. To open the Shazam app to recognize tracks, you'd have to close the app you're using first. But there are ways to identify a song... more

12 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

12 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

blognet   Friday, April 05, 2024   Comment  

Apple released iOS 17.4 on March 5 with over 30 new features, but now it's iOS 17.5's turn for the spotlight. The update, currently in beta, gives us a few interesting updates and changes for iPhone, and there's even a sneak peek at what could be coming in the stable build. The iOS 17.5 beta and iPadOS 17.5 beta builds were first available to developers on April 2, with the first public versions available a few days later on April 4. If you want to test new features before everyone else on your iPhone or iPad, you can install the iOS 17.5 beta or iPadOS 17.5 beta right now. As always, you... more

11 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

11 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

blognet   Friday, April 05, 2024   Comment  

Apple released iOS 17.4 on March 5 with over 30 new features, but now it's iOS 17.5's turn for the spotlight. The update, currently in beta, gives us a few interesting updates and changes for iPhone, and there's even a sneak peek at what could be coming in the stable build. The iOS 17.5 beta and iPadOS 17.5 beta builds were first available to developers on April 2, with the first public versions available a few days later on April 4. If you want to test new features before everyone else on your iPhone or iPad, you can install the iOS 17.5 beta or iPadOS 17.5 beta right now. As always, you... more

Apple News Gives You More Options for Automatic Downloads on iOS 17.5

Apple News Gives You More Options for Automatic Downloads on iOS 17.5

blognet   Friday, April 05, 2024   Comment  

In the upcoming iOS 17.5 software update, there are new features for EU countries and mobile device managers only, but there are also more widespread user-facing changes to Books, Podcasts, and other apps. News is one of those other apps, and it's giving us more preferences for automatic downloads. These new preferences are unavailable directly in the Apple News app. Instead, go to "News" in the Settings app on iOS 17.5 or iPadOS 17.5. The News Settings section on 17.4.1 and earlier, which included the "Restrict Stories in Today" switch, is now called Today Feed. It's not a huge change, but... more

10 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

10 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

blognet   Friday, April 05, 2024   Comment  

Apple released iOS 17.4 on March 5 with over 30 new features, but now it's iOS 17.5's turn for the spotlight. The update, currently in beta, gives us a few interesting updates and changes for iPhone, and there's even a sneak peek at what could be coming in the stable build. The iOS 17.5 beta build was first available to developers on April 2, with the first public version available a few days later on April 4. If you want to test new features before everyone else on your iPhone, you can install the iOS 17.5 beta on your iPhone right now. As always, you may experience bugs on beta builds. For... more

7 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

7 New Features and Changes Coming to Your iPhone with iOS 17.5

blognet   Thursday, April 04, 2024   Comment  

Apple released iOS 17.4 on March 5 with over 30 new features, but now it's iOS 17.5's turn for the spotlight. The update, currently in beta, gives us a few interesting updates and changes for iPhone, and there's even a sneak peek at what could be coming in the stable build. The iOS 17.5 beta build was first available to developers on April 2, with the first public version available a few days later on April 4. If you want to test new features before everyone else on your iPhone, you can install the iOS 17.5 beta on your iPhone right now. As always, you may experience bugs on beta builds. For... more

How to Trigger iMessage Effects with Just a Keyword

How to Trigger iMessage Effects with Just a Keyword

blognet   Wednesday, April 03, 2024   Comment  

One of the coolest aesthetic features of iMessage is its animated message effects. If you're like many users, you might even have discovered them by accident, where wishing your friend a "Happy Birthday!" or congratulating them on a promotion unexpectedly flooded your screen with balloons or confetti. Apple's iMessage effects first appeared in iOS 10 and still work perfectly in the most current iOS, iPadOS, and macOS versions. While Apple has only formally mentioned a few code words and phrases that automatically trigger these effects, I've compiled a massive list of all the hidden triggers I... more

How to Download and Install iOS 17.5 Beta on Your iPhone — And Try New Features Before Everyone Else

How to Download and Install iOS 17.5 Beta on Your iPhone — And Try New Features Before Everyone Else

blognet   Tuesday, April 02, 2024   Comment  

Apple is still not finished with iOS 17. We're just a few months away from its developer conference, where iOS 18 will be revealed, but there are still things to be fine-tuned on your iPhone until then. This brings us to iOS 17.5 — now available to try on your iPhone. Since the feature-packed public release of iOS 17, we've seen iOS 17.1, iOS 17.2, iOS 17.3, and iOS 17.4 bring even more new features to iPhone. Now there's the iOS 17.5 software update, which you can install — if you're a developer or public beta tester — to try any new features and changes Apple has in store for iPhone before... more

Update Your iPhone's Lock Screen with an Attention-Grabbing Note, Reminder, Warning, or Other Custom Message

Update Your iPhone's Lock Screen with an Attention-Grabbing Note, Reminder, Warning, or Other Custom Message

blognet   Friday, March 29, 2024   Comment  

There's a lot you can customize on your iPhone's Lock Screen — wallpapers and photos, widgets, the display mode, notifications, and even the time's font and color. But there's another feature that lets you add custom text for whatever you want, whether it's an inspiring quote, a reminder, a warning to anyone who dares touch your iPhone, or even just your name. For this hack, you'll need to take advantage of the Focus feature on iOS 16 or iOS 17, which is normally used to help you, you know, focus. You could set a Focus to only show you work-related widgets, apps, notifications, calendars... more

Every Hidden Special Character on Your iPhone's Keyboard That You Can Unlock Right Now

Every Hidden Special Character on Your iPhone's Keyboard That You Can Unlock Right Now

blognet   Friday, March 29, 2024   Comment  

Almost 190 secret characters are hiding behind your iPhone's default keyboard, and I'm not talking about what you see after tapping the "123" or "#+=" keys. These special composite characters can include accents, dots, and other diacritics, and you'll even see some strange typographical characters like the section sign, inverted marks, and per mille symbol. Here's how you find them. The characters uncovered here are found in the English (US) keyboard available on iOS 15, iOS 16, and iOS 17, but you'll find most of them on older iOS versions and also on iPadOS. Keyboards in other languages... more

Use Your iPhone's Built-in Image Analyzer to Reveal the Hidden Meaning Behind Symbols, Signs, and More

Use Your iPhone's Built-in Image Analyzer to Reveal the Hidden Meaning Behind Symbols, Signs, and More

blognet   Wednesday, March 27, 2024   Comment  

When you encounter a mysterious laundry care symbol or alarming vehicle indicator light, you might just ignore it rather than ask somebody, search online, or open a user manual for the answer. If you have an iPhone, there's an easier way to decipher the meanings behind perplexing symbols and signs—and it only takes a few seconds. Designed for the curious, the meticulous, and anyone in between, Apple's built-in Visual Look Up tool, which has been available since iOS 15, expands its dataset on iOS 17 to include not only animals and insects, plants and flowers, places, and art and media but also... more

Focus Profiles Will Change How You Use Your iPhone — Here's How to Set Them Up for Distraction-Free Experiences

Focus Profiles Will Change How You Use Your iPhone — Here's How to Set Them Up for Distraction-Free Experiences

blognet   Monday, March 25, 2024   Comment  

There's a powerful tool on your iPhone that can fine-tune your iOS experience based on what you're doing and when, and it's completely customizable. With it, you can control what notifications appear or are silenced, who can call you, which Home Screen pages you want to view, the Lock Screens you can pick from, and more. And you can automate it based on a variety of triggers. The feature in question is Focus, which helps you concentrate on the one thing that's important at any particular moment. It minimizes distractions so you can pay attention to whatever it is you're doing, from playing a... more