By Devala Rees
This simple online game seemingly gained mass popularity overnight! If you often play Wordle on your iPhone or iPad, we'll show you how to share Wordle results. Here's how to share your results in Wordle by emailing or texting them to friends or posting them on social media.
By Leanne Hays
The FaceTime app is the free Apple video chat app, and it's a fun way to connect with friends and family when hearing their voices just isn't enough. You can use filters on FaceTime just like you can with Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and more. There are a bunch of FaceTime filters for iPhone, including a FaceTime beauty filter, a few black and white choices, and much more. Let's get started learning how to put filters on FaceTime on your iPhone or iPad.
By Conner Carey
Sometimes, figuring out how to go back on your iPhone can be more confusing than one would think. How do you return to the previous screen if you went from one app to another? How do you go back to the previous page within the same app? In this article, we'll answer all your questions about how to go back on your iPhone or iPad.
By Conner Carey
While Siri can do plenty of helpful things, people want to know how to make Siri cuss or beatbox; they want the funniest things to ask Siri. Whether you want Siri to tell you joke or make the AI mad, there are tons of fun things you can ask Siri and just as many hilarious responses. Here are 33 funny things you can ask Siri for jokes, laughs, and harmless chaos.
By Leanne Hays
Apple Pay makes it easy for iPhone users to send money and receive it! But how do you cancel a cash app payment you've made with Apple Pay? Let's cover how to cancel an Apple Pay payment you made by mistake, or so that you don't have pending payments hanging out in your transaction history.
By Leanne Hays
Apple's Photos app shows a key photo or thumbnail for each person included in the People album on your iPhone or iPad. Here's how to change that thumbnail in a few easy steps.
By Leanne Hays
We all know that sharing is caring, and that’s why sharing the Wi-Fi password is very much an act of kindness. Maybe you just showed up to a hotel and you know all the kids will soon be asking what the Wi-Fi information is. Maybe you just sat down at a restaurant after a long hike and you want everyone to post their pictures on Facebook. Let's go over how to share the Wi-Fi password.
By Sarah Kingsbury
It's super convenient to be able to rotate your screen from portrait to landscape mode automatically, as well as lock it later when you need to. Luckily, both the iPhone's and iPad's screen rotation lock button is easy to access via the Control Panel. With the orientation lock enabled, you can keep your screen from adjusting regardless of whether the device is rotated vertically or horizontally.
By Cullen Thomas
Every time you take a photo on your iPhone, it gets geotagged with the location where you took the photo. If the geotag is incorrect or you don't want your photos to have location data, you can edit or delete locations from photos on an iPhone or iPad.
By Tamlin Day
Sharing your ETA with a contact using Apple Maps allows you to keep a friend or colleague up to date on your arrival time so that you can focus on driving. You can share your ETA, route, and current location with a contact using the Maps app on your iPhone.
By Leanne Hays
The iPhone has a bunch of great native apps that can really help you get your work done. But one of the best, little-known apps that come on your iPhone is the Measure app and its hidden spirit level. The level on your iPhone, while sometimes imperfect, does a pretty decent job of gauging how straight your paintings are hanging. There are a few keys to getting it to work right, but this has helped me out in so many circumstances where I did not have access to a spirit level.
By Conner Carey
One of my favorite features of my Kindle tablet and the Kindle app on my iPhone and iPad is the ability to read a book on one device, then pick up a different device, open the book and continue reading from the same place. I tend to use my Kindle Paperwhite at home for morning reading, then I use the Kindle app on my iPhone for reading during my commute or when standing in line at the coffee shop. If this feature (called Whispersync) wasn’t enabled, I’d have to constantly remember what page I’m on. Here’s how to sync the Kindle app on the iPhone or iPad.
By Conner Carey
Can you read Kindle books on iPad or iPhone? Yes. However, buying Kindle books on iPhone and iPad is less straightforward. Because Amazon doesn’t want to pay Apple a cut of any in-app purchases, you can’t buy books in the Kindle app for iPhone or in the Amazon app. We’ll show you how to purchase Kindle books on your iPhone or iPad using a web browser instead.
It can be alarming when you're browsing a website and a pop-up appears warning you of an iPhone virus. Fake Apple virus warnings, messages, and Apple security alerts are scams designed to get you to call or tap on a link. Fake Apple virus warnings are dangerous, so follow the steps below on how to safely stop these scams by turning on pop-up blocker settings.
By Conner Carey
Many Apple Weather app users experience their iPhone Weather widget and app showing the wrong location. Here's how to customize your iPhone Weather app settings and change or set the default weather location on an iPhone or iPad.
By Rhett Intriago
Privacy is one of the iPhone’s best features. You can rest easy knowing your data is secure, and the iPhone’s Private Wi-Fi Address setting makes sure your connection is protected. Let’s go over what exactly this feature does and how you can enable it on your iPhone or iPad.
By Ashleigh Page
Safari not connecting to internet or not loading pages on iPhone? The iOS privacy features are exciting, but can cause incompatibility issues with certain websites. With Private Relay, some people are finding that Safari is failing to load web pages or recognize the internet connection. Read on to learn what Private Relay is and how to disable this feature in Settings.
You’ve just bought a used iPhone off Craigslist and are trying to transfer your iPhone SIM card. You boot up your phone and discover that it's Restricted; the device you bought is locked into a specific network provider. Now, here’s the good news; it’s possible to unlock a locked phone. Here’s even more good news; if you bought a new phone directly from Apple then your phone is already unlocked and available for any carrier you choose. How can you tell whether or not a used phone is locked? Of course, if you've already purchased a locked device, you'll be wondering how to unlock an iPhone. Also, what if you want to check if your current phone is locked? Whether you have a newer model like an iPhone 7, or an older version like the iPhone 6s, 6, or 5, we’ll answer all your questions in this article.
By Conner Carey
A somewhat hidden feature, did you know you can take pictures of a FaceTime call, including Live Photos? You can turn on a setting that allows you to take Live Photos while you’re on a FaceTime call in the Settings app. Just like with other Live Photos, this means you’ll have a still image of your FaceTime screen that, when activated, comes to life for a few seconds. You can also turn the Live Photo into a still image. Here’s how to turn on FaceTime photos and how to take a pic on FaceTime.
By Emma Chase
Let your friends and family know that you have notifications silenced without sending a cold, scripted auto-reply message. Plus, when you share your Focus mode status, contacts have the option to push through a notification if it's urgent. We'll show you how to share your Focus status in iPhone.
