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There is no end to amount of accounts you need to create when using various apps and websites. And each one of those accounts has it’s own password. Since you have to remember those passwords, having extremely unique ones made of random numbers, letters, and characters isn’t easy to keep up with. Password manager apps were made to solve that problem. When you download a password keeper app, there’s only one password you need.

Apple Music offers lots of radio options by genre or curator. But you can also create your own radio stations by starting with a song you enjoy. Apple Music will then offer songs it feels matches the mood, tempo, and genre of what you chose to play. If you really like the radio station you create, you can take it step further and share it with your friends. Here’s how to share a station you created in Apple Music.

It’s that time of year again when young people everywhere leave the safety of education for the wild west..I mean job market. Congratulate them on getting that higher education and the very important piece of paper that comes along with it. Regardless the grad or chosen career path, there’s a tech gift out there for every individual. Here’s some of our favorites from across the web.

For the past couple weeks, Apple Music users have been reporting a major problem with iTunes. When you sync your own music to iTunes and Apple Music, the service is going to look for a match on their servers. That’s the file Apple Music will then use. But the problem is that multiple users have discovered that iTunes is deleting the original files of their music (thus they would lose their own music when unsubscribing from the service.) As someone who has been collecting a personal library of music for years, I can understand why people are thoroughly pissed off. But Apple assures us a fix is coming.

Yesterday, Instagram introduced a new icon and app design meant to focus on content. My first thought was, “dear god why?” While the new logo is full of pretty rainbow gradient, it barely looks like a camera at this point and completely abandons the nostalgic polaroid look of the original. Alas, all good things must come to an end, but we can complain about it anyway.

The following article was witten by Steve Boss and published in the Summer 2016 issue of iPhone Life magazine. Learn how to get the most from your iPhone by clicking here to subscribe.

Inside a floor-to-ceiling windowed kitchen laboratory and office space located in Seattle’s iconic Pike’s Place Market, you’ll find Grant Crilly and Chris Young, two chefs who both received their training from three-Michelin-starred gastronomical luminaries. Together, Crilly and Young have created their own cooking academy, combining equal parts passion, generosity, determination, craftsmanship, scientific curiosity, and technology to create their small business known as ChefSteps.

Our iPhones are capable of so much, yet the battery life of our devices hasn’t been able to extend beyond a day. Plus, the older an iPhone is, the more valuable tips that save battery life become. My mom just recently switched from an old flip phone to an iPhone 5, and she’s struggling with adjusting to charging the device each night before bed yet still having it nearly die on her before the next night. So here’s ten battery saving tips any iPhone user can appreciate.

Face it; kids are going to use technology as a regular part of their lives. Whether it's a home or at school, for recreation or education, or all of the above, your children and grandchildren will learn all the ins and outs of your iPhone, iPad, and whatever other devices you may have around the house. We already know it's important to limit screen time to keep our kids well rounded, but what about other parental controls? Apple has created several iPhone and iPad restriction settings that adults can put in place without ever needing to purchase a parental control app, and even more settings are coming with iOS 12! There are many reasons you might enable restrictions on your iPhone; they act like a child lock app and control major aspects of privacy, allowed content, and more. Here are two restrictions I find very helpful; preventing kids from adding or deleting apps on your devices. Let's get started learning how to use these parental control settings.

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