The Apple Watch has a comprehensive built-in sleep tracker that can analyze your sleep graph, create a healthy bedtime routine, and even monitor your nightly heart rate, body temperature, breathing rate, etc. If you want to dive even deeper into sleep tracking, I’ll introduce you to paid and free third-party apps that use artificial intelligence to help track, analyze, and improve your sleeping habits.
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How to Send Balloons on Your iPhone
By Devala Rees
Want to send animated birthday wishes to your friends or family members? You can use iPad or iPhone texting effects so send them the perfect iMessage birthday text! Here's how to send one of my favorite iPhone text effects, iPhone happy birthday balloons!
How to Use Mail Privacy Protection on Your iPhone
By Leanne Hays
Did you know you can turn on Apple's Mail Privacy Protection to hide your IP address and make it difficult for senders to find your location or track your online activity? Here's how to turn Mail Privacy Protection on or off.
How to Check Your iPhone Calculator History
By Rachel Needell
Good news! For the first time, you can check your iPhone calculator history without any workarounds or third-party apps. All you need is the iOS 18 calculator on your iPhone.
How to Use AirPods as Hearing Aids & Take the Hearing Test
By Olena Kagui
Users have been using AirPods as hearing aids for quite some time now, but the AirPods Pro 2 have built-in features to test your hearing and actually improve your ability to hear using the Hearing Aid feature. The five-minute process will help you figure out if you have any hearing loss and if your AirPods can make a difference for you.
How to Add Existing Albums to a Folder
By Rachel Needell
Keeping the Photos app organized can be quite a difficult task. The option to organize your photos into albums and folders makes organizing your pictures much easier. However, if you have a lot of photos already sorted into albums, it can be a pain to try to add each photo into a folder individually. Luckily, there's a way to add existing albums to folders. Here's how!
How to Create a New Folder in iCloud Drive on iPhone
By Rachel Needell
Utilizing Apple's iCloud Drive is great way also to take advantage of the interconnectedness of all your devices. While you are limited with what you can upload to your iCloud account from your iPhone, you can manage and organize your iCloud account from any device, especially your iPhone! Creating and managing your files in your iCloud account will help you stay organized and find things quicker. Here's how to create folders in your iCloud Drive from your iPhone.
How to Find Every Image You Created in Image Playground
By Olena Kagui
The Image Playground feature in the Messages app also has a standalone app called Playground. The Image Playground library, which contains all your saved generated images, can be accessed from the Playground app, but also directly from the Messages app. Learn how to find all the images you’ve created using Image Playground.
How to Use iPhone Calculator Conversion
By Leanne Hays
One of the most convenient new iOS 18 Calculator tricks is the ability to convert currency or units on your iPhone, no unit converter app needed! Here's how to use the unit converter on your iPhone calculator.
How to Add Favorite Contacts on iPhone
By Hallei Halter
Want to know how to get in touch with your favorite people even faster? On iPhone, you can favorite contacts so that you can reach them easier. You can set a default contact method and then just tap their name and get instantly connected by whichever option you choose. So text, call, and FaceTime with just a tap by adding contacts to Favorites on iPhone!
How to Use the Look Up Feature on iPhone
By Conner Carey
Sometimes, while browsing the internet, you'll come across words you don't understand or subjects you want to learn more about. The Look Up menu provides links to several options: Apple's dictionary, other dictionaries, Siri-suggested websites, Wikipedia, the App Store, and more. Let's go over looking up words on iPhone with the Look Up feature.
How to Turn Off Compass Backtrack on Apple Watch
By Olena Kagui
The Apple Watch Compass Backtrack feature is great if you are worried about getting lost, but it can be a nuisance to have on all the time, between the battery drain and interruptions caused by Backtrack getting stuck and not turning off. Learn how to turn it off for good and only enable it when you need to use it.
How to Make Custom App Icons on Your iPhone
By Olena Kagui
iPhone app icon customization is a great way to personalize your device or hide apps by disguising them. Here's how to customize app icons with the free Apple Shortcuts app to create aesthetic app icons for your iPhone Home screen.
How to Fix the 6 Most Annoying iOS 18 Update Settings
By Olena Kagui
Every new iPhone update comes with new features that may take users time to get used to. The iOS 18 update is unique, offering brand-new ways to customize your device and test Apple Intelligence features. We'll teach you how to tweak your settings to turn this new iPhone update into a blessing rather than a curse.
How to Get Rid of Mailbox Priority in Mail App on iPhone
By Olena Kagui
iOS 18.2 introduced an Artificial Intelligence feature to the Mail app that is supposed to identify the most important emails and bring them to the top of your inbox. If you are worried about AI's ability to prioritize your emails or simply prefer your old inbox accurately, we'll teach you how to toggle off Show Priority.
How to Calculate Target Heart Rate Zones for Apple Watch Workouts
By Erin MacPherson
Target heart rates vary person to person, so it's important to know yours in order to keep yourself safe and to maximize the benefit of your Apple Watch workouts. We'll show you how to calculate these yourself for use in any workout, plus how to make sure your Health app or other third-party fitness app calculates them correctly.
How to Set Multiple Timers on iPhone
By Rachel Needell
With the iOS 17, you can now set multiple timers directly in the Clock app without downloading a third-party app. Users are reporting that this feature is a game-changer for cooking, managing kids, or just general productivity. Here's how to use the new feature.
Image Playground: Instantly Change Art Styles
By Rhett Intriago
Apple’s Image Playground can be used to create AI-generated artwork in seconds. You can even change the art style of any image you create. It’s all powered by Apple Intelligence and it’s very easy. Here’s how to use Image Playground on iOS 18 to change the art style of images.
Buyer's Guide 2024: Headphones
By David Averbach
If you're an audiophile who appreciates high-quality sound from your headphones, look no further for the best headphones and earbuds to buy this year. We've looked at a lot of different pairs, and these were our top picks for headphones and earbuds in 2024.
Buyer's Guide 2024: Best iPad Gear
By Ashleigh Page
If you're a fan of the iPad then you must check out our picks for the best gear of 20234 From stands to keyboards, here are the top iPad tech and accessories to take your iPad to the next level!