By Rachel Needell
While the Mac isn't known for being a photo-taking device, anyone who remembers the early 2000s will know how to take pictures on a Macbook. The Mac's webcam is pretty decent, and while you might want to use your iPhone for more serious photography, taking a picture on a Mac is easy! Here's how to take pictures on a Mac.
By Conner Carey
Wondering, “How do I turn off a Live Photo?” If a Live Photo you take captures a bit of video or audio you don’t want, you can convert the Live Photo to a still image in two different ways. You can turn off the live part of the live photo, or you can duplicate the photo as a still and keep or delete the original. Here are both ways to change a Live Photo to a still picture.
By Conner Carey
The Contacts app is the place where all your family, friends, and random people you met at a conference five years ago and haven't spoken to since come together. However, people change their email addresses and phone numbers every now and again, so being able to edit those contacts is essential. Here’s how to edit a contact.
By Rheanne Taylor
Gone are the days when sharing photos and videos meant tediously transferring them from your camera to your computer via wires and SD cards. Thanks to email, AirDrop, and the ability to upload content directly to social media, sharing memories with your friends and family has become easier than ever. Apple has taken that ease even further, allowing you to instantly send photos and videos directly from the Messaging app. Here’s how to instantly send photos in messages.
By Jim Karpen
Before iOS 9, you were limited to sending five photos via email from iPhone. But now that limit is gone for the Mail app. Some people have reported being able to email up to 100 photos. While that is a lot of photos to email, it’s a great feature to have for sharing photos privately with family and friends. For the longest time, I emailed pictures to myself to easily transfer photos from my iPhone to my computer. Whatever the reason you need to send photos via email from iPhone, you can send a lot more than you used to be able to. Here’s how to email pictures from iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
Your iPhone’s side button is arguably the most important button on the device. It is responsible for powering your phone on and off and locking and waking the display. So if your iPhone power button is not working, using your iPhone becomes much more difficult. Let’s take a look at some ways to fix this problem, as well as how to continue using your iPhone when the side button is broken.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
If your iPhone or iPad touch screen is not working, it can present all kind of trouble for you. Luckily there are a few things you can try to get your touch screen working again that are minimally disruptive to your life and device. If none of this works or your device is entirely unresponsive to touch without even sporadic connection, it might be a hardware issue; but before we jump to that option, let's look at everything to try when your iPad or iPhone is not responding to touch.
By Olena Kagui
A cracked iPhone screen is more than just a cosmetic issue. It can affect the touch sensitivity of the screen of your device. A damaged iPhone screen can also affect the front camera. It can even cause more serious hardware issues depending on the severity of the crack. It is important to take care of a cracked iPhone or iPad screen as soon as possible. There are several ways to do this.
Simply put: sometimes your iPhone doesn’t work the way you expect it, or doesn’t work at all. Often there are simple little fixes you can do. Less often it will be a serious problem that will require professional fixing. If your iPhone isn’t working, here’s a roundup of the most basic steps you can take.
By Olena Kagui
If your iPhone screen is black or blank, but your iPhone is on, you may be able to fix it with a quick force restart. I will also teach you some causes and prevention techniques for the stubborn iPhone black screen of death! Plus, we'll cover what to do in more extreme scenarios.
By Rachel Needell
When you use iPhone's Mail app or the Gmail app, you may occasionally run into the issue of not getting emails on your iPhone. If you're wondering why you're not receiving emails on your iPhone, we'll review some solutions below
By Rachel Needell
Whether your Apple Watch alerts and notifications are not quite the right volume, or you want to adjust the volume of your music from your Apple Watch, it's simple to adjust volume on an Apple Watch. We'll go over both how to turn up the volume or turn down the volume of the Apple Watch and how to raise and lower volume via the Apple Watch while playing something on your iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
Using a QR code for Apple Pay would be extremely convenient, but it doesn’t work quite the way you would expect. You can't pay with Apple Pay using a QR code, but you can scan QR codes to add different types of tickets and passes to your Apple Wallet. Here’s how.
By Rachel Needell
Turning on Screen Time is a great way to track how often you use your device and what you spend the most time doing. Under Screen Time, you have the ability to track metrics across days and weeks, as well as set limits for Screen Time, too. Here's how to get started with Screen Time on your iPhone or iPad.
By Conner Carey
Did you know that you can take a tour of a city from the comfort of your own home with the Apple Maps app? Apple has a feature called Flyover that allows you to view 3D modeling of large cities around the world. We’ll go over all the details of how to use the AR Flyover feature in Apple Maps below.
By Olena Kagui
LiDAR makes it possible for self-driving cars to detect their surroundings, but it also has many benefits for iPhone users. iPhones with LiDAR sensors take significantly better low-light photos and portraits. LiDAR also allows iPhones to measure distance accurately, scan 3D objects and 360° spaces, and use augmented reality apps.
By Conner Carey
Viewing the desktop version of a website can sometimes help you find something that isn't available on the mobile version. Of course, the iPhone always defaults to the mobile site, but there is a way to force Safari to load the desktop version. It’s a pretty awesome hidden trick. Let's go over how to request a desktop site on iPhone.
By Sarah Kingsbury
Have you ever tried to remove a card from your Apple ID and received the message, "There is an active subscription on this account?" We'll show you how to remove a card from your Apple ID. Each Apple ID can be assigned multiple cards or payment methods for use with subscriptions in the App Store, iCloud, and any other in-app purchases. Here's how to delete or remove a payment method from Apple Wallet or Apple Pay.
By Rhett Intriago
Apple's iCloud Keychain now supports passkeys. How do passkeys work? Passkeys are an alternate way to sign into specific accounts, which saves time since you don't need to enter your email and password every time you sign in.
By Olena Kagui
Reversing a video on your iPhone is not as straightforward as it should be. I’ll teach you how to reverse a video on iPhones using websites and third-party apps. While the easiest and quickest solutions are paid, I will also teach you how to put a video in reverse for free!
