By Rhett Intriago
Your iPhone, like every piece of technology, can sometimes behave unpredictably. One way you may experience strange behavior is when your iPhone won’t make calls but will text. If you can send and receive texts, shouldn’t you be able to make and receive phone calls too? Let’s go over how to troubleshoot this odd occurrence in the article below.
By Leanne Hays
Apple's Photos app automatically creates Memory Mixes, which are collections of photos displayed as a musical slideshow. These are customizable and can be a fun way to see and share memories. We'll show you how to find Memory Mixes in the Photos app on iPhone and iPad.
By Devala Rees
If you want to translate text from an image, there is actually an app that can translate pictures already built into your iPhone. It's the Camera app! This also works in Photos too, as it utilizes the Live Text feature to read the text in a picture and translate it from an image into your phone's preset language. Here's how to translate from a picture on your iPhone or iPad.
By Rhett Intriago
While you might have known that the iPhone’s camera has the ability to read text, did you know it also has the ability to read handwriting as well? I find this is most useful for saving things like addresses, phone numbers, and business information that’s been written down. Let’s learn how to copy text from a picture on iPhone.
By Devala Rees
Perhaps you have a PDF you need to sign, but want to avoid having to print the file, physically sign the document, and then scan it back onto your computer. Apple makes it easy to digitally sign a PDF on your Mac! This way, you can save time and avoid the costs associated with printing. Below, we'll show you how to sign a PDF on your Mac.
By Olena Kagui
Apple's ProRAW photos are uncompressed images that give more editing flexibility than standard image files. Learn how to take full advantage of this iPhone camera feature, including enabling ProRAW, when to use the feature, how to use ProRAW to take a photo, and how to edit ProRAW photos.
When you search the web in Safari on your iPhone or iPad, the default search engine determines what search engine is used to look for results. In addition to Google and Bing, iOS also gives you the option to use DuckDuckGo for Safari, which doesn't track your search history. Changing the default browser on an iPhone or iPad is easy; let's learn how.
By Conner Carey
This is a favorite tip of mine for the iPhone. You can shoot video and take a still photo while you’re recording. There have been many times when I wanted to capture a quick still shot from Video mode while already recording. Luckily, doing so on an iPhone is super easy.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
My first week of owning a HomePod, I was scrambling around, as the only HomePod commands I knew were by touch or through my iPhone, and neither one of those worked seamlessly. Quickly, though, I discovered HomePod Siri commands, which not only made my music listening smoother and more enjoyable, but also helped me do entirely new things with my little smart speaker. Here are the best Siri HomePod commands to get the most out of your HomePod and make your home situation a little more fun.
By Rachel Needell
In watchOS 9, the new ability to see and track heart rate zones really takes Apple Watch workouts to the next level. Heart rate zones for exercise are a way to monitor the intensity of your workout. Although this feature won't be available to the public until September, once you have watchOS 9, you can add heart rate zones to any workout. Here's how!
By Devala Rees
Voice Control is an Accessibility feature designed to help you navigate your iPhone in a hands-free manner. We'll show you how to enable Voice Control, as well as how to use one of the feature's most useful voice commands to unlock your iPhone and close apps.
By Ashleigh Page
We all see notifications from our favorite apps and even our infrequently used apps so often that it can be hard to focus. Too many alerts can make it easy to miss your important notifications, and distract you from what you should be doing! To fix this, follow the steps below to set up Scheduled Summary reports in Notifications on iPhone.
By Paula Bostrom
Sometimes I’ll find an article I want to read, but I just don’t have time at the moment. With the Apple Reading List, you can save any article from the web and go back and read it at any time. Here’s how to save articles to read later.
By Conner Carey
We all receive junk mail, also known as spam, in our inboxes now and again. Despite our best efforts, there’s always the occasion where we’ve signed up for something years ago or entered our email to purchase an item but find we’re now signed up for a newsletter. Whatever the case, it’s super easy to move an email to junk in the Mail app; here’s how.
By Emma Chase
It might seem inconsequential, but using a safe iPhone charger cable is important to making sure your iPhone lasts as long as possible and doesn't suffer irreparable damage to the battery or other components. Fortunately, it's easy to distinguish a certified Apple charger cord from a cheap knockoff. We'll show you how to make sure an iPhone cable is safe.
By Conner Carey
The iPhone Control Center lets users quickly access their most-used apps and features with just one swipe. You can customize Apple's Control Center for the iPhone by removing features you don't use and adding controls you'd prefer.
By Leanne Hays
If you don’t need one or more of your folders in the Photos app, you can delete them on your Mac. This will remove the folder and the albums inside it, but keep all the pictures and videos inside those albums in your Photo Library. Here's how.
By Rachel Needell
The first few times you use the Zoom app on any given device or after an update, you may not have allowed Zoom to share your screen on the Mac. Additionally, sometimes when you click the button to go to Settings to fix the issue, it doesn't open to the proper settings menu to enable screen sharing on your Mac. Here's a step by step guide for how to share screen on Mac during a Zoom call.
By Rachel Needell
Apple's accessibility feature known as VoiceOver can be quite unruly if you're not used to it. It fundamentally changes the way you interact with your iPhone, and therefore most people tend to stay away. However, we discovered a way to enable VoiceOver temporarily just to have it read text on your phone screen aloud when you need it and quickly turn it off right afterward. It may sound complicated, but it's so simple and fun! Here's how to set it up!
By Ashleigh Page
You can now customize your Safari start page (also called a Safari home page) to show the content you're most interested in. That way when you open Safari, you can access bookmarked pages and shared files with a single tap on your screen. We'll show you how!
