By Olena Kagui
Once you learn how to print from iPhones, iPads, and Macs, you may want to find ways to make the process faster and easier. I find learning how to set a default printer on your Apple device really helpful to not only save time but to avoid wasting ink and paper by accidentally printing on the wrong printer.
Seeing Apple Music appear in Tesla's All Apps folder was one of the best surprises of the December 2022 Tesla software holiday update. The lack of Tesla-Apple Music integration has been a pain point for Apple users who own Teslas. However, thanks to the Tesla update, Apple Music is now available in Tesla's running 2022.44.25 or newer.
By Rhett Intriago
AirPods spatial audio provides a theater-like sound experience when listening to music or watching movies on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac. With the release of iOS 16 and a pair of third-generation AirPods, AirPods Pro, or AirPods Max, you can create a personalized spatial audio experience.
What does Qi mean for wireless chargers? Well, Qi (pronounced "chee") is a certification standard for safe wireless charging maintained by the Wireless Power Consortium. Only products that have passed the WPC's rigorous testing can call themselves Qi-certified. We'll show you how to tell if a charger is Qi-certified in three easy ways.
By Olena Kagui
Your Apple Watch fitness tracker is the Santa Claus of exercise. It senses when you're sleeping, it knows when you're awake, and it can tell if you're slacking during a workout. Instead of giving you a lump of coal, your Apple Watch will pause your workout and ask, "Finished your workout?" Learn how to dismiss the reminder, disable the automatic workout detection feature, and calibrate your Apple Watch to optimize your fitness routine and close those Activity Rings.
By Olena Kagui
Apple Watch calls are great because you don't need your iPhone, and it leaves your hands free so you can multitask. I will teach you how to make a phone call and accept one, along with other tips to make the most of Apple Watch phone calls. Plus, I'll explain how to turn off phone calls on Apple Watch if you need some peace and quiet.
By Erin MacPherson
Sure, you can adjust the text size for your entire iPhone, but what if it's just one or two apps that are hard to read? You can decrease or increase text size for one app or several instead of changing font size across all apps! We'll walk you through setup and text size adjustment on iPhone for individual apps.
By August Garry
Have you ever tried to share a recital or conduct a music lesson over FaceTime? If so, Wide Spectrum Mic Mode may be for you. Wide Spectrum mode brings in and enhances all the background noise around you so your friends or family can hear things with better quality.
By Leanne Hays
With iOS 13 and iPadOS, Apple offers more accessibility settings than ever before. Beginning with iOS 11, iPhone and iPad users could customize their devices' Control Centers to include the apps they use the most. For those with mobility issues, the deaf and hearing impaired, and the blind and visually impaired, Apple's accessibility features are a great choice to add to the Control Center. There are many settings to choose from, including RTT/TTY phone call access, an LED flash rather than an audible alarm for alerts, assistive touch, braille, a magnifying glass, and much more. Let's get started learning how to add Accessibility Shortcuts to the Control Center on your iPhone and iPad so you can have the features, tools, and settings you need at your disposal.
By Erin MacPherson
Most Apple Fitness app users tend to favor certain workouts. If you’d rather have an easy way to find your favorite workouts instead of having to search through Apple Fitness+ each time, we’ll show you how to add favorite workouts to your My Workouts list.
Do you have questions about how to find, download, open, close, organize, delete, and otherwise manage iOS apps on your Apple device? Here's your roadmap to the App Store, and how to navigate all the applications you discover there. Whether you're wondering how to find a specific type of app, how to delete apps you no longer need, how to organize your Home screen so you can easily find the apps you're looking for, or even how to fix an app that's frozen or crashing, we have you covered. Dive in to our apps guide and find the information you need to get the most out of your apps.
By Sarah Kingsbury
Read receipts notify the senders of iMessages when the recipient reads the message. This is either great or evil depending on your perspective. My colleague and his wife both have read receipts turned on on their phones. That way if a timely iMessage doesn't get read right away, they can call each other instead. Other people prefer that the senders of messages not get notified. That way there is no pressure for an immediate reply. Whichever camp you fall in, you'll need to know how to to turn read receipts on or off.
By Conner Carey
If you have read receipts enabled but want to read the occasional text without letting the sender know you’ve seen it, just use 3D Touch to peek into the Message. (Note that this tip requires an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus.)
The Apple Notes app is a convenient organizer app for everything from planning projects to writing down your grocery list. The Notes app allows users to create folders so they can group related notes. Sometimes I'll make a note and later realize it's in the wrong folder. Other times I won't put the note in a folder, and it will end up in the general Notes folder by default. The Notes app has a simple way to fix this; you can move a note to another folder, or start a new folder. If you've been wondering, "how do I move a note to a folder in the Notes app?", read on.
By Amy Spitzfaden Both
Knowing how to lock notes on the iPhone is a handy feature that lets you easily protect your private notes. But unfortunately, there are limitations to the notes you can lock in the Notes app, which may result in frustrating failed attempts. Here's why your notes aren't locking on your iPhone and what to do instead.
Through the years, FaceTime has evolved and improved to include more devices and capabilities. With Apple's iOS 15, we can finally place a FaceTime call to Android users via a link, not to mention all the cool features now available with SharePlay. In this guide, we'll cover how to make a call using the FaceTime app, how to FaceTime with Android users, how to share your screen, and more!
Did you know Apple makes its Music radio stations completely free? You don’t even need an Apple Music membership in order to take advantage of them. If you want to create your own radio station from a song you like, you will need an Apple Music membership in order to do that. But you can listen to free radio stations in Apple Music with or without paying for a subscription. The free radio stations include Beats 1, Bloomberg Radio, ESPN News and Sports, and NPR News and Culture, to name a few. Here’s how to listen to free radio stations in Apple Music without a subscription.
By Rhett Intriago
Apple has integrated Siri into AirPods seamlessly, so you can continue using your virtual assistant without pulling out your phone. When listening to music, podcasts, audiobooks, etc., you can ask Siri to pause and play media, skip or go back, and adjust the volume of your AirPods. However, sometimes Siri volume control does not work the way it should.
By Emma Chase
You can screenshot on Apple Watch with just one step, which comes in very handy when you want to share something cool or interesting on your screen but only have a moment to catch it before the screen changes. We'll show you how to screenshot on Apple Watch so you can save and share interesting things from your Apple Watch screen.
By Emma Chase
The Apple Notes App is a convenient place to jot down ideas, keep your grocery list, and organize meeting notes. But what happens when you make a mistake? Luckily, you can easily undo them. Learn how to undo in Notes on your iPhone to get the most out of your Notes app.
