By Olena Kagui
Long battery life and quick charging are two features that iPhone and iPad users like me enjoy on a daily basis. There are various ways that an iPhone can be charged. When your phone is on, it's easy to confirm that it's charging by checking the battery icon. However, if your phone is completely out of juice and you can't see the iPhone charging icon, how do you know if your phone is charging? What about your iPad?
By Leanne Hays
Can you connect two AirPods to one phone? Absolutely! If you want to share audio on your iPhone without having to share the same set of AirPods, this tip is for you. We'll show you how to share AirPods audio by pairing two sets of earbuds to your iPhone.
By Leanne Hays
iPadOS 18 is finally here! We’ll cover how to update your iPad so you can begin to take advantage of the new iPad software features right away. We'll also cover whether or not you should update to iPadOS 18, which models are compatible with the new operating system, and reasons why your iPad won't update to iPadOS 18.
By Abbey Dufoe
Want to learn how to lock apps on an iPhone or iPad with a fingerprint? Here's how to lock apps on an iPhone or iPad by enabling Touch ID. Below, we'll cover how to set up Touch ID apps for better iPad and iPhone security.
By Emma Chase
If you've ever spotted an extra charge from the App Store on your credit card statement and wondered where it came from, this tip may help. It's become more common for apps to have in-app purchases, even if the app itself is free. Let's learn how to prevent these charges from happening.
By Conner Carey
Want to keep your subscriptions private? Many people want to know how to hide subscriptions on their iPhone or iPad, but it's not completely possible at this time. We can show you how to hide subscriptions from your Family Sharing group, though! Of course, keeping your iPhone locked goes a long way toward keeping your subscriptions and subscription history private; we'll show you how.
Sharing events on your iPhone calendar with contacts can increase productivity at work, make get-togethers with friends easier to plan, and consolidate your upcoming events on your iPhone calendar for easy access. But how do you share events on the iPhone calendar? Follow the steps below to send an iPhone calendar invite to a group of contacts using your iPhone calendar app.
By Brian Peters
Shared Albums let you add photos and videos to a collaborative photo album, but first, you have to know how to join a shared album. Here's how to accept a Shared Album invite, and what to do if a shared album invite is not showing up.
By Rachel Needell
For certain locations of malls and airports, Apple actually has indoor maps you can view directly from the Maps app. I love this feature because it allows me to figure out where I am without having to find a directory or physical map somewhere inside the location.
By Conner Carey
Can you pick part of a Live Photo and save it as a still image? Yes! And you can designate that frame as the key photo that appears when the Live Photo isn't playing. Here's how to extract frames from Live Photos and save them as photo stills.
By Conner Carey
Have you accidentally deleted the Calendar app on your iPhone? Has your iPad or iPhone Calendar app disappeared? If the Calendar app on your iPhone disappears, here's how to use the App Library or Search to find your missing Calendar app. You can also download the Calendar app for iPhone from the App Store if you accidentally deleted it.
By Leanne Hays
You can save credit card information using AutoFill on your iPhone, then make online purchases using the saved information without having to dig your card out of your wallet. Here's how to edit and change saved cards, and delete your AutoFill credit card on iPhone.
By Olena Kagui
It can be easy to get distracted and unknowingly damage your eyes by holding your iPhone or iPad's screen too close to your face. iOS 17 introduced automatic alerts that remind you to hold your device at a safer distance, which reduces eye strain and can prevent headaches, bad posture, etc. Enabling these alerts can even help you build better habits over time.
By Rhett Intriago
Apple has continued to improve its Maps app through every iteration of iOS. Apple Maps has long since proven itself as a reliable navigation app on par with competitors like Google Maps and Waze. Even so, it has been missing one crucial feature, which iOS 17 finally added: offline maps.
By Olena Kagui
Adding widgets to your iPad's Today View is a game changer in terms of productivity and ease of access to your favorite apps and important info. There are a variety of widgets you can add to the Today View on your iPad, plus adding widgets to the iPad is actually fairly simple. We'll show you how to set up widgets on your iPad, how to change widgets on your iPad, and how to remove widgets from your iPad.
Your iPhone cannot replace a real doctor, but it can help you identify your mental health risks in just minutes. You can use the Health app to take a quick quiz that will let you know if you have any risk of experiencing anxiety or depression. You can easily share the results of these quizzes with your primary healthcare provider to consider any potential next steps.
By Conner Carey
Most of us are familiar with using the one-finger swipe and the two-finger pinch on our iPhones and iPads; but if you have an iPad, you may want to consider also using these four- and five-finger multi-touch gestures. We'll walk you through how to use these iPad-only gestures that make navigating between apps more seamless than ever before. These iPad gestures make it easy to see which apps are active, swipe between them, and quickly return to the Home Screen.
By Rhett Intriago
Your iPhone now has a built-in mood-logging feature, allowing you to enter how you’re feeling in the Health app throughout the day. This is to help make you more aware of your emotions and better understand why you feel a certain way. Read on to find out more about this emotion-tracking feature.
By August Garry
By adding Siri Suggestions to your iPad Home screen, you can get easy access to apps you frequently use. This widget can also give you insight into which apps you're spending your time on based on what Siri suggests. We'll show you how to add the Suggestions widget to your iPad Home screen.
By Rhett Intriago
In the latest version of iOS, you can link your notes together. If you have tons of disorganized notes, you can add hyperlinks to them so that you can quickly navigate to related notes.
