Use Personal Hotspot Tethering to Avoid Dodgy Wi-Fi While Traveling

Finding good Internet access for your Mac or Wi-Fi-only iPad while traveling can be maddening. Look in your Wi-Fi menu while sitting in an airport and you’ll see a bunch of networks, most of which require a password or won’t connect for other reasons. It isn’t any better when you reach your destination, since [...]

By |2017-09-13T16:43:10-04:00November 3rd, 2017|iOS Tips, Mac Tips|Comments Off on Use Personal Hotspot Tethering to Avoid Dodgy Wi-Fi While Traveling

Did You Know Your iPhone Can Help You Find Your Parked Car?

The iPhone’s Maps app automatically records where you park your car as long as the iPhone is connected to the car’s Bluetooth system. It even notifies you of this when you get out of the car. But how do you get back to the car after you’ve done your errands? Just bring up Maps, [...]

By |2017-09-01T17:47:14-04:00September 5th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Did You Know Your iPhone Can Help You Find Your Parked Car?

Reply Quickly to Messages on Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

Want a faster way to reply to a conversation in Messages? If you see a Messages notification on the Lock screen of your iPhone 6s or later, press and hold on it to expand it into an interactive box where you can reply without unlocking your iPhone or navigating into the Messages app. It’s [...]

By |2017-08-03T15:12:06-04:00August 22nd, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Reply Quickly to Messages on Your iPhone’s Lock Screen

How to Use Siri to Set iOS Alarms

Has your iPhone replaced your alarm clock? Would you like it to? Using an iPhone as an alarm clock has a lot of benefits. You can choose from a wide variety of non-obnoxious sounds or even pick your favorite song. It’s easy to set an alarm—no more holding down buttons and letting up at [...]

By |2017-08-03T15:27:48-04:00August 18th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on How to Use Siri to Set iOS Alarms

Four Ways to Make the iPhone Easier to Read without Glasses

If you have 20/20 vision or are still wondering why your parents have reading glasses, count yourself lucky. But if you’re like many people—over 60 percent of the population by some estimates, including most people over 45—reading the tiny text on your iPhone or iPad screen might be impossible if you don’t happen to [...]

By |2017-08-03T15:17:58-04:00August 4th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Four Ways to Make the iPhone Easier to Read without Glasses

Get Ready for iOS 11 by Identifying Old Apps that Won’t Work

  Now that Apple has released a public beta of iOS 11, we have confirmation that Apple is kicking some old apps off the back of the train. If you’ve been using an iPhone or iPad for more than a few years, it’s possible that some of your apps won’t even launch in iOS [...]

By |2017-07-03T15:35:13-04:00July 28th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Get Ready for iOS 11 by Identifying Old Apps that Won’t Work

How to Recover from the Dreaded “No Service” on Your iPhone

  Have you ever found your iPhone showing “No Service” in the upper-left corner instead cell service bubbles, even when you know there should be cellular reception in your location? It doesn’t happen often, but the iPhone has been known to lose connectivity when it shouldn’t. To fix this problem, open Control Center by [...]

By |2017-07-03T15:31:13-04:00July 25th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on How to Recover from the Dreaded “No Service” on Your iPhone

Try This Quick Shortcut for Turning Off iPhone Alarms

  If you’re like us, your iPhone has replaced that old digital alarm clock by your bedside. But one way that the iPhone doesn’t match up is the ease of thwacking a big Off button to stop the annoying wake-up noise. Happily, you don’t have to open your eyes and find the Stop button [...]

By |2017-07-03T15:04:08-04:00July 11th, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Try This Quick Shortcut for Turning Off iPhone Alarms

Kaboom! How to Take Awesome Fireworks Photos with Your iPhone

It’s the time of year when fireworks fill the sky above celebrations of all sorts. As the crowds ooh and aah at glittering chrysanthemum and willow effects, you may be wishing you could capture some of those moments with your iPhone. With these tips, you won’t need a fancy DSLR camera! 1: Pick a [...]

By |2017-07-01T22:20:11-04:00July 1st, 2017|iOS Tips|Comments Off on Kaboom! How to Take Awesome Fireworks Photos with Your iPhone

How to Stay on Top of Your To-Dos in Apple’s Reminders App

Apple designed the built-in Reminders app as a list-keeping assistant for both macOS and iOS. You can add reminders of any sort to the default Reminders list, or you can create custom lists, like Groceries or Movies to Watch. Plus, if you’ve set up Family Sharing, you also have a shared Family list that everyone [...]

By |2017-06-01T18:44:55-04:00June 30th, 2017|iOS Tips, Mac Tips|Comments Off on How to Stay on Top of Your To-Dos in Apple’s Reminders App
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