It has been a banner week for Apple. Not only has the tech giant released new versions of iOS and iTunes, it also launched its much vaunted streaming music service – Apple Music. But the company has also made a controversial move with iOS 8.4 by removing Home Sharing, a popular method for listening to music […]
What is Wi-Fi Calling and Why Should You Care?
With the release of iOS 8, Apple added a nifty feature to the iPhone known as Wi-Fi calling. This very handy addition to the mobile operating system has the potential to prevent a lot of headaches for iPhone users, and could even save them some money too. But it is also a feature that isn’t […]
How to Report Messages Spam in iOS 8.3
Earlier in the week Apple released iOS 8.3 for our iPhones, iPads, and iPod Touches, bringing a host of new features and bug fixes along with it. In addition to adding more than 300 new emoji, enabling Wi-Fi calling on more carriers, and giving us the ability to make speakerphone calls using Siri, the update […]
How to Disable Fitness Tracking in iOS 8.2
Earlier this week Apple released iOS 8.2 for iPhone and iPad. The latest version of the mobile operating system delivers support for the Apple Watch, some new features for the Health app, and a slew of bug fixes and stability enhancements. It also gives users the ability to disable automatic fitness tracking, something that has been […]
5 Ways to Use Apple’s Health App
One of the most highly touted features of iOS 8 prior to release was, without a doubt, the Health app. This piece of software is meant to be a central dumping ground for all data related to our physical fitness, diet, and general well being. We heard a lot about the Health app prior to the launch of […]
Twitter Blames Apple for User Loss
Twitter has released its 2014 fourth quarter user growth numbers, and everyone is saying that they are rather disappointing. Especially the guys at Twitter. Quite surprisingly, the reason for the user loss is very simple. At least according to chief executive officer Dick Costolo, who says that “unforeseen bug in the release of iOS 8 […]
How to Disable iPhone Cellular Calls on iPad and Mac
One of the new features that Apple heavily touted with the release of iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite was the ability to route iPhone cellular calls to your iPad and Mac, giving you the ability to answer phone calls from those devices. At the time, this seemed like a very handy feature to have, […]
How to Set Up Family Sharing in iOS 8
One of the best new features that Apple introduced with iOS 8 is Family Sharing, a service that allows up to six people to share apps, music, movies, and other content across all of their devices. This isn’t Apple’s first foray into allowing users to share content of course, but Family Sharing has streamlined the […]
Should You Install iOS 8.1.2 Now?
By now, you’ve probably gotten a notification message on your iPhone and other iOS devices that iOS 8.1.2 is now available and that you can update your phone. I usually go ahead and install the newest version when I get the notification, but this time, I might wait a while. Should you follow my suit […]
Themeboard App Will Make Sure You Don’t Get Bored of Your Keyboard
In spite of the many complaints we hear about Apple products, both hardware and software, we can’t say that iOS 8 has not brought lots of awesome changes with it. One of them is that we can now use third-party keyboards. Personally, the default keyboard does not pose much of a problem. However, there is […]
5 Under Utilized Features of iOS 8 Messages
When it was first introduced as part of iOS 3 back in 2009, Messages was a simple app designed to enhance communications between iOS devices, without compromising the ability to send standard text messages to other types of devices as well. In those early days, it was a bare-bones app, lacking in features and polish, but over […]
How to Install Custom Keyboards in iOS 8
When it was released back in September, iOS 8 brought a slew of new tools and features to the iPhone and iPad, not the least of which is the ability for users to install their own custom, third-party keyboards. Since then, there have been a number of fun, and useful, keyboards released on the app […]
Will HomeKit Become the Next Big Thing From Apple?
Amidst all the hype and hoopla surrounding iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite at the Worldwide Developer Conference this past June, Apple quietly unveiled a software development kit designed to jumpstart the fledgling home automation market. Dubbed HomeKit, this new platform was created to give developers a level of standardization when creating devices for use in […]
iOS 8.1.1 to Make iPhones Run Faster
It’s no secret that iOS 8 is not “friendly” to users with older iPhones. Older iPads have the same issue. Then there was the snafu about the update which was quickly recalled by Apple. There is good news – and hope – for users with the older models, as Forbes reports that a new iOS […]
How to Make Phone Calls From Your Mac with OS X Yosemite
Thanks to the new Continuity features found in iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, our iPhones, iPads, and Mac laptops and desktops can now interact like never before. For example, the Handoff functionality lets you start work on one device, then seamlessly transfer to another to wrap up whatever it is you’re working on. Similarly, SMS […]
