Posted on November 6, 2011 by Alan
The iPhone’s LED light can be used for more than just flashlight apps. You can have it blink whenever you receive a call, text message, or notifications from apps. Below are step-by-step instructions for setting it up. 1. Open Settings: […]
Posted on November 5, 2011 by Alan
If you’re looking for a way to manually set the iPhone’s time and/or date, you won’t find it. At least, not at first. You’ll need to change something in the iPhone’s settings to make the option appear. Below are step-by-step […]
Posted on November 4, 2011 by Alan
You may know that the iPhone can play a sound (called an alert tone) whenever you receive a text message, but did you know the alert tone can repeat up to ten times in case you missed it the first […]
Posted on November 3, 2011 by John Hawkes
Need to browse to some websites without leaving tracks on your iPhone? Do you want the iPhone to not remember your sites visited, searches, and the information you entered into fill-in forms? That’s what the new Private Browsing Mode is […]
Posted on November 2, 2011 by Alan
If there was one tip I’d give to new iPhone users, it’s to teach themselves to use the iPhone’s Spotlight Search to find and launch apps. It really is the quickest way to launch an app buried somewhere in the […]
Posted on November 1, 2011 by Alan
One of the more powerful features of Siri on the iPhone is voice dictation—the ability to turn your speech into text. While the basics of voice dictation are easy enough, just speak and let Siri take care of the rest, […]
Posted on October 31, 2011 by Alan
One of past annoyances of the iPhone’s Mail app was a little red badge that told you hundreds of unread emails were waiting for you. Well, suffer no longer, as you can now turn off that ugly little red badge. […]
Posted on October 30, 2011 by Alan
You don’t have to settle for the default order of alerts in the iPhone and iPad’s Notification Center. You can rearrange them how you like. Below are step-by-step instructions on changing the order that alerts appear in the Notification Center. […]
Posted on October 24, 2011 by Alan
The new Wi-Fi syncing capability for the iPhone and iPad is convenient, but it also can be much slower than using the USB cable to sync. If you have begun the syncing process over Wi-Fi and discover it’s taking too […]
Posted on October 22, 2011 by Alan
The iPhone’s Clock app has an alarm clock function that can wake you up in the morning by playing a ringtone or alert tone. But did you know, that even if you set the iPhone’s ringer switch to silent mode, […]