Quick Tip: How to find and easily open apps that aren’t on your Home Screen (and contacts, texts, and emails)

As you add more apps to your iPhone, iPad , or iPod Touch, it can become increasingly difficult to locate the apps when you need them. This is especially true if you have created folders for your apps. Thankfully, there is an easy way to search for and open any app on your device (this also works with contacts, texts, emails, and more). If you are running iOS 7 or later, all you need to do is to pull down on the the Home Screen. This will initiate a Spotlight search. Once in Spotlight, just start typing the name of the app Continue Reading →

Launch Center Pro – An app with customizable shortcuts

Launch Center Pro is an app that I use every day on my iPhone. It is so important that it actually displaced Safari on my dock. I use Launch Center Pro to turn on/off the LED flash on the back of my device making it a flashlight. I use it to take me directly to the camera section of Instagram so that I’m ready to add a photo or capture a new one almost instantly. I have a shortcut to search for and dial contacts. I also have a number of my most used apps in a group so that Continue Reading →