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How to Track Flights on iPhone and iPad

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How to Track Flights on iPhone and iPad

There is an amazing shortcut built into iPhone and iPad that allows you to track flights. The shortcut shows you the status of a flight including if it is on time, delayed, or cancelled. It will also show you the destination and where the flight originates. Baggage claim information is displayed when available. This shortcut is very convenient. So, let me show you exactly how to track a flight using this iOS shortcut. How to Track Flights on iPhone and iPad First, you will need to know the airline name and the flight number. The example I will use is Continue Reading →

How to use 3D Touch to move text insertion point

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I’m always amazed to discover how many people are unaware of one of my favorite features in iOS – using 3D Touch to gain fine-grain control over the text insertion point while writing. With the advent of the iPhone 6s, Apple introduced 3D Touch as a feature shipping with its high end iPhones and has continued to include it up to the present day. This feature, which brings an additional layer of functionality to many controls across the system, can also be used to gain accurate control over the blinking cursor that signifies where typed text will be inserted. Prior Continue Reading →

How to customize Control Center

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In iOS 11, which was released in the fall of 2017, Apple gave users an unprecedented number of ways to customize their devices – allowing control over things that had been unchangeable in the past. One great example of this is Control Center – iOS’ one stop shop for quick access to your device’s settings that’s just a simple swipe up from the bottom of the screen away (or down from the top right of the screen, if you happen to be using an iPhone X). Having the ability to swipe up and quickly interact with one of these controls Continue Reading →

Little Things Forever – Fun Seek and Find Game for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad (mini)

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At first look you may think this is just a game for young kids. Young kids do enjoy it, but it is not as easy as it looks. It is essentially a seek and find game. It opens with a star that has many objects inside of it and then zooms in on one. That object becomes your game board for that round. Inside of that object are a whole bunch of smaller objects. In the upper right hand corner of the screen is a list of objects for you to find. You are being timed for this game so Continue Reading →