Category Archives: iOS Tips and Tricks

4 Tips for Maps App on iPhone: Quick Navigate, Walking Directions, ETA, and Siri Navigation

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The Maps App on the iPhone is a great tool for finding locations and navigating to them. The app is fully integrated into the system allowing you to use other apps with the navigation running in the background. You can even use navigation while your iOS device’s screen is locked to save battery (see this article for more on this: How to save battery life while using Turn by Turn directions with Apple Maps App). To help you get even more out of the Maps app on your iPhone 4S or iPhone 5, here are 4 useful tips: 1. Quick Navigate Continue Reading →

How to prep your iPhone for overseas travel (to avoid exorbitant data fees)

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iPhone 4, 4S, 5 and iPad (Mini) Cellular

There are a couple important things you can do to prep your iPhone 5, 4S, 4, or older for overseas travel in order to avoid costly data roaming charges. Most cell phone carriers offer some type of international data plans. However, they are all extremely overpriced and if you are not careful, you will run up a costly bill if you are not careful. There are many horror stories of people using just a few megabytes of data overseas and getting stuck with $2000 bills (you can read more about exorbitant bills in this article on ZDNet.com: International Data Roaming Continue Reading →

4 Tips and Tricks for the Phone App on your iPhone

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Most of the features of the Phone app on the iPhone are pretty straight forward. For example, you can add any contacts to your favorites list by opening a contact and tapping on “Add to Favorites” and then select the corresponding number. If you want to redial that last dialed number, tap on Keypad and tap the green Call button. The last called number will appear in the display. But there are some additional features that are not quite so obvious. Here are 4 of them: 1. How to Copy or Paste numbers in the display above the Keypad When Continue Reading →

Quick Tip: How to look up a word in the dictionary on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch

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Your iOS device comes preloaded with an easily accessible dictionary. Whether you need to define a word you are reading in an email, an eBook, or anything else on your iDevice, all you need to do is simply select the word by tapping and holding. Then tap “Define.” This will pull up the dictionary definition of the word you just selected. If you are writing an email or composing another document on your iOS device, you can select the word you want to define by double tapping on it. Then, tap the right arrow of the Cut, Copy, Paste buttons Continue Reading →

6 Tips and Tricks to help you get the most out of the built-in Calendar App on iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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The built in Calendar App has a ton of great features to help keep you organized and manage your schedule. Here are a few tips and tricks that will help you get more out of the Calendar App on your iOS device. 1. Rotate iPhone and iPod Touch to Landscape to reveal 3-day View Whenever you rotate your device to landscape when looking at your calendar, the view will automatically switch to a 3 day view. You can scroll left or right to view other days of the week. Week View on the iPad (Mini) always reveals the entire 7 Continue Reading →

Did you know you can gift an iOS app right from your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch? Here’s how…

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With the most recent updates to the iOS App Store, you can now select any app and gift it. Gifting an app is simple – here is how: 1. Open up the App Store app. 2. Locate the app you want to gift and tap on it. 3. Once you tap on the app you want to gift, a little sharing arrow will appear in the upper right corner of the screen. This is where you can gift the app. In the bottom right corner of the sharing icons you will see the gift icon. Tap on this to gift Continue Reading →

How to quickly create calendar appointments or call someone when a date or phone number appears in text form in iOS 6

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Built in to the basic features of your iPhone, iPad (Mini), or iPod Touch is the ability to quickly create new appointments or make a call when a date or phone number appears in text form on your device. This is true for emails, text messages, webpages, and many other places where text appears on your iOS device. You will know when you can use this feature if the date and/or the phone number is a different color from the rest of the text. Whenever you see this, all you need to do is to tap on the date or Continue Reading →

5 Tips and Tricks for the iOS Mail App to show you how to better use email on the iPhone, iPad (Mini) and iPod Touch

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How to set up mail app

The built in Mail client in iOS 6 is packed full of features to help you get the most out of your email experience. You can set up multiple email accounts from multiple providers. To setup your email account on your iOS device, simply go to Settings –> Mail, Contacts, Calendars –> Add Account. Then, choose your provider and enter all of your setup information in the prompts that follow. The Mail app has template setup services for iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Hotmail, and you can add any other service using the “Other” category. You can add as Continue Reading →

11 Tricks for How to use your Apple Earphones or EarPods with Inline Remote

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11 Tricks you can do with your Apple EarPods or Earphones using the inline remote

One of the things I love about Apple is that the company has figured out the art of putting incredible functionality into very simple and elegant products. Unfortunately, the simplicity sometimes hides features. When the iPhone 5 was announced, Apple also introduced the EarPods. These are specially designed earphones that add additional clarity, deeper bass, better fit for more ears, multiple mics for noise cancellation, and the inline remote. The inline remote is packed full of all kinds of features. Here are 11 of these features: 1. Volume up/down When you squeeze the plus sign on the inline remote it Continue Reading →

iOS 7 and 8 Tips: How to set up and personalize Siri on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

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iOS 7 Tips: How to set up and personalize Siri on your iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

Siri is the personal assistant that Apple introduced with the iPhone 4S and iOS 5. Now, with the recently released iOS 8, Siri is smarter and faster than ever. I personally use Siri everyday. I like that I can speak to Siri using normal sentences and in normal tones. For the most part, Siri can accurately interpret what I am saying and will respond with the information I am requesting. If you are new to Siri, here are some of the basics of how to access and activate Siri. There are two primary ways to access Siri (this is the same Continue Reading →