Peek Calendar Review – An elegantly simple calendar for iPhone and iPod Touch

This post reviews Peek Calendar, an elegantly simple calendar app that helps you focus on your schedule a day at a time while having some fun along the way. Most calendar applications for iOS try to pack as much useful information as possible onto the screen while still remaining attractive. This approach can be helpful for giving you a detailed view of your upcoming events, but it can also be a bit overwhelming. Peek calendar is a new calendar app that takes a different approach to displaying your schedule, one that focuses on simplicity and fun. Design & Features – That Continue Reading →

Quick Tip – Access extra buttons in Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch

This post shows how to access the stock Calculator app’s hidden buttons by turning your device sideways. Some of the most useful apps in iOS are the simple ones. The stock Calculator app on iPhone and iPod Touch has been around since day one and is a great option for doing quick calculations on your device. However, sometimes the Calculator can be too simple. In fact, in iOS 7 Apple simplified the app even more by removing some buttons, including the memory buttons, from the Calculator’s main screen. Fortunately, these buttons and many more buttons that are typically included in Continue Reading →

Free App of the Week for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

Free App of the Week for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch

PopAGraph is the free app of the week for iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch! Click on the icon to the left or the link below to get your free app this week. This is a paid app that Apple is discounting to “FREE” for one week. Check back every Friday for the new App of the Week. The apps typically are universal apps meaning that they work on all iOS devices – iPhone, iPad (Mini), and iPod Touch. Get it while you can by following this link: PopAGraph Description of the App: Every iPhoneographer is looking for that unique distinctive Continue Reading →

Bloard – Use dark keyboard by default on jailbroken devices

Bloard is a jailbreak tweak that uses iOS 7’s dark keyboard as the default keyboard throughout iOS. If you’ve been using iOS 7 for any length of time, you’ve probably noticed that there are two different keyboards included with the OS – a light keyboard and a dark keyboard. Most often, iOS 7 opts for the light keyboard as it is more in line with its white design aesthetic. However, I remember that when I saw the dark keyboard slide on to the screen for the first time when using Spotlight search I thought, “Woah.” The dark keyboard matches my Continue Reading →

Tydlig Review – Great alternative calculator app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

This post reviews Tydlig, a great alternative calculator app for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch. Sometimes you just need a calculator. I frequently pop open the stock calculator app on iOS to do quick calculations when I’m budgeting throughout the week or shopping for groceries. One of the best things about the stock calculator app is its simplicity. But there are some situations where I need more options. Of course, I could turn my iPhone into landscape mode to access a lot of extra features in the calculator app, but then the buttons are very small and somewhat difficult Continue Reading →

Quick Tip – How to show timestamps in iOS 8 Messages app

This post shows you how to see when you received each message in the iOS 7 Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch. I don’t know about you, but of all the apps on my iPhone I probably use the Messages app the most. Text messaging has become so engrained in our society that it’s something that we don’t even really think about anymore. The Messages app in iOS has always been good about telling you when a conversation happened or, specifically with iMessages, telling you when a message you sent was received or read. But what if Continue Reading →

MiniPlayer – Jailbreak Tweak Review

This post reviews MiniPlayer, a jailbreak tweak that brings the iTunes 11 MiniPlayer view to your iOS device and lets you control your music from anywhere. Recently, I published a post on TeachMeiOS describing how to jailbreak your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 7. If you’ve jailbroken your device, you’re likely looking for great tweaks to use on it. This will serve as the first full review of a jailbreak tweak on TeachMeiOS, and I’m very excited to share this one with you. I use this tweak on nearly a daily basis and it recently received a fresh Continue Reading →

How to view music by Artist/Album in iOS 7

The Music App underwent some significant changes in iOS 7. A lot of these changes were great: Apple introduced a sleek new design and integrated iTunes Radio right into the new version of the app. However, Apple also removed a key navigational feature, sorting by Artist/Album. However, I’ve found a way to re-enable this view. This post shows a trick to view music by Artist/Album in iOS 7. Here’s how the Music app worked in iOS 6 and earlier: When using the Artist tab you would tap on an artist (U2, for example) and the app would then display a list Continue Reading →

How to jailbreak iOS 7 with Evasi0n 7

In this post I’ll show you how to jailbreak any iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch running iOS 7 using the recently released Evasi0n 7 utility. I’ll also share a few easy-to-use jailbreak tweaks to get you started.   Every year, Apple releases a new version of iOS. In 2013, people waited patiently for months after getting their first glimpse of iOS 7 and on September 18th millions of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users excitedly downloaded and installed the biggest update to iOS ever. As exciting as the release of iOS 7 was, there are many people like myself who Continue Reading →

iOS 7: How to use and turn off your iPhone Flashlight from the Lock screen

iOS 7: How to use and turn off your iPhone Flashlight from the Lock screen

This article will explain how to use and turn off your iPhone flashlight from the lock screen in iOS 7. Did you know that you can use your iPhone camera flash as a flashlight? Apple added a quick access feature in iOS 7 that allows you to turn the camera flash on and off and use it as a flashlight through Control Center. From your lock screen, simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access several toggles as well as shortcuts to the flashlight, timer/alarm clock, calculator, and camera apps. To turn the flashlight on just tap Continue Reading →