Not only will the ever-loyal Siri—you know, Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant for iPhone and iPad—cheerfully read your email, set alarms, deliver weather reports and generally be at your beck and call, she’ll even change the sound of her voice if...
Ready to take charge of the Home button on your iPhone or iPad? Learn how to make it easier to double-click the iPhone Home button, change what happens when you hold the Home button, try some nifty triple-click tricks, and more. Note: The following tips don’t...
No “Live” photos, 3D Touch or Face ID? Me neither, and indeed, compared to the all-screen iPhone X or the lightning fast iPhone 8, my old iPhone 6 is looking decidedly long in the tooth. The good news, though, is that some of the best new features in iOS...
If you’ve ever grown weary of squinting at the tiny text on a web article, you’ll love a one-tap Safari feature that makes cluttered web pages easier on the eyes. Safari for iPhone and iPad also boasts tools that let you pin favorite websites to your home...
Ever wish you could pick which buttons and controls appear in the swipe-up control panel for iPhone and iPad—a.k.a. Control Center—that lets you quickly turn on Do Not Disturb mode, skip or pause your music, toggle Airplane mode on and off, and more? Now you can,...
Anyone who goes ahead and updates their iPad to iOS 11 will notice a big change—a welcome one, if you ask me—to the app dock at the bottom of the home screen. No longer just a shaded area for your six favorite apps, the new iOS 11 iPad dock looks and acts a lot more...
The iOS Calendar app has some clever tricks up its sleeves, such as the ability to automatically add reminders to your meetings, drag events from one day to another, display your entire work week with a simple gesture, color-code your calendars, and more. Read on for...
The iPad will be adding a bunch of eye-popping tricks—ranging from drag-and-drop between apps to an improved, symbol-friendly keyboard—once iOS 11 arrives this fall. That said, the current version of iOS is no slouch when it comes to nifty only-on-iPad features. Read...
You’re not getting the most out of iOS Mail if you’re not hip to these five tips and tricks. Read on for the scoop about how to add some oomph to the text in your mail message, an easy way to recover a message you accidentally trashed, how to sign a PDF...
It’s not unusual to see kids as young as 18 months interacting with tablets these days. In fact, my own children were obsessed with my iPad from very early on, and it led me to research what might be the best (and most affordable) tablet for kids. We settled on a...
