Carolyn writes: I have noticed Groups in the contacts on my iPhone. It is populated with a couple of lists based on email contacts. I don’t even have one of the addresses any more. Is there a way to make Groups more functional? Among other things, I’d like...
It happens to me all the time: I’ll be looking for a song in my iPhone’s music library and I end up fruitlessly poking around the menu for a Search button—when all the while, the search box is hiding almost in plain sight. In many of the iPhone’s and iPad’s core...
For some of us, double-clicking the iPhone or iPad Home key to switch from one app to another isn’t quite as easy as it sounds. If you don’t (or can’t) click fast enough, you’ll just wind up back on the home screen. Well, here’s the thing: you can actually slow down...
Amro writes: Is there a way to forward text messages and send an entire iMessage thread via email? Essentially I am trying to get an entire chat thread from my phone and forward it to a colleague. Any advice would be appreciated. Hi Amro! Yes, there is a way to...
Tired of those niggling red badges on your iPhone and iPad apps reminding you of, say, new stories in your Facebook feed, or that you haven’t played Candy Crush in awhile? Good news: it’s easy to turn off any annoying alert badges on your iPhone’s or...
Ever try expanding a web video in the iPad’s Safari web browser so it fills the screen? If you have, you’ve probably noticed how annoying it is to shrink it again. That’s because the button you tap to expand a video—you know, the one with the two...
Click the your iPhone’s (or iPad’s) Home button once, and you’ll end up on the home screen. Double-click it, and you’ll jump to the iOS multitasking screen (you know, the one that shows all the apps that are running in the background). But what happens if...
One of the more intriguing new iOS 8 goodies coming to iPhones and iPads this fall is QuickType, a “predictive” typing feature that pops up a trio of buttons above the standard keyboard with suggestions for your next word. Nice, but here’s the thing:...
