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iOS 7 tip: Send a stuck iMessage as a text message

iOS 7 tip: Send a stuck iMessage as a text message

by ben patterson | Oct 10, 2013 | how-tos, phones

Got an iMessage in your iPhone’s Message app that simply refuses to send? Join the club—it’s been happening to me, lately, too. So, what’s the deal? Well, your stuck iMessage (Apple’s free, Internet-friendly alternative to a traditional text...
iOS 7 tip: How to delete all the text messages in a conversation

iOS 7 tip: How to delete all the text messages in a conversation

by ben patterson | Oct 7, 2013 | how-tos, phones, tablets

Lew writes: In iOS 6 on iPhone you could clear all messages from a conversation. Can’t find a way of doing that short of deleting the person in the first screen of messaging. I like to keep my wife there since she is the one I need to text most often and...
iOS 7 tip: How to make on-screen text a bit more bold

iOS 7 tip: How to make on-screen text a bit more bold

by ben patterson | Oct 1, 2013 | how-tos, phones, tablets

Sue writes: I just enabled Find My Phone on my iPad mini, iOS 7, and the look became very different. I like it, but the text or printing is very pale. I’d like a way to make it more bold, but the brightness setting didn’t help. It just made the screen...
iOS 7 tip: The new way to forward text messages (reader mail)

iOS 7 tip: The new way to forward text messages (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Sep 30, 2013 | how-tos, phones, tablets

Nann writes: With the new iOS 7 for iPhones I am unable to forward texts. I was able to do this in the previous version of iOS. Do you have any tips for this? Maybe I am doing something wrong. Hi Nann! Nope, you’re not doing anything wrong; it’s just that...
iOS 7 tip: 5 gotta-know Safari tricks and tips

iOS 7 tip: 5 gotta-know Safari tricks and tips

by ben patterson | Sep 25, 2013 | how-tos, phones, tablets

The all-new Safari web browser in Apple’s big iOS 7 update for iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch boasts a series of nifty tricks up its sleeves, from a “private” browsing mode to an easy-to-access panel of your favorite bookmarks. Read on for 5 tricks in...
iOS 7 tip: Block data-hogging apps from using cellular data

iOS 7 tip: Block data-hogging apps from using cellular data

by ben patterson | Sep 24, 2013 | apps, how-tos, phones, tablets

Surprised that your iPhone or iPad is burning through your monthly data allowance so quickly? Streaming too many videos or songs via, say, Netflix or Pandora could be the culprit, but maybe there’s another iOS app that’s siphoning off your precious (and...
iOS 7 tip: How to block calls, text messages and FaceTime invites

iOS 7 tip: How to block calls, text messages and FaceTime invites

by ben patterson | Sep 23, 2013 | how-tos, phones

Is someone out there not taking the hint that you really, really don’t want to talk to them anymore? Maybe it’s time to block ’em. Thanks to Apple’s just-released iOS 7 update, you can finally block phone calls, text messages, or FaceTime calls...
iOS 7 tip: The new way to close an app (reader mail)

iOS 7 tip: The new way to close an app (reader mail)

by ben patterson | Sep 20, 2013 | apps, how-tos, phones, tablets

@theboogeydown (via Twitter) writes: Double click on home button, beautiful display of what’s running in background. How do I close those individual apps? Hi there! With prior version of iOS for iPhone and iPad, the way to shut down a specific app was to...
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