Not everyone has the full use of their fingers, and that’s a problem when it comes to such common iPhone “gestures” as pinching and swiping the touchscreen. The solution: “AssistiveTouch,” a helpful iOS feature that lets you create a...
George writes: I have deleted apps and noticed they are stored on iCloud after being deleted. Is there any way to delete unwanted apps from iCloud? Any help would be appreciated. Hi George! While you can’t actually delete unwanted apps from iCloud, you can hide...
It’s been about eight months since Apple’s Passbook app made its debut on the iPhone—and like many of you, I’m guessing, I opened Passbook exactly once, looked at it for about 30 seconds, and promptly forgot about it. But after a recent (and...
Want to turn that photo you just shot on your iPhone into your Facebook profile picture? Sure thing—and yes, you can do it directly from the Facebook mobile app. Read on for more gotta-try features in the rapidly evolving Facebook for iPhone app, from how to filter...
Found a link on your iPhone or iPad to a long, enticing web article that you don’t have time to read right now? Or maybe you do have time, but not the cellular signal. Well, there’s a better way to save web links for later than, say, simply pasting them...
Until just recently, the official Pinterest app for iPhone did practically anything you could do on the Pinterest web site, from browsing and sharing pins to creating new boards—anything, that is, save for actually pinning something you’d found on the web. A new...
An invite to a can’t-miss event just landed in your inbox, and you want to mark it in your iPhone’s calendar before you forget—and while you’re at it, you’d like to add the sender’s name to your address book. Well, good news: you’re...
So, you thought you turned off the notifications for an iPhone or iPad app, but it’s still bugging you with unwanted banners, beeps and badges. What gives? Well, just because you switched an app’s “Alert style” setting to “none”...
