Apple has long made accessibility features in its products a priority, and there are many accessibility options available in iOS. But instead of navigating through iOS Settings menus, here’s how you can enable or disable common iOS accessibility options directly from iTunes on your PC or Mac.
How to Delete iPhone Backups in iTunes for OS X and Windows
By default, iTunes on your Mac or PC makes a backup of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch every time you sync. These backups are an important step in keeping your iOS data safe, but they can take up a lot of space on your computer’s drive. Here’s how to view, manage, and delete unneeded iOS device backups in iTunes for OS X and Windows.
How to Show the Battery Percentage on Your iPhone or iPad
If you want to keep closer track of the battery life on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you’ll want to enable the display of battery life percentage in iOS. Here’s how and why to do it.
How to Force Quit an iOS App on the iPhone and iPad
Most iPhone and iPad users don’t need to worry about app management on their iOS devices, but when something goes wrong and apps freeze or lock up, you need to know how to fix it. Here’s how to force quit an iOS app, along with some other troubleshooting steps for dealing with misbehaving apps.
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Enable the iOS Invert Colors Shortcut and Save Your Eyes from a Bright iPhone Screen
There’s nothing quite as jarring as waking up to check an important email in the middle of the night and being greeted by a bright white iPhone screen. Save your eyes and learn to leverage the iOS Accessibility feature that let you invert your screen’s colors with a simple and easy home button shortcut.
How to Enable and Trigger iCloud Backups in iOS 8
Everyone knows backups are critically important, and Apple has in recent years made it easy to back up your iPhone or iPad via iCloud. But with the recent launch of iOS 8, some familiar options have moved around a bit. Here’s how to find and manually enable an iCloud backup in iOS 8.
How to Find the iPhone Degree Symbol on the iOS Virtual Keyboard
The iPhone’s virtual keyboard is powerful and customizable, but some features are hidden from plain sight by a series of pop-up functions. With the recent crazy weather, one such feature is the degree symbol. Here’s how to find it in all recent versions of iOS.
Apple Launches iDevice Charger Trade-In Following iPhone Death
Following several safety issues reportedly caused by low-quality third party iDevice power chargers, including the death of a woman in China, Apple has announced an iDevice charger trade-in program to allow customers with counterfeit chargers to exchange them for genuine Apple products at a relatively minimal cost. Apple requires all third party firms manufacturing iDevice accessories to obtain MFi Certification (“Made for iPod, iPhone, and iPad”). Although information remains incomplete, it appears that the recent safety issues stem from uncertified…
Apple Sells 100M iPods touch, Releases Updated 5th Gen for $229
Apple had a pair of iPod touch announcements Thursday, first releasing a modified fifth-generation iPod touch at a lower price point and then announcing, by way of The Loop’s Jim Dalrymple, that the company has sold 100 million of the devices to date. The new iPod touch was released early Thursday morning without fanfare. The model brings many of the high-end features and design to a lower price point of $229 (current fifth-generation models start at $299). Featuring the same…
How and Why to Use Private Browsing in iOS
Note: We have updated instructions for using Private Browsing in iOS 7. The instructions below still apply to iOS 5 and 6. A reader recently asked for help with their iPad: Safari’s navigation bars had turned black, and the reader didn’t know why or how to fix it. The short answer is that the reader had inadvertently enabled Private Browsing in Safari, but it got us thinking that perhaps a more detailed look at this useful, but little-known, iOS feature…