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Apple reveals useful new accessibility features for iPhone, Apple Watch, and more

May 17th, 2022

Joshua Hawkins

Thursday, May 19 is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. In honor of the upcoming event, Apple has shared details about several accessibility features for iOS, Mac, and iPad coming later this year. Some of the features will also be available on the Apple Watch, too. The company says the new options are designed to help users …

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Some iPhone apps break iOS privacy protections and keep tracking you – here’s proof

April 21st, 2022

Andy Meek

Tim Cook marked his 10th anniversary last year as Apple CEO. And while he shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon in his leadership role at the iPhone maker, it’s already pretty clear what legacy he’ll leave behind for whoever follows him. It encompasses everything from Apple TV shows to wearables. To, also, the …

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These hidden iPhone gestures have Apple fans flipping out

April 8th, 2022

Yoni Heisler

While many people are familiar with basic iPhone gestures like pinch to zoom, there are a few iPhone gestures that aren’t as widely known. This, we should point out, isn’t terribly surprising given that the Phone is brimming with all sorts of nifty features lurking beneath the surface. If you’re looking to take your iPhone …

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Apple study: People love these rival apps more than ours

April 7th, 2022

Andy Meek

Apple shared the results of a study on Thursday, April 7, about the iPhone maker’s App Store which offers, among other things, an interesting finding about its customers’ preferences. One of the highlights from this Apple-funded study (which you can read about in full right here) that was conducted by economists at Analysis Group is …

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Crazy new iPhone copy-and-paste trick will give you Minority Report vibes

March 31st, 2022

Chris Smith

You might be taking copy and paste for granted on iPhone and iPad, but the feature wasn’t available on the original iPhone. It took some time for Apple to implement it in the early days. Many years later, Apple included copy and paste in the Continuity feature that unifies the various Apple computers you might …

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Apple reveals why iOS auto-updates take so long to reach your iPhone

March 30th, 2022

Jacob Siegal

If you read BGR, you probably download software updates as soon as they’re available. We typically recommend doing so, especially considering how often those updates include vital security fixes. Of course, there are millions of others that prefer to wait until the device tells them to update. This even includes iPhone and iPad owners, though …

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Best phone chargers of 2022

March 15th, 2022

Brittany Vincent

Your phone is the gateway to the rest of your digital world. If it’s dead, you might feel a lot like you are, too. Though most smartphones and tablets have batteries that are more than capable of lasting multiple days on standby and many all day even when you run them out of juice, you …

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Read all the reasons why iPhone users chose iOS over Android

February 4th, 2022

Yoni Heisler

A recent and fascinating thread on the iOS subreddit explores the myriad of reasons why seasoned Android users decided to make the switch over to the iPhone. While the debate surrounding iOS vs Android isn’t anywhere as heated as it was a few years ago, the reality is that many people still tend to fall …

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How to reset your iPhone

February 1st, 2022

Christian de Looper

No matter how much you like your phone or how well it runs, every now and then, you’ll have to reset it. Maybe it’s just not performing as well as it should and you want to restart it. Or, maybe you’re selling it or giving it to someone else, and you need to factory reset …

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How to turn off the iMessage typing bubble so no one knows you’re typing

February 1st, 2022

Yoni Heisler

Apple’s iMessage is incredibly popular and is arguably one of the more popular chat applications around today. However, because Apple doesn’t provide us with usage details in the way that Facebook and Snapchat do, the full scope of iMessage’s popularity remains unclear. What is clear, however, is that iMessage’s seeming ubiquity doesn’t necessarily mean it’s …