iOS

Video: Can Apple cure us of smartphone addiction? Apple’s support forum is lighting up with complaints from iPhone users that iOS 11.4 is hammering their battery life hard. Devices across the line, from the iPhone 6 to the iPhone X, seem to be sporadically affected. One commonality seems to be ...

Apple has added a new security feature to iOS 11.4.1 that makes it harder for hackers – as well as law enforcement and government agencies – to unlock your iPhone. Here’s how to enable this feature. Must read: Don’t buy these Apple products (July 2018 edition) The new feature prevents ...

Video — iOS 12: First look at the developer beta. Apple has announced a new feature coming in iOS 12 that will automatically share the location of an iPhone with emergency services when users ring 911. The iOS 12 feature is aimed at providing faster and more accurate information to ...

iOS 12 features a built-in automatic update feature I’ve spent a fair bit of time poking around the new iOS 12 beta, and come across a fair number of new features. Some seem useful, others not so. But there’s one new feature that I don’t think I’ll even be activating. ...

Discovering which apps are OK for your kids to use is often a trial-and-error process. Usually, it requires reading through reviews, installing the app, trying it out yourself, and then you decide if it is something your child needs or would benefit from. Read also: Hands-on with Google Family Link ...

Apple is adding Group FaceTime to iOS 12 in a move that could make it more of a player in video conferencing and collaboration. Given Apple’s iOS and device footprint in the enterprise, the move to add multiple folks into a FaceTime should raise a few eyebrows for everyone from ...

Apple said it will give Siri an overhaul and enable it to do more via an feature called shortcuts that automates and cuts steps in a function. The general idea is that Apple will be able to tap into the collective knowhow of apps to move faster at work and ...

iOS 11.4 is out, and it brings with it a feature that was first promised to us in iOS 11.3 designed to help streamline messaging between devices. Called Messages in iCloud, it syncs messages you receive through the Messages app across your devices, whether that be your iPhone, iPad, iPod ...

YubiKey NEO Have you wished that the iPhone supported hardware-based two-factor authentication? If you’re a LastPass user, that dream is now a reality. See also: YubiKey: Protect your Facebook, Google, and other online accounts for as little as $20 Today sees a new LastPass update being pushed out to iOS ...

Here are three simple, yet highly useful, iOS tricks that you’re probably not making use of. See also : What would Steve Jobs think of today’s Apple? Turn the keyboard into a trackpad The first allows you to turn the keyboard into a trackpad to allow you to more easily ...