iOS 11

With no Home button in new iPhone X, most of the tasks are now done with the gestures. If you find using your iPhone X without a Home button a bit challenging at first, don’t worry. After you’ve used the phone for two to three days, you’ll find it extremely comfortable. Spend a few more days...

In all its versatility, the camera in iPhone X is equipped with several features which, when configured correctly, can capture almost DSLR-quality photos. Recording videos is even more fun with the phone. Dual camera in iPhone X is capable of recording 4K videos at 60 fps (frames per second)...

Because the live photos comprise of multiple frames, they contain some motions which give liveliness to the captured images. You can preview the motion in a live photo by opening it from the Photos app, and hard-pressing the screen. To make a live photos look more dynamic, iOS 11 allows you add...

Portrait mode in your iPhone X uses rear dual-cameras to add depth-of-field (DOF) to the snapped images, thus giving you the best possible photos any mobile had ever captured. However, a few jargons and their meanings are still noteworthy before you begin using your iPhone X’s camera in Portrait...

Face ID provides a secure way to use your iPhone X as it keeps others from intruding into your phone and stealing your personal information from it. That said, it is not recommended to leave your iPhone without securing it either with your Face ID or passcode or both. Even though Apple strongly...

The significant advancements in the camera is yet another factor that allures users to buy iPhone X. The dual-camera in your new phone allows you to capture high quality snaps and up to 4K videos with 60 frames per second (fps). When it comes to launching the Camera app in your iPhone X, there...

Your iPhone X can use your Face ID to authenticate your identity on certain apps. At the time of this writing, not all apps are updated to support Face ID. A few that do support include: ■Progressive ■1Password ■Chase Mobile While setting up a Face ID supported app, you must provide your...

Even though strongly suggested, using Face ID in your iPhone is optional. There’s no effect on iPhone X’s performance whether you’ve set up Face ID or using the phone without it. However, because Face ID can unlock your iPhone and can even authenticate your identity while making purchases from...

Due to the absence of the Home button, many users might find using the new iPhone X challenging. The fact is, no features that relied on the Home button in earlier iPhone models are missing. It is only the way they can be accessed that has changed. This guide is to explain how to use your new...

What Is Force Restart? In any iPhone, Force Restart, a.k.a. Hard Reset means shutting down your iPhone forcefully and abruptly, and letting it restart normally afresh. When you perform force restart, all the apps running in the background exit without saving any data or files you’ve been working...

The reason for this issue can be anything from an inconsistent Internet connection to a corrupt downloaded update file. If your iPhone X is stuck on “Verifying Updates”, you can hard reset the phone and try any of the following two methods to resolve the issue: Method 01 - Retry Updating iPhone...

In addition to merely capturing selfies or allowing you to make video calls, the presence of TrueDepth front camera also makes your iPhone X eligible for Attention Aware Systems. TrueDepth camera in your iPhone X can scan, analyze, and recognize more than 30,000 invisible points on your face...

The main purpose of the Home button in older iPhones was to bring the users back to the Home screen regardless of the window they were working on. However, unlike previous models, iPhone X has no Home button, and therefore many features and actions that relied on it can now be performed using...

iPhone X is packed with a whole host of new features. As for the security measures, Touch ID is replaced by Face ID, whereas the concept of passcode is still the same. When talking about unlocking your iPhone X, there are three ways your phone can be unlocked, namely: ■Using Face ID ■Using a...

The lock screen of your iPhone X has Flashlight and Camera shortcuts that must be hard-pressed to access their corresponding apps right from the lock screen itself. Hard-pressing is the feature that requires 3D Touch in your iPhone to be enabled, and because it is enabled by default, the...

App Switcher in iPhone and iPad has two uses, namely: ■To quickly switch between the opened apps ■To close the opened apps In the pre-iPhone X iOS devices, you could get to the App Switcher by double-pressing the Home button. However, since the Home button is absent in iPhone X, you might...

Reachability in your iPhone helps you bring any window down so its top section can come to the middle of the screen. This lets you access the upper area of the window easily. However, due to the absence of the Home button in iPhone X, it works differently for many functions, and Reachability is...

In pre-X models of iPhones, long pressing the Home button used to activate Siri, and long pressing the Sleep/Wake button prompted you to shut down your iPhone altogether. However, in the absence of the Home button in iPhone X, the actions are now re-assigned, and different buttons or a...

The notch at the top of the iPhone X obstructs many icons in the status bar, and even though the battery level is visible through its icon, you can’t get the exact power percentage left with your phone. Unlike previous models of iOS devices, you can’t even configure your iPhone X’s settings to...

In earlier iDevices, you could double-press the Home button to get to App Switcher, and then individually swipe thumbnails of each app upward to close them. But how to get to App Switcher when there’s no Home button in iPhone X? In the absence of Home button, getting to the App Switcher in...