iOS 11

Your iDevice running iOS 11 is capable of shooting slow-motion videos without installing any third-party app. This also eliminates the need of any expensive camera or computer application to add slow-motion effects to the recorded videos. After recording a slow-motion video, you can even change...

There can be many instances when you want to find your own number. For example, when you get a new number, for some days you may not be able to memorize it. If you want to know your own number, generally you make a call to your friend or family member’s phone. However, this is not necessary if...

If you are into a lot of texting, you are probably fond of emojis and might use them more often in your conversations. Talking about the emojis, it is quite likely that the Emoji keyboard is already enabled in your iOS 11 device. In case it’s not, adding it doesn’t require you to pay anything or...

Having an iPhone eliminates the need of carrying many apparels, devices, and gadgets, and a voice recorder is not an exception either. That said, you can turn your iPhone into a high-quality voice recorder that can efficiently fulfill your personal and professional needs merely with a few taps...

Apple keeps releasing iOS updates for its devices, and it is strongly recommended to check for and update your iDevice regularly in order to get a flawless performance. To check for and install the updates, your iPhone or iPad must be connected to the Internet, preferably via a Wi-Fi network...

Although iDevices function flawlessly and remain that way for years, none of the apps has the Close option, and in order to switch to a different app’s interface or get back to the Home screen, you are required to press the Home button. As a result, all the apps you’ve used remain open in the...

Enabled by default in iOS 11, Motion gives some depth to the icons (parallax effect), and shows a slight animation while opening the app windows or closing them when getting to the Home screen. Although Motion makes your iPhone look more live and interactive, people with vision problems might...

The battery percentage, when enabled, appears next to the battery icon in the status bar of your iDevice at the top. The numbers in the percentage tell you the exact amount of power your device is left with to keep it alive. While having the battery percentage enabled is a good way of assessing...

While conversing in a group chat using the Messages app, at times you may be asked to share your current location. This mostly happens when you’re new to someone or a group of people, and everyone is planning a meet. Luckily iOS devices offer an easy way to share your location within a group...

At times you may want to hide some photos or videos in the Photos app in your iDevice. Rather than relying on any third-party app to hide the media files, iOS 11 has a built-in Hide feature to help you with that. When you hide a photo or video, it is no longer visible in the Moments folder or...

Enabled by default, Handoff in your iOS 11 device gives you a seamless user-experience across all your Apple devices while working on apps. Simply put, with Handoff enabled, you can start using an app on one Apple device, say the Mail app on your Mac computer for instance, leave the computer in...

With a time-lapse video, you can record the slow processes such as changes in the position of a Sunflower in one hour, sunset, sunrise, etc. Once recorded, the time-lapse video plays the entire movie quickly, thus showing you the exact process without having you to wait for the actual time it...

By default your iPhone is configured to forward calls on other devices like Mac as long as those devices are signed in using a common Apple ID. Where this behavior is helpful in keeping you notified every time some tries to contact you, it might not be suitable for some users if they’re...

It is up to you whether you want to send a message to a person or ignore them if they annoy you. However, you cannot force your friends to follow your footsteps in this context, and they may add an annoying person while creating a chat group. If you are added to any such group and don’t want to...

In iOS 11 devices, by default the audio messages are configured to be automatically deleted 2 minutes after you send them or have listened to the ones you received. Even though this behavior helps you use your device’s and iCloud’s storage optimally, the automated removal may also erase the...

After you’ve added some new photos to your collection in your iPhone’s library either by clicking, or by transferring them from somewhere else, the new images may get jumbled up with the old ones making it hard for you to identify merely by looking at them. Luckily iOS automatically segregates...

While setting up your iDevice running iOS 11, if you enabled Location Services, the Camera app prompts you to allow access to your geographical location when you launch it for the first time. At this point, if you allow Camera to access your location, every time you capture an image, your...

If you are member of several chat groups, it might be confusing for you to locate the one you want to converse in, and you may end up sending your messages to a wrong group. To avoid such embarrassments, it is a good idea to give the chat groups a name that can make some sense. This not only...

Have you ever wished you knew the name of the song you heard while passing by a grocery store or a well-decorated shopping mall? Once again, Siri has a solution. Siri uses Shazam to identify a song. Now owned by Apple, Shazam is a music recognition program that can identify a song merely by...

While using your iPhone or iPad, it’s obvious to work on several apps. Since the apps are not required to be closed completely unless they start behaving obnoxiously or hinder the device’s performance, they keep running in the background. Such apps consume some amount of your iDevice’s battery...