iOS 11

If you don’t have your iPhone in your pocket while you’re out, the chances are that you might have forgot taking it along with you while leaving your home, or left it at your friend’s house or at the shop you stopped by to grab some snacks. If you’re unsure as where you your iPhone could...

With Background App Refresh turned on, the apps are automatically refreshed in the background and are updated or modified as needed. Although it is a good idea to leave Background App Refresh enabled in order to keep your iOS device function smoothly and remain updated, doing so consumes some...

Even though motion backgrounds may not display any live motions in your iPhone’s Home screen, they still give decent depth to make the icons look floating. Although iOS 11 has some built-in live images that you can set as motion background for your iPhone, if you want, you can even create some...

By default your iPhone running iOS 11 has the iCloud Photo Library option enabled. As the result, all your photos in your device are synced with your iCloud storage. This method lets you access your photos across all your Apple devices as long as they share a common Apple ID. However, the...

While surfing the web on your iOS device, it’s obvious that you’ll open several tabs in Safari to browse various websites simultaneously. Even though there’s no harm in leaving them opened as your iOS device is your personal property, sometime you may want to close all the tabs for security...

When you first set up your iOS device and associate it with your Apple ID, all the photos and videos are by default synced with your iCloud storage, i.e. the new photos and videos are automatically uploaded to the iCloud, and are downloaded on all your Apple devices that share the common ID...

App notifications keep you updated about any activity related to their corresponding. For instance, you can configure when and how the notifications about the new messages should appear on your iPhone screen, whether your iPhone should notify you about a new incoming mail, etc. The good news is...

Safari, the default web browser in your iOS 11 device, uses Google as its default search engine. Although Google being one of the leading search engines across the planet can be the best platform to search stuff online, you may have a different preference. Fortunately in iOS 11 you to pick your...

When you create an Apple ID, the same account can be used to access and avail multiple services offered by Apple such as those on iCloud, iTunes Store, App Store, etc. That said, it becomes important to keep the account as secured as possible by changing its password on a regular basis. Unlike...

When you add your credit or debit card as your payment method for iTunes & App Store purchases, along with your iOS device, the card’s information also gets associated with your Apple ID, and is reflected on all the Apple devices you’ve signed in using your account. Since you may have more than...

iTunes newsletters and special offers are two the best ways to remain updated with the latest Apple news and buy Apple products at discounted rates. This not only helps you take decisions as what would be your next Apple app or device to ease your daily tasks but it also saves some of your money...

If you’re being bothered by an irritating person, and don’t want them to contact you anymore by any means, blocking their number is the best option. When you block a contact, they can’t contact you via calls, text messages, or FaceTime. The contacts remain blocked until you manually unblock...

Internet being one of the major communication mediums in this technology-driven era, many official conversations are done on WhatsApp. Such official chats may include scanned images of important documents, video or audio messages, etc. Considering the importance of the message threads your...

When you sync your iTunes music library with your iOS device, the audio files are also uploaded and stored on your iCloud account’s storage. This lets you access all your purchased tracks across all your Apple devices seamlessly. However, there might be instances when you don’t want the Music...

With all or some of the photos in the Photos app of your iOS 11 device, you can create and run the slideshows. When you run a slideshow, the selected images are displayed on the full screen one-by-one, thus turning your iDevice into a digital photo album. However, the default settings of the...

Even though your iPhone already has a few default messages to respond with when you’re unable to answer a call, the pre-build texts might not be the reason you want to give to your callers for your unavailability. Luckily, Apple is flexible enough to allow you to add up to three custom messages...

Depending on your life style and profession, you may or may not want your friends or colleagues to know when you’ve read the messages they have sent to you. Send Read Receipts is a feature in your iPhone which when enabled does exactly the same, i.e. it informs your friends when their messages...

Since some apps’ icons can’t be removed from the Home screen of your iOS devices, badges on the icons can be annoying at times. The best example can be of the Mail app that displays a badge every time you receive a new mail but leave it unread merely because you know it is a spam. Thankfully...

Whether it is a web page that you find attractive, or there’s an image or news that you want to look at after a while, capturing a screenshot of the display of your iOS device is the best, easiest, and quickest way to save things for future use. Here’s how you can capture a screenshot on your...

Even though it’s recommended to keep all your text messages as a record especially when your cell number is used for official purposes, some message threads might be useless and take unnecessary space on your phone. If you want, you can delete such unwanted messages from your iPhone to free up...