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Exploding Flowers Photographed by Martin Klimas
featureshoot.com - Amanda Gorence
It’s not the first time we’ve seen German photographer Martin Klimas blow up a thing or two, but somehow it never tires. Here he tries his hand at …
How to Add Phone Numbers to Contacts from Mail
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
You probably already know you can call a phone number from within an email by tapping on the number. But did you know that you can also quickly add the phone number to Contacts as well? Simply press and
iPhone
How to Reopen Recently Closed Safari Tabs on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
I think all of us have accidentally closed a tab in Safari on our iPhones and wished we knew how to open closed tabs so we could get it back. Luckily, there's a simple way to reopen closed tabs. Let's
Tip of the Day: Quickly Add a Website to Favorites
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
I like the features of Safari in iOS 8. In a previous tip I showed how to request the desktop version of a site by tapping in the address bar and then dragging down on the Favorites window that pops up.
Political Cartoons
Tip of the Day: View the Desktop Version of a Website in Safari
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
One of the most useful features of Safari—and one that saves a lot of frustration—is the ability to view the desktop version of a website rather than the mobile version. For years I’ve had a personalized
iPhone
How to Use Reader Mode in Safari on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
Reader mode in Safari on iPhone allows you to read a webpage without any distractions. When you turn on Reader mode, only the text and photos are left. This makes it easy to focus on reading the article
iPhone 7
How to Change Mail Swipe Options in Settings on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
Since the release of iOS 8 a few years back, the Mail app on iPhone has swipe options. This means that when you’re viewing an inbox, you can swipe an email left or right to select options such as mark
Handsfree
Tip of the Day: Use Siri Hands Free with iOS 8
iPhoneLife - Todd Bernhard
Siri can be quite useful, but if you really want a "Jarvis" kind of experience, like Tony Stark in Iron Man, you need to be able to interact with Siri without touching a button. Fortunately, iOS 8 makes
Widgets
Tip of the Day: Easily Add Up To 20 Widgets to Your iPhone or iPad
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
iOS 8 finally brought the ability to customize the iPhone and iPad interface by allowing you to add widgets to the Today screen in Notification Center. In an earlier post, I explained the simple steps
Widgets
Tip of the Day: See Only the Widgets You Want in the Order You Choose
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
Thanks to iOS 8, Apple lovers finally have access to widgets on their iPhones. But users will find some widgets more useful than others. Maximize their utility by deleting widgets you don't need to see
Tip of the Day: How to Correct Siri With Typing Instead of Voice
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
As anyone who has used to Siri to make calls, search the web, or send messages knows, Siri doesn't always understand what you say. This can be followed by increasing frustration levels if Siri fails over
Batteries
Find out Which Apps Are Draining Your Battery Life on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
If you're concerned about your iPhone's battery life, knowing what apps are using up your battery life is a good practice. Of course, if you use an app a lot it’s always going to show up as the app using
iPhone
How to Quickly Mark All Emails as Read on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
Mail on the iPhone and iPad has a lot of helpful features that makes it easier for you to deal with the onslaught of email messages. Luckily, there is a quick way to mark all email messages as read that’s
Widgets
What Are Widgets, Plus How to Add Them to iPhone's Today View
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
Beginning with iOS 8, iPhone users finally got the ability to customize their interface by adding widgets for iPhone to the Notification Center. We can still add widgets in iOS 11, these days to what calls
Tip of the Day: Get Notified When the Email Reply You're Waiting for Arrives
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
Stop checking your inbox every five minutes for that reply to the email you sent. Enable reply notifications instead so you receive an alert whenever a reply in an important email thread arrives. There
Tip of the Day: Delete Mail Faster in iOS 8
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
In iOS 7, deleting individual emails from your inbox in the Mail app was a multi-step process. You had to swipe left on the email preview and then choose Delete from the options that appeared. It's much
Albums
How to Recover Deleted Photos
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
If you like to use the camera on your iPhone or iPad, one of the features you'll appreciate is the ability to recover deleted photos. When you delete a photo, it remains available in the Recently Deleted
iPod
Tip of the Day: Answer Phone Calls On Your iPad
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
Forget running downstairs to where you left your iPhone, take the call on your iPad or iPod instead (as long as you have later-model devices running iOS 8). To make or receive a phone call on an iDevice
Google Maps
How to Find Your iPhone Even If It’s Dead (with & without Find My iPhone)
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
If you need to find and track a lost iPhone, using Find My iPhone is the easiest method. But does Find My iPhone work even when your iPhone is turned off or dead? Well, kind of. We’ll go over all the and
Apple
How to Manage Your Apple ID Account in Settings on iPhone
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
For quite some time now, you’ve been able to manage your Apple ID account in Settings on your iPhone. But with iOS 10.3, Apple made it even easier. At the top of your Settings menu, you’ll see your Apple
App Store
Tip of the Day: How to Add a Third-Party Keyboard
iPhoneLife - Jim Karpen
Apple introduced third-party keyboards in iOS 8 after a lot of user requests. Now, the options seem endless, from the popular SwiftKey app to adding a gif keyboard for fun communication between friends.
Tip of the Day: Quickly Access Contacts Without Opening an App
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
If you want to quickly call, FaceTime, or text a contact, there's no need to open any of the related apps. Those who have iOS 8 on their iPhone can quickly access Favorite and Recent contacts via the Switcher.
iOS
Tip of the Day: How to Use iOS 8's Manual Exposure in Camera
iPhoneLife - Rheanne Taylor
Automatic exposure (which determines how light or dark our images should be) is so convenient and accurate most of the time, but then there are those times when we end up with overexposed or underexposed
Tip of the Day: Quickly Find an Attachment in a Message Thread
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
You know when you want to show people that cute picture someone texted to you that you didn't bother saving to Photos? You don't have to scroll through endless conversations in Messages until you find
Apps
How to Turn On Location Services Only While an App Is in Use
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
There's no need for most apps to track your location at all times. With older versions of iOS, the only choices you had for location tracking were Always or Never. So if you wanted your photos to be tagged
Follow Our 'Top iOS 8 Tips' Magazine on Flipboard
iPhoneLife - Donna Cleveland
Due to popular demand, we're publishing the best of our ongoing "Tip of the Day" series as a Flipboard magazine to help you take advantage of all the hidden features of iOS 8. Follow our Top iOS 8 Tips
Photo Editing
How to Crop Pictures on iPhone (Without an Editing App)
iPhoneLife - Rheanne Taylor
You don’t need a photo crop app to edit your pictures on iPhone or iPad. The Photos app makes it easy to perform minimal edits such as rotating or cropping a picture. If you want to edit a photo on your
Tip of the Day: How to Remove Contacts from the App Switcher
iPhoneLife - Sarah Kingsbury
In iOS 8 you can now quickly access your contacts via the App Switcher by double clicking the Home Button. If you don't want to look at a list of your favorite and most recent contacts every time you the
Your Guide To ‘Serial,’ The True Crime Podcast Everyone Is Freaking Out About Right Now
UPROXX - Brian Grubb
If you’ve spent any substantial amount of time on the Internet in the past week or so, or spent any substantial amount of time with anyone who has, you’ve probably been introduced to Serial, the new This
There’s a Serial parody, and it’s pretty damn funny
The A.V. Club - Josh Modell
Serial is a podcasting phenomenon, and for good reason: The anthology series, spun off from This American Life, tells the gripping tale of a real-life …