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iOS 9 tip: How to banish Newsstand from your iPhone or iPad
One of the best reasons to install the new iOS 9 update onto your iPhone or iPad isn’t so much because it adds some nifty new feature, but because it finally lets you delete an older, incredibly...
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iOS 9 tip: Select text on your iPad with two fingertips
If you’ve ever tried to grab those itty-bitty blue handles while selected text on your iPad, you’ll know how delicate—and sometimes infuriating—the process can be. The bad news is that selecting words,...
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iOS 9 tip: Safari’s “reader” mode just got a whole lot better
Until very recently, the easy-on-the-eyes “reader” mode in Safari for iPhone and iPad—you know, the feature that strips all the clutter from articles on the web—was painfully basic. Once you turned on...
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iOS 9 tip: How to sign a PDF directly in Mail (and other PDF tricks)
Until recently, the only way to sign a PDF you received in your iOS Mail inbox was to open it in a third-party PDF app, then paste the file back into a Mail message—workable, sure, but clunky. Just tap...
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iOS tip: 4 ways to fix a crashy iPhone or iPad app
Just the other day and for no apparent reason, my trusty New York Times app decided to stop working. I’d launch it, I’d see the Times front page for a split second, then poof! It was gone, and I was...
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iOS tip: 4 ways to change the sound of Siri’s voice
Not only will the ever-loyal Siri—you know, Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant for iPhone and iPad—cheerfully read your email, set alarms, deliver weather reports and generally be at your beck...
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iOS tip: Sleeping through your iPhone’s alarm? Try this setting
So, you set your iPhone’s alarm clock to wake you at the crack of dawn, but the alarm tone was so quiet that you slept right through it. Sound familiar? Now, you could have sworn that your iPhone’s...
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iOS tip: Family members getting duplicate iMessages? Try this
Raise your hand if this has happened to you: iMessages intended for another family member are showing up on both of your iPhones. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because your family is (or was)...
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iOS tip: 8 easy ways to lock down your iPhone or iPad
Sure, it’s pretty convenient that you can swipe down on your locked iPhone’s screen to check out your notifications or swipe up to toggle Bluetooth on and off, but what if a perfect stranger managed to...
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iOS tip: If you can’t delete ’em, hide ’em (Apple apps, I mean)
From the Apple Watch app to the new (and mostly useless) News app, your iPhone or iPad is getting more and more cluttered with “made by Apple” apps that you can’t delete, even if you want to. Why Apple...
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iOS tip: How to create and organize your own photo albums
Frustrated by the confusing Moments and Collections in the new Photos app for iOS? Forget ’em. Instead, let’s head back to a tried-and-true way to organize your snapshots: plain-old photo albums....
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Mac tip: How to add an attachment to a Calendar event
Just the other day I’d dropped off some dry cleaning for my wife, and she was hoping to pick it up a day before her upcoming business trip. Not only did she need a reminder in her iPhone calendar to...
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iOS tip: Add Amazon’s Kindle store to your iPhone or iPad home screen
You can’t buy Kindle books from the Kindle reader app for iPhone or iPad, but there’s nothing stopping you from adding a shortcut for the Kindle store to the iOS home screen. You can add the Kindle...
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iOS tip: An easier way to select a bunch (or bunches) of photos
No, it’s not just you. Figuring out how to select pictures to share, organize or delete is tough enough in the revamped Photos app for iPhone and iPad, but selecting a whole batch of images at once is...
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iOS tip: Search the “To,”“From” or “Subject” fields of Mail messages
So, you’re searching on your iPhone or iPad for a particular mail message from a specific person—not a message that merely mentions her, or a message you sent to her, but a message you got from her. A...
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iOS tip: How to quickly delete all the messages in a mail inbox
Lorraine writes: Is there a way to delete old emails (in bulk) without having to tap on every single email on an iPhone? Hi Lorraine! You’ve touched on a sore point when it comes to the iOS Mail app,...
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iOS tip: Put a virtual magnifying glass on your iPhone or iPad screen
Zooming the entire display on your iOS device (here’s how) is a handy way to give your eyes a break when it comes to tiny text, but it can be a little disconcerting when there’s nothing on your zoomed...
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iOS tip: An easy way to pluck a just-deleted e-mail out of the trash
It happens all the time: you’re busy swiping a bunch of junk messages out of your Mail inbox when—oops!—you trash an e-mail that you actually needed to keep. One way to get the message back is to...
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Reader mail: How do I type characters with accent marks on an iPhone?
Susanne writes: Thanks LOTS for the great info about things that were driving me demented on my much beloved iPhone. Tell me, though—is there a way to (or an app that will) add accent marks? I live in...
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iOS tip: 4 ways to change the sound of Siri’s voice
Not only will the ever-loyal Siri—you know, Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant for iPhone and iPad—cheerfully read your email, set alarms, deliver weather reports and generally be at your beck...
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