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iPhone Restore from iTunes Backup Taking Forever? Here’s the Fix

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Whether you’re setting up a new iPhone, migrating to an iPhone X from an old iPhone, or just restoring an iPhone through iTunes for troubleshooting or some other reason, the process of restoring an iTunes backup to an iPhone should not take an excessively long amount of time. But sometimes a peculiar situation can happen where the iTunes “Restoring iPhone from backup” process can offer an extraordinarily long time remaining, sometimes in excess of 20 hours.

If you see an excessively long time remaining estimate when attempting to restore an iPhone from backup, it may be the result of an error, and with a few troubleshooting steps you can remedy the problem and dramatically speed up the iTunes backup restore process.


Before getting started, realize that it can take a while to complete a device restore from an iTunes backup. Waiting an hour or two to complete is fairly normal depending on the size of the backup file. What is abnormal are iTunes backup restore estimates with time remaining at excessive lengths of time, often continuously ticking up past 15 hours, 20 hours, 30 hours, etc, those situations are indicative of a problem. Also keep in mind we are talking about restoring backups made to iTunes on a computer, not iCloud backup restores which can take a significant amount of time to complete on slower internet connections. The following troubleshooting steps only apply to iTunes restores made to and from a computer directly to an iPhone over a USB connection.

How to Fix Excessively Long iTunes Restoring from Backup Time Remaining Problem

  1. Disconnect the iPhone from the computer and USB connection
  2. Update iTunes to the most recent version if you have not done so already
  3. Reboot the iPhone
  4. Reboot the computer
  5. When the computer boots back up again, launch iTunes as usual
  6. On the iPhone, go through the restore/setup process again and choose to “Restore from Backup with iTunes”
  7. Connect the iPhone to the computer with a USB cable and let the restore from backup proceed as expected

I personally ran into this problem when restoring and setting up a new iPhone X via iTunes from a freshly made iPhone Plus backup. The first attempt to migrate and restore the iPhone X with the backup in iTunes gave a time remaining estimate of 8 hours which slowly grew to 20 hours. After following the steps detailed above, I was able to fix the problem and get the entire backup restore process to complete in about an hour for a 128 GB backup being restored to the new iPhone – a reasonable time given the giant backup size. After searching around a bit I realized a fair amount of other users are experiencing the same problem with iPhone X, iPhone 8, and many older iPhones too over time.

Before, where iTunes restoring from backup estimated time was 20 hours:

iTunes restore backup times taking forever on iPhone

And after the fix, taking about an hour to complete the restore from iTunes backup process:

Normal restore from iTunes backup time remaining

For what it’s worth, this is not a particularly new issue, and in fact users have been reporting this problem for years on Apple Discussions, so it’s not a complaint to any particular iPhone model, iTunes version, or iOS version. There does not seem to be a particularly consistent reason why the iPhone “restoring from backup” process can erroneously report an excessive backup restore time, but the good news is it’s usually fairly easy to fix by jumping through the troubleshooting hoops outlined above.

Have you had any similar issues restoring backups to an iPhone or iPad with iTunes? Share your experiences and troubleshooting steps in the comments below, and let us know if the tips above resolved the problem for you.

Source: OSX Daily

November 9, 2017 0 comment
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How to Create a Virtual Home Button on the iPhone X That Really Works

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Using the iPhone X means relearning almost everything you knew about navigating in iOS. That’s because Apple removed the Home button, replacing that nice tactile input with a bunch of new swipes and gestures.

If your muscle memory has you reaching for a Home button that’s no longer there, or you just miss it, there’s a solution. PhoneArena came up with a clever trick for bringing back the Home button on the iPhone X—sort of.

How to Add a Home Button to the iPhone X

PhoneArena’s trick makes use of Apple’s AssistiveTouch feature, which was created for people with motor skill impairments who can’t use the iPhone’s physical buttons. It’s also useful if your power or home button breaks and you need another way to navigate.

Assistive Touch puts a small circular button anywhere on your screen at all times. You can press it to access a bunch of different functions, like turning on voice controls, checking your notifications or returning to the home screen. In this case “Home” is the only option we want.

To set up Assistive Touch, go into Settings, then General and then Accessibility. Select AssistiveTouch and toggle it on. Then select “Customize Top Level Menu” and tap on the minus sign until there’s only one icon remaining. Tap on that final icon to pull up a list of options and hit “Home.” Finally, go back to AssistiveTouch settings, tap on “Idle Opacity” and put it at 20 percent so the virtual button won’t be a distraction when it’s not being used.

Now that you’ve created your virtual home button, just drag it to the bottom center of the iPhone X display and leave it there. The next time you automatically reach for the Home button out of habit, it will actually work.

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November 9, 2017 0 comment
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How to Migrate to New iPhone X from an Old iPhone the Fast Way

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Did you get a new iPhone X and now you want to migrate all of your data and stuff from an older iPhone to the new iPhone X? It’s easy to migrate everything from an old iPhone to a brand new iPhone X and transfer all of your data with you. This walkthrough will show how to get all data over from an old iPhone to the new iPhone X in the fastest manner possible.


It’s worth mentioning there are actually a few ways to transfer data from an old iPhone to a new iPhone X, each method requires making a backup of the old device which is then restore to the new iPhone X. While you can use iCloud backups and restore if you’d like to, our focus here is going to be on using iTunes backups and iTunes restore, because for many users it will be the fastest way to get a new iPhone X setup successfully with all of their old data onto the new phone.

How to Migrate All Data to New iPhone X from an Old iPhone

The tutorial here is going to walk through migrating all data from an iPhone 7 Plus to a new iPhone X by using iTunes and a computer. This is demonstrated on a Mac with iTunes, but the process is identical on a Windows PC with iTunes.

  1. Connect the old iPhone to a computer with a USB cable
  2. Launch iTunes on the computer and then select the connected old iPhone by clicking on the tiny iPhone button near the top of the iTunes window

    3. Click the micro iPhone button

  3. Under the Summary section, select “This Computer” and click on “Encrypt iPhone Backup”*, then choose to “Back Up Now” **

    4. Choose to Back Up Now with old iPhone

  4. Let the backup process of the old iPhone to iTunes complete
  5. Now pick up your brand new iPhone X and go through the onscreen setup steps on the device
  6. When you get to the “Apps & Data” screen, choose “Restore from iTunes Backup” and then connect the new iPhone X to the computer with iTunes

    7. Choose Restore from iTunes Backup

  7. At the iTunes “Welcome to Your New iPhone” screen, choose “Restore from this backup:” and select the backup you just made of the old iPhone to iTunes, then click “Continue”

    8. Choose the iTunes backup to restore to new iPhone X

  8. Let the Restoring iPhone from backup process complete, it may take a while – in the example here a 128GB iPhone with nearly full storage took about an hour to restore from an iTunes backup

    9. Restore the iPhone X from the old iPhone backup to transfer all data over

  9. When restoration from backup is complete, pickup the iPhone X and complete the setup steps

Note that new versions of iTunes (from 12.7 onward) will not restore apps from iTunes, and instead will download the apps again from the App Store during the restore process. You can get around that by using an alternate version of iTunes with App Store support, but it seems inevitable for Apple to do away with app support in iTunes in the near future.

That’s it. You’re ready to use your new iPhone X, the new iPhone X will have everything your old iPhone had on it. All contacts, files, photos, movies, pictures, gifs, messages, apps, app data, health data, step counts and mileage tracking, everything will have successfully migrated over, assuming you completed the steps properly.

New iPhone X hooray

* It’s important to choose to “Encrypt iPhone backup” when the backup is made to the computer via iTunes so that passwords, logins, health data, email login details, account data, and other info are backed up as well. iCloud backups are always encrypted by default. Do not forget the iTunes encrypted backup password, otherwise your backups will be inaccessible.

* You can backup the old iPhone with iCloud instead if you’d like to, but if you have a very large backup or tons of pictures, movies, then using iTunes with a USB connection between iPhone and a computer is going to be much faster for both backing up and restoring. There are some exceptions to this with those who have access to true first-world quality ultrafast broadband internet service, but if you are using one of the notoriously sluggish monopoly internet providers that are pervasive in the USA then it will take you a genuinely absurd amount of time to both make a large backup to iCloud and restore a large backup using iCloud. Just use iTunes, it will be much faster.

What about migrating data to the new iPhone X using iCloud?

You can absolutely use a fresh iCloud backup and iCloud restore to migrate everything from an old iPhone to a new iPhone X, the process is basically the same as the above method except you will choose to backup to iCloud, and then restore iPhone X from that iCloud backup.

Using iCloud to migrate rather than iTunes is entirely up to you, but perhaps the most important factor when using iCloud is the speed and reliability of your internet connection. iCloud Restore works very well, but to complete in a reasonable time frame requires either a relatively small device backup, or an extraordinarily fast and reliable internet connection.

Be aware that using the iCloud restore process can take an unreasonable amount of time to complete however. For example, using iCloud to restore my old 128 GB iPhone Plus backup to the new iPhone X was estimated to take a whopping 45 hours using a standard American broadband connection (despite creating the internet, the USA has notoriously slow and expensive broadband compared to the developed world, hooray). If you’re in a major US tech hub with lightning speed fiber broadband, using iCloud may be a reasonable option for you. For me personally, the decision to wait 1 hour by using iTunes restore versus 45 hours by using iCloud restore when setting up new iPhone X was not exactly a challenging decision to make; iTunes it is.

Sidenote: The iPhone X also has a new optional “Quick Start” setup and transfer process which uses iCloud backups and requires both devices be on iOS 11.0 or later, but as discussed already, the iTunes method is typically the fastest way to get a new device restored with your old iPhone data, which is why we’re focusing on iTunes.

Can I migrate from Android to iPhone X?

Yes, Apple makes migrating from Android phones to iPhone X easy as well, but the steps are different. You can follow this tutorial on migrating from Android to iPhone if your old phone is an Android and you want to move to iOS. The process is entirely different than outlined above and does not use iTunes, instead it relies on an app downloaded to the Android app and a migration assistant on the iPhone to complete the task. Learn more here if that interests you.

Source: OSX Daily

November 8, 2017 0 comment
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How to Hide the iPhone X’s Ugly Notch With a Custom Wallpaper

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The iPhone X design might be perfect if it wasn’t for that notch. The bit of bezel at the top of the screen may be necessary for Apple’s new Face ID to work, but that doesn’t mean we don’t hate the way it looks.

If you’d rather have a regular black bar along the top of the iPhone X instead of an awkward notch, there’s a simple solution: just get a custom wallpaper designed to hide the remaining bit of bezel. These wallpapers work by adding a virtual black bezel on either side of the notch so you don’t even notice it.

There are a couple of different options, currently, so here’s what you need to know about both (courtesy of Gadget Hacks).

Create Your New iPhone X Wallpaper With Notcho

Notcho is a new app that creates special wallpapers designed to hide the iPhone X notch. It comes with 11 pre-selected options to choose from, but you can also create your own using any image you want. Just select ‘Import’ and pick an image from your camera roll. Then select ‘Save’ and Notcho will crop your picture to fit the iPhone X screen.

This app is free in the App Store, but there is a catch. Every wallpaper you use will come with a branded Notcho watermark in the bottom right corner. If you want to remove it you’ll have to spend $1.99 on an in-app purchase.

Get Your Own Wallpapers For Free With No Water Mark

You can use Photoshop to create a custom wallpaper for the iPhone X/Gadget Hacks

If you’d rather not pay but you don’t want to use branded wallpaper on your iPhone X, you’re in luck. Gadget Hacks whipped up seven notch-hiding wallpapers of its own, which you can find right here. Just select the images you want and download them. Then hit ‘Share’ while viewing any of those images and select ‘Save Image’ to store it on your iPhone.

If you still can’t find a wallpaper you like, you can always create your own with Photoshop. You’ll need to download a special stencil first. Then open the file, pick the top layer and drag an image into Photoshop. It should crop automatically to fit the iPhone X, though you may have to do some resizing if the picture you chose doesn’t fit.

How To Set Up Your New Wallpaper

Once you’ve found your new wallpaper and saved it to your iPhone X, you still need to set your new wallpaper. To do that, just launch the Photos app and select the image you created or downloaded. Then hit ‘Share’ and tap on ‘Use as Wallpaper.’ When you see the option to choose ‘Still’ or ‘Perspective,’ pick ‘Still’ so that the bezels line up. Then just hit ‘Set’ and you’ll be asked if you want to use it as your home screen, lock screen or both.

Congrats, now you can pretend the iPhone X notch doesn’t exist—at least when you’re looking at the home screen or lock screen. This won’t work for individual apps, though hopefully we’ll see more and more developers find ways to make that bezel a little less noticeable.

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November 8, 2017 0 comment
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How to Disable Face ID on iPhone X (Temporarily)

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Want to temporarily disable Face ID on iPhone X? If you want to quickly turn off Face ID on iPhone X so that it can not use facial recognition to unlock the device, you can disable the feature with a variety of different methods.


Note this doesn’t turn off Face ID permanently, it just disables Face ID temporarily, until the passcode has been entered properly, and then upon being locked again Face ID will automatically re-enable itself. If you want to turn off Face ID completely you’d need to do that through the system Settings in iOS. But that’s not what we’re aiming for here, instead we’re focusing on temporarily disabling Face ID on iPhone X.

there are actually many different ways for Face ID to temporarily become disabled, some methods can be intentionally initiated while others happen automatically under certain conditions.

How to Temporarily Disable Face ID on iPhone X

Perhaps the easiest way to temporarily disable Face ID is to use the button press technique:

  • Hold either of the volume buttons down, along with the Power button, for a second or two until you trigger the Power Down screen
  • As soon as you see the power down screen, stop holding the buttons *
  • Hit the “Cancel” button to dismiss the power down screen and disable Face ID

    • Temporarily disable Face ID on iPhone

Once you see the screen to turn off the iPhone, you need to release the buttons. It usually takes one or two seconds for the power off screen to turn up, indicating Face ID will be temporarily turned off.

Be aware that button presses perform many other actions on iPhone X too, however, including taking a screenshot, rebooting the iPhone, and triggering Emergency SOS calling.

* WARNING: This is important – do not hold the buttons too long otherwise Emergency SOS will trigger automatically. Triggering Emergency SOS is fairly easy to initiate by holding a volume and power button too long, it is then not subtle, it makes a loud siren sound and counts down from 3 before making a call to local emergency services on your behalf. Yes, it will call 911 for you, so don’t accidentally do that if you’re just trying to disable Face ID. There are various reports online of various people accidentally triggering Emergency SOS and then having emergency services show up at their house or location – so don’t do that!

5 Other Ways to Disable Face ID Temporarily

According to Apple, there are other ways that Face ID will temporarily disable itself, some of which you could also use to turn off Face ID yourself if need be, like failing to authenticate with Face ID repeatedly.

  • Fail to authenticate with a face five times in a row, after 5 unsuccessful Face ID attempts the feature will disable itself
  • Reboot the iPhone X, or turn on a previously shutdown iPhone X. You can reboot an iPhone X through a button sequence, or by using the Shut Down menu in iOS Settings on the device
  • Leave the device locked and unused for longer than 48 hours
  • Remotely locking the iPhone X via Find My iPhone will disable Face ID
  • Leave the iPhone X idle and do not unlock it with a passcode for six and a half days, and not with Face ID in the prior 4 hours

Face ID logo

As mentioned earlier, you can also disable Face ID completely by going into the iOS Settings app on iPhone X, then going to Face ID and turning the feature off with a toggle switch. That may not be desirable for all users however. With Face ID completely turned off, users must enter a passcode successfully to unlock and access iPhone X, similar to how if you completely turn off Touch ID you would have to enter the passcode to access an iOS device.

Source: OSX Daily

November 7, 2017 0 comment
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Hide the iPhone X Notch with a Wallpaper Trick

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Don’t like the prominent black Notch across the top of the iPhone X screen? You can hide it with a little wallpaper trick.


There isn’t any particular magic to this iPhone X notch hiding trick, it just uses a cropped wallpaper with rounded corners and a black bar across the top so that the Notch section is hidden within a black section of the wallpaper image. This effectively disguises the notch and the prominent “horns” on both sides of the top of the screen.

To hide the iPhone X notch yourself, download and save the wallpaper image, then set the picture as your wallpaper in iOS. You need to pinch to zoom out slightly when setting the wallpaper so that it fits properly.

Keep in mind that Apple could have done this themselves with a wallpaper or by pushing the iOS usable screen space down below the notch, but they specifically didn’t do that, instead they are embracing the notch appearance and notch design with content being pushed under the notch and the clock, cellular signal, wi-fi, and battery indicator sitting along the sides of the notch.

If you do use this wallpaper on your iPhone X home screen or lock screen, it has the effect of making the iPhone X screen look smaller. Personally I think iPhone X looks better in the default state, but if you hate the infamous notch then you can hide it away with the wallpaper, and surely many other similar notch-less wallpapers will appear for iPhone X.

Here’s what the top of iPhone X looks like with the notch hiding wallpaper:

iPhone X notch hiding wallpaper

And here’s what the top of iPhone X looks like with the notch visible as usual, the default state:

iPhone X notch

For those wondering, the large black notch at the top of iPhone X holds the front facing cameras and Face ID detection hardware, but it also hangs down over some screen content on iPhone X and is quite noticeable against white images on the display. I’ve had the iPhone X for a few days now and the notch is consistently one of the first things people have mentioned when seeing the iPhone X for the first time (the notch and the loss of the Home button are thus far the two prominent commentary themes). Whether or not you like the notch is a matter of opinion, but if you don’t like it you can hide it with this wallpaper, and if you do like it, well, no need to change the wallpaper then. And in case you were wondering, if you take a screenshot on iPhone X the notch does not show up in the screen captured image, it fills in automatically.

The wallpaper comes from Twitter user @AHuberman1, thanks to 9to5mac for the discovery.

On a related note, the iPhone X notch (and iPhone in general) is currently the subject of a jabbing new Samsung advertisement for their competing Galaxy phone, which goofs on the iPhone and notch design by showing an individual with a strange notch-like haircut.

Will the notch be a longterm addition to iPhone hardware and iOS device screens? Is it a new defining feature of iPhone appearance, like the Home button was previously? Or is the notch only a temporary solution for iPhone X hardware until some other technology appears that allows the notch camera components to be hidden or disappear entirely? Only time will tell! Anyway.

Source: OSX Daily

November 6, 2017 0 comment
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How to Stop Your iPhone From Autocorrecting “i” to “A”

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If you updated your iPhone to iOS 11.1 you maybe have noticed a weird bug: your iPhone or iPad autocorrects the letter i to an A with a crazy symbol beside it.

It’s annoying, makes typing messages a pain, and is a known issue that Apple is working on a fix for. In the meantime, Apple put up a Support page for the issue with a quick workaround for fixing it using Text Replacement.

To set things up you need to first go into the Settings menu on your device followed by General, then Keyboard, then Text Replacement.

From there, press the + sign and then type an upper-case “I” as the phrase and a lower-case “i” as the shortcut.

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After you’re done, when you type an i your device will once again autocorrect it to I.

Apple plans to fix the problem in a future software update.

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November 5, 2017 0 comment
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How to Take Screenshots on iPhone X

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Want to take a screenshot of iPhone X? Of course you can snap screenshots of iPhone X, but you’ve undoubtedly noticed by now that iPhone X has no Home button, and thus the familiar screenshot method pressing the Home Button and the Power Button no longer works to capture the screen of iPhone X.

Instead, iPhone X uses a new and different button pressing combination to snap screenshots. It’s equally simple as what you used to use for snapping screen captures of iOS devices, but because it’s entirely new it may take a bit of getting used to before the new screenshot method becomes habit for iPhone X owners.


You might want to practice it a few times to get the hang of it.

How to Screenshot iPhone X

  • Press Volume Up button and Power button together at the same time

Take Screenshots on iPhone X

You must press the Volume Up button and Power button concurrently to take a screenshot of iPhone X. When the screenshot is successful, you will hear the familiar shutter camera sound, then see a little thumbnail of the screenshot preview appear in the bottom left corner of the screen.

The Power button is on the right side of the iPhone X, and the Volume Up button is the topmost button on the left side of iPhone X (it’s the button, not the little mute switch).

Some people refer to the Power button as the Side button or the Lock button, whatever you want to call the button the functionality is the same and it is a required step for taking a screenshot on iPhone X.

A quick warning: do not HOLD the Power button and Volume Up button for too long, because it will quickly attempt to trigger the Shutdown screen and the Emergency SOS feature. When held too long, Emergency SOS will go a step further and then activate and attempt to call local authorities and emergency services, which is likely not what you want to do if you’re simply trying to take a screenshot. So beware of how that. Just a quick simple concurrent press of Power and Volume Up will snap the screenshot without doing anything else.

Notice while still using a dual button press procedure, this is different from screenshotting iPad or screenshotting iPhone models prior to iPhone X. It’s also worth noting that the process of taking screenshots with iOS 11, iOS 10, iPhone 7, iPhone 8, or iPhone 8 Plus was adjusted ever so slightly (at least in perception which required a minor behavior adjustment for some users) but remained the same with Home button and Power button pressing, whereas iPhone X is completely new behavior with a new button press.

And in case you were wondering, screenshots from iPhone X are a substantial resolution of 1125 x 2436 pixels, making a large and tall image.

iPhone X Screenshot example

Enjoy taking your screen shots with iPhone X, and you can check out more screenshot tips here if you’re interested in the topic.

Source: OSX Daily

November 4, 2017 0 comment
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How to Use Do Not Disturb While Driving on iPhone

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Do Not Disturb While Driving is an iPhone specific safety feature available in modern iOS releases. As the name implies, when Do Not Disturb While Driving is activated on iPhone, no calls, messages, notifications, or alerts will come through to the iPhone, much like when the general Do Not Disturb mode feature is enabled. You can even enable automated replies to incoming messages, informing the sender you are driving and will contact them again when you’re done.

The excellent Do Not Disturb While Driving feature can be enabled to activate automatically when the iPhone is connected to a Bluetooth car stereo system, or when the iPhone detects motion activity consistent with driving a car, or, you can choose to enable the feature manually yourself.

How to Enable Do Not Disturb While Driving on iPhone

You will need an iPhone and a modern version of iOS (11.0 or newer) to have this feature available to you:

  1. Open the “Settings” app and go to “Do Not Disturb”
  2. Locate the “Do Not Disturb While Driving” section and tap on “Activate”
  3. Select one of the three Do Not Disturb While Driving activation settings:
  • Automatically – Do Not Disturb While Driving will attempt to determine when you are in motion and enable automatically
  • When Connected to Car Bluetooth – activates Do Not Disturb While Driving when the iPhone is connected to a car bluetooth system, this is arguably the most useful option if you have a Bluetooth car stereo
  • Manually – you will have to turn on the DNDWD feature yourself when you want to use it

Enable Do Not Disturb While Driving on iPhone

  • Return to the Do Not Disturb While Driving settings and locate the “Auto-Reply To” section and choose who (if anyone) you want to receive automatic replies while driving
  • Next go to “Auto-Reply” and customize the automatic response to messages, if desired

    • That’s it, now that you have configured Do Not Disturb While Driving you can use it immediately when driving so that it hides messages and notifications as to not distract you.

    The feature is obvious on your iPhone lock screen when it is activate, with a message stating “You will not receive Notifications while you are driving” – you can 3D Touch and tap on that message to temporarily turn off the feature if desired however.

    Do Not Disturb While Driving feature enabled and active on iPhone

    Assuming your car is equipped with a Bluetooth car stereo system, the “When Connected to Car Bluetooth” option is excellent to use because it shouldn’t activate when you’re simply a passenger in a different car, whereas the “Automatically” option may erroneously interpret you being a passenger in another vehicle as you driving, and then enable the feature despite the fact that you’re not piloting the vehicle. But for people without a Bluetooth car stereo system, the Automatic feature is perfectly acceptable, and easy to toggle off if you need to.

    Much like when general Do Not Disturb is configured and enabled and you can setup Emergency Bypass for contacts, you can set Do Not Disturb While Driving so that important contacts like your Favorites list can break through Do Not Disturb While Driving, in this case they just need to send the message “urgent” and then their alert will show through on your iPhone even if the Do Not Disturb While Driving feature is active.

    By the way, you may have noticed the Do Not Disturb While Driving feature when setting up iOS on a new iPhone, but if you skipped the feature or want to enable it on another device, you can easily set it up and configure it again at any time using the Settings outlines detailed above.

    This is a great feature that could theoretically improve traffic safety and reduce accidents from distracted drivers and those who text or Facebook while on the road, putting everyone at risk… hopefully this will be widely adopted and used for all iPhone users, and perhaps something similar will be introduced in the Android world too so that drivers will be less distracted on the road as well.

    Source: OSX Daily

    November 3, 2017 0 comment
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    How to Print Webpage Articles Without Ads from iPhone or iPad, and Safari

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    If you like to print out articles from the web via an iPhone or iPad you may appreciate this tip, which allows you to strip down a webpage or any web article so that the primary focus is on the article text content and photos. Essentially this lets you print out webpage articles without any of the typical web experience, removing all razzle-dazzle, ads, social sharing buttons, styling, widgets, or any of the other elements commonly found on webpages that are helpful on the web web but not particularly useful when printed out on paper. The end result will be printed out articles from an iPhone or iPad that are stripped of anything other than the article content itself, which makes them more pleasant to read on printed paper and also should reduce ink usage as well.


    This particular tutorial is focusing on printing articles from Safari in iOS with an iPhone or iPad, but if you’re a Mac user then you may want to check out this walkthrough about printing webpages and articles without ads and styling from a Mac. The process is a bit different, but the end result is the same; you’re printing out material from the web without any clutter.

    To try this out you’ll obviously need an iOS device with an internet connection, and an AirPrint compatible printer.

    How to Print Articles Without Ads from Safari in iOS

    This method works to strip down a web page or article in Safari to just focus on the content (text and pictures in the article), which you can then print out as a simplified clutter free version of an article. This process works the same on iPhone and iPad, here’s all you need to do:

    1. Open Safari and head to the web page article you want to print out (test it out with this very article you’re reading!)
    2. Tap the Safari Reader button in the link URL bar at the top of Safari, it looks like a series of lines atop one another, this will enter into Reader mode in Safari for iOS

      3. Open Reader mode on iOS Safari

    3. Once in Reader mode, tap the Sharing action button, it looks like a little box with an arrow flying out of it

      4. Choose the Sharing button from Safari Reader mode

    4. From the Sharing action options, choose “Print”

      5. Select the Print option from Reader mode

    5. Adjust your printer options as necessary and choose the “Print” button to print the article or web page from Reader Mode, stripped of any ads or other content

      6. Print from Reader mode to print the article webpage without ads or clutter

    That’s all there is to it, the resulting printed web pages or articles should simply include the article text, and related article images – nothing else.

    This works because Safari mode strips out webpage data that is not directly related to the core content of the web page in question, and by printing from there rather than the regular webpage view, you can print out a simplified version of the article.

    By the way, you can also use this trick to save simplified webpages as PDF files.

    Modern webpages are fairly complex, and printing them out directly can lead to pages of documents printed out that contain data that is not really helpful once it’s on paper. The complexity of modern webpages and articles may be appropriate for the web, but once it’s printed out most of that styling and splendor results in waste of paper. Things like social buttons and poll widgets may be fun on the web but are useless when printed out, likewise advertising funds most of the web and allows websites to serve up great content without users paying directly, but printing out a banner ad is rather pointless and will just waste ink, just like printing out any other wildly styled webpage or a bunch of complex design which is unrelated to the core article. So, save yourself some paper and printer ink, and print out simplified versions stripped of any of the clutter, social buttons, widgets, ads, polls, and other stuff found on the web.

    And for Mac users, you can perform the same webpage simplification process for printing articles without ads in Mac Safari too. We mentioned that earlier, but it’s worth reminding everyone again.

    You may already know this, but Reader Mode has a lot of other great uses as well. You can use Reader Mode on iPhone to make a webpage mobile friendly or easier to read, you can use it to change the appearance of articles and make text bigger, change font faces, adjust colors, and much more.

    Source: OSX Daily

    November 2, 2017 0 comment
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