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How to Search for a Reminder on iPhone and iPad

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If you’re frequently adding Reminders to your iPhone or iPad through Siri or to return phone calls, you may quickly arrive at having dozens if not hundreds of reminders stored in the iOS app. Rather than wade through them all one by one, the Reminders app has a nice feature that allows you to search for a specific reminder directly, making it much easier to locate or retrieve an old mental note or any other digital nudge you have created.


Reminders can be searched at any time, but obviously you will need to have at least one reminder in your Reminders app to be able to search for something and have something retrieved that matches it. Realistically, this feature is best used when you have many reminders, old and new, and need to quickly find a particular one.

How to Search for a Specific Reminder in Reminders for iOS

  1. Open the Reminders app in iOS

    2. Reminders icon in iOS

  2. At the primary Reminders screen, pull down on the reminder screen to access the “Search” option

    3. Pull down to access Search

  3. Tap into the Search bar

    4. Tap into the Search bar

  4. Type the search term to find a matching reminder for, for example “Valentines” or “birthday” or something similar

    5. Search Reminders on iPhone

Below the Search box you will find any matching reminders returned. In the example here we searched for “Valentines” and an ancient reminder from several years ago turned up, demonstrating that as long as reminders are stored within the Reminders app you can continue to search for them even if they are long past their date of usage.

This is great for uncovering an old helpful reminder, or even something you added last week but can’t quite recall where you put it. It may even be useful for digital forensics too, since the old reminders are date stamped.

You can also take action on the searched reminders that have been found, marking them as complete, deleting them, or if you have a ton of them and you’re tired of seeing it all you can always go ahead and delete an entire list of reminders in iOS too.

Do you have any other helpful tips or tricks for Reminders on the iPhone or iPad? Maybe a handy search trick or sorting ability? Let us know in the comments!

Source: OSX Daily

July 22, 2017 0 comment
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How to Unsubscribe from Mailing Lists on iPhone and iPad Easily

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Have you ever found yourself receiving emails from a mailing list you never subscribed to? Virtually everyone with an email address has experienced this, usually from solicitors, junk mailers, and companies of things you may have once interacted with. While you can usually go to the bottom of an email and poke around for a micro-font “Unsubscribe” link, another faster option is available to users of the latest versions of iOS.

Thanks to a new Mail app feature in iOS, users of iPhone and iPad can quickly unsubscribe from emails sent from a mailing list, directly from the mail app and faster than usual.


As already mentioned, you’ll need a new version of iOS to have this feature on iPhone or iPad, anything beyond 10.0 will include the mailing list unsubscribe ability.

How to Unsubscribe from Mailing Lists in iOS Mail Quickly

  1. Open the Mail app in iOS if you haven’t done so already
  2. Choose any email in the inbox that has been sent to you from a mailing list and open it, at the top of the screen you will see a message stating “This message is from a mailing list” with a blue “Unsubscribe” link button
  3. Tap on that to attempt to unsubscribe from the mailing list that sent the email

    4. Unsubscribe from Mailing Lists in Mail for iOS quickly

This works the same on Mail app for any iPhone or iPad running the latest versions of iOS. You can have the device in horizontal or vertical mode and you’ll still have the unsubscribe option at the top of an email that is eligible to be unsubscribed from.

For email lists that you want to stay subscribed to, you can hit the little grey “(X)” button in the same header option to dismiss the unsubscribe option for that given mailing list, it should carry forward to all other emails from the same mailing list and address.

Note that not all mailing lists will have the unsubscribe option in the Mail app like this, but it does appear often enough to work for most. If you’re totally overburdened with mailing list emails, you can always resort to deleting all mail in iOS 10 or use the Trash All Mail function in other iOS releases, or mark them as read and use the unread Mail inbox instead.

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July 13, 2017 0 comment
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iPhone Touch Screen Not Working? Here’s How to Fix It

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Rarely, an iPhone touch screen stops working or becomes unresponsive to touch. It’s obvious when this happens, you’ll touch the screen and nothing happens, swipes will be ignored, taps don’t do anything, and other touch on the screen doesn’t register any behavior. It’s clearly annoying if the iPhone screen is no longer working and not responding to touch, and it’s not subtle.

If your iPhone touch screen is not working, read on for a helpful series of troubleshooting steps that may help to fix the problem. The nonworking touch screen issue could caused by several things, sometimes it’s software related, some crud on the screen, damage to the iPhone touch screen or iPhone itself, or perhaps some other issues as well. Read on to learn more.

Troubleshooting an Unresponsive iPhone Touch Screen

We’ve got several steps to troubleshooting an unresponsive touch screen on an iPhone, if your iPhone is not responding well to touch and the screen seemingly is not working as well as it should with touch input, follow along and you should be able to remedy the issue. I just experienced this problem myself and so this is the set of steps I used to troubleshoot the issue, for my specific situation the iPhone just needed to be hard rebooted and some storage freed up for the touch screen to work as expected again.

1: Clean Your Screen, And Your Fingers

The first thing you’ll want to do is to clean off your iPhone screen, as well as your fingers (or other input appendage or device). If you have a case or a thick third party screen protector on the iPhone, you’ll want to remove those as you troubleshoot this as well.

Give your iPhone screen a good look in bright direct lighting and tilt it around a bit to reveal any obvious gunk, oil, residues, liquids, moistures, dried crust or food, or anything else that may be interfering in the screen. In the sunnier weather, sunscreen is another common thing that can get on a screen and make the iPhone touch screen unresponsive or erroneously responsive. You’ll want to make sure the iPhone screen is clean and clear of anything that can interfere with the ability to detect touch properly. Wiping it down with a soft cotton cloth is often sufficient to remove anything from the iPhone displays touch screen, but you may need to use a slightly damp (and I do mean slightly, never enough moisture to drip) cloth to wipe the screen free.

As for your fingers, a stylus, or other input appendages, just make sure they’re clean and dry. Wash your hands or your fingers if in doubt and if you have a bunch of gunk on them. Unusually dry skin or callouses generally don’t matter and should not cause any issue with the touch screen, though if your hands are wet that may cause issues.

Just make sure the screen is clean, and that your hands are clean and dry.

2: Perform a Hard Reboot

Often times simply restarting the iPhone will fix the unresponsive touch screen, but a hard reboot is often easier even if it’s a bit more forceful.

Hard rebooting is easy, but it depends on which iPhone model you have:

  • To force restart iPhone 7 and newer without a clicking Home button: Hold down the VOLUME DOWN button along with the POWER BUTTON until you see the  Apple logo
  • To force restart iPhone 6s and older with a clickable Home button: Hold the Home Button and the Power Button until you see the  Apple logo on screen

When the iPhone boots back up, the touch screen should work just fine again if it’s a simple software issue like a bug or a software freeze with iOS or an app.

From personal anecdotal experience, my iPhone 7 Plus screen can sometimes become totally unresponsive to touch for a while, and a hard reboot always fixes it.

3: Delete and Update / Reinstall the Problematic App

Sometimes an iPhone touch screen is unresponsive in just one particular app. If this is the case, the problem is likely that app and not the iPhone touch screen at all, but since the app is open at the time the app stops responding as it “freezes”. A frozen app will often not respond to any touch screen input at all, but pressing the Home button will often exit the app and go back to the Home Screen in these scenarios.

If the touch screen is not working in a given app, you’ll want to update it first. Open the App Store and check to see if updates are available for the app in question, if an update is available install it.

If there is still a problem with the touch screen not working in a specific app after you have updated that app, you can also delete the app, and then reinstall the problematic app. Relaunch it again to see if it works as expected. If it still fails, the app could have a bug that needs to be addressed. If the touch screen works with every other app except for the problematic one, that particular app is likely the problem and it’s probably nothing to do with the screen or iPhone at all.

4: Free up iOS Storage

When an iPhone has zero storage available, things tend to go haywire in general, and that can include experiencing an unresponsive touch screen.

Make sure your iPhone has storage available on the device. You can check this in Settings > General > Storage & Usage > Manage Storage. Aim to have at least a few hundred MB available if not a few GB, as iOS really starts underperforming with less space available.

Deleting unused apps is an easy way to recover some storage space.

I have noticed this is particularly true with modern versions of iOS when an iPhone is totally full and has 0 bytes of storage remaining, in which case many apps become unresponsive as does the touch screen. Sometimes even both the Home button along with the touch screen may be unresponsive and not work at all for a while on a totally full iPhone, until whatever software cache clearing mechanisms complete. This is often easily reproducible too; just fill up an iPhone so that it has zero bytes remaining, and then start trying to use apps that rely on a lot of caching like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, etc, once those app caches build up you will likely notice the touch screen becomes unresponsive for short periods of time as iOS struggles to deal with having zero storage available. In such a case, just free up some space, then reboot the iPhone, it should work again.

5: Is the iPhone Touch Screen Cracked? Is the iPhone Touch Screen Damaged? Was the iPhone damaged or dropped?

This is probably obvious from the get-go, but if the iPhone touch screen is cracked it can become unresponsive, partially unresponsive, or just not work at all. Likewise if the iPhone is damaged, it may not work at all, or the touch screen may not work reliably.

Water damage can also ruin an iPhone touch screen, or the entire phone as well.

If an iPhone has been dropped, it’s also possible that internal components came loose, which may cause the touch screen to not be working.

If the iPhone has obvious visible damage and the iPhone touch screen is not working, the damage is likely to be the cause. In such a situation, take the iPhone to an authorized Apple repair center or an Apple store and have them give it a look.

6: iPhone touch screen still not working? Time for more serious measures

If the iPhone touch screen is still not working at all, you may want to try backing up the device and then restoring it via iTunes. Just be sure to backup the iPhone to iCloud and/or iTunes beforehand. If you contact an official support channel they will likely have you restore the device as part of their troubleshooting process anyway.

If the iPhone is unresponsive because it’s stuck on an Apple logo screen, that’s a different problem and it’s not related to the touch screen at all – you can usually remedy it with a restore or DFU restore.

iPhone touch screen STILL not working? Contact Professional Help

If all above troubleshooting methods have failed, it’s time to contact Apple support, go to an Apple Store, or visit an Apple authorized repair center. Have them inspect the iPhone touch screen to figure out what’s wrong with it, it may need a repair. It may be a hardware problem that is unseen, or it could be some other issue that you overlooked.

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Did these troubleshooting tips fix your iPhone touch screen issue? Do you have any tips or tricks to resolving problems with an unresponsive or non-working touch screen on iPhone? Let us know in the comments.

Source: OSX Daily

July 1, 2017 0 comment
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How to Find Where iMessage Stickers Came From in iOS

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Have you ever received a Messages sticker in iOS from someone and thought “wow that’s an amazing sticker, I wish I knew where it came from!”?

Well if you and your friends are among the people who use the fun Messages Stickers feature in iOS, you might be wondering where each others stickers plastered into your iMessages are originating.

Wonder no more, iOS Messages offers a simple way to tell you exactly where a sticker originated from so that you too can have the same stickers available in your Messages app on iPhone or iPad, so that you can smack them all over iMessages too.

How to Find Where a Sticker Originated From in iOS Messages

This will allow you to find out where a sticker came from and also to download that sticker pack yourself, it’s easy here is what you’ll want to do:

  1. When you receive a sticker in a message thread you’d like to know the origin of, tap and hold on that sticker in iOS Messages

    2. Find where a sticker came from in iOS Messages

  2. Choose “Sticker Details” from the list of available options

    3. Find where a sticker came from in iOS Messages

  3. Here the sticker, the sticker name of the associated app or sticker pack, the sender name and time will be visible – to see and get access to the sticker yourself tap on “View”

    4. Discovering where a sticker originated from in iOS Messages

  4. You’ll now be in the App Store section for that sticker pack where you can download the stickers to your iOS Messages app too

    5. Finding where an iMessage sticker came from in iOS Messages

You can investigate stickers origins even if you don’t have any sticker packs currently downloaded on your iPhone or iPad. You can also download sticker packs and install them and then easily delete sticker packs later too if you no longer want them available to slap onto messages on your iPhone or iPad.

The Stickers feature of iOS requires a modern version of the iOS operating system installed on your iPhone or iPad, anything past 10.0 will have the Sticker feature. You can learn how to get and use Messages Stickers in iOS here.

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June 30, 2017 0 comment
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How to Speak Screen on iPhone and iPad to Have iOS Read Anything to You

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Did you know the iPhone or iPad can read aloud anything that is on screen? The Speak Screen feature of iOS is helpful for many reasons, but in order to use it you must first enable the ability within the device settings, and then learn how to use the speak function.


The Speak Screen feature is one of the two major text to speech options in iOS, but unlike the general text to speech ‘speak selection’ feature which only reads selected text, Speak Screen will read everything on the display of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, including menu items, contacts, articles, web pages, notifications, messages, and much more. If it’s on the screen of the device, it will read it.

Here is how to enable this great accessibility feature, and how to use it.

How to Enable Speak Screen Feature in iOS

Before you can use the Speak Screen ability, you will need to enable it. This feature requires a modern version of iOS for iPhone or iPad, so if you do not find the option then you may need to update the system software of the device:

  1. Open the ‘Settings’ app in iOS
  2. Go to ‘General’ and then to “Accessibility”
  3. Go to the “Speech” section and flip the switch for “Speak Screen” to the ON position *

    4. Enable Speak Screen in iOS

  4. Optionally, adjust the speaking rate and other and voice used (note you can adjust the speaking rate at any time when the feature is enabled as well)
  5. Exit out of Settings now that the feature is enabled

* (While in this settings panel you should also enable Speak Selection, which is a different text to speech ability but also quite useful)

When you first enable Speak Screen you’ll find a pop-up menu appears on the device display, but you can close that quickly by hitting the (X) button, or you can hide it by hitting the (Using Speak Screen in iOS

There are a few ways to activate Speak Screen once it has been enabled.

Activate Speak Screen in iOS with a Gesture

The first method of Speak Screen activation is with a multitouch gesture. To activate the Speak Screen feature on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch this way, you must swipe down from the very top of the screen with two fingers.

Activate Speak Screen with a gesture in iOS

This immediately triggers the speech function which will read aloud whatever is on the display, and it also brings about the speech controls which allow you to skip, rewind, speed up, slow down, and pause the speech.

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Activate Speak Screen in iOS with a Tap

The other method to enable Speak Screen is to use the on-screen activation button, which will remain on the display as long as Speak Screen is enabled, and as long as the button controls have not been closed.

Summon Speak Screen controls in iOS

Simply tap the little Speak Screen activation button to open the speech control buttons, then tap on the Play arrow button to begin speaking the screen aloud.

Play button to speak screen in iOS

You can show and hide the Speak Screen buttons and controls by tapping the hide or show button. When Speak Screen is no longer active or it has been hidden, the little on-screen activation button will dim but still be visible.

Note that if you hit the (X) button in the Speak Screen controls the feature will hide until it has been activated by the gesture, or until the feature has been toggled off and on again.

Speak Screen on iPhone and iPad

The Speak Screen feature of iOS is an invaluable feature to many users and it has a ton of use cases, some of which are perhaps less than obvious. For example, one particularly helpful trick for using Speak Screen is to have the iPhone or iPad read an article or ebook to you while you’re otherwise occupied, whether it’s during a commute, while wearing headphones, or even if you’re just laying down or relaxing.

Have any tricks, ideas, or advice for using the excellent Speak Screen feature of an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch? Let us know in the comments!

Source: OSX Daily

June 27, 2017 0 comment
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How to Send Invisible Ink Messages from iPhone and iPad

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iOS Messages includes the Invisible Ink feature which allows people to send obfuscated messages to and from iPhone and iPad. The invisible messages arrive visibly obscured, and the content of the invisible message can only be revealed by swiping a finger on the blurred message(s) to temporarily reveal the message text, image, or video. And yes, that means invisible messages can send not just as invisible text, but also as invisible photos and invisible videos too.

Invisible Ink offers simple privacy in a fun way to share secrets or otherwise personal information through the Messages app of iOS without having them be visible to an onlooker. The feature is part of the Message Effects set and is available on releases of iOS for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.


For Invisible Ink to work as intended, both the sender and the recipient must be using iMessage to send and receive invisible messages. Devices that are not using iMessage will receive the message as usual without the obfuscated Invisible Ink effect.

How to Send an Invisible Ink Message on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the Messages app in iOS and go to any message conversation thread (you can also send yourself a message to test this feature out)
  2. Type any message as usual and then tap and hold on the blue arrow to access iMessage Effects, or use 3D Touch on the arrow*

    3. Send an invisible ink message on iOS

  3. From the message effects screen, choose “Invisible Ink”

    4. How to send an invisible ink message on iOS

  4. Tap the arrow button next to “Send with Invisible Ink” to immediately send the message with the invisible ink obfuscated feature on that message

    5. Sending the invisible ink message on iPhone

The message will be sent obfuscated in invisible ink, and it will stay blurred and obscured until it is read through a touch or swipe.

Invisible Ink messages on iPhone and iPad

* Alternatively, you can also include a photo, picture, video, or GIF and make those invisible too. Note you will tap and hold on the arrow icon if the device is not 3D Touch equipped or if 3D Touch is disabled, whereas you must 3D Touch on the arrow if 3D Touch is enabled.

How to Read an Invisible Ink Message on iPhone or iPad

  1. When you receive an invisible ink message that is obfuscated with the sparkling blurred pixels…

    2. Tap to read the invisible ink message on iPhone or iPad

  2. Tap or swipe on the invisible ink message to reveal its contents

    3. Invisible ink message revealed on iPhone or iPad

  3. Repeat with other invisible ink messages as necessary

The invisible ink messages will be visible for a short while after tapping them or swiping on them, and then they will become invisible again after a few seconds until they are touched or swiped again.

Invisible Ink messages on iPhone and iPad

If you do not have the Invisible Ink feature available you either turned off message effects, iMessage is disabled, you’re not able to access it due to improper pressing and/or 3D Touch, or you’re on an older version of iOS and need to update to any modern release past iOS 10.0. If you’re on an older version of iOS and do not have this feature at all, the next best thing is probably to turn off iMessage previews on the lock screen and then use a passcode to lock the device all the time.

If you’re having any trouble with Invisible Ink, are not able to access it, or or if Messages effects are not working, read this how to possibly fix that in iOS, it usually comes down to toggling a few settings to resolve such an issue.

Invisible Ink is one of a variety of fun message effects and features, some of the other more interesting and entertaining iPhone and iPad message features are handwritten messages, plastering stickers in messages, and using Tapback to send little icon replies.

Do you have any interesting tips, fun advice, or thoughts about receiving or sending invisible messages from iPhone or iPad? Let us know in the comments!

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June 26, 2017 0 comment
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How to Search Safari Browser History on iPhone & iPad

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Did you know you can search through web browsing history in Safari on an iPhone or iPad? With the excellent Safari History search feature you can easily retrieve and find previously visited sites, webpages, and videos, whether from earlier in the day or even well over a year ago – assuming the searchable Safari history has not been removed anyway.


This offers a fantastic tool to track down old web content that you may have a hard time finding on it’s own. For example, if you knew you watched a web video somewhere about a topic like “Carl Sagan” but can’t quite remember what it was or where it was located on the web, you can search for that term and all history matching the search terms will be retrieved.

How to Search Browser History on Safari for iPhone, iPad

All modern versions of Safari in iOS have searchable history, here’s how it works:

  1. From the Safari app on iPhone or iPad, tap the bookmarks / history button (it looks like an open book icon)

    2. Search Safari browser history on iOS

  2. Choose the the book tab and go to the History section
  3. At the top of the History section, tap into the “Search History” box

    4. Search Safari browser history on iOS

  4. Type your search query term to search Safari browser history on the iOS device

    5. Search Safari browser history on iPhone and iPad

If you tap on any searched history result, the page or site will immediately open in Safari.

In the example above, I searched for “Charlie Rose” to track down an old interview I had watched on YouTube, and the video I was searching for was found immediately.

You can search through any search history on Safari on the iOS device, even history that is quite a bit older, as long as you (or the user) has not cleared Safari history on the device being searched.

Note that if you use Safari and iCloud on an iPhone or iPad as well as another device, you will have other devices history to search through as well – even if it was not searched for on the current device. This is a feature of iCloud and is available to users with the same Apple ID and iCloud enabled on multiple iOS and Mac OS devices.

You can also search for an item match in Safari history and then remove that specific page from Safari history in iOS after it has been matched and found, offering a way to selectively clear history from a device without wiping it all.

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June 21, 2017 0 comment
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The 11 Best Features Coming to iOS 11

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iOS 11 has many new features, refinements, and enhancements for iPhone and iPad, but the question everyone really wants to know is; what are the new features that actually matter?

Keeping in mind that iOS 11 is currently in beta and thus features are subject to changes, we’ve gathered what we think are the eleven most significant additions to iOS 11 to regular people. These are features that real everyday users will enjoy and appreciate, ranging from giant leaps forward in iPad multitasking and productivity, to payments, Siri changes, drag and drop support, driver safety functions, file management, improved keyboards, a better and customizable Control Center, and more.

Let’s check them out one by one…

1: iPad Multitasking Gets Serious

Arguably the biggest changes in iOS 11 come to the iPad, which adds increased multitasking capabilities and abilities that are decidedly Mac-like.

iPad multitasking

The new iPad dock behaves a lot more like the Dock in MacOS, automatically hiding when not in use, it allows for more apps for quick access, and shows recently used apps and files too.

iOS 11 iPad Dock

The app switcher on iPad in iOS 11 is also redesigned and looks and behaves much more like Mission Control on the Mac, allowing you to see a tiled preview of open apps, and also even drag and drop items between apps via that app switcher.

2: Drag & Drop by Touch

Drag and drop comes to iOS and it’s optimized for touch. You can drag and select multiple apps, files (more on that in a moment), move them around together, and even drag and drop text blocks, pictures, or data from one app into another.

iOS 11 drag and drop on iPad

This is fantastic feature in iOS 11 and it works quite well. The full drag and drop capabilities are available to iPad in particular, and while it’s currently possible to use many of them on iPhone too, there are murmurs that some of the drag and drop capabilities will be removed from iPhone and be iPad exclusive. Let’s hope the best of touch based drag and drop comes to iPhone too…

3: Apple Pay Person-to-Person Payments

Apple Pay will allow you to send person-to-person payments, directly from iMessage. Need to send your friend $20 for your split of a dinner? No sweat, you can do it directly in a message.

Apple Pay person to person payments

This should work similar to how PayPal or Venmo functions, except it will be native in the Messages app and likely only limited between Apple customers.

4: Live Photos Gets Long Exposure Ability, and Looping

Long exposure photography involves leaving a shutter open for a while and is generally considered to be an advanced photography skill – but now Live Photos will use built-in algorithms to create long exposures easily. This is perfect for pictures of things like water flowing, or something speeding by, and it gives that neat blurred long exposure effect.

iOS 11 long exposure with Live Photos

Live Photos also gains an ability to continuously loop a picture taken with the feature (still no GIF output option though, however, so you will need to convert live photos to gifs on your own).

5: Do Not Disturb While Driving

How often is it that a new phone feature could save lives? Do Not Disturb While Driving is potentially one of those rare features, when activated it blacks out the iPhone screen and prevents notifications from showing up while driving. There’s an auto-responder to reply to messages automatically with an “I’m driving right now” message too, so you don’t have to worry about shunning people.

Do Not Disturb While Driving in iOS 11

Of course emergencies and special people can be exempted by allowing them onto the same kind of white list that the general Do Not Disturb ability offers.

This feature could make a big difference in driver safety and could reduce distracted driving, let’s hope all other cell phones adopt a similar feature.

6: Notes App Document Scanner

Notes app gains a document scanner feature, which lets you scan documents using the iOS device camera. The scanned documents are then stored within the Notes app, and they can be edited, referenced, modified, or just kept for later easily there.

Scan documents with camera in Notes app

This excellent feature behaves similar to third party apps like Scanner Pro and is really nice for so many use cases, both personal and professional.

7: Redesigned Control Center

Control Center gets redesigned and an all new appearance which is nice, but the bigger perk is that the new Control Center allows for customizations. This means you can put features you use often in Control Center while also yanking out the stuff you don’t.

Control Center in iOS 11

8: Files for iOS

iOS 11 gains a Files app, which, just as it sounds, gives you direct access in iOS to a file system of sorts. It’s not quite like Finder on the Mac, but it does allow you to access and interact with files directly, rename files and folders, create new folders, tag files, access third party cloud services, and even drag and drop to move files and folders around too. It’s all optimized well for touch too.

iOS 11 iPad files app

For those longing for a file system and file access in iOS, and who found iCloud Drive to be insufficient, the Files app is almost certainly going to meet their needs.

9: One Handed Keyboard

iOS 11 gains a one handed keyboard option, which shifts the keys over to the left or right side of the screen when activated.

One handed keyboard in iOS 11

This is perfect for users of the bigger screen iPhones who have a difficult time texting or typing one-handed, as it makes the keys much easier to reach with a single hand and with less thumb stretching.

10: Siri Gets a New Voice & Text Based Interface

Siri gets two new redesigned voices, one male and one female, and they both sound really great and natural. New voices are neat and all, but perhaps even cooler is an optional new text-based interface to interact with Siri. When enabled, the text based Siri interface allows you to type a query directly to Siri when the virtual assistant is summoned.

Siri in iOS 11

The new Siri voices are enabled by default in iOS 11, while the text based Siri option is an Accessibility option that is clearly applicable and useful to many iPhone and iPad owners.

Oh and Siri can also do live translations for foreign languages too, how cool is that?

11: Volume Adjustments No Longer Blocks Videos

When you go to change the volume in iOS, the volume indicator appears front and center in the screen and obstructs the video…. well not anymore in iOS 11. Yes this is fairly small and seemingly insignificant, but it’s been a longstanding pet peeve for many users that is being remedied in iOS 11. Sometimes the little things are great improvements!

Note: above images are courtesy of Apple and the iOS 11 beta preview. Keep in mind that iOS 11 is currently in beta and under development, meaning some features, appearances, or other aspects may change by the time the final version is released to the general public.

There are many other little features, refinements, change, and improvements coming to iOS 11 too. While technically anyone can download and install iOS 11 beta right now and explore the beta, the best thing to do is wait until the fall for the final version to come out for compatible iPhone and iPad. Are there any particular new features coming to iOS 11 that you are excited about? Let us know in the comments.

Source: OSX Daily

June 8, 2017 0 comment
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iOS 11 Compatible Devices List

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Are you wondering which devices will support iOS 11? While iOS 11 includes a variety of new features and refinements to the Apple operating system, only certain model iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices will support the iOS 11 release.


Fortunately the compatible devices list for iOS 11 is fairly sprawling, and while a few devices did not make the list you will find that most modern iPhone and iPad hardware will support the latest release when it debuts in the fall.

The following iOS 11 compatible devices list is directly from Apple,

iOS 11 Supported Devices List

Existing iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch models that will support iOS 11 include the following hardware:

Which iPhone Models Support iOS 11

  • iPhone 7
  • iPhone 7 Plus
  • iPhone 6s
  • iPhone 6s Plus
  • iPhone 6
  • iPhone 6 Plus
  • iPhone SE
  • iPhone 5s

Which iPads Support iOS 11

  • 12.9-inch iPad Pro 2nd generation
  • 12.9-inch iPad Pro 1st generation
  • 10.5-inch iPad Pro
  • 9.7-inch iPad Pro
  • iPad Air 2
  • iPad Air
  • iPad 5th generation
  • iPad mini 4
  • iPad mini 3
  • iPad mini 2

What iPod Touch Supports iOS 11

  • iPod touch 6th generation

iOS 11 compatible devices supported hardware list

Obviously if any new model devices are released while iOS 11 is around, it would be safe to assume those devices would run iOS 11 as well. For example if an iPhone 8 or iPhone 7S comes out in the fall, it would also run iOS 11 and probably ship with it preinstalled too, this would follow the typical pattern that Apple has with releasing new iPhone devices near the public release of major new system software updates.

It’s always possible the iOS 11 supported hardware list will change, but as of now it is current based on what the iOS 11 beta download will install on, and what is shown on the Apple iOS 11 beta home page.

Currently iOS 11 is available to beta testers, and iOS 11 will be released to the general public in the fall.

Mac users may also be interested to find out what Macs are compatible with MacOS High Sierra here too.

Source: OSX Daily

June 6, 2017 0 comment
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How to Convert Firmware Zip to IPSW Easily

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iOS firmware files should always arrive in IPSW file format so that they can be identified and used properly. Sometimes, users may download an IPSW firmware file for iPhone or iPad and it arrives as .zip file instead of .ipsw as expected, this usually happens on Windows computers but it can happen on a Mac too.

The reason this usually happens is usually because of the web browser you used to download the IPSW firmware file which erroneously assigns it a ZIP archive extension. Fortunately this is extremely easy to fix and to change an IPSW marked as a .zip file into a IPSW .ipsw file.


Why does this matter? This is necessary because iTunes will not recognize a firmware labeled as a .zip file as a proper .ipsw file, it must have the .ipsw file extension for it to be used by the iTunes software to be able to update iOS on an iPhone or iPad. Not to worry, it’s a piece of cake to change.

How to Change .zip File to IPSW .ipsw File

To convert the .zip to .ipsw you must have show file extensions enabled in your operating system.

For Mac: You can show file extension on a Mac as detailed here.

For Windows: you can show file extensions by going to Start Menu > Control Panel > Folder Options > View > and turn off “Hide file extensions for known types”.

Once you have file extensions visible on the computer, you simply must rename the .zip file to the .ipsw file. For example a file named “”iPhone_9_12.0_18A201_Restore.zip” would need to be renamed as “iPhone_9_12.0_18A201_Restore.ipsw”

That’s it, the .ipsw file will now be usable, you can learn how to use IPSW files here to update iOS on an iPhone or iPad, iTunes, and a Mac or PC.

How to Get IPSW Files As .ipsw Instead of .zip

As mentioned before, the reason some IPSW files are erroneously assigned a .zip file extension instead of the proper .ipsw file extension is because of the web browser used and how the firmware file is downloaded. For properly associating the IPSW file with a .ipsw file extension you simply must do the following:

  1. Access a repository of iOS IPSW file downloads such as here, remember you will only want to get IPSW files from links that point to the original file on Apple servers
  2. Find the IPSW file you wish to get, then right-click and choose “Save As” on the link
  3. When saving the IPSW file, be sure it has a .ipsw file extension for example “iPhone_9_12.0_18A201_Restore.ipsw”

Once you’re IPSW file is properly labeled with a proper file extension you are free to use the IPSW file as usual with iTunes on a computer.

No, an IPSW file is not a ZIP file, and a ZIP file is not IPSW

To be clear, a .zip is a proper file format but for archives, whereas .ipsw is also a proper file format but it’s for iOS firmware files. IPSW files are not supposed to be .zip archives, when the operating system thinks an .ipsw is a .zip it is an erroneous file association based on a file extension. Thus, a .zip file is not an .ipsw file, and an ipsw file is not a zip file – you can not simply change a random .zip archive file extension to .ipsw and expect it to work and be recognized as a firmware, that’s not how it works.

Remember to always download .ipsw files only from Apple servers, if you’re not sure hover over the IPSW link to verify that it has an apple.com domain, if the ipsw file link does not point to an Apple server do not download the .ipsw file. It’s also worth remembering that only signed IPSW files are usable, go

Source: OSX Daily

May 29, 2017 0 comment
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