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How to Use Do Not Disturb on iPhone or iPad

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If you want your iPhone or iPad to be silent for a while and not beep, buzz, chime, and pester you with notifications and alerts, then Do Not Disturb mode is for you. Do Not Disturb is an excellent feature which places the iPhone or iPad into basically a silent mode, where all inbound calls, messages, alerts, notifications, and other activity is temporarily silenced and prevented from reaching the screen. Critically, the iPhone or iPad will still get messages, phone calls, email, and notifications, they just won’t make any appearance on the device while Do Not Disturb mode is enabled.

You can place an iPhone or iPad into Do Not Disturb mode manually and quickly at any time, and likewise you can easily toggle the feature off at any time too. If you’re unfamiliar with the excellent do Not Disturb feature of iOS, read on to learn how to use it.

How to Enable Do Not Disturb Mode on iPhone or iPad

  1. Access Control Center on iPhone or iPad by swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen (*in earlier iOS versions, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access Control Center)
  2. Tap the crescent moon icon to enable Do Not Disturb Mode on the iPhone or iPad, it will show as highlighted to indicate that it is enabled

    3. How to use and enable Do Not Disturb on iPhone or iPad with Control Center

  3. Leave Control Center and enjoy the peace

An indicator that Do Not Disturb mode is enabled is the crescent moon icon in the devices status bar at the top of the screen. If you see the moon, Do Not Disturb is currently turned on.

The Do Not Disturb enabled indicator on iPhone and iPad

Remember, when Do Not Disturb mode is enabled on an iPhone or iPad, no calls, no messages, no emails, no alerts, no notifications, nothing will appear to come through to the device, as everything is basically silenced while Do Not Disturb mode is on.

While Do Not Disturb mode is on you can still make outbound calls, send and receive messages and texts, emails, read alerts and notifications, and perform other communications, and even check the alerts and notifications directly through Notification Center, just remember that any inbound alert is silenced while this feature is enabled. For example if you’re having an iMessage conversation with someone while Do Not Disturb is enabled, their messages will not make any sound or vibrate on your device (unless you set them up as an Emergency Bypass contact, more on that in a moment), but you can still freely converse back and forth.

When using Do Not Disturb mode, it’s a good idea to selectively set up Emergency Bypass for specific contacts so that they can bypass Do Not Disturb mode when it’s enabled on your iPhone or iPad, but be selective about who you choose; perhaps a few of your most important family members or friends that you want to always be able to reach you no matter what, or your boss (just kidding, don’t let them disturb you either!), or maybe you have a critical pager or alert contact for work that must always get through, as many doctors and IT staff do.

Note that because Do Not Disturb can be accessed rather easily through Control Center, it’s also fairly easy to be inadvertently turned on, which can lead people to wonder why their iPhone is not ringing or getting messages or making sounds seemingly out of the blue and think something is wrong with their device, but often it’s just a matter of the feature accidentally being enabled. This is particularly true with anyone who has a child that uses their iOS device, but it can also happen just from fidgeting with an iOS device in a pocket or with some inadvertent gestures, taps, and swipes.

How to Disable Do Not Disturb Mode on iPhone or iPad

  1. Access Control Center on iPhone or iPad by swiping down from the top-right corner of the screen
  2. Tap the crescent moon icon to disable Do Not Disturb Mode on iPhone or iPad

    3. How to Disable Do Not Disturb on iPhone or iPad

  3. Leave Control Center as usual, all messages, alerts, notifications will come through as expected

With Do Not Disturb turned off, the iPhone or iPad will receive alerts, sounds, vibrations, notifications, and all other indicators of inbound communication and information. This is the default mode of an iPhone or iPad.

If you find yourself using Do Not Disturb mode often, you might like to go further by setting up Do Not Disturb on a schedule, for example in the evening hours, or during work hours, or something similar when you want some peace and quiet from your device. Another potentially helpful feature if you spend a lot of time in the car driving is to use Do Not Disturb while driving on the iPhone, which will mute the alerts and sounds while you’re in a vehicle and driving, to reduce driver distraction.

If you know of any other helpful tips or tricks for using Do Not Disturb mode on an iPhone or iPad, share them with us in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

April 23, 2019 0 comment
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iPhone Shows Photos in Storage, But None on Device? Here’s Why!

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Have you ever looked in the iPhone Storage section of your iOS Settings and discovered that the Photos section shows that it’s taking up storage space, but you don’t have any Photos in the Photos app?

If you have deleted the photos from your iPhone but the iPhone Storage section shows that Photos are still on the device, there’s probably a good reason for that, and it’s not a bug. Read on to learn more about what causes this problem, and how to fix this issue so that storage is not taken up by photos that were deleted.

Why does iPhone show Photos in Storage, but none exist because they were deleted?

First, let’s understand what causes the iPhone to show that Photos are taking up storage when there are no photos on the device because they have been deleted.

When you delete a photo from the iPhone (or iPad), the photo does not actually delete itself instantly by default. Instead, the photo goes into a “Recently Deleted” folder on the iPhone.

Thus, when you delete a photo or multiple photos from the iPhone, it’s moved from the main Photos app Camera Roll and albums to the “Recently Deleted” photo album, where they will delete themselves automatically after 30 days, or if storage on the device gets too tight, or if the user chooses to immediately and permanently delete the photos from the iPhone or iPad.

Now you might be asking, what’s the point of that? Well this is for good reason! The “Recently Deleted” folder is intended to allow the iPhone to be able to recover deleted photos easily, usually in case they were deleted accidentally.

How to Fix iPhone Showing Photos When None Exist on the Device

You may have guessed by now that the solution to this problem is quite simple; you need to permanently delete the photos manually from the iOS “Recently Deleted” album. This will permanently and completely delete the photos from the iPhone or iPad so be sure you want to do this, it is not reversible.

  1. Open the “Photos” app and go to the ‘Albums’ view
  2. Scroll all the way to the bottom to locate the “Recently Deleted” photos album

    3. The Recently Deleted album

  3. Tap on “Select” in Recently Deleted
  4. Tap on “Delete All” to delete all photos from the iPhone or iPad
  5. Confirm that you want to permanently remove and delete the photos from the device, this will recover the storage space in iOS

    6. Confirm to delete the recently deleted photos to clear Photos storage

That’s all there is to it, if you return to the “Storage” section of Settings you will find that the Photos app no longer shows taking up any storage because the photos have been permanently deleted from the device.

There is no way to recover permanently deleted photos, without restoring the iPhone or iPad from a backup anyway.

Are there other reasons why iPhone or iPad may show Photos in Storage that don’t exist?

It’s certainly possible, but perhaps not too likely. For example it’s possible that a crash or bug or something of a technical nature might erroneously show Photos as taking up device storage when they are not. Simply rebooting the iPhone (or iPad) may resolve those type of issues and is certainly worth a try too.

Have you ever encountered this before? Was the reason your Photos were showing as Storage because they were in the Recently Deleted album, or was there another reason? Share your experiences in the comments below.

Source: OSX Daily

April 20, 2019 0 comment
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How to See Air Quality on Maps for iPhone & iPad

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Want to know what the air quality index is at a particular destination? The Apple Maps app on iPhone and iPad can give you this information.

Those who are concerned about air quality will find it useful to know that the Maps app on iPhone and iPad has an optional feature that allows you to see the Air Quality Index (AQI) and accompanying color code directly in the Maps app, but first you must enable the feature, and have a compatible version of iOS system software on the device. This is obviously helpful for planning trips and maps routes for groups who impacted by air quality, and offers another way to see air quality information on an iOS device.

Finding the optional Air Quality Index information in the Maps app of iOS requires iOS 12.2 or later to be installed on the iPhone or iPad, as earlier versions do not support AQI index (though they do support weather). iPhone users with earlier iOS versions can get air quality information in the Weather app on iPhone, and both iPhone and iPad users can find AQI index info from Siri, whereas iPad users with earlier iOS versions will want to use either a website or dedicated weather app for this same information. Assuming you’re on iOS 12.2 or later though, here’s how you can enable and see AQI details in Apple Maps.

How to View Air Quality Index in Maps on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone or iPad
  2. Go to “Maps”
  3. Find the setting for ‘Air Quality Index’ and toggle that switch to the ON position
  4. Exit Settings
  5. Launch the Maps application in iOS
  6. Search for a location or destination in Maps as usual
  7. Note the ‘AQI’ score in the corner of Maps app as you search and use the Maps app on iPhone or iPad

    8. How to see Air Quality Index in Maps for iPhone or iPad

You’ll also notice the weather is shown in Maps directly above the AQI index, offering further information about the destinations and locations you’re viewing in the Maps app of iOS. If you don’t see the weather in Apple Maps, then you may have it turned off in the Maps Settings, directly above the Air Quality Index information.

Any Air Quality Index rating between 0-50 is considered to be ‘Good’, while anything over 50 is of declining quality, over 100 to be considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, with increasing severity of air quality health concerns from numbers beyond that. You can refer to the below chart from AirNow.gov for reference of air quality index, color codes, and the health concerns associated with them:

AQI Index information from AirNow website

While AQI information may be irrelevant to some iPhone and iPad users, others will find it to be a very helpful feature, especially if you or someone else has trouble with particulate matter, air pollutants, or even allergies, asthma, COPD, or the myriad other conditions where the quality of air matters tremendously.

Source: OSX Daily

April 13, 2019 0 comment
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How to Change Passcode on iPhone or iPad

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A passcode is used on iPhone and iPad as an authentication method to access and unlock an iOS device, often as an adjunct or alternative to the biometric authentication methods of Face ID and Touch ID. Most iPhone and iPad users enable an iOS passcode when setting up their iOS device, but later some users may decide they would like to change the device passcode to something else.

Changing the iPhone or iPad passcode can be done at any time on an iOS device. You can choose from a variety of different passcode options including using a variation on digit length which lets you change back to a 4 digit passcode or a longer digit passcode, or even change to an alphabetic or alphanumeric password to unlock the iPhone or iPad rather than a numerical passcode. Read on to learn how to change the lock password for an iPhone or iPad.

How to Change the Passcode in iOS

  1. Open the “Settings” app in iOS

    2. Settings icon

  2. Go to “Face ID & Passcode” or “Touch ID & Passcode” (depending on device features)

    3. How to change passcode on iPhone or iPad

  3. Enter the existing passcode to access the settings
  4. Scroll down in the Passcode settings and choose “Change Passcode”

    5. How to change passcode on iPhone or iPad

  5. Enter the old passcode to be able to change it to something new
  6. Enter the new passcode, or alternatively choose “Passcode Options” to select one of the following:
  • Custom Alphanumeric Code – This allows you to use letters and numbers, like a password
  • Custom Numeric Code – This allows for a custom length numeric code
  • 4 digit Numeric Code – This allows for very short passcodes, like older iOS versions

How to change to a password or different length passcode on iPhone or iPad

  • Confirm the new passcode to complete the passcode change in iOS

    • The new passcode will now be set, and this newly changed passcode will now be what you use to unlock the iPhone or iPad lock screen, or as a backup if Touch ID or Face ID fails or is unavailable for whatever reason.

    The passcode entry screen on a locked iPhone

    Note that you can also use a passcode instead of using Touch ID or Face ID, even on the newest iPhone and iPad models that support those biometric authentication methods.

    You can also turn the passcode off completely for an iPhone or iPad, but that is strongly not recommended for the vast majority of users as it presents a potential security risk at numerous levels. Generally speaking all iPhone or iPad devices should be locked with a passcode to prevent unauthorized access to the device and any data on the device. If you did turn off the passcode and which to reverse that decision, you can enable the passcode on an iPhone or iPad again at anytime through Settings.

    If you want to change the passcode because you forgot it, then you will not be able to do so through iOS device settings without knowing the passcode that was previously set. You can reset a forgotten iPhone passcode with these instructions if needed, which requires a computer with iTunes to complete properly.

    Changing the passcode in iOS

    Finally, don’t forget that the general access and lock screen passcode on an iPhone or iPad discussed here is different from the Screen Time passcode (or the Restrictions passcode on earlier iOS versions) which can be used to limit app usage and restrict content on an iPhone or iPad. Some users may set the two passcodes to be the same, but that’s not always the case and it’s ultimately up to the users discretion to set the two passcodes accordingly. If you find it confusing to have two different passcodes for different features on the same device, changing the Screen Time passcode in iOS to match the lock screen passcode is always possible.

    Source: OSX Daily

    April 4, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Enable Reader View in Safari Automatically on iPhone or iPad

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    Do you like using Safari Reader View on the iPhone or iPad when reading a particular webpages articles or stories? Reader View in Safari can make webpages easier to read in some situations, and if you use the feature for some websites, or all of the web, you might appreciate enabling Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS.

    With this Automatic Reader View enabled in Safari for iOS, Safari will automatically enter into Reader Mode, either for specific website URLs as chosen, or for all web sites.

    How to Enable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iPhone or iPad

    Want to enable Reader View automatically, either on a particular website or for all websites? Here’s how to do that in iOS:

    1. Open Safari in iOS, then visit the website URL you want to use Automatic Reader View for
    2. Tap and hold on the Reader button in the URL bar at the top of the Safari screen

      3. How to enable Automatic Reader Mode in Safari for iOSr

    3. When the ‘Automatic Reader View’ option shows up, choose one of the following: “Use on (current domain)” or “Use on All Websites”

      4. How to enable Safari Automatic Reader mode in iOS

    4. Browse the web as usual with the settings in place

    If you choose “Use on (current domain)” then anytime you load that particular website in Safari for iOS, Reader View in Safari will enable itself automatically, but only for that website domain.

    If you choose “Use on All Websites” then every web site will load into Reader View automatically in Safari for iOS.

    Most users will probably want to limit this feature to specific websites and domains that are either not optimized for their device or screen, or otherwise difficult to read for some other reason. That way every time such a website is visited, the Reader mode feature will trigger and legibility and readability should improve (remember you can customize the appearance of Safari Reader).

    Automatic Reader View will use the last settings that were defined for the appearance of Safari Reader Mode, so if you want to change the text size, color theme, font face, or other aspects of the Safari Reader experience you can do so as described here and have those customizations carry over to the Automatic Reader mode too.

    This is a particularly helpful feature for viewing webpages on the iPhone that are not mobile optimized or that don’t have a mobile website, since Safari Reader View tends to improve legibility in those situations by boosting font size and focusing on the webpages content.

    How to Disable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS

    If you had previously turned on Automatic Reader View and would now like to change that setting in iOS, here’s how to do so:

    1. Open Safari in iOS, then visit the specific website URL that you want to disable Automatic Reader View for
    2. Tap and hold the Reader button at the top of the Safari screen

      3. How to disable Automatic Reader View in Safari for iOS

    3. When the ‘Automatic Reader View’ options appear, choose one of the following: “Stop Using on (current domain)” or “All Websites”

      4. How to turn off automatic Reader View in Safari on iPhone or iPad

    4. Use Safari with the previously set Reader settings disabled

    These settings obviously pertain to iOS Safari for the iPhone and iPad, but the feature exists on the Mac version of Safari as well, where it can also be set to activate on individual websites or all websites, and the Reader appearance customized as needed on the Mac too.

    Safari Reader Mode has been around for a while and is really quite useful, even if you don’t use it for reading certain webpages it can be useful for other purposes like printing out webpage articles without ads and other extraneous page content.

    Share your thoughts, experiences, and comments on Automatic Reader View in the comments below!

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 28, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Remove Emoji Button from Keyboard on iPhone and iPad

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    Don’t want the Emoji button on the iOS keyboard and wish it were gone? You can remove the Emoji button from the keyboard on iPhone and iPad, and by doing so you are effectively turning off Emoji in iOS so that it can’t be typed, nor can the Emoji keyboard be accessed. Disabling the Emoji button from the iOS keyboard can be desirable for many reasons, particularly if you accidentally hit the Emoji button and find that annoying, or if you simply never use Emoji and want to get rid of the smiley face button on the keyboard of iPhone or iPad.

    We’ll show you how to remove the Emoji button from the iPhone and iPad keyboard, and also how to return the Emoji functionality back to the iOS Keyboard if you decide you want the Emoji button back again.

    Note that if you remove the Emoji button from iOS keyboard then you will not be able to type Emoji on the iPhone or iPad because there is no longer any way to access the Emoji keyboard, unless you reverse this settings change.

    How to Turn Off Emoji & Disable Emoji Button on iOS Keyboard

    To remove the Emoji button from the keyboard, you must disable and remove the Emoji keyboard from iOS in general. Here’s how this is done:

    1. Open the “Settings” app on iPhone or iPad

      2. Settings icon

    2. Go to “General” and then to “Keyboard”

      3. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

    3. Choose “Keyboard”

      4. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

    4. Tap the “Edit” button in the corner of Keyboard settings

      5. How to remove Emoji button from iOS Keyboard

    5. Now tap the (-) red minus button next to “Emoji”

      6. How to remove Emoji keyboard button from iOS on iPhone or iPad

    6. Tap on the “Delete” button next to Emoji

      7. Deleting Emoji keyboard removes emoji button from iOS keyboard

    7. Tap “Done” or exit Settings

    Now if you open any app on iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch that allows you to type and shows a keyboard, like the Messages app, Notes, Pages, or anywhere else where typing in iOS is possible, you will find the Emoji button has been removed.

    The Emoji button has been removed from iOS keyboard

    By removing the Emoji keyboard, you no longer have the Emoji button on the iOS keyboard, which means you can’t type Emoji on the device. Currently there is no way to remove the Emoji button from the keyboard without also removing the entire Emoji keyboard itself, which basically disables Emoji completely on the iPhone or iPad (though anyone can continue to send you Emoji, and your iOS device will continue to render and show Emoji).

    If you’re turning off the Emoji button on iOS keyboard because you are accidentally hitting it, or because you never use it, or because you find the keyboard too cluttered, you might also appreciate removing the microphone button from the iPhone and iPad keyboard too. If you remove both the Emoji button and microphone button from the iOS keyboard, the space bar takes up the available space, and for some users they may find that easier to type with.

    How do I get Emoji button back on the iPhone or iPad Keyboard?

    If you disabled the Emoji button and Emoji keyboard but decide you want that smiling face button back so you can type your favorite Emoji again, you can enable the Emoji keyboard on iPhone or iPad again easily with these instructions or by doing the following:

    1. Open the “Settings” app then go to “General” and “Keyboard”
    2. Choose “Keyboards” then “Add New Keyboard” and select “Emoji” to add, this will return the Emoji button to the iOS keyboard

    The Emoji button on iPhone or iPad keyboard

    You must re-add the Emoji keyboard to the iOS Keyboard settings in order to regain access to the Emoji button on the keyboard of an iPhone or iPad, as well as to regain access to the Emoji keyboard in iOS and the smiley face button.

    The Emoji button is a smiley face icon on the iOS keyboard

    Like basically all settings in iOS, these changes are easily reversed and adjusted at anytime.

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 26, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Change Screen Time Password on iPhone or iPad

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    Using Screen Time in iOS allows for time limits to be set on app usage on an iPhone or iPad, even allowing for time limits on entire app categories like social networking. Setting up Screen Time requires a passcode to be set to access the Screen Time settings, and there are certainly times where an iPhone or iPad user may need to change the Screen Time password in iOS. Maybe someone sneakily watched you enter the passcode and is now entering it themselves to override an app limit, or maybe you’re simply changing your passcode used in general. Whatever the reason, changing the Screen Time password in iOS is easy.

    How to Change a Screen Time Passcode in iOS

    1. Open the ‘Settings’ app in iOS

      2. Settings icon

    2. Scroll down to tap on “Screen Time”

      3. How to change screen time password

    3. Within Screen Time settings, scroll down and tap on “Change Screen Time Passcode”

      4. How to change Screen Time Passcode iPhone

    4. Confirm that you want to change the Screen Time Passcode in iOS

      5. How to change Screen Time Passcode

    5. Enter the old passcode, then enter the new passcode twice for the change to take effect

      6. How to change Screen Time Passcode

    Don’t forget the Screen Time passcode, without it you won’t be able to make changes to Screen Time, set limits on apps and app categories, remove or adjust Screen Time settings, or even disable the Screen Time passcode if needed, so remembering the password you set is important.

    Other Screen Time management options are available. For example you can delete Screen Time limits for specific apps or categories in iOS if you set one up and decide it’s no longer needed.

    You can also disable Screen Time on iPhone or iPad completely, which requires knowing the set Screen Time password to do so, so if you changed it recently you’d use that new passcode to accomplish this.

    Whether you use Screen Time or not likely depends on how you use your iPhone or iPad, and if you’re managing multiple devices. Many parents and caregivers of kids use Screen Time limits for parental controls and app restrictions, putting limits on things like social networking, games, videos and movies, and other activities that can be a good idea to limit the use of. But used well, even adults, kids, and virtually anyone else can find the feature helpful for offering some enforced quota on time wasting activity. For example if you find yourself wasting time on social media then you can use Screen Limits to set a time limit for social networking use – you can always override the limit at any time, so it can serve as a nice reminder to how often you’re using a particular type of app or service.

    Another helpful tip for some users is keep an eye on screen time to watch what they’re doing on their device, or the device of another user. iOS even helpfully sends you a weekly report of screen time activity, but turning off Screen Time Weekly Reports could be desirable if you have no interest in seeing a weekly activity overview of app usage on an iPhone or iPad.

    Feel free to share your thoughts or experiences with Screen Time in iOS in the comments below!

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 22, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Change Spotify Music Quality for Streaming on iPhone, iPad, Android

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    Spotify defaults to automatically adjusting music quality when streaming songs. That default music quality setting is recommended for most Spotify users, but some audiophiles may like to manually adjust the streaming music quality in Spotify to be either lower or higher as desired. As you’ll see it’s fairly easy to make changes to Spotify music quality on iPhone, iPad, or Android.


    Note that making changes to streaming music quality can dramatically impact data usage, so if you’re on a limited internet data plan you might want to take that into consideration. If in doubt, maintain the default setting.

    How to Change Streaming Music Quality in Spotify

    Here is how you can manually adjust music quality streaming settings in Spotify, this is done from iOS but the setting is the same on Android:

    1. Open the Spotify app and go to “Your Library”
    2. Tap the “Settings” button in the corner, it looks like a gear icon

      3. How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

    3. Choose “Music Quality”

      4. How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

    4. Select the streaming music quality you’d like to use:
    • Automatic (Recommended) – the default setting, this adjusts the music quality automatically based on bandwidth availability and other considerations
    • Low – equivalent to 24 kbps
    • Normal – 96 kbit/s
    • High – 160 kbit/s
    • Very High – 320 kbit/s

    How to change Spotify music quality for streaming

  • Return to listen to Spotify as usual with the new music quality setting in place

    • The higher the music quality setting, the better music will sound, but at the expense of increased bandwidth consumption and data usage. The lower the music quality setting, the worse music will sound, but at much lower bandwidth and data use.

    Most Spotify users are best off by leaving the setting the default option as “Automatic” so that the music quality will scale up and down as needed, but some users may prefer to change the setting directly. Using the ‘low’ setting can reduce bandwidth use considerably and be fine for most spoken audio, podcasts, and similar types of audio, whereas the same low setting can make music sound less than ideal. On the opposite settings end, the “Very High” streaming setting will make audio sound about as it can in Spotify, but at a considerable cost to data usage, so for many people the ‘very high’ setting would only be appropriate for a wi-fi connection or unlimited bandwidth scenario, like if you’re streaming streaming to a Sonos speaker or other external speaker at a home or office without bandwidth constraints.

    In the same Music Quality settings screen of Spotify, you can also change the music quality for downloaded music, which may be more appropriate if you want a higher quality music setting since it won’t continuously stream and re-download the audio.

    This obviously applies to Spotify, but you can make similar changes to enable High Quality streaming in Music app for iPhone and iPad too.

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 17, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Turn Off Screen Time Password on iPhone or iPad

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    iPhone and iPad users relying on Screen Time can choose to turn off the Screen Time passcode on an iOS device. This makes it so that you or anyone else can override Screen Time restrictions without having to enter a passcode on the device.

    Note turning off the Screen Time password is completely different from disabling Screen Time on iPhone or iPad entirely. Turning off the password simply allows interaction with Screen Time without a passcode being entered, whereas disabling Screen Time turns off the feature completely.

    How to Turn Off Screen Time Passcode in iOS

    1. Open the ‘Settings’ app in iOS
    2. Tap on “Screen Time”

      3. How to turn off password for screen time in iOS

    3. Scroll down and tap on “Change Screen Time Passcode”

      4. How to turn off password for screen time in iOS

    4. Tap on “Turn Off Screen Time Passcode”

      5. How to turn off password for screen time in iOS

    5. Enter the existing Screen Time passcode to turn off the passcode for Screen Time in iOS

      6. How to turn off password for screen time in iOS

    With the Screen Time passcode turned off, when the Screen Time feature runs into a set limit or time limit, anyone can easily ignore it without having to enter the Screen Time passcode to do bypass Screen Time on the iPhone or iPad.

    Of course other options are to remove Screen Time limits or to disable Screen Time on iPhone or iPad completely, though both of those may be more extreme than what is desired, depending on the user and how Screen Time is utilized.

    Even if you turn off the Screen Time passcode, it can still be helpful to work as a reminder when you hit a time app limit. For example using Screen Time to limit time spent on social network apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram is a very popular solution for many people, but with the passcode off you (or anyone else) can easily ignore the Screen Time limit when it appears on screen. In this case, it kind of serves as a simple reminder that you’ve spent however much time on the device performing whatever the limited activity is. Reviewing the Screen Time Weekly Report can also be informative before you make screen time decisions and set app limits, as it offers a great look in how a device is used, and if you can find better uses of time.

    If you have any particular experience, thoughts, tips, or tricks for Screen Time in iOS, share them in the comments below!

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 15, 2019 0 comment
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    How to Change AirPods Name from iPhone or iPad

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    Want to change the name of your AirPods? You can quickly change AirPods name from the Settings app of the synced iPhone or iPad.


    Note this is just a simple name change of AirPods, it does not require resetting AirPods nor does it require setting them up again. You simply open the pertinent iOS settings, rename the AirPods, and that’s about it.

    How to Rename AirPods

    Here is how you can easily rename AirPods, right from iOS:

    1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone or iPad that AirPods are connected to
    2. Go to “Bluetooth”
    3. Find the AirPods in the Bluetooth device list then tap on the (i) button next to the AirPods
    4. In AirPods settings, tap on “Name”

      5. How to change name of AirPods

    5. Enter the new name you’d like to change AirPods name to, then tap the back “

      How to rename AirPods in iOS

    6. Exit out of Settings as usual

    Now AirPods will have whatever name you chose, and that name will be visible anywhere that you can see or access AirPods, including in Bluetooth settings, when you check their battery level, and anywhere else you might see the AirPods from iOS.

    You name AirPods whatever you want, whether that’s simply calling them “AirPods” or “Paul’s AirPods” or giving them some other customized name, the choice is yours. You can easily change their name again at any time by simply returning to the settings as covered above.

    In a similar manner, you can also easily change the name of iPhone, iPad, or an iPod touch by going to the appropriate Settings in iOS.

    This obviously covers iOS, but you can also change the name of AirPods from a Mac, assuming the AirPods are connected to that same Mac anyway, by going to Bluetooth settings in MacOS.

    As always, if you have any particularly helpful advice, tips, tricks, suggestions, or general input about renaming AirPods, share with us in the comments below!

    Source: OSX Daily

    March 14, 2019 0 comment
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