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How to Customize Your AirPods’ Double-Tap Controls
Here’s a hidden little secret that you might not have known about—or have long since forgotten. The side of each Apple AirPod has a double-tap control that can toggle one of several actions, including calling up Siri on your iPhone, pausing or resuming audio, and skipping to and from tracks. Better still, you can assign…
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How to Schedule iOS Text Messages With the Shortcuts App
Like emails and social media posts, being able to draft and schedule out your texts can be a time management lifesaver—especially if you rely on texts as a part of your job or business, or use them as personal reminders you send to yourself. While some Android apps have text scheduling built in, no first-party…
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How to Trigger Automatic Shortcuts in iOS 13
The iOS 13 beta is out for developers, and testers are finding a host of new features that the rest of us will be able to get our hands on in a few months. One of the most convenient changes to iOS 13 is the addition of automated triggers to the Shortcuts app. The current…
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How to Install the Latest Apple Betas if You’re Not a Developer
Screenshot: David Murphy It’s time to try out all the new features and tweaks Apple has been cooking up back in its Cupertino labs—if you’re a developer, that is. While Apple is now previewing the latest and greatest versions of iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS as betas, you can only (officially) access them if you’re paying…
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How to Watch Apple’s WWDC 2019 Keynote Monday
Image: Pexels Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference officially kicks off on Monday in San Jose, California. If you weren’t able to snag a ticket to this year’s conference (or you’re just interested in the software announcements), you can catch a lot of the action online. The keynote, which starts at 1pm ET/10am PT on Monday is…
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How to Run Diagnostics Tests on Your Smartphone
If you’ve never run a diagnostics test on your own smartphone, it’s worth doing—especially as your phone starts to show its age, or if you purchased a “new” smartphone secondhand and want to get a feel for its condition. Diagnostic tools are also helpful for when your device becomes less efficient, but you can’t quite…