Category: LifeHacker

  • How to See Your iPhone's Battery Percentage All the Time Again

    How to See Your iPhone's Battery Percentage All the Time Again

    Read full article: at LifeHacker When you look at the battery icon on your iPhone, you get a rough enough idea of how much battery life you still have to work with. But if you want to know exactly where you stand, you need to swipe down from the top right into Control Center, where…

  • How to Know When Apple Arcade Is Dropping Games

    How to Know When Apple Arcade Is Dropping Games

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple Arcade is Apple’s solution to mobile gaming’s biggest stumbling block: Nobody wants to pay for individual games, but constant micro-transactions are equally painful. Five dollars per month for a large library of ad-free games that aren’t pay-to-win feels much more palatable. That is, until your favorite Apple… Read more……

  • How to Instantly Customize Lock Screen Notifications in iOS 16

    How to Instantly Customize Lock Screen Notifications in iOS 16

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Every year, and with every iOS update, it seems Apple tries to do something new when it comes to iPhone notifications. We’re not talking about reinventing the wheel or going the Android route—just incremental changes that improve your quality of life, at least as it pertains to your device. Read…

  • How to Install the iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 Betas

    How to Install the iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 Betas

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple announced iOS and iPadOS 16 during its WWDC event today, Monday, June 6. The new update sports some big changes, such as a customizable Lock Screen, revamped notifications, and the ability to edit and undo messages, while bringing some macOS window management to the iPad (finally). While the software…

  • How to Never Pay Full Price for an iPhone App Again

    How to Never Pay Full Price for an iPhone App Again

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Most of the apps in Apple’s App Store are slowly moving away from asking you to pay upfront, opting to make their money either through ads or in-app purchases. But if you’re someone who prefers to buy an app rather than deal with micro-transactions, keeping track of prices can be…

  • How to Use Translation Apps and Extensions Without Sacrificing Your Privacy

    How to Use Translation Apps and Extensions Without Sacrificing Your Privacy

    Read full article: at LifeHacker When you want to translate something, the easiest option is often a free translation service like Google Translate. But you should avoid pasting sensitive information into free translation services, as your data could end up in the public domain or used for advertising. (Generally, if you have highly sensitive… Read…

  • How to Add Speed Dial to Your iPhone

    How to Add Speed Dial to Your iPhone

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Speed dial was an essential efficiency tool back when you needed to dial every number by hand. Rather than waste precious seconds punching the same digits every day, you could program your favorite contacts to designated spots on either a landline or a cell phone for quick, single-button access. Of…

  • How to Stop Someone From Editing the iMessages They Send You

    How to Stop Someone From Editing the iMessages They Send You

    Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple’s iOS 16 introduces some awesome new Messaging features: With the new update, you can recover deleted messages for up to 30 days, mark messages as unread to return to later, and you have more options for SharePlay than ever before. The two Messages features that made headlines, however, were…

  • How to Watch Apple's WWDC 2022

    How to Watch Apple's WWDC 2022

    Read full article: at LifeHacker WWDC 2022 is nearly here. While most of Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference is actually a series of presentations and events for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS developers, most of us are focused on Apple’s main keynote. Here, the company shows off new features and changes coming down the pipeline across…

  • How to Bring Back the iTunes MiniPlayer

    How to Bring Back the iTunes MiniPlayer

    Read full article: at LifeHacker iTunes. A Obi-Wan would say, that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. Apple killed the game-changing Mac application in 2019, splitting its combined services into three simplified apps: Music, TV, and Podcasts. While this decision was in many ways a good one, those of us who have…