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How to Download Spotify Songs to Your Apple Watch Instead of Streaming Them
Read full article: at LifeHacker Spotify has finally delivered what we once called the “Holy Grail of smartphone streaming”—the ability to download songs to your watch, so you can listen to them even when your phone is at home and you’re jogging through the woods without a data connection. The feature is rolling out now,…
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The iOS Message Effects You Thought You Knew How to Use but Really Don't
Read full article: at LifeHacker If you send “congratulations” or “happy birthday” to someone using Messages on an iPhone, they’ll get a little surprise along with it: a shower of confetti or some celebratory balloons will rain down or float around on their screen along with your words. It’s a neat little trick embedded in…
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How to Make Sense of What Apple Has Done to the Podcasts App
Read full article: at LifeHacker In April, Apple made some long-overdue changes to its Podcasts app, part of an overhaul of the company’s general approach to the podcasting market that will allow podcasts makers to charge subscription fees for their content via Apple’s homegrown app. Unfortunately, the changes have proved frustrating to many longtime… Read…
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How to Stop Apple Music CarPlay From Crashing Until There's a Real Fix
Read full article: at LifeHacker Over the last few days, we’ve seen lots of reports across Reddit and social media that Apple Music on CarPlay has been crashing unexpectedly. While we don’t know the specific cause, and there’s no confirmed fix yet, there are a few workarounds you can try while you wait. Read more……
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How to Finally Go Paperless at Home, Because It's Past Time
Read full article: at LifeHacker Going paperless doesn’t need to be limited to office work. Between online bill pay and services like Apple Pay, Google Pay, Zelle, CashApp, and Venmo, you can get rid of nearly all your finance-related clutter. But why stop there? Going paperless can apply to virtually every area of your life,…
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How to Set Up Every iOS 14.5 Feature Worth Knowing About
Read full article: at LifeHacker It’s been just over a week since iOS 14.5 debuted, and we’ve spent a chunk of time going over the most interesting features the operating system has to offer. This is one update I wouldn’t wait to install, if for nothing else than it’s the only way your iPhone will…
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How to Get Started With Apple Fitness+
Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple is all about the three Ss these days: subscriptions, services, and saturation (for its new iMacs, at least). And while you can hardly blame the company for wanting to diversify its revenue, it can sometimes feel like there’s just a lot to buy from Apple—with a recurring monthly payment,…
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How to Try Siri's New iOS Voices Today
Read full article: at LifeHacker Apple is changing up how Siri works in iOS 14.5. She’s still the same ol’ virtual assistant you can use to do all kinds of fun activities on your iPhone. However, she’s no longer going to default to being a “she.” You’ll soon be asked to pick a female or…
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How to Tell If You're Being Scammed By Fleeceware Apps
Read full article: at LifeHacker Fleeceware is one of the worst scams you can deal with on your device, because it has one, singular goal: extracting as much money from you as possible. It generally accomplishes this not by dropping malware on your device or otherwise forcing you to do something; instead, fleeceware hides in…
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How to Change Your Default Music Player in iOS 14.5
Read full article: at LifeHacker It’s rare to see Apple add options to iOS that allow you to set the app you actually want to use to accomplish something as the default, rather than forcing you to use the official Apple app. And while I doubt you’ll ever be able to use anything other than…