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If you live in a family household, there's a good chance that at some stage you've been disturbed by someone else's alarm going off on their iPhone. If their phone is out of your reach and no one else is bothering to turn off the alarm, the disturbance can quickly become irritating, but if your own ‌iPhone‌ or iPad is nearby, there's a handy trick you can use to silence that alarm without you...

Apple offers its customers a self-service repair program for iPhone, which allows owners of iPhone 12, iPhone 13, and third-generation iPhone SE models to conduct certain repairs at home. This article explains how to initiate your own self-service repair. Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program for ‌iPhone‌ that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools...

In iOS 15.5, Apple added an option that lets iPhone and iPad users automatically limit the number of episodes stored on their device. This article explains how it works. Downloading podcasts to your ‌iPhone‌ or ‌iPad‌ is a great way to ensure that you have something interesting to listen to on your commute or on your travels, regardless of whether you have a Wi-Fi or cellular connection....

In iOS 14.2 and later, Apple includes a new Shazam Music Recognition toggle for the Control Center, giving iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch users a quick and easy way to identify what music is playing without them having to download the Shazam app. This article explains how it works and how to enable it. For those unfamiliar with Shazam, it's designed to listen for music that's playing,...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the third-generation iPhone SE display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The manual for the...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 12 Pro Max display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 12 Pro Max manual...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 12 Pro display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 12 Pro manual can be...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 12 display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 12 manual can be accessed...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 12 mini display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 12 mini manual can be...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 13 mini display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 13 mini manual can be...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 13 display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 13 manual can be accessed...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 13 Pro display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 13 Pro manual can be...

Apple in April 2022 launched a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the iPhone 13 Pro Max display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Before any repair can be initiated using the repair program, you need to read through the manual to see what it entails. The iPhone 13 Pro Max manual...

For those who want to repair their iPhones on their own without having to visit an Apple retail store or service provider, Apple now has a dedicated Self Service Repair program that provides the repair manuals, parts, and tools necessary for fixing the display, battery, bottom speaker, camera, display, SIM Tray, and Taptic Engine. Repairs are available for the 2022 iPhone SE, the iPhone 12...

Apple has released a new firmware update for its MagSafe Battery Pack that improves iPhone charging speed. This article explains how to update it so you can benefit from improved performance. On April 20, 2022, Apple released a firmware update for the ‌MagSafe Battery Pack‌ that enables 7.5W charging on the go, up from the previous 5W limit. While it still doesn't quite offer the 15W...

In iOS, Apple's Safari browser includes a built-in screenshot feature that lets you capture entire webpages on your iPhone or iPad for sharing elsewhere. While Safari for Mac doesn't include an equivalent feature, fortunately Firefox does, so if you want to capture full webpages in macOS, you can do so easily by following these steps. Download and install Firefox from the Mozilla website ...

This article explains how to create polls in group chats on Apple's Messages app for iPhone and iPad. Keep reading to learn how it works. If you often participate in group chats over iMessage, you'll know how hard it can sometimes be to decide on something or make plans when there's a lot of people in the group. Other messaging apps like Telegram – and soon WhatsApp – get around the...

On iPhone, Apple includes a Rotation Lock feature that when enabled locks the screen orientation so that it doesn't change when you rotate the device. Rotation Lock is usually enabled or disabled by invoking Control Center and then tapping the Lock Orientation button, but you can actually turn it on and off a lot quicker without even touching your ‌iPhone‌'s screen. The method uses something...

Activating Control Center on an iPhone with no Home button usually involves sliding your finger diagonally down from the top-right corner of the screen. If your other hand isn't free, this isn't very convenient, but fortunately there's another way of accessing Control Center that doesn't even require you to touch the screen. It uses something called Back Tap, an accessibility feature that...

In macOS Monterey, Apple introduced a new productivity feature called Quick Notes that's designed to be a quicker way to jot down things on your Mac without having to go in and out of the main Notes app. Quick Notes that you create appear in a special Quick Notes folder in the Notes app, where you can edit them to add tables, tags, and more in the usual way. Here's how to create your first...