Jason Cipriani/ZDNet Eventually, all of us will have to deal with a loved one’s belongings after they die. Figuring out how to handle finances and estates should — hopefully — be a straightforward process. But what do you do about digital belongings, such as the data stored in someone’s iPhone or iCloud account? Until now, […]
ErickPHOTOPRO — Shutterstock Apple just released iOS 15.2 and iPadOS 15.2 . The iPhone and iPad updates are available to install right now, bringing with them a new Digital Legacy feature that grants contacts of your choosing access to your iCloud data after your death. There’s also a new Apple Music Voice price plan that’s […]
Of all the iPhone issues I hear about from users, battery issues are, by far, the most common. While it’s true that batteries are consumable items, and as such will wear out over time, many times the problem with the iPhone is not with the battery itself. Fortunately, iOS 15 gives you a number of […]
Image: Sebaztian Barns / ZDNet When you use the same hardware and software for long enough, you overlook the shortcomings you’re constantly working around. Avoiding this sort of technological tunnel vision is one reason I regularly switch between Android and iOS for my primary mobile device. Earlier in 2021, I realized I had been using […]
Reports are rolling in from users updating to the latest beta version of Google’s Messages app that text conversations with iOS now finally support graphical representations of Apple’s iMessage reactions. Apple iMessage (or Apple Messages, if you prefer the newer, more generic title of the app) supports a selection of six reactions (or Tapbacks) that recipients […]
It’s fitting that just a day after Apple celebrated reaching a $3 trillion market capitalization for the first time in US history, BlackBerry is turning off the lights on the last few smartphone holdouts. No, Apple’s iPhone didn’t single-handedly unseat BlackBerry from its once-lofty perch in the early smartphone market. But it can now join […]
In October 2019, Apple announced its newest wireless earbuds, the AirPods Pro. The $250 wireless earbuds are the most expensive we’ve seen from Apple, and also the most capable. The Pro version of the extremely popular AirPods includes active noise cancellation, a new transparency mode, improved sound, and a new design. However, if you’re going […]
I take a lot of screenshots — thousands every year — across all platforms. I take so many of those screenshots on my iPhone that I’ve set up a quick way to do it using an iOS feature called AssistiveTouch (detailed information on how to do that can be found here). When you think “screenshot,” […]
Tile Sometimes, I question if my keys and wallet are like the toys in Toy Story, having their own entities and tip-toeing away when I’m not looking. True or not, you’ve got a friend in item trackers — like the Tile Mate — which can be attached to virtually any personal belonging and serve as […]
Image: Apple For most of 2021, a security researcher going by the name of illusionofchaos has been engaged in an unfruitful conversation with Apple to fix a number of vulnerabilities that allow apps to make API calls to pull down user information that they should not be able to. On Friday, the researcher went public […]