You almost never think of your Wi-Fi password after setting up your devices. A friend comes over, asks you for the network password and you stumble to remember — what was it again? Is it this number on the back of my router? Even if you don’t have the password saved anywhere and you haven’t memorized …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. You don’t need to have your Switch on hand to use your Joy-Cons. In fact, now that iOS 16 is available, you can pair the Nintendo controllers to your iPhone (and iPad when iPadOS 16 releases later this year) for gaming. And best of …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. You’ve received your iPhone 14. Maybe you waited in line at an Apple Store or preordered it and received it in the mail — but at long last, Apple’s latest phone is in your hands — and now you …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. It’s always exciting to update your iPhone to explore all the new features, especially with iOS 16. You’ve got lock screen customization (with widgets!), the ability to unsend and edit text messages, improved privacy and security features and so …
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It’s pretty easy to keep everything forever on your iPhone, but sometimes you don’t want your words to be saved for all time in an email or text message. That’s one reason why apps like Snapchat, which features self-destructing text messages, have gotten popular. While iOS 16 adds the ability to unsend text messages that you want to rescind, it’s not quite …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. It’s not every day you have to worry about being targeted in a state-sponsored cyberattack. But in the event that it does happen, Apple released a new feature with iOS 16 that can protect your iPhone and the information …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. The iPhone used to show the percentage of battery left directly in the status bar, viewable from anywhere on your phone, which offered a handy way to quickly glance at your battery level — until Apple removed the feature …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. Apple released iOS 16 this past Monday, which you can download right now on your compatible iPhone. Not wasting any time, Apple already has an update to that update. iOS 16.1, which is known as a “point update,” is available to …
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The brand-new Studio Display monitor from Apple was released back in March. The Studio Display, which was unveiled alongside the Mac Studio desktop at Apple’s “Peek Performance” event, features a 27-inch 5K Retina screen, an A13 chip, a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera with Center Stage and a high-fidelity, six-speaker sound system. It’s Apple’s most affordable external display in its current lineup, …
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This story is part of Focal Point iPhone 2022, CNET’s collection of news, tips and advice around Apple’s most popular product. On Monday, Apple made iOS 16 — the newest version of its iPhone operating system — available to all iPhone users. More specifically, it can be installed by owners of compatible iPhones Not every iPhone supports Apple’s newest software release. Some devices …
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