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After unboxing your new iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro or iPhone 11 Pro Max, and setting it up using Apple’s new transfer tool, you may be asking yourself… What now? Well, there are a couple of settings you should double-check before test-driving the iPhone 11’s most important update, the camera. We’re going to walk you …

Google has now officially uncoupled Google Photos from Google Drive, and the two Google storage services no longer automatically keep their photos in sync. That means photos you’ve uploaded to one service, and any changes you make to them, no longer reliably show up in the other place.  Google says it made the change because some people found the relationship confusing. …

Step away from the keyboard, and pick up your phone. A Microsoft tool for Android phones and iPhones ($899 at Amazon) can convert words and numbers on a sheet of paper into a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in a couple of seconds. With Excel’s Insert Data from Picture tool, you can snap a photo of data in rows and columns on a …

Sometimes that lead foot of yours can get you into trouble. When you’re cruising down the highway, you may not think to check if you’re going over the speed limit. Fortunately, if you use Google Maps while you drive, you can keep an eye on how fast you’re going with the speedometer tool built into navigation. Yes, we know your car …

You already know how important it is to monitor your blood pressure on a daily basis if you’re worried about high blood pressure or have hypertension. If you own an Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon), you already have a good starting point for tracking your blood pressure at home. Daily tracking can help you establish a baseline for your version …

Instagram is my social media jam. I share photos with friends and see their pictures as well. It’s a happy space for me, or at least it used to be. Instagram has changed drastically over the years. There are ads everywhere, and it feels more like Snapchat and Facebook than the hip photo-sharing site it once was. To make matters …

Alongside iOS 13.1, Apple released iPadOS. It’s the first time Apple‘s iPad has had its own operating system. There’s a lot of feature overlap and parity between iOS 13 and iPadOS, but by giving the iPad its own OS, Apple can begin to separate how the two devices work. One of the more notable changes to iPadOS, outside of the multitasking …

It seems like everyone on social media is talking about a new challenge that makes you look, like, really old. It’s called the #AgeChallenge and you can try it yourself using FaceApp on any phone. I tried this myself, and it was shocking to see the change. Let’s just say, I’d prefer to stay young forever. The gist of it is that you …

Street signs, menus, newspapers, pamphlets. It’s hard enough to travel and even harder when you can’t read the signs. You might try typing each word into Google Translate, but it’s much faster to point your phone’s camera to the words you need to instantly translate and let Google do the rest. The Google Translate camera tool got an update that …

Using an iPhone or iPad ($170 at Amazon) with a Windows PC as your main computer has always been a tricky setup. You’re forced to accept that you’ll miss out on Apple services such as iMessage and won’t be able to easily sync photos between your computer and iPhone, like through AirDrop. If you pay for extra iCloud storage and rely …