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iPhone and iOS app organization made easy with this hack

Now playing: Watch this: Move iOS apps like a pro 1:03 Rearranging apps on your iPhone and iPad is pretty easy, but moving them across screens can be a little more frustrating. There’s an easy trick that solves this: use the dock. Here’s how it works. If you have multiple pages of apps on your …

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​How to hide private photos using Google Photos

Now playing: Watch this: Google Photos gets smarter with suggested sharing 2:22 Ever wished you could hide photos or videos from the main photo album in your Google Photos app? Now you can with a new Archive feature. As reported by 9to5Google, the feature is currently rolling out to Android users. An app update isn’t required for the feature to …

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Bye, Siri: 6 tips for using Google Assistant on the iPhone

Now playing: Watch this: Get to know your Google Assistant on iOS 2:11 Google on Wednesday released a stand-alone Google Assistant app for the iPhone. It’s the first time Google’s assistant has been made available outside Google’s Android and Google Home platforms. You can’t fully replace Siri with Google Assistant, but with a little patience you can use Google Assistant …

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12 ways to improve iPad battery life

The iPad offers excellent battery life but after so many charges, battery life invariably begins to fade. How can you keep your iPad’s battery running for a good, long time on a single charge? Let us count the ways: 1. Lower screen brightness Apple states, “There are two simple ways you can preserve battery life — no matter how you …

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Google Android O: Should the iPhone be worried?

Last year after Google announced Android N (which became Android Nougat), I wrote that Android had blown past the iPhone and iOS. Granted, it was deep in the iOS 9 era, just a few weeks before Apple unveiled iOS 10 at its own developer conference. But with N, Google wowed me with its better search, better AI than Siri and …

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Google Assistant is available on the iPhone

It’s official, you can now use Google Assistant on the iPhone. And it looks and works pretty much just as it does on Android. At Google I/O, the company’s annual developer conference, it was announced that there is now an iOS version of Google Assistant available for the iPhone. Starting today, we’re bringing the #GoogleAssistant to iPhones. Whether at home …

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3 ways to attach a photo to an email in iOS

Now playing: Watch this: 3 ways to email photos in iOS 1:44 With Instagram, I email photos with less frequency than I used to. And I turn to Google Photos or Dropbox if I want to share an album’s worth of vacation photos or some other event. On occasion, however, I just need to email a photo to somebody, and …

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How to plug in your iPhone without it chiming or buzzing

There are times when you don’t want your iPhone to make a sound when you plug it in to charge. You could be sitting in a silent library. You could be in class listening to to a lecture. You could be slipping into bed next to your slumbering significant other. The last thing you want is for it to chime …

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How to restart the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

Now playing: Watch this: 3 quick tips for navigating your iPhone 1:31 The first step when troubleshooting any sort of electronic device is to restart it. Restarting, or performing a “soft” reset of an iOS device often fixes a keyboard that’s decided to stop working, a camera that won’t open and myriad other bugs and hiccups. If you find yourself …

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How to check iPhone battery level from a Mac

If you are like me, then your iPhone is rarely out of reach. It’s my work phone. It’s my personal phone. It’s my alarm clock. It’s how I read the news, check the weather, watch the Cincinnati Reds and listen to music. For times when your iPhone is charging or just left in another room, however, there is a way …

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