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Making Your iPhone Work For You: More Texting Tricks

In our last article, we showed you how to change your keyboard positioning on your iPhone. This trick is super handy for those of us that seem like we’re constantly juggling. In this article, we’re going to cover a few more texting tricks to up-skill your text sending to stealth…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You: One Hand Texting

When the iPhone debuted in 2007, it ran an unnamed operating system. A year later, it had yet to take a title. The software was simply called “iPhone OS 1.” It wasn’t until 2010 that Apple scrambled with marketing to don it “iOS” for the release version 4. Over the…

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How To Make Your iPhone *Not Work* For Your Schedule

There are a few different ways that you can use your iPhone to help you stay focused and limit distractions when you have a busy schedule. In this piece of our series, Making Your iPhone Work For You, we’re breaking down the iPhone settings to help you better manage your…

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Match iPhone Parental Control Features With Your Parenting Style

There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to setting up your iPhone The best approach depends on your parenting style and what you’re trying to achieve. If you’re looking to limit screen time, for example, you might want to consider using the Screen Time feature in iOS 12. This lets you…

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Everyone Benefits from iPhone’s Built-in Parental Control Features

Benefits of Using iPhone Parental Controls There are many benefits to using iPhone parental controls. With these features, you can control what your children can access on their iPhones and set limits on their use. This can help you protect them from inappropriate content and keep them safe online. In…

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How to Fix Your iPhone: Not Ringing

An iPhone may not ring for a variety of reasons, the majority of which are simple to address. Before deciding that an expensive repair is necessary for your iPhone, try these suggestions if your phone does not ring when someone calls. If your iPhone isn’t ringing, there are a few…

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10 iPhone Tips for Blocking Out the *Hackers* During Holiday Travel

10 iPhone practices for blocking out the *hackers* during holiday travel this season. We can all agree that the holidays are cherished traditions, best spent with our family and friends. And for many folks, “family-time” means it’s traveling-time. Whether you enjoy the early morning hours at your local airport or…

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Professional Ways to Save Battery on Your iPhone

The majority of iPhones need to be recharged every few days, if not every day. Turning off services and features is one way to extend the battery life of an iPhone. Displaying your iPhone’s battery life as a percentage for easier monitoring is one simple way to get ahead.

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Making Your iPhone Work For You: 3 iPhone Privacy Practices To Start Now

This is the continuation of a previous post. You can find it here. This is the How to Make Your iPhone Work For You series, stepping right up to the gates of iPhone security. We’re covering where to begin securing your iPhone to make it work to the best of…

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How To Make Your iPhone Work For You: Intro to PRIV.

Thanks for registering for this common core, How To Make Your iPhone Work For You: Intro to PRIV. 101 We’ve come a long way in learning how to adjust our iPhone settings to create our own ideal versions of iPhone. If you missed it, we’ve covered how-to’s on topics like…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You — 6 Settings to Start Using Siri

Lets talk about siri, baby. All the good things and the bad things that may be, lets talk about siri and voice control for iPhone users! Siri says… open the Shortcuts app. Now close it. Ooops! Siri didn’t say… Ok but seriously, open the Shortcuts app. There are dozens of…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You — Customizing Notifications

This is the continuation of a previous post. You can find it here. We’re talking iPhone notification settings, how-to’s, and tips for making your iPhone work for you, instead of the other way around. Last time we covered how to change your ringtone and other standard iPhone alerts that come…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You — Ringtones, Alerts, and Good Vibrations

This is the continuation of a previous post. You can find it here. We’re talking iPhone notification settings, how-to’s, and tips for making your iPhone work for you, instead of the other way around. Last time we covered the iPhone tips such as auto-answering phone calls, visual LED flash notifications,…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You Part 3 — Notifications.

Welcome back to the series Making Your iPhone Work For You, from this point forward referred to as MYiW4Y.(Kinda like “my way”.) The first and second articles in this series were simplified tutorials for those who identify as, maybe, a bit “technologically challenged.” Now that all our readers can confidently…

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Making Your iPhone Work For You — iPhone is for everyone.

Apple’s iPhone, truly, is for everyone. If you scoff at the sound of that sentence, this article may be just for you. In this segment of “Making Your iPhone Work For You” you’ll find a guided explanation through the customization process for the masterly menu that makes iPhone the one for all — the Accessibility Shortcuts Menu.