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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.

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How to Make Your iPhone Work for You

Have you ever felt the weight of minor disappointment sinking into your stomach after purchasing the newest iPhone only to find yourself more disconnected from its new fancy features? Like every step forward in the advancement of these tools leaves you still two steps behind last year’s big update?

Here's What 'AmpDevicesAgent Wants to Use Your Confidential Information' Means
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Here’s What ‘AmpDevicesAgent Wants to Use Your Confidential Information’ Means

“AMPDevicesAgent wants to use your confidential information stored in iOS backup in your keychain” screams the intrusive popup, over and over no matter how many times you tell it “Deny”. Given the relative lack of information provided, and given that the scant information that is provided includes the ominous word “confidential”, of the three choices offered to satisfy the popup, which are ‘allow’ (no), ‘always allow’ (heck no), and ‘deny’ (yes, that one), that last option (‘deny’) should be your default, or even knee-jerk, reaction, especially as the other two options require you to enter your password (eek). At least until you can figure out what the heck it all means.

Here's How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!
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Here’s How to Send a Link to Your Browser on Your Computer from Your iPhone!

You know how sometimes you are looking at your browser on your phone, and want to send the link to yourself so that you can open it in your browser on your computer? How often have you thought “I wish I could just transmit the link to my computer and it would automatically open the page in my browser”? Well read on!

iMessage Messages on Your Mac Not Working with Android Messages? Try This!
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iMessage Messages on Your Mac Not Working with Android Messages? Try This!

If you’ve set up a new Macbook or Mac, or updated OS X, you may find yourself suddenly getting that frustrating “not delivered” error when you try to send a text message from your Mac to someone with an Android phone, even though it all worked just fine before. You’ve got it all set up correctly, and you’ve searched the Internet, followed all the advice, and tried all the tricks, and you are still getting that awful “not delivered” message whenever you try to send a message from your Mac to someone who uses an Android phone. Well, before you give up completely, keep reading.

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How to Reduce the Amount of Time You Spend on Your Cell Phone

We’ve all been there, realizing that you are spending way too much time on your iPhone or Android or other mobile phone. That’s probably even more true since the pandemic hit. Here’s how to dial it back.

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How to Completely and Permanently Delete an App from Your iPhone

If you’re reading this because you’re wondering how to permanently and completely remove an app from your iPhone, it’s likely that you’ve had the following experience: you deleted the app from your iPhone (you know that you did!), and yet during your next app update there it is, back on your phone, as if reanimated from the dead! If you’re wondering why that darned app keeps coming back, here’s what may be going on.

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Have You Read Your iPhone’s RF Exposure Disclosure?

If you care about RF exposure from your iPhone, did you know that there is an iPhone RF exposure disclosure right on board on your iPhone?

iPhone or iPad No Longer Showing Recent iMessage Contacts in Quick Share Sheet Here is the Fix
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iPhone or iPad No Longer Showing Recent Message Contacts in Quick Share Sheet? Here’s the Fix

If you’ve lost your iMessage contacts from your quick share section (the “share sheet”) on your iPhone or iPad, here’s how to get them back.

You can use several techniques to save online articles to read later
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How To Save Online Articles To Read Later

You spot some interesting content as you browse the Internet but you do not have the time to go through it as you are busy working on something else. So, what do you do to avoid burying the content among dozens of browser tabs you already have open, and make…

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How to Remove Contacts from Your iPhone Sharing Menu (a/k/a the “Share Sheet”)

Here’s how to remove sharing suggestions from your share sheet on your iPhone or iPad (i.e. how to remove contacts from the share menu).

iTunes Does Not Recognize iPhone? Here's What to Do
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iTunes Does Not Recognize iPhone? Here’s What to Do

If iTunes doesn’t see your iPhone, and does not recognize your phone, you’ve come to the right place. Here’s what to do.

Google Lens and how to use it to identify things in your daily life
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Google Lens and How To Use It To Identify Things In Your Daily Life

Hey! We have a secret to share with you. Did you know your Android and iPhone devices have the ability to pack a little known but powerful and futuristic feature that can help to bridge your world and the world of technology on your device? This feature is one of…

About the Weird Codes that Appear When You Dictate Something on Facebook from Your iPhone
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About the Weird Codes that Appear When You Dictate Something on Facebook from Your iPhone

In the past few weeks some people who have upgraded to iOS 13.1.2 have noticed that when they post something to Facebook which was dictated on their iPhone, these weird little codes or artifacts show up at the beginning or end, or even in the middle, of their comment or Facebook post.