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You Might Be Giving Up Your Location When You Share Photos on Your iPhone
Location metadata is embedded in your iPhone photos and videos by default. Here's how to disable this feature. Your iPhone keeps track of your location, but it's usually for a good reason. Apps depend on accurate location tracking to function properly, like when you're getting directions in Google Maps or using Find My to locate your lost phone. And if you didn't know, that precise location featu ... Read more
2023-02-22 18:55:44
This iPhone Feature Hides Advertisements in Safari
This underused iOS setting can help get rid of distractions while you surf the web. Reading a news article or a short story in Safari can be challenging on your iPhone. The display size is an issue, most obviously, but then there are also all those distractions to deal with. Advertisements, banners and autoplaying videos are commonplace on every website, and they all make it difficult to concentr ... Read more
2023-02-21 18:52:53
TikTok Opens Its Data to More Researchers as Part of Transparency Push
The social media app will now share data with researchers at nonprofit academic institutions in the US. To be more transparent, TikTok will now share public data on content and accounts on its platform with more academic researchers. On Tuesday, the popular social video app said it's accepting applications to use its research API from researchers working with US nonprofit academic institutions. ... Read more
2023-02-21 18:52:18
iPhone Tip: How to Fix Videos Recorded in the Wrong Orientation
Any great video can lose impact if it's been shot in the wrong orientation. Thankfully there's an easy for that directly on your iPhone. Sometimes you might start shooting a video vertically on your iPhone only to realize moments later that it's recording horizontally instead. Flipping your phone midway doesn't work, since the iPhone locks the video in the orientation you started recording in. A ... Read more
2023-02-21 18:51:47
Guess How Much This Unopened 1st-Gen iPhone Sold For
The sealed 2007 iPhone went for more than 100 times its original price at auction. A sealed first-generation iPhone sold for more than $63,000 at auction Sunday. LCG Auctions, which handled the bidding, announced the sealed 8GB iPhone went for $63,356.40. That's the highest price anyone has paid for an original iPhone, and it's more than 100 times the original price of $599. "One of the mos ... Read more
2023-02-20 19:05:13
Don't Forget to Clear Your iPhone Cache
Your browsers will take a fresh look at websites if you clear your cache every month. Your iPhone is an amazing little computer that fits in your pocket, gives you access to the worldwide web and lets you browse online at high speeds. But even the latest iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max models might start to feel sluggish over time. You can keep your iPhone's browsers moving as fast as possible by clear ... Read more
2023-02-20 19:04:41
Apple and Samsung Are Racing to Create the Ultimate Camera Phone
Commentary: The Galaxy S23 Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro reiterate Apple's and Samsung's ambitions to appeal to pro photographers and videographers. A phone's camera bridges our everyday lives with our online identities, whether you're sharing family photos, posting clips from your vacation on TikTok or signing onto a Zoom meeting. Apple and Samsung clearly understand this, as evidenced by the iPhone 1 ... Read more
2023-02-20 19:03:49
Is Your iPhone Storage Full? Free Up Space Without Deleting Anything
You don't have to get rid of photos, videos and apps to free up storage on your iPhone. If don't have have any storage space left on your iPhone, it's pretty difficult to get anything done. You can't install the latest iOS software updates, download more apps or even take a single photo or video. And your phone will probably crash more often. You do have a few obvious options to clear up your sto ... Read more
2023-02-20 19:01:55
iOS 16.3.1: Everything Apple Fixed on Your iPhone
See what's new in Apple's latest software update. Your iPhone is likely due for an update. Apple released iOS 16.3.1 on Monday, a few weeks after the release of iOS 16.3, meaning you can now download the new software if you haven't already. While iOS 16.3 included new features like security keys for Apple ID and support for the second-generation HomePod, the latest update fixes some issues that ... Read more
2023-02-19 19:32:38
A Pink Heart Isn't the Only New Emoji Coming in iOS 16.4
Over 30 new emoji are on the way to your iPhone. Get ready for new emoji to hit your iPhone. A total of 31 new emoji designs arrived on iOS with the release of the first iOS 16.4 developer beta on Thursday, according to Emojipedia. The new emoji include a new smiley, a shaking head, new animals like a moose and a goose, and new heart colors, including plain pink and light blue. The plain pink h ... Read more
2023-02-19 19:32:13