by Terry McAdams | May 12, 2020 | Control Center, How-To, iOS, iPad, iPhone
Starting back in iOS 11, Apple made Control Center significantly more useful by letting you customize it more to your liking by adding and rearranging buttons. You can even remove a few of the default buttons if they’re just taking up space. Opening and Closing...
by Lucy McAdams | Oct 24, 2018 | Control Center, iPad, Tip
Although most of what’s new in iOS 12 are new features, one change for change’s sake may throw you. In iOS 11 on an iPad, you would bring up Control Center by swiping up from the bottom of the screen, just like on all iPhones other than the iPhone X. With iOS 12,...
by Lucy McAdams | Feb 28, 2018 | Battery, Control Center, iPhone X, Tip
Wondering what happened to the numeric battery percentage indicator on the iPhone X? The notch takes up enough space at the top of the screen that there was room only for the battery icon, which can be hard to interpret. If you want to see precisely what percentage of...
by Lucy McAdams | Sep 22, 2017 | Apple Pencil, Control Center, Dock
Apple has long argued that you can use the iPad for productivity but hasn’t backed that claim up with the necessary features in iOS. Until now, that is, with the new iPad-centric capabilities of iOS 11. These changes mean that an iPad running iOS 11 is more like a...
by Lucy McAdams | Sep 20, 2017 | Camera, Control Center, Do Not Disturb, Dock, Emergency SOS, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Messages, Photos
Even if you’re not buying a new iPhone this year, you can still enjoy a hefty dose of “New and Improved!” with Apple’s iOS 11, which provides a host of new capabilities. Hold on tight, there’s a lot to cover, and we have another article coming about the iPad-specific...
by Terry McAdams | Sep 13, 2016 | Apple Pay, Control Center, iOS, Messages, Photos, Safari, Siri
iOS 10, the latest version of Apple’s operating system for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, is due this fall. The majority of its changes should improve your overall experience (and the rest you can hopefully ignore or reverse). Most evident among iOS 10’s...