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Mastering the iOS 14 iPhone Keyboard

When it comes to using your iPhone, the keyboard is second only in importance to the touchscreen. If you familiarise yourself with the iPhone’s virtual keyboard features, you can get so much more out of…

Controlling HomeKit Devices with the iOS 14 Home App

The Internet of Things involves controlling your household appliances and electronic gadgets remotely, over the Internet. HomeKit-compatible devices can be controlled directly from the Home application. Here’s how.

Learn How to Use The iOS 14 App Library

iPhone users have been able to organise their apps into folders for years, but iOS 14 gives a new take on the concept. The App Library page sits at the end of your Home screen…

Using Game Controllers in iPadOS 14

In a new feature for iPadOS 14, you can now pair a wider range of controllers with your Apple tablet. The iPad is at last becoming a serious games machine.

Apple Event 2020 – How to Watch Live in the UK

The latest Apple event, titled as 'Time Flies", starts today at 10:00 a.m PST. And if you are eagerly waiting for the latest information on the Apple Watch and iPad, it is one you won't…

A Brief History of macOS

macOS has quite an illustrious history. Here’s a quick recap from OS X through to Big Sur, and how the operating system has evolved over time and with the ever-onward march of technology.

Set Up Heart Rate Notification on Apple Watch

Your Apple Watch allows you to monitor your heart rate (and excuse the pun here) around the clock. You can enable notifications that alert you to high and low heart rate, as well as for…

App Clips in iOS 14

App Clips are there, just when they’re needed. If you want an app for a specific task, like paying for parking or ordering a meal, you can download a specific part of the app experience…

Unlock Your iPhone While Wearing A Face Covering

With the COVID-19 pandemic changing the way we go about our daily lives, the use of face coverings are becoming a far bigger part of our adventures in the outside world. This is surely going…

Switch Noise-Control Modes on AirPods Pro

Your AirPods Pro earphones allow you to control how much noise filters past and into your ear when listening to music or making calls. The mode you choose depends on whether you want to shut…

Canary Mail – Review

As macOS, iOS and iPadOS all come with Apple’s Mail app thrown in, you might wonder why you’d need a third party email client.

12 Things you Didn’t Know Your Apple Watch Could Do

Your Apple Watch is great for checking Calendar appointments, finding your way around with Maps, answering messages and emails directly from your wrist and, of course, tracking your workouts with the fitness rings.

How to improve your Apple Watch battery life

With a likely release date somewhere in what’s left of 2020 the Apple Watch 6, and its accompanying WatchOS 7, rumour mill is beginning to pick up pace. There are already several leaks available, but…

7 Reasons To Upgrade Your Apple Watch & 3 Reasons To Wait!

The Apple Watch turned five in April. In those five years, it’s sold over 30 million units, making it the most popular smart watch in the world.

8 Things We Like About iOS 14 & 8 Things We Don’t!

Apple has unveiled the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating systems, and they’re looking good, but not everything in the applecart is rosy. Let’s take a look at eight new things that excite…