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Does your phone have an unlimited data plan? If not, you need this!

Posted on October 2, 2015

Sprint, Verizon and the other major cellular service providers are trying their best to move all of their customers from unlimited data plans to metered plans, and it probably won’t be too long before we are all lose our unlimited deals.

If you’re one of the millions of cellular customers who are already on a metered plan, you know how important it is to carefully watch your data usage in order to avoid expensive overages at the end of every month.

Luckily, there is an outstanding app that makes the task of monitoring your data usage very easy. [Read more…]

iPhone users: Turn off ‘Wi-Fi Assist’ NOW to avoid paying a HUGE cellular phone bill!

Posted on September 28, 2015

If you’re one of the millions of iPhone owners who have already installed iOS 9, chances are you are pretty happy with it. But there’s something you might not be aware of…

If you tend to use Wi-Fi a lot because you have a limited data plan, you could be in for a major shock when your next cellular phone bill arrives.

By default, a new iOS 9 feature called “Wi-Fi Assist” automatically switches your phone from Wi-Fi to your carrier’s 4G network whenever it detects a weak Wi-Fi signal. [Read more…]

Is your device running iOS 9? If so, you need to install this update.

Posted on September 25, 2015

Do you have an Apple device that’s running iOS 9? If so, Apple has just released a new update that you really need to install.

iOS 9.0.1 isn’t categorized as a critical update, but I believe it’s an important one because it fixes a number of bugs that cause various features and apps on your device(s) to behave in strange ways.

This update also fixes a bug that prevented some users from even being able to update their devices to iOS 9 in the first place.

Follow these steps to install the iOS 9.0.1 update: [Read more…]

How to prevent email events from being added to your calendar in iOS 9

Posted on September 16, 2015

If you have one or more devices that run iOS 9 you’ve probably noticed that many of the events mentioned in your emails are now automatically added to your Calendar.

Many users find this new feature useful, but others dislike the way it tends to fill up the calendar and make it more difficult to track the events they are most interested in.

Luckily, it’s easy to prevent iOS 9 from automatically adding email events to your calendar. Just follow theses simple steps: [Read more…]

How to backup or restore your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch with iCloud

Posted on September 15, 2015

If you have an Phone, iPad or iPod Touch you probably have tons of apps, photos, music and other files on your device(s).

Making regular backups will ensure that you’ll be able to easily restore all of those precious items if something should ever happen to your device.

You have several options when deciding how to back up your iOS device, but my preferred method by far is backing up to your iCloud account. If you’d like to use iCloud to store your backups as well, here’s how to do it: [Read more…]