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Question from Keisha: I love your tips, Rick. They’ve helped me so much since I started reading your blog.
I especially like the way you answer people’s questions, and now I have a problem of my own that I hope you can help me with.
I use Siri for various things when I’m in meetings, but her voice is disruptive to the others in the room. I’m tired of getting evil stares when Siri answers me lol.
How can I disable Siri’s voice so she’ll answer my queries with text only? Thanks. [Read more…]
Question from Elizabeth: I have a question for you, Rick.
I bought my daughter her first phone (it’s an iPhone) and she loves watching videos on it.
The problem is she’s hearing impaired and she cannot make out a lot of the dialog that’s spoken in the videos.
I know that lots of the videos available online are closed captioned, but I don’t know how to turn “Closed Captioning” on.
Can you tell me how to do it? [Read more…]
If you use Facebook you’ve probably been seeing posts warning you about NameDrop, a new iPhone feature included with iOS 17 that allows two iPhone users to exchange contact information just by bringing their iPhones into very close proximity to one another.
These dire-sounding posts tend to vary a bit, but most of them read something like this: [Read more…]
Just like desktop and laptop computers, all smartphones and tablets have a very basic clipboard that allows you to “copy” and “paste” text from one app to another.
Unfortunately, that’s about all you can do with it. Even worse, the contents of the clipboard are overwritten every time you “copy” something else.
The good news is you can download a handy third-party clipboard app that will give your phone a fully-functional clipboard. [Read more…]
Question from Laurie: My son had been begging me for a new iPhone for a while so I finally gave in and got him one for his birthday.
My own phone was starting to have battery issues so I decided to take over my son’s old iPhone after he received the new one.
The problem my son’s name still shows up when I log into certain apps on his hand-me-down iPhone.
How do I change the name of this phone from my son’s name to mine? [Read more…]