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Apple’s Siri virtual assistant certainly makes using an iPhone a lot easier, but just like us humans Siri has a few quirks.
One Siri quirk that drives me up the wall is how she tends to mis-pronounce some names on the Contacts List. For some reason it just grates on my nerves.
The good news is you can train Siri to pronounce difficult names correctly, using one of the two methods listed below: [Read more…]
Question from Jamie: My mom recently bought me my first iPhone.
It took me a while to get used to it but now that I have, I really like it.
My question is should I jailbreak it? [Read more…]
It’s no secret that smart phones have literally changed the way most of us live our lives.
They allow us to make phone calls and use the Internet from most anywhere, and the list of devices they can replace by simply installing an app boggles the mind.
Truth be told, smartphones are actually just really small computers that can run programs (apps) to perform countless types of tasks.
Unfortunately, like other computers a smartphone can get bloated and inefficient over time as you add more and more apps (some of which can conflict with one another) and its internal storage gets clogged up with digital clutter.
Question from Gloria: Hi Rick. I hope you can help me find a solution to a problem we’re having with my husband’s iPad.
He recently started using Facebook to keep in touch with the grandkids and some of our other family members.
The problem is he’s completely deaf and he can’t hear the notification alerts when someone sends him a message on the iPad.
Is there any way to have it light up with every new notification?
Rick’s answer: [Read more…]
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Apple has just released an emergency update to iOS 14.8 and iPadOS 14.8 to patch a very serious security flaw.
In a nutshell, this flaw allows NSO Group’s really nasty Pegasus spyware to infect Apple devices that are running one of the affected versions of iOS.