Your daily dose of practical, easy to follow tech tips!
Given how small the iPhone is, its internal components can be particularly vulnerable to damage. In the worst cases, hardware damage on iPhones can cause screen dysfunction, charging problems, unresponsive buttons, and battery failure.
To help you take care of your iPhone, I’ve listed four of the most common causes of hardware damage – and how to prevent them. [Read more…]
If you have already updated your iPhone to iOS 15 you’ve probably noticed a few changes in the way your phone and apps look and work.
One change that I’ve received a lot of negative feedback about is how Apple has moved Safari’s Address Bar from the top of the screen to the bottom.
Click here to sign up for my free Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
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.
Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Question from Melissa: I dropped my Android phone and broke it so I had to replace it.
I decided I wanted to try an iPhone this time so I bought a used iPhone 14 Plus.
I like the iPhone ok but I can’t use my favorite headphones with it because there’s no place to plug them in.
Do you know of any way that I can use those wired headphones with my iPhone? [Read more…]
Click here to sign up for my free Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter!
Note: The links in this post are affiliate links.
Question from Melanie: My dad just bought a new iPhone 12 Pro and gave me his year-old iPhone 11.
I’ve had several iPhones in the past and it seems like they all charged a lot faster than this one. It seems like it takes forever!
My question is how can I get this phone to charge faster? [Read more…]