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8 really cool iPhone tricks that aren’t commonly known

Posted on January 10, 2023

One billion of us have iPhones, meaning they completely dominate the phone market. However, many of us are not using our iPhones to their full potential. There are many cool iPhone tricks that people are just not aware of yet.

On top of this, Apple is constantly adding new features to iOS, making it challenging to keep up with what your phone is capable of.

My intention today is to fill you in on eight amazing iPhone tricks you might not have heard of to ensure you use your phone to its total capacity. [Read more…]

Q&A: Why are new apps not putting an icon on my phone’s Home Screen?

Posted on December 31, 2022

Question from Pat: When I first got my Android phone it would put an icon on the Home screen every time I installed a new app, but it’s stopped doing that.

Now I have to find every new app’s icon in the app drawer and drag it onto the Home screen manually.

I know it must be a setting that needs to be changed but I can’t find it. Can you help? [Read more…]

5 tips for fixing a misbehaving smartphone

Posted on August 9, 2022

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.

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Q&A: How do I stop the pictures on my phone from rotating?

Posted on July 12, 2022

Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter

Question from Mariana: I just got my first smartphone and I love how I can use it as a camera!

I love taking pictures with my phone but when I go to look at them I sometimes need to rotate it to see a particular picture right-side up.

The problem is when I rotate my phone the pictures rotate too so I’m always looking at them from the same (wrong) angle. The orientation of the picture doesn’t change and I can never look at it the right way without getting a crick in my neck.

How can I prevent a picture from rotating when I rotate my phone?

Rick’s answer: [Read more…]

How to assign custom ringtones for your important contacts

Posted on May 14, 2022

Rick’s Tech Tips Newsletter

By default, when people call you on your smartphone the ringtone will sound the same regardless of who is calling you.

And that can be a problem if your phone starts ringing while it’s sitting on a table on the other side of the room.

The caller could well be someone you really want to talk to, but it could also be a call you’d rather skip for the time being.

Unfortunately, the only way to find out is to stop what you’re doing and go pick up the phone.

Well, there’s an easy fix or this problem… [Read more…]