Learn how to set up an iPhone shortcut that locates your phone and takes a photo when you text it a specific keyword.

When Apple released iOS 26 on Sept. 15, the update included a call screening feature to help block spam calls to your iPhone, and it can screen texts from unknown senders to keep your inbox spam free.

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Yesterday, I covered Widgetsmith, which among many other things, can display whatever text you’d like in an iOS 16 Lock Screen widget. Lock Screen One is a new app from Sindre Sorhus, the maker of ...

The iPhone offers a variety of accessibility features designed to make the device more adaptable and user-friendly for everyone. Among these, the ability to adjust text size stands out as a ...

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It might sound weird at first, but, if you want to, you can turn your iPhone's keyboard into a trackpad. While drafting messages on our iPhones, we've all experienced difficulty placing the cursor ...

There are many ways to liven up a text conversation. Most messaging platforms these days offer the use of emojis. GIFs, and stickers from third-party apps as a way for senders to zhuzh up responses or ...

Have you ever found yourself frantically scribbling down notes from a meeting, struggling to copy a recipe from a magazine, or trying to preserve the details of a handwritten letter? These moments can ...