Hints, Tips and Tricks for your Apple products
Custom Mailboxes On iPhone
1 minute read
It's possible to customise which mailboxes are visible in the Mail app in iOS. Click through to find out how.
The default mailbox view in the Mail app on iOS gives you the standard set of mailboxes which is great, but sometimes a bit more flexibility would be useful.
Scan Documents With Your iPhone
2 minute read
Sometimes you need to scan a document in, but it's a pain to have a large flat bed scanner for the purpose. Now using your iPhone you can create scans without the unnecessary bulk of a dedicated piece of hardware.
You have several documents that you need to scan in but no longer have that huge clunky flatbed scanner that was a nuisance to keep around for the few occasions you needed it. Or you just want to take a picture of a recipe so that you have it on your phone for later, but need it to be legible. Or you want to take a snapshot of that business card so that you can check it out again at your convenience.
Demystifying iCloud
6 minute read
Just what is iCloud and what can I expect it to do for me?
iCloud, the collection of internet services suppled by Apple, can be confusing to understand. In this article we seek to dispel the misconceptions and outline just exactly what it is and what it isn't.
Taking Control Of Control Centre
3 minute read
You can customise the Control Centre so that your most used utilities are at your finger tips at any time of day.
Unless you are menu diving it is easy to miss the fact that you can customise the Control Centre screen. The default set is great, but there are so many other little apps that you can enable that are genuinely useful to be able to get to quickly.
Becoming A Text Ninja
2 minute read
Pinch, swipe and triple tap your way to text manipulation success in iOS.
Originally the iPhone shipped with no support for functions like copy and paste. Later Apple added support for these features, but dealing with text manipulation always proved to be tricky and fiddly, causing frustrations and time waisting.
Affinity Suite
3 minute read
Our first Airiam Recommends. The Affinity suite is an award winning set of graphics applications that are well worth a look at as an alternative to Adobe.
Many people have become disillusioned with Adobe and their subscription model for the Creative Suite. Personally I also disliked how bloated and old the software had become running on all that legacy code. I wanted a fast, modern set of graphics applications that didn't cost the earth but that were powerful and flexible to use.
Resolving Issues With Glitchy Apps On iOS
2 minute read
Sometimes apps are unresponsive, behave strangely or quit on launch. Read on to find out how to solve this problem.
Sometimes applications can start to behave strangely or become unresponsive on Apple's mobile operating system. Quite often it's because the app is trying to run from cached data, and if there is a corruption to the file or an old state it's trying to start from then it can cause issues when launching the app.
Battery Health
2 minute read
Keeping an eye on your battery health can ensure that you get the best performance from your iOS device.
Batteries are considered consumable components - that is over time their ability to hold a charge diminishes. It can also fail to supply enough power at peak load, causing problems with your device shutting off when you need it the most.