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Photo: MichaelJayBerlin (Shutterstock)A smartphone is only as good as its battery, and since the release of the first iPhone, Apple has done its part to make sure you’ll remember to charge it, hitting you with a pop-up alert when your charge drops below 20%. While that system is effective, the warning might not come soon

Photo: DenPhotos (Shutterstock)Speed dial was an essential efficiency tool back when you needed to dial every number by hand. Rather than waste precious seconds punching the same digits every day, you could program your favorite contacts to designated spots on either a landline or a cell phone for quick, single-button access. Of course, these days

Photo: BigTunaOnline (Shutterstock)WhatsApp is the most popular chat app in the world, hosting over two billion active users. A lot of us rely on the app’s fun and unique features to communicate with friends and family across the globe, so it’s imperative the service continue to work on our iPhones. Unfortunately, WhatsApp is preparing to

Framesira/Shutterstock Though some movies make it clear who the antagonist is from the start, they aren't all so obvious — particularly if you're watching a thriller or mystery that depends on keeping the villain a secret until the big twist toward the end of the film. As it turns out, there's a pretty solid way

DenPhotos/Shutterstock There are many suggested ways for making sure your iPhone runs as fast as possible. Some recommendations include turning the iPhone off on a regular basis (though that's not actually helpful) and clearing browser cookies. What about clearing your browser history? While you don't have to clear this data, doing so may give your

Primakov/Shutterstock A popular fix for a sluggish or poorly performing iPhone is force closing one or more of the apps running in the background. This seems like it would be a good idea because a similar approach works when using a PC: shutting down programs already running to free of CPU resources. This can help speed

Rokas Tenys/Shutterstock The announcement of the 2022 M2 MacBook Air and the new features revealed for iPadOS 16 might be taking the lion's share of attention at WWDC 2022, but they are far from the only significant drops that Apple made during its keynote. Both iOS and macOS also took the stage, and both of

Primakov/Shutterstock We live in a world where protecting your sensitive online information has become more important than ever. Just about every website you visit will leave traces on your computer in the form of cookies and cached content, and trackers can be used to build a profile of a visitor over time. Blocking these trackers

Primakov/Shutterstock Gone are the days when smartphones were merely a novel way to call and message someone — they've evolved over the years into miniature computers that can be carried around in a pocket, ones that not only offer a wide variety of apps, but also sophisticated web browsers. The same is true for tablets;

Dilok Klaisataporn/Shutterstock Everyone loves faster service on their iPhone, and that's why there has been a great deal of excitement over the gradual release of 5G connectivity. Every major carrier in the U.S. now offers 5G in addition to 4G LTE, but the technology is still relatively new and there are three different types at