The new iOS 16 operating system for iPhones was released in September, and a lot of new features were introduced alongside with this release for Apple’s popular smartphones. One of the new features it the new Fitness app. Previously, this app was only available on Apple Watch devices, but so now it is also a Continue reading →
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Solve iPhone error in Mail: Multipe Account Errors
The default Mail app in iOS and iPadOS is mostly great: it is rather simple, but it does the job in order to effectively manage e-mail. In my case, I have multiple e-mail accounts configured on my iPhone. Unfortunately, sometimes I receive the following error when trying to fetch new mails manually: Multiple Account ErrorsThe Continue reading →
How to record your phone call on an iPhone: 4 free ways to do it
There are many reasons for wanting to record phone calls on your iPhone. If you want to record incoming and outgoing phone calls on your iOS device, there are unfortunately not a lot of options. There are quite a lot of apps on the Apple App Store that promise to record all of your calls, Continue reading →
Guide: Update HomeBridge plugins
If you previously have been installing HomeBridge (let’s say, on a Raspberry Pi), you know it’s a neat little piece of software. Thanks to HB, many non-smart or non-HomeKit enabled devices can be controlled via your iPhone or iPad using the Home app. A community of developers has created HomeBridge – HomeKit support for the Continue reading →
Find out the current (mA) of USB external devices on Windows
Each USB device that you connect to your Windows computer, or even iPad, will consume power in order for it to function properly. Let’s say you connect a keyboard to your iPad via an OTG cable, this keyboard will draw some current from the iPad in order to function. To find out how much power Continue reading →
How to safely remove a USB flash drive from an iPad?
With iOS 13 (iPadOS), your iPad now supports external drive support. This means you can plug in an external drive on your iOS device (via a lightening to USB dongle) and start managing files that are on there: SD cards, thumb drives, … will all work. Managing the USB flash drive The default built-in app Continue reading →
External drive on iOS 13: This Accessory requires too much power
With the newest version of Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS 13, you can now easily connect external hard drives (e.g. USB thumbdrive, keyboard, mouse) and manage files directly from your iPad or iPhone. If you are using an adapter cable to connect a USB hard drive to your iOS device, you may be greeted with Continue reading →
Here is how to prevent Outlook to sent winmail.dat attachments on iPhone
When sending e-mails from Outlook to iPhone, some of the receivers (who use iPhone) may complain to you that they receive a winmail.dat file they can’t open on their device. Or perhaps you’ve sent e-mails to yourself from an Outlook mail client, and wanted to open that e-mail on your iOS device and you saw Continue reading →
Gmail on Apple iOS Mail app: Delete and Archive button
Managing a Gmail (or G Suite) e-mail account on an iOS device (such as an iPhone or an iPad) is often done by using the Gmail app from the App Store. However, you may not like the app, and you prefer the built-in Mail app that is by default installed on your device. Unfortunately, on Continue reading →
How to record your iPhone screen: without installing an app
The iPhone allows you to record your own screen. That’s very cool to record something you are doing and afterwards share it to someone else. It also a great way to make a tutorial which you can later share online, such as on YouTube. In order to start recording your iPhone screen, you will need Continue reading →
Apple Mail on iOS: How to remove all e-mails from an account?
iPhone, iPod and iPad users often use the built-in Apple Mail client to manage their inbox. Are you looking to delete all e-mails from your account via Apple Mail on your iDevice? There are a couple of ways to do this on your device. The ‘Move All Emails’ trick If you have been using iOS Continue reading →
Howto Delete All Photos on your iPhone
Over the years, you have taken tons of photos with your iPhone. Every photo is saved locally on your iPhone and can be viewed via the built-in Photos app of the iPhone. And perhaps you want to delete all iPhone photos that you have ever taken on your smartphone. The trick to quickly erase all Continue reading →
Transfer video files from Windows computer to iPad without iTunes
In 2019, iTunes will no longer exist. If you using iTunes today to transfer movies from your Windows computer to your iPad, this means that you will have to come up with an alternative method to move those files over to your iOS device. Option 1: Sharing via Wi-Fi Since the launch of VLC for Continue reading →
How to find your iPhone’s IMEI number when it is stolen
First of all: I’m very sorry. If you visit this page, it means you either lost your iPhone, or it got stolen. Unfortunately, a family member had his iPhone stolen on a Sunday. Even though the thief was caught on camera and the police was involved, there is often not much you can do.Things to Continue reading →
iPhone on Windows 10: “Device is unreachable” SOLVED
You have connected your iOS device (e.g. iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) with the lightening cable and are ready to copy photos and videos that you took on your device to your Windows 10 computer. However, upon opening Windows Explorer and pasting the files to your designated location, you receive the following error: Device is unreachable. Continue reading →
iOS/iPhone: How to Measure the Size of any Object
Perhaps you are in a situation where you don’t have measuring tape / yardstick at hand, or anything else to measure the size of an object. Luckily, with iOS 12, every time you have your iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch at hand running the latest and greatest from Apple, you can now get the measurements Continue reading →
iTunes Error: The password you entered to protect your iPhone backup could not be set
In iTunes (either on Windows or MacOS), when trying to make a backup of your iOS device, you can encounter a number of issues. The most common one is the following: The password you entered to protect your iPhone backup could not be set How to solve this error message in the iTunes program? If Continue reading →