IOS

On iOS, you can share your location with your friends. This is strictly between iOS devices but you can use it to check where a contact is if they’ve shared their location with you. It beats having to ask them where they are every two minutes if you’re expecting them. …

In iOS 12, CarPlay will support third-party apps. This means that if you prefer to use Google Maps for navigation, you can do so once iOS 12 rolls out. One thing that isn’t changing is Apple Maps still being the default maps app on iOS. You cannot automatically change the …

The iPhone XS Max is a bigger phone with a bigger screen. It’s still AMOLED so you can take advantage of the screen and try some nice dark wallpapers for your device. If you’re looking for something that makes your screen look good, you can check out out iPhone XS …

One of the most exciting features in iOS 12 is Siri shortcuts. Siri shortcuts allows users to pre-program voice commands for Siri. For example, right now you can tell Siri to send a text message or make a phone call. This is an example of something you can already do …

Smartphones have excellent cameras and every year, they get better. The amount of detail you can capture in an image taken on a high-end phone can rival a DSLR camera. These photos are often shared online to apps like Instagram or social networks like Facebook. Users share them on the …

Touch ID and Face ID, whichever you have on your iPhone are a neat way to lock your device. What not many people realize is that they can also be used to lock apps if the app itself were to support the feature. The stock Notes app for example allows …

Notifications are generally supposed to be visual so that you can tell what the notification is for. If you, for example, get a new email notification from Gmail, you will want to know who it’s from. You will definitely want to know that the Gmail app is what sent you …

Siri knows your name. If you were to lose your iPhone and it was found by someone, they could ask Siri who the phone belongs to and get an answer. Siri may not always pronounce your name correctly and if that’s the case you can teach Siri how to pronounce …

The Voice Memo app is being overhauled in iOS 12. It’s mostly a design overhaul but it seems to have a new option that lets you replace a part of the recording with new recording. The new interface is much less cluttered than the old one and it has one …

Instagram has interactive stickers that you can add to stories. The stickers allow you to add polls, ask questions, and as of recently, invite users to a chat group. The Instagram Chat sticker lets anyone viewing your story request to join a conversation. Since the story will be viewed by …