Innholdsfortegnelse for Vol 2 2022 i iPhone User

The New Camera The third-generation iPhone SE has a single-lens camera, but that one lens and its software support boasts some of Apple’s most advanced photography features yet. It has a 12MP sensor, and a ƒ/1.8 aperture. Combined with the A15 Bionic processor, it offers amazing computational photography benefits including Smart HDR 4, Photographic Styles, Deep Fusion and Portrait Mode. Deep Fusion Deep Fusion optimises your snaps for texture and detail. Take a look at the parrot picture; every line in every feather is wonderfully reproduced, as are the wear marks on his beak where he’s sharpened it. Such a wonderfully detailed picture as this is impossible without Deep Fusion, at least on a smartphone’s camera. Deep Fusion uses advanced machine learning to do pixel-by-pixel processing, optimising for texture, details…

Contacts in Focus 1 Tap this link to go back to your list of contacts, arranged in alphabetical order. 2 The name and picture of your currently open contact. If you don’t yet have a picture here, the person’s initials are shown on a grey background. 3 Tap Edit to add, remove or change information on the contact card. You can add things like birthdays and social media addresses as well phone numbers, street addresses and more. 4 These icons let you communicate with your contact directly from the Contacts app. Tap to send a message, make a call, make a video call or send an email. A greyed icon means the feature is unavailable. 5 Phone numbers for the contact. You can add numbers for home, work, mobile and more. Tap a number to…

Coming Soon: SharePlay SharePlay is a brand new FaceTime feature that was expected to launch with iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey, but unfortunately, it has been delayed and did not debut with the 2021 Apple operating systems. With SharePlay, you can get together with your friends to watch a movie or listen to an album together over FaceTime. When listening to an album, for example, during a FaceTime call you can press Play in Apple Music. The album then plays for everyone in the call on their own devices, with all of the gear used playing the tracks in sync so you don’t get an irritating echo. You’re still connected in FaceTime, so you can chat about the album as well as listen to it. Anyone in the…

Shared with You A new addition for iOS 15, Shared with You makes attachments such as photos, videos, links, news articles, music, TV shows and more available in their respective apps as well as in the Messages conversation. Photographs, for example, appear in the Photos app. The apps in question are as follows: Photos & Videos: In the Photos app, tap For You and scroll to Shared with You. Tap See All to take a look at every photo that’s been shared with you in Messages. To save some to your main Photos collection, tap Select, tap the ones you want to save, then tap the Sharing icon. Choose a save option from there. Web Links: Unsurprisingly, shared web links are found in the Safari app. Open Safari, tap the…

Installing a VPN on Your iPhone Viruses are bits of malicious code that hide within software or electronic files, waiting to be unknowingly installed onto a computer. The aim of a virus is not always obvious and not always the same. Some viruses are created and released by people who just want to see the world burn, those who like causing chaos and misery for their fellow man. Some are designed to create back doors into systems or to steal information. In many cases, viruses are designed to do one thing: make your computer inoperable. Viruses are well named for their ability to spread themselves through a computer system, infecting multiple files, until the infected user unknowingly passes them on. And once spread through a system, they can be annoyingly…

Anyone who uses a computer, a smartphone or a tablet will need to create a password at some point. But are your passwords strong enough? It can be tempting to use the same or similar passwords for several different websites or apps. This can be a bad idea, particularly if your chosen password is something easy to guess, such as your name or date of birth. Here are a few tips to consider when creating passwords: 1. Make Every Online Password Unique Having a unique password for each website or app you're required to log in to is an excellent idea, particularly for things like email and online banking. Although security on a banking website is likely to be very good, if you use the same password on a website…

What is a VPN and how does it work? A VPN is an online connection method employed to increase security and privacy for both home and public Internet networks. Virtual Private Networks were initially used by large corporations to protect sensitive information from being shared or leaked, now personal VPN use is growing in popularity as Internet access becomes an ever-increasing part of our daily lives. By connecting to the Internet via the VPN, user privacy is strengthened because the user’s IP address (your computer’s unique identification number) is replaced with one provided by the VPN, essentially navigating all Internet connections through your providers servers and therefore logged on their IP address, not yours. VPN’s usually follow a subscriptions based model. Meaning the user downloads an app from the provider…

iCloud photos You can upload photo albums to your iCloud online storage space and invite others to take a look at them. Just the thing if you’re on vacation and you want to share your snaps with friends and family. ● iCloud Photos feature must be turned on before you can use it, so go to Settings > [your name] > iCloud > Photos and make sure iCloud Photo Sharing is on. You don’t need to have Photo Stream on.● Open the Photos app and navigate to the photo thumbnails. Tap Select and tick the images you wish to share. When all your images are ticked, tap the Sharing icon in the bottom left corner.● Tap Add to Shared Album for a pop-up. Tap Shared Album at the foot of…

Info//Edifier www.edifier.com £69.99, $79.99, 69,00 € Compatibility: Bluetooth audio devices These bookshelf Bluetooth speakers take the traditional approach to audio tech. They boast MDF wooden enclosures to minimise acoustic resonance and deliver a natural sound, and feature tweeters half an inch in diameter with 3.5-inch drivers for the mid-range and bass reproduction. Mesh grilles protect the speakers from dust damage, but if you prefer the exposed look, they’re easily removed. Each unit measures 33x21x27cm and weighs 3.7 Kilograms; just the right size for your living room shelf or computer desk. For connectivity, the Edifier R33BTs offer Bluetooth 5.0 and 3.5mm AUX input. It’s ideal for your Mac, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch or a television with a 3.5mm headphone socket. They’re easy to use too, with power, volume, source switching and…

Info//Twelve South https://twelvesouth.com £54.99, $59.99, 64,99 € Compatibility: USB-C Twelve South’s StayGo mini USB-C Hub is a smaller, cheaper version of the original StayGo. It’s designed for MacBooks which only offer USB-C ports for connectivity, or the latest iPad Pros that use USB-C instead of Lightning for the data port. Plug it in and it gives a HDMI port (4K supported), a USB 2.0 port, a pass-through USB-C port for charging and a headphone socket. If you don’t want to plug the 70 x 30 x 8mm device directly into your notebook, you can use the supplied half metre-long USB-C cable instead. StayGo’s mini USB-C Hub is mercifully small; it’s perfect for slipping into your laptop bag when you’re going on holiday or a business trip. But the price you…

Info//Adobe, Inc www.adobe.com £85.99, $99.99, 98,99 € Compatibility: Intel 6th Generation or newer processor, Apple M1 processor, macOS 10.15 or macOS 11, 8GB of RAM, 7GB of hard-disc space Not everyone needs the pro-level power of the full Photoshop package, and nor can we all afford to spend a few pence short of £20 a month paying for it. Photoshop Elements takes the key editing features from the main Photoshop app, which is more than enough for most people, and sells for a one-off payment instead of a subscription model. If you buy Elements 2022 you have it forever, whereas the same money would get you about four and a half months’ worth of the regular Photoshop app. Elements’ annual updates haven’t always brought us enough to justify upgrading from…

Strength in Beauty According to Apple, the iPhone SE third generation is ‘as durable as it is beautiful,’ and we totally agree. It features an aerospace-grade aluminium chassis and a glass front and back - using the same glass as is found on the flagship iPhone 13 and 13 Pro models. This is the toughest glass of any smartphone, Apple’s or otherwise. Rated IP67 for water and dust resistance, the iPhone SE is designed to protect against spills, so it’s as durable as it is tough. A Colourful Collection The new iPhone SE comes in three exciting colours; Midnight, Starlight and (PRODUCT)RED. In nonmarketing parlance, that’s black, white and red. Once again, the (PRODUCT)RED design helps raise money for the fight against AIDS, as a portion of the proceeds going…

The front-facing 7MP camera has a ƒ/2.2 aperture, and offers Portrait mode with advanced bokeh and Depth Control. Look out too for 1080p HD video recording at 25 fps or 30 fps, QuickTake video, Deep Fusion, Smart HDR 4 for photos and Auto image stabilisation. The long line found at the top of the phone conceals the upper built‑in stereo speaker and built‑in microphone. The iPhone SE’s screen is 4.7 inches corner to corner, and is a Retina HD display with IPS technology. It has a 1334 x 750 pixel resolution at 326 pixels per inch, and a 1400:1 contrast ratio. Other features include 625 nits max brightness, a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating and Display Zoom. The iPhone SE still has a Home button. Press it to return to the Home…

Assign a ringtone You can assign an individual ringtone or text alert to a specific contact, so you always know when that person calls or texts. Open their contact card, tap Edit (top right) and scroll to Ringtone and Text Tone. If you haven’t changed them already, they’re set at ‘Default’. Tap the one you want to change and select a new one. This tone is now used for incoming calls or messages from that contact. You can also turn on Emergency Bypass, which lets that contact get through to you even when your phone is on Do Not Disturb.…

Messages in Focus 1 Tap here to take you back to the list of message conversations. Tap one of them to open, and if you wish, continue that conversation; such as the chat you see here. 2 This is the person you’re chatting to. The picture is drawn from your Contacts app and is replaced by an initial if it’s not available. Tap this pic for more options, including sharing your location, making a call or video call, send an email and more. 3 Tap the video camera icon here for a pop-up menu, offering FaceTime Audio and FaceTime Video calls. Tap one to make that call. 4 Your outgoing messages are on the right, incoming ones on the left. Received messages are grey. Sent messages are blue if sent to another…

Making a Memoji 1 Open the Messages app. Tap the Memoji icon in the app drawer and scroll all the way to the right until you see the Plus icon. Tap it to start your Memoji. Note: if the Memoji icon isn’t there, your iPhone is likely too old and cannot use Memojis. 2 Under a blank face you see a slider. Using this slider, the colour options and diagrams, build your Memoji any way you wish. Choose a hairstyle and colour, add glasses if you wear them, and more. You can make as many Memojis as you like so have fun and get creative. 3 When you’re finished, tap Done. Your Memoji is added to your Animoji collection, from where it can be used in the usual way, just as if it…

How Will You Know? You may hear about a big data breach in the news, or from friends and colleagues, and if the company hacked is one you have accounts with, it is worth following all of the steps below just in case. Often, the first you will know about being hacked is a call from your credit card company or bank about unusual activity, or from friends/relatives suddenly receiving strange requests for money from you. Many of the large email providers, such as Gmail, will alert you if there is a new login to your account from an unrecognised location or device. Or you may simply find that you have been logged out of an account and your password is no longer working. The most important thing is not…

The number of public places where free Wi-Fi is available has exploded in the last few years. From airports and shopping centres to coffee shops and restaurants, there are few places where you can't now find a wireless connection for your phone, tablet or laptop. And while this is great for those of us that want/need to stay connected day and night, accessing Wi-Fi in a public place does bring with it some dangers you won't generally encounter on your home network. What Makes Public Wi-Fi Unsafe? Let us start by saying that not all public Wi-Fi is equally unsafe. A coffee shop that has a new Wi-Fi password chalked up on the board every day is probably safer to use than a cafe where the password has been the…

Camera in Focus (older iPhone’s interfaces may vary) 1 Tap the flash icon to turn it on or off, to suit current lighting conditions. Tap this to change the 2 Night Mode setting. A slider lets you switch from Auto to manually setting the time length of the photo, but there’s no real need to do so. 3 Tap the inverted ‘V’ icon to open a row of control icons under the picture. These give greater control over things like the flash and HDR feature. 4 HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It averages the exposure by taking photos at different exposures in a short burst and then combining them into a single image. This icon turns it on or off. 5 A Live Photo adds a few seconds of video to the…

Info//Feral Interactive Ltd £12.99, $14.99, 14,99 € iOS 14.8 or later Ridley Scott’s original Aliens from 1979 was a ground-breaking piece of cinema. Set within the claustrophobic confines of a spaceship, the crew are hunted by an alien creature of immense death-dealing impressiveness. It was tense, scary as hell and the feeling of absolute terror seeped through the screen as the protagonist, Ripley, tries to flush the beast into the depths of space. Sadly, that sense of terror had never really been conveyed through gaming. True, there have been several Aliens-based games in the past, for all manner of systems (one of our favourites was a Doom Aliens mod, from 1994), and we did have space-based horror in the form of System Shock and Dead Space, but the Alien franchise…

The Apple Silicon A15 Bionic Processor Despite its comparatively low cost, the third-generation iPhone SE boasts an A15 Bionic CPU; the same processor as the iPhone 13. That means it has a six‑core CPU with two highperformance and four high-efficiency cores, a four‑core GPU and a 16‑core Neural Engine. The advantages of such a powerful processor are evident whatever you’re doing on your phone. Apps open faster, scrolling is smoother and intensive activities such as photo processing are far snappier. The iPhone SE’s processor is 1.8 times faster than the iPhone 8, and outstrips older models by an even greater degree. Graphical performance enjoys an even greater improvement, being 2.2 times faster than that of the iPhone 8. During the presentation, Francesca Sweet showed us the forthcoming Apple Arcade racing…

Price and Availability The new iPhone SE third generation is available online, in Apple Stores and in all good mobile phone shops from 18th March, 2022. Pricing is as follows; 64GB: £419, $429, 519 € 128GB: £469, $479, 569 € 256GB: £569, $579, 689 €…

First Steps with FaceTime 1 To start a FaceTime conversation from the Contacts app, first find the contact card of the person you wish to call. If thatperson’semailorphonenumberare registered with FaceTime, you can see FaceTime icons for both audio (the telephone receiver) and video (the camera). Tap one to make the call. 2 There are several ways of starting a FaceTime call from the FaceTime app. Tap the New FaceTime button (top right). Add the name of the person you want to call (or their phone number or email address if they’re not in your Contacts), then tap a button for either a video or audio FaceTime call. 3 The FaceTime app also shows a list of recent FaceTime calls, showing whether they were audio or video. If you tap one of these,…

Photo Management The way the Messages app deals with photos and other attachments has been overhauled for iOS 15. To send a photo, tap the Photos App icon at the bottom of a Messages conversation and you see a grid of photographs from your Photos App. Tap as many as you like to select them. You can now choose which order their placed in your message. Just tap them in your chosen order, and they’re numbered instead of ticked. To unselect a photograph, simply tap it a second time and the number disappears. When you’re ready, tap Add in the top-right corner and the photos are added to your outgoing message. Here, you can scroll the pictures left and right to review them. Each has a cross in the top-right…

Mail in Focus 1 This screen, in Mail, shows your Inbox. Tap the Mailbox link to go back and choose another mailbox, such as Drafts, Sent, Junk or VIP emails. 2 The Edit link puts an empty circle to the left of each email. You can tap these circles to add a tick, and then action multiple emails at once. 3 These are your emails, listed in the order they arrived. Tap on one to open and read it. Emails with blue dots to their left have not yet been opened and read. Pull down on the screen to get new mail. 4 Tap here to search your emails. You can type a name, a subject or something from the body of an email, and suggestions are offered as you type. 5 Drag…

Essentially, a VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a server or group of servers in a remote location that you can connect to through a client. The VPN servers then hide your Internet-bound IP address with their own, so if you connected to a VPN that’s located in Australia then your IP address would be as if you were actually sat at a desktop down under. The benefits of this are many but mainly a VPN will allow you to access region restricted websites, protect you from tracking and shield your browsing activities from those who want to find out where you are personally based. Obviously there comes a negative side, in the form of being able to access content that your country has deemed illegal for some reason but on…

Photos in Focus 1 This is the name of the Photos album you have open (or in this case, where the pics were taken, as we’re looking at all the photos and not a single album), and the dates between which the photos contained in that album were all taken. 2 Tap here to select photos. You can pick out as many as you like, and dragging your finger will select multiple photos more easily. 3 Tap the three-dots icon for a pop-up that lets you zoom in and out, set the thumbnails, filter pictures, show them on a map and more. 4 These are your pictures. Tap the Select link, then tap photos to select and unselect them. Tap and hold a picture for a pop-up that lets you…

Info//GameSir www.gamesir.hk £69.99, $59.99, 69,99 € Compatibility: iOS 13 or later Hong Kong based GameSir is building an enviable reputation for quality gaming controllers for mobile devices; and this, an update to the respected GameSir X2 with Lightning or USB-C ports, might just be its best release yet. Like other GameSir mobile phone gaming controllers, the X2BT (as we’ll call it), sandwiches your iPhone between two control panels. The body of the device stretches to accommodate a phone of up to 173mm, and springs back into place to hold it tightly. Your phone stays in place without wobbling or slipping out, even during the most vigorous gaming sessions, and unlike similar controllers that connect through their data ports, you can even leave your case in place while you play. It’s…

Info//Psyonix LLC Free iOS 11.0 or later 2015’s Rocket League has proved to be one of the most popular games in recent years. Who would have thought that driving cars around a 3D football field, knocking a giant ball into the opponents net would have caught on? Turns out Psyonix did. Rocket League is available on virtually every gaming platform, and now it’s time for it to shine on the mobile. Rocket League Sideswipe is a scaled-down version of the main game, a free spin-off that retains the feel of the original, but loses some of the presentation. If you’re unfamiliar with Rocket League, it’s basically football, but you’re driving a car and you boost around a 360-degree environment in an effort to score a goal against the other player.…