Innholdsfortegnelse for Spring 2024 i iPhone Life Magazine

Each season, my sister picks a theme to live by. For instance, she’s decided this will be her summer of camping and is planning a series of outdoor excursions with her kids. I think this is a fantastic way to make a season feel memorable and get motivated to make your goals a reality. In this issue, we offer some ideas of how to theme your spring. Been “about to learn” the guitar for the past decade? Make this your spring of music! Feature Writer Rachel Needell has blazed the trail for you with a handful of apps that make it entirely possible to learn to play your favorite songs on the guitar without ever having to leave your house (page 40). Perhaps you’d like to focus on your health…

Your app collection is one area that can quickly make your iPhone feel disorganized. Your Home Screen becomes cluttered and soon you’re swiping through page after page, trying to figure out where the three apps you actually use ended up. Here are some tips to get your apps under control. Remove Lesser-Used Apps from Your Home Screen If you have apps that you like to use on occasion but aren’t in your daily rotation (e.g. I only use Uber when I’m traveling), you can remove that app from your Home Screen but keep it in your App Library, so it’s there when you need it. Just long press on the app on your Home Screen, tap Remove App (don’t worry, it won’t delete it!) and then tap Remove from Home…

Widgets have been available on the iPhone’s Home Screen since iOS 14, but many of us don’t take full advantage of them, despite certain apps’ pleas for us to add them to our Home Screens. Widgets may seem like bigger distractions, taking up screen real estate and demanding our attention, but in reality they can offer helpful information at a glance and allow us to interact with the apps without fully opening them or getting lost in other app notifications as we scroll to find one. Here are the best ways to utilize widgets to keep your display streamlined and efficient, plus a few team favorite favorites for you to try out. WHY USE WIDGETS? Widgets display helpful information from an app at a glance right on your Home or…

Strava ($11.99/month) “If getting in shape was part of your New Year’s Resolution, Strava can help you stick to your guns and track your exercise progress. I’m probably missing some bells and whistles because I don’t have the paid version, but even the free version is nice for tracking times and personal records. I like that you can look for local groups and clubs to join for different activities, and you can participate in online challenges. You can connect your Apple Watch so all your workouts upload automatically. All your workouts and your friends’ workouts appear in your feed so you can get and give encouragement.” - Elisabeth Garry, Associate Editor Zugu Case for iPad (from $49.99) “This is hands-down my favorite accessory for the iPad. You can…

Apple closed out its 2023 releases with the third generation M3 chip, refreshed MacBook Pro line, and the 24-inch iMac. The upgrades to these computers focused entirely on performance rather than design or special features, but the M3 chips bring big improvements to graphics processing and signifies a noteworthy boost to the iMac, which was last updated with the M1 chip. Here’s everything to know about Apple’s latest Mac release. MAKE WAY FOR M3 Apple is boasting more processing power for less battery life with the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips. Even compared to its direct predecessor, the M2, Apple is boasting a 1.8 times improvement on GPU (graphics processing unit) speeds and a 15 percent speed improvement for the CPU (central processing unit). This means it processes…

Your Home Screen is like your physical space; it’s easy to let it get cluttered and, once it does, it’s not only distracting but can make you feel like you’ll never get it under control. Here are three easy ways to revamp your Home Screen experience to turn it into your digital dream space. Load Up on Lock Screens Creating Lock Screens to match your different Home Screens is the organizational trick you didn’t know you needed. Not only can you swipe between aesthetics based on mood, but you can also set your Lock Screen to a specific Home Screen and Focus mode. Just long press on a Lock Screen, and press the add button or swipe to your last Lock Screen and swipe once more. From here, you can…

Now that you’ve perfected your Home Screen, it’s time to clean behind the scenes. In the past, you may have deleted apps from your Home Screen and now you’ve lost track. Maybe you have an absurd amount of photos or downloaded videos taking up a lot of storage and making your iPhone run slower than it needs to. Or maybe you keep ignoring the software updates, which puts your phone at a security risk. If any of those things sound relatable, this next section is all about how to make sure even the stuff occurring in the background of your iPhone is kept in check. CHECK YOUR STORAGE Every year the iPhone’s storage capacity grows larger and larger. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways we can control what gets…

I got my first cellphone when I was around 14. It was my father’s, actually; I just got to carry it when I went anywhere without my parents, and he didn’t want it in the first place, so it became de facto mine. It was a Samsung SPH-N400—an old Samsung flip phone. In any case, what I had was a little blue block about two inches wide and four inches tall with a retractable antenna and a bright green screen whose pixels you could count on your fingers. It had the game Snake and it took me 30 minutes to draft a single text message—a capability I didn’t even know the phone had for the first several months it was in my possession. I loved it dearly. I switched to…

Before I learned to organize my digital life, navigating my iPhone felt unsettlingly like hunting for a sweater in my childhood bedroom. I could almost hear my mom’s refrain: “How do you find anything in here?!” Just like with my childhood bedroom (and locker, and desk, and backpack…) sitting down to organize my iPhone can be a daunting task. Where to start? What do I keep? What should I clear out? If you’ve ever felt the same, we’re here for you. In this issue, I’ve taken our best tips with the help of Feature Writer Rachel Needell designed to help you get your iPhone in perfect order in 30 minutes or less. If you follow along, by the end your iPhone will feel brand new, with exactly zero apps or…

Notifications can either be the foil of productivity or the difference between making or missing a flight. It’s important that your notifications don’t get so out of hand that you can’t keep up with them. Here are all the ways that you can organize, eliminate, or emphasize certain notifications so that you stay informed about the things you want. Free Yourself of Disturbances Do Not Disturb is a mode that lets you silence calls, notifications, texts, and more. To set up Do Not Disturb on your iPhone, first open Settings. Tap Focus. Tap Do Not Disturb. Under the section People, choose which people you would like to be able to contact you while in Do Not Disturb. Under the section Apps, choose which apps can send you notifications while you…

As someone who learned how to play the guitar from an ancient, deteriorating songbook, I was eager to jump on apps that simplify the learning process. While nothing can beat face-to-face lessons or professional training, taking advantage of the technology of today is a fantastic way to improve your skills. Whether you just want to learn to play that new song you heard on the radio or are ready to record a song, these five apps are perfect for the guitar player at any stage in the learning process. GuitarTuna (Free) GuitarTuna is ranked the world’s #1 tuner app by both Apple and Google. This app has been my go-to for almost a decade, and it has never disappointed me. It is easy to navigate with a simple user…