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iOS & iPhone

Gadget Hacks highlights simple tweaks, hacks, apps, and mods to help you get more out of your iOS devices. Unchain your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to get tomorrow's unreleased features today.

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Jun 8, 2017

It's that time of year again — Apple will be hitting the stage in California to talk about new features coming to iOS and macOS devices in the near future. Of course, you're going to want to tune in a ...

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Jun 7, 2017

Apple's iOS is a great operating system, but it's not without its faults.Minor quirks have plagued the Apple community for years, such as a general lack of customization, a poor notification system, a ...

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Jun 7, 2017

3D Touch is only available on the 6s and 7 series iPhones right now, and likely futuremodels, so those with older devices are missing out on all the cool "Quick Actions" available for app and settings ...

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Jun 7, 2017

Replacing your iPhone fingerprint sensor has been one of Apple's most cruel tortures. It's a slow and painful process made worse last year when Error 53 messages started appearing on the phones of use ...

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Jun 6, 2017

Apple has removed support for older 32-bit applications in the new iOS 11, which was to be expected after the 10.3 update added the ability to detect apps that are still running 32-bit processes on yo ...

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Jun 5, 2017

Apple announced upcoming changes today to prevent third-party tracking of users and prevent autoplay, on Safari. Safari will prevent the recording (by anyone other than Apple) of users' browsing behav ...

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Jun 5, 2017

If you just installed the iOS 11 beta on your iPhone, you're automatically sending your location data to Apple — even if you don't want to. Luckily, there's an easy way to prevent Apple from seeing th ...

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Jun 3, 2017

Apple lets you save webpages as PDF files in iOS 10, but the only obvious way to do this is by using iBooks. The thing is, most people would probably rather save their PDFs to a service like Google Dr ...

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Jun 2, 2017

According to the French Blog iGeneration, Apple Maps is hoping to get itself back on the map. How? By taking a page out of Google Maps' book and hiring freelancers from TryRating to manually check the ...

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Jun 2, 2017

I haven't bought into Apple Pay just yet, but I do love the idea of having quick access to passes like loyalty programs, boarding passes, and my Starbucks card. However, for some users, it's impossibl ...