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Quick Tip: Viewing Credit Card Activity in Apple Pay

Owners of the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus can do something magical with their devices right now - make payments with Apple Pay simply by tapping the phone against an NFC (near field communication) equipped card reader while holding a thumb or other finger on the Touch ID home button. It's fast, it's surprisingly fun, and even more people are going...

iOS Battery Usage

Quick Tip: How to Find Out Which iOS Apps Are Using the Most Power

Our recent post about sending your location from Messages brought a good comment from reader Carol P., who asked "How does this impact battery life? Especially sharing location indefinitely?" While it's hard to know exactly how much of an impact location...

Send or share your location

Quick Tip: Sending Your location with Messages

Sending your location to another person can be handy... and even a lifesaver if you happen to be injured on a trail or off a road but can still use your iPhone. In this quick tip, you'll see just how easy...

Keep Messages Setting

Quick iOS Tip: Deleting Text Messages Automatically

Our iOS devices can sometimes act like candidates for a TV show on hoarding. If you don't watch out, it's easy to run out of valuable storage space on the devices. My wife and I tend to text a lot during a normal...

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