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  • How I setup my iPhone’s Action Button

    The Action Button on the iPhone 15 Pro is a small feature I eagerly anticipated. Apple offers nine options from which I specifically wanted to access both the silent mode and the camera. I also wanted the actions to activate right away upon pressing the Action button, without needing to select anything from the on-screen

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  • Text Message Forwarding on iOS

    A while ago I noticed that I am receiving texts only on my iPhone, but some texts don’t show up in the Messages app on either of my Macs. The texts I can’t see on my Macs are usually the two-factor authentication codes and other texts sent from the special three-digit phone numbers typically used

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  • Tim Cook’s letter to customers

    One of my Facebook friends posted the link to this interesting Tim Cook’s letter to Apple’s customers. I am shocked by these two paragraphs: …now the U.S. government has asked us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create. They have asked us to build a backdoor to

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  • How to run YouTube in the background on iPhone

    Finally I figured how to run YouTube in the background on iOS device. Use Safari -not YouTube app- to access mobile YouTube site. Safari runs in the background so we can still listen to the audio. YouTube app can’t multitask. So dismiss that suggestion to open the app. This works on iPad as well.

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