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Pin Your Photos with the Pinterest iPhone App
Not everything you pin on Pinterest has to come from a website. You can pin your own images in Pinterest to share them with your followers. If you're using the Pinterest iPhone app, you can either take [more…]
The Profile Tab of the Pinterest iPhone App
From the Pinterest iPhone app, you can view your number of followers and the number of people you follow, and you can browse your boards, latest pins, and likes. You can also find instructions for pinning [more…]
Jog Your Memory with Reminders on Your iPhone 5
Reminders on your iPhone 5 act as an old-fashioned to-do list, but with 90 features that pen and paper don’t have. You can share reminders between your Apple devices and your Mac via iCloud, but reminders [more…]
The Basics of the iPhone Notes App
The Notes app on your iPhone creates text notes that you can save or send through e-mail. To create a note, first tap the Notes icon on the Home screen, and then tap the + button in the top-right corner [more…]
The Three Views of the iPhone Calendar App
The Calendar program on your iPhone lets you keep on top of your appointments and events (birthdays, anniversaries, and the like). You open it by tapping the Calendar icon on the Home screen. The icon [more…]
How to Add Calendar Entries on Your iPhone 5
As part of the Facebook integration that came as part of iOS 6 on your iPhone 5, any calendar entries on the popular social network can automatically show up in the Calendar app. You will have to visit [more…]
The iPhone Calculator App
Your handy iPhone calculator does just fine for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. Numbers and symbols (such as C for clear, and M+ for memory) are large and easy to see. [more…]
The Time Functions on Your iPhone
Every cell phone does have a clock. But not every phone has a world clock like your iPhone's Clock app, which lets you display the time in multiple cities on multiple continents. And not every cell phone [more…]
How to Use Voice Memos on Your iPhone
Apple includes a built-in digital voice recorder in the iPhone. Why would you need a recorder? Consider all the times you’d find it useful to have a voice recorder in your pocket — perhaps when you’re [more…]
The Reminders App on Your iPhone
With the iPhone 4S, however, Apple finally came to the realization that having a Reminders app of its own is a good thing. They had failed to provide a reminders or to-do app in its early iPhones, but [more…]
The iPhone 5 Passbook Feature
The Passbook feature that arrived on the iPhone 5 with iOS 6 is an attempt to turn your modern smartphone into a version of a digital wallet.
Some people already use the iPhone to scan boarding passes at [more…]
How to Use Your iPhone to Find Apps
Finding apps with your iPhone is almost as easy as finding them by using iTunes. The only requirement is that you have an Internet connection of some sort — Wi-Fi or wireless data network — to browse, [more…]
The New Maps App for iPhone 5
Unlike the old Maps apps for your iPhone, the Maps app in iOS 6 doesn’t offer information about traveling via public transportation, though it seems likely this feature will be added sometime in the future [more…]
Features of the iPhone Maps App
The iPhone Maps app offers some really cool features and capabilities. With the Maps app, you can find your current location; find a person, place, or thing; check out places from four different views; [more…]
Timesaving iPhone Map Tools: Bookmarks, Recents, and Contacts
The Maps app on your iPhone offers three tools that can save you from having to type the same locations over and over. All three are in the Bookmarks screen, which appears when you tap the little gray [more…]
Smart Tricks of the iPhone Maps App
The Maps app on your iPhone has lots of tricks up its sleeve, including a few nifty features you may find useful. With Maps, you can get more than directions to your destination. [more…]
The iPhone Compass App
The Compass app on your iPhone works like a magnetic needle compass. Launch the Compass app by tapping its icon in the Utilities folder on the second Home screen. You see the direction you’re facing. [more…]
Take Stock with the iPhone Stocks App
Stocks is another Internet-enabled app on your iPhone. It’s kind of a one-trick pony, but if you need its trick — information about specific stocks — it’s a winner. [more…]
The iPhone Weather App
Weather is a simple app on your iPhone that provides you with the current weather forecast for the city or cities of your choice. By default, you see a five-day forecast at the bottom of the screen with [more…]
How to Use Your Computer to Find iPhone Apps
To switch on Automatic Downloads on your iPhone, tap Settings→iTunes & App Store. After you do so, all apps you buy with iTunes on your computer or buy on other iOS devices will automatically appear on [more…]
Download Content Other Than Apps on Your iPhone
You may have noticed that the App Store app on your iPhone offers nothing but apps. iTunes on your computer, on the other hand, includes sections for Music, Movies, TV Shows, Books, Podcasts, and iTunes [more…]
Ten Free Killer iPhone Apps
You could make the argument that the most compelling killer app on the iPhone is the App Store itself. This online emporium has an abundance of splendid programs — many of which are free. These apps cover [more…]
Ten iPhone Apps Worth Paying For
Although lots of great free apps are available for your iPhone, some things are worth paying for. In some cases, the apps are free up front, but you have to part with some loot to fully take advantage [more…]
How to Get Apps Out of the iPhone 5 Multitasking Tray
iOS 6’s multitasking is great, but sometimes you don’t want to see an app’s icon in the iPhone's multitasking tray. Don’t worry — it’s easy to remove any app that’s cluttering up your tray. To get rid [more…]
How to Delete an App from Your iPhone
You can delete an app from your iPhone in two ways: in iTunes on your computer or directly from your iPhone. To delete an app in iTunes, click Apps in the source list and then click the app’s icon to select [more…]
