If you have added lyrics to your songs in iTunes, and are used to displaying them while a song is playing on your iPhone, iPod, or iPad, but now they aren't displaying in iOS 7, fear not, you just need to know where to find them.
How to Display Lyrics for Songs in iOS 7
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Fixing the Dreaded iPhone Gmail “Cannot Get Mail” Error Issue
"The mail server "imap.gmail.com" is not responding. Verify that you have entered the correct account info in Mail settings." If you suddenly find yourself getting that "Cannot Get Mail" message from the email app on your iPhone, it can be very frustrating. You know that your iPhone mail app worked just moments ago - and you haven't changed your settings - yet suddenly it seems your settings are being rejected. Here's what to do.
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Is It Ok to Leave Your iPhone Screen On All the Time? Here’s the Answer
You may be wondering "is it ok to leave my iPhone screen on all the time?" or "Will leaving my iPhone screen on damage it?" For example, you may want to run one of the digital clock apps and use your iPhone as a bedside clock.
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How to Block Someone from Calling or Texting Your iPhone
Did you know that with the most recent versions of iOS you can easily block any number from being able to call or text your iPhone? This is a particularly nice feature to use with those pesky telemarketers.
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How to Have Siri Compose an Entire Email with Just One Command
Do you know how to send email with Siri? Yes? Well, do you know to dictate email on Siri so that you can dictate the entire email - who the email is to, what the subject is, and what the content of the email is all at once? No? Well, read on.
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Sidewalk ‘Smartphone Lanes’ are Now a Thing
Pedestrian smartphone lanes - also known as "e-lanes", "talkways" and "mobile phone sidewalks" - are becoming a thing, as are other measures to protect texting pedestrians from themselves, as more and more people are injured in "distracted walking" accidents.
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How to Make and Answer Calls on Your iPhone from Your Mac or iPad
Did you know that you can make calls from your Mac laptop or computer, or your iPad or iPad Mini, and have it dial out on your iPhone? Your Mac or iPad can dial numbers from your contacts, and even from websites, by dialing out on your iPhone. Here's how to make calls from your Mac or iPad, through your iPhone.
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Apple Patents iPhone Landing Glass Side Up
Taking a cue from cats, who generally always land on their feet, or perhaps from buttered bread always falling buttered side down, Apple has been awarded a patent for making your iPhone, iPod, or iPad always fall glass side up. Or, as Apple's patent describes it, "a method of protecting a vulnerable area of an electronic device during freefall."
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Digital Driver’s License Coming to Some States
Hold on to your hats - and your phones. Some states, such as Iowa, are experimenting with digital drivers licenses which can be carried and displayed on your iPhone, Android phone or other smartphone.
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How to Delete iPhone Text Messages Attachments and Regain Space on Your iPhone
It can be really frustrating trying to manage space on your iPhone. No matter how carefully you try to manage the space on your iPhone through iTunes - paring down playlists and removing unwanted apps - it always seems that there are things taking up space that you can't get to. And that's because there are. Here's how to free up gigabytes of space on your iPhone without getting rid of anything that you actually want, by deleting text messages attachments.
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iMessage Stopped Working? Not Forwarding to or Getting the Code on Your Macbook or iPad? Try This
If you find that iMessage is suddenly not working, and sending all messages as SMS text messages only, or if text message forwarding is no longer working on your iPhone and you are getting no code on your Mac or iPad to set it back up, try this.
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How to Block Numbers that Haven’t Called or Texted You First
You know you don't want that person or telemarketing calling or texting you, but how do you block their number if they haven't called you first? Or maybe you have a list of numbers that telemarketers use and you want to block them. Here's how.
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Facebook’s New “See First” Gives You Control Over Who You See on Your News Feed
Facebook has just announced, and started to roll out, their new See First setting, which gives you control over who gets priority in your Facebook news feed timeline. While the announcements today say that it is being rolled out to iOS today, and Android and the web later, some folks, including us, have it on the web right now (and yes, we rubbed our hands with glee when we discovered that).
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Why Did My iPhone Suddenly Start Making this Weird Noise? This May be Why
If you have an iPhone 5 or an iPhone 6, and it suddenly starts making this incredibly loud alert notification noise - sort of like a bell at claxon level - that you can't find any way to turn off, because there is no app doing it, here's one possible reason. First, ask yourself if you have an Apple Watch.
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Updated to iOS 9.2 and Now Videos Make a Horrible Sound? Here’s What to Do
If you upgraded to iOS 9.2 and then your videos started having a horrible noise in them, well, you're not alone. In fact, it happened to us when we did the update, and here is how we fixed it.
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Location Based Reminders Now Available on iPhone for Anywhere
We've written before about how to set up location-based reminders in the iPhone, however until fairly recently it required you to have the address of the location at which you wanted to be reminded in your contacts. No more. Now you can tell Siri to remind you of something when you arrive anywhere, any time! Here's how.
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Bluetooth Selfie Remote to Take Selfies
We recently had an opportunity to review this wireless bluetooth selfie remote for iPhone and Android, and its selfie remote app, and it's a great addition to your selfie-taking bag of tricks! And it does so much more than just selfie remote shutter control - you can switch between front and back cameras, zoom in and out, turn the flash on and off, even switch between photo and video! Of course, a selfie stick also allows you to hold your phone, with the remote, you need to prop it up somewhere or use a tripod. The best combination is one of each!
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Smartphones + Mobile Apps + Adaptive Workforce = Gig Economy
Are you part of the new so-called 'gig economy'? If you don't know what the gig economy is, probably not, but even if not, you almost certainly know someone who is. According to recent statistics, 16% of the American workforce is working in the gig economy - that's nearly 1 in 5 people. And at least one pundit factors smartphones and mobile apps into why the gig economy is growing.
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Getting Calendar Invitation Spam on Your Apple Device? Here’s How to Stop It
If you have started receiving spam iCal calendar invitations on your iPad or iPhone or Mac, you're not alone. This is because of some change that Apple has made allowing spammers to send you 'in-app' iCal invitations for calendar events. Here's how to turn that off.
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Reminders Not Sending Notifications on iPhone? Try This
Many people have found that once they either updated to iOS 10, or upgraded to a new iPhone with iOS 10 onboard, such as an iPhone SE, iPhone 6, or iPhone 7, that reminders no longer would send notifications such as alerts or banners, or lock screen notifications. Here's what worked for us for both location-based and time-based reminders.
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