Apple How-Tos

Add Your Facebook and Twitter Accounts to iOS

Apple always takes care about its customers, sorting out their problems with solutions. In this modern era, everyone seems to have multiple social accounts, including Facebook and Twitter. Here also, Apple didn’t leave them alone as it has made easy for its customers to share content on their social sites with great ease.

If you’re interested in adding social accounts to your iOS, then here’s how you can do it:

• Go to the Settings application.
• You need to scroll down until you find some social network entries. It’s up to your device and its geo-graphic location, you’ll see listings for Facebook, Twitter, Vimeo, Flicker, Tencent Weibo and Sina Weibo.
• Select a social network which you want to see on your screen, then it’ll ask for password and username.
• You can also have an official iOS application for that service and form further settings such as sync with calendar, import contacts and much more.

Once you have got your social accounts, you can share your post, status, links and updates. Above all, you can sync contacts between your social networks and iOS device. The given chart comes from Apple synopses the options available for the each social network.

Services like Vimeo, Tencent Weibo and Flickr require iOS 7, and the rest of them require iOS 6 or higher.

So, please let us know if you think something has left out in the comment section below.

Source: Apple Support

How to Get More Lives in Candy Crush Saga on iPhone or iPad

You might have heard about Candy Crush Saga, a very popular game of that time and if you haven’t already then you must be living under the stone. With the moving time, new options and features keep on adding to the game making it more captivating. Where it lacks? It is when you got only one life behind and want to play more. That’s why those who are spending their time with Candy Crush always looking for more lives.

If you are one of them, then no need to worry as now we bring you a simple trick that helps you get unlimited lives in the game. Lets’ find out how it’s done?

How to get infinite lives in Candy Crush when you’re playing on iPhone or iPad?

• Go to the Settings > General > Date & Time (follow this path on your iOS device)
• Change ‘Set Automatically’ option to Off from that option
• Now, change the date by one day and this will offer you five more additional lives
• After the doing, you need to wait at least 5 to 10-second letting the game synchronize with this time
• Repeat the above-mentioned path again and change the ‘Set Automatically’ option to ON from the option
• This will turn your setting into regular date giving you 5 more extra lives
• So, follow this trick when you’re running out of lives

For more explanation, check out this video demo…

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Handy Tips to Save Your iPhone Battery

How would you react when you had to make an urgent call or text but couldn’t do so because of the low battery life? Obviously, no one would like to experience this situation. It’s a very common problem that most of the smartphone users are dealing with. But now, we’ll try a bit to resolve this issue as it’s happened mostly due to the negligence in use. We bring you a handy guide that may help you boost your iPhone battery.

Turn On ‘Reduce Motion’

The iOS 7 brought a slew of new options but there’re some new features like Parallax causing headache as it makes the background moving when your iPhone or iPad is tilted. We haven’t come across anyone saying anything good about this feature. So, it’s far batter to get rid of this moving background. You need to go to the General > Accessibility > and then Enable the ‘Reduce Motion’.

Disable Location Detection

If there’s any valid cause on putting GPS ‘ON’, then we won’t ask you to turn it off. And if you put it ON just for nothing then we’ll better suggest you to get it down. Doing so could really give a boost to your iPhone’s battery. Go to the Setting > Privacy > Location Services and then disable it.

Turn Off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (when not in use)

You aren’t going to get a reward on keeping the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth ‘ON’. It’s better to turn them off when not in use. Visit Control Center and give them a rest. This might also help you improve your phone’s battery.

Reduce the Screen Brightness

It’s one of the main things that you can do reducing your battery’s consumption. If you are interested in bumping up your handset’s battery life then there shouldn’t be any issue with reducing the brightness of the screen. Go to the Setting > Wallpaper & Brightness > Brightness.

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Know How You Can Use Emoji Pics right on Your iPhone or iPad

You might have got an iMessage that contained some pictures that evoke someone else’s emotions. It could be anything like flowers, pics of cars or animals, dancers and smiley faces. Now, you don’t know how to get into this? These pics were known as ‘emoticons’, but nowadays they got a new name called emoji pics. Surprisingly, your iPhone and iPad have an ability to send or receive these pics. All you need to do is to enable them!

Here’s how you enable emoji pics on your iOS device.

• Go to the Setting app on your iOS device
• Hit on General
• Move down to tap on the Keyboard
• Select ‘Add New Keyboard’
• Scroll down and tap Emoji

How to get into Emoji Pics? Follow the steps mentioned down here.

• Open up any application that uses keyboard like Messages app.
• Go for new message as normally do.
• Tap the ‘Globe Key’ after when you got a keyboard popping up.
• Now, you can explore all different section and select the Emoji you like. Tap again on the ‘Globe key’ that’ll get you back on the regular keyboard where you can proceed.

That’s what you need to do! Emoji  pics aren’t limited to any specific app as you can find it any app that allows keyboard input. So, enjoy sending Emoji pics to your loved ones using iPads, iPhones, or Macs.

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Know How You Can Transfer your Photos from iPhone to iPad

It’s always a fun to capture your loving moments in your iPhone. It’s a fact there are many folks who really don’t know how to get the best out of your iPhone. This time, I’ll raise a very simple issue which might or might not be easy for many. So, here’s a complete guide that how you can transfer your photos from iPhone to iPad.

Get Phone Transfer

Before going for anything, you must a Phone Transfer that’ll assist you in this process. Luckily, I’ve known a photo transfer designed for iOS devices. With ‘Phone Transfer’ you aren’t going to transfer photos only but also different multimedia formats.

1. Download & install Phone Transfer

First off, you need to download and install Phone Transfer on your PC. A pop up will appear when you run it. Hit Start on ‘Phone to Phone Transfer’.

2. Hook up your iOS device to your PC

You’ll need a USB cable to hook up both iPhone and iPad to a same PC > the Phone Transfer will automatically identify their models once they are perfectly connected. You can see all the info of the both device right on your screen in a primary window. If you do not want to delete the photos in the iPad, then uncheck ‘’Clear Data Before Copy’’ box when you’re transferring images from iPhone.

3. Get your images from iPhone to iPad

Now, it’s important. Just recall what you’re transferring photos, messages, videos, music and other content. Now, uncheck those boxes which you don’t want to transfer. Start copy and you have successfully got photos from iPhone to iPad.

Apart from photos, you can also transfer other content from iPhone to iPad. Please feel free and let us know how you look at this procedure in the comment section below.

How to Make FaceTime Calls on Your iPhone or iPad

FaceTime has become the ultimate means of communication and is only applicable on Apple devices. You can make video or audio calls absolutely free from one iOS device to another one or from your Mac to your iOS device and vice versa. The condition of using FaceTime is that both of the call maker and call receiver should have FaceTime account enabled on their devices. If you don’t have one right now, then no worries. You can create your own one by visiting appleid.apple.com. It won’t take too long.

It’s a built-in calling app in Apple devices that employs the back and front cameras for continues video calls. You can also make audio calls when you think you’re not looking good. Anyhow, today we let you know you can make FaceTime calls on your iPhone or iPad.

Here’s how you do;

Go to the contacts and choose the contact you like to call to on the FaceTime. Hit the FaceTime icon under the contact’s name in order to make a video call.

If you are already busy in a call with your buddy and want to make a video call, then you need to invite that person in a video call by pressing the FaceTime icon next to the contact name.

Siri can also be used for this purpose to initiate FaceTime callings. Siri does not always work accurately but to try isn’t a bad thing. You just need to tell Siri, ‘’FaceTime with David’’.

Using Siri is an optional case especially when you’re driving. If it does not recognize your contact, it might ask you to clarify who you’re talking about from your contact list.

How to Save iPhone Battery Life – Easy Tips

It’s one of the main problems that every smartphone user is looking for. We do loads of different things on our phones everyday. We aren’t saying you to make less use of your phone but how you use really matters. Everything that is done through proper planning always results good. So, here’re some simple tricks that may help your phone eat less power.

• When you aren’t using your phone, then it’s far better to put your device on a Sleep Mode. Doing so will enlarge your iPhone battery.

• You should turn off push email and get into the habit of checking your account less frequent.

• Animated wallpapers always look good but they also suck a significant part of your handset’s battery. If you still want to stay with these wallpapers then you aren’t interested in saving your phone’s battery.

• It’s a fact that we are using different apps at once and forget closing them after the use. They keep drawing your iPhone’s battery without having you feel. So, you should be knowing what’s being run on your handset.

• Playing games is one of the main causes that reduces your phone’s life. There’re lots of games with intense graphics may cause a great battery loss. You can have games that don’t do much harm to your phone.

• Turn off the GPS while not in use. Many users keep it running with nothing to use. Bluetooth is also anther thing that should be turned off when you’re not using it.

• Reduce your phone’s brightness if you think it is reducible. If you have extra apps on your handset then say them goodbye. They keep running at the back end of your smartphone without letting you know.

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How to Download iOS 8 Beta Before the Public Release

A few days, Apple announced its new mobile operating system, iOS 8 along with OS X Yosemite at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. The iOS 8 brings more new features and some improvements as well such as smarter spotlight, interactive notifications, QuickType and more. The final release of iOS 8 is supposed to be happened late this year when Apple will be announcing its iPhone 6.

Anyhow, it is now available for download for the registered developers only. There’re some users who aren’t developers but want to download iOS 8 Beta. They can become the registered developers by paying $99 per year. If this sounds you expensive, then no need to get worried if you know a developer. A developers has the authority to register around 100 devices, so get your device registered if you have a good relation with any developer.

If you don’t have any developer in your circle, then there’s also a way to get your device registered. This is through the UDID number, an alphanumeric code consists of 40 letters and numbers. Every iDevice has this unique code. So, you can get your UDID registered from the services available on the web. They usually charge few bucks for it. Here’s one I’ve known about, iMZDL.

The iOS 8 Beta under the build number of 12A4265u is available for the following iDevices:

iPhone 5S – iPhone 5C – iPhone 5 – iPhone 4S

iPad Air – iPad mini – iPad 3 – iPad 4 – iPad 2 – Retina iPad mini

iPod Touch (5^th generation)

Here’re the direct download links of iOS 8 Beta given below:

iPhone

• iPhone 5s (Model A1453, A1533)
• iPhone 5s (Model A1457, A1518, A1528, A1530)
• iPhone 5c (Model A1456, A1532)
• iPhone 5c (Model A1507, A1516, A1526, A1529)
• iPhone 5 (Model A1428)
• iPhone 5 (Model A1429)
• iPhone 4s

iPod Touch

• iPod touch (5th generation)

iPad

For all iPad models

Here’s how you can install iOS 8 beta after getting your UDID registered:

• Connect your iOS device with iTunes through USB
• Restore your iDevice to iOS v7.1.1 through iTunes > Setup as the new iPhone
• Now download iOS 8 Beta 1 for your iOS device
• You need to hold SHIFT and then left click on the Check for Updates in iTunes > Choose iOS 8 Beta 1 that you just have downloaded in 3^rd step > wait for some minutes and now you’ve iOS 8 on your iDevice.

The process is only valid when your UDID number is registered otherwise you can’t access iOS 8 beta before the public release.

Tips to Boost iPhone Battery Life

How does it feel when your handset leaves you in the mid of an important call? Obviously, it always hurts. You may find lots of tips claiming to boost the iPhone battery life on the web. Not sure, all of them will be working. Here, we bring you some easy tips that might be helpful boosting your iPhone battery life. One thing important, these tips will be more effective on iOS 7 than the older versions.

Disable Dynamic Backgrounds

Apple brought lots of new features with iOS 7, and Dynamic Backgrounds is one of them making the home screen more attractive. For many, it causes nothing but a headache. If at all you aren’t interested in it, then simply turn it off as it also eats up some part of your iPhone battery. Staying with static backgrounds isn’t gonna harm anyone.

Turn off the Bluetooth

Many users forget turning the Bluetooth off after transferring or receiving data from other handsets. It also sinks battery. Just simply keep your Bluetooth Off in order to avoid battery consumption. To turn it off, go to the settings > Bluetooth > Tap it to off.

Turn ‘Reduce Motion’ On

It is one of the new features of iOS 7 that disturbed many users at the start. It makes many folks feel like dizzying. It could be cool for many, but I haven’t seen a person praising this feature so far. Personally, I suggest you to turn it off for being normal. To disable this feature, you need to go to the Settings > General > Accessibility > Reduce Motion and then turn it On.

Reduce Screen Brightness

Why to waste battery life by keeping the screen brightness intense? It’s no longer help you instead causes low eye sight too. So, don’t let spare things take your battery juice. Simply, go to the settings and there you will find ‘Brightness & Wallpapers’.