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Adjust Mail’s list view on your iPhone and iPad

Here’s how you adjust Mail’s list view on your iPhone and iPad. Show more messages, or more content– it’s up to you, and it’s easy too!

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Adjust Mail’s list view on your iPhone and iPad

Five Handy iPhone Calculator Tips

Your iPhone has a built-in calculator and it’s really useful. Here are five tips that make it even more useful.

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Five Handy iPhone Calculator Tips

How to cancel subscriptions purchased through Apple

Your subscriptions can be seen all in one place on your iPhone. Here’s how to cancel a subscription and effectively post-date it.

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How to cancel subscriptions purchased through Apple

How to set the default mail account on your iPhone

If you have more than one email address you need to set a default mail account so the iPhone knows which one to use. Here’s how to do it.

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How to set the default mail account on your iPhone

Quickly find the iPhone Settings you’re looking for

How can you find the setting you need out of the thousands on the iPhone? This article describes four methods.

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Quickly find the iPhone Settings you’re looking for

How to use the iPhone’s Mail Search feature

You have thousands of emails on your iPhone. Use the built-in Search feature to quickly find the one(s) you want.

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How to use the iPhone’s Mail Search feature

How to delete part of a text message on an iPhone, the fast way

Did you know you can delete part of a text message conversation? You can, & it’s easy. Here I show you the easiest way, in a 54 second video.

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How to delete part of a text message on an iPhone, the fast way

Customize Your iPhone’s Mailbox List

When you tap “Mailboxes” in iOS Mail you get a list of mailboxes to choose from. That list is customizable. Here’s how you do it.

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Customize Your iPhone’s Mailbox List

Improve the iPhone experience with proper Sounds & Haptics settings

Proper settings in Sounds & Haptics settings will improve your iPhone experience every time you use it. Take a minute and learn what to do.

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Improve the iPhone experience with proper Sounds & Haptics settings

The latest iOS is 13.7, released Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. This update introduces the Exposure Notification Express feature, which (depending on where you live) may provide COVID-19 exposure notifications to you without installing an app. This feature, commonly and erroneously termed "tracking," is off by default and requires a trip to the Settings app to turn it on. Look for "Exposure Notifications" in Settings and you'll be all set. For more information see this article from macrumors.com.

Notably, the Express feature is not available in New York, New Jersey, California, or Texas, even though those four states have major COVID-19 problems. In fact, as of this writing only Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, and Wyoming are making use of the Apple Exposure Notification API. It's important to note that there are two ways for an iPhone user to be alerted to COVID-19 exposure: by an app developed for the State you're in, or-- if the State has chosen to participate in the "Exposure Notification Express" system-- by the operating system itself. For example, Arizona has an app that uses Apple's Exposure Notification API, and if you download the app you can get COVID-19 exposure notifications, but they don't use the "Express" API so if you're in Arizona and you want COVID-19 exposure notifications, you have to get the app. All Apple's doing with the "Express" API is making it possible for the COVID-19 notifications to be given even without an app.