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How do I export contacts from an iPhone to a Mac? You can use Wi-Fi or a USB or USB-C cable to sync your iPhone contacts to your Mac and make sure your Mac has the most recent, updated version of your contacts. Here's how!
How to Manually Update Apps on iPhone (2023)
By Rhett Intriago
Is one of your favorite apps out of date? If you don't have automatic app updates on your iPhone or you want to update only one app, you may need to manually update your apps. Luckily, Apple has made updating your apps a pretty easy process that should take no time at all.
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Control video playback from Apple iPhone stereo headset
By Anonymous (not verified)
If you’re using the headset that came with your iPhone to listen to a video, you can control playback with it.
- Click on the mic button once to play or pause a video (or song).
- Click on the mic button twice to go to the next chapter in the video (or the next song).
Configuring your music settings
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You have a number of options in configuring the sound of your music, which can greatly enhance your listening enjoyment. Go to Settings >Music and tap on one of these three options:
There are a number of ways you can control the playback of your music from the Now Playing screen on your iPhone or iPod touch. To display the Now Playing screen, tap the Now Playing button in the upper right corner of the screen, and then tap once anywhere on the album art. This will open a screen giving you three options:
Create an “On-The-Go” playlist
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When you first add music to your iPhone or iPod touch in iTunes, it will automatically add a playlist called On-The-Go. You can add music to this playlist at any time, even when you are not connected to iTunes. Here’s how:
Change iPod browse buttons
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You can replace any of the first four browse buttons in iPod with other options as follows:
Go through dates quickly
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Birthdays, anniversaries, and other repeating appointments
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Take time to prepare for and travel to meetings
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Set the alert to give you plenty of time to prepare for an appointment. If the meeting is out of the office, set the alert to give you time to travel to the meeting.
E-mail a note to yourself
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You can sync music and videos as well as Contacts and Calendar information with your PC or Mac, but you cannot sync notes. If you want to transfer a note to your computer, tap on the envelope icon at the bottom of a note and e-mail it to yourself. Then open it on your computer and cut and paste it into the appropriate application.
Forget your passcode? Restore your iPhone
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The best way to avoid this is to write down your passcode and keep it somewhere safe. If you don’t do this and forget your passcode, you’ll have to connect your iPhone to your computer and use iTunes to restore the iPhone software. This will wipe out Contacts or Calendar info you have on the device, along with any music or videos on the device. You can then sync it with your PC or Mac to get the info and files back on.
Use Contacts to store tech support, banking, and other information
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You can use Contacts to store more than names and phone numbers. You can store information about your credit cards, calling cards, bank accounts, online log-in and passwords, travel clubs, insurance policies, and more.
List contact by company name
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It’s possible to create a Contact so the company name shows up alphabetically in the Contacts list. Open a new contact, type in the company name in the Company field, and tap Save without entering anything in the First and Last fields. After it is saved, go back in and tap Edit to add first and last names and other information, but the entry will remain sorted and identified by the company name.
Use Google SMS to get information
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If Internet connectivity isn’t available or is too slow on your iPhone, you can send SMS text messages to Google to quickly get information like sports scores, weather, word definitions, driving directions, and more. To do this, send a text to GOOGLE (466453) and use one of the following search types:
- Sports: score cubs
- Movies: movies 90004
- Stocks: stocks appl
- Flight information: flight aa 500
There are many more search types. Do a Web search on “Google sms requests” to find more.
Swipe your finger across text conversations to delete them
By Anonymous (not verified)
If you want to quickly delete a conversation in Text, simply swipe your finger across it, and the Delete button will appear. Tap anywhere outside the Delete button if you change your mind.
Keep text messages short; use e-mail for longer messages
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Some phones limit received SMS messages to 160 characters. If you send a longer message to another iPhone, it may only receive the first 160 characters or the message may be split into two or more messages. Send longer messages via e-mail.
Enter keypad codes to get phone info
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Using your phone keypad, you can type in different codes to get a variety of information about your iPhone. Go to Phone >Keypad, enter the code, and tap Call to access it. Here is a list of codes and what type of information they are for: