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Memoji and Animoji are two Apple features intended to expand upon the popularity of emoji. Memoji and Animoji can only be fully used in the Messages app. A set of Memoji and Animoji stickers are also available in the emoji keyboard for use in other apps. This guide will walk you through the process of disabling Memoji and Animoji. … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Disable Memoji and Animoji

Configuring a VPN on your phone is a great way to ensure that your browsing activity remains private from your mobile data provider. At some point though, you will likely want to disable your VPN. There are many reasons to want to turn a VPN off. For example, you could be switching to a different VPN provider or connecting to your home network. There are a number of ways to … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Turn Off VPN

Does your iPhone seem slow? Do you have to charge it more than once in a day? If your phone is experiencing any of these issues, your phone could use some simple fixes to make it faster. Here are 5 quick and easy ways to improve speed and make sure your iPhone 11 is running smoothly. … [Read more...] about Improving Start-up Load Speed on iPhone 11

When using your phone, it’s generally a good idea to make sure that it is set to automatically lock. The exact amount of time you want your phone to wait before locking is a personal preference. When out in public, having a short auto-lock timer reduces the chance that your phone is unlocked if it is stolen or lost. When in private, having an auto-lock timer can help protect … [Read more...] about iPhone: Configure Auto-Lock Time

On mobile phones, autocorrect has been a popular feature for a long time. Correcting typos is the main purpose of this feature. A secondary feature is configuring automatic replacements. An auto-replacement allows you to create your own auto-corrections or shorthand. One example of shorthand that is included by default on iPhones is “omw”. If you type “omw” your iPhone will … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Configure Text Auto-Replacement

If you’ve got a limited amount of monthly mobile data and keep running close to, or into your limit, you may want to keep track of your data usage. Monitoring data usage on an app-by-app basis can let you work out which apps are using too much data. With this information, you can decide if there are any apps that you should restrict from using mobile data. This guide will … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to View Mobile Data Usage Statistics

Notifications are an incredibly useful part of mobile phones. They let you know when you’ve received a message, or something important has happened. However, you don’t necessarily want to always be able to see them immediately. For privacy reasons, you may not want your notifications to be visible straight away, as other people could read your messages if they show up on your … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Disable Notification Previews

iMessage is an Apple-specific messaging protocol. It’s designed to essentially replace text messages to other Apple users. Instead of sending an SMS message, if the sender and recipient both have iMessage enabled, any texts between them will be sent as an iMessage. iMessage uses mobile data to send messages over the internet, this stops the message from eating into limited … [Read more...] about iPhone: Disable iMessage

For years, most apps and websites defaulted to a white, or at least brightly coloured background. Recently however developers have started to design separate colour schemes that use darker colours. These colour schemes are generally known as a "dark mode". A lot of users find dark modes less glaring in the dark, where a white background can be blinding even on minimum … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Enable Dark mode

Mobile data is a really useful way to stay online while out and about. However, if you’ve got a limited amount of data left on your contract, you’ll probably want to be careful with it. Turning off your mobile data will stop apps from using your data in the background, saving it for when you really need to be online. This guide will cover how to disable your mobile data. … [Read more...] about iPhone: How to Turn Off Mobile Data