The iPhone camera is about as automatic as it gets when it comes to getting decent shots, but a few tweaks in the settings ...

OS 26 has a new Home Screen setting to tint app icons to match the color of your iPhone or its case. Here’s how to use it.

The touch-sensitive Camera Control button on Apple's iPhone 17 and 17 lineups takes some practice, but these tweaks will help ...

iOS lets you block tracking on apps and websites in a few taps. Turning off tracking stops targeted ads without breaking apps. App Tracking Transparency puts you in control of your data. When you open ...

Make your iPhone less frustrating in minutes by tweaking just a few default settings.

Every year we feel like we've reached peak smartphone, and yet, we continue to receive phones with better cameras, faster processors, and screens that bend in half. New chips bring not just ...

"There's an app for that" was a phrase plastered onto advertisements for the Apple iPhone starting in 2009. Only about a year old at that point, the App Store was changing people's relationship with ...

Some of these directions apply to all iPhones, but some are only relevant to specific iOS versions. These differences are pointed out below. The most common way to keep apps updated on your iPhone is ...

In “Comparing the Classic and Unified Views in iOS 26’s Phone App” (10 November 2025), I wrote about the Classic view’s Recents screen: Tapping a recent call dials it, whereas tapping the ⓘ button to ...

After testing in December, Phone by Google has now rolled out a “Keep portrait mode on calls” setting to prevent automatic landscape rotation. The Google Phone app offers a landscape two-column ...