11 Tricks For Solving Your Most Annoying iPhone Problems

11 Tricks For Solving Your Most Annoying iPhone Problems

As anyone who owns an iPhone knows, it’s a love-hate relationship. At times, Siri is your best acquaintance — Thanks for absolution me apperceive to accompany an awning today! Then, you get your 15th mid-text notification about afterlight to iOS 9, and you wish to bung your buzz at the wall.

Okay, maybe that’s a bit extreme, but you get the picture.

Think of this as your how-to adviser for ambidextrous with those arresting moments. We've aggregate 11 of our a lot of alarming iOS issues, and talked to Rose Crawford and Vicky Tzannetis, two experts at tech account Enjoy, about how to accomplish them disappear.

Troubleshoot your problems application these solutions and you’re affirmed to adulation your iPhone more.

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HOW TO GET RID OF IOS UPDATE NOTIFICATIONS

HOW TO EASILY ACCESS A PDF OR WEBPAGE

iOS is the operating arrangement that makes the apple — a.k.a. your buzz — go round. Every so often, you’ll accept a notification pop-up cogent you that an iOS amend is available, the a lot of contempo of which was iOS 9.3. Unfortunately, there’s no way to absolutely get rid of these notifications, added than afterlight your phone. But assurance us, you absolutely do wish to amend your phone.

iOS updates fix bugs and acquaint new appearance from the geniuses over at Apple, to accomplish your accord with your buzz a happier one. To analysis if your software is up-to-date, go to Settings, General, Software Update. Many humans just bang “accept,” if they go to download the latest update, but it can be accessible to apprehend through the amend addendum to get an overview about all the new appearance you’re getting. To download an update, you'll wish your buzz acquainted into a adeptness source, affiliated to Wi-Fi, and afresh backed up.

HOW TO EASILY ACCESS A PDF OR WEBPAGE

HOW TO GET SIRI TO UNDERSTAND WHO YOUR BOYFRIEND IS

Whether you’re aggravating to save a PDF of your Amtrak admission to your home screen, or you accept a website you wish to be able to bound admission again, there’s a accessible adjustment to accumulate aggregate in one place. If you’re in the page you wish to save, tap the allotment button at the basal of your awning and annal to the appropriate until you see “Copy/Save PDF to iBooks." Tap that and you’re acceptable to go. Now, you accept your files adored in a individual app, and you can admission them even with aught bars.

Don't wish to save to iBooks? You can consistently use addition app, like Dropbox, so you can admission those files from any device.

HOW TO GET SIRI TO UNDERSTAND WHO YOUR BOYFRIEND IS

HOW TO GO DIRECTLY FROM ONE APP TO ANOTHER

Oh Siri — she can be so acute at times, and so clueless at others. In the past, accepting her to accept the altered relationships in your activity has been a pain. For example, if you had your admirer adored in your contacts by his name, but said to Siri, “Siri, alarm my boyfriend,” she just didn’t get it. But now, if you ask Siri to alarm your boyfriend, you’ll be able to baddest the appropriate contact, and advise her that designation. From afresh on, she’ll automatically admit your admirer (or mom, or dad, or best friend) traveling forward.

HOW TO GO DIRECTLY FROM ONE APP TO ANOTHER

HOW TO MAKE YOUR BATTERY LAST LONGER

Going aback to your home awning to about-face from one app to addition isn't just a pain, it aswell uses up added battery. Instead, try this: If you’re in Safari but get a notification from Snapchat that you wish to attending at, go advanced and tap it. If you’re accessible to acknowledgment to Safari, attending in the top-left-hand corner. There’s the advantage to go anon aback to Safari, no home awning needed. This will plan if abiding from any app to the one you were in previously.

You can aswell bifold tap the home button to cull up the multitasking menu, and bandy amid apps you use all the time.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR BATTERY LAST LONGER

HOW TO UNDO A MISTAKE WHEN TYPING A MESSAGE

If you’re the affectionate of being who carries your Mophie everywhere you go, you apperceive what it’s like to run low on juice. Now, there’s a way to extend your array activity and amount out why your array is so low. Go to Settings, Battery, and about-face on Low Adeptness Mode. This switches off assorted array accelerated activities on your buzz (such as accomplishments app brace and automated app downloads) and turns array logo in the top appropriate bend yellow, so you apperceive it's on.

In this menu, you aswell accept the advantage to see which apps accept acclimated up your array the a lot of in the endure 24 hours or the antecedent week. This way you can see which ones you adeptness wish to cut aback on (cough, Tinder) or which may cesspool your array badly (cough, Facebook).

HOW TO UNDO A MISTAKE WHEN TYPING A MESSAGE

HOW TO UNDO A MISTAKE WHEN TYPING A MESSAGE

Instead of accepting to columnist and authority the backspace button to get rid of something you’ve afield typed or pasted, about-face on the “Shake to Undo” setting. By accomplishing this, you’ll be able to agitate your buzz to disengage your error.

Go to Settings, General, Accessibility, and about-face on Agitate to Undo.

HOW TO UNDO A MISTAKE WHEN TYPING A MESSAGE

HOW TO GET RID OF ICLOUD NOTIFICATIONS

HOW TO ONLY SEND TEXTS OVER IMESSAGE (A.K.A. BLUE MESSAGES)

Sick of your iPhone cogent you that you’re active out of amplitude in iCloud? There are brace of means to accord with this.

First, you can pay to advancement to a beyond accumulator plan. Go to Settings, General, Accumulator & iCloud Usage, Manage Accumulator (under iCloud), and Change Accumulator Plan.

You can aswell absolutely about-face off iCloud. (If you accept to do this, just accomplish abiding that you’re still abetment up your abstracts in iTunes.) Go to Settings, iCloud, and about-face off iCloud Drive.

Sometimes iCloud notifications just pop-up because your abstracts hasn’t been backed up recently. To analysis if your endure aback up was, go to Settings, iCloud, Backup. If you're on Wi-Fi, you can afresh tap Aback Up Now to accomplish those reminders go away.

HOW TO ONLY SEND TEXTS OVER IMESSAGE (A.K.A. BLUE MESSAGES)

HOW TO RESTART YOUR PHONE WHEN IT’S FROZEN

iMessages are absolute to Apple accessories and cover appropriate appearance such as area sharing, and the adeptness to see if anyone is autograph you aback — which can be affliction if you’re cat-and-mouse for a argument from endure night’s date. iMessages appearance up as dejected in your texting chats. If you don't accept admission to your abstracts network, or you're texting with anyone on Android or Windows Phone, their bulletin bubbles will appearance up as green.

If appealing abundant all your accompany use iOS, and you abhorrence seeing those blooming bubbles, you can about-face off SMS letters altogether. Go to Settings, Messages, and accomplish abiding iMessage is switched on (it apparently already is), and about-face off "Send as SMS."

In this Letters menu, you can aswell accept how continued you wish to authority assimilate those iMessage threads. The absence is always (never deleting them), but if you argument a lot, or accept acute conversations, you can about-face it to annul letters afterwards one year, or afterwards 30 days. .

HOW TO RESTART YOUR PHONE WHEN IT’S FROZEN

HOW TO PUT YOUR PHONE TO SLEEP IF YOUR POWER BUTTON STOPS WORKING

You just opened Facebook or Safari and all of a sudden, your fingers seemed to accept chock-full alive on the screen. Ambidextrous with this one is easy: do a harder displace by captivation down the adeptness button and the home awning button at the aforementioned time until your buzz shuts down and afresh restarts with the Apple logo. .

HOW TO PUT YOUR PHONE TO SLEEP IF YOUR POWER BUTTON STOPS WORKING

HOW TO GET RID OF THE STOCKS APP YOU NEVER USE

If you accept an iPhone 5 archetypal purchased afore March 2013, your on/off button may accept chock-full working. You can get the affair replaced for chargeless through Apple (check your accommodation here). If you accept a after archetypal that suffered some array of accident, or if you don't accept time to get a adulterated adeptness button anchored appropriate away, you can instead actuate AssistiveTouch.

Go to Settings, General, Accessibility, and about-face on AssistiveTouch. If you about-face this on, a baby gray box will arise on your home awning that acts as a agent adeptness button. Inside it, bang Accessory and Lock Screen.

HOW TO GET RID OF THE STOCKS APP YOU NEVER USE

Your buzz comes congenital with a agglomeration of apps you never blow — such as the ones pictured here. You can abolish them from your afterimage via a drudge address of ability YouTuber videosdebarraquito.

Put the Stocks app in a binder (hold it down until it starts jiggling, afresh cull it over addition app). Captivation Stocks down aural the folder, cull it to the appropriate ancillary of your awning until you see three dots forth the bottom, advertence that it’s in the third page of the folder. With your feel still captivation it down, columnist the home button. Voilà! Stocks is gone.

If you (for some reason) do wish to acquisition it again, you can admission it via Search by annexation down on your home screen, or annexation to the larboard from your home screen, afresh accounting in Stocks. It should be acclaimed this is added of a drudge than a abiding band-aid — if you restart your phone, Stocks will resurface, undisappeared, and you'll charge to do this action again. .

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