Learn how to add specific people to your iPhone's DND allow list to continue receiving notifications about their calls and texts in Do Not Disturb mode.
How to allow calls and texts from specific contacts during Do Not Disturb on iPhone
iCloud
AllInboxesFilter lets you exclude email accounts from ‘All Inboxes’ in the Mail app
Your iOS device's Mail app includes a unified mailbox feature that lets you see the content of all of your email account inboxes in a single mailbox. It's accessed by tapping on the All Inboxes cell from the Mail app on your device.
In some cases, you may want to see all of the emails from two or more of your email accounts, but not all of them, and this is where a new jailbreak tweak called AllInboxesFilter is going to come in handy for heavy email users with jailbroken devices.
How to create a new contact group on iCloud.com
Create a contact group on iCloud Web so you can bundle similar contacts in one list or use them for group messaging and email.
How to export your iPhone contacts to an Excel, CSV, or vCard file
Learn how to export your iPhone contacts as an Excel, CSV, or vCard file to use as a backup or to share them with someone else.
macOS Sierra preview: Universal Clipboard + Desktop & Documents sync
Our ongoing macOS Sierra previews continue unabated as Andrew and I take a closer look at two new useful features in Sierra: Universal Clipboard and shared Desktop. You're definitely going to use Universal Clipboard quite a bit: in addition to being a great time-saver, it “just works”.
Universal Clipboard lets you copy and paste items across your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch devices and Mac computers like a boss. Sierra also puts your iCloud storage to good use by keeping any Desktop items along with the files within the Documents folder synchronized across your other devices.
Viber gains iCloud backup, support for sending money, animated GIFs and more
Messaging service Viber this morning pushed a new update to its App Store app, adding several new long overdue features. For starters, iPhone users can now back up and restore their chat history through iCloud, making keeping their conversations after an iOS restore possible.
The application now has a brand new native watchOS 2 app for your wrist with canned responses on your Apple Watch. Other new features in this edition of Viber include support for sending and receiving animated GIF images, sending money from within the app and low-rate Viber Out calling plans via a redesigned screen.
How to easily transfer contacts, photos, and videos from an iPhone to another
Depending on your set up, transferring contacts, photos and videos from your old iPhone to your new one can be pretty simple. You might use iCloud to store all this data, in which case, your contacts and photos/videos will automatically come back once you sign in your new device. Or maybe you back it all up in iTunes, which allows you to sync all that data from your computer to your new iPhone. Maybe you don't do any of that, and if you're looking for a relatively quick and easy way to transfer all this data from one iPhone to another, then read on.
How to stop your iPhone or iPad from deleting old calendar events
Learn how to stop Apple's built-in Calendar app from deleting old events and restore past appointments if they're missing from the app.
How to turn off or completely delete all your iCloud Photos
Find out how to temporarily disable or permanently delete iCloud Photos on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Windows PC if you no longer want to back up your pictures and videos to Apple’s cloud storage.
How to attach files, documents, and photos in Apple Mail
Find out how to attach a PDF, Word file, Keynote presentation, spreadsheet, image, video, or other media and document saved in the Photos app, Files app, or iCloud Drive to an email in the Apple Mail app on your iPhone or iPad.
Insiders blame iCloud technical issues on ‘open conflict’ between Siri and cloud teams at Apple
A report Thursday published by the former Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Lessin's outlet, The Information, paints a gloomy picture for Apple's efforts to move its cloud services 100 percent in-house. That process has been slowed by “political infighting” as the company's iCloud and Siri engineering teams are now “in open conflict”.
The infighting is so bad, according to sources with direct knowledge of the situation, that at least one key employee has already departed, “with more expected soon,” reads the full report behind a paywall.
How to save email attachments to iPhone and iPad
Learn how to save email attachments from Apple Mail to a folder on your iPhone or iPad or apps such as Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive.