How to have Siri automatically read incoming text messages out loud to you in iOS 13
Learn how to get handy voice announcements from Siri through your AirPods or Powerbeats Pro for texts sent to you via Messages or any third-party messaging app.
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How to adjust iPhone hold duration for 3D Touch and Haptic Touch
iOS 13 brought out an expanded use of the Haptic Touch feature across the system experience, including a new feature that makes it possible to adjust the time it takes to reveal content previews, actions and contextual items.
How to use the new High-Key Mono portrait lighting effect on iPhone in iOS 13
Follow along with iDownloadBlog’s step-by-step tutorial as we teach you how to add a beautiful monochromatic effect to your Portrait mode photos.
How to quickly connect to nearby Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth accessories from Control Center in iOS 13
iOS 13 sports a Wi-Fi/Bluetooth selection feature in Control Center that saves you from opening Settings every time you wish to switch Wi-Fi networks or Bluetooth accessories.
How to rotate, straighten, crop, trim or flip a video in the Photos app on iOS 13
Not only can you rotate a video without round-tripping to iMovie, but also de-skew perspective and perform other non-destructible operations on your footage that used to require third-party apps, like trimming, cropping, rotating and flipping.
How to mute notifications from email threads in Apple Mail on iOS 13
Apple Mail makes it easy to mute notifications from an email thread, which you’ll find indispensable when CC’d in an overly active email thread that you aren’t actively participating in.
Creating an iMessage profile with a custom profile picture and display name in iOS 13
iOS 13 lets iPhone and iPad owners create an iMessage profile for the Messages app with a custom photo and display name, and decide how to share it with chat participants.
Silencing unknown callers on iPhone in iOS 13
In iOS 13, you can have the Phone app automatically send any incoming calls from people not found in Contacts, Mail and Messages to your voicemail, and iDB shows you how.
How to change where the downloaded Safari items are saved in iOS 13
iOS 13 brought out a built-in download manager. Follow along as we show you how to customize where files you download in the Safari browser go on your iPhone or iPad.
How to have Safari automatically close all open tabs in iOS 13
Follow along with iDownloadBlog as we show you how to set iOS 13’s Safari on iPhone and iPad to automatically close all your open tabs once per day, week or month.
5 reasons that make VideoProc a great 4K Mac video editor for beginners [sponsor]
Avoiding compatibility issues is crucial to enjoying your 4K, high frame rate and slow-motion footage across a myriad of devices. VideoProc can help with that. Rather than pile up a bunch of complex features you’ll never use, VideoProc is a focused app that’s very easy to use and includes a plethora of powerful features like hardware acceleration to ensure that your converted videos play back without a hiccup no matter the platform.
10 new time-saving productivity gestures in iPadOS
The iPad still isn’t a 100% notebook replacement, and probably never will be, but these new gestures in iPadOS do make you tablet computing a lot more productive than ever before.