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I was recently asked about the difference between active, inactive, and wired memory on computers. Many memory measure tools use these terms to describe your memory usage and doesn't really go into much depth about what they mean.
In this piece, I hope to shed some light on this confusion and explain the differences between these memory states the best I can.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to dive into the Fitness app on your iPhone and see your walking, running, and other workout history in an easy daily list view and Activity rings view.
The Messages app for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac has bubble and screen effects that allow users to better express themselves. Initially, a message sent with an effect would animate once after the user opened it. With iOS 10.1 and later, you can easily replay the bubble and screen effects anywhere in conversations with a tap.
iOS provides a Portrait mode in the stock Camera app to owners of the dual-camera iPhone 7 Plus.
As you know, Portrait mode lets you take dramatic DSLR-like depth of field photographs where the camera automatically creates a beautifully blurred background while keeping the subject in the front sharp and in full focus.
Your iPhone 7 plus defaults to saving both the original twelve-megapixel photo and its depth of field counterpart, effectively doubling storage requirements for Portrait shots.
In this quick tutorial we're going to show you how you can easily disable photo duplicates for depth of field photos with just a few taps.
Learn how to set the Activity and Workout apps on your Apple Watch and the Fitness app on your iPhone to display the energy unit in Kilojoules (KJ) instead of Calories (CAL).
You can play Messages app effects even if the Reduce Motion feature has been turned on in the Accessibility settings on your iPhone or iPad.
The other day I made a rare visit to my iMessage App Store. Amongst a multitude of others, Tumblr, an App that never fully struck a chord with me, had add an iMessage app to my ‘Manage’ tab, silently begging for me to take it for a spin. I sighed and flicked the switch on, not knowing what to expect from the extension - and have not looked back since.
In iOS 9, you could organize emails in Apple's stock Mail application by thread but that was pretty much it. iOS 10 introduced a pair of new settings for simplifying inbox management.
The first tells Mail to arrange emails in a thread in the order they were received, with the most recent ones at the top. The other prompts the app to unify threads by including relevant emails from other mailboxes.
In this tutorial, we're going to teach you how to enable and use Conversation View in Mail and leverage the aforesaid toggles to bring some order to your inbox.
Learn how to remove friends added to your Game Center account if you no longer want to interact with them, see their game achievements, play games with them over FaceTime call, or have apps connect you with that particular friend for an improved multiplayer experience.
Learn how to configure the Spotify app on your iPhone so you can use it to your liking without blowing through all of your cellular data.
In this tutorial, we will show you how to play, create, edit, and work with Memories in the Apple Photos app on iPhone or iPad to see curated slideshows of memorable pictures and videos of significant people, pets, places, dates, or events in your photo library.
Apple’s Find My Friends app has been much maligned over the years and for many served as a great example that Apple does bloatware just as well as the competition. With the arrival of iOS 10 and the ability to delete the stock apps some users might find pesky, Find My Friends certainly must be a contender for the title of most frequently trashed app on the Home screen.
This comes in spite of the fact that, over time, Find My Friends has actually inherited some redeemable qualities: next to a useful widget, one feature in particular has enjoyed little to no exposure, even though there are compelling real life use cases for it.