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How to Permanently Delete Photos from iPhone
If deleting them from Image capture or the device itself doesn’t work, make a backup and then consider restoring.
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How to read PDF on iPhone in narrower columns?
PDFs are designed to describe a fixed page layout, with items in set positions. They are not capable of 'live reflowing' the text, or wrapping it to the window.
That having been said, some desktop ...
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How to download old versions of IPA files?
I found one way to do this, there's a script called 'ipatool-py' which can be downloaded from GitHub.
The only caveat is that you'll need to run the script on a Windows, with iTunes 12.6.5.3 logged ...
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iOS 17 update: contact pictures
You can check whether your contact photo is shared by going to Settings > Contacts > Share Name & Photo
If you enable the "Name & Photo Sharing" toggle then it may be shared. ...
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Can I delete a file from being shown in the 'recents' area of the Files iOS app?
After several attempts, it seems I finally could solve this big challenge and I decided share here to help the several people with same issue. Here are the steps:
Disable the automatic date and hour ...
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If I get an app that contains a monthly fee and I delete it, do i still have to pay?
You need to cancel it at least 24 hours before the trial ends.
This is one area where Apple exerts control over developers allowing you to cancel subscriptions, directly, easily and without any ...
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How to recover iPhone videos deleted through Image Capture on Mac?
There is no viable way to perform file undeletion on an iPhone itself or from Image Capture , sadly - all of the apps I’ve seen to recover files are almost categorically “a waste of time”, but perhaps ...
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How can I edit Books’ metadata on iOS?
I believe the app Calibre can do the editing, once the books are extracted from the Books app as mentioned above.
https://calibre-ebook.com
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How can I edit Books’ metadata on iOS?
iOS is sandboxed, and the Books app does not save data to a folder in the Files app, so there is no iOS SDK function to access or modify the Books app’s files. This determines that you must copy the ...
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Ensure emptying 'Recently Deleted' succeeds?
If you have iCloud Photos, I would always use the web app to perform a large delete since the code runs from the data center adjacent to the storage of the photos. (As opposed to running code on the ...
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How to make background of Files dark in iOS 17?
Open system settings, search for dark (or appearance).
In the appearance select Dark and the non-document sections of the files app are dark.
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How to disable all "Allow paste from" prompts?
This can be configured in the app-specific part of Settings if the app supports it (otherwise you should contact the developer).
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Use iOS 16 wallpaper in iOS 17
You can't. The good thing is that you were using the default wallpaper, you could just find it with a quick search online.
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where can I download ChatGPT with the VOICE feature, for iPhone?
The apps needed are on the App Store.
If you can’t follow the setup instructions to establish a custom workflow for the button, you might need to open a support ticker with the appropriate app ...
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What does the "preparing" step do when I upload a video on some website with my iPhone?
From what I read on Reddit, the preparation step may involve converting the video.
Probably converting the video from HEVC to a more widely compatible format (likely AVC). When selecting a video in ...
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Is there an app to remind of appointments until I acknowledge?
I use this one for reminders:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reminder-reminders-with-voice/id1071899483
Reminders created in this app can be snoozed, can be repeatable, etc. But this does not handle ...
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Is there an app to remind of appointments until I acknowledge?
Try the Due app on iPhone, Apple Watch and Mac
https://www.dueapp.com/
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How to make the keyboard show emoji in the word prediction area?
In iOS 16 (the highest I go to..) this is controlled for the standard keyboard in Settings | General | Keyboards | All Keyboards | Predictive.
Now I'm assuming you do have that switched on, it would ...
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Siri spells my child’s name wrong in texts
Someone here said something about pronunciation, I guess they didn’t read the original question. Several people here had the same question that I and maybe millions more half, but we’re ignored by ...
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iOS: Create shortcut to send current website from Safari to Firefox
The error obviously comes from the "Expand" part of the shortcut, just remove it. The following works:
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Need Reminder Application to notify every X minutes during the day
Free app:
Alarmed by "Yoctoville" does it on IOS. Can sync with iCloud too.
However Alarmed broke for me recently on IOS, it keeps crashing no matter what I do (reinstall, restart/app/phone)....
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What kind of NFC-Tag is only readable in Shortcuts App?
NFC tags come in different Tag Types, which have a Signalling Type and support a Protocol, like so:
Tag Type
Type 1
Type 2
Type 3
Type 4
Signalling Type
NFC A
NFC A
NFC F
NFC A or NFC B
Protocol
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Trigger automation or notification by counting other notifications
macOS stores notifications in a SQLite database. You can query this database for notifications that match the texts coming from your sprinkler system.
Let's say the notification from your sprinkler ...
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What happens to my data if I cancel my iCloud Storage subscription?
Apple removed all my files from iCloud Drive after my subscription was canceled by them as no payments (no valid card). It's madness. It's Apple.
As far as I know if you cancel subscription plan it's ...
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Why does the photo app take 28GB even though I remove all the files from Windows and my iCloud capability is capped to 5GB?
It seems that Windows PC need to use iTunes to access Photos on an iPhone/iPad. Here is what Apple Support says about it (2023):
Import to your Windows PC
You can import photos to your PC by ...
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How can I add a second sender address with different SMTP server in iOS?
Came accross this question and found a way to use a second sender address with a different SMTP server.
Configure a second SMTP server for your current mail account as already described here by ...
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How to make hyperlinks in iOS Mail app?
The iOS Mail app now has this feature, as demonstrated in the following screen recording:
The animated gif also shows how one can edit the link.
Not sure when this feature was added, but it provides ...
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How to copy eBooks into TotalReader on iPad?
Imazing program on your PC or mac can help with that. You can copy books, organise folders inside TotalReader app folder with help of it.Very useful.
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How do I tell Siri which device I'm talking to?
Form what I know, there is no way to tell Siri which device you are talking to. I believe Apple might introduce this feature in the future.
Under the current circumstances, if you want to know on ...
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Activity tracking when not wearing Apple Watch
You get steps and flights of stairs climbed only with iPhone and iOS 17. No activities, no workouts, no heart rate and other watch specific data is generated or shown in either health or the fitness ...
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Cannot login on ChatGPT mobile website (chat.openai.com) on iOS 14/iPadOS 14
iOS 14 is failing to parse the JavaScript on the site. It sees a syntax error in the main JavaScript, bundle, causing it to fail to load the bundle, which contains all the main JavaScript required for ...
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Cannot login on ChatGPT mobile website (chat.openai.com) on iOS 14/iPadOS 14
The new interface doesn't work on Safari 14, Mojave either.
Try Chrome [which does still work on Mac], otherwise you'll have to update iOS.
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no chat on iPad, YouTube and Chrome for replay of video (Safari does provide chat)
They merged the comments and live chats. Swipe to the left from comments to see the live chat.
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Does Apple Family sharing notify the organizer when a member leaves the unit?
Yes - both parties get a notification and possibly a mail, too.
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How do I make it so that the other person can't see an old text that I sent to them on imessage?
Technically you can unsend a message through Messages however, there are certain conditions that allows you use this feature. Unfortunately, none apply here (i.e. SMS messages cannot be undone no ...
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