Turn Your iPhone Into a Smart Display Using iOS 17’s StandBy Mode A smart display, like Google’s Pixel Tablet or Amazon’s Echo Show, can boost your productivity, keep you updated on news and weather, and connect you to your smart home. But you don’t need to buy a new display to reap the smart benefits: With iOS 17, your iPhone can now turn into a smart display on its own, giving you… Read more…

Make Any Photo a Sticker With This iOS 17 Feature If you’ve used WhatsApp or Telegram, you know just how huge stickers are. Sure, emojis are fun, but they can’t compete with how unique and expressive stickers can be. While you can buy plenty of sticker packs for iMessage, it was never simple to create your own. With iOS 17, however, Apple has made it a two-tap… Read more…

TikTok Announces Passkey Login Support for iOS Devices TikTok has announced it is introducing support for passkeys, providing an easier and more secure login method for users of the popular short-form video platform. Apple integrated passkeys into iOS with the launch of iOS 16, and they are also available in iPadOS 16.1 and later and macOS Ventura. Passkeys are an industry standard developed by th…

How to use the new StandBy mode on iOS 17 We love to see older phones learning new tricks. | Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeWith iOS 17, your iPhone will learn a useful new trick: StandBy mode. It’s simple — StandBy turns your iPhone screen into a little smart display while it’s charging. We’ve only been using it for a little while, but it’s already a staff favorite. It’s espe…

iOS 17: How to Use iPhone’s New StandBy Mode StandBy is a new Lock Screen mode in iOS 17 that activates when an ‌iPhone‌ is charging and positioned on its side. If you’re running the iOS 17 beta, here’s everything you need to know to get started using the feature. How to Activate StandBy StandBy can thought of as a kind of smart display for your ‌iPhone‌ that offers fast access to differe…

iOS 17: What’s New for the Lock Screen With iOS 16, Apple introduced a whole new look for the Lock Screen complete with widgets and customizability, and in iOS 17, the Lock Screen is getting further refinements. Widgets are more useful, and there’s a new mode that turns your iPhone into an information hub when it’s not in use. This guide highlights everything that’s new with the Loc…

Top Stories: iOS 17 Beta 3, Meta Launches Twitter Rival, and More Apple has moved on to a new round of developer beta testing for iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and related updates, and the public beta program open to everyone should be kicking off very soon. The next iPhone launch is also just two months away now, and we’re continuing to hear rumors about what to expect from the next-generation models, while we’ve heard…

iOS 17: All the Safety Features in the Latest iPhone Update Apple is introducing several new safety-focused features in iOS 17, including new measures to keep you safe when you’re traveling and to prevent you from seeing images you don’t want to see. This guide highlights all of the safety functions that Apple added to ‌iOS 17‌, and it accompanies our iOS 17 privacy and security guide. Sensitive Content…