How to Make Signal or WhatsApp Your iPhone’s Default Messaging App Skip the Messages app, and automatically open chats in Signal or WhatsApp instead.

All iPhones Now Feature OLED Displays Apple’s new iPhone 16e adopts the design and display of the iPhone 14, which means it has an OLED display instead of an LCD display. With the debut of the ‌iPhone 16e‌ and the discontinuation of the prior iPhone SE, Apple has eliminated LCD displays from the iPhone lineup. All of the iPhones that Apple sells have an OLED display, and LCD techno…

Did You Know iPhones Can Measure a Person’s Height? Here’s How iPhones equipped with a LiDAR Scanner have a useful trick: they can be used to measure a person’s height. In order to take advantage of this feature, you will need an iPhone Pro or Pro Max model released in 2020 or later. Below, we outline how to measure a person’s height with an iPhone. How to Measure The ability to measure a person’s height …

10 Tips to Get the Most From Your iPhone’s Battery If you have regular access to an iPhone charger during the day and a healthy battery, you probably don’t need to worry much about extending your ‌iPhone‌’s battery. For days when you’re away from home for long periods of time, though, you might need to take some steps to make sure you get the most out of your battery. We’ve rounded up 10 tips t…

SanDisk Debuts MagSafe-Compatible SSD for iPhones SanDisk this week introduced the SanDisk Creator Phone SSD, a small, portable SSD that’s designed to be used with Apple’s MagSafe iPhones. The SSD has ‌MagSafe‌ compatibility, and it attaches to the back of an iPhone magnetically. An included USB-C cable then connects the SSD to the ‌iPhone‌, allowing the setup to be used while on-the-go. SanDi…

Question about optical zoom on iPhones? Hi all, I hope it’s ok to post this here, and that the flair I chose is also the right one. I’ve also posted on apple-dedicated subs, but thought it might be worth giving it a shot here as well. TL;DR: Apple’s website claims the iPhone 15 Plus has “0.5x, 1x, and 2x optical zoom,” but multiple Apple reps have said the 2x zoom is “high-quality di…

Buying refurbished iPhones? I want to get a new phone, I buy my phones with cash and use mint mobile for affordable cell service. I’d like to get a refurbished iPhone. On apples website they’re like $700. Ouch. I bought some a few years ago on Amazon and had bad luck. I have bought a couple that were good over the years. What do I look for or use there a good place to get …

WhatsApp to Drop Support for These iPhones Starting May 2025 WhatsApp is set to end support for iOS versions older than iOS 15.1 from May next year, removing the chat platform’s compatibility with several iPhone models in the process. From May 5, 2025, WhatsApp will no longer be compatible with iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus models. Users with those devices won’t be able to access the encrypted c…

RCS experience with iPhones so far So its been roughly two months since iOS 18 came out and RCS has “been adopted” by Apple. How has it been for you? submitted by /u/m3t4morphosis

How to Change Your iPhone’s Ringtone and Media Volume Separately Tweak one volume setting without impacting the other.

Tailor Your iPhone’s Fitness Summary to Your Workouts iOS 18 finally allows you to customize the Fitness app’s Summary tab.

Now you can launch Snapchat’s camera from your iPhone’s lock screen Image: SnapchatStarting this week, Snapchat is introducing a faster way for iPhone users to take snaps when they’re in a rush. iPhones running iOS 18 or later can replace the flashlight or native camera shortcuts at the bottom of the lock screen with shortcuts to Snapchat’s camera. With the new shortcuts, you can launch the Snapchat camera dire…

Apple Reduces Trade-In Values for Select iPhones, Macs, and More Apple today adjusted its trade-in values for select devices in the United States, with several reductions in value going into effect across the iPhone 14 series, Apple Watch models, select Macs and iPads, and some Android smartphones. Most Apple smartphone reductions were slight: iPhone 14 trade-in values decreased by up to $20, but there were …

How to create PDFs on iPhones using Notes Illustration by Samar Haddad / The VergeIt may sound funny to say this, but PDF files — electronic copies of printed documents — are still around and are still very useful. Short for Portable Document Format, PDFs allow you to create a digital version of a paper document, letting you store and access them a lot easier than having to rifle throug…

Apple says iPhones will support RCS in 2024 Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeThe blue versus green bubble debate may finally be winding down. Apple says the iPhone will add support for RCS messaging, the messaging standard used by most Android phones, in 2024, according to a report from 9to5Mac. “Later next year, we will be adding support for RCS Universal Profile, the standard as current…

UK Lawsuit Over ‘Throttled’ iPhones Moves Forward A legal claim in the United Kingdom over Apple’s 2017 “throttling” controversy has been allowed to move forward by the Competition Appeal Tribunal, according to Reuters. Consumer advocate Justin Gutmann filed the claim back in June 2022, originally seeking a total of £750 million for up to 25 million iPhone users in the UK whose devices were af…

You can now exchange numbers just by tapping iPhones together. Here’s how to use it You can swap contact information just by holding your iPhone next to one another thanks to a new feature in iOS 17.

The best iPhones Navigate Apple’s lengthy iPhone product catalog like a pro. | Image: The VergeWhether you want a battery that lasts for days or the very best deal, we’ve got some recommendations for an iPhone you’ll love. Continue reading…

Samsung’s new ploy to get kids off iPhones is a MrBeast sponsorship Earlier this year, investment bank Piper Sandler published results from an annual survey showing that 87 percent of teens own an iPhone, leaving precious little market for Android device makers to carve up. But Samsung has a new plan to break the kids of their Apple addiction: Get YouTuber and restauranteur Jimmie Donaldson, aka MrBeast, to make…

Samsung’s latest pitch for the Z Fold 5: two iPhones at the same time Imagine if this were two iPhones in a trench coat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The VergeHey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is actually just two iPhones in a trench coat! That’s the idea behind the latest update to the Try Galaxy web app, which, when running on two iPhones, offers a Samsung One UI demonstration spread across both …