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How to prevent contacts from texting, calling, or FaceTiming you—and what they'll see if you do.

Photo: New Africa (Shutterstock)You can’t pick up a stranger’s iPhone and use it as your own: Authentication measures, like Face ID, Touch ID, and passcodes, ensure the only people who can access our iPhones are us and the people we trust. However, even if you can’t check out someone’s messages or open up their Instagram…

Photo: NYC Russ (Shutterstock)When it’s time to buy a new iPhone, most of us don’t hold on to the old one. After all, iPhones are expensive, and trading in the old for the new reduces the sticker shock you have to deal with at the Apple Store. If you’re planning on buying a new iPhone…

Photo: Kicking Studio (Shutterstock)When you want to get closer to a subject without actually moving, you zoom. It’s a camera feature that’s been around for decades, and one that’s alive and well on the iPhone. However, you might have noticed your zoom shots don’t come out quite as crisp as your normal pictures. In fact,…

Photo: Cristian Dina (Shutterstock)Rarely do I go to bed without something playing on my iPhone, usually a YouTube video. The problem is, I need to make sure the video is long enough for me to fall asleep to, but not so long it wakes up me down the line. Plus, I need to make sure…

Photo: ARIMAG (Shutterstock)My iPhone’s display is a mess. Some of that mess makes sense: I expect nicks and scratches on my screen when my iPhone, say, falls out of my pocket onto cement. However, many of these scratches have mysteriously accumulated over time, through no misuse of my own. Under direct sunlight, it’s a massacre.…

Now you can seamlessly work across multiple Apple devices.

Key updates, including Universal Control, are now available with an operating system update.

Brian A Jackson/Shutterstock Certain iPhone owners using T-Mobile's cellular service are experiencing a loss of access to iMessage and Facetime if they run into a specific eSIM bug. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, as reported by MacRumors, the only way to reactivate your iMessage or Facetime in the case that this bug does occur is…

WML Image/Shutterstock In early May, Google revealed what its next big smartphone will look like when it launches later this year. The Pixel 7 will, thankfully, remain mostly the same as its predecessor, save for subtle design differences with the cameras on its back. In the fast-changing world of smartphones, sticking to the same design for…