Jun 7, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, Explainer, Find My Friends, iOS, iPhone, location, Messages, productivity, Restricted Content
As iPhones have become ever more prevalent, one of Apple’s bundled apps—Find My Friends—has become significantly more useful. Although there are legitimate concerns about sharing your location willy-nilly, Find My Friends gives everyone full control over what they...
May 24, 2018 | Apple Pros, apps, APros Archive, Article, Blog, iOS, iPhone, productivity, Restricted Content, Solution
Smartphone addiction is real. Do you check your iPhone before you get out of bed? During family dinners? Right before you go to sleep? Constantly during the day even when you’re on vacation? If you—or your family members—feel that you’re disappearing into your phone...
May 1, 2018 | Apple Pencil, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, education, iPad, iPhone, iWork, Keynote, News, Numbers, Pages, Restricted Content
At a special education event on March 27th, Apple introduced a new 9.7-inch iPad that offers faster performance, support for the Apple Pencil, and a few new camera-related features. The company also released new versions of the iWork apps—Pages, Numbers, and...
Apr 24, 2018 | Apple Pay, Apple Pay Cash, Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Explainer, iPad, iPhone, privacy, productivity, Restricted Content, security
You’ve probably heard of Apple Pay, but have you set it up so you can use it to pay for purchases at checkout? If not, give it a try, since it’s one of those living-in-the future Apple technologies that feels like science fiction every time you use it. Simply put your...
Apr 11, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, battery, Blog, Health, iOS 11, iPhone, macOS, Messages, News, privacy, productivity, Restricted Content, Safari, troubleshooting
At the end of March, Apple released updates to all four of its operating systems, but iOS 11.3 was the most notable. It boasts a variety of new features and other changes—you can think of it as the midpoint update between iOS 11’s first release and iOS 12, probably...
Apr 6, 2018 | Apple Pros, APros Archive, Article, Blog, customization, Facebook, How-To, iOS, iPhone, Mac, privacy, Restricted Content, security
Facebook has dominated the news headlines of late, but not for good reasons. There were the 50 million Facebook profiles gathered for Cambridge Analytica and used in the 2016 presidential election. Facebook has long been scraping call and text message data from...
