Is your iPhone getting poor battery life? This great new iOS 8 feature might solve your problems
Battery life has emerged as a key issue for smartphone buyers and now Apple has added a new feature with iOS 8 that will give you more insight into why your phone’s battery is draining more quickly than you expected. As The Daily Dot points out, iOS 8 has a new Battery Usage feature that will break down exactly which apps are eating up the most power on your phone so you can know to shut them down to save battery life.
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YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS: The single most important trick every new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus user needs to know!
Apple’s iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launch is now behind us, and the company confirmed on Monday morning that it was indeed a record-smashing launch. Through the new iPhones’ first weekend of availability, Apple managed to sell more than 10 million combined iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets. That figure might seem like it is fairly close to last year’s combined total of 9 million iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c handsets, but that number included between 2.5 million and 3 million iPhones sold in China, where the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus aren’t yet available. As Hudson Square Research analyst Daniel Ernst noted in a post on Twitter, Apple enjoyed about 60% growth on-year through the new iPhones’ first weekend of availability when taking China into account.
So now that millions upon millions of people own all these new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets, it’s time to make sure they get the most out of their new phones. We’ve been sharing tips and tricks for quite a while now, but there’s one trick in particular that every single iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus owner needs to know.
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No, the iPhone 6 doesn’t charge wirelessly inside a microwave
There’s no way around it, if you have tried to microwave your new iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus, or any other iOS 8 device in hope to charge its battery, the word “smart” should not be used around your household to describe anything, even a phone. But “smart” might still describe the pranksters who set up an Apple-like page that details Wave, “an iOS 8 exclusive” feature that supposedly turns microwaves into energy.
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Incredibly cool GIF shows what it’s like to unlock every single iPhone model at once
It’s looking more and more like we’re in for a week of seriously cool iPhone-related GIFs. A new GIF posted on Reddit over the weekend shows all 10 iPhone models ever released lined up in a row getting unlocked at the same time with one continuous swipe across all of their Slide to Unlock buttons.
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BREAKING: Apple announces record-smashing sales numbers for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus debut
Try to act surprised: Apple’s new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are now officially the fastest-selling iPhones of all time. And as a result, of course, that makes Apple’s new iPhone models for 2014 the fast-selling smartphones of all time, period. Apple on Monday morning issued the press release we’ve all been waiting for, confirming opening weekend sales numbers for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. So, what do Apple’s numbers look like? Including preorders and sales through the new iPhones’ first three days of availability — and excluding sales in China, where the new iPhones haven’t yet launched — Apple managed to sell a mind-boggling 10 million combined iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus handsets.
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WSJ: Google’s Nexus 9 is launching soon
HTC is widely expected to launch a high-end Nexus 9 tablet in partnership with Google in the coming weeks, and a new report from The Wall Street Journal all but confirms the deal.
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Home Depot didn’t take data security seriously, report reveals
Home Depot recently confirmed that it has been the victim of the largest credit card breach in history, with 56 million payment cards having been stolen by clever hackers, who managed to access the giant retailer’s systems for more than four months. A report from The New York Times further reveals that while the recent hack was possible thanks to advanced malware programs that went undetected by existing security measures, Home Depot apparently has a history of ignoring the security of its customers’ payment data.
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Watch the iPhone’s entire evolution unfold in one mesmerizing GIF
We’ve already seen great still pictures that show the iPhone’s evolution all the way from the original device in 2007 up to this year’s massive new iPhone 6 Plus. GadgetLove, however, has done something even cooler and has put together a fantastic GIF that slides through every major iPhone design iteration released so far, from the original iPhone to the iPhone 3G to the iPhone 4 to the iPhone 5 and finally to the iPhone 6.
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Apple’s iCloud security nightmare gets worse as more nude celebrity pics leak
If you thought that the hugely successful iPhone 6 launch would help Apple move past the controversy surrounding nude celerity photos that were stolen from hacked iCloud accounts, think again. TMZ reported on Saturday that a fresh round of stolen celebrity photos popped up on 4Chan and included pictures of Kim Kardashian, Vanessa Hudgens, Hope Solo and Jennifer Lawrence. This marks the second major cache of nude celebrity photos that have hit the Internet following an earlier hack that included pictures of Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, Jenny McCarthy, Kate Upton, Mary E. Winstead and many others.
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Had trouble using Siri before? Try it on iOS 8 and you might find huge improvements
If you’ve ever tried using Siri but have been frustrated by its accuracy, you should try giving it a new chance after installing iOS 8. In fact, according to one longtime iPhone user who has a motor speech disorder called dysarthria, Siri has improved so much with iOS 8 that he’s able to effectively use it for the first time ever.
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