Indholdsfortegnelse for Fall 2019 i iPhone Life Magazine

The spring months are a sleepy time of year for tech enthusiasts; we don’t hear much about what Apple is creating behind closed doors. Starting with the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, however, Apple unveils the next version of iOS, and rumors of new iPhones begin to swirl. This year’s busy season is now in full swing—iOS 13 made its debut, and Apple released an operating system for the iPad, which could move the tablet toward becoming a more viable laptop replacement. iPhone 11 rumors tell us to expect a potentially unsightly triple-lens camera that will boast a more powerful optical zoom. To be honest, iOS 13 is a bit disjointed (page 12) compared to the more coherent updates we’re used to. However, this year’s OS for the iPhone is…

The Worldwide Developers Conference 2019 keynote event has come and gone, leaving us with an array of changes to assimilate into our mental map of Apple products and services. From the death of iTunes to new software for the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac, let’s go over what Apple released and what it means for you. iOS 13 Reveals Dark Mode & Heightened Security I was wondering if Apple would number its newest operating system 13 or jump straight ahead to 14 and skip the unlucky digit. 13 it is, though, all year long. In addition to 30 percent faster Face ID and quicker app launch, downloads, and updates, we’ll finally get Dark Mode, which, as predicted, offers a gray color scheme in apps that’s easy on the eyes…

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PHOTOS, MAPS & PRIVACY Adobe Lightroom (Free) This photo-editing app by Adobe is arguably the most advanced mobile option out there for iPhone photographers who are serious about getting professional results. Here WeGo (Free) While this navigation app’s turn-by-turn directions are great, its offline maps are what make it stand apart from the rest, offering voice guidance and street info without using any data. Moldiv (Free) When it comes to photo effects, our readers love Moldiv. Between its selfie filters, editing tools, collage options, and fake magazine cover templates, this app has a lot to offer. PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY mSecure (Free) We all need a good solution when it comes to password management. mSecure offers cross-platform support, so you have your private data when you need it. NEWS, NOTES &…

JibJab (Free) Know someone who could use a good laugh? Use JibJab to add your selfie or a photo of friends and family to a variety of hilarious GIFs on topics including birthday, congratulations, anniversary, and more. Share your creation via iMessage or social media for a guaranteed chuckle. Moonpig (Starting at $4.49 plus delivery) Nothing says, “I care” like a card, but let’s face it, your local grocery is a bit lacking in options. Enter Moonpig with thousands of pre-made designs for you to drop your own message into, or customizable options you can add your own photos to. Buzzfeed (Free) The Buzzfeed app is a great place to find a variety of well-developed content to share. From sports to howtos to recipes to fun quizzes, you’re sure to…

DIVE IN & TAKE YOUR TIME Scribblenauts Unlimited ($4.99) This adorably animated puzzle and learning game stars a little boy who needs to complete kind tasks and do good deeds to save his sister from an evil spell. Samorost 3 ($4.99) Test your limits as you navigate an eerie and intricately animated world, solving puzzles and experiencing surreal interactions. Observe, imagine, and explore; there’s so much to find. TIMELESS FUN The New York Times Crossword ($6.99/month) Subscribe to enjoy the daily crossword, twenty years of archived puzzles, and performance tracking. The Daily Mini and themed packs are free. Gorogoa ($4.99) The gaming equivalent of a mystery novel that you just can’t put down, Gorogoa is a hand-illustrated game with an immersive storyline and puzzles that will engage you for hours.…

YouTube Music (Free, $12.99/Month for premium) Want to enjoy recommended music, live recordings, and playlists commercial free? Subscribe to YouTube Music Premium, or YouTube Premium, which includes YouTube Music. Bonuses include offline listening and continuous play when you lock your screen or use other apps. FIND NEW FAVORITES Discovr ($2.99) Find new music in the style of your old favorites. Just enter an artist or group you love, and a map of listening suggestions will pop up; tap one to get even more ideas. Play the songs you find and save flow charts of recommended musicians for future use. Bandcamp (Free, in-app purchases) New music can’t exist if artists don’t get paid, so the Bandcamp app is here to help. Discover songs from genres and groups you love, buy music,…

Do you ever feel like real-life opportunities to connect with people are scarce these days? I, for one, have been in a social rut for quite some time. I interact with the same people every day (family members and coworkers), and even though I have hundreds of friends on social media, I’m not close with the majority of them. While I scroll through my feeds multiple times a day, I barely have any meaningful exchanges with people. I’m fantastic at double tapping on cute photos of babies, but that’s where most of my friendships begin and end. Honestly, in the hustle and bustle of daily life, sometimes it is easier to be friendly from afar with a quick wave or a friendly hello than to invest in a real friendship…

Age: 26 Location: Denver, Colorado Bio: Hyder is the founder of Recoup Fitness, a company whose products are used by more than 80 professional athletes. Its latest invention, the Cryosleeve, is the first cold compression sleeve that allows consumers to control the pressure. Calm: One big focus for me is personal health. The Calm meditation and sleep app is my favorite for before bed. Eight Sleep: Another focus for me this year is to get more rest. Eight Sleep is the best mattress around. The associated app tracks and helps me biohack my sleep. Whole Foods Market: I use this app to see what is on sale at Whole Foods and plan out what I am buying for the week. Plus, the extra discount for Amazon Prime members…

If you’re into iPhone photography and filming, there will come a time when you feel the need to invest in accessories to improve your results. One of the most basic yet helpful extras you can buy is a tripod to eliminate unwanted movement and jiggling while you film or live stream. Tripods are also very handy when the time comes for a selfie or group shot where you’d like to include everyone. Let’s review three of my recommendations to help you take your filming and photography to the next level. Best Travel & Outdoor Tripod Joby Magnetic GorillaPod with GripTight Phone Mount ($19.95) The Joby Magnetic GorillaPod with GripTight Phone Mount is a versatile iPhone tripod that’s also lightweight and portable; it’s small enough to fit in your pocket! Your…

Re: The iPhone 11 is rumored to have a triple lens camera; do you care how it will look or just how it will function? I am going to wait until I see an iPhone 11 in the flesh, as I have many times found myself saying, ”I don’t like the new Mac Pro or iPhone X,” only to be bowled over when I see it at an Apple Store. For me, the problem is the closeness of the three lenses to the Apple logo; they interfere with each other. Of course, Apple might change the iPhone 11 design and surprise us all. But if it is an improved camera, why all the carping about the design? -Simon K. Re: How do you feel about Dark Mode coming to iOS?…

Need iPad and iPhone help? Sign up for iPhone Life Insider and Sarah will help you with all your iPhone troubleshooting and iOS-related issues. To learn more, go to iPhoneLife.com/GetInsider. My Photos app has several People albums, but the albums are missing a significant number of pictures of those people. How do I add them? Sincerely, Gone Missing Dear Missing, You can easily add more pictures to the People albums. Open the person’s album, tap the circle with the three dots, and tap Confirm Additional Photos to be taken through a series of photos your iPhone recognizes as being of that person. If you later come across a photo of them that hasn’t been added, tap on the photo and then swipe up. Below the picture you’ll see a circle…

YOUR DAILY DOSE OF INFORMATION LOCAL NEWS SOURCE Patch (Free) Patch delivers local news for more than 1,200 towns across the US. Keep up with breaking news notifications, community calendars, and coverage of events near you. theSkimm ($2.99/month) This ad-free app offers a daily five-minute summary of breaking news. theSkimm podcast and book and media recommendations promote deeper understanding of complex issues. AP News (Free) The Associated Press has delivered unbiased news since 1846, and its customizable app continues this mission. Top stories, video, radio, and local news options are included. NPR (Free) A long-trusted standby, the National Public Radio app streams ondemand content and live broadcasts. Listen to radio stories individually or add them to custom playlists. LONG FORM OPTIONS FOR DIVING RISING STAR! BuzzFeed News (Free) BuzzFeed is…

VIDEO APPS 8mm Vintage Camera ($2.99) Eight lenses, thirteen film types, optional projector sound and jitters, and the ability to import a soundtrack from iTunes make this versatile app a great addition to your iPhone. Musemage (Free) Try this app for a modern cinematic look. Shoot with automatic or manual settings, experiment with blue screen, stop motion, and time lapse, then edit and share your creation. Camera360 ($1.99) A bit of a cheat, but this app can smooth skin, slim your face, and make your eyes and teeth sparkle. Create video selfies with animal animations or go for a more natural look. Quik (Free) Turn video and photo clips into movies in mere minutes. Choose your content, template, and soundtrack, and Quik assembles your video. Share with friends and family…

MASTER THE BASICS Copy Me That Recipe Planner (Free) This is the modern equivalent of the binder we used to save recipes in. Add the Copy Me That button to Safari, and save and view recipes in the app. Cook’s Illustrated Magazine ($1.99/month) Remember leafing through the recipe-filled Cook’s Illustrated magazine? Every article, picture, and illustration is included in the app version, along with tutorial videos and pictorial guides. Healthy CrockPot Recipes (Free) CrockPot delivers hundreds of recipes from slow cooker fare like beef chili to new and unusual offerings such as Chipotle-Cheddar-Pumpkin Tacos with Cranberry Salsa. For Family Fun Tasty (Free) This is my go-to app when cooking with my kids; we love the professionally shot and edited videos for inspiration and ideas. TRY SOMETHING NEW Krautkopf ($3.99) I…

There are millions of apps designed for the average joe, from games that entertain to utilities that assist in daily life. But for this particular Joe, and many other individuals out there who are visually impaired, the selection of apps is at best very limited in scope. Granted, almost every app available to download is compatible with VoiceOver, the screen reader software built in to iOS (and MacOS), but some apps don’t play nicely with VoiceOver and are only 100 percent accessible to the sighted, rendering them unusable. Thankfully, there are a handful of great apps created just for the visually impaired. The following is a roundup of five options that I personally recommend. Seeing AI (Free) Seeing AI is a talking camera app that uses artificial intelligence to assist…

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts Bio: Baruti is a PhD candidate studying Vedic Science at Maharishi University of Management. He and his wife Mina serve as Director of the Transcendental Meditation Program in Cambridge. Other interests include philosophy, yoga, Vedic literature, and travel. Follow Baruti on YouTube or on social media @baruti. Later: This app makes scheduling and managing posts for our professional and personal Instagram feeds almost effortless. Mailchimp: Arguably the best bulk email platform, MailChimp lets us communicate with our Transcendental Meditation community. SurveyMonkey: For my dissertation research, I used this app to collect survey and textual data from respondents the world over. I’ve been impressed with the ease of the platform for collecting quantitative and qualitative data. Ripl: This is new to our online content creation…

The Apple Photos app is great for collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing your photos. Just as with the printed pictures of days gone by, digital photographs need to be kept in manageable order in photo albums. If you’re wondering how to create albums, add pictures to them, and share them with friends and family, read on. Create a New Album To create an album, open your Photos app, tap the Albums tab at the bottom of the screen, then tap the plus icon at the top left. Tap New Album, then enter your album’s name and tap Save. From here, you can select photos and videos to add to your album. When you finish, tap Done. Add Photos to an Existing Album Your album isn’t limited to the photos you…

Raphael Burnes, CTO Fiddle Leaf Fig I’ve been loving my ever-growing collection of houseplants. I caught the bug and have completely filled the south-facing windows of my house with them. I especially love my Fiddle Leaf Fig for its huge, striking leaves and my Calathea Medallion, which has beautiful, intricate foliage. David Averbach, Publisher and CEO Pony the Great Dane Puppy My fiancé and I recently adopted a puppy from a Great Dane rescue in Texas. We named her Epona (we call her Pony)! She was 12 weeks old at the time of this writing and enjoys napping, cuddling, and chewing. Tamlin Day, Ad Specialist and Web Writer The Sims 4 ($39.99) As a graphic designer, I can’t get enough when it comes to making digital art, but sometimes I…

Before the internet arrived to the masses in the mid-1990s, your monthly magazine delivery was a coveted package of goodies containing the best and most reliable information on a variety of topics. And then the internet, the great disruptor, was open for business. Almost overnight, the value of traditional print magazines became obsolete as printed content became instantly outdated and competing ways to spend leisure time were a free click away. Nearly 25 years have passed since the internet reduced the once mighty magazine industry to a tiny specialty section in convenience stores. Traditional publications have tried to meet the new market realities by offering digital PDF downloads of their monthly magazines, usually at the same cost as a normal print subscription. I have tried a few of these…

WHAT ARE WE INTO? We’re a pretty diverse bunch here at iPhone Life, and that’s reflected in the apps we discover and use. Here’s the latest sampling of what we’ve been downloading on our devices. Pushpin for Pinboard ($9.99) Our CTO Raphael uses this tag-based service that works with Pinboard and syncs across your devices to bookmark content from any app, organize links, and cache web pages. StoryCorps (Free) This app is a great resource for family interviews. At her grandma’s 90th birthday, our Editor in Chief Donna used it to generate questions and record family history and wisdom. Two Dots (Free) Connect matching dots while enjoying quirky artwork and a charming soundtrack. Web Writer Hallei likes to strategize as she climbs the levels with special power-ups and moves to…

THERE’S A FITNESS APP OUT THERE FOR YOU Just about all of us could improve our fitness routines. Whether you love the great outdoors or prefer to exercise in climate-controlled comfort, there’s an app for you. Try one or more of my suggestions, and email me at leanne@iphonelife.com if you have a recommendation for me! CHOOSE YOUR WORKOUT HOLISTIC HEALTH PLAN Fabulous (Free, $9.99/month for premium) This app offers daily challenges to improve rest, fitness, hydration, diet, and peace of mind. HappyPupper Dog Walker Tracker (Free) HappyPupper is the perfect app to track the time, distance, pace, and step count of walks with your furry friends. View your stats to track your dog’s progress. 30 Day Fitness Challenge (Free, $4.99/week for premium) Sign up for a free week, enter your…

CVS Pharmacy (Free) You don’t have to brave the ice and snow just because you’re running low on your medication. Use this app to order and pay for prescriptions. CVS will deliver them to your door once they’re ready. If you don’t have a CVS nearby, see if any of your local pharmacies can deliver. Drizly: Alcohol Delivery (Free) Want to warm up on a cold night with a hot toddy or a glass of mulled wine? Provided you live in a city where Drizly is available (Drizly.com/Cities), you can get everything you need to relax, drink in hand, by the flickering light of an Apple TV fireplace app. STAY INSIDE & STAY FIT Aaptiv ($14.99/month) Get active and fight off the winter blues from the comfort of home! Aaptiv…

MEET FINANCIAL & CAREER GOALS CONNECTS TO YOUR BANK! Twine ($3 per $500 invested) The Twine app helps couples set individual and shared goals; then choose, manage, and track financial portfolios that include savings, and stock and bonds purchases. Expensify (Free, $4.99/month for premium) Keep tabs on your spending with Expensify. Scan receipts and the app will automatically enter fields such as name of business and price totals. Good&Co: Culture Fit Jobs (Free) Discover your work philosophy by taking fun quizzes, then match with companies that have a similar style. Search by company, job title, and location to expand your career horizons. Snag – Jobs Hiring Now (Free) Sift through jobs in your area on Snag’s streamlined, straightforward platform. One of the largest around, the app sends daily matches and…

Do you have electronics that don’t spark joy? Maybe even literally, as that years-old Fitbit or Kindle won’t hold a charge anymore? Well it’s time to call upon KonMari! Named after Japanese decluttering expert Marie Kondo, this method of cleaning encourages you to go through your belongings by category instead of room, so gather up all your devices and accessories! Sorting through your tech clutter is half the battle. For the second half, these apps and accessories can help you. You’ll be able to unload what you don’t want, while smartly storing what you keep. Sell Your Old Tech There are multiple apps for selling items online, even to local buyers, but we’ll start with apps that connect you with more far-flung customers. Ebay (free), the global buy and sell…

My iPhone 8 has become an integral part of my day-to-day experience. Some weeks ago, with my Castbox (free) podcasts downloaded and my favorite, longest playlists cued up on Spotify (free), I embarked on a journey that would change my life as I knew it: moving. Moving to a new place is exciting, terrifying, isolating, and invigorating. For my fiancé Danny and me, it included a three-day, cross-country drive through the rolling plains of Nebraska, the jagged mountains of Utah, the snow caps of Wyoming, and the tree-topped hills of Oregon to the beautiful city of Vancouver, Washington. Since I drove our car and Danny drove the rental truck, my devices were all I had to connect us; using the speakerphone feature on my Apple Watch was like having a…

There are a plethora of options when it comes to purchasing a Qi wireless charger. Qi (pronounced chee) is the wireless standard that the iPhone 8 and iPhone X and later use, as well as the new wireless AirPod case and many Android phones. No two Qi chargers are the same; in fact, one of the biggest differences I find, aside from variances in style and appearance, is the wattage they deliver and therefore how fast they charge your device (iPhone charging speeds are limited to 7.5 watts, but purchasing a 10 or 15 watt charger will futureproof you for the likely event that Apple rolls out support for faster charging). In my testing, I found that all of these chargers work well, even with iPhones in rugged protective cases.…