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Daily tip: how to text message multiple photos at once

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Jan 13, 2012 a 12:08 am

Ever wondered whether or not you can text message multiple photos at once? The answer is yes. Sending them individually is annoying and time consuming. And why when your iPhone easily allows you to send multiple photos at once? This will not only work for text messaging but for e-mailing photos as well.

Although you can send multiple images at once there is still a few caveats that we've found. The first being that you can only send a certain number at once. In most instances, this seems to be five. It also may depend on the size of the photos you're trying to send. You can also only send one video message at a time (for now anyways).

To text multiple images at once, follow these easy steps -

Daily Tip: How to set a custom mail signature on your iPhone

By Georgia, Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012 a 9:56 pm

New to iPhone and wondering how to change your signature to something a little more custom and personal than "Sent from my iPhone?" Luckily, it's easy to do and it can save you a lot of time when you are writing your emails. It also will reduce the chances of making contact detail errors. Here's how.

Tap on the settings application on your home screen.
Tap on Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
Scroll down to Signature.
Enter whatever details you would like.

Note: This signature will be on all your outgoing mail so make sure it's appropriate for all your contents!

Weekly Mod: How to replace the dock assembly on an iPhone 3G & iPhone 3GS

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Jan 10, 2012 a 5:59 pm

If your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is having trouble charging, picking up a signal, or has a dead mic or speaker - replacing the dock assembly should remedy any of these problems. A DIY dock assembly repair is an easy enough fix if you've got the right tools and about thirty minutes to spare.

Daily Tip: How to delete iCloud backups from your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

By chrisoldroyd, Monday, Jan 9, 2012 a 11:08 pm

iMessage bug prevents SMS from getting through to Android switchers

By Andrew Wray, Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 a 12:21 pm

TechCrunch reports an iMessage bug causing problems for iOS users trying to send SMS messages to ex-iPhone users who have switched to another platform, such as Android.

What happens is, the iPhone attempts to send the SMS to the ex-iPhone user as an iMessage -- just like it always did before the recipient switched devices. But since Android doesn't support iMessage, the text ultimately fails.

Simple, if naive solution:

Don't let your friends switch away from iPhones.

Complicated, if realistic solution:

Daily Tip: How to manage iTunes in the Cloud on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

By chrisoldroyd, Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 a 12:36 am

If you are a user of iTunes in the Cloud and only keep part of your music collection on your iOS device and all of your collection in iCloud, you may want to retrieve some extra music from iCloud or even delete some music on your device. It is all very simple to do, keep on reading and we will show you how.

Weekly Mod: How to replace a battery in an iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS

By Allyson Kazmucha, Wednesday, Jan 4, 2012 a 8:54 am

Replacing the battery in your iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS is a moderate level DIY repair. If you've got the right tools and parts, it shouldn't be too difficult to swap out that old battery for a brand new one on your own. It'll take a little bit of patience and about 30 minutes of your time.

iPhone 4S audio issue most likely won't see a fix with iOS 5.1

By Andrew Wray, Tuesday, Jan 3, 2012 a 10:45 pm

As noted by GigaOM, a lot of iPhone 4S and some iPhone 4 users are continuing to experience an issue where they cannot hear anything from the recipient on an outgoing call.

The issue in question is when the iPhone 4S (and according to some reports, the iPhone 4, too) mutes all audio on the caller’s end when placing an outgoing voice call. The person on the other end of the line can hear everything just fine, but on the caller’s end, there’s no ringing sound and no audio from a recipient speaking.

New Year's Resolution: Review your social network privacy settings

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 3, 2012 a 9:16 am

What better New Year's resolution to start with than to check out all your in-app privacy settings, especially where Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social networks are concerned? We know how it goes; you get a shiny new iPhone or iPad app and you just want to use it so you log in through Twitter of Facebook or Google because it's easy, quickly tap through all the set up pages, granting who knows what permissions and for how long, and then forget about it the moment the next shiny app comes along.

Daily Tip: How to setup Emoji keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5

By Andrew Wray, Monday, Jan 2, 2012 a 11:31 pm

Curious how to make it easier to insert Emoji icons into a text message, email or iMessage? It turns out there's a great workaround to switching between the normal keyboard and the Emoji keyboard, navigating to the emoticon you're looking for, then switching back to the normal keyboard to resume your message. In this tip, we'll show you how to use Emoji much more efficiently using keyboard shortcuts in iOS 5.