Serenity was formerly the Managing Editor at iMore, and now works for Apple. She's been talking, writing about, and tinkering with Apple products since she was old enough to double-click. In her spare time, she sketches, sings, and in her secret superhero life, plays roller derby. Follow her on Twitter @settern.
App Thinning and heavy worldwide iCloud usage can lead to restoration errors after setting up your new iPhone. Here's what you need to know.
Touch ID too fast for you to see your Lock screen notifications? Here's how to get date sort instead of sort by app in Notification Center.
Some folks are still eagerly awaiting their iPhone 6s and 6s Plus deliveries, while others have yet to decide whether they want to pick up the phone. Regardless of your iPhone 6s-less state, one of the big questions we’ve heard lately is about Touch ID: Is it really twice as fast as the iPhone 6?
You don’t have to wait until your best friend gets their very own iPhone 6s or 6s Plus to send them your treasure trove of moving pictures: Any iOS device running 9.0 or later can view them, as well as OS X users running El Capitan. Here's how.
There have been many claims made about the hues of the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus's rose gold color. "IT'S PINK!" "IT'S COPPER!" "IT'S. ROSE. GOLD. DARN. IT." Let's put the arguing to rest: We went out around New York City and photographed the iPhone 6s with all manner of pink items to see if we could truly answer this dogged riddle once and for all.
4K video is beautiful, but it may not be practical for your iPhone SE, 6s, or 6s Plus.
Apple's Live Photos feature for the iPhone 6s isn't exactly a movie or a still image: it's a mixture of both. And until app developers build support for Live Photos in their apps, you can exploit that JPG-and-MOV-combination in order to share your Live Photos to the world in gif or movie form. Here's how to do it!
Never owned an iPhone before? Here's what you can find in the box and what you can expect from the iPhone 6s.
Whether you've gotten your new iPhone from an Apple Store, other retail store, or shipped to your home, once you unbox it you'll need to set it up in order to start having fun with your new device. So we've put together a step-by-step guide to get you going.
You don't really have to restore an old iPhone backup when activating your new iPhone 6s or 6s Plus—iCloud takes care of syncing a lot of your data these days. That said, there are still a few reasons to make a backup and restore your new 6s from said backup—and your health data is high on that list.
The Apple Watch's custom complications are one of its best features.
You've skimmed Rene's review, but you want the good stuff, the fancy stuff, the stuff you can use RIGHT NOW. Okay, iMore readers: You got it. Here are all of the great features you'll want to check out in watchOS 2.
The Phone and iPad keyboard will switch between uppercase and lowercase letters when you tap the shift key. This is meant to help you differentiate when you are typing in caps or not, but some people prefer only seeing uppercase letters. If that sounds like you, you can easily disable the keyboard from switching cases.
If you play a sport or enjoy an activity that involves sweat and/or some sort of object brushing up against the screen of the Apple Watch, chances are you've accidentally ended a calculated workout too soon. It's annoying, and thankfully there's an easy way to prevent it: Locking the Apple Watch's screen so that nothing but a Force Press will wake it from slumber. Here's how.
With watchOS 2, you can now control all your HomeKit devices with the Apple Watch. Here's how you can go about doing that!
Curious to see how you've been doing with your Move goal this week? Check it on your Apple Watch with this tip.
It's true: watchOS 2 is more about refining the Apple Watch experience than giving us lots of new and shiny toys to play with. But it doesn't matter. There are still plenty of great features hiding away in the operating system. After months of watchOS 2 betas, here are my top ten must-use features (and three I haven't gotten to try yet, but I'm excited about anyway).
Apple has already begun updating their Apple Store displays in preparation for this Friday's iPhone 6s and 6s Plus launch, and one casualty: A surprising lack of "iPhone 6"-branded cases. The good news: Those 6s and 6s Plus cases work fine with the 6 and 6 Plus.
If you're running into trouble activating your content blocker, don't worry: There's a simple fix.
We've written our official review of iOS 9 and given you an overview of the operating system. "But Serenity," readers have asked, "What are the features you're actually using?" Well, here you are, questioneers: My top 20 iOS 9 features I use daily.