Digital wallets aren’t perfect, but that shouldn’t stop you from using them. Shih-wei/Getty Images In about a decade, digital wallets like Apple Pay and Google Wallet have gone from niche options at cutting-edge companies to payment methods accepted almost everywhere. You’re encouraged to fill out your virtual wallet with credit cards…
You don’t need to monitor the cache, but clearing it can be helpful when apps start misbehaving. Rohane Hamilton/Shutterstock Your iPhone’s cache is a collection of data stored to speed up operations instead of loading fresh information every time. For example, if a website has a huge banner at the top,…
What Apple’s usage and support schedule means for your MacBook Cheng Xin/Getty Images To set your expectations straight away: There is no single answer for how long a MacBook will last. A basic MacBook Neo will likely hit bottlenecks before a fully featured MacBook Pro. But what you do with the…
Bengali Press/Shutterstock Software updates have become as routine as a check-up at the dentist or changing the oil in your car. They are also likely to sometimes bring bugs and downright horrible changes. For example, the recent Android 17 update has issues that need to…
Gabo_Arts/Shutterstock Google was already a huge company when it acquired Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012. Founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin as a research project at Stanford, Google quickly grew from a dorm room experiment to a real company with…
Ridvan_celik/Getty Images Although Google and Samsung offer some of the best update packages on the market for their phones, many other Android manufacturers don’t. Indeed, these manufacturers prefer to keep shorter policies, offering at most one or two major updates for their smartphones, even when…
A quick and reliable guide to diagnosing the most common CarPlay connection failures. Igor Alexandre/Getty Images Like most features on your iPhone, CarPlay should be simple to use once set up. Unfortunately, as with any technology, problems can arise that prevent CarPlay from working properly. Once accustomed to the conveniences of…
Add style to your conversations and clean up the reactions everyone is tired of seeing guteksk7/Shutterstock Emojis and GIFs are great for reacting and conveying emotion, but new emoji offerings are coming slowly and there are only a limited number of them. GIFs offer many more options, but you can’t always…
Added complications You can also customize these predefined faces via the To modify button at the bottom of your screen. This is where you can swap the widgets on your watch face. Known as complications, these advanced widgets can be added either within the Watch app or directly through the Apple Watch interface. Their capabilities…
Ivan Pantic/Getty Images There may come a time when you want to play a video game, but you’re not at home, on your comfy couch, with your Xbox, PlayStation, or gaming PC. When that happens, you can turn to your smartphone to play the latest…