I’ve come across an app on iOS 14 that allows you to customise your own widgets – Widgy. It’s free to mess around with but you’ll need to pay the reasonable £4.99 to use all of the features. I’ve been pretty amazed with what you can accomplish with it via the community. As you canContinue reading “Creating custom widgets in iOS 14 with Widgy”
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How to free up space on your iPhone with Google Photos
As part of my cutting back on my monthly outgoings and also looking at Apple alternatives I got into using Google Photos. This took my monthly £6.99 icloud fee down to 0.79p and still backed up all of my photos and videos in high quality. The first thing to call out here is that whilstContinue reading “How to free up space on your iPhone with Google Photos”
How I’m helping myself to stop using my phone before bed and early in the morning
I’ve picked up some bad habits in this uncertain period including using my phone right before bed and first thing in the morning. My sleep pattern has suffered really badly and sometimes even at 3am I’m awake and then shattered with fatigue throughout the day. This has a negative effect on my mood and thoseContinue reading “How I’m helping myself to stop using my phone before bed and early in the morning”
How to get the Fantastical widget to show empty days
I like using Fantastical and when I started using the widget in iOS 14 I noticed a problem, if there are no events in a day it shows the next set of events and it makes it look like you have them on the wrong day. I did some playing around with the settings andContinue reading “How to get the Fantastical widget to show empty days”
How to save bookmarks in Chrome on iOS
It’s not a intuitive as you may think, especially if you want to organise them. By default they go into mobile bookmarks so you’ll also need to move afterwards if you want to. You can then see the following screenshots to organise.
How to use smart stacks on your Home Screen in iOS 14
Smart stacks are a great way to use multiple widgets but not take up too much room on your Home Screen. You can drag different stacks of the same size over one another and then let iOS show you the information it thinks you need when you need it or you can swipe up andContinue reading “How to use smart stacks on your Home Screen in iOS 14”
How to set DuckDuckGo as the default browser on iOS
One of the great moves by Apple in iOS 14 is the option to set default Mail and browser apps. Head into settings Scroll down to DuckDuckGo and tap on it See default browser apps, tap and set DuckDuckGo
How to save mobile data on your iPhone
Since cutting back I’ve moved my iPhone package from a £25 a month unlimited data plan to a £9 one. As part of this I also needed to check my device details to make sure that my device isn’t using mobile when it shouldn’t. I noticed that on a few day trips out my dataContinue reading “How to save mobile data on your iPhone”
My iOS 14 iPad Pro setup (Aug 2020)
Another video up for you, practising but won’t spam you. Thanks for watching. LINK
Does wireless charging damage your battery?
I’ve been thinking a lot about how I charge my iPhone 11, this isn’t some sort of sad hobby but it started to not charge consistently using the port (if you encounter this just clean the port, it’ll have lint in there I bet). When I checked the battery health of my 11 month oldContinue reading “Does wireless charging damage your battery?”
