Tips and Tricks — iOS

The Amazingly Convenient Way to Scan Documents Using Your iPhone or iPad

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The Amazingly Convenient Way to Scan Documents Using Your iPhone or iPad

On occasion, we all need to scan a document—an invoice, a recipe, instructions from a book—but far more people have an iPhone or iPad than a hardware scanner. Luckily, Apple has built a scanning capability into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS for some years now.

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How to Share a Contact Card without Sharing Everything in iOS 16

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How to Share a Contact Card without Sharing Everything in iOS 16

Apple makes it easy to share contact cards on the iPhone or iPad—just scroll down in a contact and tap Share Contact. But what if you don’t want to share every piece of data on that card? 

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It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

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It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

It’s Time to Try Dictation in iOS 16 and iPadOS 16

Apple has long provided a microphone button in the keyboard to invoke dictation on the iPhone and iPad. But, it wasn’t always easy to hit, and you had to switch back to the keyboard to fix the inevitable mistakes.

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