Are you maximizing your iPhone's full potential? That supercomputer in your purse or pocket has more features than ever. With every new update, Apple embeds powerful new AI and shortcuts into its devices, transforming them into one of the most powerful tools a real estate agent can use. From organizing your tasks to speeding up your workflow, your iPhone can help you streamline many routine activities.

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Today, Slack introduced the first four widgets for the iOS version of its mobile app. Three of them are designed for the iPhone’s homescreen, while the fourth can be added to the lockscreen, allowing users to jump immediately into the Slack app after unlocking their device. The homescreen widgets...

Slack introduces iPhone widgets to make work more inescapable

Slack brings its first iPhone widgets for the Home and Lock screen, so now there’s no escaping from work even when you think you’ve unwinded. I’ve been using Slack every day for the past few years. Not once have I yearned for a Slack widget. As the type who values clear delineation between work and play time, I really don’t need widgets in my face to update statuses and catch up on chats.

Work is now a touch away with Slack’s first iPhone widgets

Along with letting users customize app colors, organize apps anywhere, and more natively, iOS 18 brings a subtle new feature that cleans up the Home Screen. Here’s how to hide app names on iPhone in iOS 18. iOS 18 takes iPhone customization further with new options to natively create...

iOS 18 finally lets you hide app and widget names on your Home Screen, here’s how

If you're a Samsung phone user, the company is making a change you'll need to pay attention to. For the past two years, Samsung has been phasing out its Samsung Messages app in favor of Google Messages. Samsung's messaging app has continued to be available -- since the Galaxy S22 -- but Google's app was the default option.

Samsung Messages is getting bumped for Google's app. Here's how to prepare

Whether you're looking to upgrade your home theater setup with a high-end OLED screen to watch the 2024 Summer Olympics or pick up a budget-friendly TV for your bedroom, there are tons of high-quality options to choose from. The best TVs you can buy right now offer a great balance between features, screen size, connectivity, and, of course, price.

The best TVs: Expert tested

Are you getting a lot of spam text messages? Being interrupted by a notification on your iPhone, only to find it's yet another junk message, is tiring. Like phishing emails, these messages are often the starting point for scammers targeting potential victims. These scammers can pose as marketers selling a product or as ordinary people trying to connect with a friend but pretending to have the wrong number.

How to stop spam texts on your iPhone in 3 easy steps

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How can Astrology tell you about your worst friends? Astrology is the concept of using the placement of the planets and their related astrological signs, or the Signs of the Zodiac, to determine the course of a life. These placements based on your birth date, time, and location can give you a wealth of information about your personality traits and character and predict events throughout your life based on your sign and current placements. Of course, this is a quick overview, and doing actual natal charts and horoscopes is much more complicated. But now you have a basic idea of what astrology is.

5 Zodiac Signs That Could Be Your Worst Friend

I have certain contacts whose messages I need to ensure I never miss. There are many ways of doing this but my go-to is to use Android's text "bubble" feature, which creates a small, movable bubble for the conversation on my phone's home screen. By doing this, I always know when an important contact has sent me a message and I can simply tap the bubble to open the conversation (without having to first open Messages).

How 'bubbling' Android messages can simplify your text life

Enhancer for YouTube is a must-have extension for anyone who wants full control over how videos are played in their browser. Also: How to download YouTube videos for free, plus two other methods. I'll show you how to use Enhancer for YouTube in Firefox, but the program is available for...

This Firefox extension is a must-have tool for YouTube super users

Texting on your iPhone is quick, convenient and the preferred method of communicating for millions of people. It's also fairly basic, and sometimes can lack features that you sometimes see in third-party messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. In iOS 18, coming this fall but available right now as a...

7 New iOS 18 Messages Features You Should Probably Know About

One of generative AI's most impressive capabilities is composing text that reads well, follows proper structure, and adheres to language and punctuation rules. Khan Academy found a way to harness these capabilities to help students improve their writing -- and not by generating first drafts for them. On Monday, Khan...

This Khan Academy AI tool helps students combat writer's block - here's how

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Leaked documents show which iPhone devices Cellebrite can unlock. This well-known mobile forensics company has a tool that can unlock modern iPhones and extract files from them even if they’re locked. That said, 404 Media published a story highlighting how you can protect yourself from a possible attack, and the solution is easy: Update your iPhone.
At least until April 2024, the Cellebrite tool could unlock from iPhone 8 to iPhone 14, running iOS 16 to iOS 17.0.3. Currently, the devices at higher risk are iPhone XR and iPhone 11, which can be unlocked if they’re running up to iOS 17.3.1.
While...

Now you have another good reason to update your iPhone immediately

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While Apple did unveil a redesigned, customizable Control Center as part of iOS 18, the technology giant didn’t formally announce a significant upgrade for the iPhone’s flashlight. Well, the latter has now landed in the iOS 18 Public Beta that's available to try now.For some time, we’ve been able to adjust the brightness of the iPhone’s flashlight from zero to four, but with iOS 18, Apple’s giving us a bit more control within a fun user interface. Essentially, you can now more minutely control the brightness of the flash and the focus (aka the angle). I’ve been using it since the...

Apple secretly gave the iPhone’s flashlight a major upgrade with iOS 18 – and it’s super helpful

One iPhone feature that poses a risk to your privacy is the message preview that appears on your Lock Screen whenever you receive a text. While it’s convenient to take a quick peek at your phone and get the gist of the message, it also exposes potentially sensitive information to anyone else who happens to glance at your screen.

Snoop-Proof Your iPhone: How to Turn off Message Previews

We've entered a period of dramatic innovation in AI and automation and it's going to have a significant impact on the future of jobs, productivity, and the ways we operate in teams. This series of ZDNET articles offer you a compass to navigate it.

Are you prepared for the future of AI, automation, and jobs?

Apple has been rumored to be working on a foldable iPhone for years. There's no official word that a bendy phone from the company will appear at its upcoming September launch event, but I have some thoughts -- and words of caution -- for Apple as it gets closer to potentially unveiling the first folding iPhone.

Apple, Don't Screw Up the iPhone Flip

Update: This deal has expired and is no longer available on Amazon. Instead, you can find the same offer directly on Boost Mobile's website. With every major shopping event, like Amazon Prime Day, comes a "free phone" deal. As you'd expect, they're almost always too good to be true, whether offered by AT&T, T-Mobile, or Amazon. The latest variation comes via Boost Mobile, who's selling any iPhone 15 model, including the Pro Max, for just one penny. What's the deal with this deal? I break down the fine print below.

You can still buy an iPhone 15 for one cent after Prime Day - everything to know

Did you know that a modern TV uses significantly less energy than a TV that's a decade old? Maybe that shouldn't be a surprise, considering how much more power-efficient today's display panels are. According to Perch Energy, the average power consumption of an old TV runs around $54 per year in energy costs. Because LED-backlit TVs and OLEDs consume less power than traditional LCD screens, newer models cost about $32 annually.

I changed these 5 TV settings to lower my electric bill. Here's why they work

A report has suggested the charging speeds for the iPhone 16 Pro models could be significantly improved.

iPhone 16 Pro could finally add something Android users have been enjoying for years

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Slack now offers four iPhone widgets - here's how you can use them

If you have an iPhone and regularly use Slack, you should appreciate Slack's four new widgets that give you access to key features at the tap...

Slack now offers four iPhone widgets - here's how you can use them

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