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Seven months into using the iPhone 15 Pro Max, one of the biggest surprises -- which, unfortunately, I can confirm through personal experience -- is that it can survive drops. Many, many drops. It's fallen off the arm of my couch onto my living room hardwood floor multiple times. It dropped from my pocket onto

I’m a longtime iPhone owner currently on the 6.1-inch iPhone 14 Pro, and I plan to upgrade to an iPhone 16 this fall. For the first time, I’m considering not going Pro. Considering my current needs, the regular model should suit me just fine, and I can save plenty of money by getting one. But

AirPlay in hotel rooms is one of the top iPhone features that was announced with iOS 17. While this function was released with iOS 17.3, it didn’t actually start working until now. In a press release, Apple announced that guests staying at select properties from IHG Hotels & Resorts can use AirPlay to privately and

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Super Mario World running on the Delta emulator for iOS Credit: Testut Tech, Nintendo Apple is finally loosening its strict stance towards video game emulation , meaning iPhone users can now play retro video games right on their phones, even if those games don’t have official mobile apps yet. All it takes is a simple

Published Apr 17th, 2024 2:16PM EDT With iOS 17.4 allowing alternative app stores for European users with an iPhone, the first third-party app marketplace has finally debuted. AltStore is the first alternative app store that can be downloaded by iOS users living in the European Union. With the “Sideloading for Everyone” slogan, the alternative app

Victollio/Getty Images Today, ensuring your smartphone's OS and apps are up to date is as crucial as getting regular maintenance checks for your car. Updates might be annoying and sometimes even frustrating for many users as they take away a lot of internet data and take time to fully install, especially if there's a major

I love that it’s 2024, and there are people in the world who are still dunking on Apple, Google, and Samsung for ripping features off of each other. With smartphones really getting to a place of maturity and upgrades being more iteration at this point than huge jumps, there’s really only one way to set

I played Game Boy Advance games on my iPhone this weekend thanks to a new emulator called iGBA, which appears to be the first Game Boy Advance emulator on the App Store since Apple started allowing emulators worldwide. The only trouble is, it doesn’t look like iGBA is developer Mattia La Spina’s own work. Something

I was never into mobile gaming. I mean, unless you consider Pokémon Shuffle, Pokémon GO, Alto’s Odyssey, and Mini Motors as software for gamers. With the iPhone 15 Pro, Apple focused a lot on its gaming capabilities with hardware raytracing and other GPU features focused on this market. I’m not entirely oblivious to the iPhone