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By default the collections and years views in the Photos app don't show all your photos — but you can change that. If you use the Photos app on your iPhone or iPad to sort, organize, and find your photos, there are lots of ways you can make that task easier. While one is simply using the search feature, another is by adjust exactly what the Photos tab shows under the Collections and Years views. By default you only see a summary of photos that iOS picks at random. If you'd rather see all your photos in these views, you just have to change a setting! How to view all photos in Collections and Years, not just summaries Launch the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad…

Siri is a voice-controlled virtual personal assistant, and it's built right into your Apple Watch. On the iPhone, Siri is a secondary interface used when talking is more convenient than tapping. On the Apple Watch, Siri is a primary interface. It's not just the only way to enter text and a much more convenient way to initiate actions, but it's also the only way to search web services like Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, and Bing images. Talking to your watch might seem like sci-fi, but Siri makes it a reality. Set reminders There may not be a Reminders app on the Apple Watch, but you can still use Siri to set reminders for a time or for a place. "Hey Siri, remind…

Residents in the UK and Germany can check out Zen Pinball eSports Edition, which lets players compete against others for real money. Zen Studios is expanding its popular series of Zen Pinball games with an new entry for the iPhone and iPad called Zen Pinball eSports Edition. It's currently being soft-launched in the UK and Germany. The game is free to play, but Zen Pinball eSports Edition allows players to compete with others online in tournaments with real money. Tables available for unlimited free play NO In-App Purchases and NO Advertising. Zen Pinball – eSports Edition is completely free to play Multiplayer skill-based matchmaking and leaderboards – Powered b…

Apple designed it so that a single Apple Watch would be paired with a single iPhone. That doesn't mean you can't use your Apple Watch with multiple iPhones if you really want to, like your home and work iPhone, or yours and your significant other's iPhone. But it does mean it will take some work. In short, you'll need to pair, un-pair, and re-pair your Apple Watch every time you switch iPhones. Yeah, really. The good news is: we can walk you through it! How to switch your Apple Watch from one iPhone to another Pair your first iPhone with your Apple Watch using the Apple Watch app. How to pair your iPhone to your Apple Watch [*]When you want to switch, un-pai…

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If you broke the screen on your iPhone 6 and Apple isn't an option, we can show you how to fix it yourself! The iPhone 6, like any other iPhone, is susceptible to the mishaps of us mere humans. If you've found yourself with a cracked or shattered screen, you've got a few options. If Apple isn't one of them, for whatever reason, a DIY repair is worth considering. Not only that, it can take less than 10 minutes, as long as you have the right parts and tools for the job. That's where iMore comes in! Not only can we show you where to find the best parts and tools, we'll walk you through every step of the repair, from start to finish! Apple vs. DIY Repair Before per…

Happy Saturday, iMore! Because Rich is awesome, he's letting us run some of his Mac-themed comics from the Diesel Sweeties archive on weekends. Bonus comics, woo! We hope you enjoy. Read more comics from the Pixel Project on iMore.com. Continue reading...

Apple has started shipping out the gold Apple Watch Edition to pre-order customers. A number of people are reporting that Apple has started shipping out the gold Apple Watch Edition models. Customers have seen their credit cards charged, and the watches should see their orders arrive on their doorsteps soon, according to MacRumors: Starting on Monday of this week, Apple began preparing to ship out the first batch of gold Apple Watch Editions to customers who pre-ordered in April. MacRumors readers have begun seeing credit card charges for the devices and have received shipping notifications and courier information from Apple. Some of the first Apple Watch Edition…

30 days later, how are we liking the Apple Watch? iMore's staff responds. It's been a month since we eagerly awaited our UPS drivers and the arrival of the Apple Watch. Since posting our definitive Apple Watch review, we've now had the chance to spend an additional two weeks with it. How has it changed our lives for the better? Where does it still need work? The iMore staff sat down and chatted about how we feel the Apple Watch is fitting into our lives, one month later. How has the Apple Watch design held up? How comfortable has it been to wear? Ally: I'm incredibly satisfied with the way the Apple Watch fits, mainly because of the small size. I've hated wea…

Other World Computing (OWC) has announced a new, speedy addition to its Accelsior line of SSD-mountable PCIe cards today. Called the Accelsior S, the new offering from OWC is a SSD mountable PCIe card that runs at 6Gb per second with bandwidth throughput of 550MB/s. In other words, it's pretty darn speedy. OWC is targeting the Accelsior S is compatible with Thunderbolt expansion hubs, but OWC is also targeting the drive at legacy Mac Pro owners who may be looking for a speed bump in their aging systems. As a bonus, no extra drivers are required to get started. All one has to do is mount an SSD drive to the Accelsior S and install the card. If the Accelsior …

Apple is said to be planning fewer user-facing feature additions for iOS 9 and OS 10.11, putting a bigger focus on quality and polish. Apple's major software releases for 2015, iOS 9 and OS X 10.11, will reportedly have fewer tentpole features for users than previous upgrades, with Apple focusing more on stability and security. Stability has previously been reported as a major focus or iOS 9, and the same now also said to be true for OS X 10.11, codenamed "Gala". From 9to5Mac: According to sources within Apple's software development departments, Apple engineers have been pushing executives for a Snow Leopard-style stability focus in 2015, following numerous …

Need to create a new user account on your Mac? It's easy. Just follow these steps. If a new family member or even a new office co-worker is going to use your Macintosh, you can create a new user account for them in OS X Yosemite. Having separate user accounts means each person who uses the Mac can each have their own settings, like iCloud account information, application preferences, and desktop wallpaper. They can each have their own repository of files and folders. It's the safest way to make sure you're not overwriting or otherwise disturbing each other's files. Here's how to do it. Breaking down what each account means First some notes about the different u…

Debating over which weather app you should use on your iPhone? What exactly is the best iPhone app for weather watchers? That's a tough question to answer. Apple has their own, built-in Weather app, with edge-to-edge graphics and subtle, elegant animations. However, it's still decidedly on the simple side. Since weather apps have become something of a playground for great designers and developers these days, there are many excellent, yet very different alternatives to be found in the App Store. The toughest part is choosing between them. If you need help deciding, these are currently our absolute favorites! Dark Sky Up to the minute precipitation info …

Instacast has been updated today with full Apple Watch support. Popular podcast app, Instacast, has been updated to version 5.1.1 today, bringing support for managing playback and browsing your unplayed podcasts right from your Apple Watch. Here's the full breakdown of what users can look forward to with Instacast on the Apple Watch: Now Playing Glance Grey progress bar means app is not running or audio is not loaded White progress bar means app is running and audio is loaded Play/Pause, Skip Backward, Skip Forward 'Unplayed' episode list (can be reconfigured on the Phone) Switch episodes from 'Unplayed' list Force touch to get chapter list and skip …

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Edovia has released Currencies 2.0, its app for quick currency conversion, rethinking the app and rebuilding it from scratch. Currencies 2 is the latest offering from Edovia, the developer popular VNC solution Screens for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Currencies 2 offers a completely rethought interface over the previous version, and conversions are now easier to do and faster than ever. The app has also added support for the Apple Watch. You can find all available currencies in one place. Once you set your source currency and enter the amount, you can quickly scroll through the app's massive list to see all of the proper conversions. You can also set favorite or often…

If Apple announces a new change-the-world technology and 11 months later nobody's using it, did the announcement actually happen? About a year ago, Apple unveiled HomeKit, its take on home automation, and announced that the framework would ship in the fall with iOS 8. Which it apparently did. And then... nothing happened. Truthfully, we heard hardly anything about HomeKit until this past January at CES, where a bunch of companies showed off HomeKit-enabled devices, coming "this spring" or "soon." It's been four months since, and spring is almost over. But the fever is, fortunately, about to break: HomeKit has pulled off its blankets and is about to rise from its …

Apple is reportedly seeking to secure deals to stream local programming with their rumored TV service. Apple reportedly wants to offer local programming to a wide range of customers through their rumored subscription TV service. Local TV would differentiate Apple's service from other such web-based offerings. With programming like the local news, customers have more of an incentive to keep using Apple's product, rather than trying to get their service from multiple sources, or sticking with their cable subscription. While local TV might make Apple's service appealing to more customers, and keep customer attention focused on the service, making the deals could preven…

Even though Photos for iOS doesn't offer a Faces album, you can still find tagged friends using the search field. I recently wrote a post on getting Faces to sync between multiple computers when you're using iCloud Photo Library, and mentioned — sadly — that there was no efficient way to sync the work-around to iOS. And this remains true... technically. It turns out that even though Apple doesn't officially sync the Faces album from Photos for OS X using iCloud Photo Library, you can still find any tagged photos of a person — no matter what computer you tagged them on — by searching their name. How to search your iPhone, iPad, or Mac for Faces and Places Open…

Can we please focus on Apple's actual strengths and weaknesses, instead of what the company might theoretically, possibly, one day do? The big news earlier this week was that Apple had reportedly punted its plans to make a television set. The report suggested that the company had worked on it for over a decade: Comments Steve Jobs made to biographer Walter Isaacson have helped stir that pot for years, but the bottom line is that it isn't happening. Between this and the mythical Apple car, we spend an almost idiotic amount of time speculating on what Apple might do, instead of what they're already doing that could be improved. "Innovation is saying no to 1000 thin…

This week's Humble Weekly Bundle features adventure games, most of which run on Mac and Windows, some Linux too. If adventure games are your bag and you're looking for a great deal, get on over to the Humble Weekly Bundle. It's a name-your-own price deal on four adventure games including Syberia, Stacking, The Novelist and Secret Files: Tunguska. All of them except for the last one are available for Mac, too. What's more, if you pay more than the average cheapskate, you'll get three additional games, and if you pay $8 or more, you'll get two more! The Humble Bundle is a long-running name your own price special that enables you to get great games for pennies each. …

Pebble has announced that the first shipments of Pebble Time will be heading out the door starting May 27, with all customers that have opted for the smartwatch set to receive tracking numbers by mid-June. From Kickstarter: Production is now in full swing since bringing the factory online at the beginning of May. With things moving along at this rate, we expect all Pebble Time Rewards to be manufactured by the end of the month. By the end of May, all backers can expect an invitation to finalize their selections in the Reward Portal so we can get your Pebble Time processed and shipped. Every backer with a Pebble Time included in their selected reward tier shoul…

Welcome to another edition of Weekend Reading. Microsoft technology and employees played big roles in many ways this week, from powering the passion of soccer fans to building a “lockbox in the cloud” to connecting students thousands of miles apart. Before you start your holiday weekend, take a quick spin through the news. Microsoft and Real Madrid C.F. continued their technological revolution of futbol and the club with the release of the Realmadrid App, a new way for the club’s 450 million passionate, global fans to connect with their favorite team. Built on the Microsoft Cloud platform, the app features multi-angle match viewing, fan competitions, game replay…

The Space Black Apple Watch looks and feels like dragon scales, or the Batmobile, or something from Krypton. Technically Space Black is a diamond-like coating (DLC) on the stainless steel of the Apple Watch, but those are just words and they don't really do justice to how this model turned out. It's darker than it was back in September when Apple showed it off for the first time, and the new tone really does seem like something made of shadow and light. It took a while to ship — even the very first orders didn't arrive for several weeks. But holding it now, I can't help but think it was worth it. Here's what the Space Black casing looks like with the Space Black…

It's Global Awareness Accessibility Day — #GAAD — and that matters to everyone. Accessibility and inclusivity are often thought of as helping people with visual, auditory, or physical challenges, learning challenges, are on the Autistic spectrum, or otherwise need assistance beyond what technology normally supplies. The truth is, making products accessible and inclusive, the way Apple does, makes them easier to use and better for everyone. It lets people young and old, novice and expert, use an iPhone or iPad or Apple Watch, and use it well. For those with challenges, however, it's not just about access, it's about empowerment. It can improve their lives and let them t…