Ipad & Iphone User: Beginner's Guide To The Ipad Everything You Need To Know To Get Started February 2018 PDF

ISSUE 129
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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO THE
iPad
Everything you need
to know to get started
PREVIEW:
Best wireless chargers Apple’s HomePod:
for your iPhone Why you’ll love
Apple’s smart speaker
CONTENTS
19
NEWS
4 Apple releases iOS 11.2.5

with HomePod support 29
PREVIEW
7 iOS 11.3
13 HomePod
FEATURES
19 6HWWLQJXS\RXUʐUVWL3DG
29 Guide to iOS 11’s settings
59 Apple’s Spectre patch
64 Apple Pay Cash
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CONTENTS
13
BUYING GUIDE
Best wireless chargers for iPhone X and 8 69

69
ROUND-UP
Latest iOS games 85
HOW TO
Use AirPods with Apple TV 96

Set up a new iPhone 99
Keep updated with all the latest iPad & iPhone

news, by following us on Twitter and Facebook
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NEWS
Apple releases iOS 11.2.5

with HomePod support
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HomePod support
• Setup and automatically transfer your
Apple ID, Apple Music, Siri and Wi-Fi
settings to HomePod.
Siri News
• Siri can now read the news, just ask,
“Hey Siri, play the news”. You can
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including Sports, Business or Music.
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display incomplete information in the call list
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some Exchange accounts to disappear from the Lock
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• Fixes an issue in CarPlay where Now Playing controls
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To update your iPhone or iPad, go to Setting >

General > Software Update.
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watchOS 4.2.2
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To update your Apple Watch, you’ll need to have at
least 50 percent charge, have the watch on its charger,
and within range of the iPhone to which it is synced.
Then, on the iPhone, open the Watch app, select
General, then Software Update.

PREVIEW
iOS 11.3
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6, 6 Plus, SE, 6s, 6s Plus, 7 and 7 Plus. As of Beta 1, this
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iCloud Messages
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and giving them the tools to power a new generation
of AR apps”. The tech giant says that the new ARKit
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vertical surfaces such as walls and doors, as well as
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recently told the Financial Post that “AR is the most
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iPhone X users will also get four new Animoji to play
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multiple Apple TV devices in multiple locations. You
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devices at once from your iOS device.
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will come to third-party speakers and Apple’s own

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Safari 11.1
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Security Improvements: Improved protection against

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Business chat
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to schedule service appointments or make purchases
without sharing contact information.

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A Health Records app and

Business Chat in Messages
are among the new additions
Health Records
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app that aims to streamline patients’ medical data
across health-care providers. According to Apple,
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videos inside Apple Music and news video clips inside
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HomeKit and AML

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How to get it
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to head to beta.apple.com on the device you want to
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HomePod
Yes, you can play music from Spotify, writes Michael Simon
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it’s not the oh-my-god-I-need-to-have-it gadget we
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case, here are 11 things you might want to consider
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1. You’ll need iOS 11.2.5

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• iPhone 5s or later
• iPad Pro (all models)
• iPad (5th generation)
• iPad Air or later
• iPad mini 2 or later
• iPod touch (6th generation)
If you’re an Android user who loves Apple Music,

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(£199 from fave.co/2noRjBR) with your HomePod.
2. The coolest Siri features

require an Apple Music subscription
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for a student) to get the most out of it. And it’s not
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3. You can use it to play Spotify songs

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devices are on the same Wi-Fi network (sadly, it won’t
work as a Bluetooth speaker). Whether that’s worth
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You can play Spotify

songs with HomePod,
but not the cool way
4. Messages and notes are tied to main user

When you set up HomePod, like any other Apple
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messages you send, notes you take, or reminders you
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5. HomePod has touch controls

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raise the volume or change tracks, here are the ways
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Tap: Play/Pause
Double-tap: Next track
Triple-tap: Previous track
Tap or hold plus: Volume up
Tap or hold minus: Volume down
Touch and hold: Summon Siri
6. Privacy is a major selling point

An unsung feature of Apple’s HomePod is privacy,
especially for people who are leery of letting always-on
Wi-Fi-connected microphones into their homes. Like
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Unless you buy a second

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HomePod only starts listening after you wake it with,

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For one, your conversations are encrypted, and they’re
also anonymous, meaning that anything that gets sent
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iCloud account. That’s not the case with Google Home
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shared with other people in your home.
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accidentally summoning Siri. That’s not the case
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and even stream music from their own phones to
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next fact will ease your mind.
8. You can stop Siri from listening

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activating whenever it hears its wake phrase. You will
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impressive is the 8.74W of power it consumes when
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10. Siri on HomePod will defer to your iPhone

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earshot, HomePod won’t respond. According to Digital
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device, “The assistant is smart enough to know when
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and the HomePod will not answer.”
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overview of your day’s appointments. It seems unlikely
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That’s likely due to privacy reasons and could change
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phone to check your appointments.

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Setting up your ﬁrst iPad

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friendly computing device. But even the iPad has its
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have to start learning somewhere.
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Set up your iPad

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from someone else) then you’ll need to set it up. This
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Touch ID and selecting various options.
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Delete an app
If you tap and hold an app icon on the Home screen for
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icons jiggle around and have X icons next to them. In
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them (hold one against the edge of the screen to move
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to dig down through layers of the Settings app, or
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same software, so it’s in Apple’s interests to get people
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settings of your device. To do so, tap on the Settings
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Wireless, Bluetooth & cellular

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Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Data Roaming

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app, such as Pages or Keynote, on one device and then
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panel. Once that’s done you’ll see
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Creating Personal Hotspots

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such as controls for the screen

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warning sounds. But, oddly tucked
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your personal information is listed
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altogether. The only exception here is that – in an

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apart from anything else you’ll need it every time you
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password for your iTunes account.
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app you can see exactly which other third-party apps

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app, for instance, allows third-party health apps to
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it’s time to get rid of your iPhone or

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all settings’, which leaves all your
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your iPhone or iPad onto your Mac
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content and settings’. This is the
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Parental and family settings

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on IAPs (in-app purchases), so iOS includes options for
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options that allow you to prevent anyone from installing
new apps or deleting any of your existing apps. Next on
the list is the option to completely
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Website controls
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all types of purchases from the iBooks and iTunes
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If your iPhone or iPad can use

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Siri & accessibility

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look at some of the options hidden in here. One new
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options that are crammed together in the General
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students to have access to a particular app during a
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Zooming in on the display

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sometimes miss. It used to annoy

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it means that the volume level for
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the Home screen of your iPhone or iPad just like any
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Shortcuts And Dictation

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you can then tap on the microphone to tell your iPhone

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Apple’s Spectre patch

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sites, however, so if there are serious issues, go to the
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Apple Pay Cash

Set to launch in the UK soon, Jason Cross explains how to make
person-to-person payments on an iPhone or Apple Watch
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everything you need to know.
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digital grown to adjust the dollar amount.
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amount to show the decimal places, then tap
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whenever you send anyone else money with Apple Pay
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payment card whenever an Apple Pay summary pops
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something at retail, switch to the Apple Pay Cash card
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$20,000. You can only send or receive up to $3,000 per

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you use a credit card, there’s a 3 percent credit card
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charger on your desk means no more plugging and
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Qi versus PMA
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PMA (Power Matters Alliance) and Qi. If you see a
charger that only supports PMA, keep moving. The
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far the most common standard for consumers, so you
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5W versus 7.5W performance

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charging really isn’t any slower than the (admittedly
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The iOS 11.2 update increased the maximum

wireless charging speed to 7.5 watts. That’s 50
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one that can support 7.5 watts or more. Some pads
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adaptors, you’ll want to look at the store pages to see
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adaptor with Qualcomm’s Quick Charge technology,
some work with any high-wattage USB power adaptor
(like the iPad adaptor Apple sells).
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a stand it’s a lot easier to use your phone while it’s
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charging up. And with the iPhone X, a standing charger

makes it easy to unlock your phone with Face ID
without picking it up.
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landscape and portrait orientation.
Most of the time, you’ll plop down your phone
standing upright. And Face ID on the iPhone X only
works when the phone is upright, too.
But a charger that works well with your phone in
landscape mode makes it easy to play certain games,
and of course watch videos, without taking your phone
away from those precious free electrons.
Case concerns
If you keep a case on your phone, you shouldn’t worry
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charging pad or stand. The vast majority of cases will
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work with wireless chargers.
The second is a wallet case. A particularly thin one
like this Silk iPhone X Wallet Case (£23.45 from fave.
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induction and credit card stripes just don’t mix. If you
don’t want to screw up your cards, don’t put them
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The third is especially thick cases. Most chargers will

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a wireless charge going, even if it doesn’t have a metal
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charging pad. Apple’s pad uses Qi charging together
with its own custom extensions that let it charge several
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levels. You can charge your iPhone, Apple Watch Series

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3, and AirPods (you’ll have to get a new wireless-

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wireless case for AirPods. Both are coming in 2018,
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times when a stand makes more sense. In particular,
they’re useful for those with an iPhone X, as a good
stand with a steep angle will point your phone and
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to just plop it down in any direction. Wireless charging
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RAVPoPwer Fast Wireless

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adaptor (up to 24 watts on supported Android phones)
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on and prevent sliding or scraping. It’s fast, too. On
iPhones it supports the 7.5W charging speed, and up
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Anker PowerPort Wireless 10

Price: £17.99 from fave.co/2nrSUH0
Anker’s skinny little PowerPort Wireless 10 is a pretty

slick item. It’s easily one of the thinnest charging pads

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noticing. It supports charging speeds up to 10 watts
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a Quick Charge USB adaptor to get that performance.
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We like the grippy top that your phone won’t slide
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Samsung Fast Charge Wireless Stand

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charging wireless stand isn’t much of a looker. The

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round shape is all wrong for a stand, as it sticks out

awkwardly to the sides when you put your rectangular
phone on it. Still, at least it loses the clear plastic
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7.5-watt limit and faster speeds for Samsung’s phones
– and it comes with a Micro-USB adaptor powerful
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keeps the charging coils cool. Don’t worry, you can’t
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The angle is appropriate for activating Face ID,
and the stand resists tipping well enough that a little
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Other wireless chargers tested

While these other chargers weren’t our favourites,
they may suit your own needs. There are only so many
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of plastic, so it’s safe to say that your own personal

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RAVPower Fast Wireless Charger

Price: £12.99 from fave.co/2nroJjo
RAVPower makes two wireless chargers that essentially

have the same name. Depending on where you look,
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one is extremely inexpensive at £12.99, while the other
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only cover the left and right side. Depending on how
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speed makes it hard to recommend.
Samsung Wireless Charging Pad

Price: £22.95 from fave.co/2nrzfqW
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up at you from your desk, you could do a lot worse than
this inexpensive pad. For less than £25 you get a solid,
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your phone on and start a wireless charging connection

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Best of all, Samsung throws in a 2A Micro-USB power
adaptor, so you don’t need to repurpose one of your
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wireless pad, it wasn’t really much slower than the
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iPhones. Some Android phones can handle faster
wireless charging speeds.
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Anker PowerPort Wireless 5 Stand

Price: £29.99 from fave.co/2ntslBh
Anker’s PowerPort Wireless 5 stand is a decent choice

for iPhone X users who want something with the right
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charging speed. Anker employs two charging coils for
excellent coverage, and as a result the stand works
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orientation. But it’s limited to 5-watt speed, not the
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result is that, when you try to use your phone while
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that’s without a Micro-USB adaptor. It’s still not
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Mophie Wireless Charging Base

Price: £74.99 from fave.co/2rYLJuT
One of the very few wireless charging pads sold

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with adaptor, for half that price. Second, the AC adaptor
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most other wireless charging pads use Micro-USB. Using

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a drawers full of them.
Belkin BOOST UP Wireless Charging Pad

Price: £54.99 from fave.co/2nv64TQ
Belkin’s Boost Up shares a lot in common with Mophie’s

Wireless Charging Base. Both are sold at Apple Stores
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support 7.5W charging on your iPhone, too.
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other wireless chargers. And it includes an AC power
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connector rather than Micro-USB. Again, USB would

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the Belkin and the Mophie, then, is your own personal
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the glossy white Belkin, with its reversed slope giving
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and lack of USB connection.
Spigen Essential F303W Fast Wireless Charger

Price: £18.99 from IDYHFRU=[Z[Y
Spigen’s fast-charging wireless stand has a nice A-frame

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an eyesore. More importantly, the angle is not steep
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work with Face ID. One feature we really like is the way
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This gives the stand great coverage and makes it easy
to get a good charging connection whether your phone
is turned to landscape or portrait orientation. Spigen’s
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anymore. You’ll need to purchase a fast-charging
Micro-USB adaptor separately to make full use of it.

ROUND-UP
Latest iOS games

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they’re not alone on this list. In fact, we’ve found 10
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all of them in the slides ahead.

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1. Thumper: Pocket Edition

Price: £4.99 from fave.co/2rZP6S2
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the kind of tunes you’d actually want to tap along to –
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Thumper is also a pretty fantastic new kind of music
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at the enemy, and swipe to make sudden turns to avoid
smashing into walls. Thumper started life on consoles
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keeping all of the speed, intensity, and visual punch of
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2. The Room: Old Sins

Price: £4.99 from fave.co/2s1U40F
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The Room series has provided some of the most
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new entry that delivers another series of perplexing
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Old Sins mostly sticks with the tried and true,
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old dollhouse that you’ll explore and solve your way
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3. World of Warships Blitz

Price: Free from fave.co/2nA7Lj1
Following in the footsteps of the popular World of Tanks

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down its larger free-to-play PC experience into more of
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whenever you please.
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a few minutes of training. And it’s thankfully lacking
in timers and energy meters, although like Tanks, we
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cash. But you can surely still enjoy it without spending.

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4. Antihero
Price: £4.99 from fave.co/2rWXouc
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digital creation. And it’s a darn compelling one, too, as
Antihero pairs a winning, cartoonish Victorian aesthetic
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a thieves’ guild, recruit urchins and thugs, and steal,
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real-time matches or play through a solo campaign.

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5. It’s Full Of Sparks

Price: Free from fave.co/2nvK0bv
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through each of the 80s levels pressing a coloured
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taps and timing via trial and error. It has something of a
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for unlimited tries.

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6. Hero Academy 2
Price: Free from fave.co/2nvQ4ks
The original Hero Academy was a true App Store gem –

a streamlined, asynchronous strategy game that let you
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and a new kind of freemium approach.
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on the other side of the screen, and this time you’ll
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of units – like in Hearthstone or Clash Royale – and
use those. And the asynchronous approach is gone,
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may not appreciate the changes. Newcomers won’t have
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7. JYDGE
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pretty entertaining shoot-’em-up. You take the role of a
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is even referred to as a gavel.
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also-slick Neon Chrome, if you’ve played that – and if
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holes. Repeat and enjoy.

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8. Slime Pizza
Price: Free from fave.co/2CR685Y
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an intergalactic restaurant. You’ve crash-landed on a
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police dog, and they’ll all get in your way. Navigating
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9. Cytus II
Price: £1.99 from fave.co/2nvSrDX
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no, you don’t need to know the original game. This
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10. Food Pals

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the latest game from Wonderful Lasers, makers of the
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It feels a little simplistic and underwhelming at
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still an amusing little platformer with a fun theme.

HOW TO
How to: Use AirPods

with Apple TV
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TV time. Jason Cross shows how
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the market, particularly for those with a lot of
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the fact that they also work wonderfully with Apple
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wirelessly across your living room to your AirPods,
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iPad you’ve paired your AirPods with, you’re already
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trying it yourself, though.
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video. Taking an AirPod out of your ear automatically
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restoring it from an older device
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common scenario for which there’s an extra step that
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transfer the contents of an older iOS device with a

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older device, whether that’s through iCloud (Settings >
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4 Apple releases iOS 11.2.5

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Best wireless chargers for iPhone X and 8 69

Latest iOS games 85

Use AirPods with Apple TV 96

Keep updated with all the latest iPad & iPhone

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Apple releases iOS 11.2.5

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To update your iPhone or iPad, go to Setting >

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will come to third-party speakers and Apple’s own

Payment Request: Provide a consistent user payment

Security Improvements: Improved protection against

Web Inspector Updates: New designs for the Network

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A Health Records app and

Videos in Music and News

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HomeKit and AML

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1. You’ll need iOS 11.2.5

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If you’re an Android user who loves Apple Music,

2. The coolest Siri features

3. You can use it to play Spotify songs

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You can play Spotify

4. Messages and notes are tied to main user

5. HomePod has touch controls

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6. Privacy is a major selling point

Unless you buy a second

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HomePod only starts listening after you wake it with,

7. HomePod can’t distinguish between voices

8. You can stop Siri from listening

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10. Siri on HomePod will defer to your iPhone

11. HomePod doesn’t

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Setting up your ﬁrst iPad

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Set up your iPad

Passcodes & Touch ID

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How to charge your iPad

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The Home button

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The Settings app

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How to install an app

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How to update iOS