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IOS 7 / 5S Hidden Features Tips & Tricks

With hundreds of new features to boot, iOS 7 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is a gold mine waiting to be explored to its full potential. We have managed to discover some of the most lesser known features and tips which you should try right now. All set? Let’s begin. 1. Use Safari To See Tweets With Links / URLs Want to quickly see all the tweets in your timeline with URLs / links in them? Simply launch Safari, press the bookmarks button – the one that looks like an open book, obviously – then press the @ button on top. Boom! All the tweets with links in one place. You should be signed in to your Twitter account in Settings > Twitter in order for this feature to work. 2. Turn Parallax On / Off Don’t like the new iOS 7 Parallax effect on wallpapers – or 3D wallpapers as we would like to call them? Fear that it might be draining your battery? Simply turn it off. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility  >  Reduce Motion and turn it on or off according to your liking. 3. Ena

Touch ID - Fingerprint Sensor Security in iPhone 5s

Apple has posted a help document outlining the security safeguards it takes for the new Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the iPhone 5s. Here's the essence : Security Safeguards Every fingerprint is unique, so it is rare that even a small section of two separate fingerprints are alike enough to register as a match for Touch ID. The probability of this happening is 1 in 50,000 for one enrolled finger. This is much better than the 1 in 10,000 odds of guessing a typical 4-digit passcode. Although some passcodes, like "1234", may be more easily guessed, there is no such thing as an easily guessable fingerprint pattern. Instead, the 1 in 50,000 probability means it requires trying up to 50,000 different fingerprints until potentially finding a random match.  But Touch ID only allows five unsuccessful fingerprint match attempts before you must enter your passcode, and you cannot proceed until doing so. To configure Touch ID, you must first set up a passcode. Touch ID

IOS 7 Battery Life / Drain - Fix

Since iOS 7 beta 1 and I have been facing a very common problem that a lot of you facing it right now on your devices running on iOS 7, yes it is the drain battery life in iOS 7. Some users are finding that updating to iOS 7 seems to have reduced the battery life of their iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Anyone with a long memory will remember that we had your back when iOS 5 was causing chaos with iPhone 4S batteries a couple of years ago, and with iPhones the world over seemingly unable to hold a charge as long as they used to, we thought it might be time to offer one or two tips on trying to eek as many hours out of a charge as possible. As most of you know, iOS 7 contains a powerful graphics, new home-screen, dynamic wallpapers which decrease the battery life, and too many things in iOS 7 cause the drain battery iPhone users feeling… So right now if you have an iPhone running on iOS 7 and want to make it consume less battery, here’s some tips which will help you… 1)Turn Of