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Manual – RAW Camera

Developer: Will Global, http://shootmanual.co
Price: £3.99, $3.99, 4,49 €
System Requirements: iOS 10.0 or later

This advanced camera app’s features include an EXIF viewer, live histograms, focus zoom,
an optional delayed shutter for long exposures and live-monitored auto exposure levels. It
offers full control over your camera settings, including Shutter, ISO, White Balance, Focus
and Exposure Compensation. It requires an iPhone 8 or later.

Snapseed

Developer: Google LLC, www.google.com
Price: Free
System Requirements: iOS 9.0 or later

This popular photo editing app from Google offers a wide range of tools and filters. It can
open RAW files as well as jpegs, and its filters include Vignette, where you can blur the edges
of a picture, Healing to remove blemishes and flaws, and a lens blur to add bokeh effects to
your snaps.

Retrospecs

Developer: John Parker, https://8bitartwork.co.uk
Price: Free (IAP for more filters)
System Requirements: iOS 9.0 or later

Ever wondered what your photos would look like if they were digitised onto a retro
computer such as the Spectrum, Commodore 64 or Amiga? No? Us neither, but we had
great fun finding out. Retrospecs takes you back to the 70s, 80s and 90s, with a series
of fun filters designed to let you reproduce computers of old. It has manual adjustment
capabilities too.

Affinity Photo for iPad

Developer: Serif Labs, https://affinity.serif.com
Price: £19.99, $19.99, 21,99 €
System Requirements: iOS 11.1 or later

If you want a fast, powerful editing suite that can give professional results, look no further
than Affinity Photo for iPad. It has full layer support, pro-level image processing, amazing
retouching and correction tools and can save in a range of formats. This is not a collection of
filters – it’s a full image processor, and a bargain at the price.

Photoshop Fix

Developer: Adobe, www.adobe.com
Price: Free, IAP for more storage space
System Requirements: iOS 10.0 or later

Photoshop is unquestionably the most famous photo editor, but it’s also one of the most
expensive. Not so this free app for the iPad. Fix delivers features to mobile devices that
were previously available only in the main Photoshop suite. Powerful and extremely well
designed, you’ll soon be touching up your photos like the pros.

Facetune 2 for iPad or iPhone

Developer: Lightricks Ltd, www.facetuneapp.com
Price: Free, IAP
System Requirements: iOS 9.0 or later

This highly respected app is built for polishing and fixing selfies and other face pictures. It’s
extremely powerful, yet very easy to use. Overlaid tutorial tips show you what can be done
as you work on your photo; make the teeth whiter, get rid of bags from under your eyes,
rejuvenate your skin and more. It’s free, with in-app purchases opening new features.

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Alien: Isolation

The perfect showcase for your iPhone 14’s awesome screen.

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Feral Interactive Ltd
£12.99, $14.99, 14,99 €
iOS 14.8 or later

In the words of Private Hudson
“That's it, man. Game over, man.
Game over!”

Ridley Scott’s original Aliens from 1979 However, 2014’s Alien: Isolation from SEGA and
was a ground-breaking piece of cinema. Creative Assembly hit the nail on the head. Isolation
Set within the claustrophobic confines brought Giger’s xenomorph to life for the PC, and
of a spaceship, the crew are hunted by an alien it scared the socks off us. Fast forward, and we can
creature of immense death-dealing impressiveness. now appreciate that terror on the smaller screen
It was tense, scary as hell and the feeling of thanks to Feral Interactive, with one of the best
absolute terror seeped through the screen as the ports we’ve experienced in quite some time.
protagonist, Ripley, tries to flush the beast into the
depths of space. Isolated and Alienated

Sadly, that sense of terror had never really been Alien: Isolation is set 15 years after Scott’s Alien.
conveyed through gaming. True, there have been You take on the role of Amanda Ripley, Ellen
several Aliens-based games in the past, for all manner Ripley’s daughter. Amanda discovers that Ripley’s
of systems (one of our favourites was a Doom Aliens flight recorder has been recovered, and travels
mod, from 1994), and we did have space-based horror to the Sevastopol Space Station to claim it for
in the form of System Shock and Dead Space, but the herself. But all is not well on board.
Alien franchise always felt a little flat.

Wonderful atmospherics make for
some terrifying jump scares.

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The Sevastopol is a labyrinth of darkened poorly lit corridors only to come face to face with And that would be me dead
corridors, service tunnels, ventilation ducts and the alien is truly one of gaming’s greatest moments.
other cramped and totally horrible places where Verdict//
something unpleasant can jump out at you. It’s It’s the intense pressure that gets to you. Armed
in the process of being decommissioned, and with something that wouldn’t scare a hamster and PROS AND CONS:
as such, most of it is falling apart or not working slowly walking down a corridor with your motion + Scary as hell
correctly; lights flicker, doors malfunction; you get detector in hand, side-stepping bodies littering + Survival horror done right
the picture. the floor, makes you sweat. You find yourself + Features all DLCs and
holding your breath as the motion detector
This ported iOS version comes complete with suddenly springs into life, and it’s real panic as more
all the available DLC packs, including the Crew you quickly realise that whatever it is that’s being - Some glitches here and
Expendable, Last Survivor and Survivor modes. detected is heading toward you.
You can play with on-screen joystick controls, use there
a gamepad or wireless iOS-compatible keyboard There aren’t many games that are this LAST WORD
and mouse. immersive, making you feel the anxiety of moving I’m stuck in a dead end.
around a dilapidated space station while being I’m armed with a metal
Techno Terror hunted. Hats off to Feral Interactive, they’re bar, and there’s something
responsible for my Fitbit nearly overheating while getting closer. Help!
There’s no loss in technical quality either. measuring my heartbeat.
Graphically, Alien: Isolation is superb, and through a RATING: 5/5
wonderful mix of audio and visual atmosphere, the And for the measly sum of £12.99, you too can
stark horror of slowly winding your way around the be scared witless. Stick some headphones on, turn
off the lights and have a defibrillator to hand just
in case. Alien: Isolation is coming for you. DH

Play through the available DLC and
different modes.

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DoubleDragonTrilogy

A knee to the face, then get thrown over the shoulder. Beautiful.

Iblooming love Double Dragon. Back in the late There are different modes, too. Arcade plays Info//
Eighties, at the local arcade – a dingy, dishevelled with a single credit, where you fight to get highest
dive, complete with sticky carpet and drenched score, and Story Mode unlocks stages and DotEmu
in eye-watering neon – my mate Daz and I would achievements. Mobile, Original and Expert difficulty £0.89, $0.99, 0,99 €
force-feed ten pence pieces into the Double Dragon modes keep you entertained, and getting your iPadOS 6 or later, iOS 6
arcade machine and settle in for an afternoon of name on the leaderboard is just as tantalising. or later
cooperative digital violence. It was superb.
For only 89 pence, the Double Dragon Trilogy is
Imagine how happy I was to get my hands on the worth every penny. It’s splendid, and we loved it. DH
complete trilogy on the iPad. Sadly, Daz and I have
parted ways in the years since 1987, but these days I Here we go, the first gang member to
have a couple of children who can help me take on taste your wrath!
the bosses and finally rescue poor old Marian from
the clutches of the Black Warriors gang.

Often, when it comes to arcade conversions
for mobile devices, the end result is far from what
you fondly recall as a youth. However, developers
DotEmu have done a wonderful job of recreating the
style and ambiance of the original arcade machines.

Graphically, it’s as you remember but with a
slightly more polished sheen to it. There’s still
the clunky arcade graphics, but this time with
smoother edges, and the end result is still the
same. It’s a near-perfect port of the original. The
controls are a little tedious to get to grips with, but
after a few rounds you soon get used to them. Grab
a friend, and the pair of you can Bluetooth your
way through the gang along to the original eight-bit
soundtrack, or choose a newer remastered version.

A wonderful blast from the past, in all its arcade glory. Verdict//
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PROS AND CONS:
+ All three games!

+ Bluetooth connectivity
for two-player

+ Great value

- Tricky controls

LAST WORD
Excellent arcade fun, from
the golden age of gaming.

RATING: 5/5

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AnotherWorld–20th
Keeping it (looking) real, 1990s style!

Part game, part interactive movie, when the game its unique atmosphere and it still stands up Info//
Another World was first released for the Amiga even in its original form.
it was more than just another game. It was a DotEmu
real interactive experience. Rather than falling into The usual control issues are present, www.dotemu.com
one of the established genres of the time, Another unfortunately, but they’re quickly dispatched by £3.49, $3.99, 3,99 €
World was neither a puzzle game, a shoot-’em-up using a compatible controller, if you have one. Compatibility: iOS 9 or later
nor a platformer, but it was all of these and more. Developers still haven’t figured out a way to
perfectly recreate micro-switched joystick controls
Playing it now it’s easy to forget how using a touchscreen. This can make sections where
revolutionary it was at the time. The spookily precise positioning and timing are required harder
realistic sprite animation still looks very nice, but it than they ought to be, and you need plenty of do-
was gob-smacking in 1991. The game begins with a overs for this reason.
scientific experiment gone wrong, which transports
the main character to a strange, dream-like world If you didn’t experience Another World in its
and so begins the adventure where you take on original format, it’s still a great little game but you
challenge after challenge as you try to stay alive won’t understand quite how fantastic and ground-
and figure out a way to get back home. You even breaking it actually was. If you did have the pleasure
make a friend along the way, and despite the lack of playing through it back in the day, you’ll relish the
of dialogue, the game manages to conjure a real opportunity to relive it in all its glory. The slightly
emotional connection between the two characters. choppy controls only marginally mar this bona-fide
all time classic. JG

Thirty Years On...

The mobile version comes with polished, enhanced
graphics, but with the option to switch back to
the original style. The enhanced version doesn’t
change the overall look, but adds some depth to
the backgrounds, which is a good thing. Although
the highly stylised nature of the visuals has much to
do with the limitations of the original hardware for
which it was designed, this is all part of what gives

Switch between retro and HD graphics. Verdict//

PROS AND CONS:
+ Classic game

+ Excellent animation

+ Outstanding atmosphere

- Control issues

LAST WORD
A genuine classic that
stands up very well
compared to modern
games. A welcome blast
from the past.

RATING: 5/5

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Grand Theft Auto
Liberty City Stories

What you can do on your new iPhone is a crime.

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Rockstar Games
www.rockstargames.
com
£5.99, $5.99, 5.99 €
Compatibility: iOS 8 or
later

It’s hard to believe Grand Theft Auto III is well excitement about the promise of a fully functional,
over 20 years old. It’s also hard to imagine how blur-free and playable version of the Sony PSP’s
the games industry would look without this overlooked (and rightly so), GTA Liberty City Stories for
iconic brand that transcends video gaming. Even iOS. After all, nostalgia can be a double-edged sword
non-gamers are familiar with the title, although when revisiting such a revered classic, but possibly
often for the wrong reasons. Controversy! Violence! more so when said port could offer redemption! Will
Adult content! Yet GTA didn’t become an institution this reworked version of Liberty City Stories remain
because of its controversial storylines. It invented the weakest release in the monster franchise, or be
the ‘sand box’ genre which has changed the face of elevated to new highs?
gaming in subsequent years, with the growth and
development of the franchise to the levels one would Up, up and away!
once question possible with the masterful GTA 5 and
the devastating badness of the much anticipated Thankfully, the answer is the former. In fact
and much savaged Grand Theft Auto Collection. it’s a testament to how solid the mechanics of
the original game were that the structure and
Despite the fantastic ports of Vice City and San progression still stands up. It looks even better
Andreas, there was enormous trepidation and

You don’t need to worry too much
about squashing pedestrians.

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than it did on the PSP and PlayStation 2. Textures the hardware’s processing power, heavy emphasis You get to drive some awesome cars,
are smoother and more detailed, pop-up is non- on backstory and dialogue still impress here. while ignoring the rules of the road.
existent and the freedom to roam around this The many fantastic cut scenes are snappier and
living world is a joy. Plus no motion blur! Things designed to move you swiftly into the next mission,
also play far better and more reactively than ever which is ideal. In fact, many would argue that later
before. The original control scheme has been GTA games are too serious and dialogue-heavy.
admirably tweaked to fit the touchscreen and the This is all about playability and having fun. Younger
game is so much better for it. Driving, on foot or players brought up on the current generation of
during combat, you’re in complete control. consoles may feel it lacks sophistication, but this
does it a disservice. In terms of mobile gaming,
The mission and story progression keep you this is above and beyond most of what’s currently
hooked, and Rockstar’s talent for character creation available, outside of its franchise kin.
and narrative are evident here. The story is set
before the events of GTA III, but still within the Anybody who experienced GTA Liberty City
criminal underground. The voice acting is fantastic, Stories first time around will relish the opportunity
as is the script, mixing the right amount of clichés to revisit it. This is an epic game in concept, scale
with belly laughs and a few neat plot twists. All of and execution. If you were too young to play it in
which is to be expected, of course. Alas, one shock is 2001, now’s your chance. The game design isn’t
the rather disappointing soundtrack. Not only was as revolutionary as it was, or even close to what
the original lacking in quality, the iOS port has seen is has become, but it’s still a forgotten great with
a large percentage deleted. awesome pacing and storytelling.

You talkin’ to me? Whether or not you played this game in its
disappointing original form and want to see how
In terms of gameplay, there’s no real levelling it should’ve been done, it’s simply an unmissable
system for the main character (á là San Andreas), GTA experience that no one with the remotest
but he acquires new and better weapons along interest in the series should ignore. This isn’t the
the way to make him more formidable. While the best GTA game, not even the best one on the iOS,
cinematic nature of the series later expanded with but this is the best version of GTA Liberty City
Stories you can play. JG

The tasks you’re set to accomplish to advance your criminal career are as controversial as ever. Verdict//

PROS AND CONS:
+ Great touchscreen

controls

+ Improved graphics

+ Awesome gameplay

- Disappointing soundtrack

LAST WORD
An amazing refresh of a
great title. An iOS gaming
gem.

RATING: 5/5

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Tengai

Retro shoot ‘em-up action has found a new home; in your pocket!

Tengai or Sengoku Blade as it is know in its Tengai has all the ingredients to live up to its Info//
homeland, Japan, is a horizontal scrolling subtitle. While stepping away from the traditional
arcade shoot-‘em-up which was released outer space or war zone setting, the game takes S&C Ent. Inc
in arcades in 1996; and via several excellent home players back into ancient Japanese folklore, battling www.sncgames.com
ports at the time. Yet this iOS conversion somehow demons, evil magic and steampunk robots of various Free
feels the most fitting of the home releases. sizes; and is all the better for it. The unique gameplay Compatibility: iOS 8.0 or Later
setting also reaches out into the presentation,
Allow me to explain. As a long-time fan of the design and the fantastic soundtrack. The gameplay
genre, I have always experienced issues with lifespan is exactly what one would expect from the genre;
vs price when it came to purchasing stand-alone collectable power-ups to advance your weapon, a
releases. Numerous shooter collections litter my selection of characters each with differing skills and
games collection, but very few stand-alone packages abilities and huge mid and end-of-level bosses. But
join them. This is far from a criticism, but the genre its honed to near-perfection.
itself lends itself well to short bursts of intense
gameplay coated in rich, over-the-top visuals, sonics Tengai delivers everything you could hope for;
and a pumping soundtrack. This is perfect arcade a fast-paced, over-blown, action-packed gameplay
fare, as a handful of credits offer fans their required experience with a rich coating of flamboyant visuals
fix of shmup fun. As a full-priced console game or and inventive character designs, accompanied by a
a staggeringly high-priced Japanese import game, blistering soundtrack. Shmup brilliance! JG
the value for money didn’t stack up. Yes, I was a very
boring child too!

Over the years, the App Store has racked up a
fantastic collection of classic ’80s and ’90s shoot-
‘em-ups. The easy access of the platform and the
auto-fire/touch controls combination work in a way
that will delight fans and create a host of new ones.

Verdict//

PROS AND CONS:
+ Inventive visual flair

+ That soundtrack!

+ Smooth controls

+ A challenging romp

LAST WORD
Is this the perfect blend of
touch screen controls and
retro gaming on the iOS?
If not I would LOVE to play
that game too!

RATING: 5/5

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BADLAND, GameoftheYearEdition

Join us on a fairy tale adventure through magical forests littered with circular saws!?

Info// BADLAND is a beautifully designed side- you, or catapults which propel you up to otherwise-
Frogmind scrolling action adventure puzzleplatformer unreachable areas. Selecting the incorrect power or
www.badlandgame.com that takes place in an atmospheric forest contraption could make it impossible to complete
£0.99, $0.99, 0,90 € packed full of deadly traps you must navigate the level, so your decision is vital. There are over a
Compatibility: iOS 8.0 or Later through to reach the end of each level. The game is hundred unique levels to complete, and each one
controlled by using one finger to guide the peculiar offers a totally different experience.

furry character through the treacherous BADLAND, There are so many challenges in each level that
it will undoubtedly take you several attempts to
much like the highly addictive 2D Helicopter PC figure out exactly what to do. This is where trial and
error and the addictiveness seriously take control.
game if you recall, or the side-scrolling sections in
The gameplay is excellent, so you’d imagine the
classic Mario. However, this is a great deal more visuals would let it down in some way. But this is
definitely not the case! The art style is actually what
in-depth and obviously visually superior. grabs you the most, using vivid colours for each level
background and dark silhouettes for the characters
The screen automatically scrolls from left to and foreground. It looks stunning on a big screen via
your AppleTV. This truly is a fantastic game.
right. You simply tap your device's screen in order
There is also a local online multiplayer feature
to cause the furball to rise higher, thus avoiding the which allows up to four players to battle it out on
the same device. This feature is all about survival
many traps and obstacles in your path. Releasing – steal power-ups, hinder opponents, and survive
to the end. Should you tire of the levels that are pre-
your finger causes him to drop back down. There installed, why not build your own with the fantastic
level editor. When complete your creations can
are many power-ups available in each level, which shared with the world and the world’s shared with
you, giving you near-endless gameplay options.
you need to collect (or avoid, depending on what This should be retitled to VERYVERYGOODLAND! JG

traps are coming up) in order to complete each

stage. For example, some make you larger or

smaller, thus causing you to become heavier or

lighter, affecting whether you can squeeze through

small spaces; some transform you into a ball,

allowing you to roll across treacherous grounds;

and others turn you invisible.

There are numerous contraptions to use (or

avoid) too, such as circular saws which invariably kill

Verdict//

PROS AND CONS:
+ Inventive visual flair

+ Works very well on
AppleTV!

+ Smooth controls

+ Near endless levels to
play

LAST WORD
A visually unique
platforming puzzle game
that is an equal joy to play
than it is simply sit back
and take in the experience.

RATING: 5/5

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What’s New
with Your
Apple Gear?

If you need help and advice about your iPhone, Apple
Watch, Mac or iPad – especially the new iPhone 14 series
and Apple Watch Series 8, SE and Ultra models – you
don’t have to go to the Apple Store to speak to an Apple
employee. Instead, why not take a look at our tutorials?
What you need might well be found there.

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iPhone Tutorials
62 Lock Screen – How it’s Changed
66 Passkeys – How They Work
68 Focus Filters – New in iOS 16
70 More Great iOS 16 Features

Mac Tutorials
74 Update macOS to Ventura
76 Continuity Camera with Your iPhone
78 The Clock App – On Your Mac
80 The Weather App – On Your Mac

iPad Tutorials
84 Set Up Your iPad For the First Time
88 Setting Up Email – Configure it

Apple Watch Tutorials
90 Watch Gestures and Buttons
92 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
94 The Watch Control Centre

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Lock Screen

The lock screen has had a major overhaul in iOS 16. It now has a huge range of
customisation options, with Widgets, animations and user-customisable time
digits. Music controls now appear on the lock screen too. You can make multiple
lock screen designs and switch between them as you please, and you can opt for a
multi-layered wallpaper effect. Here’s how to do it.

First steps with the lock screen

1 If your phone is unlocked, swipe the 2 A pop-up window invites you to 3 When you’ve chosen a wallpaper, you

screen down to get to the lock screen. choose a new wallpaper for your new can add widgets. Tap the ‘+ Add
Deep press anywhere on the screen to get to lock screen. Slide the circular icons at the Widgets’ box for a pop-up window, from
the Collections screen, as seen here. Swipe top to review the categories on offer. The which you can choose them. They work a
the screen left and press the Plus icon to rest of the screen shows samples; take a little like home screen widgets, but are
open a new lock screen. look to see what’s on offer. available on the lock screen.

Choose and customise

When you’ve made several lock screens, you can choose
between them by deep-tapping the lock screen and
swiping left and right. To customise a screen you’ve
already designed, tap the Customise button underneath.

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The wallpaper options

1 There are three categories of photo 2 Pinch and spread to fit the photo how 3 If you choose an Emoji wallpaper,

available at the top of the screen; you want it on the screen. Tap the you can add up to six emojis. Tap
Photos, People and Photo Shuffle. After three-dots icon for a pop-up, from which you them on the window. Swipe left and right for
choosing a photo for your wallpaper, you can set the Depth Effect, where parts of an various patterns and designs made from
can swipe it left and right to choose from the object appear on top of the time, on or off. Tap those emojis. Tap the three dots icon to
various filters on offer. Done when you’ve finished. change the background colour.

4 Choose an Astronomy wallpaper and 5 The Weather wallpaper shows the 6 When you’ve finished customising a

swipe left and right for options such weather at your current location, and screen, tap Done and you’re invited
as looking at the Earth, at your location on the Colour option sets a single colour for a to set it as the Home screen as well (Set as
the Earth, the Moon, a detail of the Moon or lock screen. After setting a colour with the Wallpaper Pair) or to set up the home screen
the entire solar system. There are no specific picker and the slider, swipe left and right for separately (Customise Home Screen). It’s
customisation options. variations on the theme. entirely up to you.

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Setting up your Widgets

1 While customising a lock screen, you 2 To add a widget below the clock, tap 3 The widgets at the top of the window

can change the widget above the the ‘+ Add Widget’ box. You get a are samples taken from the apps
clock. Tap the date and day strip. You can pop-up window showing the widgets on offer. listed underneath. Tap them to add them to
choose from a limited number of widgets They function like Today screen and home the widgets window. When it’s filled, you
here, gleaned from apps such as Weather, screen widgets, in that they glean and display have to delete a widget to add a new one –
Calendar, Fitness and more. information from apps. you can’t start a second row.

4 Tap one of the apps listed lower down 5 You can, to a limited extent, drag 6 On the lock screen, you can tap a

the widgets window and choose an widgets back and forth in the box to widget to open its app, on the ‘page’
app. You can then choose the size of widget reorder them. If you want to remove a from where the widget’s information is from.
you wish to use, and its contents, from those widget, tap the minus sign in its top-left To change your widgets, tap and hold the
offered; swipe left and right to review them, corner. Tap Done when you’ve chosen your lock screen, tap Customise at the bottom
and tap one to add it. widgets. You can change them later. then tap the widgets window.

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Deleting lock
screens

On the screen where you can swipe
left and right to choose between a
lock screen you’ve already created,
if you come across one you no longer
need, swipe it upwards and tap the
dustbin icon at the foot of the screen
to delete it.

1 While customising your lock screen, 2 Tap the globe in the top-left corner of
you can tap the time to change the the window to opt between Arabic

font and colour used for its numbers. You get numerals (regular numbers), Arabic Indic

a pop-up window showing various options (used in some Asian countries) and

for changing them. Tap a number style and a Devanagari (used for Sanskrit, Hindi, and

colour to do so. other Indian languages).

Focus mode

Live Activities

A feature that’s coming soon is Live
Activities, which is a new kind of
notification that lets you watch
something that updates in real-time,
such as a sports game, a taxi driving
to your location or a food delivery.

1 Each lock screen you design can be 2 Scroll to the lock screen you want to
linked to a different Focus mode. link, and tap the Focus button at the

You can (for example) design one with foot of the screen. Choose one of your

work-related widgets and link it to your focuses, and then when you select the lock

Work focus. Access the lock screen screen in question, you also turn on its

customisation screen as shown. linked Focus Mode.

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Using Passkeys

Having to log into websites and apps can be annoying, but with Passkeys, the
procedure is greatly simplified. A feature arriving with iOS 16, iPadOS 16 and
macOS 13: Ventura, Passkeys is a new authentication method that uses Touch ID
or Face ID to sign in. Passkeys are synced through iCloud, and you can even use
them on non-Apple devices using a QR code.

Sign in with Passkeys

1 If you don’t already have an account 2 Once again, details vary from site to 3 The site invites us to set up a Passkey

on the site you’re trying to use, create site, but on the Nestlé site, you can add for the site and the account in
one in the usual way, with a username and a a Passkey instead of entering and re-entering a question. When this is done, the Passkey is
password. Procedure differs from site to site, passcode. All you have to do is tap the saved in your iCloud Keychain, and
so follow the on-screen instructions to fingerprint icon instead of entering passwords therefore are available for use on all your
register an account. into the password field. compatible devices. Tap Continue.

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4 We’re now invited to log in using the 5 You must now prove you’re a human More about

iPhone’s Face ID feature. All you have being, and not an automated sign-up Passkeys
to do is point the front-facing TrueDepth bot trying to register accounts with the site for
camera at your face, and Face ID confirms malicious purposes. Just follow the on-screen Passkeys can only be used on
your identity. A tick confirms this, and you instructions, and select the images as websites that have made them
move to the next stage. instructed, then tap Verify. available. On Passkeys-compatible
websites, you can log on using
6 To complete our registration, we have 7 Logging in on our Mac, we clicked your Face ID, Touch ID or device’s
passcode, without having to enter
to open an email sent by the site. Tap the fingerprint option. We were your username and password.
a key to complete your registration. Next time invited to scan a QR code on our iPhone, This has a number of advantages.
you want to log in to the site in question, which got us in through Face ID. If you As your Passkey never leaves your
you’re invited to do so using your passkey. don’t have your phone handy, they can device, phishing attacks – whereby
Tap Continue to do so. send you a ‘Magic Link’ instead. a user is conned into giving away
his or her login details – are almost
impossible. And because the
Passkey information is never kept
on an external server, it can’t be
leaked after a hacking attack on the
website either. All in all, it’s more
secure than using a username and a
password to log in.

A Passkey digital key is unique
to the site it was created for. You
have to create Passkeys on a per-
site basis, but this isn’t any great
problem. Once it’s been made,
it can be used on the site it was
created for as often as you like.
Passkeys are designed to work in
apps as well as on the web, but
again, the developer has to make
them available. Because they’re
cross platform, you can use your
Passkeys on a Mac, iPad and Apple
TV as well as on your iPhone,
though these devices must be
running macOS Ventura/iPadOS 16/
iOS 16 too.

Passkeys can be used on non-
Apple devices too, as long as you
have your iPhone with you. You can
sign in on these devices using your
iPhone, by scanning in a QR code,
and then unlocking with Face ID or
Touch ID. It’s simple.

Apple hopes Passkeys will
eventually take over from
passwords completely over time,
but at the moment they’re only
available on a limited number of
sites, including BestBy, Nestcafé,
Namecheap, Cloudflare, GitHub,
Bitwarden, AOL, Dropbox,
Facebook, GoDaddy, Google, ID.me,
Twitter, WordPress and more.
Naturally, further websites – and
apps – will be added over time.

A password-free future with no
concerns about hackers sounds
great. We can’t wait.

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Focus Filters

Focus Filters is a new feature introduced with iOS 16. It lets you fine-tune your
content by filtering apps like Calendar, Mail, Messages and Safari to make sure
only relevant content comes through when a Focus is active. In a Work Focus, for
example, you can set Calendar to show only professional calendars, and Safari
limited to work-related tab groups.

Using Focus Filters to hide app content

1 To customise a Focus, open the 2 Tap Add Filter and you arrive at this 3 Tap Calendar and you can choose which

Settings app and select the Focus screen, from where you can apply calendars to show with the Focus in
option. Choose the Focus you want to filters to four apps, namely Calendar, Mail, question. For example, for the Work Focus, you
customise, or press the + screen in the Messages and Safari. You can also set can restrict the Calendar app to showing your
top-right corner to start a new Focus from System Filters, allowing you to set the professional calendars. When you’ve set your
scratch. To use Focus Filters, scroll the screen appearance of your iPhone to Dark Mode or filter, tap Add in the top-right corner (this is true
up to find the Focus Filters section. turn on Low Power Mode. for all the filters).

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4 You can also filter inboxes in the Mail 5 The Focus Filter for the Messages app 6 In Safari, you can set a filter to only

app. If you have several different is very simple. Turn it on and you see show certain tab groups. If you’re
accounts set up in Mail, you can choose only the messages from people you wish to revising for an exam, you might have a tab
which are shown while a Focus is active. allow notifications from. While the focus is group related to your studies. Turning this
Just the thing if you don’t want work emails active, only they give you notifications when on stops you wasting time on other sites.
while you’re not working. a message arrives.

7 There are two options to change 8 Add the Low Power Mode setting to 9 To remove a Focus Filter from your

system settings when the focus is your focus and you can have your Focus setting, go to Settings > Focus
active. The first is your iPhone’s iPhone switch to Low Power Mode while the and tap the focus in question. Tap the Focus
appearance. You can have the focus set it focus is active. It’s great for the hour before Filter, which is now displayed on this page,
to Light Mode or Dark Mode too. bedtime, when you want to relax. then tap Delete Filter.

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More Great
iOS 16 Features

What else does Apple’s latest iPhone operating system have to offer?

The Freeform App SharePlay in Messages

It’s coming soon, but it wasn’t ready in time for iOS 16, iPadOS With iOS 16, you can SharePlay from the Messages app. Now you
16 and macOS Ventura. The Freeform app helps you work can watch a movie or a TV show or listen to music while chatting
collaboratively across your Apple devices by offering a flexible about it with your friends in the Messages app. You’re always fully
digital canvas available to all parties during a FaceTime chat. Ever synced, so you’re all in the same place in the video or music as you
been in a meeting where ideas were expressed on a whiteboard? If chat, and you also get shared playback controls.
FaceTime video chat can replace the meeting, Freeform supplies the
whiteboard. You can add images, notes, scribbles, documents, web
links, PDFs and more. Edits are made in real-time, and everyone can
pitch in with their ideas. The Freeform app is due for release ‘later
this year’, and will probably arrive with an iOS 16 update.

Door Detection Switch Controllers

A new accessibility We’ve been able to use our Sony and Microsoft gamepads with our
feature helps users iPhones for a while now, but with iOS 16, we can also use those built
who are blind or have for the Nintendo Switch – both the Joy-Cons that come with the
very poor vision. Door console, and the Switch Pro controllers that are sold separately. Just
Detection can identify the thing for playing Mario Kart: World Tour on your iPhone.
and warn about closed
glass doors which might
otherwise not have been
seen. It uses the LiDAR
Scanner, and is available
on iPhone 12 and later.

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Music on Lock Screen Visual Look Up My Sports

When you’re listening to your music on If you tap and hold an object within a A new section in the News app lets you
your iPhone, the controls now appear as photo, it’s automatically cut out and follow your favourite teams and leagues, and
a widget on the lock screen. You get to see copied. You can then use it as a sticker in get related stories from hundreds of national
the album art at a decent size, and can another app. Tap the Copy button to copy and local publications. You can also watch
pause, play, rewind or fast forward your it, ready to paste it somewhere else, or tap highlights and get the latest scores, fixtures
tunes without having to unlock your phone. the Share button to send it through iOS’s and rankings in your news feed.
regular Sharing facilities.

Safety Check Dictation with

Safety Check can help those Keyboard
whose personal safety is
at risk from domestic or When using the
intimate partner violence by Dictation text-to-speech
quickly removing all access feature, the virtual
they’ve granted to others. keyboard remains on
It’s in Settings > Privacy & the screen, so you can
Security, and lets you reset seamlessly switch from
access for people and apps. using your voice and
typing. It’s great for
when you need to add
a non-standard word
such as a place name,
which is likely to be
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Hide My Email Weather Enhancements

iCloud+ is a range of features available to The Weather app can now give you notifications, namely
those who subscribe to iCloud, as opposed to Severe Weather alerts that warn you if you’re heading
only using the free service. One such feature for a hurricane or something similar, and Next-Hour
is Hide My Email, which lets you keep your Precipitation, to let you know if it’s likely to rain soon.
email address private when signing up for Also new are tappable tiles that open up a more detailed
online accounts. It’s now available from the data set than is available on the main Weather page.
QuickType keyboard.

New Languages New in CarPlay Game Center

The Translation app now Powered by iOS 16, CarPlay can provide content for multiple You can access Game Center’s
offers support for the Turkish, dashboard screens. Deeper integration means you can control tools in the Settings app. With
Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, the radio and change the in-car temperature directly through a redesigned dashboard that
Indonesian and CarPlay, and you can personalise your dashboard by choosing shows friends’ activity and
Dutch languages. different gauge cluster designs. Cars compatible with the new accomplishments from games in
CarPlay features are expected late next year. one place, it’s easy for players to
jump in to play with or compete
against their chums.

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New in Find My Ear Tip Fit Test

There are a few new features in If you’re lucky enough to own a set of AirPods, you can use a new Settings feature to make
the Find My app. There’s a Find My sure they’re a good fit. Open Settings > [the name of your AirPods], and select Ear Tip Fit Test.
network for AirPods, which can Follow the on-screen instructions to make sure you’re using the correct set of silicon tips on
find individual pods if you lose your pods. It improves the sound as well as making them less likely to fall out.
just one. You can tap the locations
in the Find My app to open the
Maps app, and you can locate
your iPhone when it’s lost, erased,
in power reserve mode or even
shut down.

Why Matter Matters

The smart home is great, but differing standards
can be confusing. Apple has joined forces with
other connected home industry leaders to create
a new cross-platform standard, called Matter.
The new standard is based on Apple’s HomeKit,
and will be supported by a wide variety of brands.
There’s already over 130 products in the pipeline.

New Ping Tone Apple Pay Later Personalised Spacial Audio

Swipe the screen up on your American iPhones can split the cost of AirPods 3, AirPods Pro and AirPods Max users
Apple Watch for its Control an Apple Pay purchase into four equal can customise their listening experience with
Centre. Tap the icon that looks parts, paying them over six weeks with Personalised Spacial Audio. Available through
like an iPhone making a noise no interest charged and no fees incurred. the AirPods’ Settings page, it uses the iPhone’s
and it pings your iPhone. The It’s available everywhere Apple pay TrueDepth camera to scan your face like it does with
ping tone has changed, making is accepted. Upcoming payments are Face ID, and then scans each of your ears. The iPhone
it easier to tell where it’s organised through Wallet. then uses this information to create a personal
coming from. profile used to fine-tune the audio output from your
AirPods to better suit
your ears, removing detail
imperfections caused by
reflections and echoes.

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Stocks
Watch Your Shares

A long-time stalwart on the iPhone and iPad, the Stocks app comes to the Mac with
Ventura, and it’s had an overhaul. It’s for more than just checking your share prices.
You can get all sorts of business news and information, you can organise your stocks
into watch lists, and more. Here’s how.

1 This is the front page of the Stocks app, that is, what you see 2 To find a company and see its current share price, type either its

when you open it for the first time. If you’ve already saved some name or its ‘ticker’ – a four-letter abbreviation of the company’s
stocks using the iPhone or iPad version of the Stocks app, they’re name used by the stock market – in the Search bar. Click the company in
synced in iCloud and shown in the sidebar. the search results.

3 As well as seeing the company’s current share price (top right), 4 Both on the front page and on a company’s page, you see news

you also get a graph showing the fluctuating stock value over items in the main window. Click on one to open it in the Stocks app.
time. Drag your mouse over the graph to find the price at a certain This information is gleaned from Apple News; click the bookmark icon to
time on a certain date. save it in the News app.

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5 You can use tabs in the Stocks app, just like in Finder and 6 Hover over the tabs to reveal an ‘x’ icon in the left corner. Click it

Safari. In the View menu, select Show Tab Bar to open it, then to close the tab you’re currently hovering over, regardless of
tap the plus sign near the top-right corner to add a tab, which you whether it’s currently open or not. Hold the Alt button and click it to
can then use to open another stock or story. close all tabs except for that one.

7 Click on the Sharing icon, which is found in both stories and 8 You can now save your tickers in groups. First of all, in the File

stocks, to share it with others. This works just like the Sharing menu, select New Watchlist (or press Alt-CMD-N). A pop-up
facilities elsewhere in macOS. Click on a button at the top or a listed appears, asking you to choose a name for your new watchlist. Do so,
app to choose how to share. then click on the Save button.

9 The name of your currently open watchlist is displayed in the 10 To add a stock to your watchlist, find it using the search field.

sidebar. Click on it to switch between the watchlists you’ve set Choose a watchlist using the pulldown menu, and then click
up. You can also set up a new watchlist or manage the watchlists from the ‘+’ icon next to the stock. Alternatively, click the tick (top right) and
this pull-down menu. choose which lists to add it to.

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Continuity Camera

with Your iPhone

The Mac’s webcam has come on in leaps and bounds, but it’s still not as good as your
iPhone’s camera. Using this guide, you can use your iPhone as a webcam, using a
wireless connection.

Continuity Camera is macOS
Ventura’s and iOS 16’s new
feature that lets you use your
iPhone as a webcam,
connecting wirelessly with your
Mac and giving access to the
iPhone camera’s great features
such as Centre Stage, Portrait
mode and Studio Light which
illuminates a user’s face while
dimming the background. If
your iPhone has an Ultra Wide
camera, you can enable Desk
View, which simultaneously
shows your face and an
overhead view of your desk. To
set up and use Continuity
Camera, use these simple steps.

1: On the iPhone, open the Settings iPhone’s rear camera. A control window
app and go to General > AirPlay & on the iPhone allows you to pause or
Handoff, and tap the switch marked disconnect the stream.
Continuity Camera Webcam. Close the
Settings app. 4: To turn on Portrait Mode, Centre
Stage (iPhone 11 or later required)
2: On the Mac, open whichever video which keeps the person speaking in the
app you intend to use, such as middle of the picture, or Studio Light
FaceTime, Zoom, QuickTime and more. (iPhone 12 or later required), on your
Select the iPhone as the app’s camera. Mac, open Control Centre from the
How to do this depends on the app; on Menu Bar, click on Video Effects and
FaceTime, for example, you simply select the required effect.
select ‘iPhone’ in the Video menu.
5: Also under the Mac’s Video menu is
3: In the FaceTime app on your Mac, the the option to change the microphone to
video feed now comes from your your iPhones, if you wish.

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What You Need

To use your iPhone as a webcam with Continuity Camera, your Apple gear
must meet the following standards:

• A Mac running macOS 13: Ventura
• An iPhone XR or iPhone 8 or later
• iPhone must be on iOS 16
• Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enabled on both devices
• Both devices must be logged onto the same Apple ID

A camera mount to attach your phone to your computer is optional. To use
Centre Stage and Desk View, you need an iPhone 11 or later. To use Studio
Light, you need an iPhone 12 or later.

Desk View

Desk View utilises the iPhone’s (iPhone 11 or later required) wide-angled lens
to show your desktop as well as your face; just the thing for instructional
videos or when you need to show a sketch or model while you’re talking.

To turn on Desk View, open the Control Centre and click on Video Effects.
Select Desk View, and when instructed, use the on-screen controls to align
your desktop within the frame shown. Click Start Desk View and a second
window is displayed, showing your desktop.

To turn off Desk View, simply close that second window.

This is what it looks like when the person you’re talking to is using Desk View. Use the slider between
the two pictures to set their respective sizes.

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The Clock App
On Your Mac

Another app that Ventura brings to the Mac from iOS and iPadOS, the Clock app does
far more than simply tell the time. There’s a World Clock option, where you can see
the time in cities across the world, a stopwatch, an alarm and a countdown timer.
Here’s how to get the most from the Clock app.

World Clock

1 The first tab is World Clock. The time for your current location is 2 You can add a number of locations, which are shown on the
already there. To add cities and towns from across the world, world map above the clocks, and the time difference and other

click the ‘+’ icon (top right) and type the name of the location you want details are shown below them. To delete a location, hover the pointer

to add in the Search field. over it and click the ‘X’ in the corner.

Alarm

1 Click on the Alarm tab to switch the Clock app to the Alarm 2 Alarms are shown as thumbnails. You can add more alarms, or click
page. To add an alarm, first click the ‘+’ icon, top right. You can on an existing one to edit it. To delete one, hover over it with your

then set a time and a day or days it’s to go off, choose the sound it pointer, and click the ‘x’ (top left). Alarms are not synced through iCloud with

plays, give it a title and more. your mobile gear.

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Stopwatch Timer

1 Click on the third tab to open the Stopwatch. Click the Start 1 Click the last tab to access the Clock app’s countdown timer. To

button to start the timer. The Start button is then labelled set a timer, click on the hours, minutes and seconds in turn and
Stop. Click Stop to end the session, or click Lap to record the time type the values you wish to use. You can set a maximum of 23 hours,
without stopping the timer from running. 59 minutes and 59 seconds.

2 When using the lap timer, you can still click on Stop at any time. 2 Click the pull-down menu to set a sound to play when the

This stops the timer, but the lap times are still displayed. After timer ends. Choose one, and it plays for you as a preview. At
stopping the timer, click on Reset (previously marked ‘Lap’) to get back the foot of the menu is the Classic option, which brings up a
to the start screen. sub-menu offering classic Mac sounds.

3 You can choose between an analogue and digital stopwatch. 3 There’s a ‘Stop Playing’ option at the foot of the pulldown.

In the View menu, which can also be used to switch between Choose this, and you can play music or radio shows as you go
the Clock app’s key functions, simply choose between the Analogue to sleep in Apple and third-party apps, having it switch off
and Digital options. automatically when the timer runs out.

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Weather
Will it Rain?

The Weather app has long been a popular feature on the iPhone and the iPad, and
with Ventura, it comes to the Mac too. With Weather, you need never be caught
outside in the rain without your brolly. It gives hourly forecasts for the next ten
days, and minute-by-minute precipitation intensity over the next hour.

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1 In this sidebar, you see the 4 Here you see the current 7 A precipitation map. Areas The graphic at the top
locations you’ve saved in temperature, weather where it’s likely to rain are of the Weather app
the Weather app. Click one to see along with the high and low shown in blue. reflects the current
the weather in that particular forecast for the location you’ve weather conditions.
town or city. highlighted in the sidebar. 8 An air pollution indicator. As you see here, today
At the moment, it’s low. it’s raining.
2 Use this icon to collapse 5 Your by-the-hour forecast. Useful information for those with
and open the sidebar. Scroll it left and right for breathing problems.
more information.
3 The Search field. Use this 9 Each of these boxes (scroll
to find other towns, cities 6 Your ten-day forecast, up for more) offers detailed
and locations, which you can add showing the high and low information about an aspect of
to your sidebar. temperature, and general weather. the weather.

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What’s what in the Weather app

1 To add a new location to the sidebar on the left of the app 2 If you allow the Weather app to use your location, the top entry in
window, Click on the Search field and type its name. It can be the sidebar gives the weather for where you are now. To change
almost anywhere in the world. Click on a place in the Search results to this permission, open System Settings and go to Privacy & Security >
open its weather, and click the Add button that appears next to the Location Services. There’s a switch next to Weather that lets you turn the
Search field to add it to the sidebar. permission on and off.

3 The long box atop the details section is your hourly weather forecast, 4 The Precipitation box gives you a map that centres on your current
and the long box below it on the left is your ten-day review. Click on location, and shows areas where it’s likely to rain as blue patches.
either box for charts and details. In the details pop-up box, you can scroll You can interact with this map just like you can with the Maps app; use the
through a graph, click on a date to see the summary for that day, and more. + and - icons to move in or out, click and drag it to scroll around and more.

5 The Air Quality box gives you an idea of how clean the air 6 There are eight boxes at the foot of a location’s weather screen.
currently is. Click on it for more details, such as health information These provide information such as wind strength and direction,
and details of the atmosphere’s primary pollutant. It’s very useful for UV index, air pressure, humidity, wind chill and more. As always, if you
those with breathing issues. Information here is provided by click on one of these boxes, you get access to even more detailed
BreezoMeter, and covers most of the world. information in a pop-up.

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Set Up Your iPad
For the First Time

Did you get a new iPad with the October refresh? If so, you might need a guide
to setting it up out of the box. All you need is a Wi-Fi connection to the Internet.
Switch it on, then follow this guide and the instructions shown on your iPad’s
screen, and you’re soon up and running.

1 Power Up 2 Choose Your

Your Device Language

When you first power up your You’re now asked to select
new device you’re greeted your iPad’s language,
with this welcome screen. To which is used to display all
move on, press the Home information and menus.
button, as instructed. You Scroll up and down to
can toggle the iPad’s find your choice and then
VoiceOver function by triple tap it to select. The most
clicking the Home button. commonly used languages
The word ‘Hello’ in several are at the top of the list.
different languages is The iPad supports over 30
displayed. Tap the ‘i’ icon in languages, several with
the bottom right for regional variations, such as
regulatory information. UK, American or Australian
English.

3 Choose Your 4 Using

Country Quick Start

You’re then asked to choose A feature introduced to the
your country or region. The iPad with iOS 11 is Quick
most likely country, based Start. If you already have
on your choice of language, an iPhone or iPad running
is at the top of the list; as you iOS 11 or later, and signed
can see here, we selected in to the iCloud account
English, and the suggested you want to use with your
country is the UK. You can iPad, you can just bring
scroll up and down the list it close to your iPad and
and choose another if you have the settings transfer
so wish. Tap on your choice automatically. If not, tap the
and you then move on to Set Up Manually link, and
the next screen. continue with this tutorial.

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5 Choose Wi-Fi 6 Enter Wi-Fi

Network Password

On this screen you’re shown Now enter your Wi-Fi
a list of local Wi-Fi networks, password and then tap the
and asked to sign in to your Join option to link your iPad
own. To do this you need to your Wi-Fi network. When
to know your Wi-Fi network your iPad has connected to
password, without which your network, tap the Next
you cannot progress. Find link in the top right corner.
your home Wi-Fi from the list Your iPad automatically
offered, and tap on it to be connects to your home
taken to the password entry network from now on;
screen, which is where you there’s no need to select it
log on and take your iPad and retype your password
onto your network. every time you want to
use it.
7 Data & Privacy
8 Touch ID or
There follows a screen
about privacy and data usage. Face ID
Read through it; it’s simple
enough, and explains that There follows a screen
when Apple needs to collect offering information on Data
data, such as your location, & Privacy. Read it, then tap
the icon at the top of the page Continue to move on. If your
appears and the iPad asks iPad has a Home button and
permission. These requests are fingerprint sensor, you’re
made for a variety of reasons; invited to set up Touch ID. If
for example, the Maps app it has a TrueDepth camera
often needs your location. Tap and no Home button, you
Continue when finished. need to set up Face ID. Either
way, just follow the on-screen
9 Set Up a instructions. There’s a full
guide to both these features
Passcode later in the book.

Next you’re asked to Create 10 Restoring
a Passcode. You can tap
Passcode Options if you’d Apps & Data
rather use a longer code
made of numbers (numeric) You have five options. Use
or both letters and numbers Restore from iCloud Backup
(alphanumeric). These can be or Restore from Mac or PC
up to 25 characters in length. if you’ve an iPad backup.
You can choose between a Transfer Directly from iPad
four or six digit number too. takes you back to Step 4,
You can also proceed without where you can use Quick
adding a code at all and add Start and if you’re moving
one later if you wish. from an Android tablet,
choose this option to
transfer data and download
similar free apps. To set up
from scratch, choose Don’t
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verification code, sent to you
11 Using Your by Apple. If you already use
Apple devices, this code is
Apple ID sent to one of them. If you’re
starting with a new Apple ID,
If you already have an you can have it sent to your
Apple ID, sign in with it now; mobile, or given to you in a
just enter your user name phone call. If you didn’t get a
and password in the fields code, tap the link and have
provided. If not, tap Create an it delivered another way.
Apple ID and follow the on- Type the six figure number
screen instructions to set one to continue.
up now. An Apple ID lets you
buy from the App Store and 14 Auto
iTunes, and also gives you a
handy iCloud email address, Update
so it’s essential you register
for one. It’s also free. Next you’re asked whether
you want to keep your iPad
13 Terms and up to date by installing
updates automatically,
Conditions or if you prefer to do so
manually. The choice is
Before you can complete entirely yours but if you want
the setup process and to update automatically,
ultimately use your iPad tap the big blue button
you need to read and then marked Continue. To
agree to Apple’s Terms and update manually, tap the
Conditions. It’s not the most link underneath the button.
exciting of documents, Either way, you’re taken to
but you need to tap Agree the next screen.
to continue. You can have
the document emailed to 16 Apple
yourself if you want, but this
isn’t essential; you can read Pay
it on the screen now if you
prefer. Another feature to set up
now or skip and do later is
15 Location Apple Pay. Setting up Apple
Pay involves adding credit
Services or debit cards, so you can
use them to pay for goods
On this screen you are and services directly from
asked if you wish to activate your iPad. To set it up now,
Location Services. When tap Continue and follow
active this will allow GPS, the on-screen instructions
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi sources to set up your Apple Pay, or
to share the location of you can set up the service
your iPad with Apps such as in the Settings app later.
Maps and various third party
applications, such as local
retailers. De-active these
services may limit the use
of said apps so the choice is
completely yours.

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17 Using 18 Sharing

Siri Audio

Now you can elect to use Now you can elect to share
the voice controlled Siri app, audio from Siri, HomePod
if you choose to activate and more. The data is sent
this app. Click Conitnue anonymously and is only
and follow the on screen used to improve Apple’s
processes repeating the Siri and Dictation services.
onscreen quotes to give There are no privacy issues.
Siri a broad sample of Tap the About Improve Siri
your voice to improve and Dictation link for more
accuracy when using the information. Tap Share
app after installation. Siri Audio Recordings or Not
is improving all the time is Now to register your choice.
recommended.
20 iPad & App
19 Using
Analytics
Screentime
The iPad and App Analytics
From this screen you can screens are straightforward.
choose to access the iPad's They ask if you want to share
Screentime feature. This diagnostic information first
feature enables you to limit with Apple and then with
or simply measure the time third-party app developers.
you spend using your iPad You can change your
itself. It is a great addition if decisions later, in the Settings
you are intending the device app. Go to Privacy > Analytics
to be used by a minor or if and customise what you want
you simply wish to gauge the to share. For now, tap the
amount of time spend using button or the link to continue.
your Apple iPad.
22 Restarting
21 Light or Dark
Set Up
Mode
If you aren't 100% happy
Now it’s time to choose with your iPad's set up and
whether you set your iPad wish to repeat the process
to appear in Light or Dark you can the following. Open
Mode by default. Whichever the Settings app,
you decide, you can change tap General in the
it later in the Settings app. left-hand column and tap
There then follows a series Reset. When prompted,
of ’tips’ screens; read and enter
tap Continue on each. You the iPad’s passcode. Sign
then see a screen saying out of your Apple
‘Welcome to iPad’. Tap Get ID, if you are still logged in
Started at the foot of the and the iPad
screen and you’re done.. restarts; erasing all
content and settings.

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Setting Up Email
Configure it

Your iPad can send and receive email but first you must set up your email accounts.
This is how to do it whether you’re using an iCloud account, a free web account or
one from the company that provides your Internet service.

Set Up iCloud Mail

1 Tap the Settings icon located on the Home screen of your iPad 2 Your Apple ID’s iCloud email is likely already signed in; when
and scroll down on the left side panel and select the Mail you first set up. If you want to add another iCloud email

option. From here, tap the Accounts option and then tap the Add account, tap the iCloud link and enter the Apple ID and password.

Account link to start adding a new account on your iPad. Tap Next to automatically verify your details.

3 You’re taken to an options screen and asked what apps you 4 Tap Save and the account is added to your iPad. The new
want to sync over iCloud. Some apps and features, such as account now has a mailbox set up in the Mail app. If you go to

bookmarks, Photos, iCloud Drive, Notes, Backup and Find My iPad Settings > Mail > Accounts, tap the new account and then tap Account.

aren’t available with secondary accounts. You can change its name (under Description) here.

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Set Up Web-based Email Accounts

You can set up and use a variety of free, web-based email accounts in Mail, including Gmail, Yahoo, AOL or Microsoft Hotmail.
Doing so is a little more complicated than setting up an iCloud account, but it’s still not too difficult.

1 To access accounts from these email providers, you must have

already set up an active account with one of them. To do this
you need to visit their respective websites and follow the onscreen
instructions, then come back to add the account to the Mail app.

3 Follow the on-screen instructions, entering your email 4 You’re asked to give iPadOS various permissions. If you can’t

address (that’s the one for the account you’re registering with modify these permissions while you configure your account, you
your iPad), password and any other details you’re asked for. Agree to can do so later by going back into Settings > Accounts & Passwords. Agree,
iPadOS getting access permissions, then move on. and you’re up and running with your new email account on your iPad.

Setting Up a Microsoft Exchange or Other Email Account.

To start the process of collecting email on your iPad if your account is hosted by a provider other than those listed on this screen,
or hosted via Microsoft Exchange, you will need to tap either the Other or the Microsoft Exchange link respectively. You will have to
visit the support website of your email provider and seek out their help in setting up either a POP or IMAP email account on your
iPad. As these details are all different for each provider, we can, alas, only send you in their direction for help. Check the support
section of their website, or their telephone helpline.

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Watch Gestures
and Buttons

Apple pioneered gestures with its touchscreen iPhone
and iPad, and also with trackpad gestures used to
interact with your Mac. It comes as no surprise then that
Apple Watch also uses gestures, along with controls
offered by the side button and the Digital Crown. Here
we take a look at how to use those gestures to
operate your watch and what they do.

Interacting With Your Watch

Although the gestures offered by the Apple Watch aren’t as advanced or as comprehensive as those used in iOS
devices or on the Mac, it’s definitely worth taking a little time to familiarise yourself with these controls.

Swipe Down Swipe Up Swipe Sideways

From the main watch screen, swipe down to Swiping up from the watch face takes you Swiping left and right from the watch face
access the Notification Screen. A red dot at the to its Control Centre. This gives you quick cycles between different faces. Find one you
top of the watch face means you’ve unread access to controls that silence your watch, like and then, if you want to edit it in any
notifications. To get back to the watch screen, turn it into a flashlight, ping your iPhone, way, tap and hold the crystal covering the
swipe up again or press the Digital Crown. turn on Airplane or Theatre Mode and more. watch face and tap the Edit button.

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The Side Button Press Digital Crown Turn Digital Crown

Press the Side Button to get to the watchOS A single press on the Digital Crown takes Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through
Dock. Double-tap it to open the Wallet app you to the app screen or back to the watch menus, or to zoom in and out of a photo or
and make payments on your registered face if you’re already on the app screen. map, like the iPhone’s pinch gesture. It can
cards. Press and hold it for the Power Off, Double tapping takes you to the last app also scroll through messages and emails, like
Medical ID and Emergency SOS features. you used; press and hold it for Siri. swiping up and down on your iPhone.

Tap Screen Deep Press Wake Up

The Apple Watch has a touchscreen, so A deeper press on the screen causes it to When not in use, the Apple Watch’s
unsurprisingly, its most basic gesture is a vibrate and activate an alternative option, a screen dims, or on older models turns off
simple tap. Do this to operate on-screen little like Force Touch on the latest iPhones. For altogether, to save battery power. To wake it
buttons and to select options. For example, tap example, a Deep Press on the watch screen or bring it to full brightness, lift your wrist to
an app icon on the home screen to open it. allows you to edit or share the watch face. your face, tap the screen or press any button.

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Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth

When your iPhone is nearby, your Apple Watch
connects to it and gets its online connection through
the phone, but if it isn’t, your watch can connect to
Wi-Fi itself. You can also use Bluetooth to connect
your watch to external peripherals, such as earbuds
and speakers. Here we show you how to use Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth on your Apple Watch.

Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network

Connect your Apple Watch to a 802.11b/g/n, 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network, or even a 5 GHz network if you have a Series 6
watch or later.

1 To find and join a Wi-Fi network, in the 2 To get your Apple Watch to forget a Wi-Fi 3 When your Apple Watch connects
watch’s Settings app, tap Wi-Fi. Make network, so it won’t automatically join, directly to a network instead of going
sure it’s switched on (see the switch at the top open the watch’s Settings app and tap Wi-Fi. through your iPhone, a Wi-Fi symbol appears
of the page), then scroll up to find the network Use the Digital Crown to scroll until you see the atop the control centre. You cannot connect
you want to join. Tap it, and if necessary, enter network in question, tap it and scroll up to the your Apple Watch to public networks that
the network’s Wi-Fi password. Tap Join. Forget This Network button and tap it. require logins, subscriptions or profiles.

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Bluetooth Peripherals

Connect your Apple Watch to Bluetooth peripherals, such as speakers
and earbuds, to play audio straight from your watch.

4 To adjust your Apple Watch’s Auto 1 If you want to connect a device such 2 On your Apple Watch, open the
Hotspot settings, go to Settings > Wi-Fi as Bluetooth, earbuds, speakers Settings app and tap the Bluetooth
and at the bottom of the page, tap the button or connected peripherals that record option. Devices that are already paired with
showing your current setting. Your Apple health information, first of all, dig out the your Apple Watch are listed here. The watch
Watch can ask before joining a network you’ve instructions for the item in question and searches for nearby Bluetooth gadgets that
previously been on, always join or never join. put it into pairing mode. It’s usually fairly are in pairing mode; the one you’re pairing
straightforward to do so. should appear.

3 The new device appears on the 4 To unpair a Bluetooth device from 5 If the Apple Watch has not correctly
screen, listed in the Devices or your Apple Watch, so it no longer recognised the category of the
Health Devices section (it might take a connects to your watch when you switch it device you’ve paired with it, open Settings
while to appear). It should be listed as on, in Settings > Bluetooth tap the‘i’symbol > Bluetooth and tap the‘i’icon next to the
‘Not Paired’. Tap it, and the device is paired next to the device you want to forget. Tap device in question. On the next screen, you
with your watch and connected to it via a the Forget Device button and that device is can choose which category of device it
Bluetooth connection. no longer paired. should be in.

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The Watch
Control Centre

The watchOS Control Centre gives you access to a range of features on your
Apple Watch. It’s great for pinging your mislaid iPhone, checking the battery
level, switching to Airplane Mode and more. Here’s how it all works.

Wi-Fi and Cellular iPhone and Location Ping Your iPhone

This icon, when lit, shows The green icon here shows your watch is connected to your If you’ve mislaid your iPhone, tap
your watch has a current Wi-Fi iPhone. The blue one shows it’s seeking location information. this icon and it makes a pinging
connection. Tap it to turn Wi-Fi Tap here to check up on this information. On an Apple Watch noise. Follow your ears, and you
on and off. If your watch also has should be able to find it again.
cellular connectivity, it’s joined by with Cellular connectivity, these icons are replaced with
another icon, showing a cellular signal-strength bars. Swipe down from the feint line above
mast. This is green when a cellular
connection has been made. Again, these icons to close Control Centre.

tap it to turn it on and off.

Battery Level Silent Mode

This shows your current battery If you need some peace and
level. Tap it for a screen with a quiet, perhaps because you’re in a
slider that lets you put your watch meeting or watching a movie and
into Power Reserve mode, which don’t want to be interrupted, tap
shuts down most of your watch’s this icon to activate Silent Mode.
functions but lets you keep the time. It turns red and the bell is crossed
out when it’s active. Tap it again to
Theatre Mode
turn off Silent Mode.
Stops the display turning on when
you lift your wrist; it still lights up Walkie-Talkie

if you tap the crystal or press a Do you want to make yourself
button. Theatre Mode also turns available for Walkie-Talkie calls?
on Silent Mode. When the watch is If so, tap this icon; it turns yellow.
in Theatre Mode, this icon appears
above the watch face too. The icon Tap it again to turn it off.
is orange when it’s on; tap it again

to turn it off.

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Choose a Focus The Torch

If you’ve set up a Focus on your Tap the Torch and your screen
iPhone, tap this icon and choose turns white, with the screen set
it on the next screen. Even if you
haven’t set up a Focus, you can still to maximum brightness. You
use the default ones such as Do can then use your watch as a
Not Disturb and Driving. You can rudimentary torch. Swipe right
choose whether to keep your Focus for a flashing light, and again for
on for an hour, until tomorrow a red one. Swipe down to turn
morning or until you leave your the feature off and return to the
current location. Alternatively, just
turn it on, and tap the icon again to watch face.

turn it off once more. Water Lock

Airplane Mode If you go swimming in your Apple
Watch, tap this icon to activate the
If you’re flying, the airline might
insist you use Airplane Mode for watch’s Water Lock to lock your
your iPhone and Apple Watch. screen and prevent accidental
This turns off Wi-Fi and cellular taps. This function is automatically
connections, to prevent them activated if you start a Swimming
workout. When you’ve finished,
interfering with the aircraft’s turn your Digital Crown to expel
navigation instruments, but keeps the water from your speaker port
Bluetooth turned on so you can still
listen to your music. Tap the icon to and unlock your watch.
turn the feature on and off, on both
your iPhone and your Apple Watch. Check Headphone
When it’s on, an airplane appears on Volume

your watch face. If you’re listening to music
through your headphones on
Edit Control Centre your Apple Watch, this icon shows
a green tick. Tap it and you get
Tap the Edit button at the foot of the icons and you can edit a screen that lets you adjust the
your Control Centre. To remove an item from the Control headphones’ volume, and also
checks it’s not too loud. You can
Centre, tap the red cross next to it. To add a feature that isn’t limit the maximum headphone
currently in there, tap its green tick. Items you’ve removed volume in Apple Watch’s Settings.

can be added again later.

Audio Output Accessing the Control Centre

If you want to switch your watch’s To access the Control Centre from the watch face,
audio output to a connected simply swipe the screen upwards. To open it from
Bluetooth audio device such as within an app, touch and hold the bottom of the

speakers or earbuds, or if you want screen, and then swipe up when the top of the
to connect it to such a device, tap Control Centre appears. To close Control Centre,
this icon. You can choose an audio
swipe down from the top of the screen.
output source from connected With the Control Centre open, scroll the screen up
devices listed on the Audio screen, and down using the Digital Crown, or alternatively,
or tap Connect a Device to make a by placing your finger on the screen and dragging

new bluetooth connection. it up and down.

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Reloading…

Ircle

Back in the day, Ircle was the premiere program
for Internet Relay Chat on the Mac, but today, it lies
abandoned. We salute this much-missed app.

Old-school Internet chat
rooms were fun

See what they did there? They took every subject, and the largest servers frequently <I>instead</I> of leaving the house? All my
‘IRC’ – the widely used abbreviation hosted over 100,000 chatters and hundreds, online friends had perfectly normal social
for ‘Internet Relay Chat’ – and used it sometimes even thousands, of channels. lives alongside chatting on IRC..
for the basis of their app’s name, Ircle. In the
program’s early days, it was known as IRCle, Some people consider chatting with The Rise of Ircle
making the connection even more obvious, people on the Internet instead of going out
but we’ll use its final rendering here. and meeting ‘real’ people a little sad, but As you’ve probably guessed, I was a big fan
I loved it. When you go down the pub, the of Internet Relay Chat, and Ircle was my chat
Back in the day, Internet Relay Chat was people you see there almost all live within client of choice. First coded in THINK Pascal
popular in Internet computing circles. Using a a mile of the bar taps, but on IRC you can by the unfortunately-named Olaf Titz, the
dedicated IRC client (or in some cases, a web meet people from all over the world. These Mac-only Ircle was first released in 1993. After
interface) you could log on to servers set up people are just as ‘real’ as people you meet version 1.56, released in July 1993, he passed
to host chats. These servers could host any in everyday life (or ‘meatspace’, as IRCers the project on to Onno Tijdgat who rewrote it
number of rooms, or channels, covering almost like to call it). And who says chatters use IRC

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The ‘About’ window for Ircle 1.5.1, July 1992.

The Ircle user interface was based around multiple windows. Today, the official Ircle website says the project was abandoned
in 2009.

in C to update it for the PowerPC-based Macs could arrange windows for things like the standard against which all other clients
which were emerging at the time. Ircle 3.0, the chat console, the list of users currently in compare themselves.”
last ‘full’ update, was released in 1994. the room, a list of rooms currently offered
on the server and more, however you Maybe one day someone will take up the
In December 2005, work began on wanted. Important windows could be Ircle project and release a new version for
rewriting Ircle for compatibility with the then- given prominence, and less often used Apple Silicon Macs, but we doubt it. After
new Intel Macs. Backwards-compatibility ones minimised or covered until they were almost a decade and a half in hibernation,
with the older processors was retained, but needed. You could connect to up to ten we suspect if anyone was interested in
support for the Mac’s Classic OS was dropped. servers at once and use multiple rooms at taking it on, they would’ve done it by now. As
The first Universal Binary of the app was the same time, though a lot of operators, or it stands, it’s been impossible to run Ircle on
released on 21st September, 2006. And after ‘ops’, frowned on multi-channeling. It often a recent version of macOS for years, and that
that, things dried up. Work was began on a led to people being listed as in the room, doesn’t seem set to change any time soon.
version 4.0, but it never came out of public but not actually taking any notice of it. It
beta. The last stable release was version 3.5a6 was easy to access new servers too, above There are Mac IRC clients available for
on 17th November, 2007, and in 2009, it was and beyond those pre-listed in the app. current, up-to-date Macs, but none have
abandoned altogether. As Alex Charalabidis put it back in 1999, reached the dizzying heights achieved by
“[Ircle is] the godfather of Mac IRC clients. Ircle. For the record, the Mac’s current most
Why Ircle Ruled It has been around the longest and has the popular app for IRC is Colloquy (https://
most features, making it the de facto gold colloquy.app), which is available for a low
Like its Windows equivalent mIRC, Ircle price on the Mac and iOS App Stores. It’s
used multiple on-screen windows. This type good, but it isn’t Ircle. IO
of user interface is frowned on today, but
back then, it was fairly common. Although
it made the app intimidating at first, it gave
the chatter a huge degree of control. You

The new gold standard for Mac IRC clients is Colloquy. Logging onto
a server with
Ircle.

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