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#iOS
31 entries tagged iOS.
Apps
Daily Seal: Chinese Widget
An iPhone widget app that shows one Chinese word at a time on the Lock Screen and Home Screen, with its characters, pinyin and meaning in your own language, by HSK level.
Marble: Stoic Quotes Widget
An iPhone widget app that shows one passage from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus at a time, each cited to its book and section, on a marble stone or a museum painting.
VocabPeek Junior: First Words
An iPhone and iPad app for children aged 2 to 5 who cannot read yet. A Home Screen widget says an English word aloud and the child taps the matching picture, three words at a time. On the App Store, free for now.
VocabPeek: Daily Word Widget
An iPhone app in development that puts one English word on the Lock Screen and Home Screen and changes it on a schedule you pick, so vocabulary is learned in the glances you already make.
VidBeam: Cast Web Videos to TV
An iPhone browser that finds the video stream behind a web page and hands it to the TV over AirPlay or Google Cast, so the phone is free while the TV plays.
DonePix: Job Site Photo Report
An iPhone app for solo contractors — job photos stamped with the date, time and address, turned into a branded PDF report you send from the site, with the estimate and the invoice written from the same job. On the App Store for iPhone.
Milestamp: Mileage Tracker
An iPhone mileage tracker in development for self-employed people in the US who drive their own car for work and need a log to stand behind at tax time.
SideSpace: Multiple Accounts
Keeps several separate environments on one iPhone — each Space with its own web sessions, notes, photos and lock.
NoLight: Black Screen Camera
An iPhone camera that keeps recording while the screen goes dark, so a ninety-minute session does not light up the room around you.
Guides
Web video cast apps for iPhone compared: iWebTV, TV Cast, Tubio
Four iPhone apps send a web video to the TV without mirroring. What each one reaches, how each one charges, and which to pick for your television.
Can an iPhone have multiple users or profiles?
iPhone has no multiple users or second profile. Why, what Safari profiles, Focus and Guided Access cover, and practical ways to share or split one iPhone.
Recording a lecture on iPhone: video or audio?
When an audio recording of a lecture is enough, when video is worth it, and how to set up an iPhone so a long recording works and disturbs nobody.
How to keep a private space on your iPhone
What iOS offers for a private, hidden space on iPhone — locked apps, the Hidden album, locked notes — and how a separate, unlisted Space keeps it together.
Psylo and VanBrowser alternatives: browser profiles on iPhone
Psylo isolates every tab; VanBrowser gives each Persona its own cookies. How they compare with Safari profiles and SideSpace for separate accounts on iPhone.
How to tell if someone is recording you with an iPhone
What the green and orange dots mean, and what spy or hidden camera apps on iPhone can't turn off. How to tell when an iPhone is recording you.
Can you recover a video after a recording app crashed on iPhone?
Why a video can become unplayable when an iPhone recording app crashes, what you can still try, and how to avoid losing a long recording next time.
How to cast a web video to Chromecast from an iPhone
Safari has no Cast button and an iPhone cannot mirror to a Chromecast. Here is why, and the one route that does get a web video onto a Google TV.
Is there a work profile on iPhone? What Apple offers instead
No — iPhone has no Android-style work profile. What Apple offers on company and personal phones, and practical ways to keep work apart yourself.
How to keep using your iPhone while it records video
iPhone stops recording video when you switch apps. What you can still do mid-recording, and how tools inside the recording app keep it running.
Parallel Space for iPhone: why there isn't one, and alternatives
Several App Store apps are called Parallel Space and none of them clones an iPhone app. What they really do, what they charge, and what works instead.
iPhone overheating during a long video: what to do
Why an iPhone gets hot during long video recordings, what it does when it overheats, and practical ways to keep a long recording going.
How to watch a web video on your TV without screen mirroring
Screen mirroring is not the only way to get a web video onto a television. Here is what the alternative actually does, and which apps do it today.
How much storage does an hour of iPhone video take?
How to work out how much space a long iPhone recording needs at 1080p and 4K, why the numbers vary, and how to measure your own before a long session.
How to separate work and personal on one iPhone
Keep work and personal apart on a single iPhone — Focus modes, account switching, separate browser sessions and Spaces — without carrying two phones.
Dual Space and 2Accounts alternatives for iPhone
Apps called Dual Space or 2Accounts promise cloned apps on iPhone. What they really do, what to check before subscribing, and what works instead.
How to record a concert on iPhone without lighting up the room
Recording a whole concert on iPhone without a bright screen bothering the people around you — settings, battery, storage, sound and venue rules.
How to use multiple accounts on one iPhone
Two or more accounts of the same service on one iPhone — built-in account switching, Safari profiles, second browsers and separate Spaces, and when each fits.
Black screen camera apps for iPhone: what to check first
A black screen camera app keeps recording while the iPhone screen goes dark, so it won't light up the room. Seven things to check before you pick one.
How to record a long video on iPhone without losing the file
Storage, heat, battery, interruptions, and the screen — the five things that quietly end a ninety-minute recording, and what to do about each one.
How to stay signed in to two accounts on the same site on iPhone
Keep multiple logins on the same website on iPhone and stay signed in without logging out — four ways to do it, and where each one breaks.
Safari profiles on iPhone: what they separate and what they don't
Safari profiles give iPhone a second set of cookies, so you can be signed in twice. What each profile separates, what stays shared, and how to set one up.