iPhone Life - Best Apps, Top Tips, Great Gear

If you're in the market to buy your first smart home device or adding to your collection of smart home accessories, our 2020 Buyer's Guide has lots of excellent options for you to look at. Whether you are searching for a smart doorbell, a full smart home starter pack, or a laundry sensor, we've evaluated the best protection, safety, and energy-saving accessories for your home. 

Apple TV lets families and friends customize their own watching experience. With Apple TV multiple accounts, you can convert your home theater into a multi-user experience. This helps keep a separate watching history for each user, to allow for personalized recommendations and billing. A few easy steps is all it takes to provide each household member with their own Apple TV profile.

Do iPhone apps keep crashing on you? From the easiest and most practical solutions to a little more time-consuming but necessary updates, our guide helps you figure out what to do when iPhone apps keep crashing. We’ve put together a series of solutions to fix app crashing issues and prevent them from happening in future. Follow the steps below and, with any luck, your iPhone apps will run smoothly once again.

This article will tell you how and why to use Suggest Less in the People album of your Photos app. The People album on your iPhone can be full of all sorts of wonderful suggestions of photos to look at and memories to revisit. But, like anything based on algorithms, it doesn't always hit the mark. It's helpful to tag faces in the People album on your iPhone because you can search and keep track of the people in your photos easily, but just because you tag someone doesn't mean you want their picture popping up in a memory. Memory videos of your family can be wonderful, but you don't need a whole collage of that acquaintance that shows up at all the same events as you. Luckily, you can tell Photos to Suggest Less of any person tagged on your phone, and make sure only your top people are regularly suggested to you. Let's dive in! For more great tips on how to get the most out of your Photos app, check out our Tip of the Day.

I have reviewed a number of robot vacuums over the years and it looks like the folks at Neabot have done as as well. They have learned a number of lessons and launched a Kickstarter for their Neabot NoMo Hands-Free Robot Vacuum ($499). I rarely write about crowdfunded projects, but this is a real product and Neabot sent me a review unit to try. The only thing I didn't get to try was the free companion mobile app that promises to let you control the path of the vacuum. The app wasn't ready in time for my review.

Battery chargers are as ubiquitous as wireless headsets, and trying to find that perfect needle in such a large haystack isn't easy. Some chargers have wireless capability with an anemic number of wired ports. Others have huge battery charge storage but are bulky and not that portable. And nearly all the chargers I've reviewed in the past have confusing battery level LED dot indicators that make determining remaining charge level a mystery. Infinacore has addressed nearly all these shortcomings with the Pandora Portable Power (P3) charging device ($39.95). Read on to find out how the company did.

The flashlight on my iPhone is a feature I use several times a day, so I'm happy that Apple has introduced a new way to turn the flashlight on and off. One of the new iOS 14 features Apple has rolled out is Back Tap, a set of shortcuts that allow iPhone users to double or triple tap the back of their phones to perform a variety of tasks. Back Tap is a great iPhone accessibility feature for people with reduced dexterity or limited vision, but being able to turn the flashlight off and on from a few taps on the back of our iPhones is convenient for everyone. Let's learn how to turn on and turn off the flashlight on your iPhone using Back Tap. Back Tap works with the iPhone 8 flashlight and later, including the iPhone X, iPhone 11 flashlight, and the new iPhone 12 line.