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Love iOS as I do, there is still plenty of room for improvement. This became clear while putting together our iPhone Home and Lock Screen customisation guide this issue (which starts on page 14), when the scattergun approach Apple has provided for personalising your iPhone become blatantly apparent. As we discovered, it’s far more complicated than it needs to be to change the wallpaper of one screen and not the other, and if you decide to apply ‘Blur’ to your Home Screen wallpaper then all hell will break loose if you have the ‘Reduce Transparency’ setting turned on – well, it’ll look like crap anyway. And why are options to change the boldness and size of the app icon font buried in the Accessibility settings? And why, when you customise…

THE RUMOUR MILL IS SPINNING ONCE MORE CONCERNING APPLE, AND THIS TIME WE’VE HEARD SPILLAGE ON THE TOPIC OF WHAT MACS WILL BE COMING OUT IN 2023 – AND TO PREPARE FOR SOME POSSIBLE DISAPPOINTMENTS. This all comes from a renowned source on all things Apple, Mark Gurman. In a recent Bloomberg newsletter, Gurman touches on what’s next in terms of MacBooks, the Mac Pro, and the iMac (or what isn’t next – at least not this year – in the latter case, as you’ll see). As ever, treat rumours with plenty of caution, even those from more reliable sources. Earlier-than-expected Pros According to Gurman, we will see new MacBook Pros in the first half of 2023, but they will have exactly the same design and features as the existing…

Apple Fitness+ Kick off 2023 with Apple Fitness+ Apple bolstered its popular Fitness+ package with a host of new content back at the start of the year. Included in this update was Kickboxing, a new total-body cardio workout type and a brand-new meditation theme called Sleep. Sleep joins the nine other themes in the Meditation library, all designed to make users’ practice more impactful than ever. To help you get started, a new program called Introductions to Meditations for Sleep is available that is designed to help you wind down before bed and drift off to sleep. There is also plenty more to experience within the app. Artist Spotlight has launched new workouts featuring music by Beyoncé, including songs from her latest album, RENAISSANCE. Time to Walk has kicked off…

As long as there have been iPhones, there have been ways to customise and make them your own – from changing the wallpaper to arranging your app icons. But as the handsets have evolved and iOS undergoes multiple updates every year, the possibilities to personalise your device even further have increased. Customisation options have steadily been expanded to allow you to add helpful widgets, design your own app icons and – since the release of iOS 16 last year – even create your own Lock Screen with personalised, at-a-glance info. Over the following pages we’ll leave no option un-tapped in our quest to provide the ultimate iPhone customisation guide. Master your App Library The App Library can be accessed by swiping left from your Home Screen and it provides easy…

When you shoot straight into a setting (or rising) sun, a backlit foreground subject can become a black silhouette that contrasts with the background sky’s vivid colours. However, sometimes the iPhone will try and reveal detail in a backlit subject even if you want it to be completely black. Fortunately, Photos has all the tools required to make selective tonal adjustments and create striking silhouettes. The setting sun will bathe your subject in a warm, golden glow, but you may not be on location at the right time. Photos also has plenty of colour-tweaking tools for adding a golden hour look to any shot. Knowledge base Colour temperature The sunlight’s colour temperature, which is measured in Kelvin (K), changes throughout the day. This can add cold blue or warm orange…

IMovie has plenty of transitions to help you wipe or dissolve from one clip to another, but if you’re creative with your iPhone camera work then you can create the effect of classic transitions by using simple cuts (and show off on social media sites). For example, if you place a leaf over the lens and then drop the iPhone, then the leaf will fall away to reveal your subject (see our supplied Clip04). This provides a creative alternative to using an iMovie Wipe transition. We’ll also show you how to create wipe-style transitions by using objects such as an umbrella to instantly transport a subject from a city street to the wild woods! Make the cut Create transitions from cuts and camera moves Knowledge base On the go After…