Preserve iPhone battery by reducing brightness

Earlier we had seen how to turn on lower power mode automatically using shortcuts. This is another shortcuts tip to preserve iPhone battery by automatically reducing the brightness when iPhone battery falls below certain percentage. Launch Shortcuts and tap Personal Automation. Select Battery Level option and set the battery level to 50% This automation will […]

iPhone battery – automatically turn on low power mode

If your iPhone battery needs servicing but you want to delay the servicing and still get most life out of the battery then follow this tip. I used to turn on lower power mode manually every time after a full charge. Instead of doing this manually we can use Shortcuts app for automating this option. […]

Errors were encountered while preparing your device

One of the common error that occurs in Xcode is “Error were encounted while preparing your device for development. Please check the Devices and Simulators Window.” I have noticed this error after Mac OS update or Xcode app update Trying the following Restart your device, Close Xcode and try re-running the Xcode project. Sometimes after […]

CoreData tutorial in Swift 5 using NSFetchedResultsController

Let us see an example TaskManager app using CoreData written in Swift Programming language. This app provides the following functionality Allow users to enter new task Update existing task delete task You can download source code for this project from Github. If you are familiar with user interface then move on to the Core Data […]

Protect WhatsApp with Touch ID in iPhone

Now you can lock WhatsApp on your iPhone with Touch ID. If your phone is being accessed by family memebers then this would be quite helpful to prevent other users from accessing your WhatsApp message. Steps to enable Touch ID for WhatsApp Tap Settings on your WhatsApp app. In the Setting screen, navigate to Privacy […]

How to hide or unhide photos in iPhone or iPad

iPhone and iPad users can temporarily hide photos from the albums. This is quite useful when you do not want other users to inadvertently view private photos from Albums. Listed below are the steps to hide and unhide photos from Albums in iPhone or iPad Step 1: Navigate to Photos on your device. Step 2: […]

Automatically answer calls in iPhone Speaker

iPhone users have the option to automatically take the calls in Speaker. Listed below are the steps to enable iPhone to receive phone calls in Speaker. Step 1: Tap the Settings icon on the Home screen. Step 2: Navigate to General option in Settings screen. Step 3: Select Accessibility option in General Settings screen. Step […]

Retrieve list of Twitter followers using Swift

This article provides details about the the steps required to retrieve the followers in from your twitter account. You will learn the following by going through this article Use oAuth to retrieve bearer token. Retrieve twitter followers using API call. Last 20 followers name and profile image will be displayed in a tableview. Download the […]