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How to Share Your Location With Friends and Family in iOS 17
iOS 17 is now with us, and it comes with a range of upgrades, tweaks, and improvements—including new ways to share your whereabouts with other people. Whether you’re meeting friends in town or keeping an eye on the kids at school, you’ve now got more options for doing it on the iPhone. As is the…
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Should You Use Apple CarPlay or Android Auto for Your Car’s Dashboard?
Google and Apple enjoy taking each other on in as many different arenas as possible: mobile phones, maps, cloud storage, music streaming, photo management, note taking, smart assistants, tablets, smartwatches, calendars, web browsers, word processors, email, and more besides. In cars, we have Android Auto and Apple CarPlay vying for control of your dashboard. We…
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No Longer Riding Into the Abyss: Apple Maps Has Cycling Directions Now
Apple has been investing a lot of money into the company’s map system these past few years. In 2021 they launched a brand-new Australian map that the company built by talking to governments and driving around in cars that were certainly not inspired by the Google Maps cars. Today marks the next step in that…
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10 Tips to Get the Most Out of Apple CarPlay
Apple CarPlay has changed (and improved) a lot since it made its debut in 2014, and it’s more widely supported in vehicles than ever before. Part of CarPlay’s appeal is its simplicity and ease-of-use, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some lesser-known tricks and tips that can help you make more of the platform.