ios tips
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Prevent iOS From Resizing Background Wallpapers With A Screenshot
When you try to use a small picture for your background on iOS, it automatically zooms in and resizes the image. It’s annoying if you’re trying to use a non-portrait image. OS X Daily has a simple workaround.
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Even With Background App Refresh Off, Facebook’s Killing Your iPhone’s Battery
In iOS 8, Apple allowed apps to run in the background so they can stay up to date without you opening them. This tends to kill the battery life, but thankfully you can easily turn the feature off. However, doing that for the Facebook app doesn’t seem to make a difference.
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How To Get Rid Of The Frequently Visited Sites In Mobile Safari
When you open up a new tab in Safari on iOS, you’re usually shown your most frequently visited sites. If your mobile browsing is as weird and random as mine, this is usually a hodgepodge of web sites you don’t actually visit that often. Thankfully you can turn it off.
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Delete Old iPhone iCloud Backups To Free Up Space
Backing up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud is a good idea, but when you upgrade phones, you might end up with multiple backups, including ones you don’t need anymore. OS X Daily shows you how to delete them.