For whatever reason, the iPhone has tons of different voice recording apps, but very few of them do anything more than Apple's free Voice Memos app. We like Just Press Record because it manages to make itself worth its asking price by offering a different experience and feature set than Apple's offering.

If you have a large storage iPhone, you might not have the space to back it up locally on your hard drive, especially if you're working with a laptop's SSD. OS X Daily points out that with a little Terminal magic, you can set up iTunes on your Mac to back up your iPhone to an external hard drive.

Apple overnight updated the iPod Touch line for the first time in three years, with storage options ranging from 16GB to 128GB. They're available today, and for once, we're arguably getting them cheaper than in most of the US.

Apple giveth Apple Music, and Apple taketh away. In this case, the MIA feature is Home Sharing for music files to your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Have a family member who also loves their iDevice? If You won't find a better gift for them than a few apps to make that experience better. Here are our favourite paid apps worth gifting to the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch owner on your Christmas list.

Wouldn't it be nice if Apple made headphones that didn't break after a few months of standard use? Unfortunately that's not the reality here, but redditor Kulmania fixed the problem with a small bit of shrink wrap.

Jailbreaking your iPhone has a lot of benefits that give you actual control over your device -- but it isn't always possible. If you're tired of waiting for the next version of iOS to be jailbroken, check out these tweaks and customisations you can make whether you're jailbroken or not.

Say you've organised your hundreds of apps into folders, but later decide you would prefer everything on the top level of the home screen. Luckily, there's an easy fix to get rid of the folders without moving each app individually.

Apple's likely to show off the newest version of iOS this Monday at WWDC, their annual developer conference, and it's got us thinking about the features we'd like to see in iOS 6. We also asked you to share what's on your iOS wish list, and we got some interesting responses. Here are six of the best.

I recently jailbroke my iPhone and now that it's done I'm very overwhelmed by Cydia. I've downloaded a couple apps, but I don't understand most of what I'm looking at. The descriptions and explanation in Cydia don't help much, so I'm wondering: can you help me wrap my head all this stuff?

If you find that one of your iPhone apps is hanging and causing your device to stop working, you don't have to reboot it entirely. Here's how to force quit the current app if it stops responding.

iOS (Jailbroken): Activator is a jailbreak hack that has been around since the early days and we love it. As software blog Addictive Tips has noted, a recent upgrade brought a neat new feature: actions based on headphone connections and disconnections. That means that you can now use Activator to make your phone launch an app whenever your plug your headphones in or take them out. Here's how.

It took a good while before iOS 5 received its first jailbreak, but now that you've jailbroken your compatible iDevice you need to know all the great apps and hacks it can handle. Here's a look at some of our favourites available in Cydia for iOS 5.

There's nothing like a quick recalibration to make your gadgets feel that much faster. In the case of your iDevice, you may have noticed your home button isn't a quick to bring up the Springboard as it used to be. If that's the case, this easy tweak might be exactly what you're after.

Christmas is the perfect time to capture magic moments with friends and family and take the time get creative with your photography. Here are some simple tips to get the best photos from your iPhone.

Earlier today we looked at how you can live comfortably without a jailbreak in iOS 5 and noted that you can change your home screen icons even with a jailed iDevice. One thing we missed that deserves the spotlight are a handful of beautiful settings shortcuts, from designer Jeff Broderick. Best of all, they don't require jailbreaking.

iOS 5 has still yet to get an untethered jailbreak, and unfortunately, a tethered jailbreak is kind of a bummer. Although iPhone hackers are making progress, it still may be awhile before an official untethered jailbreak is available. In the meantime, here's how we're coping without it.

Apple released a version of its GarageBand music creation software for the iPad back in March, and now it has converted that into a universal version that runs on iPhone and iPod Touch as well. As with the original iPad version, you don't get the same range of features as in the original Mac product, but you can export tracks created on your device into the desktop version for further refinement.

If you don't like the Newsstand app in iOS 5 and want to hide it, you'll realise you can't just put it into a folder like a normal app. With a bit of quick swiping, though, you can.