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Several users have reported that they are unable to use iMessage because they could not activate it. This short article explains how to troubleshoot iMessage activation issues on iOS devices (iPad, iPhone and iPod touch). Please note that activation may take up to 24 hours to complete. Leave iMessage enabled for 24 hours. Do not toggle iMessage off [...]

Some users have experienced problems after upgrading to iOS 6. Many of these users want things as they were before the update. If you are having problems with iOS 6 on your device (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), you may want to downgrade your device back to iOS 5.1.1. So is this possible? The short answer [...]

You may wonder sometimes what was taking up all the space on your iPhone. Since you have a very limited space on your device, you may want to know how much space exactly an app is using so that you can manage them more efficiently, especially if you have a lot of apps. Here is [...]

Spotlight Search is an awesome feature that lets you search your entire Mac or iOS device at once. When using this feature, you may not want a certain file type showing up in your search results. This is relatively simple to configure via the Settings app. In this Apple Toolbox tutorial, we will be showing [...]

Photo Stream is an awesome feature that was announced with iOS 5 and iCloud. With Photo Stream, whenever you take a photo on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, it’s automatically uploaded to Apple’s iCloud servers and streamed to all of your Mac and iOS devices. Photo Stream doesn’t count against your iCloud storage. Lastly, [...]

Wi-Fi syncing and backing up is made possible with the iOS 5 release. This feature allows you to wirelessly transfer your files (e.g. apps. books, calendars, photos, notes etc). If your iOS device (e.g iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPad, iPad 2, and iPod touch) support iOS 5, it will support Wi-Fi sync. Requirements iTunes 10.5+. [...]

Apple’s new iCloud service lets you back up your iOS devices to the “cloud”. For instance, all of your contacts and mail accounts can be automatically backed up to Apple’s servers. If for some reason you ever need to restore your device, all of your data can be easily retrieved from iCloud. In this tutorial [...]

With iOS 5, Apple introduced iCloud. iCloud lets users easily keep their iOS devices in-sync by offering document syncing and automatic downloads. When you activate Automatic Downloads, everything you download to iTunes is automatically synced to all of your iOS devices. This includes apps, music and iBooks. In this tutorial we will show you how [...]

Photo editing capabilities are greatly improved with iOS 5. One of the new features of iOS 5 is the ability to rotate photos without having to install third-party photo editing apps. Here is how: Open your Photos app Tap on a photo you want to rotate Tap edit Tap the rotate button, this will rotate [...]

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, once wrote that: “I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it [...]