Smartphone & Tablet Productivity

If you have multiple e-mail accounts set up on your iPhone (iPad), you can set a “Default” account. This means that when you create a new message, it will send from the default account. When you Reply to or Forward a message, it will come from the account that the original message was sent to. This process shown on iPhone using iOS 8.

There is a small glitch in the software that will allow you to delete all messages in the Inbox on your iPhone/iPad. It is important that you follow all the steps in order. It can be a little more challenging on the iPad. These instructions are shown using iPhone, but are the same on iPad.

You can forward individual text messages by themselves or in a group in the Message app. This process shown on iPhone with iOS 8, but works the same on iPad.

Apple’s voice controlled personal assistant can now be accesses entirely hands-free (when plugged into a power source), by saying “Hey Siri”. This process shown on iPhone 6 with iOS 8.

If you use multiple iDevices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch) with your Apple ID, you may have trouble keeping the downloads for your devices separate. To ensure that you don’t automatically download items (apps, music and books) that you download on your personal device to your work iPad or iPhone, you can change a few settings on those iDevices. This process shown on iPhone 6 with iOS 8.