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How to hide your email address in iOS 15 Apple’s upgraded cloud service, iCloud+, released as part of iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and macOS Monterey, offers a few key privacy-focused upgrades for paying subscribers. Bundled as part of the standard iCloud subscription, iCloud+ introduces Private Relay – which essentially works as a VPN – and Hide My Email. The latter has been available as part of the Sign In With Apple service for the past few years, providing a randomly generated alias email address to submit to sites and services in place of your real email address, but it’s taken to the next level in iOS 15....

How to set up a notification summary in iOS 15 One of the many new features available in iOS 15 is notification summary, designed to make it easier to manage an ever-increasing number of incoming notifications. In essence, the feature is designed to collect notifications that aren’t time-sensitive and deliver them to you all at once at a time of your choosing. Here’s how to set up a notification summary in iOS 15....

How to use Focus modes in iOS 15 Focus is one of the key new features available in iOS 15. In conjunction with the Notification Summary, Focus helps you to minimise distracting notifications and apps when you need some quiet time. It’s much like Do Not Disturb, a staple of iOS for years, but with the ability to receive notifications from specific contacts and apps, and you can hide entire Home screen pages to keep you distraction-free too....

How to use Portrait Mode and mic controls in any iOS 15 app When Apple revealed iOS 15 at WWDC 2021 in June, there was a huge focus on upgrades to the FaceTime experience. As well as being able to schedule FaceTime calls thatWindows and Android users can also join, the company outlined new camera and mic tools to further improve the teleconferencing experience. But while the announcement was focused on FaceTime, iOS 15 allows any app that uses your camera and mic to take advantage of the new features, meaning you can use them in Instagram Stories, Snapchat videos and even TikToks, and it should work with most, if not all, apps in iOS 15....

How to use the redesigned Safari browser in iOS 15 iOS 15 offers a number of changes to the iPhone experience. Among the more radical is the redesign of Safari and, in particular, moving the address bar from the top of the page to the bottom. But while that’s the most immediately noticeable change, Safari has had a number of tweaks in iOS 15, and it might take a little bit of getting used to....