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If they waited any longer, they’d fall behind the competition. Also, the absence of a new phone doesn’t make your old phone any better or worse.
Both Word and Excel have an option under the Window tab called “Bring All to Front,” and when I click it, nothing happens. What does it do? The Help menu told me nothing, and neither did a Google search. I even asked several Apple Store employees about this, and no one seems to have an answer. Does anyone know? JOHN PATTEN Picture this: you’ve got multiple Word docs open, but some of them are obscured by windows that are open in other applications. As long as one of the Word docs is in front (meaning you’re actively in Word and not another application), you can select the Bring All to Front option to make all of the Word docs visible over the rest of the cluter. You can accomplish the same thing by simply clicking on the Word icon the dock, but hey, Word is nothing if not thorough.
The iPhone should change faster/slower Why can’t Apple jump directly to the iPhone 7 and then 8? They should make the phone cooler or differentlooking every year; it gets boring having to wait two years. ISRAEL RIEMER Obviously, only Apple could tell you why it updates the design in alternating models for certain, but I think it’s probably so that it’s easier to work on making new
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hardware features work well without worrying about fitting them in a still-changing design. I’ll be going back to a Droid after owning the iPhone 4S, 5, and 6 Plus. I’m a total Apple computer person, but if Apple cared about their customers, they would wait at least a year before releasing new models. RICK HOLMES But Apple does wait a year between releasing new iPhones.
If Apple releases a 6c, I hope it’s the old, smaller size that iPhones came in before the 6 and 6 Plus, with all the bells and whistles of the larger 6s, and that it only comes in a black 64GB configuration. That’d be a good option for people who don’t want a huge phone, and limiting the capacity and color would make the model easy to manufacture. I thought about getting a 5c, but settled on a 5s because the “c” seemed to stand for “crappy.” But with my configuration it could simply stand for “compact.” ADOLPH VEGA I like your idea: a single, capable model for people who prefer smaller-sized phones. I get the feeling Apple will leave that form behind, but maybe they’ll surprise us after all.
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add iCloud Drive In iOS 9, Apple has created an app especially for browsing the files stored in iCloud Drive, which enables you to select them to open in other apps. This app hidden by default, though – you need to go into Settings > iCloud > iCloud Drive and turn on “Show on Home screen.” Multitask on iPad Hold your iPad landscape, then swipe your finger in from the right-hand side to activate a Slide Over app – on an iPad Air 2, drag the dividing line to the middle of the screen to activate Split View. Ask Siri new questions Try saying “Show me photos I took yesterday” and Siri will send you to right point in your photo library. If you have your photos organized into albums, you could ask for one of those – or even ask about locations if they’ve been geotagged. It can also return smarter results
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