Your iPhone is smaller than many remote controls—and can function as a remote control itself. So why would you need a remote control for your iPhone (or other iOS device)? A few months ago I would ...

If you have both an Apple iPhone and an iPad, you can control your iPad's Keynote presentations remotely using the Keynote Remote app on your iPhone. This free Apple app connects both devices over ...

Using your iPhone for day-to-day business tasks makes it an invaluable tool, especially for phone calls using a Bluetooth headset. In the rare times that your iPhone's Bluetooth connection process ...

iOS 18 brings a big change to Control Center on your iPhone. With iOS 18, Control Center has a bunch of new controls and now flows over multiple pages. This includes changes to the Connectivity widget ...

There's lost of ways to help your friends and family solve their tech problems. You can send them links to Lifehacker articles, tell them how to fix a problem over the phone, or you could fix the ...

Initially, the only way to allow remote control of Bluetooth-only HomeKit accessories was to have an Apple TV within range. Apple improved on that last year with the release of iOS 10, giving users ...

Apple is far from a perfect company, but the one thing that users can always count on is that the brand's family of high-end electronics can work in sync with one another. Chances are if you have more ...

Take group photos easily by using your AirPods as a Bluetooth remote. This tip was performed on an iPhone 16 Pro paired with AirPods Pro 2 running iOS 26. This feature works on AirPods Pro 2, AirPods ...

Can you use a DualShock 4 PlayStation 4 controller with iPhone and iPad? Do you have to play using the on-screen touch controls with Remote Play? Firmware update 6.50 introduced the ability to use the ...

We want to help you master Control Center, one of the most powerful and underutilized features on Apple devices. Cult of Mac’s Control Center Pro Tips series will show you how to make the most of this ...