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"  Apple&amp;#039;s Predictive Keyboard Apple&amp;#039;s new predictive keyboard, which learns from how you type and tries to suggest words you might want to write next, can be great for typing a long text message. But this week we heard that the feature&amp;#039;s memory might be a little too good; type your passwords too often and the predictive keyboard might suggest the rest of them, kind of defeating the whole secrecy thing. To turn off the keyboard&amp;#039;s predictive features, go into your phone&amp;#039;s Settings menu and then General &amp;amp;gt; Keyboard. Scroll down to the Predictive setting and slide it to Off. From this menu, you can also disable other keyboard features that may annoy you, such as auto-capitalization, autocorrect, and spell check. Airdrop If you need to share a photo or file with a friend who is also using iPhone, then Airdrop can be a killer feature. Most of us will use it rarely if at all, though. Conserve battery power by turning Airdrop off; you can power it back on if and when you do want to share that selfie with your bestie. To turn it off, simply swipe up to display your Control Center (that menu at the bottom of the screen where you can put the phone in airplane mode or access the calculator) and then tap on Airdrop. Tap Off to disable the feature.  Background App Updates Having the latest version of Tinder is a good thing (I think), but you don&amp;#039;t need to download the newest version of an app the second it becomes available. However, your phone is set by default to automatically download new updates. Save yourself precious battery life and data by turning off this feature. Go to Settings &amp;amp;gt; iTunes &amp;amp;amp; App Store. Scroll to the portion of the screen that says Automatic Downloads and toggle Updates to Off. Now you can manually download all the new versions of your apps in the evening, when you don&amp;#039;t have to worry about battery life and can use your home Wi-Fi. Keep Voice Messages In iOS 8, Apple added the ability to send voice messages to friends using iMessage. Those messages self-destruct, in part so you don&amp;#039;t end up wasting storage space on messages you probably don&amp;#039;t need anymore. But if you&amp;#039;d rather keep all the messages you receive, go into the Settings &amp;amp;gt; Messages. Scroll down to Audio Messages and tap into the Expire menu. Then change their expiration from 2 Minutes to Never. Parallax The parallax feature actually debuted in iOS 7. It&amp;#039;s that thing that makes your home screen look like it&amp;#039;s 3D when you move your phone from side to side. It turns out the feature makes some people a bit nauseous, and it burns up a little more battery power than your standard non-moving screen. You can turn it off by going into Settings &amp;amp;gt; General &amp;amp;gt; Accessibility. Scroll down to Reduce Motion and then toggle the switch to On. Location Services If you just downloaded a slew on apps onto your new iPhone 6, then you probably noticed a surprising number of them ask to access your location. In addition to giving companies access to personal data you might rather they didn&amp;#039;t have, location services also drains your battery (notice how precipitously battery life declines when the phones has to track you constantly for turn-by-turn directions, for instance.) Find out which apps are asking for your location by going into Settings &amp;amp;gt; Privacy &amp;amp;gt; Location Services. Toggle the switches to Off for apps that don&amp;#039;t really need to know where you are. Automatic App Refreshes Here&amp;#039;s another battery-saver: Set your apps to update only when you want them to by going into Settings &amp;amp;gt; General &amp;amp;gt; Background App Refresh. From that page, you can opt to turn off all background app refreshes, or give just a few of your most important apps the ability to update on their own. Handoff New for iOS 8, Handoff will let you start a task on one iOS device and pick it up on another Apple device. For the fully integrated Apple fanboy, Handoff can be a powerful feature that allows for easy transitioning between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. But if the iPhone is the only Apple device you own, or you rarely switch between devices, then you don&amp;#039;t need it. Turn Handoff off by going to Settings &amp;amp;gt; General &amp;amp;gt; Handoff &amp;amp;amp; Suggested Apps. Toggle the switch next to Handoff &amp;amp;amp; Suggested Apps into the off position to disable the feature. Spotlight Search With iOS 8, Spotlight can bring up more elaborate search results than ever before... but it might not be the kind of content you&amp;#039;re looking for. Limit the type of content that can show up in a Spotlight search by going to Settings &amp;amp;gt; Spotlight Search and removing the check mark beside any type of content, such as voice memos or audiobooks, you&amp;#039;d rather not be included in your search results. Choose Your Notifications Like location services, push notifications can be customized for every app. So if you&amp;#039;re getting too many annoying notes from that game that keeps asking you to come back and play, prevent it from sending push notifications by going into Settings &amp;amp;gt; Notifications, where you can control notification settings for all your apps. From there, customize how many notifications (if any) will show up in the Notifications Center on your phone, as well as whether you&amp;#039;ll hear sounds or see a notification on the lock screen. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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