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Introduction At the recent WWDC conference, Apple announced that iOS 12 will be released sometime in the Fall of 2018. Whether you are planning to install iOS 12 on your [... Read more about How To Back Up iPhone Text Messages Before Updating to iOS 12]

In this article, we're going to show you how to view your iPhone's debugging logs live. Updated June 6, 2018: Our suggestions are up to date for iOS 12 and [... Read more about How to View Your iPhone's Debug Log/Console]

I've been seeing a lot more boot-up/setup problems after restoring from an iPhone/iPad/iPod backup since iOS 11.3.1 came out. The problems usually manifests in one of a few ways: After [... Read more about Fixed: Restoring iPhone Backup Causes Freezes or Reboot Loops After Restore]

Overview Decipher Screen Time is a new desktop program that helps parents monitor what specific iPhone apps their children use most often and also the amount of time their child [... Read more about A Parents Guide to Monitor and Track the iPhone Apps Used by your Child or Teen]

If you're getting an error in iTunes that your iPhone “disconnected” during a backup or restore, this essentially means that the backup or restore stopped when iTunes didn't expect it [... Read more about How to Fix the iPhone Disconnected Error During Backup or Restore in iTunes]

Attorneys and clients often find themselves needing to accurately document and print text messages for court or legal proceedings. Each year there are millions more legal cases where text messages [... Read more about Documenting Text Messages for Trial or Legal Matters]

You may need to access the files for your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch backups on your computer in order to delete or rename them. Each backup of a device is typically named [... Read more about Where Are iPhone Backups Stored on My Computer?]

If you have a corrupt iPhone backup, you'll usually find out in one of two ways: When trying to make a backup, an error message pops up saying “iTunes could [... Read more about How to Fix: iPhone Backup Corrupt or Not Compatible (Backup and Restore)]

Summary With the recent release of Apple’s special edition (RED) iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, you may be considering an upgrade. Not only does the red aluminum body look fantastic, [... Read more about Upgrading to iPhone 8 or iPhone X - Save text messages to computer and back up before you get your new phone!]

You may need to print text messages from iPhone for a court case, immigration documentation, or just to have a memento of a lovely conversation you have on your iPhone/iPad/iPod. [... Read more about How to Print Text Messages from iPhone]

Background and Goal There usually comes a time in most iPhone users lives when they suddenly have a need to save an important text message exchange with family, friends, or [... Read more about Backup and Save iPhone Text Messages to Computer • Mac or Windows]

Today we're going to address a question from a customer: "I backed up my phone last night to iTunes before trading it in today...wiped the old phone and turned it [... Read more about How to Fix: iPhone Backup Corrupt or Not Compatible]

After trading in your iPhone for a new iPhone X, or resetting your phone to fix some issues, you open iTunes to restore your backup and see a nasty message [... Read more about Why is my iPhone backup corrupt? (And How To Fix It)]

This article provides a few ways to get your iPhone Text Messages on PC, so you have them saved for searching, printing, or just a good backup copy. We'll provide [... Read more about How to Put iPhone Text Messages on PC]

In 2018 the privacy of our data is one of the most challenging tasks to maintain and wrap one's brain around. The recent news and thorough New York Times article [... Read more about How to Make Text Messages Private on iPhone]

iPhone backup corrupt error and the answer to solve the issue Problem: "I'm trying to restore my iPhone backup and I'm getting an error message that says "iTunes could not [... Read more about iPhone Backup Corrupt or Not Compatible Error]

Best Practices For Lawyers to Manage Text Messages From Clients In today’s legal world, attorneys and lawyers are faced with the challenging task of whether to engage with clients via [... Read more about A Lawyer’s Guide to Managing Client Text Messages]

How do I print text messages from my iPhone? "I have lots of text messages from business colleagues that I need printed out for both personal and legal purposes. How [... Read more about Guide to Printing iPhone Text Messages]

A few months ago, we wrote a post about recovering a forgotten restrictions passcode. That got me thinking about other popular passcodes that don't have a built-in recovery mechanism. Then [... Read more about How to Recover a Forgotten Photo Vault PIN]

I've seen my share of useful, not so useful, and downright silly app error messages. The iTunes error message "iTunes could not restore the iPhone because an error occurred" is [... Read more about Six Fixes for "iTunes Could Not Restore the iPhone Because an Error Occurred"]