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How To Change Home Button Click Intensity On iPhone 7 And iPhone 7 Plus

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iPhone 7 And iPhone 7 Plus

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Those who have used the new iPhone 7 would know that the taptic engine based home button feels very different than the one on older devices. The new button does not move physically, instead it gives taptic feedback to simulate a button press. The simulation is quite good and after some time of using the device you actually forget you are not pressing a real button but pressing on a surface that is giving taptic feedbacks.

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Found within the Settings app of iPhone 7 is a dedicated home button section that allows users to adjust the taptic feedback’s intensity. You can choose between light, medium and firm click feedbacks. The amount of taptic feedback you receive will differ based on the setting you have chosen. In this post we will show you how you can change this particular setting to make home button more comfortable for your personal needs.

Changing Home Button Click Intensity

1 ) On your iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus open the Settings app.

2 ) Go to General section.

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3 ) From General menu tap on the ‘Home Button‘ option.

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Finally when you are on the ‘Choose Your Click‘ page, tap on the 1, 2 and 3 circles and then press the home button on each one of them. When you choose a different circle the click will feel lighter or firmer. Choose the one that you like the most and press the ‘Done’ button.

 

 

How to reset a Wipe ur iMac, MacBook Air, Pro restore the original factory setting

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Step 1 Clone your hard drive
Clone your hard drive and securely wipe the original
Remove all your personal data and set up a clean installation of Mac OS X
How do I reset my Mac to factory settings? It’s a question that many Mac OS X users ask prior to selling or handing on a beloved Mac. It’s safer to pass on a Mac with personal information removed, and a clean version of Mac OS X looks healthier to the buyer. Our guide to clearing all your information and data from a Mac enables you to reset Mac OS X to an unblemished factory state, as it was fresh out of the box. Discover how to wipe all your personal information from Mac OS X on an iMac, Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and MacBook.

Step 2 reset your hard drive

Here are the general steps to reset your hard drive (they are outlined in detail below):

Make sure you are connected to the Internet so you can download the latest copy of Mac OS X.

Use an app like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone your internal hard drive to an external drive. This enables you to access all your old files, and the drive can be re-cloned to the internal drive if you want to restore your Mac.
Deauthorize your iTunes store account. (You should also deauthorize any third-party apps, such as Photoshop, that are locked to your Mac).

Turn off FileVault (if you are using it).
Sign out of iCloud.
Restart the Mac in Recovery Mode (hold down Command and the R key during restart).
Use Disk Utility to erase the hard drive. Click on Disk Utility > Continue. Select the main volume and click Unmount then Erase). Quit Disk Utility (Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility).
Click Reinstall OS X and Continue. Follow the instructions to reinstall Mac OS X.

Step 3: Clone your hard drive
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The process of resetting a MacBook to factory settings gets rid of all your data from the Mac. Obviously, you should transfer data from your old Mac to a new one, but it’s worth making a clone of the whole hard drive and keeping it around for a while. The best way to do this is using a program like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper along with an external hard drive (both options are now paid-for sadly). Choose your main hard drive in the source, and your external hard drive in the Destination. Now click on Clone.

You should be able to boot from the cloned external hard drive. To test this, reset your Mac and hold down Option when you first boot up your Mac. Use the arrow keys on your Mac to select the external drive and tap Enter. This cloned drive can be re-cloned back to the main drive if you decide to restore your Mac, or it can be used to access all the original files from your computer after you have wiped the internal hard drive.

(Even though the software is bundled with Mac OS X, it’s worth noting that Carbon Copy Cloner is now a paid-for app).

Step 4: De-Authorising iTunes

remove your Apple ID completely: shut down your iTunes Store, iCloud and other accounts
Turn off FileVault
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FileVault encrypts the files on your hard drive, and it’s better to turn it off before going any further (you’ll be wiping the files soon so security shouldn’t be a concern). Open System preferences and click on Security & Privacy and FileVault. Check that it says FileVault is turned off the for the disc [main hard drive]. If not click on the padlock icon in the bottom left, enter your password and click on Unlock. Now click Turn Off FileVault.

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Macworld Secrets: Stay secure with Lion’s FileVault 2

Step 5: Disable iCloud

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Open System Preferences and click on iCloud and tap on Sign Out Now. To remove all your personal data, click ‘Delete From Mac’ on each popup (although you’ll be wiping the hard drive in the next step anyway).
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Step 6: Restart the Mac in Recovery Mode

First of all make sure you are connected to the Internet (open Safari and browse around). You need an internet connection to install Mac OS X. Restart the Mac by clicking on Apple > Restart and hold down the Command and R keys until the Recovery Mode Utilities window appears.

Apple Support: Mac OS X Recovery
How do I restore my Mac with Time Machine

Step 7: Erase the drive

Select Disk Utility and click on Continue. Now choose your main Startup Volume (typically called Macintosh HD in the sidebar on the left, and click on Unmount. Now choose the Erase tab and click Erase to wipe your hard drive. Note that this permanently erases all data on the hard drive so don’t do this unless you’ve cloned the drive or are happy to never have to get something from that drive again. When it’s finished exit the program by choosing Disk Utility and Quit Disk Utility.

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Apple Support: Disk Utility

Macworld Help: Securely wipe your hard drive

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Step 8: Select Re-install Mac OS X
Now click on Reinstall OS X and continue to follow the on-screen instructions. This will download and install a blank copy of Mac OS X Yosemite on the Mac. Do not enter your Apple ID and password during setup though; allow the person buying the Mac (if that’s the case) to finish the setup process themselves.

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IPHONE 7 AND 7 PLUS SPECS

Apple iPhone 7 Apple iPhone 7 Plus
Display size, resolution 4.7-inch; 1334×750 pixels 5.5-inch; 1,920×1,080 pixels
Pixel density 326 ppi 401 ppi
Dimensions (Inches) 5.44×2.64×0.28-inches 6.23x 3.07×0.29-inches
Dimensions (Millimeters) 138.3×67.1×7.1 mm 158.2×77.9×7.3 mm
Weight (Ounces, Grams) 4.87 oz; 138 g 6.63 oz; 188 g
Mobile software Apple iOS 10 Apple iOS 10
Camera(s) 12-megapixel (wide) 12-megapixel (telephoto), 12-megapixel (wide)
Front-facing camera 7-megapixel 7-megapixel
Video capture 4K 4K
Processor Apple A10 chip (64-bit) Apple A10 chip (64-bit)
Storage 32GB, 128GB, 256GB 32GB, 128GB, 256GB
RAM TBD TBD
Expandable storage None None
Battery 14 hour talk time on 3G, 10 days standby, 12 hours internet use on LTE 21 hours talk time on 3G, 16 days standby, 13 hours internet use LTE
Fingerprint sensor Home button Home button
Connector Lightning Lightning
Analog Audio Jack None None
Special features Water and dust-resistant, Taptic Home button Water and dust-resistant, Taptic Home button, dual rear cameras, up to 10x camera zoom, Depth of Field mode
Price off-contract (USD) $649 (32GB); $749 (128GB); $849 (256GB) $769 (32GB); $869 (128GB); $969 (256GB)
Price (GBP) £599 (32GB); £699 (128GB); £799 (256GB) £719 (32GB); £819 (128GB); £919 (256GB)
Price (AUD) AU$1079 (32GB), AU$1229 (128GB), AU$1379 (256GB AU$1269 (32GB); AU$1419 (128GB); AU$1569 (256GB)
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Apple unveils iPhone 7, dual-camera-lens iPhone 7 Plus

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The rumors were true: At a private press event today in San Francisco, Apple unveiled the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the latest versions of the company’s now-flagship product, both sans headphone jack.

We’ll get to that unfortunate development in a moment, but first let’s check out the new features. The iPhone 7 includes a new force-sensitive, solid state Home button to replace the prior mechanical one. The phone is now both water- and dust-resistant to IP67 standards, responding to competition from Samsung. Under the hood, a new A10 Fusion chip moves the iPhone to a big.Little configuration for the first time, with two high-performance cores that beat the A9 by 40 percent and two high-efficiency cores that run at 1/5 power. The hexacore GPU is supposedly 50 percent faster than the A8 — which should help what is honestly already a great gaming platform. The combination together promises to deliver 12 hours of Web browsing on LTE and 13 hours with the 7 Plus, or an average of two hours or one hour better than the prior versions, respectively.

The biggest upgrade, though, is probably the camera. The new rear camera now includes optical image stabilization on both models, a wider f/1.8 aperture, a new six-element lens, a 12-megapixel sensor, and a two-tone flash with four LEDs and a flicker sensor. A new image signal processor (ISP) delivers twice the throughput and uses machine learning to distinguish people and foreground objects. Apple’s SVP of worldwide marketing Phil Schiller claims the ISP does 100 billion ops on every photo in a span of just 25 milliseconds. The front camera gets a bump to 7 megapixels and wide color gamut support.

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The larger iPhone 7 Plus gets a special upgrade in the form of an entire second lens on the rear panel. The second one is a 56mm “telephoto” (not a real telephoto range) that helps deliver a DSLR-like shallow depth of field when necessary, complete with a bokeh effect to blur the background, and also serves as a de facto 2x optical “zoom.” Schiller says the phone uses the ISP to scan the scene, to use machine learning to recognize people, and create a depth map of that image from the two cameras in the software. That keeps the people in focus and applies a blur to the background.

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The new style is called Portrait; it jumps to using the telephoto lens and automatically adds the depth effect. It’s coming in a free software update later this year, which means it won’t be available immediately on launch.

The phone also includes a display that’s 25 percent brighter, with a wide color gamut and end-to-end color management. New front-facing stereo speakers should finally match some of the better Android phones in sound quality and volume.

That brings us to the much-maligned decision to remove the headphone jack. Instead ,the phones ship with Lightning-compatible EarPods, and new $159 wireless AirPods will land in late October that don’t require pairing, include a tap function to activate Siri, and also work with the Apple Watch. Beats will also have several models available that support the iPhone 7’s proprietary wireless audio system. An ugly dongle ships in the box if you want to keep using your $400 Sennheisers.

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For the first time, the base model iPhone now has 32GB instead of 16GB, and the two upgrade versions are 128GB and 256GB. The iPhone 7 offers a new jet black high-gloss finish on the higher-storage versions, and also comes in regular black, gold, silver, and rose gold. Pre-orders begin September 9th, and the phone goes on sale September 16th in 28 countries, with 30 more to follow a week later. Pricing is similar to before aside from the storage bumps, with the base 4.7-inch iPhone 7 starting at $649 and the 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus this time $120 more instead of $100 more, at $769.

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Is this enough to get people to upgrade from an iPhone 6 or iPhone 6s? We’ll have to wait and see how well the camera performs, if the A10 is indeed up to spec in testing, and whether there are any issues like exploding batteries or latent logic board manufacturing problems. Early indications are that Apple did what it needed to do — except for removing the headphone jack, which we’d argue it didn’t need to do.

70-Year-Old Woman Tests Out Autopilot Of Tesla Model S, Gives The Best Reaction Ever

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A 70-year-old woman rides on a Tesla Model S with the autopilot system on for the first time, and her reaction is far from thrilled and more on borderline terrified.

At any rate, it’s still one of the best reactions to the state-of-the-art technology on the Internet.

YouTube user William Rimmer uploaded a video of her mother testing out the feature of the electric car, perfectly capturing how people would likely respond to handing over the driving duties to a computer on a two-lane highway.

“Oh Jesus. This is my first day out, and I’m going to die!” she screams, sitting on the driver’s seat and after asking her son to put her back in control of the Model S.

Interestingly, users have mixed reactions to the footage. Some say that it’s a bit cruel to do this to an elderly woman, while others­ – if not most – find it to be hilarious.

Now, this isn’t anything new, as plenty of people have been making videos of testing out what the autopilot system of the Model lineup can do, ranging from downright informative to horrifying and hilarious ones.

Of course, the electric car maker has already come across these clips, and as a countermeasure of sorts, it toned down the functions of the technology in their vehicles to keep the most adventurous testers safe from harm.

The bottom line is that autopilot may be the future of driving, but it’s apparently not for everyone just yet.

Hit up the video below to see her priceless reaction.