Sometimes you'll receive a group message that includes a person not listed in your Contacts. This person will be represented by a a stock icon instead of an icon image you assigned. You can easily add this person's personal information to your Contacts app from a group message in a few simple steps. Adding a person to your Contacts app makes it easier to locate their information in the future. It will also allow you to search your phone for that person, or use Siri to call or message that person at any time. Here's how to add a Contact to a group message:

1. Tap the icons at the top of the group message to open the options menu.
2. Tap "info"
3. Tap the person's phone number or arrow next to phone number you want to add.
4. Tap Create New Contact.

This will open a blank contact card where you can add a person's personal info. Tap the "add photo" icon to add an image from your saved Photos or to take a photo. You can also add a person's email, business info, and assign a unique ringtone or text tone. Adding a person's birthday will automatically add it to you Calendar app and send you a reminder.

The iPhone, iPad and iPod touch remember Bluetooth devices forever after the first pairing. For iOS users with a long list of Bluetooth devices, it might be time for some house cleaning. Removing old or unused Bluetooth devices from Settings can reduce confusion and simplify your life. Once paired, a Bluetooth device can easily be removed.

To remove a Bluetooth device or AirPods from your iPhone, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Settings -> Bluetooth
2. Touch (i) next to the device to unpair
3. Tap Forget This Device
4. Confirm unpairing by selecting Forget Device

Nothing is worse than forgetting an important password. Except maybe forgetting all of your sign in credentials completely. Without the email address associated with your Apple ID, the account cannot be accessed. The good news is Apple makes it possible to look up a lost Apple ID. In the worst case scenario, finding a forgotten Apple ID takes trial and error.

Follow these steps to find your lost Apple ID email and re-authenticate your account with Apple:

1. Open the page https://iforgot.apple.com in a web browser
2. Click "look it up"
3. Enter your first name, last name, and email address. Click Continue
4. If the email is not linked to an Apple ID, click Try Again
5. Repeat steps 3-4 until your email address is recognized
6. Follow the prompts to re-authenticate your Apple ID

Gmail offers a lot of interesting features such as Smart Replies, Undo Send and more, but it can be a bit confusing at times. Sometimes features work across different platforms and sometimes they don't. If you set up a personal signature on your laptop it will not appear in emails within the app and vice versa. You can also not see your signature while writing an email in the Gmail app, but you can on the desktop version. You will need to set up your signature separately within the app and at gmail.com if you want it to appear while switching platforms. Here's how:

Gmail App (App Store Link)

1. Open the Gmail app on your device.
2. Tap the 3 lines in the upper left hand corner.
3. Scroll down and tap "Settings."
4. Select the account you want to use if you have more than one linked to the app.
5. Tap "Signature Settings."
6. Tap the "Mobile Signature" slider so it is ON/BLUE.
7. Type your signature in the blank space below the slider.

If you can't see your signature in sent messages it is probably because it is separated from the rest of your message by two dashes. Tap the two dashes at the bottom of your message to expand your email and see your signature.

Desktop

1. Sign in to the Gmail account you want to use at gmail.com.
2. Click the gear icon in the upper right hand corner.
3. Click "Settings" from the dropdown menu.
4. Scroll down until you see "Signature."
5. Click the Signature circle and type your signature in the signature box.
6. Scroll down and click Save Changes.

Once saved, you should see your signature at the bottom of your message when writing and an email.

The PlayStation 4 has been updated to support remote play on iOS devices. This allows you to remotely play compatible PS4 games on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Games can be played over Wi-Fi using the on-screen buttons. Unfortunately you cannot use the DUALSHOCK 4 with remote play.

To connect your iPhone or iPad you must first make sure your PlayStation is updated to version 6.50. You can update your PS4 by navigating to Settings > System Software Update. Once your PS4 is updated, you can then download the PS4 Remote Play app for free from the Apple App Store. The app only supports devices running iOS 12.1 or later. Make sure your device has also been updated.

Once you have everything updated and installed you must pair your iOS device to your PS4. Make sure your device is connected to the same Wi-Fi as your PS4 and open the app. The app will search for your PS4 via the internet. If this fails for any reason you can pair your device manually.

To manually pair your iOS device to your PS4 you'll need to power on your PS4 and navigate to Settings > Remote Play Connection Settings > Add Device, then enter the displayed numbers in the blank field on your iPhone or iPad. You must enter the numbers on your TV screen, not the numbers displayed on your iOS device.

You can now play any compatible PS4 game using the onscreen controls on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

Many websites and third-party apps will ask for permission to access your Google account for a variety of reasons. They will request different levels of access, ranging from basic profile info used to "sign in with Google" (similar to sign in with Facebook) up to full access to view and edit all data and even create content, which is a scary prospect. It should be obvious by now that you need to take great care regarding your data privacy, so you should know how to see who you've given access to, and how to revoke it if need be. Here's how to do it from your iPhone or iPad:

1. Open up your favorite browser and log into your Google account if you aren't already logged in. You can do this from the google search page.
2. Now tap the apps button at the top, then tap on "Account," or just navigate directly to your account page.
3. Scroll down and tap on Secure Account.
4. Tap on third-party access.
5. Now you will see a list of sites and apps that have access to your account and a description of the type of access they have. Simply tap Remove Access to revoke it.

There are many apps that will manage your email accounts besides the iOS Mail app - Thunderbird, Outlook and Gmail will all do the job, to name a few. Outlook is popular with a lot of businesses, so if your work email is managed by Outlook you might want to add your other emails just to be able to access them all in one place. Or maybe you prefer the Outlook interface to that of Mail. Whatever the case, setting up your iCloud email in Outlook is not as straightforward as setting up other email accounts because you can't give Outlook your Apple ID log in to access it, you have to create an app-specific password just for Outlook. Here's how to do it:

1. Open up a browser on your iPhone, iPad or Mac and head to appleid.apple.com. Log in with your Apple ID and password (and then two-factor authentication if you have it turned on).
2. Open Security.
3. Tap on "Generate Password" under App-Specific Passwords.
4. Give the password a name so you can identify it later, then tap Create.
5. Now you will see your password.
6. Now open Outlook to add your iCloud email. If it is your first time using Outlook it should prompt you to add an email address. If you already have other emails set up, tap on the symbol in the top left (it could be a symbol of the email you are using or it might just be your initials).
7. If you have just one other email account you can tap on the envelope icon with a "+" on it to add another account. For some reason if you have two or more accounts already, this symbol won't appear and you will have to tap on the Settings gear icon at the bottom.
8. Tap Add Account, then "Add Email Account."
9. Now enter your iCloud email address and tap Add Account.
10. Enter the password you generated earlier and tap the Sign In button.
11. That's it. If your sign in was successful you will be in your Outlook Home screen and you should see a cloud icon for your iCloud account. Tap on it to go to your iCloud inbox.
12. If you ever want to revoke the password, go back to where you generated it and tap "View History." You will see a list of your app-specific passwords, just tap on the "x" next to the one you want to revoke and then confirm.

Apple has made its March 25 event official by sending invites to the media with the tag line "It's show time." The keynote takes place at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, part of the Apple Park Campus at 10:00 local time (1pm EDT). The company is widely expected to reveal its own streaming video service, which will feature Apple original TV content.

Owners of Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV can expect more than a dozen shows to launch with the streaming service within the next few months. Apple also has various hardware updates in the works, however according to reports, CEO Tim Cook and crew are likely to focus this year's March event on the TV service as well as a refreshed Apple News service. Apple News will offer centralized, paid subscription access for news content that is currently protected behind various paywalls by individual publishers.

Pricing for Apple News has been rumored to be $9.99 per month. When it comes to Apple's streaming TV service, it's not clear how Apple plans to recoup its $1 billion investment in original content, or how much the service might cost for consumers.

Many hardware upgrades and some new products are expected to launch soon, but these may not be launched on stage. Instead, AirPods 2, the AirPower charging mat, iPad mini 5, and 7th generation iPod touch and iPad models could be released shortly after the March 25 event in Apple Stores and online. iOS 12.2 includes Apple News updates, so Apple will likely release the software update during the last week of March as well.

Some of the original TV content rumored to be in development at Apple includes: an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation, a series based on Terry Gilliam's 1981 film Time Bandits, children's content from the creators of Sesame Street, a thriller by M. Night Shyamalan, a reboot of the 1985 show Amazing Stories, shows developed by Oprah Winfrey, a drama starring Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon, and much, much more.

Apple will undoubtedly preview some of its upcoming original content on Monday, March 25.

Swiping on a message in the Gmail app does not send that message to the Trash like one would assume, instead swiping on a message sends it to your "archives." It is a counterintuitive feature Google has built into the Gmail app. To delete a message you must individually open that, or you can perform a long press to open a toolbar with the trash can icon. Swiping left or right on an email to quickly send it to the trash seems like such a much more natural way to delete a message, and you can, but first you must reconfigure your Gmail to stop archiving your messages. Here's how:

1. Open your Gmail app.
2. Tap the 3 bars in the upper left hand corner of the app.
3. Tap Settings.
4. Choose the account you want to change if you have multiple Gmail accounts.
5. Tap the "When removing messages, I prefer to..." tab.
6. Select Move to trash.

When selected an checkmark should appear next to the "Move to trash" option. You'll also see an orange trash can icon when swiping, instead of the green archive icon.

Now when you swipe left or right on a message in your Gmail it will be moved to the Trash instead of being archived. Items moved to the Trash will only stick around for 30-days before they're automatically removed from your Gmail.

Daylight Studios has brought its newest Holy Potatoes! title to the Apple App Store. A Spy Story?! dropped on Steam in November of 2018, and now it is available for preorder for iOS. If you have never played a Holy Potatoes game, they're simulation titles where you manage your own spaceship and weapons shop. This time around you manage your own spy agency while trying to discover the truth about your parents disappearance.

The developer behind the Holy Potatoes franchise, Daylight Studios, has tweaked A Spy Story for mobile devices. The UI has been adjusted and the font has been increased for smaller screens. Besides the few mobile tweaks, A Spy Story?! looks to be a complete port of the desktop version. Players can play as potato twins Ren and Rexa as they recruit and train new spies, create new genetically modified spys through genetic splicing, plan secret missions and heists and more.

The Holy Potatoes games are also all about building, and A Spy Story is no different. You can customize, enhance and upgrade your own spy agency to develop the best tools to build weird gadgets, vehicles, facilities, and training stations. You'll then be able to infiltrate the enemy headquarters and find your parents.

Holy Potatoes! A Spy Story?! is available for pre-order on the App Store for $4.99 It is scheduled for a March 28 release. You can also purchase the previous Holy Potatoes title We're in Space and A Weapons Shop for your iPhone or iPad.

Apple's Photos app on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch makes it easy to organize a large collection of images into separate albums. Custom albums can be created, named, and populated with pictures from the iOS photo library. Once an album is no longer needed, it can quickly be removed from Photos.

Deleting an album you created doesn't automatically delete the photos stored in the album. The photos are still available from other places in the photo library, such as the Camera Roll. Deleting an album will remove it from any other devices that are synced with iCloud.

To remove an album from Photos on an iOS device follow these steps:

1. Launch the Photos app
2. Open the Albums tab
3. Tap See All
4. Tap Edit
5. Select the red circle above the album to delete
6. Choose Delete Album to confirm

Each year Blizzard announces a new theme for its collectible card game Hearthstone and selects several cards to be moved into the Hall of Fame. This year has been dubbed "Year of the Dragon" and nine cards have received Hall of Fame honors. You can visit the official Hearthstone blog for the Year of the Dragon and Hall of Fame announcements.

This week, Blizzard also announced its first expansion for the Year of the Dragon. Launching worldwide on April 9th, the expansion called, Rise of Shadows, will include 135 new cards, Arena rotations, new mechanics and other game improvements. Taking a page from the Challenge of the Super Friends, the "notorious ne’er-do-wells from across Hearthstone’s history" have all banded together under the leadership of Arch-villain Rafaam to form the "League of EV.I.L.." Their target is the magical floating city of Dalaran. You can see Rafaam's evil, and musical, plan put into motion in the Rise of Shadows announcement trailer embedded below.

Rise of the Shadows will include 1/1 minion cards called "Lackeys," powerful spells called "Schemes," forbidden magics from previous eras, and replicating spells called Twinspells.

The launch of Rise of the Shadows on April 9th will officially kick off the Year of the Dragon. You can pre-purchase the Mega Bundle for $80 or the Standard for $50 now at Rise of the Shadows website. The Mega Bundle ncludes 80 Rise of Shadows card packs, the Madame Lazul Priest Hero, an exclusive card back, and a random Rise of Shadows Golden Legendary card. The Standard Bundle comes with 50 Rise of the Shadows expansion packs.

Judging from the number and magnitude of incidents involving Facebook over the past few years, that the social media giant is playing fast and loose with user data is probably an understatement. While it is now putting extra effort into user privacy, it has a long way to go, and you should do everything in your power to protect your data. One of the easiest paths for your private information to leak out is through third-party apps that have permissions to your account. These permissions can vary in scope, from simple log in information, to accessing your personal data and posts, and even your friends' data. You have the ability to control which apps can access what information, so while you might trust a well known site to simply use your FB info as a log in, you probably don't want a relatively unknown app having full access to your account. Here's how to see who has what access, and how to change permissions on iPhone and iPad:

1. Open up your Facebook app and tap on the bottom right menu button.
2. Tap on Settings & Privacy and then tap Settings from the drop down options that appear.
3. Tap on Apps and Websites.
4. To see which apps you have given permission to, tap on the Edit button of the Logged in with Facebook section.
5. Now you will see a list of apps that currently have permissions to at least log in with your account. To remove an app altogether, tap on the circle next to it to select it, then tap on the remove button. To edit its permissions tap on View.
6. Viewing an individual app lets you see exactly what information you are sharing with that app. You can alter this with the toggles, then tap Save when you are finished.
7. To deny access to all apps and websites, even to log in with Facebook, edit the Apps, Websites and Games settings from the Apps and Websites menu.
8. Tap on "Turn Off." You can read here what will be affected by doing this.

Albums help to keep a large collection of pictures organized in the iOS Photos app. iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users can easily create albums and add photos to an existing album right on their devices. Sometimes albums get too large, or photos need to be reorganized into smaller groups for efficiency.

Photos can easily be removed from an album with a few taps. Removing an image from an album in the Photos app does not automatically delete the image. Photos stored elsewhere in the photo library, such as the Camera Roll, will remain accessible if desired.

Changing the contents of an album will modify that album across any devices synced via iCloud. To remove photos from an album follow these steps:

1. Launch the Photos app
2. Open the Albums tab
3. Tap See All
4. Open the album to delete pictures
5. Tap Select
6. Select the photos to delete
7. Tap the trash can icon
8. Choose Remove from Album to keep this photo and remove it from the album. Tap Delete to delete this photo.

If you're having déjà vu it is because Activision is releasing yet another Call of Duty game to mobile devices. There have been too many Call of Duty games for the small screen to count. Most of them are gone now, or never even made it beyond a soft launch. The popular Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies remains, but its last update was logged on Dec. 17, 2015.

The good news is according to the FAQ on the official website, Call of Duty: Mobile is a "new, standalone mobile title that features a collection of fan-favorite maps, competitive game modes, familiar characters and signature weapons from across our beloved franchises, including Call of Duty: Black Ops and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, into one epic experience."

Mobile is not another resource management title or collectible card game like Call of Duty: Siege. It will be free-to-play first-person shooter with a multiplayer option. The game will include maps, weapons and characters from across the Call of Duty series. You can see a bit of the gameplay in the two trailers posted below.

Activision will be releasing pre-launch betas "over the coming months." You can pre-register to receive beta access and pre-registration rewards at callofduty.com/mobile. All it takes is an email and birthdate. The game will be available for both iOS and Android. Minimum device specifications and official launch date have not been released at this time.

Apple continues its launch of new products this week with a sequel to its wireless AirPods. The refresh features a variety of improvements over the 1st generation model, which was in short supply after its release in December 2016. Since then, AirPods have become one of Apple's most successful accessories. So what new features come with the AirPods 2nd generation?

Apple H1 headphone chip

Apple's W1 processor made a splash in the original AirPods, delivering seamless bluetooth connections and managing battery life. AirPods 2 feature the Apple H1 chip, an upgrade to the W1 delivering several improvements:

• An extra hour of talk time (50% more), totaling 3 hours
• 2X faster switching between devices
• Better wireless connection stability
• Faster connection time on phone calls
• 30% lower gaming latency

Just ask Siri

Along with the above improvements, the H1 includes on-board support for Hey Siri. Now when AirPods are in use, getting assistance from Siri hands-free is possible by simply saying "Hey Siri" at any time. Siri can place phone calls, control music and volume, and give navigation directions all without touching the paired iPhone.

Wireless charging case

Qi-compatible wireless charging has come to AirPods. In addition, the wireless charging case for AirPods has a Lightning port for conventional charging via Lightning cable.

The new model has an LED indicator on the front of the case, which shows when the device is charging. The standard AirPods charging case retains the LED indicator on the inside of the case.

Buying options for AirPods 2

There are three options when it comes to purchasing AirPods online or in stores, with different pricing. Existing AirPods (1st generation) can be charged in the wireless charging case, which is available separately for $79.

• AirPods with Wireless Charging Case for $199
• AirPods with Charging Case for $159
• Wireless Charging Case for AirPods (1st generation or later) for $79

Apple has officially discontinued first generation AirPods, now that the AirPods 2 have hit the market. Look for more product releases ahead of Apple's March 25th media event.

The "out-of-office" reply is a commonly used automatic email reply that lets people know you will be away from your email for an amount of time, so they won't think you are ignoring them. Just about every email client has this tool, including one of the most popular - Gmail. Apple Mail and other email managers sometimes don't let you set up out-of-office responses. For Apple Mail you'd have to do it in a roundabout way, setting up rules on your desktop Mail app. It's a better idea to set it up at the source. Gmail has a feature called "Vacation" to set up out-of-office replies, here's how to use it on your iPhone or iPad:

1. Open up your Gmail app (or log into it through a browser, it might look a little different from the app but the features should all be located in the same menu items). Tap the menu icon in the top left.
2. Scroll all the way down and tap Settings.
3. Tap on your email address.
4. Tap on Vacation responder.
5. Toggle Vacation Responder on, then you can set a date range for the message to be active, and write a subject and body of the message. You can also have it only use this reply for contacts who email you, rather than everybody. Tap Save when you are finished and you are set. If you want to turn it off early, just come toggle it to off.

Yes, Angry Birds is still and thing and a VR version is coming to iOS this spring, according to TechCrunch. Angry Birds: Isle of Pigs has had a long path the iPhone originally launching for the Magic Leap One, then landing on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Rovio is now working on a revamped version of the new Angry Birds title for the App Store. Sami Ronkainen, Rovio’s creative director, told TechCrunch that the iPhone version will come some of the Magic Leap levels and some newer levels designed for iOS.

“What we did with the Magic Leap was we wanted to start with something that’s fully immersive that can make use of the 3D space around you,” he says. “We realized that it’s going to be further in the future, so we decided to go with platforms that are much closer to customers today.”

Angry Birds: Isle of Pigs is very similar to the original Angry Birds game. The goal is to knock over little towers inhabited by pigs, but instead of being in a 2D environment, the towers are built on a flat surface in your surroundings, like your desk or coffee table. The VR not only gives you a first-person view of the Angry Birds' world, but it allows you to physically walk around structures to find better angles or discover hidden surprises. You can see the game in action in the original Magic Leap trailer posted below.

Angry Birds: Isle of the Pigs is availble for pre-order on the App Store with a scheduled release of April 11th. The game includes Red, Chuck, Bomb and the Blues as they go head-to-head with the greedy green pigs on a remote island. The game is free and includes 40 levels with more to come.

It was a lackluster week on the Apple App Store with mostly freemium titles being released. That doesn't mean there wasn't anything worth playing, just that there wasn't any title that stood out as the App of the Week. Here is a quick look at 5 games worth checking out during a slow week of releases.

Cure Hunters (Free) Side-scrolling, platform fans will want to check out Cure Hunters. A virus has infected most of earth's population and General "Vaccinez" has formed a squad of "Cure Hunters" to set out to find an antidote. You play as "Dr. Dellton" who has been ordered to clear an infected area. This roguelite platform title features simple onscreen controls with one button, fast-paced shooting. You can collect a variety of characters with unique guns as you blast fun looking pixel art aliens.

App Store Link

College BBALL Coach 2 (Free) It's March, when everyone and their brother become instant college basketball experts. BBALL Coach 2 promises to deliver the "deepest college basketball sim on the mobile market," giving those who can't get enough amatuer basketball something to do between March Madness games. It features full stats and records, 20+ player ratings, player positions, extensive recruiting and a comprehensive simulation of the game.

App Store Link

Decurse – Magical Farming Game (Free) Use magic and happiness to reverse the curse that has turned your village into an island of sad creatures. Decurse has everything for resource management fans including bedazzling, crafting, farming and cute creatures to tend. Earn coins and gems to purchase decor, collect balloons and earn daily rewards. You can even bake treats for your villagers, mine for stones to build and more.

App Store Link

NecroDancer: AMPLIFIED ($4.99) Sequel to the award winning roguelike rhythm game. Play as the shapeshifting Nocturna as she enters the redesigned or "amplified" dungeon and discover her story as you deliver beatdowns to the beat. AMPLIFIED includes a new story, new dangers, new levels, boss battles, and more.

App Store Link

StarLight - A Lonely Star ($0.99) A casual puzzle game where you are a star looking for the light from other stars in the universe.

App Store Link

One of the best features of Apple's iWork suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote) is the ability to easily collaborate with friends and coworkers. Rather than simply sharing your documents for others to view or critique or go off on their own tangent with, collaborating allows all parties involved to edit the document, and everybody will see the edits. It is an incredibly useful feature whether you are working on a Keynote presentation with coworkers or simply sharing a spreadsheet among friends to keep track of expenses on a trip.

Here's how you to collaborate with others on Numbers, Pages and Keynote documents from your iPhone or iPad:

1. Open your Pages, Numbers or Keynote app and open a document that you want to collaborate on (or create a new document).
2. Tap on the "..." menu in the top right corner.
3. Tap "Collaborate with others."
4. Now you have a number of ways to send an invitation. In this example we will use email.
5. By default anybody you send the link to will be able to open and edit the document. You can change this in Share Options at the bottom. You can allow anybody with the link to access the document (so anybody your invitee sends the link to) and you can allow some invitees to only view the document, not edit it.

The invitee will receive a link to the document which they can click on to start editing. That's all there is to it - you will now see any edits that others make in real time (of course this depends on everybody's connections, and offline changes won't appear until that person comes online again). If security/privacy is an issue you might consider password protecting your document.