How to Blur Photo Background with iPhone

We all know that blurred background is a wonderful photographic effect. Blurring the background can allow people to focus on the key of the photos. Most people think that only DSLR Camera can achieve the effect. But actually, it is not. Sometimes, our iPhone camera can be powerful which can shoot photos with blurred background.

I mean sometimes it’s powerful, which don’t mean you can blur the photo background all the time. If you have the trick, maybe you can capture the photos with defocus background successfully. This post is telling you how to blur photo background with iPhone step by step.

1. Open Camera app on the iPhone. Note that iPhone 3GS is unable to achieve this effect.

2. Place the iPhone in front of the background you need to blur from7 to 20
centimeters, and then long press the screen and release. You will see the AE / AF Lock words appear on the below or top of screen.

3. Put iPhone in front of the target away from 7 to 20 centimeters, then you will see on the screen, the target exceptionally clear and background has been blurred.

4. Hold your iPhone steadily, and then press the Volume button or Camera button to take a picture. After all the steps have been done, you will get a photo with blurred background.

If your iPhone has too many photos which can take too much storage, you can use the FonePaw iOS Transfer to transfer photos from iPhone to computer so that it can be a backup on computer. Next time, you can also use iOS Transfer to import pictures from computer to iPhone.

How to Use 3D Touch on iPhone 6s/6s Plus

3D Touch is a new and feature on iPhone 6s/6s Plus, which install the pressure sensor at the bottom of the screen in order to detect the strength of the finger pressing the screen and it means different options. So you can adjust 3D Touch sensitivity to get quick access to different actions. For example, you can press firmly on the Camera app on home screen to bring up options to take a selfie, shoot a video, record a slow-motion video or take a photo. Here I will tell you how to turn on/off 3D touch and how to adjust 3D Touch sensitivity.

How to Turn on/off 3D Touch on iPhone 6s/6s Plus
Firstly, 3D Touch turns on by default. And if you don’t want to use it, you can turn it off in the Accessibility Settings.

• Launch Settings on your iPhone 6s/6s Plus
• Choose General.
• Tap Accessibility.
• Tap 3D Touch.
• Turn 3D Touch to OFF.
• If you want to turn 3D touch back on next time, repeat the same process and switch 3D Touch to ON.

How to Adjust 3D Touch Sensitivity
What’s more, you can change the pressure sensitivity in Settings > General > Accessibility > 3D Touch as well.

• Launch Settings on your iPhone 6s/6s Plus
• Choose General.
• Tap Accessibility.
• Tap 3D Touch.
• Move 3D Touch from Medium to Light or Firm.

Finally, hope you use 3D Touch well and enjoy it, there will be more iPhone 6s/6s Plus tips and tricks on our official FonePaw Blog.

iOS 9.1 Update for iPhone/iPad/iPod touch Released with New Emoji & Bug Fixes

Apple updated official version of iOS 9.1, and there is not many new features added but with various bug fixes and improvements to the software, along with over a hundred new Emoji characters.

We know that Live Photos is Apple on the iPhone 6s’ new features. But the problem of this feature is that if you can hold the camera steadily, it will record some shaky shots, such as ground or other scenarios can turn some beautiful scene into a crime scene. What’s more you are unable to post-editing out of the useless shots.

Today, the official version of iOS 9.1 is to fix the problem. Maybe Apple has used some internal gyroscope sensor on iPhone to solve the problem of shaking. Now, Live Photos can sense intelligently when you raise or lower your iPhone, so that Live Photos won’t record those movements automatically.

In addition, Live Photos added more than 150 kinds of emoji characters with full support for Unicode 7.0 and 8.0 emojis.

Currently Apple has begun to promote the official version of iOS 9.1, different models are in size of between 200-300MB. iOS users can update with iTunes or with the way of OTA upgrade. The jailbreak iPhone users need to select "Recovery" approach on iTunes to upgrade system. This way will clear all of data on your device. So you must make a backup with FonePaw iOS Transfer in advance.
SEE ALSO: How to Upgrade to iOS 9 without Losing Any Data

How to Jailbreak iOS 9 - Using Pangu 9 Jailbreak

Pangu 9 jailbreak tool has released in October 2015 to jailbreak iOS 9, iOS 9.0.1, and iOS 9.0.2. You can download the latest version of Pangu 9 now.

                 Download Pangu 9 for Windows

This software is currently available to Windows; you can then download and install it on iPhone 6s and other model of iPhone. And Pangu 9 Mac version not released yet.

In fact, the jailbreak is to modify the behavior of Apple device settings, which allows users to install all the application they want on Apple devices, including new applications including those without Apple's testing applications, new accessories, and other functions inside. Since Apple launched the App Store in 2008, the developer has been tried to jailbreak iPhone, to add more extra features on iPhone.

How to Jailbreak iOS 9

• Backup iPhone by using FonePaw iOS Transfer and connect it to your computer via USB.
• Disable Find My iPhone feature via Settings > iCloud > Find My iPhone.
• Disable Passcode and Touch ID lock via Settings > Touch ID & Passcode.
• Enable Airplane mode on your device.
• Download Pangu9 jailbreak tool from our downloads page and run it.
• Start the Pangu 9 jailbreak by clicking the Start button and click Already Backup when prompted on screen.
• Your device will reboot and Pangu will ask you to put your device back into Airplane mode. Once you do this, it will continue the jailbreak.
• Then the Pangu tool will request that you open the Pangu app on the iDevice’s Home screen.
• Once the Pangu 9 app is run, it will ask to you to allow access to your Photo Library, Then Tap the accept button on the Pangu screen to continue the Jailbreak process.
• Tap the OK button on the "Pangu Would Like to Access Your Photos" pop-up box.
• Your device will reboot again. Once you reboot, disable Airplane mode

The steps come from iosjailbreak.org
Hope you enjoy with your Jailbroken Apple device.

How to Set up Two Step Verification for Apple ID

The XcodeGhost virus incident happened last month which make Apple fans worry about their personal information safety. In fact, as long as we take good care of personal Apple ID and open the two-step verification for Apple ID, you can greatly ensure the information safety. Here we will give the following detailed tutorial about how to set up two step verification for Apple ID.

What is Two Step Verification?
The two step verification is an additional security feature for Apple ID, and it is designed to prevent anyone to access or use your account, even though they know your password.

It needs you to use a device or other approved methods to verify your identity before you can do the following:
Sign in to My Apple ID
to manage your account
Sign in to iCloud on a new device or at iCloud.com
Sign in to iMessage or FaceTime
Shop at iTunes, iBooks, or App Store on a new device
Get Apple ID related support from Apple


How to Set up Two Step Verification for Apple ID
Go to "My Apple ID"
Select "Manage Your Apple ID" and then log in

Select "Password and Security", and then answer your security questions

Choose one trusted device by clicking on Add a phone number, entering your four-digit verification code and clicking “Verify”
Write down and/or print your Recovery Key and click on Continue

Click on the checkbox if you agree to the conditions and click on Enable two-step Verification
After the device authentication is successful, we will get a very important Recovery Key. You had better keep in in mind or on somewhere and make sure you won’t forget it. And then, the system will ask you to enter the recovery key to confirm that you already have the key.

Note: After the completion of this step, we will open the two-step certification successfully. Well, how should you use it this two-step Verification? After opening two-step Verification, we need to enter a verification code to iCloud and other operations. And if you want to modify the Apple ID password, you need to enter the recovery key first.

The two step verification is an additional security feature for Apple ID, but you still need to set a safe password for your Apple ID, and make sure your private data won’t let out. If you are afraid of losing any data on iPhone/iPad/iPod, you had better use FonePaw iOS Transfer to safely backup iPhone with a few clicks.

Apple Releases iOS 9.0.1 with Fixes for Some Bugs

On Wednesday morning, Apple has released iOS 9.0.1 to iOS users, which fixes some bugs on the alarm clock, timer, Safari and cellular data. The update is available as a way of OTA download, of course as well as through iTunes.

Apple released iOS 9 to the public on 17th September, and it’s available for all users who have an iPhone 4s or later, iPad 2 or later, 5th-generation iPod touch or later or any iPad mini to download the latest update. As expected, iOS 9 covers almost 50% among iOS users, which has become the fastest universal platform in the history.
But a large number of Apple users said that their iPhone system crashed when it upgraded iOS 9 or other issues appeared.
So the new iOS 9.0.1 brings some of the fixes include:

Fixes an issue where some users could not complete setup assistant after updating
Fixes an issue where sometimes alarms and timers could fail to play
Fixes an issue in Safari and Photos where pausing video could cause the paused frame to appear distorted
Fixes an issue where some users with a custom APN setup via a profile would lose cellular data

At the same time, Apple also began to provide developers with a second edition of iOS 9.1 beta system. Typically, that means it won't be long before iOS 9.1 becoming a public beta version.

Important note: Make sure you have backed up iPhone, iPad and iPod touch with FonePaw iOS Transfer before upgrading to the latest system. Now many people have regretted that they didn’t do that after their iPhone stuck in update.

Upgrade to iOS 9 without Losing Any Data

Apple has released the official version iOS 9 at September 16. For most iOS users, it is a very troublesome thing to upgrade the system every time. You need to back up your data first, and then upgrade the system, finally restore data. It almost spends half a day to do that. And how to upgrade the system with the original data is a problem that we are most concerned about. Here we introduce a way to you to make your device upgraded to iOS 9 without losing data as well as backing up and restoring data.
 
Before you begin, we recommend FonePaw iOS Transfer to you to make a regular backup for important information such as photos, contacts and other information, which can prevent you from losing important information because of some unexpected issues. Every iOS users should cultivate the habit of backing up data from to time. You can see here: How to backup iPhone.

Only no jailbreak phone users can update iOS 9 system via the following two ways. And for the jailbreak phone users, we will recommend the original "Recovery" approach to upgrade system. But jailbreak iPhone users can still use FonePaw iOS Transfer to backup iPhone first.

Method 1: Upgrade iOS 9 with OTA

iPhone supports OTA upgrade, which means you can upgrade iOS 9 system without USB cable and computer. You can go to Settings > General > System Update. The advantage of this way is that you can be easy to upgrade system with a few clicks on iPhone. What’s more, you can continue to use the iPhone normally while the iPhone is downloading the upgrade package.

The way of OTA upgrade also has its shortcomings. It needs more capacity of space for iPhone because iPhone need to download the upgrade package which will take up the storage space. Maybe it will need additional 1GB- 1.9GB. Especially for 16GB users, each upgrade can be a quite painful thing. But 16GB can still use iPhone Transfer to transfer data to PC in order to space some storage from upgrade.

Method 2: Upgrade to iOS 9 with iTunes

Another method is to connect device with iTunes. And you need to upgrade the latest version of iTunes, then click on the top right corner of the "iPhone" to enter detailed preview screen. If you do not separately download firmware, you can simply click the "Update" button and the computer will download the firmware first, and then update the latest system from device.

Note: The jailbreak iPhone users need to select "Recovery" approach to upgrade system. This way will clear all of data on your device. So you must make a backup with FonePaw iOS Transfer in advance.