How to Use Siri to Recognize Songs for You

Most people would ignore some features on iPhone that we rarely use. Like iPhone Siri, some users think it’s useless. But some people even don’t know what kind of features the iPhone Sir has. So here is telling the small feature about iPhone Siri.

Do you have experienced this - when you heard a very similar song on the coffee shop or on the street, but you can’t remember its name. This really makes me crazy when I cannot remember the familiar song’s name which can be sung by most people.

So here comes the iPhone Siri which can help you recognize the songs.

How to Recognize Songs with Siri

Step 1. Open Siri on iPhone

Firstly, make sure you have opened the Siri on your iPhone. Navigate to Setting > General > Turn “Siri” and “Allow ‘Hey Siri’” on.

Step 2. Recognize the Playing Music with Siri

Now, let Siri to hear the songs and hold the “Home” button on your iPhone. The Siri will say “What song is playing” or “Name that Tune”. Then, Siri will start recognizing the song. When it’s finished, the song will be listed and you can choose to buy it.

That’s it. The feature would let you know the song’s name quickly. What’s more, iPhone Siri would have many other functions that you don’t know. For more, you can navigate to this post:

Tips to Make Siri More Useful

Set iPhone Ringtone and Text Tones for Certain Contacts

Most people would ignore this feature that iPhone can set a special ringtones for your certain contact. The ringtones can remind you to answer calls or read the text messages. The special ringtone can be useful to tell you who is calling or who is texting to you quickly. So make your iPhone ringtone special for your important contacts. Here is easy guide to set iPhone ringtone and text tones for certain contacts.

Step 1. Open a certain contacts

Go to the Contact app on your iPhone, choose one you want to set special ringtone. And then go to the Edit button on the top-right of iPhone.

Step 2. Choose a ringtone

From this page, you will see the Ringtone option in blue. If you don’t set the ringtone before, it will be a default ringtone. Tap the Ringtone button and it will take you to the Ringtone menu. So before choosing a special ringtone, you must have the ringtone on the Ringtone list.

Step 3. Choose text tones

Below the Ringtone button, there will be a Text Tones button, tap on it and choose a tone you want.

If ringtones and text tones are not enough special for your contacts you can also create a special vibrations for your certain contacts so that you would know who is calling or texting you immediately.

That’s it. Now the certain contact’s ringtone and text tone are different from other contacts. But another question, how can you make a special ringtone for your iPhone? Don’t worry about that, here is another guide would help you set a song as iPhone ringtones.

See also: How to Set the Whole Song asRingtone on iPhone

How to Enable/Disable Auto App Update in iOS 9

The feature of Auto App Update has been added since iOS 7 and it don’t need users to check if there is an update version of the app. But turn on the automatic update can lead to several issues like consuming battery or taking more memory. Some update issues can also slow down the app. So many users have asked me how to disable the Auto App Update on the iOS devices.
Here is the quick guide of it and the steps are very easy.

How to Enable/Disable Auto App Update in iOS 9
Step 1. Navigate to Setting in you iPhone/iPad
Step 2. Tap iTunes & App Store
Step 3. Below the Password Settings, there is the AUTOMATIC DOWNLOADS
Step 4. To turn Auto App Update off, you can switch the Music, Apps, Books and Updates to off.

Note: The Auto App Update is enabled by default.

That’s it. It’s really easy and quick. What’s more, on this page, you can use another option - Use Cellular Data. If you turn off it, the App Store will only use WiFi connection when you need to download the updates of app. So if you don’t want to use too much your cellular data, you can disable this feature.

Related Tip: How to Enable/Disable Night Shift Mode on iOS 9.3

Troubleshoot iPhone not Ringing Incoming Calls & Messages

Have you ever had the experience that an iPhone is not ringing or making alert sounds out of the blue, and missed many urgent incoming calls? I really did and I have searched many tips to solve this. This issue was even asked by some iPhone 6 / 6 Plus users.
Firstly, Make sure the "Ringer and Alerts" volume is not muted, you can go to Settings > Sounds And turn up the volume by sliding the volume button to right.

If it doesn’t work, the following solutions you may give it a try:
1. Check and Clean the iPhone Receiver
Check your iPhone receiver is good by playing a song or videos, and make sure your iPhone receiver is clean. The iPhone receiver is easily exposed to dirt and dust. You can use a soft thing (like a toothpick) to dig out the dust and dirt.

2. Turn off the “Mute Button”
Check to see if the mute button has been enabled on the iPhone. If you can see an orange strip next to the button, then the mute button is enabled. Once it turns on, you are unable to hear any sounds while receiving calls and messages. Make sure it is turned off.

3. Turn off the “Do Not Disturb” Mode
When the DND mode is on, the iPhone could be completely silent and cannot see all the alerts, notifications, calls and others. So you need to turn it off and you will be back to receiving calls and messages notifications.

4. Reboot your iPhone
Sometimes the iPhone would have some unknown bugs/errors or other something wrong, one of easy and fast solutions is to reboot iPhone. Usually, the “No Sound” problem can be fixed after turning on iPhone again.

5. Erase All Content and Settings
If those ways above don’t work, you can contact the Apple services by going to their official website and see if there are any other ways to solve it. If you don’t want to do that, you can do this only as a last solution because it can be quite a hassle. Navigating to Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. Make sure that you backup your iPhone via FonePaw iOS Transfer, or you will lose all of your data on iPhone.

What’s more, some people said that it was a Bluetooth DAB radio controller app installed. And turned off Bluetooth and the phone sound will return.

That’s it. If you have any other solutions, please share them in the comments below.

How to Move iTunes Library to An External Drive

If you are using iTunes and you want to backup and restore your iTunes Library. Firstly, you can back up your iTunes library by consolidating your library into one folder, and then copying the folder to an external drive.

Part 1. Consolidate Your iTunes Library
Firstly, consolidation ensures all of your the items in your library are in one place. So you will be recommended to consolidate your iTunes Library before moving your iTunes library to an external storage.

1. Open iTunes on your computer and go to iTunes Preferences:
On Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
On Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
2. Click Advanced.
3. Make sure the option to "Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library" is selected.
“When you select this option and add files to iTunes, iTunes places copies of the originals in the iTunes Media folder. The original files are left in their original locations.”

If you’d like to save space on your computer, you can delete the original files after you confirm that they're in the iTunes Media folder.
4. Click OK and choose File > Library > Organize Library.
5. Select the option to "Consolidate files” and click OK.

Part 2. Move iTunes folder to External Drive
To copy all the items in your iTunes library including the iTunes Library file that holds all your playlists, playcounts, ratings, and other data to your external drive:
1. Quit iTunes and locate your external drive.
Mac: On the desktop or Finder sidebar.
Windows: In My Computer.
2. Locate your iTunes folder: By default, the iTunes folder is located in:
Mac: Finder > username > Music
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\
Windows Vista: \Users\username\My Music\
Windows 7 or 8: \Users\username\Music\
“If the iTunes folder is not in the default location listed above, find the iTunes folder by following these steps:
(1)Open iTunes Preferences:
Mac: Choose iTunes > Preferences.
Windows: Choose Edit > Preferences.
(2)Click Advanced.
The location of your iTunes folder will be listed in the "iTunes Media folder location" box.”

3. Drag the iTunes folder to your external drive. This can take a while if you have a lot of items.

Part 3. Restore your iTunes Library
When you need to restore the iTunes Library backup from your external drive to your computer, you can follow these steps:
1. Quit iTunes and locate your external drive.
Mac: On the Desktop or Finder sidebar.
Windows: In My Computer.
2. Drag the iTunes folder (backed up earlier) from your external drive to whatever location you desire on your internal hard drive. It is recommended that you choose the default location for the iTunes folder, which is:
Mac: Finder > username > Music
Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\username\My Documents\My Music\
Windows Vista: \Users\username\My Music\
Windows 7 or 8: \Users\username\Music\
3. While holding down the Option key on Mac or Shift key on Windows, open iTunes.
4. When the Choose iTunes Library message appears, click the Choose Library button.

5. Select the iTunes folder you just moved to the internal hard drive.
6. Click Choose on Mac OS X or Open on Windows.
7. Then choose the iTunes Library file inside.
Now your iTunes Library has been restored.

If you think the process is too complicated, you can also use FonPaw iOS Transfer to move the data on iTunes Library to new computer. This way can be much easier to help you move iTunes Library.

How to Enable/Disable Night Shift Mode on iOS 9.3

Apple has released the first beta of iOS 9.3 to developers. This will come with a great deal of new features including a number of 3D touch options for system apps. Here is the one tip about the Night Shift Mode on iOS 9.3. And if you have iOS 9.3 installed and you want to enable Night Shift mode on your device, here are the steps for you.

How to Enable / Disable Night Shift Mode on iOS 9.3

1. Navigate to the Setting > Display & Brightness on your device
2. Go to the Blue Light Reduction and Switch it to “On” Mode
3. Adjust the Light from Cooler to Warmer which is depending on your need

4. If you don’t the Night Shift Mode, you can just turn the Blue Light off.

Done, it’s really simple. After adjusting the light, you can schedule the mode on iOS 9.3. Here are steps:

How to Schedule the Night Shift Mode

1. Navigate to Setting > Display & Brightness again
2. Go to the Schedule below the option Blue Light Reduction
3. Tap Schedule, you will have three choices: Off, From Sunset to Sunrise, Custom Schedule

4. You can choose From Sunset to Sunrise or choose a custom schedule and adjust the time by yourself according to the sunset/sunrise on your location.

What’s more, the Night Shift Mode can only be available for these devices:
iPod touch 6G, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, iPad Air, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 2/3/4, iPad Pro

Night Shift will switch the color of the display to warmer light automatically so it could be easier to the eyes. The default bright light without Night Shift Mode can affect circadian rhythm. The mode activates whenever the phone detects that it’s sunset on your location. In the morning, the display will turn to normal light.

If you don't upgrade to iOS 9.3, you can refer to this: Upgrade to iOS 9 without Losing Any Data and make sure you have backed up your iPhone safely so that you won't lose your data for no reason.

Music Memos - Apple’s New App for Capturing Musical Inspiration

Recently, Apple releases a new music app for capturing users’ best songs ideas - Music Memos. Now you can get it on App Store. 

Recording the Best Music Ideas with an App

It's designed to be very simple and easy to use like the default app Voice Memos. When some especial music ideas strike to you, you can open the Music Memos to record high-quality, uncompressed audio through the built-in mic in your iPhone immediately. 

When you run the Music Memos, you will see the big record button in the middle. And there is no setting menu. There is only an instrument tuner on the top right of the interface. You can get to there by swiping up on the main screen or tapping the folder icon. 

Once you have finished the recording, you can send your records over to GarageBand (Apple's more powerful and feature-rich mobile recording app) for more polish.

For musician or someone who loves music, it can be a good tool to help you remember the good music ideas. And it will automatically analyze the basic arrangement and suggests chords you played for each track. Then you can hear how your music sounds with a realistic virtual drummer and bass player jamming along. Like writing a poem, writing music can be a long process. If you are interested with it, give it a shot. 

What’s more, our software FonePaw iOS Transfer is also designed to be a good music management tool. This  tool allows music lovers to make playlists for their iOS devices. And it can also transfer music from iPhone to computer or iTunes. So if you are interested with it, you can also give it a shot on your computer.