Keeping the carrier settings file on your iPhone up to date ensures the best wireless performance on your carrier's cellular network. Typically, the carrier will push updates to subscribers' devices automatically. Then iOS will ask if you'd like to install these new carrier settings with a prompt.

Amazon's annual Prime Day event, which has become a veritable summertime Black Friday, kicked off today with an enormous number of deals on items throughout Amazon's expansive product catalog. Many bloggers and retail analysts have even made the claim that Amazon's Prime Day deals are better than those shoppers can find during the holiday season Black Friday and Cyber Monday events.

Just like with the Reminders app, you can drag and drop folders in the Notes app to group them together and form subfolders. You can then organize your notes inside your folders, create checklists, share folders with other iOS users to collaborate, and easily search for images, attached documents and more.

Apple engineered AirPods to be intuitive and convenient, which means that many functions are fully automatic. AirPods are designed to seamlessly transition audio from a connected device as soon as the earphones are placed into your ears. In fact, taking the AirPods out of your ears will pause whatever audio is playing, while replacing the AirPods restarts playback.

Charging bricks disappear. Often. Kids lose them, suitcases and hotel rooms eat them, your co-workers steal them. The cheap replacements you buy at the gas station on the way home break after a few weeks and charge at a glacial pace.

And Lightning cables? Mostly the same story. Unless they wear out before they have time to disappear. Third-party replacements never seem to last long. They break, the jackets slip off the port adapters, or they just stop working. Even the authentic Apple brand cables have a bad habit of failing right where the cable meets the Lightning adapter.