The Marble Jar Channel

Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video — I’m doing a quick public service announcement for all the iPhone 6 users who experienced a slow down after installing iOS 11.  I still have an iPhone 6.  iPhones are expensive and there had been really no reason to upgrade. EXCEPT that I downloaded iOS several months ago and my phone slowed to a crawl.  Did this happen to you?  My iPhone is not my primary device — I use my iPad much more, but I use it while I’m out and about to check texts, make appointments, and check my to do list. All of these activities became so slow that it was almost pointless to even use my phone for anything other than taking phone calls. Here are some real timing that I clocked: 19 seconds to open iMessage to view a text  22 seconds to open Google Calendar, even longer to actually edit or add an appointment  Up to 30 seconds to open a note in Evernote Incoming calls would ring o...

Hi, everyone. This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar Channel and in today’s video, I’ll show you how I use some of the new multitasking features in iOS 11.  I just downloaded iOS 11 and wasted a couple of hours one morning geeking out figuring out all of the new features. There are a bunch of new things, but in this video, I’ll talk about some of the ways that I use multitasking. App Switching I have been a huge fan of multitasking since it was first introduced.  By far the feature I use the most is app switching. Basically, this is the ability to switch between apps without going back to the home screen.  You used to do this by swiping up with four fingers to reveal the multitasking screen.  It didn’t work with three — you had to use four.  With iOS 11 there are now 2 ways to app switch without going back to the home screen. You can do a small swipe from the bottom, which reveals the Dock.  I find this to be a little harder to do when the keyb...