How to pair your Apple Watch with your new iPhone

So, you’ve got your shiny new iPhone 6s or 6s Plus! Yay! If you’re the luckiest of us, you’ll need to know how to pair it with your shiny Apple Watch. Here’s what you need to know.

Before you unpair your Apple Watch from your iPhone, back up that stinky old iPhone, as unpairing the Watch will wipe all of your information. Your iPhone automatically backs up your info to the iPhone that it’s paired with. Back it up to iTunes or iCloud.

Open the Watch app on your stinky old iPhone. In the My Watch tab, touch ‘Apple Watch’ then ‘unpair Apple Watch’. Confirm.
Enter your Apple ID password when prompted.

Grab your delightful new iPhone 6s or iPhone 6S you lucky devil you, and restore your backup from iTunes or iCloud. Make sure Bluetooth is on in Settings and that you’re connected to the internet.

Open the Watch app.

On your Apple Watch, hold the button on the right side until you see the Apple Logo.

You’ll see some instructions, because Apple are pretty good like that. Follow them!  Hold your iPhone camera over the watch.

On the next screen you’ll see where you can ‘restore from back up’. You’ll see some more instructions, follow them too!

BAM! Paired!! Marriage made in heaven!

iPhone 6S and iPhone 6s Plus now available in-store!

GUYS GUYS GUYS!

It’s here! Shiny new iPhone launch day!! As of 8AM this morning, across America and Canada Apple stores have been opening their doors for the hoards of iPhone lovers who are having their in-store reservations fulfilled or those who have been braving the lines to buy a shiny new iPhone 6s or iPhone 6s Plus in-store.

UPS and Fedex are also making people’s day (something you hear often?) by delivering pre-order iPhones to homes all over the country.

The iPhones  have now launched across the world  U.S., Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the U.K. as well as the States.

Did you get a new iPhone today? Tell us what you think! Oh, and if you need to get rid of that old stinky iPhone… you know what to do… 

The Apple Special Media Event rundown (The wot wot)

So there we have it. Tim Cook yesterday presented the Keynote at Apple’s special media event at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The outcome? Some very nice, shiny new toys are coming our way.

The keynote was a little long, but it was also stuffed to the brim with changes (mostly predicted beforehand) that Apple are making to their current line of of products and services.

So, what’s the hit list? We’ve got ourselves:

*An iPad Pro (with the ever so slightly controversial Apple Pencil), as well as an iPad Mini 4

* Shiny new fourth-generation Apple TV

* iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S models, as well as a new upgrade program.

* Some new Apple bands (including a joint venture with Hermes) and new gold and rose gold anodized aluminum finishes for the Sport version of the Apple Watch.

*The announcement of the release of both Watch OS 2 and iOS 9 on September 16th.

Overall the event was pretty rad. Click on the links above to get an extensive rundown as well as pricing and release information. If you want to watch the keynote, click here. 

Just for kicks, we decided to ask Siri for some more hints during the live stream. Cheeky little devil, her.

The iPad Pro

As predicted, Apple announced the impending release of their biggest iPad yet – the iPad Pro. Not only is it big, sizing in at a respectable 12.9 inches, it also has 5.6 million pixels, which is more than any other iOS device.

It also comes with some pretty power. Weighing in with a 64-bit A9c processor, it provides a performance 1.6 times faster than the iPad Air 2 and, according to Apple, a performance 80% faster than portable PC’s. Fancy.

The Pro comes equipped with a 4-speaker audio system, with 2 speakers on each side, that will put out 3 times the audio levels of the iPad Air 2.  It also comes with an 8 megapixel iSight camera touch ID, Smart and lightening connecters, duel microphones, a 3.5 mm headphone jack, is 6.9 mm thick and weighs an it-feels-lighter-than-it-should 1.57 pounds.

The word coming from those who got to play with it is that it’s a beautiful device, but that it would remain to be seen where exactly in the marketplace it will sit – some believing it’s too big, some noting that you it’s possible position as a competitor to notebooks is unrealistic.

Alongside the iPad Pro Apple announced 2 new accessories- the Apple Pencil, and the Smart Keyboard. The Apple Pencil is their new Stylus (yes, a stylus) which is apparently remarkable in it’s ability to produce different strokes and allows the user to touch a single pixel. The battery will last for 12 hours, and it will sell for (an initially difficult to swallow) price of $99.

The Smart Keyboard connects magnetically to the iPad Pro and, by all reports, works nicely with the device.It will retail for $169. Both the Apple Pencil and the Smart keyboard will be available alongside the iPad pro.

The iPad Pro will be released in November in Silver, Space Gray and Gold, starting at $799 for a 32GB Wi-Fi only model. A 128GB Wi-Fi only model will also be available for $949 and a Wi-Fi + LTE 128GB model will retail for $1,079.

We also have a new iPad Mini 4, 7.9-inches,  6.1mm in thickness,  18% thinner than the previous generation. The tablet also weighs just 0.65 pounds with a 30% faster CPU and 60% faster graphics than the iPad Mini 3.

iPad Mini 4 is available in Space Gray, Gold, and Silver for $399 (16GB), $499 (64GB), and $599 (128GB), including cellular options. Apple has dropped the iPad mini 3 from its lineup, while the iPad mini 2 is available for $269.

Ch-check both the iPad Pro and the Apple pencil out for yourself in the very Appley vid’s below!

The new & improved Apple TV

Well, everyone was right One of the main announcements of yesterday’s keynote was the reveal of the new and improved fourth Gen Apple TV.

As predicted, the upgraded device comes equipped with significant changes that make it, in Apple’s words ‘the future of television’.

The user interface has bene overhauled, making it apparently more intuitive. We also have Siri, an App Store, new search functionality and a brand new shiny remote.

The device looks similar to the previous model, however it is a little thicker and heavier at 425 grams.

The Siri feature with the upgraded Apple TV looked pretty swanky, with the ability to ask her who’s in a movie, bring up other information like weather details whilst in a movie or TV show, replay parts of the content and ask her to recommend something to watch based on certain details such as actors or what’s popular in comedy.

The new remote has a glass touch surface for swiping through content smoothly and there is a built in Siri button as well as dual microphones. It also has Bluetooth 4.0, an IR transmitter, accelerometer and gyroscope, Lightning connector for charging and a rechargeable battery lasting months on a single charge.

You will also be able to play games with the remote, with the glass touch surface doubling as a controller.

While we think the upgraded Apple TV is a definite, solid upgrade, it seems like calling it the future of television might be a little far reaching… What do you think? Check out the video below!

The new Apple TV will be available at the end of October for $149 (32GB) and $199 (64GB).

The iPhone 6S & The iPhone 6S Plus

iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus were both introduced to the world yesterday, and boy, do these kids have some shine to them. Although a large upgrade was not expected, the minor changes were not as minor as previously predicted, with fancy new 3D touch being one of the sleeper winners of the day.

Both phones look the same as their predecessors, with 4.7 inch and 5.5 inch screen sizes, although as predicted, both iPhones do come equipped with stronger ion strengthened glass and series 7 aluminum. We also, as predicted, get a shmick new Rose Gold option for both.

Both phones come with a 62 bit A9 chip and M9 coprocessor that give them a 70% faster CPU performance than the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.  The 3D touch  gives users the option to ‘pop’, ‘peek’ and bring up hidden menus, some incredibly complicated and impressive technology that makes it so different touch pressures brings about different functionality.

The rear-facing cameras now have 12 megapixels and can take 4K video. The front FaceTime camera is 5 megapixels and has a display based Retina Flash. The iPhone 6S Plus will also come with Optical Image Stabilization.

Touch ID will apparently be 2 times faster than previously.

So, who’s getting one?

iPhone 6S
– 16GB: $199 (On Contract), $649 (Full Price)
– 64GB: $299 (On Contract), $749 (Full Price)
– 128GB: $399 (On Contract), $849 (Full Price)

iPhone 6S Plus
– 16GB: $299 (On Contract), $749 (Full Price)
– 64GB: $399 (On Contract), $849 (Full Price)
– 128GB: $499 (On Contract), $949 (Full Price)

iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus pre-orders begin on Saturday, September 12 at 12:01 AM Pacific ahead of a Friday, September 25 launch in the United States, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

Check out the new iPhone models below!

Watch the keynote from yesterday’s Apple Special media Event

Did you guys catch the Apple Special Media event yesterday? It was pretty rad.

We’ll be putting out an extensive round up of all the shiny new Apple products and services heading your way very soon. Until then, if you have a spare few hours (it’s long but worth watching if you do) here’s where you can watch the keynote.

Streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later; or QuickTime 7 on Windows. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later.

The Apple Special Media event is so close! What to expect?

The decorations are going up at The Bill Graham Auditorium in San Francisco, and with only 2 days left, it’s the calm before the Apple Special Media Event storm.

Come 10:00 AM PST on the 9th, Tim Cook will present us with what Apple’s been working on. Not all of it, of course, we shouldn’t expect any self driving cars or line of sight teleportation (yet), but what can we expect?

*The tagline on the press invitations and the posters for the event is ‘Siri Give me a hint’. Unsurprisingly, Siri has not been forthcoming.

*The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus. Some are saying that the whole iPhone 6S Plus name is a little too mouthy, and suggest that Apple will either jump to the name iPhone 7 instead, or  -rather more drastically – switch the naming sequence to something new altogether.

* There are reports that we will also see a smaller 4 inch iPhone in the style of the iPhone 5C, however this is sounding less and less likely, at least at this point. If the iPhone 5C isn’t replaced, we’re looking at it’s mid-term extinction.

*The new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus models will be made of less bendy 7000 Series aluminum, which features on the Apple Watch Sport ( and competition bicycles, so there you have that). This has reportedly made both the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus 0.2mm thicker, but 2 grams lighter. Apparently the change in thickness will not be something you can notice, so current cases will still fit.

*Also seen on the Apple watch and presumed to be carried over to the new models of iPhone is the Force Touch feature, where you can access and use different features dependent on the pressure of your touch.

*Both iPhones will see significant upgrades to the camera, with 12 Megapixels instead of 8 on the rear camera, and the front camera getting a 5-megapixel sensor with an accompanying flash. Also rumored is the ability to shoot 4k video.

*Both iPhones will get a new A9 Processor and 2GB of ram.

*A new color of Rose Gold is expected, as is improved Touch ID.

*Pre-orders, if accepted, should start September 11th, with the official launch on September 18. Probably (It is Apple after all!)

*A significant update to Apple TV is set to be announced. After almost 3 years of no updates, now we’re looking at getting a slimmer more powerful device with a new more intuitive software design, Siri, an App store, and -long overdue – better search functionality, more than likely using Siri.

*Also using Siri and/or a touchpad feature will be a new Apple TV Remote.

*There are rumors of an iPad Pro – an iPad targeted at professionals with a bigger screen (12.9 inch display), an A9 processor and 2GB of RAM, and – maaaaybe possibly – a stylus.

*There are rumors of new Apple Watch wristbands, and an iPad Mini 4, but not much has been said about either.

* It all starts at 10:00 AM PST. Apple will be streaming it live here.  If you’re looking to upgrade to the new iPhone models, consider selling your old iPhone here for cashmoney! 

Looking to upgrade to an iPhone 6S? Read this!

It’s everyone’s favorite time of year! iPhone upgrade time hoorah! In 5 days Apple will be announcing the new models of iPhone, expected to be the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus with a number of software improvements that will no doubt make your life better (Yeah, we’re talking to you, over there, with the sexy hair).

We’re talking significant camera improvements, a new A9 chip to make it faster, more powerful and more fancy, Forcetouch (You may know that from the Apple Watch), improved touch ID and a shiny new rose gold color.

Nice.

So you want one, right? Nay, you deserve one! Look at your stinky old iPhone just sitting there being all not rose gold with no Force Touch and a boring old not as good camera. What a jerk.

It’s ok though, because we can help! Send the stinky old iPhone to us! We’ll make sure that jerk is properly cared for, send him to a nice big ‘ol green farm with lots of other stinky old iPhones to play with! AND we’ll give you cash to help you upgrade to the new shiny iPhone!

Sweet deal, right? All you have to do is enter your details here! We’ll send you a prepaid shipping box, drop that sucker in there and we’ll send you payment by Check, Paypal or Bitcoin! Easy! We’ll also never revalue your iPhone after you’ve sent it in – if it’s an used iPhone 6, we’ll pay you for a used iPhone 6. We’re just cool like that…

If you have any questions about selling your old, cracked, water damaged or broken iPhone, don’t hesitate to contact us  or leave a comment below.

Apple Youtube videos

Bored at work? Procrastinating? Check out some recent Apple videos. Because Tuesday?

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