Category Archives: iFix News

Anti Virus Breakdown

By | October 12, 2020

Norton is one of the most well known antivirus brands, and for a good reason. With reliability and plenty of great features such as a secure vpn, a 100% virus protection promise with a full refund if the virus protection fails, a firewall and even a PC cloud backup, with a 60 day money guarantee… Read More »

Pixel 4 XL Design Flaw Explained

By | July 26, 2020

There seems to be a growing number of Pixel 4 & 4 XL users who are experiencing the very same issue.  Symptoms like Phone stuck on 50% battery  Random restarts Issues charging Battery icon with a question mark inside it. Eventually the phone just stops charging completely and briefly flashes a red battery icon. I… Read More »

Mac Catalina Patcher

By | July 14, 2020

thanks to dosdude1 for creating this patch Step 1 : Click HERE to download the Patch Tool Step 2: Follow this video This Patch will work with the following machines. Early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro: MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1 iMac8,1 iMac9,1 iMac10,x iMac11,x (systems with AMD Radeon HD 5xxx and 6xxx series GPUs… Read More »

My Top Picks for 2020

By | June 30, 2020

In my opinion, over the last few years there hasn’t been many smartphones that have really brought any outstanding feats to the party. All we’ve really seen is the obvious camera improvements, some slight CPU upgrades and a few software features. However I do have my eyes on 2 particular models in 2020 & heres… Read More »

4 Truths about your phone’s battery life: Overcharging, overheating, fast charging

By | May 27, 2020

1. Your phone battery isn’t changing anytime soon All mobile phones — and most personal electronics and electric vehicles — use lithium-ion (li-ion) rechargeable batteries. It’s a tough slog to create batteries that last longer, because battery technology hasn’t changed in decades. Instead, much of the recent progress in battery life has come from power-saving features… Read More »

Child racks up $8000 bill on iPad

By | May 27, 2020

Earlier in the week, a Current Affair showed a six year old child who had surprisingly managed to spend $8000 over 500 transactions on his parents iPad.  This occurs more often than we would like to think, as most people don’t realise how accessible their banking or in app purchases are on these devices.  So… Read More »

Missed call phone scam still catching Australian mobile users off guard, ACCC says

By | February 8, 2018

ABC RADIO BRISBANE  / By Hailey Renault Posted 12 hours ago, updated 6 hours ago PHOTOThe ACCC says it received 50,000 reports about phone scams in 2017.Flickr: Jeff Turner The consumer watchdog is warning mobile phone users to avoid returning unexpected calls from overseas numbers as a wangiri scam returns to our shores. Its latest victim was a 10-year-old Brisbane… Read More »

5 FREE TIPS to free up storage on your iPhone

By | December 4, 2017

1. Shoot in High Efficiency If you’re on an iPhone 7 or newer with iOS 11 installed, Apple has a new “High Efficiency” compression format that saves photos in HEIF (High Efficiency Image Format) instead of JPEG and videos in HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) instead of H.264 (.mov). Apple says that you’ll be able… Read More »