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The reviews are unanimous: Samsung’s new Galaxy S7 is an amazing phone.

In my own review, I had nothing but nice things to say about the S7. It looks great. It’s waterproof. It has the best camera ever put in a smartphone. It makes the incredible world of VR accessible to more people than any other gadget.

But as much as I loved the Galaxy S7, there’s still one thing that keeps me from recommending it over the iPhone.

iOS.

iOS is Apple’s greatest weapon against the competition, and it’s the main reason why the iPhone continues to be such a massive success even though anyone can make a smartphone that’s just as good hardware-wise.

iOS has the best apps, the most consistent updates over the lifespan of your device, and the most dedicated army of developers dreaming up new ways to unlock the potential of your iPhone.

You can’t say that about any Android phone. And you definitely can’t say about Samsung phones, which have a terrible track record with timely software updates and come bloated with unnecessary software from the carrier and Samsung itself. In fact, newer Samsung phones only just started getting the latest version of Android this month, even though Google released it last fall.

That never happens with iOS. Apple does an excellent job at keeping its devices up to date with the latest software and features. In fact, the iPad 2, which is about five years old now, is compatible with iOS 9, the current version of iOS. You won’t find a single Samsung device that old that’s still supported by the company’s software. (Yes, older devices tend to slow down over time, no matter who makes them, but the fact remains that Apple continues to add new features and improve older iOS devices over time.)

As for apps, developers still tend to make the best new apps and significant updates to iOS before Android. It’s not uncommon for Android users to have to wait months for something iPhone users have always enjoyed. Plus, Android versions of popular apps never to seem to have the same clean design and as their iOS counterparts.

This might sound like I’m nitpicking to a lot of you, but I disagree. I love having access to the best of the best apps and services, and the only way to guarantee that is to stick with iOS.

And even more important than that: security. Android owners learned a hard lesson last summer when the “Stagefright” bug affected nearly every Android phone on the planet. Whereas Apple can patch a bug with a single software update to all its devices, the fragmented Android ecosystem can take months to fix a major issue.

The Galaxy S7 is a great phone. It’s damn near close to perfection. But until Samsung can build an ecosystem on par with iOS, the iPhone will always win.

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How to Download iOS Apps Stuck on “Waiting..”

You open the iTunes Apps Store on your iPad /iPhone and click “install” to download an app. The app icon appear on your device home screen with the “waiting..” status. You go for a coffee, come back but the app hasn’t downloaded yet – the blue progress bar on the app’s icon isn’t moving and the status is still “waiting.”

This isn’t a new problem but am facing it more and more ever since I upgraded the second-generation iPad to iOS 6. The official Apple forums are flooded with similar complaints and there has been no official response /fix so far.

Resume App Downloads on your iOS Device

So how do you download and update apps that are stuck at “waiting..” forever? Now  doesn’t really help but here are some possible solutions:

1. You can download the app on your computer using iTunes and then sync to transfer the app to your iPhone /iPad.
2. Or, long-tap the icon on the home-screen until the icons begins to shake. Now delete the “waiting” app and reinstall it from the iTunes store. This isn’t the best option as you  may lose some of the custom settings that were previously associated with the app.
3. Or, single tap the app’s icon on the home screen and it will pause the download. Now go back to the iTunes Apps store, switch to the “Updates” screen and click “Update” to resume the download. This is what I do on my iOS device and the fix works most of the times.
4. Or, go to Settings -> iTunes & App Stores and tap the Apple ID to sign-out. Restart the iPad, go back to Settings -> iTunes Apps Store and sign-in. Tap the waiting icon to update the app.

Have you ever come across a situation where you were expecting an important email from a known sender but the mail never made it to your Inbox? Instead, Gmail had incorrectly classified that mail as spam and thus moved it to the junk mail folder.

Gmail filters are pretty awesome at detecting spam but they do sometimes make mistakes. So how can you prevent Gmail from marking mails from certain legitimate senders as spam?

How to Whitelist an Email Sender in Gmail

There are two ways to whitelist email addresses, or even web domains, in Gmail.

One, you should add the email addresses of all the known contacts to your Google Contacts list. Google will almost always deliver messages to your Inbox when the ‘From:’ address of the message is listed in your Google Contacts database.

The other thing you can do is create a manual whitelist in Gmail to ensure that email messages from certain senders are never ever marked as Spam. You can in fact whitelist entire domains so that messages from your colleagues reach your Inbox irrespective of whether you have added them to your Google Contacts or not.

Here’s how you can whitelist email addresses and domains in Gmail:

Step 1: In Gmail, click the “Create a Filter” link which is placed just next to the search box.

Step 2: In the From: field, enter the email addresses, domain names or even actual names of people who you would like to whitelist. You can separate multiple entries using OR (in Caps) or with the bar (|) sign.

Step 3: Once your filter is ready, click Next and select “Never Send it to Spam.”

That’s it! Now messages that match the above criteria will always get delivered to your Inbox and won’t ever be marked as spam.

Trivia: Did you know that Windows Live Hotmail offers a safe senders list where you can put email addresses and domains of known contacts and Hotmail will never mark messages originating from these addresses as spam. That’s much easier than setting up a whitelist filter in Gmail.

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