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Issue Google Hangouts for iOS does not receive instant messages or phone calls, but they are delivered correctly when the application is explicitly loaded. Cause The notifications for the application are not properly set up in the Notification Center . Solution Add Hangouts to the list of applications that are allowed to show notifications in the Notification Center. Open the Settings application. Choose Notifications . If Hangouts is not listed under the section In Notification Center , then scroll down to the section called, Not In Notification Center . Select Hangouts . Toggle the Notification Center  control to On . Optionally, set any of the other toggles from this panel. Make sure that Hangouts is listed under "In Notification Center." Hangouts notification settings. To close, just back out to the main settings panel, and click the center button on the device. Environment Device iPhone, iPad, iPod touch ...

Without much "hands-on" time with an iOS -supported device, it's difficult to tell for sure, but something looks very familiar about the design cues of Apple 's new mobile system. In spite of the noise Apple made around it's announcements a few weeks back, all the talk around the Web seems to be focused on the new "flatter" look of the interface design.  What seems to be coming out of this new look has been a move to look more like Android . A flat look is not, by itself, revolutionary.  Everyone is doing it, but when Apple is taking more and more "heat" about no-longer innovating, following suit in the design department too is certainly not going to help cool things down. For some examples of this similarity, take in the pages below, but bear in mind a couple of points.  One is that this example is of a dialog box in each of iOS 7 and Android 4.1 and to be honest, there's probably not much room for anything ground breaking can be don...

For whatever reason, iOS has a tendency to suffer from stalled application updates when updating from the device.  This behavior has been observed numerous times since the iOS 6 update was released.  The observations have come by-way-of two 4th generation iPod touches with strong Wi-Fi connectivity.  The issue is independent of software titles. A few Internet searches have yielded some information about store problems, but the issues range from problems with song downloads to 5-year-old forum posts.  The issue at hand here is straight software updates from the “Updates” tab of the App Store application. Fortunately, the apparent solution is simple, and is likely by design.  It’s just puzzling why no-one seems to be posting the fix.  That is, unless it’s so simple that it goes without saying.  At-any-rate, here it is.  Browse the device to the application’s icon and just touch it as though launching the application.  The label on the app...