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How You Can Print PDFs, Websites or Any Document Using Your iPhone

Your iPhone can connect to most printers, just like a computer, and with a few taps, it can print out the documents you need.

Even though we live in a digital world where you can view and even sign off on important documents using your iPhone, there are still times when it’s best to use a printer. Be it shipping labels, luggage tags or a hard copy of an important document, sometimes it’s necessary to get these onto paper.

Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to print a PDF from your iPhone, as long as you have access to a wireless or AirPrint-compatible printer. Most popular printer models are already AirPrint-capable, but if you want to make sure your printer is compatible, you can look it up on Apple’s support page. And even if you have an older printer that doesn’t support AirPrint, you might still be able to use your iPhone to print just like you would with a computer.

Here, we’ll guide you through how to print from a web page or email. If you just want to save a document as a PDF to share or print later, we’ll walk you through that step as well.

Printing from a web page or the Files app

When printing a document viewed inside your Files app or from a web page, the steps are largely the same. First, open the PDF or web page you would like to print. On Safari, tap the triple-dot icon on the right, next to the URL bar, then tap Share. On Google Chrome, you’d tap the Share icon — it looks like a square with an arrow pointing up — to the right of the URL bar instead. And in the Files app, tap the Share icon after opening the document. The Share menu will pop up. Scroll down, and you’ll see the Print option.

Select Print to open the Printer Options menu. You should then be able to select your printer, choose your printer settings and then print the page out by hitting the printer icon on the top right.

Printing from email

Open up the email you’d like to print. If you’re using Apple Mail, you would then select the Reply button (the curved arrow icon) and scroll all the way down to select Print. If you’re using Gmail instead, you’d tap the three dots icon on the upper right corner and then select the Print all option.

Saving a web page or email as a PDF

Be it a web page or email, you can choose to save the document as a PDF instead of printing it. When you’re on the Printer Options page, instead of hitting the printer icon, you would select the Share icon next to it. After that, simply select Save to Files to save the web page or email as a PDF. If you want to retrieve that saved PDF, just launch the Files app, and you should see it there.

In the event your printer doesn’t include AirPrint, you might still be able to print a PDF from your iPhone. HP, Canon and other printer companies offer their own iOS apps that can assist in sending documents to printers that do not support AirPrint. While many of the above steps will be similar, you’ll want to follow the instructions provided by the manufacturer where they diverge. For instance, for printers set up with the HP app, you’ll tap the Share icon and then tap Print with the HP app in order to send a document to the printer.

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Apple’s New Smart Home Display Delayed Until Fall Over Siri Issues

It has been nearly a year and a half since the company announced the AI-powered product.

Your home could get smarter with Apple’s Siri, but it will have to wait a few more months. Bloomberg reported the iPad-shaped AI home hub won’t be ready until September, several months after the company was hoping to launch it this spring. Apple engineers first need to complete work on a new and improved Siri assistant for the home device, code-named J490, according to Bloomberg.

Apple was hoping to release J490 this month, along with a slew of other new devices, including the iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, MacBook Air M5, new Pro models, and iPad Air M4. Apple first teased the smart home display in November 2024.

A representative for Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Siri is Apple’s virtual assistant that uses voice recognition and AI to fulfill a variety of tasks and commands, along with intriguing uses. You might use Siri to find your iPhone — «Hey Siri, where are you?» — or to hear the weather forecast — «Siri, what will the weather be today?» Siri is available on iPhones, MacBooks and iPads. It was launched in 2011 as a feature of the iPhone 4S.

As CNET reported last month, Apple engineers have struggled to push the upgraded Siri assistant out the door. It isn’t fast enough, gets confused by complex commands and doesn’t interact well with other Apple AI models. The company is also wrestling with how much personal data to access to inform the AI, and the new Siri is not yet able to complete in-app tasks, such as finding a photo and posting it to socials, all with one command.

It has been nearly two years since Apple announced that it would give Siri a major upgrade. In the meantime, competitors like Alexa Plus and Gemini for Home have entered the marketplace.

Tech tester Jon Rettinger, whose YouTube channel has 1.66 million subscribers, says the repeated delays in upgrading Siri can «erode» confidence in Apple’s ability to keep up in the AI race.

«Apple as a whole is still one of the strongest companies on the planet. But their AI play is clearly the weakest link in an otherwise very strong chain,» Rettinger told CNET.

Rettinger said he has had issues getting Siri to complete basic commands, such as setting two alarms at the same time, and that it’s a bit of «a mess» right now.

«Having said that, the iPhone has such massive market penetration that I’m not sure it will actually matter in the end. Which is kind of wild when you think about it,» Rettinger said.

Facial recognition for residents

The hardware for the forthcoming smart home display has already been finished. It resembles an iPad and can be either attached to a wall or rest on a half-domed-shaped base, the Bloomberg report said.

The device will be equipped with facial recognition, so when residents walk up to it, they will be shown personalized data such as music preferences, news headlines, appointments, reminders, tasks and so on.

The screen interface will include a bunch of circular app icons, similar to the display on an Apple Watch. The Bloomberg report said the smart home display will be the first of several home devices by Apple. Future products include a tabletop robotic limb with a 9-inch screen, a smart security camera and a Face ID-enabled smart doorbell.