FamilySearch Tree App
The FamilySearch Tree app makes it easy to discover and document your own branches of the world’s family tree and preserve family memories such as photos, written stories, and audio recordings. With the mobile app, you can: Browse your family branches and see...
Be My Eyes Mobile App Brings Sight to Blind & Low Vision People
Be My Eyes is a free mobile app that lets you be a blind person’s eyes anytime from anywhere in the world. With the press of a button, the app establishes a live video connection between sighted volunteers and blind or low-vision people. Every day, volunteers...
Members’ Help Needed to Create Gospel Messages Online
“More needs to be done to increase awareness of, access to and confidence in trusted resources by Latter-day Saints and seekers of truth,” said Elder Kevin W. Pearson of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when he spoke today at...
Updated LDS Media Library App 2.0
The LDS Media Library app—the mobile app version of the LDS Media Library on LDS.org—has been updated with easier searches, media trimming, customizable presentations, and offline use. With the LDS Media Library app, you can search the largest selection of Church...
Teenagers Have Mixed Feelings About How Social Media Affects Them
Last week, we reported on President Nelson’s challenges to LDS youth in the worldwide devotional. We then reported how LDS youth were responding to President Nelsons’ #7DayBreakFromTheFake challenge to take a week-long break from social media to reconnect...
Helping Children Make Good Media Choices
From the article “Helping Children Make Good Media Choices,” from the digital-only content in the June 2018 issue of the Ensign magazine:...
Teaching Kids to Be Digitally Literate
“If your idea of teaching kids to be digitally savvy means showing them how to avoid phishing scams, create unbreakable passwords and stay off pornographic websites — then experts say you’ve got a lot to learn.” That’s the lead paragraph in the...
LDS Youth Respond to President Nelsons’ Challenge #7DayBreakFromTheFake
In Sunday night’s worldwide devotional with youth, President Nelson issued five challenges to the youth of the Church. One was to take a week-long break from social media, to sacrifice their time, repent, pray, and stand out from the world. (Learn about this...
President Nelson Challenges LDS Youth in Worldwide Devotional
In Sunday night’s worldwide devotional with youth, President Nelson challenged the youth of the Church to take a week-long break from social media, sacrifice their time, repent, pray, and stand out from the world. “Would you like to be a big part of the greatest...
National Delete Snapchat Day, June 1
Today is National Delete Snapchat Day, a grassroots effort to #SaveTheKids from the destructive side of modern technology. Youth advocate Collin Kartchner posted the following on Instagram: Enough is enough. This app is a disaster. Time to say goodbye, Snapchat. You...
Amazon Alexa Skill: Scripture Mastery Book of Mormon
If you have an Amazon Echo device, you can now teach it to play Scripture Mastery Book of Mormon. Enable this FREE skill in one of three ways: Go to the Scripture Mastery Book of Mormon at Amazon.com and click the “Enable” button. Go to the Alexa app you...
Helping Kids Use Social Sites Safely
These days, many kids draw little distinction between real life and online life. They may use social sites designed for children such as Webkinz or Club Penguin, or social sites designed for adults such as Facebook or Instagram. Whatever they’re doing, they...
5 Ways to Make Your Facebook Account Safer (Without Deleting It)
Some people are scared by the recent news about some Facebook data that was used by a political consulting firm inappropriately. A few celebrities even started a #DeleteFacebook hashtag. But short of deleting your Facebook account, there are things you can do to...
I Just Can’t Count on Facebook or Twitter Anymore
I used to be able to write an article on LDS365.com and post a teaser about it on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ and it would reach my 6,800 followers on Facebook and my 46,000 followers on Twitter and my 2,500 followers on Google+. But those social networks are now...Follow on social media