There are several steps that you can take to improve your battery life, but one of the simplest options, and one that has a minimal impact on your usage of the device, is to enable the Reduce Motion option. This will eliminate the animation that occurs when you open and close apps, and will instead switch it to a fade effect. So if you are interested in a simple change to make that can help improve your iPhone’s battery life, check out our guide below....
Step 2: Tap the menu icon at the top-left corner of the screen. Step 3: Select the Settings option. Step 4: Select the device that you want to rename. Step 5: Scroll down and touch the Edit button to the right of the device name. Step 6: Delete the existing name, type the desired new name, then tap the Save button. There are some other name settings on your iPhone, including the name that is shown when connecting other Bluetooth devices....
One such tool is Find and Replace. If you discover when proofreading that you incorrectly used a word, or that you repeatedly called someone or something by the wrong name, then you might think that you need to read through the document and manually change these errors. Find and Replace can be used to automate this process. You can even click a single button to have Word 2010 replace all instances of a word with a completely different word....
While you have long been able to take screenshots using a combination of button presses, this is a way for you to create an entire video that will capture everything that you are seeing or doing on your screen. Many iPad users have been waiting for this feature for a while, as it provides a lot of usefulness. However, if you are attempting to use the iPad’s screen recording feature, you might be wondering how you can add it to the Control Center so that it can be started....
How to Select All in Excel 2013 Cell selection in Microsoft Excel can take a variety of forms, and you may already be familiar with selecting a single cell, a row, a column, or even a range of cells. You might even know how to expand all rows in Excel so that you can see your data more easily. But selecting and modifying small sections of your spreadsheet can be tedious when you have to make large changes, so you might be looking for a way to select the entire spreadsheet in Excel 2013....
Many of the apps on your TV and smartphone will have an option that allows for the app to play its content for a certain amount of time before it shuts off automatically. Some of these apps include the iPhone’s Clock app, the Podcasts app, and even Spotify. But many of the features and options in Spotify can be tough to find if you haven’t familiarized yourself with all of the various screens and settings, so you may not have found the sleep timer yet....
Fortunately you can configure a passcode for the Venmo app on your iPhone. This passcode is separate from the one that is used to unlock your iPhone, so it adds an additional layer of protection on top of that initial one. If you are worried about someone using Venmo to send money from your iPhone, then follow the steps below to set up a Venmo app passcode on your device....
Fortunately, this is one of the more commonly-changed settings in Word documents, so Microsoft has made it something fairly simple to adjust. Our guide continues below with a tutorial on how to set margins in Word 2010, as well as some additional information that you might want to know about document formatting. How to Change Page Margins in Microsoft Word 2010 Our article continues below with additional information on how to set margins in Word 2010, including pictures of these steps....
Many word processing applications include features that are meant to assist you in creating and editing your documents. Some of these features will immediately correct mistakes that are commonly made, such as improper capitalization of certain words. Unfortunately this automatic capitalization can be a problem when you don’t want to capitalize certain words, so you might be looking for a way to get that behavior to stop. Our guide below will show you where to find the setting in Google Docs that controls the automatic capitalization of words so that you can turn it off and prevent it from occurring....
This sound was a little jarring, and was a setting that I definitely didn’t need. Fortunately it is also a setting that Quickbooks allows you to adjust. Our guide below will show you where to find the option for that beep so that you can turn it off as well. How to Disable the Quickbooks Beeping Setting for Completed Transactions The steps in this article were performed on Quickbooks Enterprise 12....
Your Apple watch mirrors the notification settings for the apps on your iPhone so, if you are receiving YouTube notifications about your subscribed channels on your phone, you are going to receive them on your watch as well. But if you would like to stop receiving notifications from YouTube on your Apple Watch but continue receiving them on your iPhone, then our tutorial below will show you where to find the setting that can make that happen....
This can also occur if Apple decides to give everyone with an iTunes account a free song or album, leading to some confusion when you are searching for songs on your iPhone and find something that you did not purchase. Fortunately there is an option on your iPhone that you can turn off to prevent the device from automatically downloading music. Our short guide below will walk you through the steps you need....
Like some of the other settings on your Apple Watch that you might wish to adjust, however, turning off Background App Refresh is actually accomplished through the Watch app on your iPhone. Our guide below will show you where to find it. How to Save Battery Life on the Apple Watch By Disabling Background App Refresh The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10 and an Apple Watch using Watch OS 3....
Fortunately almost any notification that you receive from an iPhone app can be turned off, and the Buzzfeed app is no exception. So if you find that you don’t act upon the notifications that you receive from the Buzzfeed app, and that they aren’t adding a benefit to your iPhone experience, then follow our guide below to turn them off completely. Disabling iPhone Buzzfeed Notifications The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9....
You may already be aware of how to turn off cellular data from the Settings menu by going to Settings > Cellular, but you can also turn off cellular data from the Control Center. This article can show you information about your battery, as well as answer some questions about things you may be noticing about it. How to Disable Cellular Data from the Control Center The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 12....
Many of us get a lot of emails every day, so it’s common to wonder how to turn off email notifications on Apple Watch if they are happening too frequently. Fortunately, you can customize the settings for the Mail app on your watch to change the preview settings for your emails, or to shut off the notifications entirely. How to Manage Mail on Apple Watch By Changing the Message Preview Setting Our guide continues below with additional information on turning off email previews on the Apple Watch, including pictures of these steps....
But if you no longer wish to use the Genius feature on your iPhone, then you can turn it off. The process for turning off Genius on your iPhone is short and simple, and can be accomplished by following the few simple steps outlined in our tutorial below. Disable Genius on the iPhone These steps were performed in iOS 8 on an iPhone 5. These steps will turn off the Genius feature on your iPhone 5, which means that you will no longer be able to create Genius playlists directly from your iPhone....
But Wi-Fi networks can occasionally run slow, or lose their ability to connect to the Internet. iOS 9 introduces a feature called Wi-Fi assist that can be beneficial in these situations by automatically using cellular data when Wi-Fi connectivity is poor. While this feature will help to ensure that you can access data from your iPhone more reliably, it can also lead to increased cellular data usage. if you are worried that this may be a problem, then you can disable the Wi-Fi Assist feature by following our guide below....
Storing a Large File in SkyDrive A lot of people use SkyDrive as a place to store pictures, music and documents that they might need to access from another location. The SkyDrive browser interface is ideal for this, because there are no extra steps to perform a file upload. Simply open a browser, sign into SkyDrive, and follow the instructions to upload your files. The web browser upload option features a single-file 300 MB size limit, which will cover the majority of single files that the average user will upload....
You can switch to Print View in Microsoft Excel 2013 by going to the View tab, then clicking the Page Layout option in the ribbon. There are a few easy ways to force your Excel 2013 spreadsheet to fit on one page, which can help to solve many of the print problems that you might be having with your worksheets. But many Excel jobs don’t fit into the same set of criteria or only some of your spreadsheet might be printing, so you may find yourself needing to see the current print layout of your data so that you can adjust it manually....
