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1. Enable Adaptive Battery Adaptive Battery is a nifty feature on Android that uses AI to predict your app usage and only allows your frequently used apps to stay awake in the background. Meanwhile, apps that you haven’t used recently are restricted from using too many resources in the background. This, of course, can help prevent lesser-used apps from opening on their own. To enable adaptive battery on Android, follow the steps below....

Note: The list is rather long but only because there are many options within the Windows ecosystem that may affect how Windows wallpaper and desktop looks and behaves including accessibility settings. 1. Enable Show Windows Background Option This is for Windows 10 users. Press Windows + I to open Settings and go to Ease of Access > More Options and make sure that Show Windows Background or Show desktop background image option is turned on or checked....

Let’s begin. 1. Pause and Restart Sync A simple step but has helped many in the past. Click on the Drive icon in the Taskbar Notification Area and click on Pause syncing under Settings. Wait a few moments to allow Drive to stop syncing. Then go back to the same menu and select Resume syncing. Check if the files you are trying to sync in Google Drive on Windows 11 are syncing correctly....

1. How to Make Apple Watch Vibrate With Sound To get your Apple Watch to vibrate when you receive any notification, follow these steps: Open Settings on your Apple Watch. Go to Sounds & haptics. Scroll down and enable the toggle next to Haptic alerts. Now, your Apple Watch will vibrate whenever you receive a notification or when someone calls you. You can also enable haptics aka vibration from the Apple Watch app of your connected iPhone....

What Is DRAM in an SSD SSDs, as you may already know, don’t have any moving parts. They store data into something called the NAND flash. SSD contains one or more NAND flash chips into which data is written and rewritten as per CPU’s instruction. SSDs also use something called Data map tables to track where the data is saved in NAND to read, move, or rewrite them as needed. DRAM-less SSDs store these tables in the NAND itself....

Note: Before proceeding, please make sure your iPhone is running on the latest iOS version i.e, iOS 16. Because Apple has moved the date settings in the latest iteration of their OS. Change the Time Format on iPhone There are two ways to display time on your iPhone screen. One is in 12-hour format while the other is in 24-hour format which is popularly used by the military, for example....

How to Disable Chrome Extensions Natively The native way to enable or disable extensions on Chrome is not intuitive, not quick, but gets the job done. Useful if you don’t enable/disable extensions frequently. Click on the extension icon at the top right corner to open the extension panel. Here click on the kebab menu (three-dot menu) beside the extension that you want to disable. In the menu that opened, select the Manage extension option from it....

Note: There are two ways to set an alert for Teams status change for any member. One is from the member profile chat directly and the other is from app settings. Set Teams Status Change Notification in Chat This is the fastest way to create an alert so you get notified when someone changes their status in Microsoft Teams if you have recently chatted with the person. Select Chat from the left sidebar....

Let’s find out. Difference Between Microsoft Teams for Home and Work Before we move on with understanding how to block someone on Teams and what happens later, we need to clear the air around different versions of Teams. Yes, Microsoft, yet again, has multiple versions of the same app. Microsoft Teams now comes in two flavors. One is Teams for Home and the other is Teams for Work. Microsoft Teams for Home is for personal usage and comes preinstalled with Windows 11 and sports a circular white background behind the blue Teams logo....

What Is BeReal Compared to other social media apps, BeReal is different, mostly because of its concept. You can only upload one photo per day and that too only when you receive a notification from BeReal. BeReal sends the notification at a random time of the day and gives only 2 minutes to the user to take a photo of what they are doing. The concept is that you get genuine photos of what your friends are doing at that moment....

1. Restart Chromebook Many times, simply restarting the Chromebook should be enough to make its microphone work again. So let’s start by restarting the Chromebook. On your Chromebook, click on time at the bottom-right corner of the shelf. Press the Shut Down icon. This will turn off your Chromebook. Wait for at least 30 seconds and then turn on the Chromebook as you would usually do. Check out interesting things about Chromebook login options....

Note: If you are facing similar issues on Android or desktop where the device is connected to Wi-Fi but there is no internet, we have covered them separately. 1. Reboot iPhone and Power Cycle Router Simply reboot your iPhone once using the power button to check if internet works when it reconnects to the Wi-Fi network. If not, try to power cycle the router. What that means is to turn off the router and modem, wait for 30 seconds, and turn them back on....

What Are Drivers Before we get started, it’s important to understand what drivers are. The hardware (physical components) present in your system requires specialized software to run, operate, and perform all its functions optimally. This specialized software is essentially the ‘driver’ for that specific hardware. Microsoft defines drivers as a ‘software component that lets the operating system and a device communicate with each other. An example can be when you connect a hardware device like a keyboard....

Add a Widget to iPhone’s Home Screen Adding a widget to the home screen is easy and straightforward. Let’s have a look at the steps to do so. Navigate to the home screen on your iPhone where you want to add a widget, and long-press anywhere in the blank space to enter the Jiggle mode. Tap on the + icon in the top left corner of the screen. On the widgets page, choose a widget and tap on it....

Add Groups While Creating WhatsApp Community on iOS You can add groups to a WhatsApp community while creating the community itself. On WhatsApp iOS app, open the Community tab from the center of the bottom bar. Inside the Community tab, tap on the Start a Community option. If there are any existing communities, tap on New Community option at the top of the page. On the next page, enter the name of the community, upload the community icon, and also add a description....

What Is Always-on Display When Always-on Display is enabled, you will see some useful information like time, widgets, etc. on your iPhone’s lock screen at all times. The display light will be dimmed to a bare minimum so as to be enough to view this information. However, because the light is on at all times, even though it is dimmed down, it will consume more battery than when AoD is turned off....

How to Get WhatsApp Notifications on iPhone Lock Screen To make WhatsApp notifications appear on the lock screen of your iPhone, follow these steps: Open Settings on your iPhone. Go to Notifications. Scroll down to WhatsApp in the list of apps and tap on it. First, make sure the toggle next to Allow notifications is turned on. Scroll down to the Alerts section and tap on the Lock screen to enable it....

What Exactly Are Notes on Instagram Notes is basically a “story” on Instagram but in a text format, which is visible on the DMs page. And anything you post there will be visible to the selected audience for a period of 24 hours. You can use this note creatively for broadcasting a piece of quick information with your close ones for example. Whenever they will open their DMs page, they should see the notes floating on top of all the DMs and can have a quick look at your note....

How to Find and Share LinkedIn Profile URL on Desktop LinkedIn profile links are unique to each user profile. Once you find your LinkedIn URL, you can add it to your resume/cv, business cards, or email signatures. There are three ways to get and share your LinkedIn profile link on a PC. Method 1: Using the Link in the Address Bar Open Linkedin.com in a browser on your PC and log into your account....

1. What Is a Twitter Circle Earlier, if you tweeted something, everyone who followed you could see the tweet. You could restrict the replies but visibility was still an issue. This is where Circle helps. Twitter Circle is a feature that lets you share your thoughts with a select few people only. The tweet will only be visible to the people in your Circle. Nobody else can see it. Moreover, only the people in the Circle can interact with the tweet....