How to Restore WhatsApp Messages Before you can restore messages in the WhatsApp app, you will need to check a few things first: Check that you’ve made a backup of your WhatsApp account. Make sure your account and your device have the same phone number. You cannot restore WhatsApp backups from a different account or phone number. Ensure the account and device have the same iCloud or Google Drive account....
How to Schedule Tweets on Twitter Using TweetDeck If you won’t be available to post an update at a specific time, or if you want to spread your updates over the course of the day, schedule your posts ahead of time to be sent out automatically whenever you want your tweets to be seen. If you change your mind and need to delete or edit a scheduled tweet, you can edit it and reschedule it or delete it completely....
How Searching Works on Reddit Reddit has a search field accessible on almost every page of the website. The location of the search field depends on whether you’re using old Reddit, the standard Reddit webpage, also known as new Reddit, or the app. The behavior of the search box also differs depending on the page. If you want to use it to search a specific subreddit, you need to first navigate to that subreddit or use an advanced search term....
How Do I Send a Playlist to Someone? If you want to share a Spotify playlist by sending your friend a link to it, Spotify has made it quite simple to do on both the desktop app and the smartphone app. Here’s how to send a playlist to someone via the Spotify desktop app. How Do I Share a Spotify Playlist From My Phone? If you want to share a Spotify playlist through your phone, the process is slightly different....
Alexa Voice Commands: The Basics Using voice commands with Alexa is fairly straightforward. To set a general reminder, say, “Alexa, create a new reminder.” It asks what the reminder is for and when you want to be reminded.Save time by giving Alexa all the details at once. For example, say, “Alexa, remind me to call Mom tomorrow at noon,” or, “Alexa, set a reminder to turn off the sprinklers in 15 minutes....
How to Set Up Your PS5 Stand Before you connect power cords and more to your Sony PlayStation 5, you must set up the PS5 stand properly. Here’s what to do. How to Connect Your PlayStation 5 to Your TV or Monitor Ready to turn on your PS5? Not quite. Here’s how to connect it to your TV or monitor. How to Set Up Your PS5 Console Now your PlayStation 5 console is switched on and plugged in, here are the steps to follow to get set up....
How to Run a Windows XP Emulator for Windows 10 Windows XP might have reached the end-of-life (EOL) stage in its cycle, but that doesn’t mean the operating system doesn’t still have its uses. There is a way you can have the best of both worlds and run a Windows XP emulator on Windows 10. The best way to emulate Windows XP in Windows 10 is to use a virtual machine....
How to Turn Talkback On in Settings There are a few ways to turn on the Talkback app. You can turn it on as you’re setting up your phone for the first time, but there are other ways to get it set up if you aren’t on a brand new phone. Use the Accessibility Shortcut to Turn Talkback On and Off You can also turn on an accessibility shortcut so you don’t need to navigate to your settings every time you want to turn Talkback on and off....
Here’s how to find out what kind of monitor your Mac can handle: In this example, you can see that a 2011 MacBook Air 13-inch can display its native resolution on the built-in display while also outputting video to an external display at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. That means this particular Mac could handle a 1080p display easily, but it wouldn’t work with a 4K monitor....
Setting up FaceTime on Your iPod Touch Unlike the iPhone, the iPod Touch doesn’t have a phone number assigned to it. Instead, your Apple ID email address serves as your phone number. If someone places a FaceTime call to you, they’ll use your Apple ID email address. To get started, make sure FaceTime is enabled on your iPod Touch, and then register your Apple ID. Make a FaceTime Call With Your iPod Touch To place a FaceTime call, you’ll need the phone number or Apple ID email address of the person you want to call....
How Do I Stop Android System Updates? If you’d prefer to stop your Android from automatically updating, it’s fairly simple to do so once you know where to look. Here’s what to do to disable automatic Android system updates. How Do I Stop Android Apps From Automatically Updating? If your issue is with your Android apps automatically updating, here’s how to stop them from doing so. How Do I Stop Automatic Updates on Samsung?...
Check out this year’s Hall of Fame inductees; the ceremony will take place in the fall. How to Stream the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony with HBO HBO owns the rights to air the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, but you don’t need cable to stream the event online. Time: TBD Location: Microsoft Theater – Los Angeles, CA Channel: HBO Stream it on: HBO Max, DirecTV Stream, Hulu, Sling TV, or YouTube TV....
Streamline Conversations in Outlook Email programs quote the full original message automatically in replies. So, your email conversations may contain the same message several times: once in the original email and then quoted in each reply. To clean up conversations in Outlook and remove redundant messages: Quickly Streamline a Conversation in Outlook by Keyboard Shortcut To streamline the current conversation fast in Outlook: Clean Up Conversation: Remove messages that are fully quoted in other messages from the current conversation....
How to Sync iPhone Contacts to Mac The quickest way to keep your contacts synced across the iPhone and Mac is to use iCloud. The cloud storage service is baked into all Apple products making it simple to transfer data between devices. Here’s how to sync your iPhone contacts to your Mac using iCloud. How to AirDrop Contacts From iPhone to Mac If you only wish to sync a few contacts across to your Mac, rather than your entire contacts list, AirDropping the contacts can be easier....
Ask Google to Do It Google Assistant will do the work for you. Just say, “OK, Google - take a screenshot.” It will take the shot and send you immediately to quick share and messaging options, including social media apps you have installed, to quickly send the shot to someone else. If you prefer to save it on your device, look for the option under Apps to Upload to Photos....
The steps are a little hidden, but once you know them, you’ll be able to get a screenshot of your Apple Watch and then do lots of things with that screenshot. Here’s what you need to know. Turn On Apple Watch Screenshots In order for your Apple Watch to capture screenshots, make sure to turn on this feature. How to Take an Apple Watch Screenshot To capture a screenshot of whatever is on your Apple Watch screen, just follow these steps:...
Use PING to Test for VoIP Connection Quality Follow these steps to test your internet connection: Then press Enter. If you have your gateway’s address, use it instead of this example IP address. After a few seconds or longer, four or more lines should appear, each saying something like: For Windows 7 and 10 users, select the Start button and in the search box that appears, type: CMD Then press Enter....
Spoofing is relatively easy to do by individuals and companies which means that you can’t always trust what the caller ID says when the phone call is received. Often a reverse caller ID check will simply redial the number displayed by the spoofing, not the actual number behind the call. How to Tell If a Phone Number Is Spoofed While there’s no completely accurate way to detect a spoofed number, there are several techniques which can help you get a fairly good idea about what’s going on and may help you catch a spoofer or scammer in their tracks....
How WhatsApp Check Marks Work Check marks on WhatsApp appear to the right of each of your messages. When you send your message, it is marked with a single gray check mark. When the message reaches your recipient’s device, you see a second gray check mark, and when the recipient reads your message, the check marks turn blue. Group messages use the same system, but they’re a little different. When sending a group message, you get the double check marks only when the message has been delivered to all members of the group....
How Do I Mass Upload Photos to Google Drive From My iPhone? Moving photos from your iPhone to Google Drive requires you to have the Google Drive app installed on your iPhone and have a Google account set up. From there, it’s a relatively simple process. Here’s what to do. How Do I Automatically Sync Photos From iPhone to Google Drive? To automatically have all your iPhone photos move to your Google Drive account, you need to use the Google Photos app for iOS....
