How Do I Turn Off the Vibrating Keyboard on iPhone and iPad? The default iOS keyboard pre-installed on Apple’s iPhones and iPads doesn’t actually have a haptic feedback feature so, if your keyboard is vibrating, it’s likely you or someone else has installed a third-party keyboard app. To remove the vibration, open the settings in the app and look for a setting like Haptic Feedback or Vibration. Then, switch it off....

How to Stop Quick Notes From Popping up on Your Mac If you’re running macOS Monterey or later, Quick Notes will be tied to your bottom-right hot corner. When you move your cursor into this corner of your screen, a small white box will appear, allowing you to create a Quick Note. The only way to prevent this from happening is to disable Quick Note as a hot corner in System Preferences....

How to Get Out of Safe Mode Turning safe mode off on your Samsung phone is a fairly straightforward process. What Is Safe Mode and Why Is It Used? Like most operating systems, Android launches several apps as part of its boot process. These third-party offerings can include commonly-used features like displaying your personal calendar or unread email messages. If you’re experiencing significant slowness or other problems while starting up your phone, one or more of these apps could be the culprit....

How to Turn on a Laptop Using the Internet In modern computers, Wake-on-LAN is a fairly common feature. This technology enables you to shut off your computer and use the internet to signal to your powered-off computer that it’s time to turn on again. Depending on your setup, enabling Wake-on-LAN will take different steps, but you can turn it on whether you’ve got a Mac or a Windows PC. Once it’s set up, you’ll have your choice of third-party applications to use to send the signal to turn your computer on....

How to Unlock a Disabled iPad If you enter the wrong passcode when trying to unlock your iPad too many times in a row, your iPad may become disabled. Sometimes, the screen will show that your iPad is disabled. In other cases, it may ask you to try again in five minutes or tell you that your iPad is disabled for many days or years (that’s not true; it just means that you should wait a minute) or to connect to your computer....

There are two major categories of apps installed in Windows 11: Microsoft Store apps and third-party apps. We’ll go over how to update both below. How to Update Apps on Windows 11 There are two ways to update apps installed through the Microsoft Store: manually and automatically. Manual App Updates Update an app manually if you know a newer version is available but Windows hasn’t given it to you yet....

Automatic Updates for Google Chrome on Mac or PC By default, Google Chrome on Mac and PC updates automatically. The web browser is continually checking for the latest version to download. Typically, you only have to restart Chrome to install the update. The More icon in the upper right corner (the three dots) will say Update and then when you press it, it turns into a colored arrow when there’s a pending update and you haven’t closed your browser window in a while....

Many of the best antivirus software packages have auto-update features, so updated files and patches are downloaded to your computer when available. Here’s a look at the auto-update features in the top antivirus programs so you can make sure your computer is continuously protected. AVG Antivirus AVG offers a free product, AVG AntiVirus Free, and a paid product with broader protection, AVG Internet Security. With both versions, automatic updates should be enabled by default, but it’s important to make sure....

Gather the Right Hardware Before you begin, gather the following tools: A new SSD A T6 Torx screwdriver Philips #00 screwdriver SATA to USB cable Spudger tool Format Your SSD Before you can do anything with your new SSD, you need to format it. Clone Your Hard Drive With Cloning Software As outlined below, after formatting your SSD, clone your Mac hard drive using Disk Utility or cloning software such as SuperDuper....

Some important issues to think about before you buy an electric car heater are whether to use a 120-volt or 12-volt heater, whether it’s safe to use a portable car heater in your vehicle, and how much wattage you need to warm up your vehicle. The major pitfalls may include power supply bottlenecks, fire hazards, and heat loss. Residential Space Heaters vs. 12-Volt Electric Car Heaters Residential space heaters are designed to run on AC power....

What is AVERAGEIF? The AVERAGEIF function combines the IF function and AVERAGE function in Excel; this combination allows you to find the average or arithmetic mean of those values in a selected range of data that meets specific criteria. The IF portion of the function determines what data meets the specified criteria, while the AVERAGE part calculates the average or mean. Often, AVERAGEIF uses rows of data called records, in which all of the data in each row is related....

How to Customize Control Center in iOS 16 Originally added in iOS 11, Control Center customization is still available in iOS 16 but the process is a little bit different in the newer operating system. How to Customize Control Center in iOS 11​​​ and Later Apple delivered a great update to Control Center with iOS 11: The ability to customize it. Now, instead of being limited to one set of controls, you can add the ones you find useful and remove the ones you never use (from within a certain set)....

What Is Mac Terminal? Mac terminal is an included program on macOS that allows you to use Unix commands (think DOS) to perform dozens of functions quickly and easily without any interference from the operating system. The technical term for it is a command-line interface (CLI). Using the terminal can be very powerful and efficient, but also dangerous. Terminal is sometimes compared to Windows command prompt program. They are similar; however terminal uses Unix commands to function....

Co-operative screen sharing is a great way to troubleshoot problems with a friend. It also provides a unique way for you to teach others how to use a Mac application. When you’re sharing someone’s screen, it’s just like you’re sitting down at that person’s computer. You can take control and work with files, folders, and applications—anything that is available on the shared Mac’s system. You can also allow someone to share your screen....

Multitasking, iPhone Style Instead of offering conventional multitasking, the iPhone uses something Apple calls Fast App Switching. When you click the Home button to leave an app (or swipe up on the screen of an iPhone X or newer) and return to the Home screen, the app you left freezes where you were and what you were doing. The next time you return to that app, you pick up where you left off instead of starting over....

How to Use Split View in macOS Catalina (10.15) and Later Starting in macOS Catalina, Apple made it quick and easy to tile windows using Split View, a feature that lets you quickly take advantage of your Mac’s large screen and use two apps simultaneously. Follow these steps to split your screen. How to Use Split View in macOS El Capitan (10.11) Through Mojave (10.14) The steps for using Split View in earlier versions of macOS are a little different (and less automatic), but they still use the full-screen button....

How to Use Split View on iPad in iOS 15 With iOS 15, Apple simplified the multitasking interface introduced in iOS 11 to make using split screen more intuitive. You no longer have to activate a multiple apps setting, and one of the apps you choose doesn’t have to be located on the Dock, two of the components of the original process that earned Apple some criticism. Split view in iOS 15 is activated through the three-dot multitasking icon that appears at the top of many iPad screens....

Normally the flash appears only for a short time when taking photos or when you have a notification, but with the built-in flashlight tool, you can keep the flash on until you shut it off. The iPhone flashlight is built-in and accessible through Control Center. There are also third-party apps that add other options to the iPhone flashlight, like strobing. How to Use the iPhone Flashlight in Control Center To turn on the iPhone flashlight, follow these steps:...

It’s one of many net commands like net send, net time, net user, net view, etc. Net Use Command Availability This command is available from within the Command Prompt in Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, and in older versions of Windows and in Windows Server operating systems. Recovery Console, the offline repair utility in Windows XP, also includes the net use command, but it’s not possible to use it within the tool....

This article explains how to set Samsung Messages as your default messaging app, start a chat, send GIFs, and more. Instructions apply to the latest version of the Samsung Messages. Some features are only available for phones with Android 8.0 or later. How to Make Samsung Messages Your Default App Samsung Messages is typically the default messaging app on any Samsung device. However, if you changed the default setting at some point, here’s how to change it back....