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....

Setting up Google Chromecast on Your iPad, iPhone, or Android Setting up your Chromecast device is simple, though it takes several steps. How to Cast Content to Chromecast With Your iPad, iPhone, or Android Turn on your mobile device and TV, making sure the latter is switched to the correct input. Mirroring Your iPad or iPhone to the TV via Chromecast On the surface, it is not possible to mirror an iPad or iPhone directly to the TV....

How to Set Up Google Translate for Offline Use When you’re trying to understand or communicate in a different language, Google Translate is an excellent resource. To use the app when offline, you need to download the languages you want to translate. Download for: How to Delete Languages You’ve Downloaded Google Translate language downloads take up a lot of storage space—particularly if you download multiple languages. You may want to delete some of your downloads when you no longer need them to help free up space....

Reset the Phone and Add an Account If you’ve purchased a used phone for your child, or you’re giving them your older Samsung Galaxy device, you’ll want to reset the phone. This will clear browsing details, images, and other data from the device. Having a clean device makes implementing Samsung parental controls much easier. How to Enable Samsung Parental Controls If your child is between toddler age and 13 years old, your best option is to install the Samsung Kids home feature....

How to Set Up Microsoft Authenticator To set up the Authenticator, you need a computer and an Android or iOS device. You also need the username and password for your Microsoft account. If you don’t have a Microsoft account, you need to create one first. How to Use Microsoft Authenticator to Sign In Once set up, when you sign into a Microsoft account, you’ll get a notification on your smartphone. When you sign into a non-Microsoft account, you’ll be asked for a 6-digit code....

How the Ngram Viewer Works An Ngram, also called an N-gram, is a statistical analysis of text or speech content to find n (a number) of some sort of item in the text. The search item can be all sorts of things, including phonemes, prefixes, phrases, and letters. Although an Ngram is obscure outside the research community, it is used in a variety of fields and has a lot of implications for developers who are coding computer programs that understand and respond to natural spoken language....

How to Use the Marquee Tool in Photoshop You can use the Photoshop marquee tool to select areas of an image that you can then copy, cut, or crop. It can also isolate sections of a graphic to apply a filter or effect to a particular area. Marquee selections also mark out boundaries for stroke and fill commands to create shapes and lines. These instructions apply to Photoshop CS5 and later, although some settings and commands may differ between versions....

When You’re Walking Rather Than Driving Use your portable GPS for walking just as you would for driving. Select your destination by entering the address or searching for a point of interest, and start your route. You will receive text and spoken directions just as if you were behind the wheel. Entering Pedestrian Mode Consult your GPS model’s user manual for directions on how to select pedestrian mode. For example:...

Safelist a Sender or Domain in SpamAssassin Using its comprehensive set of rules and Bayesian analysis, SpamAssassin catches an impressive amount of spam with hardly any false positives — hardly any. To reduce this number even further, you can safelist certain newsletters, for instance, which tend to be top candidates for being erroneously classified as spam. While you’ll sometimes you’ll see the term safelist written as whitelist, the modern term is safelist....

Whether you’re looking for a way to zoom in on a specific area, or would like your entire screen content to be enlarged, read on to learn how these features work. Zooming in and out on a Mac Increase Size in Apps Increasing text size in many Mac apps can be done from the View menu (found along the top of the screen in the Menu Bar). Typically the feature will be called Zoom In along with a corresponding feature called Zoom Out....

Long before Reddit became the front page of the internet or Quora was the go-to answer forum, Yahoo Answers provided an entire generation with a sense of community through shared questions. Though the service experienced both good and bad times, experts say this truly marks the end of an internet era. “Yahoo Answers were a remnant of a time that is already well behind us; a time when search results weren’t Google search results by default when they were a lifelike mix of human knowledge, curiosity, and ignorance,” wrote Mark Coster, owner and chief editor of STEM Toy Expert, to Lifewire in an email....

Released on Wednesday, the update brings iCloud for Windows up to version 13 and will finally allow iCloud subscribers to access ProRes and ProRAW content on their Windows PCs using the iCloud application, MacRumors reports. The update also brings Apple’s password generator to the application, which will help people set up and save stronger passwords. Apple originally debuted its iCloud Keychain password manager in August, and now Windows users will be able to easily access their passwords even when not using an Apple device....

Online Roulette released a new survey of 788 self-identified LGBTQ+ gamers detailing their experiences in it. The findings show that they experience an increased degree of harassment and discrimination, compared to their cisgender and heterosexual counterparts. Approximately 88% who are out to their gaming communities have experienced harassment within the past year. “Our study shows that online gaming still has a significant problem with harassment, and half of LGBTQ+ gamers are still uncomfortable being open about their sexual identity with their gaming communities,” the report reads....

The social network introduced the Sensitive Content Control feature on Tuesday to let people decide if they want to see sensitive content in the Explore tab. Instagram describes sensitive content as “posts that don’t necessarily break our rules, but could potentially be upsetting to some people—such as posts that may be sexually suggestive or violent.” “You can decide to leave things as they are or you can adjust the Sensitive Content Control to see more or less of some types of sensitive content....

In a recent interview, Gates claimed he doesn’t avoid Apple handsets, but likes that some Android manufacturers pre-install Microsoft software. Gates said he owns both kinds of devices. But the two types of handsets elicit strong opinions. “I’m not going to sit here and lie about how much an Android phone sucks,” cybersecurity analyst Eric Florence said in an email interview. “That’s simply not true. However, someone once told me that an iPhone is a dumb smartphone, meaning it couldn’t be more user friendly and intuitive....

When Will the iPhone SE Plus Be Released? It’s expected by some to arrive in 2022, but it’s not clear when, or even if it’ll really show. YouTuber Jon Prosser mentioned a plus-sized iPhone SE as early as 2020, and then soon after revised its release to be 2021. Although it never happened, it’s important to know that Prosser routinely makes early predictions that turn up true later on. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo made a prediction in 2021 that Apple would launch a phone with the SE Plus moniker that year, with a display possibly as large as the 6....

Although the tablet market, in general, has declined from its heyday only a few years ago, the iPad still leads the way in sales and innovation. The Facts At the end of 2018, these were the facts: The 9.67 million iPads sold in the fourth quarter of 2018 accounted for 34.9 percent of the tablet market share—more than any other manufacturer. Second-place Samsung held on to 15.1 percent of the market, while third-place Huawei claimed 10....

LG has announced its new OLED.EX displays that it claims will improve picture quality and brightness by as much as 30 percent compared to current OLED displays from competitors. It’s one of a growing number of new display technologies. “As display technologies improve, it’s likely that we’ll see a move away from traditional TVs towards newer forms of displays such as ‘smart’ mirrors and even whole-wall displays,” tech expert Morshed Alam told Lifewire in an email interview....

The LG Stylo 6 is the sixth iteration of LG’s Stylo hardware, and it looks better than ever. With a huge display, beautiful mirror-finished back, enough battery life to last several days, and a price tag that seems too low for its upscale looks, the Stylo 6 makes for an intriguing option if you’re in the market for an affordable phone. This phone also manages to stash a nice little stylus inside its relatively thin frame as an added bonus....