One of the most common options that you may find when researching this is to enable something called ‘Reduce Motion.” This is a setting that will disable many of the animations on your device that you might not even notice, which can have a marginal impact on your battery usage. Our guide below will show you where to find that setting so that you can turn it on and see if it improves your experience....
This is due to a setting on your iPhone that is currently enabled which lets you include a subject when you are sending messages to your contacts. However, this is not a very common thing in many social or work circles, so you might discover that you don’t need it, and would prefer to remove it from the app. Fortunately you are able to do this by following our tutorial below which will help you hide the subject field on your iPhone SE’s Messages app....
Windows 7 has a user interface that’s very customizeable, and many of the various menus and settings that you use can be adjusted in one way or another. One of these items is the navigation panel that you see at the left side of the window whenever you open a folder. This provides easy access to many of the most-used locations on your computer, so it can be inconvenient if that column is no longer there....
Managing the various updates on your iPhone can get pretty time consuming if you want to do it manually. Whether it’s updates for individual apps, or an update for the phone itself, updates appear pretty frequently. Tip: If you don’t have automatic app updates turned on for your device, then you can follow the steps in this article to see all of the updates that are available. Your iPhone includes options that let you install your app updates automatically, but it also has an option that can install iOS updates automatically....
You may not be able to increase the size of the text, but you can make it easier to read by adjusting the line spacing. Our tutorial below will show you how to change the line spacing for a text box in Powerpoint 2013 if you need to increase or decrease the amount that is currently being used. How to Switch to Double Spacing in a Text Box in Powerpoint 2013 The steps in this article assume that you currently have a text box in Powerpoint 2013 for which you would like to change the line spacing....
But your current document needs might dictate that you use smaller or larger margins, so you may be wondering how to change that setting. Our tutorial below will show you how to change the size of margins in Word Online so that you can use the margin size that you need. If you also work in Google Docs, then this article on how to make one inch margins on Google Docs will show you how to change this setting in that application as well....
Almost every Web browser that you use, whether on your computer, tablet, or smartphone, is going to save a history of the Web pages that you visit. This history can be really helpful if you need to find something that you were looking at before. But occasionally you may want to clear the history in your browser. Almost every browser is different, so you may be looking for a way to do it on the iPhone....
But you may not like the haptic feedback on the iPhone, and would like to turn it off if you can. Our guide in this article shows you how to disable the haptic system feedback on the device, which will stop many of the more common haptic instances that you likely encounter as you use your iPhone. How to Turn Off the Vibrating Feedback on Your iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on the iPhone 7 Plus in IOS 10....
You may already be familiar with keyboard shortcuts in some of your favorite programs like Microsoft Word and Excel, but there are a number of applications in your Web browser that are compatible with keyboard shortcuts, too. Find out how to enable keyboard shortcuts in Gmail and see if their addition can improve your efficiency when sending and composing emails from your Web browser. How to Turn Keyboard Shortcuts On or Off for Gmail The steps in this article were performed in Google Chrome, but will work in any desktop or laptop Web browser....
Most websites (including this one) have a small image, called a favicon, that displays in certain locations. One of these locations is an open tab in a Web browser. These favicons add a little bit of color and style to open browser tabs, and can make it easier to identify the page that you want when you have a lot of tabs open. But you may not like these icons, or you may be experiencing a problem with Safari that you think may be caused by these icons....
One particular aspect of placing objects on top of one another is that you can use it to customize your images. Our tutorial below will show you how to change a PowerPoint image’s transparency if you want to put something on top of or beneath that image on the slide. How to Make an Image More or Less Transparent in Powerpoint 2013 Our article continues below with additional information on adjusting picture transparency in Powerpoint 2013, including pictures of these steps....
You can add gridlines or borders as needed in Excel, either from the Page Layout tab or the Home tab. If you need to remove lines, then you would go to the same spot. To stop Excel from printing lines you need to turn off gridlines by going to Page Layout and uncheck the Print check box under Gridlines. To stop Excel from printing borders you need to select the cells with borders, click the Home tab, then click the arrow next to Borders and choose the No Borders option....
If you do a lot of drawing in Photoshop, then a Wacom tablet might be for you. It connects to your computer via a USB cable, and it allows you to draw on the tablet and have the output mirrored in Photoshop. Find out more about the tablet here. How to Turn a Text Layer Into an Image in Photoshop CS5 The only drawback to rasterizing a text layer in Photoshop is that the layer can no longer be edited as if it were a text layer....
The Badge App Icon can be turned off, however, if you do not wish to see it. Our guide below will point you to the menu where you can turn off the Badge App Icon for the App Store on your iPad. Remove the Number in the Red Circle on the App Store Icon Device used: iPad 2 Software version: iOS 9.1 The steps in this article will adjust the notification settings for the App Store on your iPad....
But sometimes you may not feel the watch vibrate, meaning that you aren’t getting the information from the text message until the next time you check your watch or the Messages app on your phone. Fortunately you can increase the number of times that these alerts repeat on the watch, allowing you multiple opportunities to read the message. How to Adjust the Number of Times Messages Notifications Repeat on Apple Watch The steps in this article were performed in the Watch app on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....
The Apple Watch can take screenshots, too, although you need to enable a specific device setting before that is possible. Our guide below will show you where to find this setting in the Watch app on your iPhone so that you can create watch face screenshots that can be shared in the same manner as screenshots that you take on your phone. How to Enable Screenshots on an Apple Watch Our guide continues below with more about how to take a screenshot on Apple Watch, including pictures of these steps....
But you may have granted contact permissions to an unwanted app by mistake, or you are simply curious about which apps have the ability to view your contact information. Our guide below will show you where to go on your iPhone to discover which apps have been granted these permissions. You can even revoke those permissions, if you would like. How to View Contact Permissions in iOS 10 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....
However, you may find that you are receiving a lot of notifications from the Buzzfeed app on your iPhone, and that you would like this behavior to stop. Fortunately you have the ability to control the notifications from the apps installed on your device, and you can even elect to stop a specific app from sending you any notifications at all. Our guide below will show you how to make this change on your iPhone....
One way that you can make it a little more difficult for them to find your recent documents is to hide all of them. Removing the list of recent documents in Excel 2013 creates a barrier to finding your recent workbooks, ensuring that anyone who simply opens Excel on your computer won’t be able to immediately find what you have been working on. How to Hide the List of Recent Documents in Excel 2013 The steps below are going to hide the list of documents that is visible when you click the Open option in the column at the left side of the Excel 2013 File menu....
Many schools and corporations have strict formatting requirements for documents, which typically involve putting some information in those locations. Google Docs also has a lot of tools and settings that you can take advantage of if you need to apply some certain or unusual formatting to your document. This even means that you can completely eliminate the header area from your document. You can remove a Google Docs header by either double-clicking in the header, choosing Options, and selecting Remove header, or you can go to File > Page setup and change the Top margin to “0....
