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Our guide below will show you where to locate the version number of WatchOS that is currently installed on your Apple Watch. These steps are all performed directly from your watch, so you won’t need your iPhone to complete these steps. Where to Find Your Apple Watch’s Operating System Version The steps below were performed on an Apple Watch 2 using the 3.2 version of the WatchOS operating system. The steps below will show you how to find the WatchOS version that is currently on your own Apple Watch....

This process is different for almost every major Web browser, so you might be wondering how to clear cache in Firefox if you’ve never done it before in that browser. Fortunately, you can delete the cookies and site data that Firefox has saved to your computer so that you can resume browsing without that stored information affecting the way you view Web pages. How to Clear Cookies and Site Data in Firefox Our guide continues below with additional information on how to clear cache in Firefox, including pictures of these steps....

But since the cookies don’t always function properly, it’s likely that you will need to delete them eventually. Our tutorial below will show you where to find the menu in the iPhone Firefox browser that lets you remove the stored cookies from the browser. How to Delete Cookies from Firefox on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10.3.3, in the most current version of Firefox that was available when the article was written....

You can store several different fingerprints on your iPhone, which is convenient if you often use your phone with both hands. But you can also store other people’s fingerprints, too, if you have a friend or family member that you want to be able to access your device. But if you find that there is a fingerprint of someone else that you don’t want on your iPhone, or that a particular fingerprint of your own isn’t working properly, then it might be time to delete that fingerprint....

Luckily this is a setting in the application that you can control, so it is possible to disable the automatic hyperlink feature in Excel 2013. Our tutorial below will direct you to the menu where this option is located so that you can turn it off. How to Stop Excel 2013 from Automatically Turning Web or File Addresses Into Hyperlinks The steps in this article are going to change an AutoCorrect setting in Microsoft Excel that causes the program to automatically format network paths or URLs as hyperlinks....

The battery percentage number is a setting that you can choose to have on or off, and our guide below will show you how to disable that percentage by following a few steps. Disabling Battery Percentage Display on an iPhone Device used: iPhone 6 Plus Software version: iOS 9.2 The steps in this article assume that you iPhone is currently displaying your remaining battery life as both a numerical percentage, and in the form of a battery-shaped icon....

But you may discover that you have added data that your audience doesn’t need to see, or may create some confusion. While your initial thought could be to simply delete the column with that data, it’s possible that you could need that data later, or that it is part of a formula. One way to resolve this is to hide that column. This keeps the data in the spreadsheet, but removes it from view....

But if you would prefer to be able to see your emails as they were intended to be received, then you can enable a setting in the Mail app that will cause remote images to load when you open your emails. Our guide below will show you where to find and activate this setting. How to Enable Remote Images in Mail on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

In certain situations you can dramatically improve the way that the app works if you give it permission to access your contacts. In other situations, however, you might inadvertently wind up spamming your friends with notifications from the app. Therefore, you might like to see which apps currently have access to your contacts. Once you find this list, you can selectively decide which apps should have access to your contacts, and which apps you wish to deny access....

If you have a free Google Account or you are a G Suite user, the ability to use the Google Apps like Sheets, Docs, and Slides is incredibly useful. This set of office productivity tools provides a strong alternative to comparable paid options, like Microsoft Office, and includes many of the same features you would find in their applications. One such tool is the grammar checker, which can help find spelling and grammatical errors....

Do you ever wish you could easily watch movies or TV shows from your iPhone on your TV? The Apple TV lets you do that and more, all at a very affordable price. Learn more about the Apple TV here. Step 1: Touch the Settings icon. Step 2: Select the General option. Step 3: Scroll down and touch the Passcode Lock button. Step 4: Touch the Turn Passcode On button at the top of the screen....

Fortunately this is a setting that you can choose for each individual message that you send, which means that you can continue to send HTML or Rich Text email by default, and only send Plain Text messages to those people that request it. Our guide below will show you where to go in your Outlook email message in order to select your desired formatting. There are a lot of formatting options in Microsoft Outlook....

if this newer version of Yahoo mail is making it difficult for you to do things that you need to do, or if you simply preferred the old style, then you are able to switch to a Yahoo Mail “Basic” version. Our tutorial below will show you where to find this option, as well as how you can switch back in the event that you find the basic version to be missing some features that are important to you....

But if you are connected to a slow Wi-Fi network, or your Wi-Fi network does not have a stable Internet connection, then you might prefer to use a cellular network instead. But since your iPhone will default to a Wi-Fi connection when one is available, you will need to follow the steps in our guide below to turn off the Wi-Fi feature of your iPhone and force a cellular connection instead....

Unfortunately you may have blocked a site inadvertently, or you need to do something on a site that is currently blocked. Luckily the sites that you block in the Restrictions menu aren’t blocked permanently, so you can add or remove sites from that list as needed. Our tutorial below will show you how to unblock a currently blocked website on an iPhone. How to Remove a Website from an iPhone’s Blocked List The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 11....

Luckily this isn’t going to require anything drastic, such as retyping the entire thing, or even something tedious, such as clicking and dragging to select the whole document. Our tutorial below will show you a quick way to select your entire document and apply a different font in Google Docs. How to Change the Existing Font for an Entire Google Docs Document The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of the Google Chrome Web browser, but they will also work in other desktop Web browsers like Firefox and Safari....

Much of this data usage is due to the various services that your iPhone is utilizing. Two of these services include the time and your location. Depending on the assorted settings that you have enabled, s well as the apps you have installed, the data usage by time and location services can be quite high. Our guide below will show you how to see the amount of data being used by these services on your iPhone....

One particularly cryptic icon is simply a clock and, if you see it at the top of your screen, you are likely wondering why it’s there. The icon that I am referring to is identified in the picture below. Luckily there is nothing bad or worrisome about this icon. It simply represents the fact that you currently have an alarm turned on. Many people use their iPhones as alarms but might not need to use an alarm every day....

In older versions of iOS you could view available updates by selecting the Updates tab in the App Store, but you may have noticed that isn’t there anymore. Luckily you can still view available app updates and recent app updates on your device, it’s just in a different spot. Our tutorial below will show you where to find them now. How to View Available and Recent App Updates on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 11 in iOS 13....

Our guide below will show you how to find the character counter for your Word 2010 document so that you can see the number of characters that exist in that document. How to Show the Character Count in Word 2010 The steps in this article will assume that you are looking for the character count for a document that is open in Microsoft Word 2010. This will be accomplished by clicking the word count button in the status bar at the bottom of the screen....