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You can choose the types of notifications that you want the App Store to use, or you can elect to turn them off completely. Our tutorial will show you how to find the menu for the App Store notifications and which option you need to change to turn them off entirely. Turning Off App Store Notifications on an iPhone 6 Device used: iPhone 6 Plus Software version: iOS 9.1 The steps in this article will turn off all of the notifications for the App Store app on your iPhone....

Have you noticed that your iPhone 7 screen is turning on automatically when you lift it off a table, or when you raise the device higher so that you can use it? This feature is called Raise to Wake, and is meant to make the iPhone a little easier to use. However, you might decide that you want to disable Raise to Wake on your iPhone if this setting is negatively impacting the way you use the device....

Install the Google Drive App on Your Mac Of course this tutorial is going to assume that you already have a Google Account and have been using Google Docs or Google Drive already. If you have not, you can get started at drive.google.com by clicking the red Sign Up button at the top-right corner of the window. So if you have a Google Account and have set up Google Drive, continue below to learn how to get a Google Drive on your Mac that will sync with your Google Drive cloud storage account....

If you’ve never changed this setting, then it’s possible that your current default browser is Internet Explorer or Microsoft Edge. But when you install a third-party browser like Chrome or Firefox, they will be rather persistent about trying to become the new default. While you may enjoy using those browsers for specific tasks, you might be happy with your current default. However, that pop-up window asks you to make it the default every time you open the browser, and you might prefer for that behavior to stop....

One way that you can improve this situation is to group your worksheets. When multiple worksheets are grouped together, you can perform an action on one of the sheets and apply that action to each of the other grouped sheets as well. Make a Worksheet Group in Excel 2013 The steps in this article will show you how to create a group of worksheets in your Excel 2013 workbook. If you save a workbook with a worksheet group, then those worksheets will still be grouped when you go to open the workbook later....

Our tutorial below will show you how you can edit your pictures in this manner by applying a Mono filter to your pictures so that they appear to have been taken in black and white. You can also take a look at the other filters offered via the Edit menu in your Photos app. Apply a Filter to a Picture on Your iPhone 6 to make it Black and White Device used: iPhone 6 Plus Software version: iOS 9....

By default, the chat panel in Gmail is located at the left side of the window, under your email labels. But if you find this to be inconvenient because of the way that you use Gmail, it’s possible to move the chat to the right side of the window. Our guide below will show you where to find this setting. How to Put Chat on the Right Side in Gmail The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of the Google Chrome Web browser, but will also work in other desktop browsers like Firefox or Edge....

A slideshow that you create in a program like Google Slides can include a lot of information that you want to give to others. Mixed amidst this information is likely to be some other objects, such as pictures. Fortunately, you can add a picture to a slide in your presentation using a tool that is available in the application. These pictures can be added from a few different locations. Our guide below is going to show you how to add a picture to a slideshow in Google Slides....

Fortunately you can achieve this behavior by changing the default browser on your computer. Our guide below will help you find and modify this setting so that any Excel links you click in the future will open in your preferred browser. How to Choose Which Browser Excel Links Open in When You Click Them The steps in this article were performed on a computer using Windows 7. The result of completing this tutorial will be a change to the default Web browser on your computer....

Note every visible part of a document page can be used or printed on, as there are margins that consume some of the page’s available space. Many printers are unable to go all the way to the edge of the page, and it is typically a superior reading experience when a page doesn’t have edge-to-edge text. Our guide below will show you how to enable visible text boundaries in Word 2013 so that it is easier to determine exactly where the editable region of the document lies....

If this isn’t behavior that you want, then you have the ability to change a setting in Word 2013 and prevent it from occurring. Our tutorial below will show you how to make this change and stop Word from automatically hyperlinking your screenshots. How to Stop Word from Automatically Hyperlinking Screenshots The steps in this article were performed in Microsoft Word 2013. This guide will assume that Word 2013 is currently hyperlinking any screenshots that you insert in your document, and that you would like that behavior to stop....

One popular display option in Gmail, however, is called “Compact View.” This reduces the amount of space that each email takes up in your inbox, allowing you to see more of your emails on your screen at once. Our tutorial below will show you how to switch to the compact view option in the new version of Gmail by changing an option called “Display density.” How to Change the Inbox Display to Compact View in the New Gmail The steps in this article were performed in the desktop version of Google Chrome, but will also work in other modern Web browsers like Firefox and Edge....

This can quickly become annoying, however, to both you and people that are nearby. Fortunately you are not stuck with this setting, and you can turn off the keyboard clicks on your iPhone 6 in iOS 9. Our tutorial below will show you how to find this setting so that you can configure it to suit your own preferences. Disable Keyboard Clicks on an iPhone 6 Device used: iPhone 6 Plus Software version: iOS 9....

It is not easy for a lot of people to type on the small keyboard on an iPhone. This problem often isn’t fixed by using a bigger phone, like the iPhone 7 Plus. It can also be difficult to proofread the information that you have typed with that keyboard, and you may be worried that you will make a spelling error that could be problematic. Fortunately, your iPhone has a built-in spell checker for its keyboard, you simply need to enable it for it to start working....

With the Apple Watch’s remote interaction with the iPhone camera, simply open the Camera on the iPhone, open the corresponding app on the watch, then frame and take your picture. Our tutorial below will show you how to accomplish this. QR codes are everywhere now, and it’s possible to interact with them through your Camera app. Our how to scan QR code on iPhone tutorial will show you how....

A MacBook Pro or an iMac can be pricey, and there’s a learning curve when you go from a Windows environment to Mac. Plus, a Windows computer almost always has a way for you to do something, so there is rarely a “need” to switch to a Mac. As someone that’s been almost exclusively using Windows computers for most of their life, it took me a long time to get to a point where I convinced myself that a MacBook Air was a good purchase....

But while you might be aware that an iOS update is basically just a software update for your iOS device that improve much about the mobile operating system on that device, you might actually be curious about what exactly iOS means. The “OS” part of the name is short for “operating system” which is a fairly common usage when naming operating systems for devices. The “i” part of the name, however, is a little more ambiguous....

Fortunately, there are tools available that can help us to determine this. But if you don’t have a level handy, then you might think you are out of luck. Our guide below will show you how to find the level on iPhone 7 so that you can use your phone to see whether or not a picture frame, table, or other object is level. How to Use the Level on iPhone 7 Our guide to using the level on iPhone 7 continues below with additional information, including pictures of these steps....

There are a couple different methods that you can use to create a new worksheet in Excel 2013, and we will outline two of them in our guide below. Inserting a New Worksheet Into an Excel 2013 Workbook The steps in this article will show you how to add a new worksheet to an existing workbook in Microsoft Excel 2013. The process is similar for Excel 2007 and Excel 2010 as well....

Our tutorial below will show you two different ways that you can color a tab in Excel 2013. A tab with color on it is easier to find, especially if all of the tabs share similar names. Add, Remove, or Change the Color of a Worksheet Tab in Excel 2013 The steps in this tutorial will show you how to edit a sheet tab’s color in an Excel workbook. By default, most sheet tabs will be gray....