Phones

How to Free Up iCloud Storage (& Never Worry About It Again)

OK, time for another how to I think. This one is on something you guys all mentioned on my last how-to on deleting the other storage on your iPhone. Essentially, during that video at some point, I asked you to create a backup to iCloud in order for us to reset the phone and not lose everything on it, but some of you mentioned you couldn’t because your iCloud storage was full and so you were in a bit of a catch 22. So in this video, let’s show you how to free up your iCloud storage. Now, I already …

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How to Connect the Pixel Buds to a Computer, iPhone, or Any Android Device

The new Google Pixel Buds make it pretty easy to connect to a Pixel phone. You open the case next to the Pixel with Bluetooth on, open the Bluetooth menu, and it pops up at the very top asking if you want to connect. You make a few taps after that and you’re done. But what if you wanted to connect them to say a computer? Or maybe an iPhone? Or maybe the notification to connect isn’t popping up so how do you manually connect to them? In any of these scenarios, it might not be that apparent how to …

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How to Fix a WearOS Watch Not Staying Connected to a Huawei Phone

I was getting pretty frustrated with my new WearOS watch (the Fossil Watch Gen 5 for those curious) would just keep disconnecting from my Huawei P30 Pro. It connects during the setup process but then after a while, the watch will just say it’s disconnected even if the phone shows that it is absolutely connected via Bluetooth. Turns out this little magic trick has to do with Huawei’s EMUI battery super aggressive battery management. Essentially, one of the reasons the Huawei P30 Pro has some of the best battery life of any phone out there is the fact that EMUI …

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How to Fix Your Samsung Galaxy Note10 Not Getting Gmail Notifications

The Samsung Galaxy Note10 Plus I received got an update to put it on final software the day of release–as usually happens when we are given a review device pre-release. But, there was one little quirk that I was told that update would fix, that it never did. No matter what settings I’d selected in the app itself, Gmail would just not show me notifications for new mail. At all. I’d be going about my day thinking I had no new emails (and pretending that was normal and not already a sign something was wrong, of course) and then I’d …

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How to Use the 3D Scanner on the Samsung Galaxy Note10 Plus

Now that the Galaxy Note10 Plus has finally gone on sale, I figured I might share a few tips and tricks on my blog for anyone who might have just unwrapped their shiny new Note10 or Note 10 Plus in a short ongoing series. Today, I wanted to start with something that I and other reviewers had to resort to Twitter to figure out how to do: how to use the 3D scanner. Samsung showed off what arguably is the only feature utilizing the time of flight sensor on the Note10 Plus (the fourth “camera” on the back that the …

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How to Share Your Location the Right Way (& With Anyone on Any Phone)

Sometimes it’s just so much easier to share your location with someone than trying to tell them to meet you or how close you are, etc. Thing is it’s not that apparent as to the best way to share your location. iPhones have their own way that doesn’t work with Android phones, you should use one that lets you easily revoke or even have the location access expire, and you want one that’s easy to get navigation directions from, etc. So, the way I would recommend to share your location is the way built into Google Maps itself that I …

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Instagram Creator Profile vs. Business Profile

I logged in to my Instagram profile today on a new phone (we can’t talk about the phone just yet, but videos coming soon 🙂 ) and was greeted by a small popup asking me if I wanted to switch to the new “Creator Profile”? Now, like most “creators,” I have always used the Business Profile option for my Instagram account since, unlike the only other option, the Personal Profile, it has some analytics available to allow you to optimize content, engage with users, and, well, treat it more like a business. It seems though that Instagram wants to change …

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Samsung Galaxy Fold Essential Tips & Tricks

I’ve had enough time now with the Samsung Galaxy Fold and have learned a lot about how I, and I think most people, will end up using it when they do eventually get it. So now, I think I have a few tips and tricks that might help anyone that ends up getting one (and could be insightful for anyone just curious about the device and how it’s used anyway). For these, I’m going to try and not go into much of the same things that can be applied to another Galaxy phone (there will be some overlaps, of course), …

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How to Make the Mate 20 Pro Look like Stock Android

You guys asked for it so here’s my updated video on how to make the Mate 20 Pro look like stock Android (and the Mate 20 for that matter). Now, first up, stock Android isn’t really a thing anymore like it used to be. What we are referring to now when we say “stock” is the look and feel from the latest Pixel device. Personally, I love that look (a lot better than EMUI) and so not a big deal, but just wanted to clarify that when I’m saying stock, I’m referring to the look the Pixels now have. So …

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How to Connect the Galaxy Buds to a PC, iPhone, or Other Non-Galaxy Device

The new Galaxy Buds from Samsung are super easy to connect to your Galaxy phone. You open the case near your phone with Bluetooth enabled and viola a pop-up appears on the screen asking you to connect. But, what if you want to connect your Galaxy Buds to a PC? Or your non-Galaxy phone? Well, it’s a little less intuitive but it’s not that hard. Since I myself was trying to figure this out and realized that Samsung has no instructions on how to do this anywhere on their site, I thought I’d write it down for anyone else out …

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How to Remap Bixby on the Samsung Galaxy S10, S10 Plus, & S10e

Praise be to Samsung! After so long of people complaining, and doing everything in their power to circumvent the Bixby button on their Samsung phones, Samsung themselves have finally given us what we’ve wanted all along: a built-in way to remap the Bixby button. If you’re not familiar, Bixby is Samsung’s own voice assistant and as of a few devices ago they started implementing a dedicated button their phones to be able to call up this voice assistant (and probably to encourage people to try out Bixby instead of the defacto Android assistant: Google Assistant). The thing is that Bixby, …

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How to Back Up Your iPhone Locally While You Sleep

We’ve all been there. Something happens to your iPhone and it’s then that you realize the last time you backed it up was over 6 months ago–all those photos are gone. There is a way to avoid this, of course, and that’s by doing daily backups, you can do these through iCloud wirelessly automatically which is great, but what if you want to back them up to somewhere locally. Say on a hard drive that only you can access and isn’t stored on the web? Is there a way to make this happen automatically without having to think about it? …

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How to Get Rid of the Notch on the Pixel 3 XL

So a big disappointment for a lot of people watching the unveiling of the Pixel 3XL is that fact that Google has followed suit with other manufacturers lately and added a notch to the display. And, to make matters worse, it seems there’s no way to remove it in the settings by turning the status bar black as some others do. Thankfully though, that doesn’t mean you can’t still hide the notch. Turns out that there is a way to hide it in the settings but it’s in the developer settings which are hidden by default. The issue though, is that …

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How to Record the Screen on an iPhone Really Easily

There’s a lot of reasons that you might want to record the screen on an iPhone. Maybe you are playing a video game and want to share an epic match? Maybe you need to tell your mom how exactly to use something in iOS? Regardless, Apple thought there were enough uses to actually add the ability to record the iPhone’s screen right into the software with the latest iOS 11. For anyone who wasn’t aware of this or how exactly to do it, here’s how to record your iPhone’s screen in iOS 11. Add Screen Recording to Control Center First, we …

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How to Play Steam Games on Android

Steam, the popular program for buying and playing video games on your computer, just released their Steam for Android app that allows you play Steam games on your Android device. The new app, in beta, is called Steam Link and it basically allows you to stream any game on your computer running Steam onto your Android phone or tablet so long as they are both connected to the same Wi-Fi network. Now, playing a full-fledged PC game on your Android phone would be pretty cumbersome, if we’re honest, so the new Steam Android app allows you to also use a …

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