How to Turn On iPad Restrictions Parental controls allow you to regulate what is available on the iPad. First, you need to set a parental controls passcode and turn on Content and Privacy Restrictions. iPad Parental Control Settings After you create a passcode, tailor the restrictions to your child’s age and what areas of the iPad you want them to access. This includes selecting the type of movies (G, PG, or PG-13) and music available to the child, and limiting the device to certain websites....

How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on iPhone With iOS 16 Beginning with iOS 16, Apple added several enhancements to its Messages app, including the ability to recover deleted text messages directly from the Messages app. Here’s how: How to Recover Text Messages for iPhone Using iCloud The process involves restoring your device with data from a recent iCloud backup. Any messages that were present on your phone at the time of the backup are retrievable....

How Do I Register My Echo Device? Here’s how to set up an Echo Dot: Why Is My Echo Dot Saying It’s Not Registered? If you’re in contact with the original owner of the Echo Dot, you can ask them to deregister it. After they remove the device from their account, you’ll be able to register the Echo Dot with your account. If you have a second-hand Echo Dot you can’t register, ask the previous owner to perform these steps:...

Should You Delete System Junk Files? It makes sense, right? Junk files are junk. They’re either not being used by your computer any more or it’s safe to delete them. You don’t necessarily need to delete system junk files all the time, and it’s normal for your computer to produce them. But there are several reasons why it’s a good idea to rid your PC of these kinds of files:...

Best Methods for Resetting Routers Several different router reset methods can be used depending on the situation. Hard resets, power cycling, and soft resets are commonly recommended. Hard Resets A hard reset is the most drastic type of router reset and is commonly used when an administrator has forgotten the password or keys and wants to start over with fresh settings. Since the software on the router is reset to factory defaults, a hard reset removes all customizations, including passwords, usernames, security keys, port forwarding settings, and custom DNS servers....

What Does Resetting Network Settings Do, and Should I Do It? Resetting network settings removes and reinstalls your network adapters and sets other components to their original settings in order to fix connection issues. You will erase the configuration for every single adapter and revert everything back to its factory settings. Resetting should be done as a last resort if you’ve already tried all options and nothing seems to work. In most cases, adapters are set to automatically detect changes in the network so you probably won’t see any issues; however, make a note of the settings for the other components if you do decide to reset....

How to Restart an HP Laptop Restarting or rebooting an HP laptop is done the same way you would most laptops and desktop PCs: through the Windows start menu. Your HP laptop should then reboot back to Windows. You can also reboot to the Advanced Startup Options to gain some additional insight into what’s going on with your computer (especially if you’re restarting to solve a problem). If you want to reboot to the Advanced Startup Options menu, you can press Shift+Restart....

How to Roll Back a Driver in Windows The Roll Back Driver feature is used to uninstall the current driver for a hardware device and then automatically install the previously installed driver. The most common reason to use the driver roll back feature is to “reverse” a driver update that didn’t go well. Think of rolling back a driver as a quick and easy way to uninstall the latest driver, and then reinstall the previous one....

How to Use iMovie to Rotate a Video on an iPhone If you accidentally took a sideways video with your iPhone camera when you were sure you were shooting in landscape mode, rotate the video using iMovie, which is free and available from the App Store for both iPhone and Mac. Another free, third-party app for iPhone is Rotate And Flip - RFV. If your iPhone runs iOS 12 or earlier and has iMovie on it, use iMovie to rotate a video....

How to Upload Your Videos to Google Photos Before you can rotate a video, upload it to Google Photos. How to Rotate Your Videos in Google Photos After the video has been uploaded to your Google account, change the rotation. Limitations You can rotate any video you filmed and downloaded to your phone. You cannot rotate videos you downloaded from the internet. The video needs to be saved to your phone and then uploaded to Google Photos to adjust it properly....

You can use an Android emulator. This is an application which simulates an entire Android device (including both hardware and software), so the Android app will behave as if it’s on an Android device. Emulators allow you to install the app locally, so it’s always available, but they borrow a good amount of horsepower from your PC. If you feel like this is the approach for you, use the Bluestacks emulator to run Android apps on your PC....

How to Save on ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizon’ If you’ve spent any time playing ANCH, you’ve likely already noticed there are no settings to tweak and no apparent way to save your game manually. If that gives you hives, we understand. But don’t panic just yet. There is a way to save your game manually, and it’s easier than you think. When you’re ready to save your game, all you need to do is press the — (minus) button on your left controller....

Use Physical Buttons to Take Screenshot Most Surface devices have a button shortcut that takes a screenshot when activated. The shortcut varies by device. Surface Pro 4 and newer, all Surface Book models, all Surface Go models: Simultaneously press and hold the Power button and the Volume Up button.Surface Pro 3 and earlier Pro models, original Surface, Surface RT: Simultaneously press and hold the Windows button below the tablet’s display and the Volume Down button on the side of the device....

Worried about how you look? You can blur your Google Meet background. How to Use Google Meet’s Tiled View To see all meeting participants at once on your screen in a grid format, choose Tiled view. How to Use Google Meet’s Sidebar View Better for smaller meetings with a featured speaker, the Sidebar view shows the speaker on the main part of the screen and smaller tiles of non-speaking participants in the sidebar to the right....

Ways to Select Multiple Emails in Mac Mail Your Apple Mail account can quickly get out of hand if you don’t read, sort, filter, delete, save, or print some of your emails in an effort to keep up with your correspondence. You can handle one email at a time, but your productivity improves exponentially when you deal with a selection of emails at the same time. Use one of several approaches to collect a range or combination of messages in the Mac Mail application to forward more than one message at once, save them to a file, send a couple to the printer, or quickly delete them....

How to Install Microsoft Office for iPad Download Microsoft Office as a single entity, but you also have the option to download individual applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more as separate programs. Here’s how to install the Office all-in-one application on iPad. How to Use Microsoft Office for iPad The Microsoft Office app offers a few benefits to iPad users: It takes up less space than the three stand-alone apps that are covered in the Office app....

Initial Roku Setup Preparation You purchased a Roku, and now you have to get it up and running. Whether you have a Roku box, streaming stick, or TV, the basic process is the same, and it’s easy. We show you how to do it below. Here are some things you need to keep in mind before setting up your new Roku device: Connect the Roku box or streaming stick to your TV using HDMI, or turn on the Roku TV....

Change the iPad Screen Background in Photos You have options to personalize your iPad including buying a distinctive case and customizing sounds for email and text messages, but by far the easiest way to add some personality to your iPad is to set a custom background image for your lock screen and your home screen. One way to select a background image (called wallpaper) is by using the Photos app....

Getting Rid of the Jaggies in Line Art You can use this little trick to smooth out those jaggies fairly quickly. This tutorial uses the free photo editor Paint.NET, but it works with most image-editing software. Adapt this technique to another image editor as long as the editor has a Gaussian blur filter and a curves or levels adjustment tool. These are fairly standard tools in most image editors. Save this sample image to your computer by right-clicking if you’d like to follow along with the tutorial....

How to Speed Up Xbox Series X and S Downloads Xbox Series X and S game files are typically massive due to the high quality graphics, as you’re downloading everything needed for 4K resolution regardless of which console you have. If you’re suffering from sluggish downloads, you can use these tips to speed up your Xbox Series X or S downloads and get into the game faster. To speed up your game downloads as much as possible, and start playing sooner, try each of the following troubleshooting tips....