While no foolproof method exists to ensure that thieves won’t be able to turn off the Find My iPhone app, you can make it more difficult. Activating another option in your device’s settings can give you more time to track down your iPhone. Learn how to protect this feature using iOS 12 or later. How to Protect ‘Find My iPhone’ To stop someone from turning off Find My iPhone, set up a restriction on your phone....

Many forms of malware cause or masquerade as seemingly unrelated Windows and PC issues like Blue Screens of Death, issues with DLL files, crashes, unusual hard drive activity, unfamiliar screens or pop-ups, and other serious Windows problems, so it’s important to properly check your computer for malware when working to solve many problems. How to Scan Your Computer for Viruses, Trojans, and Other Malware Properly scanning your PC for viruses and other malware is easy and could take several minutes or longer....

How to Power Down the iPad Press and hold the Sleep/Wake hardware button for several seconds. The iPad prompts you to slide a button to power off the device. Follow the directions on the screen by sliding the button from left to right to reboot the iPad. The iPad screen displays a circle of dashes to indicate it is busy. After the iPad has finished shutting down completely, the screen goes completely black....

How to Use the Windows 10 Disk-Checking Utility The first sign that a hard disk drive (HDD) is about to fail is when you encounter logical errors on the disk. When a drive incurs this kind of operational bug, the unreadable parts of the drive are reclassified as bad sectors. When a disk has a bad sector, it usually means that the drive can be repaired with software. Windows 10 comes with a disk-checking utility that simplifies the process for repairing drive errors....

See Reset This PC: What It Is & How to Use It for more on this “solution of last resort” and when it’s a good idea to use. The great thing about the ASO menu is that there are at least a half-dozen ways to bring it up, which is super helpful considering that the tools there, like Reset This PC, can fix problems that are preventing you from using Windows normally....

How Do I Boot Into Recovery Mode? Booting into Recovery Mode is only a few steps away, providing you know what to press. Here’s how to boot into Recovery Mode on an Intel-based Mac. How Do I Boot an M1 Mac Into Recovery Mode? If you have a newer Mac with an Apple-based processor such as the M1 CPU, like the Mac mini, the process is slightly different. Here’s how to start your M1-based Mac in Recovery Mode....

Recover Deleted Voicemail Using the Voicemail App Even after you delete a voicemail, the data is stored through on your device for a set amount of time. If you deleted something you didn’t mean to, follow these steps to try to get it back. Use a Third-Party App to Recover Deleted Voicemails Occasionally, if your data gets corrupted or a very old voicemail is accidentally deleted, you won’t be able to recover it through the Voicemail app....

Take a Screenshot With the Power and Volume Down Buttons Go to the screen you want to capture, then press and hold the Power and Volume Down buttons for one second. The screen will flash, and you’ll see a mini screenshot in a circle in the bottom corner of your phone, along with a string of icons. Tap on Preview in the circle to crop, edit, or annotate the screenshot....

Search Within a Message in Outlook If you show email messages as a conversation in Outlook, the thread can become long. If you paste content into new messages, this text may need to be revised or formatted. When you want to find specific text in a message, use the Outlook Find and Replace tools to highlight the text inside the message. For Outlook 2019, 2016, and 2013 To find specific text inside an email in Outlook 2019, 2016, and 2013:...

How to Use Spotlight Search to Open Apps Sometimes, searching for an app using iOS is faster than trying to remember which folder or screen you stashed it in. Spotlight Search can pull up any app installed on your iPad. If you haven’t installed the program, it sends you to the App Store to download it. Here’s how. How to Open Apps with Siri To open apps with the Apple digital assistant, hold the Home button until it activates, and then say “Open [name of app]....

Send Photos to Facebook From the Photos App There are two ways to use the Photos app to send images to Facebook. One is for images you took at an earlier time and the other is for an image or video that you just captured using the Camera app. To use the Photos app, open the app and select the image you want to post on Facebook. If you want to send several at once, choose Select and then tap every photo or video you want to put on Facebook....

How to Set Up a Conference Call Any Skype registered user can participate in a conference call. The host of the conference call, who is the person initiating the call, must invite the contacts to the call. Once they accept, they are in. To start a conference call and add people to it: How to Add People Who Don’t Use Skype People not using Skype, but using another phone service such as a mobile phone, a landline phone, or a VoIP service—can join a meeting....

How to Activate Alexa Whisper Mode Whisper Mode is not enabled in the Alexa App or Echo devices by default. It must be activated. There are two ways to activate Alexa’s Whisper Mode/Whispered Responses feature: via voice command and via the Alexa app’s settings. Voice Command The easiest way to activate Alexa Whisper Mode is by speaking the command through an Echo, partner device (such as the Polk Command Bar, Sonos One/Beam, Bose Soundbar 500/700, Bose Home Speaker 500), or Fire TV (with Alexa Voice Remote)....

How to Set a Music Timer on Alexa This is so easy it doesn’t even require steps. When your Echo device is playing music, a podcast, or some other audio, just wake your Alexa device and command it to set a sleep timer for (length of time). Like this: “Alexa, set a sleep timer for 30 minutes.” It will respond with ‘Okay’ and repeat the amount of time for the timer....

Important Considerations Before producing your commercial, you must answer several important questions that are common—and crucial—to crafting any successful promotional material. What’s the Message of Your Commercial? Define exactly what your commercial will be about. Is your commercial promoting your business in general? Or is it focused on a particular product or event? Because commercials need to be short, focus on one topic per ad, instead of trying to fit in too much at once....

How Do You Sign Out of Your Apple ID? If you want to sign out of your Apple ID so that you can switch to a different one or not be signed in, the process is pretty simple. Here’s where to look and what to do when signing out of your Apple ID on Mac. How Do I Log Into a Different Apple ID on My Mac? To log into a different Apple ID on your Mac, follow the instructions above to remove an existing account and log into a second account....

How to Set up Your Google Calendars in Apple Calendar To add your Google Calendar events to Apple Calendar and have them synchronize automatically: Add Individual Google Calendars to iOS You don’t need to sync all the associated calendars in your Google account to iOS. How to Use Google Calendar with Your iPhone or iPad Several Google Calendar features don’t work on Apple Calendar. These include the Room Scheduler and emailed event notifications....

How to Check Data Usage on Android The instructions below should get you information about your data use. Third-Party Apps for Tracking Data Usage There are also third-party apps for monitoring data usage. The four major carriers offer apps (myAT&T, T-Mobile My Account, Sprint Zone, and My Verizon Mobile) that sync with your account. Other popular data management apps include My Data Manager and Data Usage. Each app can set up limits and alerts, and My Data Manager tracks data usage in shared or family plans and across multiple devices....

How Can I Transfer Data From iPhone to Samsung? If you’re switching from iPhone to Samsung, you want to make sure all of your data makes the switch with you. Some of the most critical data is your contacts. While this article is specifically about transferring contacts from iPhone to Samsung, it’s probably not the only kind of data you’ll need to move when making the switch; you likely also have photos, music, movies, and apps that you need to transfer too....

Download Pics to a Digital Frame From a Flash Drive If you have pictures on your computer hard drive, it’s easy to use a flash drive to download the images and then transfer the files to your digital picture frame. Before you begin, make sure your photos are in a universal image file format accepted by most digital frames, such as JPEG. Check your photo frame instructions to learn the device’s optimal image and video formats....