Reasons Why Your iPhone Won’t Turn Off The most likely reasons why your iPhone won’t turn off are: It’s frozen due to software problems.The Sleep/Wake button is broken.The screen is broken and isn’t responding to taps. How to Fix an iPhone that Won’t Power Off Before you try any of these steps, first you should try the standard way of turning off your iPhone. For older iPhone models, hold down the Sleep/Wake button and then swipe the Power Off slider....

According to well-known Apple leaker Mark Gurman, the new iPad Pro will feature internals “on par” with the M1 chip currently found in the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, released in November. The M1 has been well received by reviewers, blowing past previous chip benchmarks. Pairing a keyboard and a mouse with the new Ipad could turn it into a machine that’s as capable as a laptop. “The latest iteration of the iPad Pro promises much more powerful Apple silicon,” Andrew Jackson, a tech expert at used tech marketplace SellCell, said in an email interview....

The assistant will be the driver’s primary way of interacting with BMW’s iDrive 8 infotainment system. The driver will be able to give the assistant a personalized name and use either verbal or non-verbal commands to bring up various in-vehicle functions and information streams. It’s part of a push by car manufacturers to pack as many features into vehicles, while not overwhelming drivers with information. “The intent of these AI-enabled, voice-activated personal assistants is to reduce the need for drivers to interact visually and physically with their car’s digital screens for commands,” Michael Burk, a car infotainment expert at memory manufacturer Micron, said in an email interview....

How to Set the Windows Desktop Background Changing the Windows desktop background is easy. There are two methods, depending on whether the image is currently open. With the photo open, right-click or tap-and-hold it, and then choose Set as > Background, or in older versions of Windows, Set as > Set as background or Set as desktop background. Alternatively, perform a similar step in File Explorer: right-click the image and select Set as desktop background....

Fleets are advertised as text reactions to Tweets, photos, or videos that last only 24 hours. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Snapchat have similar features. However, Twitter’s entrance into the “Stories” feature club promises to be unique from other platforms, thanks to Twitter’s microblogging-centric setup. “I think it’ll be interesting to see how they evolve this feature differently than Instagram and Facebook,” said William Lai, the chief product officer at IAS Machine in Seattle, in a direct message....

How Much RAM Do I Need For Gaming? Although every gamer and gaming PC has different needs for the types of games they play, a general rule of thumb about RAM can apply to broad categories. 8GB: If you’re looking to play older games, indie games, or those with less demanding specifications, 8GB is enough to get by. It’ll have enough to run the operating system and background apps and leave a few gigabytes of RAM leftover for the games....

NetNewsWire (NNW) is a newsreader app that lets you follow any website without Twitter or Facebook in the middle skimming your activity data. All your subscriptions sync privately, via iCloud, or most popular web-based RSS services. But the point here is that it’s your news, your way. NNW is completely anti-algorithm. It’s an antidote to the engagement-via-rage model of social networks. “The algorithms optimize for engagement because engagement is how you maximize ad revenue,” NNW owner Brent Simmons told Lifewire via direct message....

Carnegie Mellon University scientists recently found that redesigning a cell phone display could make photographs better. It’s part of a growing revolution in phone camera technology. “Smartphones are already using computational photography, a digital image-capture method that employs AI-integrated software, digital computation, and powerful hardware—instead of relying solely on optical processes that are limited by the compact form factor of the phone,” Mario Endo, director of computer memory manufacturer Micron’s Mobile Business Unit, told Lifewire in an email interview....

How Rain Affects Satellite Signals During a rainstorm, the raindrops can weaken or absorb the signal on its way to a satellite dish. Rain can also cause signal scattering as the electromagnetic waves refract and diffract around raindrops on the surface of the dish. Mini-dishes are better designed to minimize signal loss due to weather, but large dishes are better in areas with frequent heavy rains as they better compensate for reduced signal strength due to weather....

When the new option is enabled, messages will automatically be deleted after 7 days. It’s an attempt to match similar self-destructing message abilities in apps like Signal or Snapchat. But experts say, don’t think your private notes are necessarily gone forever. “You shouldn’t rely on Disappearing Messages as being private,” Matt Boddy, CTO, and Co-Founder of Traced Mobile Security said in an email interview. “Yes, it can add a degree of privacy to your messages, but they certainly aren’t completely private....

While not the first audio feature Twitter has announced—the platform introduced 140-second audio tweets earlier this year—Spaces promises to engage multiple people in conversations with each other. Experts say they expect more social platforms to hop on the audio trend, since there are many benefits to the spoken word over the written word. “Audio is a unique communication tool in that it is arguably the best way to develop intimacy quickly with an audience,” Kane Carpenter, director of marketing at DaggerFinn Media, wrote to Lifewire in an email....

The Minds Behind Super Mario Brothers Super Mario Bros. was not the first platform video game, but it was by far the most successful, and it established the archetype that all other games in the genre would follow. The brainchild of legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, the concept for Super Mario Bros. evolved from his 1981 arcade hit Donkey Kong, a single-screen platformer that first introduced players to Mario (then called Jump Man)....

Launched in 1991 and based on a design from 1985, the MDR-7506 might as well be the definition of “industry standard.” They sound good, they’re tough, they’re completely repairable, and they have a coiled cable that seems absurdly long until you use them in the studio, where it is perfect. But the same goes for many headphones, so what makes these Sony’s different? “The secret to the popularity of the 7506 is that everyone steals them from their art school or employer,” electronic musician Obscurerobot replied to Lifewire in a forum post....

I’ve always been an analog kind of gal when it comes to staying organized, strongly preferring paper planners to apps—though not for lack of trying to go digital. I’ve tried a gazillion apps, but usually found myself turned off by complicated designs or anxiety-inducing notifications. After a year of having even less structure than ever, though, I decided I needed some extra help. While scrolling through the App Store’s “Hot This Week” list, I noticed an app called Structured sitting near the top of the chart and decided to give another digital planner app a whirl....

How to See If You Can Add a Website to Your TikTok Bio Some users already have the ability to add a clickable link in their bio. To see if the ability is already there, tap the Me tab and then tap Edit Profile. If you have the ability to add a clickable link, you will have an option in here that says Website. If you do not have that option, you can change your account to give you that option (see below)....

How Do I Add Apps to My Smartwatch? Add apps to your Galaxy smartwatch using the Galaxy Wearable companion app. How to Manage Apps on a Galaxy Watch Once you’ve downloaded apps on your device, the Galaxy Wearable app offers fast customization. Set app-specific preferences from the Apps tile that include rotary or list views, custom or newest-first arrangement, app settings (if available), and hidden apps from the Manage apps screen....

Add Bullet Points in Excel With Shortcut Keys One of the easiest ways to add bullet points in Excel is using keyboard shortcut keys. Add Bullet Points in Excel Using Symbols If you prefer using your mouse rather than the keyboard to add bullet points in Excel, then Symbols is a great way to go. Using symbols to add bullet points in Excel is ideal if you don’t want to have to remember which shortcuts let you insert specific bullet styles....

Open a Photo If you have an image with snow on the ground, that might be a good choice, but you can produce fun and surreal effects by adding fake snow to all sorts of photos. Go to File > Open and navigate to your selected image and click on it to select it before clicking the Open button. Add a New Layer The first step is to add a new layer that will become the first part of our fake snow effect....

Download Your Facebook Information on the Web Whether you’re planning to delete your Facebook account or want a backup of all your data from the social network, you can have your own offline copy of the photos and other content you posted to the social media site in one folder that you can easily store on a CD, DVD, or computer. Here’s how to download an archive of all your content on Facebook from a web browser:...

Importing Video Clips The first thing to do is import your video clips. Fortunately, the Quik app has this feature built right in (so there’s no need to worry about using yet another application). Here’s how to import video clips into Quik. After Quik finishes the import, you’re ready to create. Creating a Video With your files imported, here’s how to create a video: At this point, all of your highlights will have automatically been added to the new video (in the order you selected start/end points)....