What if You Have a Google Account? In most cases, you will be using Google Maps with your Google account in which case the places are can be saved into default lists which come in two main categories namely ‘Favorites’ and ‘Starred’. However, you may also create your own list according to the locations you are saving. Whether you are using an Android phone or an iPhone or even a laptop version of Google Map, the process of saving your favourite location will be the same....

Sadly, WhatsApp does not have this feature. However, you can use third-party apps to schedule WhatsApp messages on Android and iOS. Third-party apps allow you to schedule WhatsApp messages and send them as per your preferred time to make sure the reader gets it and reads it. This feature is especially helpful if you wish to avoid someone at a particular time or do not wish to send the message immediately....

But you may have granted contact permissions to an unwanted app by mistake, or you are simply curious about which apps have the ability to view your contact information. Our guide below will show you where to go on your iPhone to discover which apps have been granted these permissions. You can even revoke those permissions, if you would like. How to View Contact Permissions in iOS 10 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

The Clock app on your iPhone has another helpful feature stored within it, and that is the Timer. you can use this to time segments of a workout, or to set a timer for something that you are cooking in the kitchen. And since you are usually near your iPhone anyway, there is less risk of leaving it somewhere that it might not be heard. So check out our short guide below to learn how to use your iPhone as a timer....

The timer functionality of the iPhone’s Clock app lets you specify a period of time, at which point the iPhone will play a sound to let you know that you need to do something. Whether you use this for cooking or exercising purposes, such easy access to a good timer can come in handy in many situations. Our guide below will show you how to use this feature of your device....

Our tutorial below will show you how to select a slide and apply a transition effect to that slide. You will be able to choose from a handful of different transition effects, and you can even modify the speed of some of them. How to Add a Transition to a Slide in Google Slides The steps in this article assume that your presentation has at least two slides. The transition will be shown as the presentation reaches that slide....

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....

Fortunately Excel 2010 also has a spell checking utility, and it is very similar to the one found in Word 2010. Our guide will show you how to access and use it to fix any typos that might exist in your spreadsheet. Check Spelling in an Excel 2010 Spreadsheet This tutorial was written specifically for Microsoft Excel 2010. However, these steps are very similar for other versions of Excel as well....

But the default settings for these features will make it so that any audio message that you send or listen to will be deleted from your iPhone after 2 minutes. This choice was likely made in an effort to conserve space on the device, but you may decide that you would like to keep your audio messages around for a little longer. Fortunately you can elect to set up your iPhone so that you audio messages are never automatically deleted by following our guide below....

Stop the iTunes Default Player Prompt Nag screens are very annoying, thus the moniker that they have been assigned. We expect a program to operate in a specific way when we launch it, and this intrusion into our expected behavior is frustrating. At this time I also want to point out that iTunes is not the only program that obsessively prompts for default program status. All of the major Web browsers will do the same thing, providing that you have more than one browser installed on your computer, and you need to take action to prevent them from displaying their own nag screens as well....

If you have had trouble finding that message, then you might have enabled a setting on your iPhone that causes you to send yourself copies of the emails that you write on the device. But after using that setting for a while you might determine that you don’t need it any longer. Our guide below will show you how to get rid of the BCC option for the iPhone Mail app....

One way that you can make it a little more difficult for them to find your recent documents is to hide all of them. Removing the list of recent documents in Excel 2013 creates a barrier to finding your recent workbooks, ensuring that anyone who simply opens Excel on your computer won’t be able to immediately find what you have been working on. How to Hide the List of Recent Documents in Excel 2013 The steps below are going to hide the list of documents that is visible when you click the Open option in the column at the left side of the Excel 2013 File menu....

But you may decide later that you do not like the ability to sync data between your Chrome installations, and that you would prefer to turn it off. Our guide below will show you how to disable Chrome syncing on your iPhone. Turning Off Data Syncing for Chrome in iOS 9 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.2. Once you have finished the steps in the guide below, the history and data from the Chrome browser on your iPhone will no longer sync with the data for other instances of Chrome that you are using on other computers and devices....

But if you decide that you no longer need the vibration to alert you to new information, and that it is more of a problem than it is a solution, you may be looking for a way to disable it completely. Rather than going through and changing all of the vibration settings for your individual apps, your iPhone has a setting that will simply disable every vibration on the device....

One of the options that you will find in Microsoft Excel 2010 is an “autofill” button that appears when you paste content into your cells. While the assorted options that are included with that button can allow you to perform certain pasting actions more quickly, the presence of the button can lead to misclicks, and it can make it difficult for you to make adjacent selections. You can remove the autofill or paste options button in Excel by going to File > Options > Advanced > then unchecking the box to the left of Show Paste Options button when content is placed....

But you may find that you are having trouble with a Bluetooth device, or that your iPhone is connecting to a Bluetooth device automatically when the device is turned on. One way to prevent this is by simply turning off the Bluetooth feature on your iPhone. Our guide below will show you how to do so. Turning Off Bluetooth on an iPhone 6 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9....

Many times this is occurring due to a feature in those programs called “Hardware graphics acceleration.” This means that the application is using the hardware on your computer (such as your video card) to complete some of the processing work that the program needs to complete. Often this can help the program to run smoother but, occasionally, it can result in the behavior that is making the program difficult, if not impossible, to use, and which ultimately led you to this article....

You can shut down your iPhone 11 through the Settings menu, or by pressing a combination of side buttons.These steps will also work on other iPhone models that don’t have a Home button, such as the iPhone X or the iPhone 11 Pro Max.If you have an iPhone with a Home button, like an iPhone 8 or an iPhone SE, then you will press the Home button and the Power button together instead....

Your iPhone 7’s camera has a feature that adds a small amount of movement to a picture when you first open it. This is an interesting way to add some additional life to a picture. But you may not like this, which can lead you to look for a way to turn it off. Fortunately, you can disable the Live Photo feature on your iPhone 7 by turning it off in the Camera app....