But, like the apps on your computer or your smartphone, these apps need to be updated periodically. These updates often add new features, and fix problems that exist in the current version of the app. Our tutorial below will show you where to find a setting on the device so that your installed apps will update automatically. You may also want to check out our guide on how to delete apps on Firestick if you need to get rid of some of the apps you have on the device....

Fortunately this is a feature that’s available on the device following an iOS 14 update. When picture in picture is enabled you will be able to keep a video or facetime call displayed on the screen even after you swipe up to go Home or use other apps. Our guide below is going to show you how to turn on or turn off the picture in picture feature on your iPhone 11....

This setting is called Reachability, and it works by sliding the top of the screen down to the middle of the screen so that you can reach it. You activate Reachability by tapping the Home button twice. Our guide below will show you how to find and enable this setting on your iPhone. How to Turn on the Reachability Setting on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

But it’s not always easy to find the tool for the job, and it’s possible that you are struggling to try to figure out how to fill a selection in Photoshop. Luckily there is a dedicated option for adding color to a selection in your image, which we will show you how to use in our tutorial below. How to Add Color to a Photoshop Selection Our guide continues below with additional information on how to fill a selection in Photoshop, including pictures of these steps....

Often these files are going to be in the “AppData” folder, which is, itself, also hidden. Luckily our AppData folder Windows 7 tutorial can help you to unhide that folder and get to the files or folders that you need. Many online troubleshooting guides for Windows 7 and applications installed in Windows 7 include steps that ask you to find the AppData folder so that you can edit, copy, or delete files found within that folder....

Email forwarding is one of the simplest ways to share an email that you receive with another person. Forwarding an email essentially means that you are sending an email that you have received to another person. It is different from replying to an email because a reply goes back to the person that originally sent the message. Forwarding allows you to send the email message to a third party. The Mail app that handles your email on the iPhone has a forwarding feature built into the application, but it might not be obvious how you can use it....

How to Receive Text Message Alerts on an iPhone 6 More than Once Our guide continues below with additional information on how to configure the iPhone text message reminder notifications. Your iPhone can inform you about a new text message in several different ways. One option is called a banner, which temporarily displays at the top of the screen, then disappears after a few seconds. Another option is called an alert and requires you to dismiss it before it will go away....

One of the ways that the Watch app uses the Badge App Icon is to let you know that there is an update available for the Apple Watch. Our guide below will show you how to install that update or, if you don’t wish to install the update but still want to remove the red circle with the number, how to turn off the Badge App Icon notification for the Watch app....

Here is how to hide WhatsApp chat without deleting Open WhatsApp and click on the chat you’d like to hideTap and hold on to that chat. After a few seconds, you will be presented with a few options. Here you will also see an arrow option. Which is exactly equal to the three data and is the Archive button.You will notice an archive button at the top right corner to hide the chat....

Usually, these tools give you ways to crop pictures, adjust the color balance, or maybe rotate the picture. But if you want to do something a little trickier, such as when you want to crop a photo into a circle, you may be struggling to find the circle crop tool so that you can circle crop images. Luckily this is something you can accomplish for a picture that you add to your slideshow....

So if you open Safari on your computer or your phone and it opens to something other than a search engine, then you might be wasting time navigating to the page that you actually want to use. Therefore you may be wondering how to set Google as the home page in Safari so that you can launch the browser and instantly be on the page that you need to use to start searching for information....

Fortunately, you can make your iPhone 13 screen stay on for a longer amount of time by going to Settings > Display & Brightness > Auto-Lock > and choosing one of the options there. This is a feature that has been available on many iPhone models in most of the newer versions of iOS and can be a lifesaver if you often need to keep your screen illuminated for an extended period of time while you check it as you perform certain tasks....

Your Galaxy On5 will probably lock the screen automatically after 30 seconds or a minute, but you can extend this amount of time up to a maximum of 30 minutes. Our guide below will show you how you can find this setting and keep your screen on for a longer amount of time during periods of inactivity. if you need to make a similar change on an Apple device, then our iPhone 13 screen lock time guide can show you the setting to change....

In certain situations you can dramatically improve the way that the app works if you give it permission to access your contacts. In other situations, however, you might inadvertently wind up spamming your friends with notifications from the app. Therefore, you might like to see which apps currently have access to your contacts. Once you find this list, you can selectively decide which apps should have access to your contacts, and which apps you wish to deny access....

While notifications are generally helpful, they can be overwhelming when they are occurring every few seconds. Additionally, these notifications can quickly drain your battery by illuminating your screen whenever one is received. Fortunately your iPhone offers a way for you to mute the notifications from a particular group message so that you are not disturbed. Then, once the influx of new messages and notifications has subsided, you can return to the same location to turn off the Do Not Disturb option for that conversation....

Our guide below will point you to the audio descriptions setting on your iPhone so that you can enable it. A popular setting to try out when you see someone else using it involves the camera flash for notifications. But you might want to read our how to turn off light notification guide if you’ve tried it and no longer want to have it enabled. Enable the “Prefer Audio Descriptions” Setting in iOS 9 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 5, in iOS 9....

Prevent Accidental Mistakes Caused by Drag and Drop in Word 2013 This is a feature that is turned on by default in Word 2013, and is often the culprit if you find that a sentence or fragment of text is in a location that it should not be. And if you don’t consciously use the drag and drop feature then it is only going to serve as a potential problem....

When you are giving a presentation to a group of people, it can be very easy to lose your place. You also will tend to say more information than what is shown on the slides, so simply reading from them isn’t often a solution. One way to improve this situation is with the aid of speaker notes. This is a set of extra information that you can apply to a slide so that you know what talking points you want to mention for any given slide....

If you have trouble remembering how to access the Control Panel, however, or if you are setting up a computer for someone and simply want an easy way for them to find it, then adding a Control Panel shortcut to the desktop can be very convenient. It is a little different from creating a typical desktop shortcut, however, so our tutorial below will walk you through the steps of making the Control Panel easier to locate....