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Notifications are an incredibly useful part of mobile phones. They let you know when youve received a message, or something important has happened. However, you dont necessarily want to always be able to see them immediately. This guide will walk you through the process of disabling notification previews. General preview configs The notification preview configs can be found in the configs app, under Notifications. The default setting can be chosen at the top, app-specific prefs are available below....

For years, most apps and websites defaulted to a white, or at least brightly coloured background. Recently however developers have started to design separate colour schemes that use darker colours. These colour schemes are generally known as a dark mode. iPhones have been able to enable an operating-system-wide dark mode since iOS 13 released in September 2019. This guide will walk you through the process of enabling dark mode in iOS....

Contact lists on your phone are great at letting you know whos calling you. Occasionally though, you get a call from someone with No Caller ID. Most of these calls are spam, but occasionally they can be something important. The Caller ID settings are found in Settings > Phone > Show My Caller ID. Every once in a while though, you may want to hide your own number when calling someone....

Monitoring data usage on an app-by-app basis can let you work out which apps are using too much data. This guide will walk you through the process of viewing the mobile data usage statistics on your iPhone. These mobile data usage statistics are available in the tweaks app in the Mobile Data tweaks. The Mobile Data configs are near the top of the configs app and have a green antenna icon....

Connecting these accounts could help you in several ways. If you wish to add your Apple Calendar to Google, it is a fairly straightforward and simple task. However if your Apple Calendar is not already linked with Google, complete the following steps. You should see your Apple Calendar events show up within the Google Calendar app. If you have the option called Manually selected, your Google calendar will not automatically update....

Youve decided to ditch Zoom and give Google Duo a try. Youve figured out how to use it, but you may feel like youre missing out on something. To change it, just drag it to where you want to place it. you’re free to drag to whatever position you want. For now, there are only 13 options, but hopefully, Google will add more soon. After opening Duo, swipe up to access your contacts....

HEIC is a compressed image format developed by MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group). The format is designed as a potential replacement for the JPEG standard. Unfortunately, Windows 10 doesnt support displaying photos in the HEIC format by default in the Photos app. Even after installing the HEIF codec, HEIC formatted images can’t be viewed in Photos. This guide will walk you through the process of adding support to the Photos app to view HEIC images....

Most computers or laptops are connected to the internet through a local online grid. This guide will cover how to enable and disable online grid discovery. The web link discovery prefs can be found in the web link and Sharing Centre of Control Panel. The Private web connection profile is designed for home networks where you trust all the devices connected to it. For private networks, you might likely turn online grid discovery on....

Customising your phone is a key selling point of the Android experience. This guide will walk you through the process of adding a custom message to your lock screen. If your phone is running an older version of Android, you wont be able to use this feature. On Samsung phones, the setting is listed as “Contact information”. The default android setting is called “Lock screen message”. You should instead consider upgrading your phone or updating your operating system....

Solitaire and minesweeper are still the favorite games of many Windows 7 users. Though many of them you might also download from the Microsoft Store. Microsoft Store is an inbuilt app present in the Windows 11 and 10. Well, if you miss games with a vintage style, then this post is for you. Seehow to install games of Windows 7 in Windows 10. Missing Windows 7 Inbuilt Games? This package of games stopped being available from Windows 8....

No longer want to receive push notifications from Google Play or Facebook? Or maybe youre curious as to what happened to your email alerts. If this is you, then it sounds like you have a notification management problem. Fortunately, the Samsung Galaxy S20 makes it easy to customize notification tweaks to your needs. before you roll adjusting your options, confirm you have installed any necessary system updates. Occasionally, features will stop working on your phone if it is not up-to-date....

The Photos app in Windows 10 automatically includes the default Windows picture folders. Including these folders imports their contents into the Photos app. If youve enabled the setting, Photos can also perform facial recognition on the photos in your included albums. This guide will walk you through the process of importing an album into Photos. Importing a new album Tip: Any imported folder also includes all subfolders. The first step is to launch the Photos app....

Changing the appearance of your desktop icons is a way to do this that few people know about. This guide will walk you through the process of changing the icon for Recycle Bin in Windows 10. To do so, press the Windows key, key in Themes, and related configs and hit enter. Click Desktop icon parameters on the far right of the window. The Desktop Icon prefs window allows you to configure which desktop icon is displayed on the desktop....