What Are Modes on Samsung Galaxy Phones Modes can be used to apply a defined set of settings by simply enabling a specific mode. For example, Sleep mode can be set up to activate DND, enable dark mode, and play music. Now when you enable Sleep mode, all the preset settings will be applied at once saving you time and effort. No need to mess around with individual settings anymore. Moreover, you can also trigger these modes automatically based on certain criteria like time, location, Bluetooth device connected, call, etc....

Let’s start with the YouTube app. How to Enable/Disable Smart Downloads on YouTube The smart downloads option is only available on Android, iOS, and iPadOS. It is not available on the web yet and this applies to both YouTube and YouTube Music. First, open the YouTube app on your phone. Now tap on the profile icon at the top right corner. Here, select the Settings option from the list to open YouTube settings....

Disable Message Notifications on Mac First, we will show you how to turn off text forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and use other tricks to customize Message notifications on Mac to find an optimum balance. 1. Disable Text Message Forwarding on Mac If you don’t want to check unimportant text messages on your Mac, disable text forwarding on your iPhone. Here’s how. Open the Settings app on iPhone. Scroll to Messages....

1. Tweak Performance Options Windows 11 includes a slew of animations and visual effects that make the user interface more appealing. These visual effects, on the other hand, can consume valuable system resources and slow things down. You can configure Windows 11 to prioritize performance over visual experience to see if that speeds up the right-click menu launch. Press the Windows key + S to open the search menu. Type adjust the appearance and performance of Windows in the box and press Enter to open Control Panel....

Snapchat Profile Icons You may see some icons next to the profile name of certain Snapchat users. Know what they mean. Black Star With Yellow Background Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook display a blue checkmark if the account is verified. Snapchat used to display an emoji. Verified account users could choose their own emojis which made the entire process fun. For example, Arnold had a bicep emoji. However, now all verified Snapchat accounts have a black star with yellow background to denote that the account is verified....

Best Keyboard Shortcuts for Chromebook We are not listing any Chrome browser keyboard shortcuts, instead, these are the shortcuts for ChromeOS. 1. Launch Google Assistant One Unique advantage of ChromeOS compared to Windows and Mac is the availability of Google Assistant. To open the voice assistant, you can use the Hey Google command, or open the app drawer and then click on the Google Assistant icon beside the search bar to open Google Assistant....

1. GOM Player GOM Player supports a wide range of both audio and video formats, just like VLC, but that’s not where it shines. GOM Player can automatically download the required codec files if they are missing. What’s more? It can also search and fetch subtitles for movies both new and classics. Watching an interesting or puzzling scene? Use A-B mode to repeat the same sequence over and over. There are plenty of customization settings to keep you happy....

1. Slow ChatGPT is great but is slow compared to Google Search. Google usually comes up with results in a fraction of a second but ChatGPT sometimes takes a moment to generate a response to the query. With Google, you can rely on speed because whatever you’re trying to find out, you will get results instantly. In a world of short videos, Tik-Toks, and reels, capturing someone’s attention instantly matters. Let’s take a look at an example....

Let’s begin. Use Canva to Put Two Pictures Side by Side on Any Device For those who have never heard of Canva, it is a powerful image editor with smart features that makes it foolproof to edit images. Also, it has a large repository of stock-free images that you can use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. But enough with the chit-chat. Let’s get down to some before/after image comparisons by putting two photos side by side online in a web browser....

How to Upload BeReal With Your Location on iPhone Tap on the notification from BeReal or start uploading your BeReal from the app. Click an image by tapping on the shutter button which captures the photo from both the front and rear cameras. BeReal will ask for location permission if you haven’t given it before. Select Allow only once or Allow only when the app is open option if you want to be able to include the location details in some BeReals....

1. Avoid Force-Stopping Apps When you force stop an app on your phone, Android kills all processes associated with that app. As a result, the app stops sending notifications until you restart it. Therefore, you should avoid clearing important apps from the Recents screen or force-stopping them in any other way to receive notifications as they come. 2. Turn Off Adaptive Battery Adaptive Battery is a nifty feature on Android that tracks your app usage and only allows your frequently used apps to run in the background....

Bluetooth audio lag on MacBook gets even more confusing as your headphone or wireless earbuds stay connected to the device all the time but doesn’t work as expected. The problem can be related to headphones or your Mac. Let’s fix the issue once and for all. 1. Remove and Add the Device Again The first order of business is to remove your current device and add it again to your Mac....

Muting Message vs iMessage There is only one Messages app on your iPhone. If someone sends you a message from an Android phone, it is a text message. However, if someone sends you a message using an iPhone, it is an iMessage. iMessage functions inside the Apple ecosystem. It’s a walled garden after all. Messages sent to an Android phone, for example, will be in a green background but messages sent to an iPhone will be in blue background....

1. It’s Faster If you have used both services, you will notice Bing Chat is faster compared to ChatGPT. More than that, ChatGPT sometimes freezes and even fails to produce an answer, whereas Bing Chat returns with an answer every time within seconds. Once both services begin to generate an answer, Bing Chat generates the complete answer marginally faster than ChatGPT. While we are not sure if this increased speed is because of GPT-4 model that Bing uses or because of Microsoft’s established Cloud infrastructure, we sure enjoy the faster output....

1. Create and Switch Between Multiple Lock Screens Prior to iOS 16, one could only have a single lock screen. All customizations had to be done on that lock screen only. But with iOS 16, you can create multiple lock screens and customize each one of them independently using the lock screen tips mentioned in this post. Here are the steps to create multiple lock screens on iPhone: Open the notification panel on your iPhone....

Add Two Pictures Side by Side on Android You can make side-by-side photos on Android in the following 5 ways: 1. Using Google Photos Consider yourself lucky if you have an Android phone as there’s no need for an extra app to do the job. We’re going to use Google Photo’s robust native editor to make a collage from two pictures. Open the Google Photos app on your Android phone. Tap and hold on to a picture to open the selection option....

1. Disable Power Saving Mode When you enable power saving mode on your phone, it disables certain animations and reduces performance in order to extend battery life. This is a common reason why the keyboard app might feel slow on your phone. Hence, the first thing you should do is disable power saving mode on your Samsung phone. Open the Settings app and navigate to General management. Go to Battery and then disable the toggle next to Power saving....

Before You Begin The first step is to choose which font style you want to use in your Instagram Bio. Then we will show you how to apply that font to your text, and paste that into your Instagram Bio. However, before we get into that, you must understand what happens when you use a non-standard font in your Instagram Bio. Using a different font style on your Instagram bio will involve using Unicode characters, and these aren’t readable by people using screen readers....

How to Check Air Quality Index on Google Maps You can check Air Quality Index in the US, India, and Australia only. This feature should be available in all the countries though, we feel. So you can check for yourself if Google started supporting your country or not. Note that the air quality index is only available only on Google Maps mobile apps, and not the web app. Open the Google Maps app on your Android/iOS device....

Importing Facebook Birthdays to Google Calendar Previously, the process used to be much easier. Just grab the Facebook birthday events URL and paste it into Google Calendar to import all birthdays. But with the current version of Facebook, that is not possible anymore. However, we can use a Chrome extension to get the job done. Open Birthday Calendar Exporter for Facebook Chrome Extension and still it by clicking on Add to Chrome button....