Batteries don’t last forever. As you charge and discharge your battery, it degrades and over time, you get less battery life from a full charge. Eventually, the battery—or the device—needs to be replaced. Battery Capacity Decreases Over Time A battery doesn’t just go from good one day to bad the next. Instead, batteries slowly degrade over time. This capacity decrease is a gradual process—happening over many charge cycles—and you won’t necessarily notice until you realize you used to get a few more hours of battery power from a charge....

The iPhone has a hidden “field test” mode that shows all kinds of technical details about signal strength, cell towers, and more. Most of it is not very useful to the average person, but you can make it show you your phone’s actual signal strength instead of just how many bars you’re getting. And that can be useful. UPDATE: The information in this article changes if you have upgraded your iPhone to iOS 11....

“Good Lock” is a suite of add-ons that can extend the functionality of your Samsung Galaxy device. The aptly named “Sound Assistant” add-on is all about customizing audio-related features. One of its best features is allowing you to control the volume for individual apps. The first thing to do is download Good Lock from the Galaxy Store. After it’s installed, open it and go to the “Family” tab. This is where you’ll see “Sound Assistant,” and you can tap the download icon....

If you are not ready to upgrade to Windows 11 yet, you can block release updates and manually allow only the updates you want to make sure Windows 11 doesn’t get installed on your Windows 10 PC. We’ll show you how to do just that. What to Know About Blocking Windows 11 As of this writing in November 2021, Microsoft is not forcing any Windows 10 users to upgrade to Windows 11....

You Apple ID password is a particularly important one, so it’s vital that you not only keep it very secret, but also change it from time to time–or at least as often as needed. RELATED: How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication for Your Apple ID Think about it: your Apple ID password can let you buy virtually anything from the Apple ecosystem, whether it’s music, movies, apps, or subscriptions. It’s fantastically convenient to be able to have all that buying power at your fingertips, but it also implies a a lot of responsibility....

You can remove unnecessary pixels from an image directly in Microsoft PowerPoint using the built-in cropping tool. You can also crop a photo to fit a specific shape. Here’s how to crop a picture in Microsoft PowerPoint. Crop a Picture in PowerPoint To crop a picture in PowerPoint, open the presentation, add the picture (Insert > Picture), then select the photo. Once selected, the “Picture Format” tab will appear. Select it, then click the “Crop” button found in the “Size” group....

If you don’t use a specific PivotTable in your spreadsheet anymore, you have two ways to remove the table in Excel. There’s a keyboard method as well as a ribbon menu option to delete PivotTables. Here’s how to use them. RELATED: How to Use Pivot Tables to Analyze Excel Data Use a Keyboard Key to Delete a PivotTable A quick way to remove a PivotTable from your spreadsheet is to use your keyboard’s Delete key....

Have you opened a document in Word but forgotten where it’s stored? You may need to access other documents in the same location or back up your documents. There are several ways to use Word to find the location of a file. There are several ways to find the location of a Word file. When you first open Word (without opening a file), the “Recent” list displays on the left side of the backstage, or start, screen....

When you need to obtain a value that resides in a particular spot in your spreadsheet, you’ll want one of Excel’s lookup and reference functions. Here, we’ll show you how to find values by location with INDEX in Excel. You might be creating a complex formula or have values that change often. By using the INDEX function, you designate the cell range along with a row number and column number....

Your device’s serial number is a unique code that the manufacturer gives the phone. No two serial numbers are the same. Should you need to find your phone’s, there are a few places you can look. A serial number is usually a combination of letter and numbers. There’s no set length— the manufacturer determines that. The serial number will usually be denoted by an “S/N:” on the box, as you’ll see below....

Gmail’s Multiple Email Forwarding Options Explained On Gmail, if you’d like to forward multiple emails in a single new email, use the forward as attachment option. This option creates an EML file (which you can open with Windows Mail or Outlook) out of each email you want to forward, and then attaches these files to a new email. You can then send this new email to your recipient and they’ll get a copy of all your selected emails as EML files....

The command line in Linux is case sensitive. When you use tab completion to quickly change or list directories on the command line, you must match the case of the directory names. However, there is a way to make tab completion case insensitive. RELATED: Use Tab Completion to Type Commands Faster on Any Operating System Tab completion makes it quicker and easier to enter directories names on the command line....

When it comes to instantly sharing files between iPhones and iPads, AirDrop is the easiest and quickest way to get things moving. Here, we explain how to get started with AirDrop and become a file-sharing pro. Sharing files across devices is something you can do all manner of ways, whether that’s via email, an online storage provider like Dropbox, or an instant messaging service like WhatsApp. These are all valid options, but if you’re an iPhone or iPad user, there is one way that beats all others for speed, reliability, and above all else, simplicity....

Ever wanted to message a YouTube user personally? Unfortunately, YouTube doesn’t have a built-in messaging tool anymore. So how can you contact your favorite YouTuber? You have a few methods at your disposal, as we’ll explain below. On YouTube, a user can list an email address publicly in their profile. If the user who you want to contact has this email address listed, all you need to do is reveal it, and you can get in touch with them....

Worried your USB charger is under performing or out of spec? Think you’re not getting the real charge time out of that new power bank you bought? If you’re willing to geek-out a little then you can test your USB devices to see if they’re up to snuff. Why Do I Want To Do This? In an age when everyone is at the mercy of their chargers, USB ports in the dashboards of their cars, and other sources of power for their numerous gizmos and gadgets, it’s easy to have a sneaking suspicion that the cheap charger you bought isn’t up for the task or that the USB port in your car console is really as under powered as it seems....

The Ribbon in Microsoft Office applications provides an easy way of accessing features, but takes up a lot of space on the screen. If you want to maximize the amount of space you have for your documents, you can easily show and hide the ribbon on demand. When the ribbon is minimized, only the names of the tabs display. You can click on any tab name to drop down that tab....

OneDrive may primarily be a cloud syncing service, but even if you don’t use OneDrive as your primary cloud storage, it has one killer feature: with it, you can remotely access any file on your PC, even if that file is not in your OneDrive folders. RELATED: How to Share Files and Folders from OneDrive in Windows 10 Like most of cloud storage services, OneDrive makes it easy to store files in the cloud and even share them with other people....

We have shown you a lot of tips and tricks over the years that involve modifying Local Group Policy. If you would ever like to see all the Group Policy settings in effect on your PC, here’s how to do it. In the Windows world, Group Policy provides a way for network administrators to assign specific settings to groups of users or computers. Those settings then get applied whenever a user in the group logs in to a networked PC or whenever a PC in the group is started....

Trying to get a Mac to automatically sleep after a certain period of time can be frustrating. Several things can interrupt the process, including network activity and stubborn apps. Luckily, you can use a handy tab in Activity Monitor to quickly diagnose what might be preventing your Mac from sleeping. Here’s how. First, let’s open “Activity Monitor.” You can locate the app in your Applications > Utilities folder, or you can use “Spotlight....

By default, OS X shows you small, simple Print and Save dialogs. You can click the arrow on the right to expand them for more options, or you can show the expanded dialogs by default with a simple command from the Terminal. Let’s show you what we mean. Here is the simplified version of the Save dialog, which doesn’t offer many options. It lets you pick your filename, add tags, choose a location, and finally select a format....