Quick Tips
How To: Stop Your iPhone from Turning on Every Time You Pick It Up
When you pick up your iPhone, the display turns on. Often, that's convenient since you want to use your iPhone anyway. But think about those times you're simply picking it up to take it with you somewhere. The display turns on anyway, and now you're accidentally responding to messages, turning on your flashlight, opening your camera — you get the gist.
How To: Bold, Italicize, or Underline Text in a Split Second on Your iPhone
On a computer, you have keyboard shortcuts like cmd-b and ctrl-i to bold, italicize, or underline text. But how exactly do you this on your iPhone?
How To: This Trick Lets You Jump Straight into Shooting an Instagram Story
When it comes to shooting a great Instagram story, spontaneity is often key. Who doesn't love seeing something unexpected pop up on their feed? That said, to catch those moments, you need to be quick, and the standard method for opening Instagram's Story camera isn't that. Instead, try this method the next time you need to document something in a flash.
How To: There's a Fun Way to Switch Apps with Samsung's Gesture Controls
While Samsung's three-tabbed gesture controls are pretty intuitive, there's still a learning curve. By removing the buttons, you seemingly lose the ability to jump between apps with the quick switch gesture. I say seemingly since there's still a way, it's just not very obvious.
How To: There's a Faster Way to Open Recent Files on Your iPhone
With the updated Files app in iOS 13, iPhone users finally have decent file browser. But, as with any file browser, it can easily become crowded, making it hard to find the files you want.
How To: Samsung's New Lock Screen Shortcut Makes Your Galaxy's Flashlight Ridiculously Fast
Your Galaxy's built-in flashlight is handy, but if it takes you more than a split second to turn it on, it's not as useful as it could be. Thanks to One UI 2, you're now just a swipe away from instantly lighting up the room.
How To: The Fastest Way to Select Multiple Photos on Your iPhone
Whether it's to delete a few photos or share a bunch with another app, there are times when you need to select several pictures at once. This would usually be annoying since you'd have to tap every picture you wanted to select, but there's a much faster way to batch select.
How To: The Fastest Way to Switch Instagram Accounts
If you have two or more accounts logged into Instagram at any given time, you likely know how confusing it can get. You could like content, post pics, and share stories from the wrong account, as well as perform embarrassing searches that show up in the history of a shared work profile. Switching accounts is easy to forget once you open the app, so do it beforehand instead.
How To: Supercharge Text Editing on Your Galaxy with This Secret Copy & Paste Icon
We rely heavily on copying and pasting on our smartphones to speed up text editing since there's no mouse and keyboard. Like on a computer, copying is usually limited to one item at a time, but with the Samsung Keyboard app, you have the ability to copy multiple sets of text.
How To: Stop Squinting at Your Galaxy's Keyboard & Type Faster with This Simple Setting
The monochrome layout on Samsung's default keyboard can make it a little hard to view keys. Fortunately, there's a setting you can enable that makes your keyboard significantly easier to view and type on.
How To: Android 10 Drastically Updated Location Permissions — Check Your Settings ASAP
With Android 10, there are now three options when an app asks to access your location: Allow, Deny, and Allow While In Use. That last one prevents apps from seeing your location unless you're actively using them, and it's the default now. But when you first update, most of your apps will still be allowed to access your location in the background — at least, until you do something about it.
How To: There's a Super Easy Way to Select Multiple Pictures in Google Photos
Selecting multiple pictures or videos in Google Photos can be tedious. Usually, you'd long press on the first image to select it, then tap on other pictures one by one to select them as well. But there is a much easier and faster way to do this.
How To: Chrome's Menu Has a Quick Gesture You Should Know About
Many new phones are moving to navigation gestures from the physical buttons of the past. The idea is to maximize screen space as much as possible while still being intuitive. Something cool you should know about, Chrome for iPhone and Android has a neat little trick that pairs quite nicely with these new gestures.
iOS 13: You Can Still Delete & Rearrange Apps by Long-Pressing — You Just Have to Do It Right
The new gestures in iOS seem, at first, to replace the old way of doing things. Rearranging and deleting apps from your home screen is totally different now, right? Well, not really. You can still do it the old way, if you know how.
How To: Follow a New Friend in Seconds with This Hidden TikCode Scanner
Like other popular social media apps, TikTok features a scanner — dubbed TikCode — to follow people in your immediate vicinity. While the scanner itself is easy to use (simply scan another user's TikCode), there's actually a faster way to access it on your iPhone than combing through your TikTok settings.
How To: There's a Simple Way to Get That Cool Effect on Your Friend's Story
When watching stories in your Instagram feed, there's a high probability that you'll come across an AR filter that you'll want to try out for yourself. A quick browse and search in the Effect Gallery will bring up nothing in most cases. But all of that unproductive work isn't necessary because there's a faster and simpler way to get the AR effect in Instagram Stories, and it works all of the time.
How To: This Trick Lets You Start a New Instagram Post in Just 1 Tap
Time is money, so there's profit to be had in tricks and shortcuts that make daily tasks faster on your iPhone. Take Instagram, for example. You can cut out a whole step in the posting process using this one, simple trick.
How To: The Easiest Way to Find the Source Song of That Viral TikTok Sound
Songs new and old are given a fresh purpose through the TikTok meme machine, but it can be tricky to figure out where a track originally comes from. Sure, you can tap the name of the song to see the source on TikTok, but if it were a snippet uploaded by someone other than the track's creator, the song title likely wouldn't be listed. Luckily, there is an easy way to figure it out.
How To: Instantly Try Out That Cool AR Lens in Your Friend's Snap
You get a snap from a friend, per usual, but what's this? The lens they're using is actually really cool. Of course, you want to try it out for yourself, but don't bother searching Snapchat's enormous library of lenses to find the AR effect. Instead, there's a simple way to instantly test it out, right from the original snap itself.
How To: Learn Pronunciations for Any Word on Your iPhone in Two Quick Actions
There are apps for iPhone that have audio tools to help you learn how to pronounce a particular word you're looking up. For instance, one app has a little speaker icon next to each word's pronunciation respelling. Tap that to hear how the word sounds. But you don't need a third-party app because iOS has a pronunciation tool built right in, and you don't even have to leave the current page you're on.
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