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I fixed an annoying Bluetooth headphone quirk in seconds with this iPhone tweak

I fixed an annoying Bluetooth headphone quirk in seconds with this iPhone tweak – howtogeek.com
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You’ve just gotten back from a brisk jog around the neighborhood, where your feet have been pounding the pavement to the 160 BPM tempo of your favorite playlist. But when you walk into the house, Eminem’s Lose Yourself abruptly jumps from your AirPods to your living room Bluetooth speaker for all to hear.

The biggest backup mistake everybody makes, and how to avoid it

The biggest backup mistake everybody makes, and how to avoid it – howtogeek.com
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard the same story, someone’s hard drive dies, and with it go years of photos, videos, music, and memories. It’s one of those frustrating moments that’s entirely preventable, yet many don’t think about it until it’s too late. The truth is, the biggest mistake people make with their media files isn’t that they don’t back them up at all, it’s that they only back them up once. One external drive, one cloud folder, all your memories in “one safe place.”

This new gesture makes it easier to use a big iPhone with one hand

This new gesture makes it easier to use a big iPhone with one hand – howtogeek.com
Your iPhone has gotten a ton of updates and improvements recently that you might not know about. Beyond the divisive Liquid Glass design and a few new Apple apps, some features and tweaks have been flying under the radar. One seemingly small change goes a long way to improve user navigation on big iPhone screens.

– Your phone screen has a secret coating that’s slowly destroying itself

Your phone screen has a secret coating that’s slowly destroying itself – howtogeek.com
We all love our phones and are probably more addicted to them than we realize. Did you know the average person unlocks their phone around 100–150 times a day, and taps the screen over 2,600 times a day? We use these little pocket computers for everything, which is why your oleophobic coating is slowly but surely getting destroyed.

How to permanently delete files without sending them to the Trash in macOS

How to permanently delete files without sending them to the Trash in macOS – howtogeek.com
The Trash in macOS is an important holding bay for your deleted files. It makes it easy to recover files that you thought you no longer needed without having to resort to a backup, and makes it almost impossible to delete something by mistake. But if you don’t want to move a file to the Trash and want to delete it instantly, you can do that as well.

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