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Question from Jill: I just noticed something about my iPhone that concerns me, and I hope you can help me fix it.
I noticed that the Control Center is visible and ready to use even when the phone is locked.
How can I remove the Control Center from the Lock screen on my iPhone? [Read more…]
Unless you’ve recently been rescued from a deserted island, you’re surely aware of the dangers posed by the Covid-19 virus.
I won’t go into the sad details here, but the path of destruction this pandemic is leaving its wake is nothing short of mind-boggling.
The federal government has put out a wide variety of guidelines for us to follow in order to stay safe from the virus, but there’s one detail that I haven’t really seen addressed as well as it should be…
Question from Jim: I have a TracFone Motorola Moto G smartphone and at least twice a day I get a notification that says this:
Launch Device Pulse
I’ve tried everything I can think of to make it stop giving me those notifications. I even deleted the “Device Pulse” app and I’m still getting them.
Can you tell me how to put a stop to it? [Read more…]
As I mentioned in this post, Samsung issued a world-wide recall a couple of weeks ago for all Galaxy Note 7 smartphones that have been sold to date due to a dangerous battery issue.
Since then they have been able to determine which specific phones have the defective batteries, and they have modified the recall to cover only the affected devices.
If you own a Galaxy Note 7 you can now easily check to see if your phone still falls under the recall notice. You can choose either of two methods for checking your phone’s recall status: [Read more…]
When used with a quality mapping app such as Google Maps, your smart phone’s GPS radio is a powerful device that can help you get where you’re going better than any traditional map ever could.
But it comes with one significant downside: it tends to deplete your phone’s battery charge in a hurry.
GeoLog is a very handy free app that works with your Android phone’s GPS radio to limit its use to when you actually need it. [Read more…]