Facebook’s dark mode on iPhone turns your entire social media experience dark, giving profiles, pages, newsfeeds, and everything else, a sleek appearance.
Facebook’s dark mode on iPhone turns your entire social media experience dark, giving profiles, pages, newsfeeds, and everything else, a sleek appearance. Let’s explore how to set this feature.
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First, launch the Facebook app on your phone.
Next, in the app’s bottom bar, tap the hamburger Menu icon (the three horizontal lines icon). Refer to the below image:
Accessing the Menu
Now, on the Menu page, in the top-right corner, tap Settings & Privacy (the gear icon). See the below image:
Accessing Menu Settings
Next, on the Settings & Privacy page, from the Preferences section, select Dark Mode. See the following image:
Accessing Dark Mode option
Now, a Dark Mode page will open. Here, you have various ways to control the mode:
On: Enable this option to activate dark mode in the Facebook app.
Off: Turn off dark mode with this option.
System: This option uses your phone’s default mode, which means if you have enabled dark mode on your iPhone, the Facebook app will also use dark mode. The same applies to light mode.
Refer to the below image:
Enabling Dark Mode
And instantly, the Facebook app will turn dark. See the below image where we have the dark mode set to System. See the below image:
Your Facebook in Dark Mode
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Zig Ziglar
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Did you hide some photos on your iPhone but you are not sure where those photos are? It’s easy to see those hidden photos on an iPhone. Let’s explore how this is done.
Note: Respect other people’s privacy when using this knowledge, as they have their own reasons for hiding photos on their iPhones.
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View iPhone’s Hidden Photos
To view your hidden photos, first, launch the Photos app on your iPhone. At the bottom of the Photos app, tap Albums. Refer to the below image:
Accessing photo Albums
Next, on the Albums page, scroll down to the bottom. There, in the Other Albums section, tap Hidden.
On certain iOS versions, the Hidden album is located in the Utilities section as shown below.
Note: If you do not see the Hidden album option, the album itself might be hidden. To enable it, follow the steps in the section below.
See the below image:
Accessing the Hidden option
Now, the Hidden album screen shows all your hidden photos and videos. If none is displayed, you have no hidden photos or videos. See the following image:
Selecting a hidden photo
Next, to unhide a photo or video, tap that item on the list. When the item opens in full-screen, in the bottom left-hand corner, tap the Share icon. Refer to the below image:
Accessing the Share icon
Now, in the Share menu, tap Unhide. See the below image:
Unhide your photo
Next, your selected photo or video is now visible to everyone in Photos.
If you are not finding the photos you were looking for, consider trying to recover deleted photos on your iPhone or iPad.
Enable the Hidden Album
On iOS 14 and later, you can turn off the Hidden album in the Photos app. To re-enable that album, you will have to change an option in your iPhone’s Settings.
To do so, first, open the Settings app on your iPhone and tap Photos. See the following image:
Accessing Photos
Next, toggle the Hidden Album option to ON. Refer to the below image:
Enable Hidden Album option
Now, your album is now visible in the Photos app, and you can access your hidden photo(s).
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Zig Zigler
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Even if you are already filtering unknown senders in Messages on iPhone, you still might see notifications every time you get a text from an unknown number. To stop that and silence the annoying notifications, you will need to make a change in Settings.
Even if you are already filtering unknown senders in Messages on iPhone, you still might see notifications every time you get a text from an unknown number. To stop that and silence the annoying notifications, you will need to make a change in Settings. Let’s explore how to do this.
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First, open Settings (the grey gear icon, usually on your Home Screen). Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, on Settings, scroll down and tap Notifications. See the below image:
Accessing Notifications
Now, in Notifications, tap Messages. See the following image:
Accessing Messages
Next, in Messages notification settings, scroll down to the very bottom and tap Customize Notifications. Refer to the below image:
Selecting Customize Notifications
Now, in Customize Notifications, flip the toggle beside Unknown Senders to the OFF position. See the below image:
Disable Unknown Senders
Next, exit Settings. Now, we want to enable Filter Unknown Senders. Head to:
Settings > Messages > Filter Unknown Senders
and flip the toggle to ON. See the following image:
Enable Filter Unknown Senders
Now, you will no longer receive notifications when unknown senders text you.
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Jack Welch
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Unsure which phone numbers you have blocked on your iPhone? You can easily check your blocked number list using Phone, Messages, and FaceTime settings on your phone.
Unsure which phone numbers you have blocked on your iPhone? You can easily check your blocked number list using Phone, Messages, and FaceTime settings on your phone. Let’s explore your blocked list.
Note: The list of blocked numbers will be the same no matter which app you use to view them.
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Blocked Numbers in Phone App
To see your blocked phone numbers list with Phone, first, open the Settings app (the gray gear icon) on your iPhone. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, in Settings, tap the Phone option. See the below image:
Accessing Phone option
Now, on the Phone page, in the Calls section, tap Call Blocking & Identification or Blocked Contacts as shown in the following image:
Accessing Blocked Contacts option
Next, on the Call Blocking & Identification (or BlockedContacts) screen, you will see all your blocked numbers. Refer to the below image:
Your Blocked Contacts in the Phone app
Blocked Numbers in Messages App
To use Messages to view your blocked numbers, first, open the Settings app on your iPhone and tap the Messages option. See the below image:
Accessing Messages option
Next, in the Messages menu, from the SMS/MMS section, select BlockedContacts. See the following image:
Accessing Blocked Contacts option
Now, the Blocked Contacts screen displays all your blocked numbers. Refer to the below image:
Your Blocked Contacts in the Messages app
Blocked Numbers in FaceTime App
Checking the blocked numbers list with FaceTime is also easy. To do so, first, open the Settings app on your iPhone and tap FaceTime. See the below image:
Accessing FaceTime option
Next, on the FaceTime page, in the Calls section at the bottom, tap BlockedContacts. See the following image:
Accessing Blocked Contacts
Now, on the screen that opens, you will see all your blocked numbers Refer to the below image:
Your Blocked Contacts in FaceTime app
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Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett
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Netflix is going heavy on mobile games. The company added two more games to its service, bringing the total up to 12.
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You do not need to do anything special to get these games on your Netflix account (which is good since Netflix just increased its price again. Maybe that’s why its stock value dropped). As long as you are a Netflix subscriber, you need to download the games on Android or iPhone, and you will be able to play them without spending anything extra.
Here’s a quick look at the games currently available as part of a Netflix subscription:
Arcanium: Rise of Akhan – Card battle game in the vane of Hearthstone
Krispee Street – Hidden Object game based on a popular webcomic
Asphalt Xtreme – Off-road racing game
Bowling Ballers – Endless runner meets bowling game
Card Blast – Poker-based card game
Dominoes Café – Dominoes game with various modes
Knittens – Cat-based match-three puzzle
Shooting Hoops – Basketball and dart hybrid game
Stranger Things: 1984 – Retro-styled adventure games based in Stranger Things universe
Stranger Things 3: The Game – Official game for the third season of Stranger Things
Teeter (Up) – Ball manipulating puzzle game
Wonderputt Forever – Mini golf game
If you are a Netflix subscriber with an Android or Apple device, you might as well download these games and see if any of them work for you, as they are included in the subscription you are already paying for.
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Zig Ziglar
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Tired of getting robocalls all day long on your iPhone? Your iPhone lets you silence the harassment by turning on a feature called Silence Unknown Callers in Settings.
Tired of getting robocalls all day long on your iPhone? Your iPhone lets you silence the harassment by turning on a feature called Silence Unknown Callers in Settings. Let’s explore this nifty feature.
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What is an Unknown Caller
On your iPhone, an unknown caller is someone who is not in your Contacts list, which is an address book stored on your device that can be accessed through the Phone or Contacts apps. If you have called a number recently, your iPhone will not consider that number an unknown caller if they call you back.
Apple includes a feature with iOS 13 and up that allows you to silence rings and notifications from unknown callers, which is covered below. This does not include numbers you have called recently. Otherwise, if you want a caller not to be considered unknown (and thus not be silenced) you will need to add the number to your iPhone’s Contacts.
How to Silence Unknown Callers
First, to silence these calls, open Settings on your iPhone by tapping the grey gear icon on your Home screen. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, in Settings, scroll down and tap Phone. See the below image:
Accessing Phone option
Now, in Phone settings, tap SilenceUnknown Callers. See the following image:
Accessing Silence Unknown Callers option
Next, in Silence Unknown Callers settings, enable the switch beside Silence Unknown Callers to ON. Refer to the below image:
Enable Silence Unknown Callers
Now, exit Settings. The next time you get a call from an unknown number, you will not hear a ring or a notification sound. The call will be sent to voicemail, and it will appear in your recent calls list in the Phone app. You may still get a notification if the caller leaves a voicemail.
If you are expecting an important call from an unknown number in the future, open
Settings > Phone > Silence Unknown Callers
and then switch Silence Unknown Callers to OFF. Incoming calls will no longer be silenced.
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Warren Buffett
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Instead of flipping photos after taking selfies, you can capture “mirror selfies” automatically as they appear in the preview on your iPhone. Let’s explore this feature.
The Camera app on the iPhone packs several features, including an option to automatically take mirror selfies. This feature is available on iPhones running at least iOS 14 or later.
First, open the Settings app on your iPhone. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, in Settings, scroll down and tap Camera. See the below image:
Accessing the Camera
Now, scroll down to the Composition section and toggle the switch for Mirror Front Camera to ON. (On some iPhones, this option might be labeled Mirror Front Photos.) See the following image:
Enabling the Mirror Front Camera toggle
Next, open the Camera app on your iPhone. Turn the camera to face yourself and snap a selfie. The saved image will appear as you see yourself in the mirror, instead of flipped as it usually is. Note that your front camera automatically mirrors the front camera viewfinder, so this setting only affects the image that’s saved to your photo library.
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To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.
Stephen Covey
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While using apps on your iPhone, these apps are often busy behind the scenes, using sensors and contacting internet domains without your knowledge. With iOS 15.2 or later, you can see a detailed report of these activities with the App Privacy Report.
While using apps on your iPhone, these apps are often busy behind the scenes, using sensors and contacting internet domains without your knowledge. With iOS 15.2 or later, you can see a detailed report of these activities with the App Privacy Report. Let’s find out.
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First, open Settings by tapping the grey gear icon. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings
Next, on the Settings screen, tap Privacy. See the below image:
Accessing Privacy option
Now, in the Privacy settings, scroll down to the very bottom and tap App Privacy Report. See the following image:
Accessing App Privacy Report option
If you have not enabled Record App Activity, tap Turn On App Privacy Report link. Refer to the below image:
Enabling App Privacy Report
If you just enabled App Privacy Report, you will need to use your iPhone for a few days and let the App Privacy Report feature gather data. After that time (or if you have been using the Record App Activity feature in earlier versions of iOS 15), you will see a detailed report about Data & Sensor Access, App Network Activity, Website Network Activity, and Most Contacted Domains. Here’s what each section means:
Data & Sensor Access: This shows how many times an app accessed your iPhone’s sensors (and when), such as camera, location, contacts, screen recording, media library, photo library, or microphone.
App Network Activity: This shows how many internet domains an app has contacted and when each contact took place. It includes domains contacted directly by the app and those referenced by content within the app, such as websites that might pull in content from other domains.
Website Network Activity: This section shows the internet domains that have been contacted by websites you visited through a web browser within an app.
Most Contacted Domains: This shows a ranking of the internet domains that have been contacted the most by your apps. On the internal App Privacy Report details page in iOS 15.2 or higher, Apple notes that high-ranking domains on this list might be used by multiple apps to build a profile of you across different apps or services.
See the below image:
Your report
Next, at any time, you can tap any entry on the list to see more details. Tap Show All at the bottom of each privacy report section to get a complete list. See the following image:
Accessing Show All option
App Privacy Report Can Be a Risk
Enabling App Privacy Report on your iPhone will keep a detailed record of your internet activities on your iPhone (that is stored on your device). If you allow another person to access your iPhone, they can get a very detailed look at what you have been doing with your iPhone on the
Settings > Privacy > App Privacy
report page. If that’s the case, you might want to make sure that App Privacy Report is disabled.
Turn Off App Privacy Report
To disable App Privacy Report, navigate to
Settings > Privacy > App Privacy
then scroll down to the bottom of the page and tap Turn Off App Privacy Report. Refer to the below image:
Disabling App Privacy Report
After that, click OK in the pop-up message, and all existing privacy report activity will be deleted.
If your iPhone is locked down and never shared, App Privacy Report is a great tool to keep an eye on what apps have been doing behind the scenes.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E Frankl
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On Instagram, if you do not want someone’s updates to appear in your news feed anymore, you can unfollow them in your account. Let’s explore this feature.
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When You Unfollow Someone
Unfollowing someone on Instagram basically means unsubscribing from their profile updates. Instagram does not notify the user when you unfollow them.
Later, if you change your mind, you can always re-follow the unfollowed account. You can also remove people who follow you on Instagram.
Unfollow Using Mobile
On your iPhone or Android device, use the Instagram app to unfollow people.
First, launch the Instagram app on your phone. You can use the Spotlight Search (your first screen) to locate the app. Just enter Instagram in the search box and tap the resulting Instagram icon. Refer to the below image:
Using Spotlight Search to find the Instagram app
Next, at the bottom of the app, tap the profile icon (the last icon in the bottom bar). See the below image:
Selecting your profile icon
Now, at the top of your profile page, tap Following. This will display the users that you follow on Instagram. See the following image:
Selecting the number of people you follow
Next, in the Following list, find the account you want to unfollow. Then, next to that account, tap Following. In our example, we are Following 92 people. Refer to the below image:
Choosing a person to unfollow
Now, Instagram will remove your selected account from your Following list. The Following option is now turned into Follow, which means you have successfully unfollowed that account on Instagram and, in our example, the account changed to Following 91 persons.. See the below image:
Unfollowing the person
Now, if you would like to unfollow someone from their profile, then on their profile, tap Following and select Unfollow from the menu that opens In our example, we tapped the profile icon for louicmoreno, selected the Following drop-down box, then chose Unfollow from the menu. See the following image:
Unfollow a person from their profile
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I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Thomas A Edison
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Instagram is a popular outlet for spontaneous texts thanks to its variety of filters and options. These are also the kind of conversations you do not want others to save permanently.
Instagram is a popular outlet for spontaneous texts thanks to its variety of filters and options. These may be the kind of conversations you do not want others to save permanently. Let’s explore how to make the messages disappear.
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For creating self-destructing texts, Instagram offers a feature called Vanish Mode on its messaging service. An identical feature can be found in FacebookMessenger. Any text or media you send in Vanish Mode is automatically removed as soon as the recipient sees it.
First, make sure you have the latest version of the Instagram app on your Android or iPhone.
Next, open the Instagram app on your phone and swipe in from the left edge of the screen (or tap the text bubble button at the top right) to view a list of your messages. Refer to the below image:
Selecting to view messages
Now, perform a swipe-up gesture above the text box to activate Vanish Mode. Once that’s successful, Instagram will update your chat background with a darker shade and throw in a few animations to let you know Vanish Mode is active. See the below image:
Activating Vanish Mode by swiping up on a text box
Next, in Vanish Mode, you can continue to chat normally and send messages in all the usual formats, like direct stories, voice clips, and more. See the following image:
You are in Vanish Mode
The difference is that once you swipe up again to leave Vanish Mode and the other person reads whatever you have sent, Instagram will delete those messages. Refer to the below image:
Exiting Vanish Mode by swiping up
Now, while the recipient is free to take a screenshot of your messages in Vanish Mode, Instagram will notify you if and when they do.
Note! Instagram retains your Vanish Mode media and texts for up to an hour after they have been deleted. This is in case the recipient files a report for abuse and harassment and Instagram needs the Vanish Mode data to take action.
Quote For the Day
When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.
Steve Jobs
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