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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Apple has tools to help you track your iPhone usage. Apple’s Screen Time settings include a bunch of handy things to help you foster healthy phone habits. That includes setting limits for how much you can use apps and checking up on your screen time.
Apple has tools to help you track your iPhone usage. Apple’s Screen Time settings include a bunch of handy things to help you foster healthy phone habits. That includes setting limits for how much you can use apps and checking up on your screen time. Let’s explore this feature.
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First, launch the Settings app from the Home screen. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Settings app
Next, scroll down to Screen Time. See the below image:
Selecting Screen Time option
Now, you will need to turn on Screen Time. Tap Turn On Screen Time to proceed. See the following image:
Enabling Screen Time
Next, a pop-up will appear with information about what you can do with Screen Time. Tap the Continue button at the bottom of the screen. Refer to the below image:
Verbiage about Screen Time
Now, you can choose whether this is your iPhone or your child’s iPhone. For this post, , we are focusing on checking your own Screen Time. See the below image:
Selecting which phone for Screen Time
Next, Screen Time usage is only recorded after you opt-in to the feature. You will not be able to retroactively view past screen time data. However, once you use your phone for a while, you will see data in the chart. Tap See All Activity for a deeper breakdown. See the following image:
Your Screen Time stats
Now, you will see the apps that are taking up that Screen Time. Refer to the below image:
Your Screen Time Most Used apps
To turn off Screen Time, navigate to:
Settings > Screen Time
and scroll down to the bottom. Here, tap on the Turn Off Screen Time option. Note! all your Screen Time stats will be reset.
This is a quick and easy way to get a glimpse at how you are using your phone. These numbers can be surprising to some people.
Quote For the Day
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
Steve Jobs
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Privacy is an important thing to consider when putting all of your conversations into a messaging app. With Facebook Messenger’s Vanish Mode, you can make sensitive messages disappear after the recipient has read them. It’s a nice privacy trick.
Privacy is an important thing to consider when putting all of your conversations into a messaging app. With Facebook Messenger’s Vanish Mode, you can make sensitive messages disappear after the recipient has read them. It’s a nice privacy trick.
Vanish Mode is also available on Instagram and it works exactly the same as Facebook Messenger. The idea is you start Vanish Mode, say what you want to say, then leave Vanish Mode. After your messages have been seen, they disappear.
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First, open Messenger and start a conversation with someone you are friends with. Refer to the below image:
Selecting a friend to start a conversation
Next, while in the conversation view, press down and hold while swiping up from the text box. You will see a little indicator to help you get into Vanish Mode. The tiny dot is barely visible. On the below screenshot, you will notice the top of the screen has changed color. See the below image:
Entering Vanish Mode
Now, on your first use of Vanish Mode, a confirmation screen will be displayed. Tap OK to continue. See the following image:
Vanish Mode confirmation
Next, in Vanish Mode, the background will be dark. You can now have a conversation like you normally would. Refer to the below image:
In Vanish Mode
Now, if you or the recipient takes a screenshot while you are in Vanish Mode, you will be notified. See the below image:
Notification either you or the recipient has taken a screenshot
Next, when you are ready for everything to disappear, tap on Turn Off Vanish Mode. You can also do the swipe-up gesture again. See the following image:
Exiting Vanish Mode
Note!Messenger 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 Messenger needs the Vanish Mode data to take action.
You can also turn on Vanish Mode via the recipient profile. Scroll down to the Privacy & Support section and toggle Vanish Mode to ON. Refer to the below image:
Entering Vanish Mode from recipient profile
Quote For the Day
The reason that Apple is able to create products like the iPad is because we’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts.
Steve Jobs
That’s all there is to it. Think of it like walking into a sound-proof room to have a secret conversation. You can enter Vanish Mode for a while and then leave when you are done.
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Got a new photo and want to show it off to your Instagram followers? Instagram makes it easy to change your profile picture.
Unlike Facebook, you can change your profile picture without posting. There is no notification when you change your profile photo, it just changes. Let’s explore how this is done.
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On your iPhone/iPad or Android phone, use the Instagram app to update your profile picture.
First, launch the Instagram app on your phone. In the app, from the bar at the bottom, select the profile icon (which is the last icon in that row). Refer to the below image:
Accessing your profile
Next, on your profile screen, beneath your profile details, tap the Edit Profile option. See the below image:
Selecting Edit Profile option
Now, beneath your current profile picture, tap Change Profile Photo. See the following image:
Selecting to change profile photo
Next, from the bottom of your app, Instagram will open a Change Profile Photo or Synced Profile Photo menu.
Now, if you want to replace your profile picture with a picture saved on your phone, tap New Profile Photo in the menu. To add a photo from your Facebook profile, tap Import from Facebook.
Tip: Use the Remove Profile Photo option if you simply want to delete the current picture from your Instagram profile.
We will choose the Choose From Library option. Refer to the below image:
Selecting where to get your profile photo
Next, Instagram will open your phone’s gallery. Here, select the photo that you would like to make your profile picture on Instagram. When you select a photo, the app will display editing options that are optional. Tap Done to continue. See the below image:
Selecting your profile photo
Now, Instagram will take you to your profile page, and you will see your new profile picture there. Tap Done to continue. See the following image:
Your new profile photo
Next, if you have enabled Sync profile photo, (from Choose From Library screen above) your new photo will be synced to Facebook. Tap OK to continue. Refer to the below image:
Syncing enabled
Now, go back to the above screen and tap Manage Sync Settings. A confirmation dialog will be displayed regarding your profile photo sync between Facebook and Instagram. See the below image:
Your sync confirmation
Next, exit Instagram.
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Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.
Steve Jobs
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In iOS/iPad OS 15, Apple’s Focus feature lets you set up Focus modes, that when enabled, help reduce distractions and allow you to turn your attention to things more important.
In iOS/iPad OS 15, Apple’s Focus feature lets you set up Focus modes, that when enabled, help reduce distractions and allow you to turn your attention to things more important.
iOS/iPadOS 15 comes with a handful of pre-set Focus modes, like Sleep, Personal, and Work, and you can also create your own custom configurations to filter notifications based on what you are doing. But how do you delete a Focus you no longer use? Let’s explore how to do this.
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Can I Remove Any Focus
Along with the custom Focus, you can also delete the default Personal, Sleep, and Work modes, provided you have set them up. Since Focus syncs to all your devices connected to the same iCloud account, removing one from iPhone or iPad will also erase it from the other devices.
Remove a Focus
First, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad. Refer to the below image:
Accessing the Settings app
Next, scroll down and tap on Focus. See the below image:
Selecting the Focus option
Now, if you want to delete a Focus from just one iPhone or iPad, then you will need to toggle OFF the switch for Share Across Devices. After that, the changes you make to the Focus modes on your iPhone or iPad will not sync to the other devices connected to the same iCloud account. If you want it deleted from all devices, continue on to the next step. See the following image:
Toggle OFF the Share Across Devices for deletion of Focus on one device
Next, on the confirmation pop up, tap OK. Refer to the below image:
Confirm your Share Across Device toggle
Now, tap on a Focus mode you wish to remove. When it opens, scroll down and select Delete Focus. See the below image:
Selecting to delete a Focus
Next, select Delete Focus from the confirmation pop-up window. See the following image:
Deleting a Focus
Repeat the process for each Focus you want to remove, then close the Settings app.
Quote For the Day
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve Jobs
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By default, when you search for something on Google, the site displays 10 results per page. If you would like to see more results, you can increase the results count from a Settings option on Google. (Note! As of this writing, this feature is only available for the desktop).
By default, when you search for something on Google, the site displays 10 results per page. If you would like to see more results, you can increase the results count from a Settings option on Google. (Note! As of this writing, this feature is only available for the desktop). In this blog post, we will show you how easily this is done.
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To view more search results without having to click the next page number for your Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chromebook computer, first, open a web browser on your computer and access the Google site.
At the bottom right-hand corner of the Google site, click Settings. Refer to the below image:
Accessing Google Search Settings
Next, from the pop-up menu that opens, select Search settings. See the below image:
Accessing Search settings option
Now, on the Search Settings page, from the left sidebar, select Search results. See the following image:
Accessing Search results option
Next, on the right pane, you will see a Results per page slider. To increase the number of results per page, drag this slider to the right. Beneath the slider, you will see the number of search results you can enable on Google. Your options are 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 100. (Note! Your searches will be slower if you choose to display more results per page than the default). Refer to the below image:
Setting the slider for the number of search results per page
Now, to save your changes, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and click Save. See the below image:
Save your changes
Next, in the prompt, Your preferences have been saved, click OK. See the following image:
Confirming your changes
You will now see your selected number of search results per page on Google Search on your desktop. If you ever want to modify this option, you can head to the same menu and choose a new number.
Here is a helpful insight on using Google Search for you to consider. As of this writing, Chrome 95 has a bug in its Reading List option. To research, this or any other problem, start with the highest level then drill-down levels. For example, you would enter the following text for the search:
Google Chrome 95 Reading List option Add current tab is dimmed
The highest level is Google, next is Chrome 95, and so on. You will get better search results by following this guideline.
Quote For the Day
When you’re an engineer, you want to analyze things a lot. But if you believe that the most important data points are people, then you have to make conclusions in relatively short order. Because you want to push the people who are doing great. And you want to either develop the people who are not or, in a worst case, they need to be somewhere else.
Tim Cook
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In iOS 15, Apple introduced a range of changes to its native iPhone web browser, Safari. Some of them were controversial, such as the decision to move the URL address bar to the bottom of the screen, but others were less so, and Apple eventually provided options so that you could customize the browser to suit their own preferences.
In iOS 15, Apple introduced a range of changes to its native iPhone web browser, Safari. Some of them were controversial, such as the decision to move the URL address bar to the bottom of the screen, but others were less so, and Apple eventually provided options so that you could customize the browser to suit their own preferences.
One of those options is the ability to disable website tinting. Tinting happens when the color of the Safari interface changes around the tabs, bookmark, and navigation button areas to match the color of the website you are viewing.
The idea behind tinting is that it allows the browser interface to fade into the background and create a more immersive experience. However, the effect does not sit well with everyone, and some users are put off by it. Fortunately, Apple chose to include an option to turn it off. It’s easy to disable this feature, let’s find out.
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On the iPhones X and later models with a notch, it’s pretty prominent. But the older iPhone models will only see it while scrolling.
First, open the Settings app on your iPhone or iPad, Refer to below image:
Accessing Settings app
Next, scroll down to Safari, and select it. See below image:
Accessing Safari option
Now, scroll down till you see the Tabs section. From there, toggle OFF (it is ON by default) the switch for Allow Website Tinting. See the following image:
Disable Tinting feature
Next, close the Settings app. You will have to force quit Safari on your iPhone or iPad and reopen it to see the change.
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Steve Jobs
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For years, Apple devices have made it easy to share nearly anything. Website links, videos, photos; you name it, chances are it’s easy to share via Messages, especially if you are sharing with other Apple users. Finding the media and links others share with you was not always easy until now.
For years, Apple devices have made it easy to share nearly anything. Website links, videos, photos; you name it. Chances are it’s easy to share via Messages, especially if you are sharing with other Apple users. Finding the media and links others share with you was not always easy until now. Let’s explore this feature.
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What is Shared with You
Shared with You is a feature built into multiple apps on both iPhone and iPad that automatically gathers together any content your contacts have sent you. It works in Messages, but is also built into Apple Music, Apple TV, Podcasts, Photos, and Safari.
This feature works in two ways. First, you can easily view all the various media a contact has shared with you in Messages. Second, you can view all the Apple TV shows, for example, that all of your contacts have shared with you, directly inside that app.
Shared with You is a new feature as of iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 or higher, but it works with content sent from older iOS and iPadOS versions. It will even work automatically with some content sent from other devices.
How to Use in Messages
The easiest way to use Shared with You is not all that different from how you would find a friend’s recommendations. First, open the Messages app, then find a conversation with the person whose content you wish to see. Refer to below image:
A Contact to share with
Now, on this screen you will see some of the contact’s details as you would have before. At the bottom of the screen, you will now notice a new section with media that contact has shared with you. See below image for sharing of Links:
Sharing a link
How to Use in Safari
Shared with You makes it easy to see all the links to various websites and articles that contacts have sent you.
First, open Safari, then open a new tab to get to the Start Page. Now, scroll down until you see the Shared with You section. Tap any of the links here to open them in a new tab. See the following image:
Safari Shared with You section
If you do not see a Shared with You section, you might not have it enabled in the Start Page.
To enable the Shared with You section, next, scroll to the bottom of the StartPage and tap Edit. Refer to below image:
Accessing Edit to enable Shared with You
Now, find and enable the Shared with You toggle. See below image:
Enable/disable Shared with You
How to Use in Other Apps
While the Messages app provides the easiest way to see everything a given contact has shared, it’s not the only way to use Shared with You. You can also see content shared by your contacts in any supported app.
As of this writing, Shared With You is available for Apple TV, Messages, Photos, Podcasts, and Music.
Too Much Sharing
We all know people who seem to share everything they stumble across on social media. If you know more than one of that sort of person, they could quickly overwhelm you with notifications and content.
The good news is that if you are not interested in seeing some or all Shared with You content, you can turn it off. You can either disable Shared with You entirely or simply turn off the feature on a per-app basis.
First, to disable Shared with You features, open the Settings app. See following image:
Accessing Settings app
Now, go to Messages. Refer to below image:
Accessing Messages option
Next, tap Shared With You. See the below image:
Accessing Shared with You
Here you can customize whether you want to use Shared with You at all or only in certain apps. See following image:
Enable/disable Shared with You
Quote For the Day
As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs
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With the introduction of iOS 15, Apple revamped its paid iCloud plans to “iCloud+” to reflect the fact that subscribers now get access to additional privacy features like Hide My Email.
With the introduction of iOS 15, Apple revamped its paid iCloud plans to “iCloud+” to reflect the fact that subscribers now get access to additional privacy features like Hide My Email.
This feature builds on the idea of Sign in With Apple by providing you with unique, random email addresses that forward to your personal inbox whenever you want to keep your personal email address private. Let’s explore how to set up Hide my Email feature.
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The Requirements
To use the Hide My Email feature, you need an iCloud+ or Apple One subscription. (Even the $0.99 per month subscription works.) You will also need an email address. Additionally, your iPhone or iPad must be running iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 (or higher.
It’s worth noting that Hide My Email originally debuted as part of the Sign in With Apple service that shipped with iOS 13 in 2019. If you do not have a paid iCloud+ account, you can still use Hide My Email as part of Sign in With Apple for free.
Privacy Breches
Is your email being comprised? If you are like millions of others, your email is comprised. Most major carriers have a mobile security app. We are using AT&T Mobile Security where we have comprised emails. Refer to the below image:
Our AT&T comprised emails
To find out if you have comprised passwords, head to:
Settings > Passwords > Security Recommendations
and tap an entry to see additional information. See the below image where our email address has been comprised for time.com:
Our comprised passwords
Create “Hide my Email”
To use Hide My Email, you will need to access your iCloud options in the Settings app. First, open Settings on your iPhone or iPad by tapping the grey gear icon, usually on your Home screen. See the following image:
Selecting Settings
Next, tap your Apple ID name at the very top of Settings. Refer to the below image:
Accessing your Apple ID
Now, in Apple ID settings, tap iCloud. See the below image:
Accessing iCloud
Next, in iCloud settings, tap Hide My Email. If you do not see it listed, then you are not subscribed to iCloud+ or Apple One. See the following image:
Accessing Hide My Email option
Now, tap the Create New Address link. Refer to the below image:
Selecting to create a new address
Next, tap Continue if you have yet to create an address. See the below image:
Selecting to continue
A potential email address will be randomly generated.
Now, type in a label for the address you just generated. We suggest using the name of the service you will be providing the random email address to (“Outlook,” for example). You can also make a note in a text box below the label. When you are done, tap Next in the upper right-hand corner of the window. See the following image:
Adding a Label for your new address
Next, on the All Set screen, you will confirm that a unique random email address has been created. Tap Done to continue.
Now, tap the Forward To to view a list of email addresses. Refer to the below image:
Selecting Forward To option
Next, select one from the list. When finished, tap Done in the upper right-hand corner. See the below image:
Selecting a Forward To entry
Now, you are ready to use your new email address. When a service asks for your email address, just type in the random one provided by Apple. You will receive emails from it as you normally would, but with one exception: It will have Hide My Email listed in the To field. From here, exit Settings.
Next, open your email service and create an email. See the following image:
Create an email using the new email address
The new email will be displayed in your Inbox. Note! We created an email to ourselves. Refer to the below image:
Your newly created email in your Inbox
Now, navigate back to:
Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Hide My Email
If you want to create another address, tap Create New Address. Or if you need to adjust which email address your Hide My Email addresses will forward to, tap Forward To.
Next, you will see the address you just created listed (alone with other addresses) on the Hide my Email screen.
Now, tap on your newly created entry. In our example, we are using Outlook. See the below image:
Accessing your labeled email
Please note, if you reply to an email forwarded from Hide My Email, the recipient will see your regular email address, not the random one, so you can not use it to hide your identity in a two-way conversation. Apple-designed Hide My Email as a one-way system, mostly for protection from commercial spam.
Deactivate/Delete “Hide my Email”
If you need to remove or delete a Hide My Email address on your iPhone or iPad, you can either deactivate it or delete it completely.
Next, on the detail screen for the email address, scroll down to the bottom and select Deactivate Email Address. See the following image:
Selecting to Deactivate an email address
Now, confirm again in the pop-up by tapping Deactivate. Refer to the below image:
Confirming to Deactivate
Next, the deactivated email address will move into an Inactive Addresses section on the:
Settings > Apple ID > iCloud > Hide My Email
screen. To reactivate the address later, tap its name in that list, then select Reactivate Address. To delete the Hide My Email address permanently, tap Delete Address. See the below image:
Selecting to Delete an email address
After confirming, that particular Hide My Email address will be deleted. It will not affect any emails you have in your Inbox or any of your other email accounts or addresses. If you need to delete another Hide My Email address, repeat the process above.
Quote For the Day
Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.
Steve Jobs
That’s it. It’s somewhat daunting to set up this Hide my Email feature, but worth your time. Please feel free to share this post! One way to share is via Twitter.
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Microsoft is leading the way for a passwordless future. You no longer are required passwords to login to your Microsoft account as you can now use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key or a verification code sent via SMS or email.
Microsoft is leading the way for a passwordless future. You no longer are required passwords to login to your Microsoft account as you can now use the Microsoft Authenticator app, Windows Hello, a security key or a verification code sent via SMS or email. Let’s explore how to setup this feature.
The company has been preparing for a passwordless future for quite some time and its reason behind is the fact that passwords can be easily manipulated.
Vasu Jakkal, Corporate VP of Microsoft’s Security, Compliance and Identity, said “Weak passwords are the entry point for the majority of attacks across enterprise and consumer accounts. There are a whopping 579 password attacks every second—that’s 18 billion every year,” Jakkal added.
This is for devices using Microsoft Account. Screenshots are from iPhone XR.
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First, install the Microsoft Authenticator app and link it to your Microsoft account. There are several authenticator apps, ensure you install the correct one from Microsoft. Refer to below image:
Download and install the Microsoft Authenticator app
Next, open your Microsoft account. See below image:
Your Microsoft account
Now, scroll down to Advanced security section and toggle on Passwordless account. See following image:
Setting Passwordless account option
Then follow the on-screen prompts and approve the notification from the Authenticator app.
Your Microsoft account is now passwordless. You can always go back to using a password for your account.
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