After you’ve set up your iPhone and adjusted its settings, it’s likely that you will have set up Face ID and signed into your Apple ID account. Typically your iPhone setup will also allow you to confirm purchases by pressing the side button twice. This makes purchases very easy to complete. But you may not like this behavior, and might prefer a different option. Another way that you can confirm purchases on your iPhone 11 is by entering your passcode....

Fortunately, on your iPhone 7 running iOS 10, pictures that you delete aren’t actually deleted from the phone unless you also take an additional step. If you have not also emptied the Recently Deleted folder in the Photos app on your device, and it hasn’t been very long since the picture was deleted, then there is still a chance that you can recover the deleted picture. How to Return a Picture from the Recently Deleted Folder to Your Camera Roll on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

Once you have configured your iCloud backups, they will occur daily when your iPhone is connected to Wi-Fi and a charger. Unfortunately this could leave you with an incomplete backup, as any data that you have created after the last backup won’t be a part of that backup file. This can be problematic if you are using your iCloud backup to set up a new phone, and you can’t find something new that you added that same day....

Change the Default File Save Format in Excel 2013 While users of Excel 2003 can download a compatibility pack that allows them to open .xlsx files, many users either choose not to download it, or are unaware that it exists. And if you are working with people in this situation on a regular basis, your best course of action may be to adjust the types of files that you create in Excel 2013....

But it can be difficult to manually keep track of which apps have access to your microphone, so it’s fortunate that there is a menu on your iPhone where you can see which apps have access. Our short tutorial below will show you how you can find this information. View the iPhone Apps that Have Access to Your Microphone The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 8....

Fortunately you can configure your iPhone 5 to display all of your owned TV show episodes in the Videos app, allowing you to download episodes from the cloud. View TV Shows On Your Device and in the Cloud in iOS 7 on the iPhone 5 Following the steps below will allow you to view a combined list of the TV episodes that you have downloaded on your phone, as well as the episodes that you own but haven’t downloaded....

Our article continues below with additional information and pictures for each of these steps. The Windows 7 operating system, which was released in July of 2009, offers a lot of different options and settings that one would expect from a modern operating system. You are probably familiar with the way that Windows 7 organizes and displays your files and folders. The most common way to view this information is with Windows Explorer....

While Microsoft Powerpoint is easier to manage when you are presenting on a screen, it can typically look fine when you need to print out a slide show. But you may be wondering how to change your paper size if you are designing a printed presentation and using a non-default paper size. Printing on legal paper can be a little more difficult than it should be in some situations, and you may have found that one of those situations can come up with Microsoft Powerpoint....

But if you have been using the screenshot tool in Powerpoint, you may have noticed that some of those screenshots automatically include a hyperlink. If this is a feature that you don’t want to use, then you can follow the steps in our guide below to turn off that setting. How to Stop Powerpoint from Automatically Hyperlinking Screenshots The steps in this article were performed in the Microsoft Powerpoint for Office 365 version of the application....

Due to the increased length of the screen size on iPhone 6 models, individuals with smaller hands can have difficulty reaching the top of the screen when holding the device with one hand. Apple’s solution to this problem was Reachability, which can be activated by lightly tapping the Home button twice. This is possible to do unintentionally, however, and if you do it a lot, then you may decide that you would like to disable the feature....

These notifications can appear as pop ups on the screen, as banners at the top of the screen, and even on the lock screen. If you are getting a lot of notifications from apps like the calendar, then you might want to change those notification settings a bit. Our tutorial below will show you how ot modify your iPad calendar notifications so that they stop appearing on the lock screen....

Microsoft Edge on the iPhone has its own private mode called “InPrivate Browsing” that you can use when you don’t want the browser to save your history. The steps in this guide will show you how to go back and forth between regular browsing mode and private browsing mode in the Microsoft Edge iPhone app. How to Change Browsing Modes in the Microsoft Edge iPhone Browser The Microsoft Edge app on your iPhone provides you with another way, besides the default Safari browser, to visit Web pages on the Internet....

Our guide below will show you where to find the iTunes account sign-in screen on the device so that you can sign out of the current account, then sign in with a different one. This can be helpful if you currently share an Apple ID with another person, and are finding that apps and files that they purchase are appearing on your device. How to Use a Different iTunes Account on an iPhone 7 The steps in this article were written using an iPhone 7 Plus in iOS 10....

But if you are working on an Excel file that was created or edited by another person, then you might have vertically oriented text that you do not want. Fortunately you can switch from vertical to horizontal with just a few simple steps, which we will guide you through in our short tutorial below. Change from Vertical to Normal Text in Excel 2010 The steps in this article will assume that you have an Excel spreadsheet that contains text which is currently displayed vertically....

Google Docs Disable Auto Formatting of Lists Our article continues below with additional information on the Google Docs disable auto formatting process, including pictures of these steps. Have you ever started typing something into Google Docs that started with a dash, only to have the application automatically start the next line with a dash, too? This is happening because Google Docs thinks you are trying to type a list, so it is helping you out....

Our guide below will show you how to disable background checking in the background for Excel 2013. Once you have completed this tutorial, the setting will be turned off for every workbook that you open in the program. If you only wish to turn it off temporarily, then you will need to follow these steps again to re-enable it after you have completed the action that initially required you to disable it....

Fortunately Do Not Disturb mode can be turned off as easily as it was turned on. Learn how to shut off Do Not Disturb mode on your iPhone with the guide below. Turning Off “Do Not Disturb” in iOS 9 on an iPhone The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.2. These same steps will work for other iPhone models running iOS 7 or higher as well....

But if you no longer wish to use the Genius feature on your iPhone, then you can turn it off. The process for turning off Genius on your iPhone is short and simple, and can be accomplished by following the few simple steps outlined in our tutorial below. Disable Genius on the iPhone These steps were performed in iOS 8 on an iPhone 5. These steps will turn off the Genius feature on your iPhone 5, which means that you will no longer be able to create Genius playlists directly from your iPhone....

You can shut down your iPhone 11 through the Settings menu, or by pressing a combination of side buttons.These steps will also work on other iPhone models that don’t have a Home button, such as the iPhone X or the iPhone 11 Pro Max.If you have an iPhone with a Home button, like an iPhone 8 or an iPhone SE, then you will press the Home button and the Power button together instead....

Disabling Photo Stream in iOS 7 Note that Photo Stream does not count against your iCloud storage space. It is a separate service that is handled differently than the rest of the data that is backed up to your iCloud account. You can find out more about Photo Stream and how it works on Apple’s site here. Additionally, when you turn off the Photo Stream, all of the Photo Stream images will be deleted from your phone....