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Tech tips

iPhone

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📷 Screenshot

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📄 Screenshot full webpage pdf

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🔍 Searching for a word on a website

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🎞 Video screen capture “Screen Recording”

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🎛 Adding things to the "control center" screen

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🧮 Turn your calculator sideways

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📷 Quickly access the camera

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📱Take a photo with the volume button

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🎥 "Live" iPhone photos

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📷☀️ Adjust exposure and focus

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🔍 Searching your photos via subject

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🔍 Search text messages

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🔋 Charging trouble?

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😴 "Downtime" + do-not-disturb + App Limits

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⏰ The best alarm clock sound is only available via the sleep/wake up feature

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♿️ Explore the “Accessibility” menus to e.g. make your screen (even) darker at night

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😴 Sleep timer (for apps without it e.g. 👩‍🏫Masterclass)

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🪄 Send messages with “effects” including obscuring the words or a picture

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✈️ Track someone's flight in real-time

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🗺️ You can also track contacts who have shared their location with you

Apple Desktop/Laptop

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📷 Screenshots

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📂 Space bar to preview files (photos, PDFs, docs)

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🧮 Command+space to use calculator and search

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➡️ Navigating between applications or windows:

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🖼 View options

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😴 Option click on the "notifications" icon in top right corner to silence notifications until midnight

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🖋 Preview + annotations for adding signatures without a printer

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📊 GrandPerspective for a visual on the files taking up space on your hard drive

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🎛 Activity Monitor for identifying what's sucking up your system memory/overworking your CPU

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🙂 control+command+space for a menu of emojis

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🔍 Searching your photos via subject

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📶 Share a (forgotten) WiFi password

General

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Flux

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Using your phone as a scanner via an app (notably better than just taking a picture with your phone)

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Depositing checks via a banking app

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Dealing with Google images

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BackBlaze and/or Dropbox as a digital backup

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Gmail will let you schedule your email so that it sends at e.g. 8:06am Monday morning

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Your Gmail address isn’t affected by periods (and this can be useful)

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“Undo send” in Gmail

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Command+k to insert a hyperlink

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Preventing email tracking

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(I almost put website tracking here, but moved it to 🗃️Useful Services )

Chrome

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Chrome tab pause extension "The Great Discarder"

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Save (and open) a set of tabs at once as bookmarks

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Full webpage capture extension "GoFullPage"

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Generate a hyperlink to any text on a website

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Going to the version of a tab you already have open

Security

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If you only secure one thing, secure your email

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1Password

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When needing to charge your phone in a public place, charge your battery/power bank with the USB port or bring the bit that plugs into a regular outlet