smartphones
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How Life Is Better Without Notifications
Notifications have gotten out of control. What started as a necessary means to keep tabs on important updates from apps and services has spiraled into a tangled mess of spam and unnecessary alerts, by default. We can’t do anything on our smartphones without being interrupted by notification after notification, with the same being true on…
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This TikTok Is Right About Never Closing your iPhone Apps
Helping your parents with their iPhone is the bane of your existence. They can’t figure out FaceTime, they expect you to know all of their passwords, and, of course, they never quit their apps. After all, swiping up on your apps is the best way to make sure your iPhone runs fast and uses less…
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Your Android Can Have Its Own ‘Dynamic Island’
Many people don’t like the camera cutouts that take up space on our smartphone screens. We’ve seen some ambitious applications for these cutouts in the past, like turning it into an old-school notification LED, but Apple takes the creative cake with the iPhone 14 Pro’s Dynamic Island. And while it’s entirely possible thatGoogle is working…
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How to Make Apple Music Less Agonizingly Slow
Apple Music’s app is one of its biggest weaknesses of its app-based streaming service, which seems…not ideal. Whether you’re on your iPhone or your Mac, the app has never been known for being particularly snappy; Reddit users in particular love to complain about it. If you’ve found the Apple Music app to be agonizingly slow,…