Placing a Call from the iPhone 5 in iOS 7 Navigating the menus on the iPhone 5 can take a little getting used to when you are not familiar with the device, so locating the numeric keypad that you need to place calls might be difficult. The steps outlined below will help you learn how to place a call on your iPhone. Step 1: Tap the Phone icon. Step 2: Select the Keypad option at the bottom of the screen....

Notice I didn’t say 1.7 trillion good photos. I’m sure you know what I’m talking about… Just because we all carry a camera in our pocket and take a few dozen photos a day doesn’t make us good photographers. This takes knowledge of photography, your camera, and practice! In the past, we’ve published several tips on how to improve your photography skills, and today we’re going to dive deeper and review a few things you should bear in mind if you want to take better photos with your iPhone....

But if you find that this isn’t enough time, or that you would simply prefer to have the screen on for a longer amount of time, then you might be interested in changing this setting. Our guide below will show you where to find it and adjust it so that your watch will remain on for 70 seconds after it was last tapped. You can also read our article on how to make your screen stay on longer if you want to make that change for your iPhone, too....

Instead of broadcasting to the world, you might want to make your Twitter account private. That allows your tweets only to be seen by your followers and can’t be retweeted. In addition, your older tweets will be protected too. If you want to protect your tweets, you can make your Twitter account private to have a modicum of privacy on the social media network. This guide will show you how....

Windows 11 puts your device into a low-power mode that shuts down specific hardware (including your screen) to save battery power. It also allows you to get back to your work more quickly than if it were in Hibernate Mode. If you aren’t happy with the default Sleep Mode settings, you can adjust it for what works best for you. Here’s how. Manage Sleep Mode on Windows 11 To manage your Sleep Mode settings on Windows 11, you’ll need to open the Settings menu....

With multiple inboxes, you can split up your main inbox into sections. Add the sections you want to use, and each time you open Gmail, you’ll see what you want quicker and easier. This can eliminate the need for filters, searches, and even labels depending on your preferred setup. Let’s walk through how to create multiple inboxes and the options you have. Enable Multiple Inboxes in Gmail The first part of setting up multiple inboxes is to enable the feature....

One way to manage this “contact bloat” is to merge some of your contacts together. Our guide below will show you how to use the “link contacts” feature on your iPhone to merge multiple contacts into one. Merging Two Contacts on an iPhone 6 The steps in this article were performed on an iPhone 6 Plus, in iOS 9.2. These steps will work for iPhone models using iOS 7 or higher....

If you want to free up more space in your Google Photos account, MultCloud can help you transfer the data in Google Photos to other different clouds. MultCloud, a cloud manager combines more than 30+ cloud services, including Google Photos, One Drive and Google Drive etc. You can save space by transferring or syncing images from Google Photos to other cloud service. In addition, it will integrate all the free cloud space to storage and never waste any idle space of paid account....

So while you may not wish to stop watching YouTube videos with cellular data, you might be looking for a way to minimize the amount of data that it consumes. Our guide below will show you one way to accomplish this by only showing HD content in the YouTube app when you are connected to a Wi-Fi network. Play HD on Wi-Fi Only in the iPhone YouTube App Device used: iPhone 6 Plus Software version: ioS 9....

Our article continues below with additional information and pictures for the steps. Making the information in your Powerpoint slideshow look good is an important part of the presentation. You can do things like adding pictures and videos to the slideshow, but you can also format your text in a number of ways that are visually appealing. Our guide below will show you how to outline text in Powerpoint which will add a color around the text and make it stand out....

Do you have an iPhone? our guide on the confetti effect iPhone feature discusses an interesting thing you can do with iMessages. How to Set Up Multi-Room Music on Your Echos and Echo Dots Step 2: Touch the menu icon at the top-left of the screen. Step 3: Choose the Settings option. Step 4: Scroll down and select the Multi-Room Music option. Step 5: Select from one of the default name options, or create your own custom group name, then tap the Next button....

But going through and re-selecting those settings each time you want to take a picture can be tedious, so you might be wondering if it’s possible to get your iPhone’s camera app to save those settings. You can preserve the filter settings on your iPhone by going to Settings > Camera > Preserve Settings > Creative Controls. While you can certainly take good pictures on your iPhone by using the default camera settings, you might have a preferred aesthetic for the images you capture that requires some adjustments....

The steps below are meant for an iPhone using the iOS 6 operating system. If your iPhone is using iOS 7, you can read this article instead. How Do I Change My iPhone Lock Screen Picture? The process for setting your lock screen image is similar to the the process for setting your wallpaper or background, so you can take this opportunity to set a picture for those settings as well....

But creating a new checklist in the Notes app requires several steps, and you may be looking for a faster way to create a new one. Our tutorial below will show you a fast way to make a checklist on your iPhone that uses a special menu that you can access via the 3D Touch feature of the device. How to Create a New Checklist on an iPhone 7 The steps in this guide were performed on an iPhone 7 Plus, in iOS 10....

The header section of a document is typically used to display important information that repeats on each page, such as a page number, author name, or document title. But if you don’t need that information, or you have added it and feel like the header is still too large, then you can follow the steps below to decrease the size of the header in Google Docs. Find out how to create a Google Docs newsletter if your organization wants to send something to all of its members or clients....

If someone else was using your iPad and increased the text size, or if you have simply always thought the text was too large, then you may find the smaller amount of information that fits on the device screen to be a problem. Fortunately you can reduce the text size on your iPad 2 to a level that is best for you. Make Text Smaller on the iPad The steps in this article were performed in iOS 8, on an iPad 2....

Fortunately you have some control over which types of files are included, which allows you to reduce the overall file size so that you can complete the iCloud backup. Remove Items from iPhone iCloud Backup This article was written in iOS 8, on an iPhone 5. The steps below will show you how to remove certain types of files from the iCloud backup for your iPhone. This means that these files will not be included when the next iCloud backup is created, and you will not have a backup copy of them in case you need to restore from it....

Our guide below will show you where to find the setting that allows you to delete a watermark in the background of your spreadsheet, as well as another place you can look if there is a specific type of watermark that you are trying to eliminate. How to Delete a Watermark in Excel 2013 The steps in this guide were written using Microsoft Excel 2013. This guide assumes that you currently have a watermark on your spreadsheet, and that you wish to remove it....

You might prefer that these anchors don’t show up in your document. You may even want to turn off anchoring completely so that your images move independently of your text. If you want to learn how to remove an anchor in Word, follow the steps below. What is an Anchor in Word? Word uses the anchor symbol to indicate that an image is tied to the text at a specific point in your document....

Removing Name and Initials form a Word 2010 File When we talk about the author name and initials in a Word 2010 document, we are talking about the ones that you entered when first installing Microsoft Word 2010. You can read more about them and how to change them in this article. This information is typically displayed when you hover over a Word file, or if you open the Properties menu for the file and click the Details tab....