How to Unlock Your iPhone Using Just Your Voice

In iOS 14.6 and later, Apple includes an accessibility feature that allows you to unlock your iPhone using just your voice. Keep reading to learn how it works and how to set it up on your ‌iPhone‌.

For several years now, Apple’s iOS mobile operating system has included a voice control feature that enables users to control a variety of system functions on their ‌iPhone‌ using only their voice as the trigger.

Until recently, one of the limitations of Voice Control was that it wouldn’t work if your ‌iPhone‌ was locked. In iOS 14.6 and later, however, Apple includes an enhanced version of the feature so that if your ‌iPhone‌ is on the lock screen, you can now use your voice to enter the passcode and unlock it. The following steps show you how to set up Voice Control to unlock your ‌iPhone‌ using a simple speech command.

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How to Stop Discord From Lowering App Volume on Windows

If you are a Discord user, you would have noticed that when running Discord, the volume coming from some other applications lowers significantly. If you are assuming it is an issue, it is actually a feature called Attenuation, and here’s how to fix this and stop Discord from lowering app volume.

However, before we get to the steps, let’s first understand what Attenuation is. Well, Discord’s Attenuation is a handy feature that temporarily lowers the volume coming from other sources/apps. When you have multiple sources of sound, attenuation allows you to pay attention to the primary source.
This feature is built-in on Windows, but it is not as elegant as Discord’s. That said, if you are annoyed by Discord’s Attenuation feature, you can easily turn it off.

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How to Stop Your iPhone’s Side Button From Hanging Up a Call

On iPhone, pressing the Side button ends the current call. But in iOS 16, you can disable this default behavior.

Whenever you make or receive a call on your ‌iPhone‌, you can press the Side button on your handset at any time to end the call. This can be either a convenient method of hanging up, or, if you’re prone to pressing it by accident, an embarrassing way of bringing the conversation to an unintentional and abrupt end. Fortunately, in ‌iOS 16‌ Apple has included an option to disable the end call functionality of the Side button. It works on ‌iPhone‌ 11 models and later, and just requires you to toggle a virtual switch. The following steps show you how it’s done.

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How to Make Someone Server Admin or Owner on Discord

Managing a Discord server is not easy, especially if you run a public server. To alleviate some of the burdens, you might want to assign admin roles to your Discord friends or other server members you trust and allow them to manage the server on your behalf. In case you no longer wish to run the server, Discord also lets you transfer server ownership to someone else.

The process for making someone a server admin or owner is straightforward. This post will show you how to do it on both desktop and mobile.

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How to Browse Anonymously on Reddit

Reddit is one of the most popular social news aggregation websites and has over 330 million monthly active users. However, did you know that Reddit provides users with a unique way to access its content with the Anonymous Browsing feature? Although private browsing has become a myth, Reddit tries to stand out.

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iOS 16: How to Use Multi-Stop Routing in Maps

In iOS 16, Apple Maps has received an update that brings multi-stop routing to the navigation app. With ‌iOS 16‌, currently in beta, the Maps app allows you to plan a route that has multiple stops instead of just a single destination. While Google Maps has had this feature for some time, this is the first version of Apple’s Maps app to include support for it.

When entering a destination, ‌Apple Maps‌ allows you to add up to 15 locations to stop at en route, and the app will navigate you to each stop in turn.

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iOS 16: How to Get Email Reminders in Apple Mail

In iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, currently in beta, Apple’s stock Mail app has been improved with a range of new features, one of which is the ability to get email reminders. This article explains what email reminders are and how to use them.

Apple Mail has a new feature in ‌iOS 16‌ called “Remind Me” that works like the name suggests. If you open an email and don’t have time to respond to it there and then, you can get the Mail app to remind you to return to it later. Using Remind Me, you can select a date and time for Mail to resurface the message in your inbox, thereby ensuring that you don’t forget about it and nothing goes missing. Here’s how to set up a mail reminder in ‌iOS 16‌ and ‌iPadOS 16‌.

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How to protect folder with password on Windows 11

Do you want to protect folders and files with a password?

On Windows 11, you won’t find a feature to add a password to a folder to protect your files because your account is already protected with a password and encryption, and it’s assumed that you will be the only one using it.

However, if you share the computer with others, are concerned about unauthorized access, or want to add another layer of security, you can use the virtual hard disk feature along with BitLocker to protect files and folders with a password on Windows 11.

Windows 11 doesn’t have a feature to protect a folder with a password because the account is already protected with your profile credentials. However, you can use the virtual drive and BitLocker features to create a drive you can secure with a password, which works similarly to a password-protected folder.

  • Create virtual drive to act as a folder
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iOS 16: How to Add Widgets to Your iPhone Lock Screen

With iOS 16, Apple introduced a complete overhaul of the iOS Lock Screen, making it more customizable than ever and able to display information-rich widgets.

Lock Screen Widgets have been the sole preserve of Android phones for a few years now, so it’s good to see that they will finally come to iPhones later this year when ‌‌iOS 16‌‌ is released in the fall. You can customize the Lock Screen with unique fonts, colors, and, for the first time, widgets, providing you with glanceable information that you can check without having to open your ‌iPhone‌’s Home Screen or the Today view.

The widgets that you can add above the time on the Lock Screen include another time zone, a set alarm, the next calendar event, a weather condition, your activity rings, the next reminder, and a chosen stock. You can insert a widget alongside the date above the digital clock on the Lock Screen.

‌Widgets‌ that can be placed below the time are more info-rich and include device battery levels, Calendar, Clock, Fitness, Home, News, Reminders, Stocks, and Weather. You can add up to four square symbol-based widgets below the time, or up to two rectangular widgets with more information, or alternatively a combination of two square widgets and one rectangular widget.

To get started adding widgets, all you need to do is unlock your ‌‌iPhone‌‌ with Face ID or Touch ID, and then long press on the Lock Screen to enter the Lock Screen gallery.

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