How to Wipe (Securely Erase) Your Devices Before Disposing of or Selling Them

Be sure to wipe your storage drives, laptops, smartphones, tablets, and anything that potentially contained sensitive files before getting rid of it. Whether you’re disposing of it, selling it, or giving it away, you should securely erase your data first.

This is necessary because it’s possible to recover deleted files from many types of drives. Data isn’t always immediately removed from an underlying drive if you delete it in the normal way.

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How to Send Directions From Google Maps on Desktop to Your Phone

Google Maps for iPhone and Android is great, but sometimes the journey begins on your desktop computer. Thankfully, it’s super easy to send those directions to your phone. You can pick things up there and be on your way. All you will need to do first is make sure you’re signed in with the same Google account in Google Maps on the desktop and your iPhone, iPad, or Android device. In fact, if you have your phone number or email address hooked up to your Google account, you don’t even need the Maps app at all.

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How to Launch Multiple Apps at Once on Windows 10

If you tend to open certain apps together on your PC, you can save yourself a few clicks by having all your selected apps open with a double-click. We’ll show you how to do this in Windows 10. To make multiple apps launch at once, you will make a batch file. This file will contain paths to your apps. When you double-click and run this batch file, it will launch all your apps one by one.

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How to Check Screen Time on iPhone

Screen Time on an iPhone.

People love iPhones, but they don’t always love how much they use their iPhones. Apple has tools to help you track your usage. We’ll show you how to see how much you look at your screen every day.

Apple’s “Screen Time” settings include a bunch of handy things to help you foster healthy phone habits. That includes setting limits for how much you can use apps and checking up on your screen time.

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