If your iPad won’t charge

If the battery in your iPad doesn’t charge or charges slowly, learn what to do. When your iPad is charging, you see a lightning bolt on the battery iconNo alt supplied for Image in the status bar, or a large battery icon on your Lock screen.

If you don’t see the charging icons, follow these steps.

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How to make your Reddit profile private

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Steam let you make your account private, which means only your followers can see the content you post. On Reddit, a similar feature doesn’t exist, unfortunately. Your profile is always visible to the people who want to access it.

However, that doesn’t mean you have no options to hide certain information on your profile. Reddit does offer a few options to help you control your privacy on the platform. For example, you can prevent your posts from appearing in r/all and your profile in /users. There are a few other tips as well that you can use to make your profile a bit more private.

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How to stop android System from killing background apps

Android manufacturers have a choice. Allow apps to run freely in the background, which may harm battery life, or judiciously kill apps running in the background they think you don’t need. If your phone takes the latter approach, you’ve probably missed notifications from apps being killed.

his problem is so well-documented that the website “don’t kill my app!” was created by app developers. They were sick of hearing complaints from users about their apps not working correctly when the culprit is the phone’s battery “optimizations.” The site ranks Android manufacturers by how badly they manage this. Samsung is a top offender, while Google is one of the best.

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