When you open WhatsApp, instead of the home screen with chat threads, the app showcases, unfortunately, WhatsApp has stopped and doesn’t respond to your touch inputs. It can be frustrating, especially when you compose a new message or want to reply to existing ones. 1. Force Stop WhatsApp WhatsApp continues to run in the background to notify you about the latest messages, calls, and other activities. If the app isn’t behaving as expected, you need to force stop it and open it again....

Overnight battery drain isn’t a desirable situation for anyone. No one likes to start the morning route with a power bank or a car charger. You can easily avoid such a situation by following the tips below. 1. Disable Personal Hotspot If you frequently use a personal hotspot to share mobile data with other devices? The system isn’t smart enough to disable a personal hotspot when not in use. Recently, we enabled a personal hotspot in the evening and forgot to disable it at night....

If you are halfway through the research, it’d be frustrating if the VPN stops working out of the blue. Instead of returning to the regular connection for normal browsing, you can use the tricks below and fix the VPN not working on your Windows 11. We understand that most VPN apps have different software interface and settings. However, we’ve compiled solutions that can work on Windows. 1. Check Internet Connection Your preferred VPN app isn’t an internet service provider....

The problem may happen due to notifications being turned off on your device or in the app settings. We have covered all ways to troubleshoot the problem. Let’s get started. 1. Restart Devices Start the troubleshooting process of fixing Facebook notifications by restarting your iPhone or iPad. You should also restart your modem. Tip: Put your iPhone or iPad in Airplane mode from Control Center to quickly turn off all network connections....

A tough competitor to Nova Launcher, Microsoft Launcher bundles a host of interesting and helpful settings. What are these settings? Let’s find out here. In this post, we shall see top 9 Microsoft Launcher settings to use it like a pro. Before that, let’s get to know how to access the settings. Open Launcher Settings There are two ways to access the launcher settings. Method 1: Set Microsoft Launcher as your default launcher....

But that means if for some reason your internet connection is out, you’re left with essentially a dead computer. And no matter how fast your internet connection is, outages do happen. At some places, more often than you’d like. For times like these, you’ll need an army of Chrome apps on your side. Chrome apps that will work offline once you’ve downloaded and set them up right. Chrome apps, for the uninitiated, are not extensions....

Sound issues in Fire TV Stick can ruin the perfect weekend you had planned for your family. Also, it can be confusing to determine if the problem is due to your television or Fire TV Stick. We will discuss every scenario and enable sound on Fire TV Stick. 1. Unmute TV and Turn up Volume This may seem like a simple step, but your little ones might have put the TV on mute....

Music adds a personal touch to an Instagram story. At times, your followers spend hours finding the perfect music for the stories. But it’s all irrelevant when you can’t experience the same in the app. Let’s fix the Instagram story sound not working once and for all. 1. Turn off Silent Mode This is quite basic but still important to check. If you have enabled silent mode on your iPhone or Android, you won’t hear a word in Instagram stories....

The team behind the amazing Truecaller app has come up with a phone dialer called Truedialer for Android, which integrates the power of Truecaller. True Dialer gives an amazing user experience and also tips you off about the unknown callers in your call log. So let’s see how the app works and what makes it different from the rest. Truedialer for Android Once you install the app, it will verify your number and ask you to create an account with Truecaller....

use Safari to surf the web. Even then, when I lend my iPhone for a while to a friend I am always alert… you know, everyone has that one prankster friend who wouldn’t mind using your secrets against you. But what happens when you have to give your iPhone to your kids? In these scenarios you will usually not be as cautious, if at all, only to regret it later when the child finds those private photos, documents, emails or notes that are so valuable to you and shows them to someone else, or even worse, deletes them....

So today we will tell you about a tiny add-on called Switchy (for Firefox of course) using which you can easily manage your various Firefox profiles right from your browser toolbar. You can treat Switchy as a decent front end of the Firefox Profile Manager to create and manage different profiles on Firefox. Assuming that you are working on Firefox, open the Switchy add-on page and add it to your Firefox....

If you don’t want to end up losing your important documents or files saved on your computer, storing them online too, apart from the usual external-hard-disk-style-backup, is the best option. In this article, we will talk about Microsoft’s cloud storage service called SkyDrive that provides up to 5GB of free storage, and we’ll see how we can use Windows Live Mesh to sync data from the computer to the SkyDrive....

Some Instagram users reported about the company sharing your precise location with followers when you tag a location in a post or story. Few of them even went viral with thousands of likes and comments. In this post, we will clear all the myths around precise location permission on social apps like Instagram on iPhone and Android. When Is Precise Location Useful Precise Location is helpful when specific apps need your astute location to function as expected....

Few of the recent and popular ways to send files were NFC (read Android Beam) or WiFi Direct or cloud services like DropBox. Though they are unique and handy in their own ways, the transfer system falters when a large file is about to be transferred. Depending on the make of the phone, WiFi Direct seems to take forever. And when it comes to Cloud services, let’s not forget that not all places are blessed with speedy internet connections....

Use a Few Simple Tricks Although rare, sometimes the account doesn’t have a password. The Macintosh OS will always ask for a password, but that password could be blank. Pressing the return or enter key might be all you need. I often see this on older systems. If you don’t get the password right after three tries, there may be a hint. Unlike iOS, the Mac won’t erase data if you get the password wrong too many times....

Everyone uses WhatsApp, and why shouldn’t they? WhatsApp makes our life so easy, all thanks to its cool features and simplicity. When it comes to features, I’m sure you are part of at least one WhatsApp group, if not more. WhatsApp groups are a boon and bane in one, with some groups being valuable while others being crappy. And hey, you might be part of a broadcast list too. But you would never know....

In this article, we will go through various ways to help you find the Recycle Bin so you can revive a deleted file or delete it forever and free up your hard disk space. Let’s check out these 9 ways to find Recycle Bin in Windows. 1. How to Find Recycle Bin Using Windows Search Bar This is the easiest way to find anything on Windows. We will use Windows search to locate the Recycle Bin....

But having the Control Center functional on the Lock Screen isn’t that good an idea. Let’s figure out why, and then check out how you should go about disabling access to the Control Center from the Lock Screen of your iPhone or iPad. Implications of Control Center Access via Lock Screen Control Center access via the Lock Screen is super-useful. Who doesn’t like to use, say, the Do Not Disturb or the Stopwatch controls without having to unlock the screen first?...

I think virtual desktops (or Task view as Windows calls it) are going to be a great productivity boost. Read on to learn more about it. Using and Creating Virtual Desktops In Windows 10, you’ll see a new icon on the taskbar, right beside the new Cortana search bar that shows two cascading windows. This is the Task view button. You’ll now see a black bar that will either show all the current virtual desktops or will ask you to Add a desktop....

Design Have you seen Wall-E? If yes, you will see an immediate resemblance to the Wyze Cam v2. The Wyze Cam v2 is a small camera enclosed in a small cubical enclosure, and looks quite adorable. It measures just 2.20 x 1.97 x 1.97-inches. To prop it up, it has a small, white base, which is also magnetic. And this makes sure that it sticks to any iron surface. Apart from that, the power port is at the rear....