🤐 No one needs to know: Archive Amazon orders you don’t want someone else to see. On a computer, hover your cursor over Account & Lists and click Orders. Find the order you want to hide, click View order details, and tap Archive Order. Click Archive Order again to confirm.
See the forest for the trees: The Forest app helps you stay off your phone by growing a virtual tree while you focus on your tasks (get it free with in-app purchases for iOS or Android). If you leave the app to do something else, your tree dies. It’s a pretty cute visual reinforcement to keep you focused.
👊 Look, Ma! One hand! Make your Android easier to use with one hand by enabling One-handed Mode. Open Settings, and search for One-handed Mode. Turn it on and you’re good to go.
I’m surprised so many people don’t know this: On Zoom, Google Meet and most other video-chatting platforms, you can hit the spacebar when you’re muted to talk again. You have to hold it down. You’re welcome!
Teach Alexa your voice: I had Barry do this because she only understood me. In the Alexa app, go to More > Settings > Your Profile & Family > Your Profile > Add Your Voice. Even still, Alexa likes me better.
Oops: To delete an entire word at a time, hit Ctrl + backspace on a Windows computer. On a Mac, it’s Option + Delete.
If you think it’s annoying when your phone gets brighter and dimmer on its own, turn that off. On iPhone, open Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and toggle off Auto-Brightness. On Android, you’ll find it under Display settings.
Shhhhh: You’re in a meeting and one of your browser tabs starts playing a video. Right-click on it and select Mute. Yep, you don’t even need to open the tab.
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Be quiet: Maybe you want to scroll Facebook at work undetected or you just prefer the sound of silence. On a computer, disable auto-playing videos under Settings and privacy > Settings > Videos. On mobile, it’s Settings & privacy > Settings > Preferences > Media.