Tips & Tricks Archive Page: 13

Wearing a mask has become a common, and necessary, precaution in the fight against COVID-19. For many smartphone users, this has presented a new challenge: how to use facial recognition software on your device while keeping your mask in place. For both Android and iPhone users, facial recognition software is designed to be just...

Your smartphone phone arrives with default apps, the preloaded software that springs into action whenever a specific task needs doing. Click an image you’ve just received over email, for example, and it opens in your default image viewer. Follow a web link someone sends you, and your default web browser opens up. But here’s...

Ever wanted to do more with your smartphone camera? While most devices today come with fairly advanced, multi-lens setups, the real “photo bugs” among us are always looking for ways to add a little something extra. Fortunately, as with so much of the digital world nowadays, there’s an app for that. Actually, there are...