Android & iPhone Fixes
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Why Your Phone Battery Drains So Fast — and How to Find the App Responsible
Last week, your mobile phone worked perfectly, but now you need to plug it into the charger every evening. The hardest thing about this situation is figuring out if it is due to a single application running (therefore using up battery power), due to a poor data signal, or due to an old battery (losing power more quickly). When your…
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Phone Storage Full After Deleting Everything? Where the Space Is Really Going
You deleted photos, cleared out old videos, maybe uninstalled a few apps, and the phone storage full warning is still there. Your phone is probably not broken. On iPhone, in Google Photos and on Samsung Galaxy phones, deleting a photo only moves it to a holding area, and much of what’s left sits inside apps, not in your gallery. Apple,…
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iPhone Stuck on the Apple Logo: What to Try, in the Order That Protects Your Data
If your iPhone displays an Apple logo and is unable to boot normally, it has not yet been lost in any way; it is only stuck in the process of booting. There are multiple ways to fix this, from performing a normal restart that does not cause any loss of information to resetting the phone and losing all data on…
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Android Not Charging? A Simple Swap Test to Tell If It’s the Cable, Charger, Port or Battery
The issues of an android phone not charging can usually be traced back to a short chain of faults, either at the wall outlet, charger, charger cable, phone port, or battery. To find and fix the fault, you can change one component at a time and see what happens to the phone. The same principle is applied in Google’s troubleshooting…
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Why Is My Data Finishing So Fast? Find What Your Phone Is Spending It On
The day before you were set to run out of your data bundle, you haven’t even used your phone that much yet. Your phone is able to partially answer the question of why your data has disappeared so quickly, because each app has its own individual usage tracking features. According to the NCC’s Smart Data Management guidance, your data goes…
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