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You have used WhatsApp for years. Every day, several times a day, without thinking about it. And yet a few of its most useful features sit quietly in plain sight. Here are five worth learning today. Can I send a message to myself? You can, and most people have never tried it. Start a new …
Losing your WhatsApp chats is genuinely awful. Years of conversations, photos and voice notes, gone in a second. A dropped phone, a failed update, a theft outside the station, and that is that. The good news is that setting this up properly takes about two minutes. Where is the backup setting? On both phones, open …
We've all been using WhatsApp for many years now. Some of us have chats that are ten years old and would be heartbreaking to lose. A lost phone, a stolen phone, one failed update, and they are gone. The good news is that WhatsApp will do the work for you, once you set it up. …
You are in eleven groups, and nine of them are talking right now. Good morning flowers, the same reel forwarded four times, a fifty megabyte wedding video from someone you met once. None of it is your fault, and all of it is sitting on your phone. Let us take the space back. Why is …
You pick up your phone to reply to one message. Forty minutes later you are watching a video of a man restoring an old chair. The message is still unsent. We have all done this, and none of us planned to. Luckily, the same phone has very good tools to stop it. Why does this …
Working from home sounded like a treat when most of us first started. Now it is simply part of the week, and the novelty has worn off. The doorbell rings, the cooker whistles, the kids come home, and somehow it is four o'clock. The fix is not more willpower. It is a space your brain …
It is raining most days now, and your phone goes everywhere with you. One dash from the auto to the front door is all it takes to get it soaked. Is my phone waterproof? Almost certainly not, though it may be water resistant, which is not the same thing. Water resistant means it can survive …
Most of us now do all our work on a laptop, at the office and again at home. By evening the neck is stiff, the eyes are tired, and half the day went in switching between windows. What is wrong with the laptop screen? Nothing, except that it is small and it sits too low. …
Nobody enjoys the monthly run for toilet rolls, shampoo and detergent. You usually notice something is over at the exact moment you need it. The fix is not to shop faster, it is to stop deciding every month. Why automate groceries at all? Household staples never really change. Same soap, same rice, same kitchen rolls, …
The flight is delayed, and the first thing you look for is the free Wi-Fi. Airports, cafés, malls, hotels, hospitals — give a mobile number, punch in the one-time password (OTP), and you're online. It feels like a small gift. What's the problem? Everyone does it. The moment you connect, you are on the same …