To avoid accidentally buying in-app items on your Android, iPhone, or iPad, disable the in-app purchase option so that you have to verify each purchase before it’s confirmed. Here’s how you can do just that on your phone.

Turning off in-app purchases is a great way to ensure you, or especially your kids, don’t end up buying costly items from your installed apps or games. When you disable the option, your phone will ask for your confirmation each time you attempt to buy an item from within an app or game on your device.

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You can’t really hide apps on iPhone, but you can make them hard to find. If you can’t find an app on your iPhone’s home screen, it might still be available in your App Library. Also, some hidden app purchases can be revealed.

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If you want to rearrange items in a list in random order, you can use Microsoft Excel’s RAND function. The function generates random numbers, which allow you to then randomize your list items.

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Installing Windows 10 from a USB drive beats installing it with a DVD any day of the week.

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Sometimes you need to shut down your Windows 10 or 11 PC, but thanks to something called “Fast Startup,” you might not be shutting it down all the way, with a fresh OS reload on the next power up.

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We receive automated emails all the time. From confirmations to acknowledgments, you probably have at least one in your inbox right now. So, what if you want to send an automatic email yourself?

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There are more keyboard apps available on Android than you’d care to try, but we do recommend trying at least a few on for size. When you do, you’ll need to make it your preferred keyboard. As with many things in the Android world, this process is going to be slightly different depending on the device you have.

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With the “Location Services” option on your iPhone, you can allow and disallow apps from using your phone’s GPS location. You can manage this on a per-app basis as well as system-wide. We’ll show you how.

As long as Location Services is disabled, your apps can’t track your GPS location. If you come across an app that needs location data (like a food delivery app) to function, it’s easy to enable the option. You can also give just a chosen few apps your whereabouts while blocking it for all other apps, as we’ll explain below.

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If you’re not a fan of the repeated notifications, they can be disabled. We’re also going to show you a method to hide the temporary banner notification that shows up when you open apps with custom icons on your iPhone.

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Sometimes documents you’re authoring can benefit from an illustrative chart. Rather than taking the time to set up a chart in another application and embedding it or copying and pasting it into Microsoft Word, you can use the built-in chart feature.

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