How to protect folder with password on Windows 11

Do you want to protect folders and files with a password?

On Windows 11, you won’t find a feature to add a password to a folder to protect your files because your account is already protected with a password and encryption, and it’s assumed that you will be the only one using it.

However, if you share the computer with others, are concerned about unauthorized access, or want to add another layer of security, you can use the virtual hard disk feature along with BitLocker to protect files and folders with a password on Windows 11.

Windows 11 doesn’t have a feature to protect a folder with a password because the account is already protected with your profile credentials. However, you can use the virtual drive and BitLocker features to create a drive you can secure with a password, which works similarly to a password-protected folder.

  • Create virtual drive to act as a folder
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iOS 16: How to Add Widgets to Your iPhone Lock Screen

With iOS 16, Apple introduced a complete overhaul of the iOS Lock Screen, making it more customizable than ever and able to display information-rich widgets.

Lock Screen Widgets have been the sole preserve of Android phones for a few years now, so it’s good to see that they will finally come to iPhones later this year when ‌‌iOS 16‌‌ is released in the fall. You can customize the Lock Screen with unique fonts, colors, and, for the first time, widgets, providing you with glanceable information that you can check without having to open your ‌iPhone‌’s Home Screen or the Today view.

The widgets that you can add above the time on the Lock Screen include another time zone, a set alarm, the next calendar event, a weather condition, your activity rings, the next reminder, and a chosen stock. You can insert a widget alongside the date above the digital clock on the Lock Screen.

‌Widgets‌ that can be placed below the time are more info-rich and include device battery levels, Calendar, Clock, Fitness, Home, News, Reminders, Stocks, and Weather. You can add up to four square symbol-based widgets below the time, or up to two rectangular widgets with more information, or alternatively a combination of two square widgets and one rectangular widget.

To get started adding widgets, all you need to do is unlock your ‌‌iPhone‌‌ with Face ID or Touch ID, and then long press on the Lock Screen to enter the Lock Screen gallery.

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iOS 16: How to Display iPhone Battery Percentage on Your Lock Screen

If you have an iPhone with a notch, you’ll have noticed that the battery level indicator in the top-right corner of the screen doesn’t show the actual percentage of battery that’s left.

With older iPhones that feature no notch, Apple includes an option within settings to toggle the percentage on or off, but if your ‌‌iPhone‌‌ has a notch, there’s no setting that will enable it.

Fortunately, there are a few other ways you can keep tabs on your ‌iPhone‌’s battery percentage. And with the advent of iOS 16, currently in beta, you can use widgets to display the battery percentage directly on your Lock Screen.

In ‌iOS 16‌, the ability to show your ‌iPhone‌ battery percentage comes courtesy of Apple’s introduction of Lock Screen widgets. The Batteries widget comes in both square and rectangular versions showing your ‌‌iPhone‌‌’s battery level, just note that only the rectangular variant displays this as a percentage.
The following steps show you how to add these widgets to the Lock Screen on an ‌‌iPhone‌‌ running ‌‌iOS 16‌‌.

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iOS 16: How to Isolate, Copy, and Share Subjects From Photos

In iOS 16, currently in beta, Apple has enhanced its Visual Look Up capability for photos by making it possible to isolate the subject of a picture from its background so that you can copy it to the clipboard for use elsewhere or share it in another app.
Apple says the feature relies on advanced machine learning, and in our time experimenting with it in ‌iOS 16‌, its ability to recognize subjects in photos is pretty impressive. Indeed, its ease of use is likely to make performing painstaking subject isolation actions in image editing apps a thing of the past.

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How to Transfer Your WhatsApp Chat History From Android to iPhone

After a long wait, Meta this week announced the ability to transfer WhatsApp chat history, photos, videos, and voice messages from Android to iPhone while maintaining end-to-end encryption. The system uses Apple’s Move to iOS app for Android phones, and can be initiated during the setup process for a new (or factory reset) ‌iPhone‌.

This article runs through the steps involved in transferring your WhatsApp chat history from an Android phone to an ‌iPhone‌. The much-requested migration feature transfers everything in your WhatsApp history including texts, voice notes, and media files to a new ‌iPhone‌.

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How to Update Your MagSafe Battery Pack Firmware for Faster Charging

Apple has released a new firmware update for its MagSafe Battery Pack that improves iPhone charging speed. This article explains how to update it so you can benefit from improved performance.
On April 20, 2022, Apple released a firmware update for the ‌MagSafe Battery Pack‌ that enables 7.5W charging on the go, up from the previous 5W limit.

While it still doesn’t quite offer the 15W charging speed that wired MagSafe accessories provide, the improvement is at least equivalent to the fastest available standard Qi charging speeds on ‌iPhone‌, so it’s well worth updating.

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How to Turn Your Old Mac into a Chromebook

If you have an aging Mac lying around that struggles to run the latest macOS and has stopped receiving security updates from Apple, it’s possible to give it a secure second life by installing software that essentially turns it into a Chromebook.

That’s because Google has released an early access version of Chrome OS Flex, which offers a way to replace the operating system on older PCs and Macs so that they can tap into a way of computing that is almost entirely managed in the cloud. Installing the cloud-first OS means using your Mac will stay secure with regular updates, it should boot fast, it and won’t slow down over time.

Chrome OS Flex is the result of Google’s 2020 purchase of Neverware, a company that offered an app called CloudReady that allows users to convert old PCs into Chrome OS machines.

Chrome OS Flex has the same look and feel as Chrome OS, which is shipped with every Chromebook, as it’s built on the same code base and includes Google Assistant, the Chrome browser, and Nearby Sharing. However, it’s worth noting that there’s currently no Google Play Store, and Google has outlined some other, mainly system-level limitations of OS Flex that distinguish it from Chrome OS on native Google devices.

What You’ll Need:

  • Mac released after 2010 with 16GB of free storage.
  • Chrome browser installed on your Mac
  • USB drive with 8GB or more of storage space.
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How to Hide Your Instagram Online Status

Most social media networks and chat platforms these days include a feature that shows when a user was last online or last active on the service, which can be either helpful or a hindrance, depending on your personal or business situation.

WhatsApp includes an optional “Last Seen” status for the person you’re chatting with in a conversation thread, while Instagram tells you how long it was since a user was active when you’re viewing messages from them in your Direct inbox. Instagram also shows a green dot next to their profile picture and name if the person is currently interacting with the app.

Sometimes though, for whatever reason, you might not want someone – or indeed anyone – to know when you were last active on social media. Fortunately, WhatsApp and Instagram both allow you to hide your activity status in the app. Here our focus is on how to hide your Instagram status.

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