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This post covers reasons why YouTube’s Restricted Mode won’t turn off and several troubleshooting solutions. Note: If your Google account is managed via Google Family Link, only your parent or account supervisor can disable Restricted Mode. 1. Switch to Wi-Fi or Ethernet Network We found that this issue commonly affects users accessing YouTube via cellular data on Sprint/T-Mobile and Boost Mobile networks. Some network providers have pre-enabled parental control settings that load YouTube in Restricted Mode by default....

It can be frustrating when Facebook fails to load images in the News Feed and they appear as empty or black boxes. These are also known as broken images, and broken can be fixed. Why Facebook Pictures Are Not Loading It is easy to presume that Facebook fails to load pictures because of a bad internet connection. But the broken images can be a sign of a much bigger issue....

That doesn’t help you if you’re still looking to play older Flash content, however. Websites that don’t update and old media that can’t be ported are forgotten without the capabilities in place to use them. Although there isn’t a Flash player in Chrome anymore, here are a few ways you can play Flash files in 2020 and beyond. Also, check out the YouTube video we created for our channel if you want a quick overview of the article....

It’s possible to add local files to the Spotify app on your computer and then listen to those music tracks on your computer, iPhone, and Android devices. Know This Before Adding Local Files to Spotify To import local songs into Spotify, you must meet the following minimum requirements: You must be a Premium Spotify subscriber. Currently, the company doesn’t allow free users to add local files to Spotify.You can only add local files from a computer....

What’s nice about the text feature on TikTok is that you can customize the font style and color. If you save the video as a draft to work on it further before posting it, you can edit the text before your followers see it. We’ll show you how to add text to TikTok videos so you can take advantage of this built-in feature. How to Add Text to TikTok Videos If you want to pop some text in a new video right after you capture it, it’s an easy task....

Readers may remember when adding weather to Google Calendar was as simple as checking a box in the calendar settings. Why Google removed this feature remains a mystery, but hope is not lost. There are still a few ways to display weather information on your GCal. Weather Calendars You Can Subscribe to in Google Calendar The easiest way to add weather to your Google Calendar is by subscribing to one or more of several available weather calendars....

According to DeviceAtlas, you get a new phone every 18 months to 2 years on average. We probably spend about 6 months of that just getting our phone back to where we like it with our apps, contacts, and settings. Two phone changes and you’ve just wasted a year on tuning your phone. Let’s see how we can cut that down to minutes. The phone we’re using today is a Samsung A5, but it’s pretty much the same for any Android phone....

Fortunately, Canva, the widely-used graphic design tool, offers a feature to blur certain parts of a photo, providing a simple solution. With this feature, you can choose to keep the identity of the individuals in your photo private or add an artistic touch, even if you’re not a professional graphic designer. Why You May Want to Blur a Face in Canva When we share photos online, be it on social media, blogs, or other platforms, privacy is an important factor to consider....

If the perks (or the price) are too much for you to handle, however, you might want to cancel your subscription. If you want to know how to cancel your YouTube subscription permanently, or you’re just looking to pause it for a limited period and then resume it later, you can do so by following these steps. Pause or Cancel a YouTube Premium Subscription on PC or Mac A YouTube Premium subscription is limited to the account holder—standard Premium users can’t share it without subscribing to the Family subscription plan....

When you are making content for others, your name matters. If you signed up for Roblox and chose a less-than-fortunate username, you can change your display name at any time. This feature appeared in February 2021, but was quickly retracted when users began to abuse it. Now it has returned and you can take full advantage of it. How to Change Your Username in Roblox Roblox is user-friendly and its account settings page is a perfect example....

In this article, I’m going to show you how you can color splash your photos on the desktop and on your smartphone (iOS and Android). Note that I’m only going to mention the tools that I have used myself, but there are many alternatives on all platforms, so feel free to choose another tool if you like. The procedure for adding the color splash effect is pretty much the same regardless of which tool or platform you use....

Resetting Samsung Galaxy Watches to factory default is straightforward, but the steps may vary depending on your watch model and software version. This tutorial covers different ways to factory reset all Samsung Galaxy Watch models. Resetting your Galaxy Watch to factory default erases everything on the watch—apps, personal information, health data, etc. If you’re factory resetting your Galaxy Watch to fix an issue, we recommend backing up your data first....

If you don’t have any shared lists yet, or can’t find the right person’s list, you can message them and ask them to share their wish list with you. To request access to someone’s wish list, follow the steps below.

In this article, we’ll teach you how to find contacts from your phone and your Facebook friends and turn them into your Instagram followers. How to Sync Your Phone Contacts on Instagram Before you can find and follow people you know on Instagram, you need to connect your Instagram account with your phone’s contact list. Contacts Syncing is the feature that allows you to do that on the Instagram app....

Some other reasons Discord rejects your GIF are that your Discord app has a minor glitch, your login session in the app is problematic, your app version is obsolete, your app’s core files are corrupted, and more. Close and Relaunch Your Discord App One reason Discord displays a GIF error is that your app has a minor glitch. In this case, you can close and re-open your app to possibly fix your issue....

It is relatively easy to hide a slide in Microsoft Powerpoint too. These hidden slides do not appear in the slideshow, even though they remain visible in other views. This makes it a great method for tinkering with the length of your presentation without losing any of your work. How to Hide And Unhide a Slide in Google Slides Should You Hide or Delete Slides? It is rarely a good idea to delete your slides....

It’s also a necessity if you previously shared your Netflix account with others outside of your household, as Netflix has begun to charge extra to share your account. To manage devices using your Netflix account, follow the steps below. How to View and Remove Active Devices on Netflix Every time a device signs into Netflix, the device type, location, and sign-in time is registered by Netflix. You can individually remove a device that’s signed in using your account settings....

It’s probably true that the banking app you use on your iPhone probably encrypts the data sent between the phone and their servers automatically, but there is no guarantee. Plus, a lot of apps simply aren’t created with security in mind and therefore send data over the Internet in plain text. If you travel a lot and are routinely connected to unsecured WiFi networks, you should consider tunneling all that traffic through a VPN....

You can always use your smartphone to record a video and upload it, but a webcam may be preferable due to better resolution, lighting, upload speed, etc. Luckily, there’s a really simple way you can record yourself online using your own webcam and share it with the world. I’m going to assume that most people use YouTube for uploading videos, but will try to list out some alternatives for those of you that don’t....

However, there are a few methods that let you perform the PDF search operation so you can search for a specific word in multiple PDF files at once on your machine. The following guide teaches you how to do just that. How To Search Multiple PDF Files Using Acrobat Reader The most popular way to search a PDF or multiple PDF files is to use the Acrobat Reader software on your computer....