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Most Android phones ship with Google apps and services pre-installed, and that makes it very easy and seamless to transfer contacts. All you have to do is ensure that your Google account is set to ...

Google’s popular email client Gmail is used for everything from networking with client accounts to catching up with old friends. If you want to keep your Gmail current, you need to know how to add ...

The Phone app on iPhone doesn't often get updated, but with iOS 18, Apple has given it some love by adding several notable new features, such as suggested contacts and the ability to add new numbers ...

Meta’s messaging platform WhatsApp has made a change to the way new contacts are added, finally dealing with an issue that has long frustrated and puzzled its users. Until now, anybody wanting to add ...

You can add another layer of personalization to your contacts by adding their relationship to you on your iPhone. Here is how to set that up. The Contacts app allows you to keep the phone number, ...

The spam filters implemented by email providers like AOL, Yahoo Mail, and Apple Mail keep us from being bombarded with irrelevant newsletters and malware-infested emails. Still, you may have missed an ...

Do Not Disturb will block everyone and everything unless you tell your Pixel not to, including important contacts. Here’s how to whitelist certain people and add them to your allowlist so they can ...

Creating a WhatsApp group only takes a minute; it’s not a big deal. However, the difficulty arises when you’ve to add a lot of contacts to that group. It becomes even worse if the contacts aren’t ...

As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

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