declutter

I have thousands of photos in my camera roll at the moment. That’s because it always feels like a momentous task to sort through them, take out duplicates, delete ones I don’t need, save those I do want to keep to a specific album, decide which I’ll upload to my iCloud account, and so on.There are several different photo sorting apps you can get, and I’ve tried a few of them over the years. But MacPaw (the team behind a bunch of great tech cleaning and sorting apps) has one exclusively for the iPhone called CleanMyPhone,…

store.The quickest, easiest, and safest way to wipe the detritus from your iPhone or iPad, and it even comes with a three-day trial.Still demands that you keep an eye on what's deleted, just in case.Besides damage or the desire for an upgrade, the top reason people cite for purchasing a new phone is the need for more storage space. This is unsurprising, as digital clutter begins to accumulate from the first day of use, consuming valuable storage space until it spirals out of control and makes it seem impossible to…

This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here.If you spend lots of your time at a keyboard, there are at least 12 types of tools you need. This post covers tasks, projects, notes, and documents. I’m outlining simple and sophisticated options, so you can pick what suits you.TasksSimple to-do apps let you easily add and check off tasks without complicated menus or confusing features. They’re easy to use, free, and require no…

Jack Wallen/ZDNETI much prefer to work in an uncluttered space. At the same time, there are certain items I use occasionally that need to be easily accessible, yet out of the way for my everyday work. Two of those things I rely on are my webcam (which also uses an added ring light) and my mic. With my mic, I have to use a boom stand that's a bit more heavy-duty (because of the cost and weight of the mic). But for my webcam and ring light, I can opt to go with a more inexpensive option that works just as well, but…

Uber Eats is taking thousands of online-only brands off its app this week out of concern that the platform is getting clogged by restaurants listing multiple delivery options with different names but the same menu. The number of virtual brands on Uber Technologies Inc.’s UBER -0.08% Uber Eats quadrupled to more than 40,000 this year from over 10,000 in 2021. They now account for 8% of Uber Eats’ storefronts listed in the U.S. and Canada but less than 2% of bookings in…

If you’ve owned your iPhone or iPad for a while, there’s a good chance there are apps, contacts and settings that you either don’t use anymore or aren’t serving you as well as they could. This guide will take you through how to reclaim your notifications and your device’s storage. Delete your unused apps Igor Bonifacic / Engadget You don’t need me to tell you to delete apps you don’t use to free up space on your iPhone, but you might not know that iOS has a dedicated tool to help you do this. You can access it by opening…

If you have hundreds or thousands of unread messages in your inbox, you might be a digital hoarder.Americans lead messy digital lives. About half of U.S. adults delete email regularly and we only open a bit more than half of the messages we receive, according to a report on cyber-hoarding from HighSpeedInternet.com, which offers comparison shopping for internet service. Email is only part of the digital clutter taking up space on our devices and in our heads. The mess accumulates as families grow and amass medical…

Using ezgmail to automate the process of reading and deleting emailsPhoto by Stephen Phillips — Hostreviews.co.uk on UnsplashIntroductionHaving to manually delete emails one after another in the gmail app is definitely not a good use of your time, especially when you can automate the process. In this article, I will show you how to automate the process of deleting unwanted emails and marking emails as read. This way you can have a program do it for you, while you do an important task or catch up on your favourite tv show…

Pinned Shortcuts is a simple, and yet really useful app that I recently stumbled upon. This is a brand new app, by the way, it launched last month. This app helps you declutter your homescreen, and if you like customization, you may be interested.Pinned Shortcuts is a useful customization app that can help you declutter your homescreenSo, what exactly does it do? Well, it’s really simple, it allows you to create shortcuts within an app icon. You can place a Pinned Shortcuts app on your homescreen, and assign up to 4…

Macs aren't cheap, and the storage that Apple packs into them isn't cheap either. Take the 16-inch M1 Pro MacBook Pro I'm currently using. If you want to bump the storage from the base 512GB to 1TB, it'll cost you $200. This means that those 512 megabytes you're buying cost you $0.40 for every extra gigabyte.In fact, every gigabyte you add above that base price adds costs in the region of $0.40. This might not seem like much, but how…