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If you’re the kind of person who loves smart routines, using the Home app’s Scenes feature can be a great way to controle multiple accessories at the same time. In this tutorial, we show you how simple it is to create scenes in the Home app and automate actions from voice commands as basic as “Good morning” and “Good evening”.
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The record summer temperatures have also arrived at the NextPit office—despite super-cool employees and ice-cold drinks in the editorial fridge. So I searched the Internet for tips on how to build your own air conditioner and came up with a “life” hack. After all, a towel, a fan and a conventional faucet can probably be found in every household. Let’s give it a try!
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On some Android smartphones, you can turn off your screen and thus lock your smartphone by tapping your home screen twice. I just discovered this gesture and—like a Cro-Magnon discovering fire—I find it simply brilliant.
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The Galaxy Watch 4 ‘s is in and of itself already bright, super-sharp and high-quality in general. If you still have problems reading the screen, you can improve the readability a bit with the update to OneUI Watch 4.5. We will tell you how you can activate the accessibility features on your Samsung smartwatch.
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Apple Pay is a reliable and secure feature for those who want to centralize as many features as possible on their cell phone. If you own an iPhone or Apple Watch, but don’t yet use the Apple Pay feature, then check out this tutorial and expand your devices’ potential.
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Do you use a Samsung cell phone? If so, then Samsung Pass—Samsung’s own password manager—comes preinstalled on the device. You can find out how to set it up here. We will also let you know how to integrate Samsung Pass into the new Samsung Wallet.
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A few months ago, on a bike tour in Germany I realized that the fall detection function of my Apple Watch was not activated. Researching a bit, I discovered that the function is not active by default for all people, only for users over 55 years. In this tutorial I show how to activate the Fall Detection function on the Apple Watch for those who also took it for granted.
Also read: How to control your Apple Watch without touching the screen
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If you are rooted in the Apple ecosystem, then you should know and even use the Home app to integrate your smart devices at home. To do so, the first step is to add an accessory to HomeKit using your iPhone.
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Vibrations on our fitness tracker or smartwatch inform us that calls or messages are coming in on the connected smartphone. But did you know that Xiaomi even gives us the option to set custom vibrations for the Smart Band 7 in the Mi Fitness app? Here is how that works!
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By default, Alexa plays your music requests via Amazon’s own music streaming service. However, you can also change the streaming service across devices in the settings of the Alexa app. In our guide, we tell you how to connect Alexa with Spotify. The only requirements are the Alexa app and a free Spotify account.