This article shows you what you can do if your microphone is not working in Xbox app on Windows 11/10. The affected users reported that the microphone does not work only in the Xbox app. When they ...

If your microphone level is too quiet on Windows 11, there are several ways to optimize and correct the volume. Be sure you have the right mic selected; sometimes Windows defaults to a mic that is not ...

Clipchamp uses your Windows System settings differently, so the microphone or camera settings might not be available for the Clipchamp app. So, if when you try to open or edit with Clipchamp on your ...

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Apple doesn’t let app developers assign functions to the iPhone’s physical buttons. It’s easy to understand their point in the matter — those physical buttons are for system settings, not as function ...

Protecting your privacy in the modern age isn’t easy, with everything from app labels to online cookies to think about, but knowing what the apps on your devices are up to has to be one of your top ...

Before all the fancy apps that we have installed in our iPhones today, the earliest mobile phones were exactly as the name suggests: Phones that could take calls anywhere. Decades later, smartphones ...

Did you accidentally give an app a permission on your Mac you didn’t mean to, or maybe just want to check what kind of access various software has across macOS? Follow along for how to check which ...

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