#remove unused apps

[diaryofaninsanewriter]

8 Common Mistakes That Are Cluttering Your Digital Life (And How to Fix Them!)

In today’s world, our digital spaces are just as cluttered as our physical ones. From overflowing inboxes to messy photo galleries, digital clutter can slow us down and make it hard to find what we need. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by digital mess, you might be making these common mistakes. The good news? They’re easy to fix! 1. Letting Your Google Drive Overflow with Redundant Files Google…

[thecrownofflames]

the ui7 samsung update is so awful I'm literally looking at different phones and will probably be changing

[jypsyvloggin]

How to Clear Cache on iPhone?

How to Clear Cache on iPhone: A Step-by-Step Guide If your iPhone is slowing down, apps are lagging, or you’re running low on storage, clearing the cache can help improve performance. Cached data includes temporary files stored by apps and Safari to speed up loading times. Over time, these files can take up unnecessary space. Here’s how to clear the cache on your iPhone. 1. Clear Safari…

[ihatebiden]

im back now i guess. this time without polls. bc tumblr sucks ass and updating it is unthinkable

[robotpussy]

ppl keep saying the internet in the 90s/2000s was trash because it was full of nonsense but atleast there were WEBSITES.... all that's left online is social media and shopping and even the social media does nothing but advertise to you you can barely play any games in browser, especially mini games now they all want you to download the game because they're all longform and 1GB or above, no ask jeeves no yahoo answers no places for kids to hang out all day apart from like. Roblox (which you have to install..... and neopets is used by 20 yr olds no kids are playing on neopets) blogs now being mostly video based instead of written, phones being ppls primary source of entertainment so you are constantly being asked to download a app, Adobe flash gone so any flash based sites are gone and not even way back machine can bring them back unless u get a flash emulator

THE INTERNET IS DEAD AND BORING!

*the point isn't that everybody should just make a neocities, when as long as the internet exists, web development will always be here.

the point is the internet is increasingly becoming another pawn for monetisation and in turn is removing safe spaces for vulnerable groups of people, making things more inaccessible and is making the internet completely unusable. SHUT UP ABOUT NEOCITIES!!!!! I was just commenting on how most users of the internet aren't looking to start writing html because their experiences are getting worse the user isn't the problem it's literally these big companies that need to change

[being-addie]

Making your phone useful🤍

If you're like me, you're going to want to have a phone that is pretty, functional, and productive to the max. We've gotten so obsessed with our phones, mindlessly scrolling, most people don't even realize how they can make they are spending around 3 months a year on their phones (say 6 hrs a day, which used to be my screen time!)

Here I'll be covering some tips to declutter your phone and apps to help boost productivity.

⭐Decluttering⭐

Clean out your gallery:

Delete old screenshots, accidental pictures of the floor or wall, ones with bad lighting, etc. Empty the bin once you're done. You'll get more storage and a cleaner photo gallery.

Delete apps you no longer use:

You know the ones. The apps you downloaded to try out but never bothered to delete? Yeah. Get rid of them. Remove apps that sit unused like Solitaire, etc.

Delete social media:

You heard me. Delete. Your. Social. Media. Especially if you have an addiction. I had the worst Instagram addiction 5 months ago and decided to end it after flunking my math exam. I'm not saying delete your account. Just log out, and delete the apps from your phone. This will prevent mindless scrolling and make way for more productive things to fill your time with. Reinstall the apps once you have more control over yourself.

⭐Productive apps⭐

Duolingo: Learn a language

Sudoku: Good to increase focus

Lithium: E-reader app for mobile phones.

Notion: Vast app for organization

Study Bunny: Study time tracker

Habitica/Habit Rabbit: Habit trackers

Samsung Notes: Amazing note-taking app (on par with Goodnotes in my opinion)

C25K (Couch to 5K): Really helps if you want to run marathons easily.

Flo: Period Tracker

Water Time Tracker and Reminder: Cute graphics to remember to drink your water

Our phones are mines of information, and if used correctly, you can jump miles ahead of the people running in circles on social media, digesting the same content. Delete things that no longer serve you and see how your life and mental health improve. I believe in you. xoxo

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[agentbobr]

pissed abt the new discord mobile update so heres my rant.

the new hud is ugly, laggy and impractical. the lil servers button will ALWAYS have a blue light unless you read every server message which is dumb. they should have an option to turn that off or revert it back to the old HUD (like how reddit has its current site and its "old site HUD" verision), it feels laggy to swap between servers and messages and its slow, making it hard to balance having two conversations at once. you cant even see which people are online in servers by swiping to the side anymore and have to press the search button (which takes a moment to even load, adding more to the lag factor), not to mention, messages look weird now since you ALSO cant side swipe to see whos online/status messages, you must press the search tab and then itll lag to load and show up like how instagrams messaging system does, with it separating the media sent, link and some other stuff. overly complex and unneeded.

not to mention, the new "midnight" color background doesnt even look midnight, you'd expect it to be pitch black on all parts but instead they made it blueish, which is dumb and knowing current discord, they'd put pitch black behind the discord nitro color themed backgrounds (which is also stupid but thats a whole other can of worms.)

overall the new interface is annoying, laggy, UGLY, and hard to traverse, the seperation of areas was unneeded, made worse by the fact that discord themself have said that a setting to make it go back to normal wont be made and if anyone doesnt like it, to delete their accounts. (most likely not caring due to the fact that they have no competition in purely texting apps), it is also full of glitches such as: people being able to send messages but it STILL being in the text box, being so laggy its unuseable and from what ive seen, nobody online is happy as it completely removes all user-friendly access to things and makes it generally hard to use.

[audreys-diaryy]

Digital detox checklist 📱

Delete old emails

Unsubscribe from emails

Organize desktop icons

Delete unused apps

Sort through photos (albums)

Delete photos

Remove unused bookmarks

Delete old/unused files

Clean out ‘downloads’ folder

Unfollow inactive/social media accounts you don’t like anymore

Delete unnecessary phone contacts

Update contact info

Clean up music playlists

Update apps

Delete unwanted ‘notes’

Review unchecked notifications

Delete tabs from google or safari

[scrawdragon]

americans on tiktok be like “oh yeah! tiktok was banned for 12 hrs and now its unbanned! we’re so good!”

idk if i should explain to them that tiktok IS banned. it has been removed from the appstores, which is what the bill said it would do. the app will no longer receive updates, and tiktok gets updates very frequently. pretty soon, the app is going to start glitching and will eventually crash and be unusable. trump IS trying to get tiktok unbanned (he was the one who brought up the ban in the first place, but that was before he had a tiktok page of his own with 14.9 million followers. HYPOCRITE IN THE HOUSE) but that still feels shady to me ngl

tldr: tiktok is still banned, gang. sorry 🥲

[wip]

I'd love an explanation for why colored backgrounds were removed from direct messages. it made dms feel personal and vibrant since they used the main theme color from the blog you were messaging, and the new layout feels so cold and boring. Also, why is the avatar not a link to the blog from the messages menu? It seems like a step backwards to remove functionality like that.

Like clicking/touching here just opens the messages, it doesn't navigate to the blog anymore.

Basically, why make the app uglier and harder to use?

Answer: Hey there, @slimereveler!

First things first. The blog name at the top of a conversation takes you to the blog, starting with version 30.7 of the apps. If it isn’t live just yet it is definitely being addressed, and it won’t be long until it is.

For user-defined backgrounds, they were, in many cases, inaccessible with very low contrast. It’s a long-term problem that we have, and fully intend to address, and hopefully in a way that still gives users choice in customizing their spaces. But without potentially making the site unusable, of course! So, while we appreciate that many users enjoyed the colored backgrounds, we also have a duty to the community to make the messages readable.

In a nutshell—we have to support 12 different color palettes. Adding blog colors will add too much variance, and it will be very hard to manage the combination of these palettes and blog colors and maintain good accessibility.

Thank you for your question—it was important to address, and we are grateful you raised it with us.

Best,

—Paul and Maxime

[baskeigh-ball]

Ignoring the fact that ibis had the ai paint feature a couple years before this whole ai fiasco, after seeing your post, I decided to try it out to see if it really held up. I already knew what you said made no sense, as even stuff like ai painting requires heavy human input that isn't just someone typing a prompt in a thing and looking through thousands of images and somehow still calling it 'art'. Really, it's just some weird advanced bucket.

The ibis ai paint... really sucks. I'm pretty sure it hasn't even been touched since it was added. No matter what I did, I got random colours and whatever colours I had put there looked like it were from a filter, not to mention how my lineart bled everywhere like it was blurred out.

Ibis isn't problematic for adding that feature as not only was it added ages ago, but it was also just a gimmick only added because a few more popular paid programs added them, like Clip Studio Paint. I highly doubt even the company took it seriously considering how poorly built it is. This is actually the one time I'm glad some feature in an app sucks so much.

Another reason why ibis isn't problematic by the mere feature alone is that, when you look at the artists making content during the time of that update, it was received with humour. It was something fun to try, but ultimately dismissed for actual artwork, as nobody would use it to fully paint their works. Nowadays we see something slapped with the words 'ai' and think that it's instantly bad due to the latest issues with it and big corperations/ certain production companies but it isn't. It's just a lot of people abusing what was previously some fun gimmick, which it can still be, and for certain apps, still is. Nobody throws pitchforks at character ai, after all.

You can tell just by the size of this that I'm procrastinating on something. Ima go and let this rot away in your askbox now lol

You really thought this would fade away in my ask box, mwahahaha /j

I wanna start off by saying thank you for holding me accountable, I will admit that I got buzzworded pretty hard in this situation lmao

This information came as a surprise to me-- I was seeing posts pop up within the past week complaining about the ai feature on ibis, so I assumed it was recent. As it turns out, after reading your ask, I discovered that I got a few wires crossed! Because yes, the auto paint feature I referred to in my post has been around for years now, and was never taken seriously anyways

So that was my bad (and yea ur right it's completely unusable, lmao)

But as it turns out, the feature that people have been complaining about DID come out recently. It was called the AI Example feature, I think the idea was that you make a simple drawing and the AI adds 99% of the detail and color, which I've seen a bunch of other programs do.

...and then it was immediately removed due to some pretty major backlash, which, duh

^ This is the only evidence I can find of the 11.2.0 update that included the AI feature on the actual site; their update history stops at 11.1.0. But there's also the news page about the removal of the update, so it's not like they're trying to pretend it never happened.

So tl;dr, I jumped on the hate train a little too quickly and never did enough research to figure out what the actual update was, and that it's been removed by now anyway (which I couldn't have known until today, ofc, but i did kinda post that thing about ibis today so it's still a pretty major oopsie)

I think I can say with confidence now that I agree, ibis paint isn't problematic to use-- they made a mistake with this update, but they actually listened to their users and removed it LITERALLY the next day. So, thanks for letting me know! I'll also edit my last post to prevent any misinformation, just in case people make the same mistake I did :]

[getvalentined]

Patreon Nonsense: The "It's Actually Way Worse Than You Probably Thought" Edition

So. Patreon says Apple will remove the app from the store unless everyone on the platform accepts payments via iOS, which means everyone has to switch to their unusable rolling billing cycle. This has plenty of issues already, but there is a unique problem in this claim for a fairly large niche of creators on the platform.

You see, 18+ creators are not discoverable via Patreon's search or in the app; you can only pledge on web via a link. This means that 18+ creators cannot accept payments via iOS. Full stop. We can't. You can browse us on the app if you're already pledged, but there is otherwise no way to even see us on it, and no way to pay us through it.

This means, based on what Patreon has said, we are keeping the platform in violation of Apple's alleged billing ToS.

This means that the only way forward for Patreon is to ban us all.

Even if we all switched to "subscription billing" all at once, it wouldn't matter. We can't take payments via iOS because Patreon will not let us; Apple definitely won't allow us to be visible, since they hate adult content, so this isn't going to change. There is no alternative.

If we don't all get banned for the crime of Creating As Adults, and also don't suddenly become discoverable via the app, then that means Patreon is OPENLY LYING about what Apple is demanding of them in order to force everyone onto their preferred billing structure.

I guess we'll find out which it is by next November, but my hopes aren't particularly high. I think that starting next year, Patreon is going to start a new 18+ Purge (just like tumblr did back in 2018) because (again) getting a bite of that Apple matters more than protecting the userbase that made the platform successful in the first place.

[posting-for-the-void]

removing Pinterest ads

a very helpful tiktok popped across my feed and i figured y'all might appreciate it!

as many of you i'm sure agree, pinterest has recently added so many ads and ai photos that the app feels unusable. well, i can solve one of these for you!

on mobile, hold down on the ad like you would any other pin to save it, click the slashed through eye, and chose "hide pin"/"not relevant to me"

on browser just click the dots menu in the bottom corner and do the same.

do this five times on different ads and refresh your feed, and you'll be browsing ad free!

one commenter did state that you have to do this every two to three days, but that seems a small price to pay for making the app actually usable again, to me.

[mapsofnonexistentplaces]

tumblr app is literally unuseable i’m so close to deleting it and just using the web version. if i SCROLL anywhere there’s a 50% chance a booking.com ad opens up in my browser and it takes 10 years for the tab to even pop up so i have to be on my feet to get rid of it. literally 1 degree removed from straight up malware

[frywen-babbles]

I love how tumblr has removed all relevant usability in their app. I love how I can no longer turn my phone sideways so I can actually see whats in a picture or a video. I love how instead of opening a picture to see it more clearly I'm immediately jumped into some cursed tiktok tumblr timeline where if I scroll down I'm shown some completely unrelated stuff. I especially love how this makes one of my sideblogs virtually unusable. I love how getting to someone's blog or to a specific post has become a detective mission to find a teeny tiny place to tap for the app to do something you want to. I love how instead of showing timestamps on posts as an internal feature where it would be in the same language the app is, the timestamps are somehow in the same language your phone is. I love how I've never wanted nothing less than have an app be in two different languages at the same time.

And by love I mean I absolutely loathe it. I have never hated any changes as much as I do these what the fuck is wrong with the people who thought this was a good idea?

[barracuda677]

Okay so, I just saw this, and their advice is exactly what Everbyte needed to hear, but they removed it 😶

I may not be a game developer, but I have eyes and ears that are capable of knowing what game developers are capable of. This is the exact advice that I was hoping some game developer might give Everbyte. This response was both well-constructed and realistic as to what should be changed in Moonvale. They were as respectful as they could be given the situation and they made it clear that this wasn't about competition. It's about bringing back better games to the app stores. I'm sick of seeing the quality of apps go down as the prices and requirements to use them become more difficult, unrealistic, and just downright unusable. Everbyte removed this from their Reddit despite it being the best advice they've been given so far from a business and ethical standpoint. If I had released a product that was of lower quality than my audience would expect from me, I would want to lose money too. That's what it means to be a decent creator.