Ok guys so you have a new iPhone or you want to reset your iPhone and don’t want to lose your WhatsApp messages you will need to do a backup and restore. In this video I will show you how to do a backup and restore via iCloud. Lets get started.
iCloud Login
The first step is to log onto your iCloud account with your
Apple ID and turn on a service called iCloud drive. So go into Settings and
iCloud. Scroll to the bottom and you should see your WhatsApp toggle switch. If
its off turn it on. And then also make sure your iCloud drive button is turned
on.
Use iCloud to backup your messages first.
If you go into your iCloud backup it should be on as well
and feel free to turn off anything you don’t need like Book and Shortcuts.
How to Backup & Restore WhatsApp Messages?
Ok we have now turned on iCloud backup for WhatsApp, let go ahead and do a backup of the messages in WhatsApp. Go into WhatsApp and tap the settings tab down the bottom. Next go into Chats and then Chat backup.
Chat Backup
Under Chat Backup you will have a few options. The first one
is auto backup. This allows you to set an auto backup of the chats to iCloud
drive. Maybe set this to once a month. The second option is include videos,
remember that if you only have 5GB of backup space on your iCloud drive than
maybe leave this option turned off. Tap backup now and it should start saving
your messages to iCloud Drive. Press backup now and this should start to backup
your WhatsApp messages. Make sure you do this when your on WIFI, otherwise it
might eat up your cellular data.
Restore Backup
Ok now you have done a Backup. Lets see how you do a
restore. So I will delete the WhatsApp app and reinstall it. Enter in your
phone number and setup WhatsApp. After you enter your phone number it will ask
you if you want to Restore from iCloud. It should then go ahead and download
all your chat history messages videos pictures etc.
You can see here it says it has Restored 10 messages. Enter
in your display name.
Once this is done you should be able to go in an check your chats. Also guys don’t forget to check out my other video such as unboxing of the Aorus KD25F Gaming Monitor. And do me a favour hit the subscribe button and smash the bell icon.
The Aorus KD25F is a 24.5 inch 240hz Gaming monitor with a 0.5ms response time. Its also Gsync and Free sync compatible. The KD25F retails for around $400 usd and $750 aussie at the time of this video. Other features include LED Fusion lighting, Aim Stablizer and what I consider the best feature of them all OSD SideKick. Lets take a look what you get inside the box.
You get three different power plugs. So it looks to be a
Chinese power plug, an Australian New Zealand power plug and a US power plug.
Next we have display port 1.2 and a HDMI 2.0 cable. Its nice that you get one
of each. In some monitors you will only receive one cable. And last up we have
a USB 3.0 cable which powers the USB hub and OSD SideKick software.
A monitor in this price range should come with a really good stand. And the Aorus KD25F monitor doesn’t disappoint with a really solid base to the stand. More about this later in the video. Its looks a bit like a boomerang.
Next up is the arm that connects to the monitor to the base. Taking the monitor out of the box you can see it has a Energy rating of 4 stars and while on the Gigabyte website it says it uses 60 watts on average it uses about 21 watts. Which is actually pretty good for a gaming monitor.
Also in the box you get the installation guide and warranty card.
The Stand
The stand is solid as and the arm and base just slot it
together. After this just tighten the screw on the base. On the back of the
monitor you have a power plug with an on off switch and a Kensington lock. You also have a toggle switch to navigate the
monitor OSD which is really helpful when navigating the menus. Above that Audio
and Microphone jacks. Two HDMI posts, one Display Port port! USB 3 in port and
two USB 3 out ports.
On the back of the monitor itself you will find 4 screws
which means the monitor has VESA wall mounting support. Helpful if you want to
change stands. The stand snaps into place nicely and there is a quality feel to
it. There was talk on the internet about the stand being flimsy and wolling
allot and it does move when I shake like this. However after testing the
monitor for about a week I didn’t find it to be an issue at all.
Once setup the monitor take up about 21 cms of desk space.
This means if you have a small desk it like I do. It will sit off the wall
about 21 cms. Its not a deal breaker but just something to be aware of.
Rotate the Stand
The stand not only looks great but it allow you to ajust the height. Also the pivot the monitor 90 degrees. Tilts up and down. And it can swivel 20 degrees side to side.
Wings of excellence design
The stand has the Aorus Wings of Excellence design which looks cool. But in my opinion it lacks functionality. You can change the colour of the LEDS on the back of the Aorus KD25F monitor and the stand however they are very bright and most of the time you wont see them so they are a complete waste of time. If they were brighter you could shine them on a wall behind the monitor like I have done with my LEDs and it would make for an excellent gaming experience. The stand also has a nice built in handle, which is handy if you need to carry it.
Iam going to spend a bit of time going through the OSD SideKick because I think its really cool.
OSD Side Kick Software – Allows greater control of Monitor settings.
OSD Side Kick – Best Feature !
The OSD sidekick software allows you to control the settings
of you monitor with your mouse. You need to plug the USB into your computer for
it to work but it has some great features.
The first thing you will notice the Aorus KD25F monitor is really bright, to the point of where its hard to look at. So in the OSD there is a set of seven profiles. Each of these profiles give you different settings such as Brightness, Contrast, Sharpness, Black Equalizer, Colour Vibrance, Low Blue Light and super resolution. This means you can set a really bright profile for gaming and then another low light profile for browsing the internet or working. Then you can bind these profiles to a Hot Key so you can change them on the fly. Here you can see change a few settings within the Aorus profile.
Next up we have the Gamma setting which you can change as
well as the colour temperature. However, the one I want to talk about most if
the Overdrive setting. The Overdrive setting controls the response time of your
monitor, which is very important for RTS and First Person shooter games. You
have three settings Quality, Balanced and Speed. Quality is over drive turn off
and it’s the slowest setting. It has an average Gray to Gray of 5.5 ms and no
overshoot. The Balanced setting has a faster response time of 3.1 ms Gray to
Gray and still no overshoot so this is a great setting to use for that balance
between speed and quality. Speed mode is the fastest with an average of 1.5 ms
gray to gray. However you will start to see some overshoot errors and ghosting
with this mode.
Ok so the next setting is Aim Stabilizer, this reduced the motion
blur in fast moving games. However you cant use this feature with the FreeSync
function enabled. And to be honest I couldn’t see any difference with this on.
FreeSync and G Sync
Turning on the FreeSync option will turn FreeSync or G Sync
on depending on if you have AMD or NVidia graphics card. When this option is
turned on it eliminates screen lag and tearing whilc playing games.
The Cross Hair option is borderline cheating. Turning this
on will allow you to paint anything in the middle of the screen. So if I click
on the edit button and paint a crosshair or anything else this gives an
advantage over other players for sure. I was surprised how easy it was to make
good Crosshairs.
PIP and PBP. This setting allows you to create a picture
inside your picture or make two pictures beside each other. Lets take a look.
As you can see here I now have my laptop and monitor computer screen side by
side. Now the settings is picture in picture and I can change the size and the
location of the picture. You can also swap your pictures around and bring the
small picture to the front and large picture to the back.
Cheating Possible with the Aorus KD25F Monitor
I racked my brain thinking how this technology could be used
and then it hit me. If you are a stream sniper you could use this to follow someone’s
stream at play your own game. Then I realised you could watch a team mates
stream and you might be able to see what enemy players are. It would be delayed
slightly but still helpful!!! Again great from cheating. J
Dashboard is pretty cool. Lets say you want to keep an eye
on the temperature of your CPU or GPU you can do it through the dashboard. It
makes a little display which you can make it see through so it doesn’t get in
the way. It’s a nice feature. Just turn off what you don’t need. For me the CPU
and GPU temps were pretty helpful.
Cancel Noise
You can turn the LED indicator on and off on the monitor.
Not a big deal, but I also wanted to show you that there is a mic pin hole just
above it which works with the noise cancelling feature.
There is also a noise cancelling feature which people on the
internet said it would be good for when you take your computer to a lan party.
But I was thinking it would probably be best for those of us who intend on
getting on discord with loud clacky keys. Hopefully this feature would filter
out allot of that background noise.
Here is some footage of the Crosshairs in action! I will be
selling the 123 crosshair on my website. Just kidding J And here is the default
crosshair. Its pretty good.
Also guys don’t forget to check out my other video such as The Witcher Media PC Build. And do me a favour hit the subscribe button and smash the bell icon.
If you did not know already, The Witcher is Netflix series, which is due to be released on the 20th of December. Before that, it was a series of books written by Andrzej Sapkowski. In 2015, The Witcher 3 game was released and it won numerous Game of the year awards. This was one game that I felt like I missed out on playing, so when I found out that the Witcher 3 supports XBOX controller on the PC. I decided to build a media pc complete with an XBOX controller.
In this build, I repurpose an OLD HP Z800 which featured in a Cryptocurrency CPU build I did. And I will be reusing an RX 570 card which I used in the Kraken mining rig build. I will put a link to that video as well.
All right let get started.
If we take, a look at the specs needed to run the Witcher in the z800 we have 12 GB of ram and duel Xeon X5660s which is more than enough and adding the rx570 should give us a great result for a media pc build.
AMD RX 570 GPU install.
First up let’s remove the Nvidia Quadro 4000 card. Remove
the 6 pin power plug first. You might have noticed I did not use the GPU clip,
which unlocks the card from the motherboard. That is because I’ve modified the
clip and when I say modified I really mean I broke it. I did this because I
found the clip annoying when adding and removing cards.
Install the GPU RX 570
Let’s remove the Sapphire RX 570 from the Kraken mining rig
by removing the 8 pin power cable. As well as removing the PCIE connector from
the bottom. The Sapphire RX 570 cards are great for mining and gaming and heres
why. They have a dual bios switch, which means you can have one bios for Mining
and one bios for Gaming. So I just switch the bios switch over and start gaming
with it. I do not have to flash the bios or anything messy like that.
As you can see she’s a bit dirty, so let’s give her a quick
clean up before we move her into the case.
Alright let’s add the GPU to the case. Pretty straight
forward. Just add the card in the same spot we removed the Quadro 4000 card
from.
The Z800 only comes with 6 pin power connectors. So we need
to add a 6 pin to 8 pin power connector. You can get these cheap online.
Make it power efficient as possible.
I am going to remove the SATA hard drives and replace them
with a faster SSD. You could keep these in if you wanted extra storage for games
or movies, but I do not need it and they will just waste power being plugged
in.
The SSD I am going with is a Kingston brand and I could slot
it into the same spot as the SATA hard drive, however it will not have any
support there so I am going to gerry rig it inside the case.
Add in a new SATA cable and give it some power. And then I
just find a spot to wedge it in the drive bay area and it’s good to go. Plug
the SSD into the motherboard on bay 0. Remove the power from the DVD drive
since I am not going to be using that.
Close the case and hopefully we are done on the inside of the build. Next up plug in power keyboard and mouse into the media pc build.
Install Windows 10
To install Windows 10 I’ve got an installer copy on this Seagate
USB hard drive. Newer USBs do not seem to detect properly on this older
computer. Do not forget our HDMI cable for our monitor. To boot into bios or
boot menu. On your keyboard you might have tap F2 Delete or in this case of the
Z800 you press F9. Once you are in the boot menu select the USB device. Then go
ahead and install Windows. When windows finishes installing remove your USB hard
drive.
Check that your RX 570 card is correctly installed. This is
important if they were used for Cryptocurrency as they will show up with a
yellow exclamation mark next to them and your game will be slow or not even
load. Make sure your driver date is on the money as you can see here mine is
recent so we are good to go. This next addition is what will really make the build
shine. We are going to add in the XBOX controller. The Beauty of the XBOX
controller is when family or friends come over to your house and they are a bit
bored, you throw them an XBOX controller and they are instantly entertained.
XBOX Controller working?
All right plug in your XBOX USB and let it detect in Windows. Go ahead and pair your controller it, the USB should flash when successful.
The Witcher build going live!
Ok so I have connected the Z800 to my LG TV and I’ve got my XBOX controller ready to go for the media pc build. But I feel like there is something missing. I still feel like there is something missing. How about LEDS? That is better!
Cool, let’s fix up the TV settings. On the LG TV I have this
button called Q menu and it allows me to choose a few different TV options such
as Gaming and Cinema. What I noticed is the picture on Cinema was far superior
to Gaming. Because I am not playing the game competitively, I am just going for
the best picture and man it really made a difference. Take a look.
I decided to leave it on Cinema. A quick check to see how
many frames the RX 570 is giving me and as you can see here, it is a solid 60
frames. Its a great result. I tested this on my 120 hertz monitor. I set the
game to unlimited so I am sure it is higher than this but maybe it is a limitation
of the TV.
Hi Guys and welcome to 123myIT, in this video we will show you how to Setup XBOX wireless controller on Apple TV, iPad or iPhone.
One of the new features with iOS 13 is that you can pair XBOX controllers with Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. This means you can use the XBOX controller to play games on Apple Arcade as well as iOS supported games.
All right let’s get started its pretty simple on your Apple
TV go to Settings > Remotes and Devices.
Getting started, use the Apple TV remote to setup the Xbox controller.
Scroll down to Bluetooth. And under BlueTooth you will see
other devices.
Next up grab your XBOX controller and put it in pairing
mode. To do this Press the XBOX button to turn it on. Then press the connect
button for 3 seconds or until the XBOX button starts to flash. The XBOX
controller should show up under other devices select it with your AppleTV
remote. Once you see the Controller Connected popup you should be good to go.
Connect the XBOX to your
Let’s connect the XBOX controller to your iPad or iPhone. Go
into Settings > BlueTooth. And just toggle on the BlueTooth switch. Again
put your controller in Pairing mode. And tap your controller to connect it.
Awesome lets go test out some games. On Apple TV just go
into Apple Arcade and sign in with your Apple ID. Its free for the first month.
The game I have played most is one called OceanHorn2. The games on Apple Arcade
are pretty basic at the moment so don’t expect to the blown away. But they are
ok for a bit of fun. OceanHorn2 is a Adventure Role Play game.
Lets check out some games on the iPad or iPhone. Not all iOS
games will work with the XBOX controller. But when you load a game that does it
should tell you at the bottom of the screen.
The game I am playing now is called real racing 3. In real racing 3 you can change your views in the car and also look behind you. This iPhone 11 pro does a good job with the sound and games can be quite fun on a bigger iPad screen. If racing is not your thing there is loads of other games like fortnight and actually having a controller will give you some advantage over other mobile players as the controller is much easier to use. Sonic Racing game on Apple TV is also a bit of fun.
Hi Guys and welcome to 123myIT, in this video we will show
you how to Setup Dualshock 4 controller on Apple TV, iPad or iPhone.One of the new features with iOS 13 is that you can pair Dualshock 4 controllers with Apple TV, iPad and iPhone. This means you can use the Dualshock 4 controller to play game on Apple Arcade and iOS supported games.
All right let’s get started its pretty simple on your Apple
TV go to Settings > Remotes and Devices.
Use the Apple TV remote to setup DualShock 4 controller.
Scroll down to Bluetooth. And under BlueTooth you will see
other devices.
Next up grab your DualShock controller and put it in pairing
mode. To do this hold down the PS and sharing buttons for 3 seconds or until
the light starts flashing on the top. The DualShock controller should show up
under other devices select it with your AppleTV remote. Once you see your
Controller Connected popup you should be good to go.
Lets connect the DualShock to your iPad or iPhone. Go into
Settings > BlueTooth. And just toggle on the BlueTooth switch. Again put
your controller in Pairing mode. And tap your controller to connect it.
Apple TV Games
Awesome lets go test out some games. On Apple TV just go
into Apple Arcade and sign in with your Apple ID. Its free for the first month.
The game I have played most is one called OceanHorn2. The games on Apple Arcade
are pretty basic at the moment so don’t expect to the blown away. But they are
ok for a bit of fun. OceanHorn2 is a Adventure Role Play game.
Lets check out some games on the iPad or iPhone. Not all iOS
games will work with the DualShock controller. But when you load a game that
does it should tell you at the bottom of the screen.
The game I am playing now is called real racing 3. In real racing 3 you can change your views in the car and also look behind you. This iPhone 11 pro does a good job with the sound and games can be quite fun on a bigger iPad screen. If racing is not your thing there is loads of other games like fortnight and actually having a controller will give you some advantage over other mobile players as the controller is much easier to use. Sonic Racing game on Apple TV is also a bit of fun.
Also guys don’t forget to check out my other videos such as Turn on Voice control on iPhone or iPad. And do me a favour hit the subscribe button and smash the bell icon.
Voice Control the most over looked feature of the iPhone.
Hi Guys and welcome to 123, in this video I will show you how to Turn on Voice Control on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Voice Control allows you to control your iOS devices using just your voice. This is helpful if you have your hand full or have limited mobility.
To turn on voice control go into Settings > Accessibility and Voice control.
Set Up Voice Control
Next, Tap on Set Up Voice Control. Voice control might need a small download when setting up, but after that, It doesn’t need an internet connection. Tap continue. In addition, it gives you a short list of commands. So we will go through these in a second. First, I want to show you how you can turn Voice Commands off and on using Siri.
Try some Commands
Ok let try some commands. When Voice Control is turned on
you will see a blue microphone in the top left of the screen.
If you want to go to the home screen, say Go Home. Swipe
Left to swipe left. If you get stuck for commands simply say. If you want to
check out control centre, say Open Control Centre.
Awesome if you want to see other commands you can use just
say, Show Commands. Ok lets take some
pictures. Open camera. If you want to know,
the names of the settings to use say Show names. In addition, to take a picture
just say, Tap Take Picture.
Moreover, if you want to Zoom in just say Show Names to find
the Name. Then Tap Zoom. If you want to lock your screen just say Lock Screen.
Some other commands are, Take screen shot. Turn on Smart invert colours.
10 iPhone settings that you don’t need. Time to turn them off.
Hi guys and welcome to 123, this video I will show you ten iPhone settings that you should turn off straight away. Ok guys these settings I am about to show you will do two things save battery life and save you mobile data. So let us get started.
iPhone Analytics
The first one you should turn off is iPhone analytics. IPhone Analytics sends data to Apple and could be a privacy issue as well. They use these analytics to see how you use your phone so they can improve their services. It also drains your battery life. So to turn it off go into Settings > Privacy > Analytics. Just toggle the button at the top. If you have an Apple watch, it will also turn off the analytics for your Apple watch. Again, this will give you more battery life on your Apple watch as well.
iCloud Analytics
In addition, while you are in there turn off iCloud analytics, which is the same thing as iPhone Analytics accept for iCloud.
Turn off Improve Siri & Dictation. This setting allows Apple to store and review the Audio from your Siri interactions. For me no thanks I want to keep that private.
Significant Locations
Next up turn off Significant Locations.
Significant location tracks everywhere you go this also means it uses your GPS
everywhere you go. This allows Apple to deliver targeted advertising to your
phone. To turn this off go to Settings
> Privacy> Location services > you can toggle it off at the top.
Otherwise if you want to see where you have been go to System Services >
Significant Locations. You can turn it off in here plus see where you have been
and clear history.
System Services – Turn off services that you are not using.
System Services
Turn off everything in System services that are unnecessary. Turn off everything apart from Emergency calls and SOS, find my iPhone and share my location if you use that feature. If suddenly, something does not work come back in here and double check. Otherwise, turn them off. It will save you battery life and data.
While you are in there turn off everything in Product improvement. This allows Apple to use your location to improve maps. Just turn it off.
Limit Ad Tracking
Next, up you want turn on Limit Ad Tracking.
This is one where the naming might be confusing. If you do not have this on
then you are being tracked when you go to websites so that advertisers can
advertise to you. Turn this on under
Privacy and Advertising. If you want to see information that is being used by Apple,
tap the View Ad Information menu. Hit the Reset Advertising Identifier button
and then toggle Limit Ad Tracking on.
Email accounts
Set your email accounts to fetch instead of
Push. What this does is it only goes and gets your email when you open your
email to look. Rather than wasting battery, life constantly checking for new
email. You can also select how often you want to fetch your mail. Every 15 minutes
might be suitable. Just remember the longer you leave this the better your
battery life will be.
Turn off background app refresh. You can find this under iPhone Settings, General. This allows apps to download data in the background even where you are not using them. Turn these off for anything you are not using.
Raise to wake. Turn off save battery life. What this does is when your iPhone screen is blank it turns on when you raise it.
Also guys don’t forget to check out my other video such as Forgotten Passcode on iPad, iPhone and iPod. And do me a favour hit the subscribe button and smash the bell icon.
Forgotten your passcode on your iOS device? This video will help.
Forgotten Passcode on iPad?
Hi guys and welcome to 123, in this video I will show you how to remove the passcode from iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. This is helpful if you have Forgotten Passcode on iPad, iPhone or iPod.
Ok guys so have completely forgotten your passcode and you need to remove it from your device. How painful it can be to have Forgotten Passcode on iPad, iPhone or iPod? Apple recommends two ways to remove your passcode. However, this will erase any data on your iPad, iPhone or iPod so I recommend trying to remember you passcode first. Because If you have backed up your device via iCloud or iTunes then you will be able to restore your data and settings after restoring your device.
Check iCloud first
Alright the first way to remove the passcode is if you have added your iPad, iPhone or iPod to iCloud backup and find my iPhone. Once you are on the iCloud.com page login with your Apple ID.
And then click on find iPhone. Click on All devices at the top
and you should see your iPad, iPhone or iPod that you want to restore. If you don’t
see your device there then you will have to fast forward the video to the
second option of restoring your device.
Erase your device with iCloud if you have it added to iCloud.
Here I have my iPhone 11 Pro and I will click Erase iPhone. This will restore your iPad, iPhone or IPod back to factory defaults. But remember that this will also erase any data on the device so be sure you want to do this. Next up enter your Apple ID and password and enter your secret questions. On the Erase iPhone menu click Next and then Done. And you will a message that states your erase has started.
Setup your device as new
Ok go a head now and start setting up your device again from
scratch. Your passcode will be gone now. If your get activation lock you can
enter your Apple ID or click the remove from account button in iCloud then go
back on your device and the activation lock won’t come up once you have removed
the account from iCloud. If you cant get past activation lock. You will need to
take your device to Apple with proof of purchase. Follow the prompts to setup
your iPad, iPhone or iPod. Your Passcode is now gone.
And there you have it you have removed you passcode.
If you haven’t Added your iPad, iPhone or iPod to iCloud
then you will need to restore your device via iTunes. So you will need a
computer with iTunes.
Recovery Mode
You will need to put your device into recovery mode and here’s how to do it for the different models. So for my iPhone 11 I just hold down the side button and plug it into my computer. Once done correctly you should see the restore screen.
But on your computer you iTunes should come up with a restore option. Click Restore and then Restore and update. Click next on software update.
In the top right hand corner of iTunes you should see the
software start to download the new iOS for your iPad, iPhone or iPod. If you
are using Mac OS Catalina the process is the same. Click on Go and then computer. Find your iPad, iPhone or iPod. Click ok and
then hit restore. Again click restore and update. Click Next and Agree and your
software will start to download.
Slow Internet?
If you are on a slow internet connection, your device might restart itself and you will have to put it back in Restore mode again. So once the download has finished it will extract and start to restore your iPad, iPhone or iPod.
You should now see a message that your device has been restored. However your device will restart itself and your passcode will be gone. Just go ahead and setup your device again. Congratulations you now have removed your passcode.
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