**The Power of Small Changes: Tips to Boost Productivity**

We've all been there - groggily waking up to the sound of multiple alarms, only to hit snooze over and over again. Alarms can be a significant source of frustration, taking away from our precious morning time. However, what if we told you that by making a simple change to your alarm setting, you could wake up more refreshed and energized? The solution is surprisingly simple: set an alarm recording of your name. Our brains have been wired to respond to this name subconsciously for years, making it an effective way to wake ourselves up.

But alarms are just the beginning. Another common problem that many of us face is our tendency to unlock our phones and open apps repeatedly, only to turn them off again. This behavior can add up quickly, wasting precious seconds and minutes throughout the day. To minimize this time-wasting habit, try placing all your regularly used apps in one folder on your home screen or directly on the home screen. Not only will this save you time, but it will also conserve battery life.

**The Importance of Voice Assistants**

Most of us use our voice assistants - Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant - to perform various tasks while keeping our phones nearby. However, what happens when we're not holding our phone? Our microphone's perception of sound changes significantly in this situation. If you find that your assistant isn't doing a good job of picking up your voice, try retraining it by selecting the "Re-train" option while your phone is lying flat on a surface. This simple trick can greatly improve the accuracy of your assistant.

**Avoiding Review Requests**

Another source of frustration for many of us is being asked to review apps repeatedly. We've all been there - selecting "No, thanks" only to face the same message again when we launch the app later. To avoid this, try selecting "Okay" instead, which will signal to the application that you've left the review. This simple change can significantly reduce the number of times you're asked to leave reviews for apps.

**The Importance of Fingerprint Scanners**

Fingerprint scanners are a convenient way to secure our phones, but even the best ones can fail to recognize our prints. This is often due to the fact that we only register different parts of our finger when using the phone in one particular grip. To reduce this issue, try registering your finger multiple times in each of the different grips you might be holding your phone in. This gives your phone more information about your fingerprint in all possible scenarios.

**A Simple yet Effective Time-Saver**

Finally, let's talk about a simple yet effective way to save time - keyboard shortcuts for email addresses and phone numbers. By configuring this feature in your iOS settings or Android keyboard, you can type just two letters and trigger your entire email address to be inserted into the message field. This tiny change can make a significant difference in our daily productivity.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis video will change how you use your phone we've got five very surprising things that nobody's going to realize they're doing wrong until they've been corrected I'm saving the best for last so make sure you stick around until the end we all have a problem with alarms they take a lot of time to wake a served and sometimes in fact often times before you know it you've snooze through the entire five alarms you set for any morning right what I'm gonna tell you next is gonna catch you off guard because what you have to do is to set an alarm to say a recording of your name your brain has been biologically wired to respond to this name having done so subconsciously for many years in the past this works trust me so use a voice recorder and either record yourself saying your name or for a slightly less creepy effect get someone else to do it for you alright the number of times I see people unlocking their phone flicking a few pages only to open one application and then turn their phone off is uncountable almost all of us will have apps that we check many times per day and so every second you save in this process starts to add up very quickly what you should really try and do to minimize this time is to either place all the apps that you regularly use together in one folder on your home screen or even better just directly on the home screen and this is going to minimize the number of interactions needed in order to open them saving time saving battery and yes this is a small amount but it will grow to be significant most of the time people use their voice assistance that is Siri Cortana Google assistant their phone is on a flat surface somewhere at 4 or 5 meters away and in these cases you just do not want to reach for the phone and I write what a time to be here live now that's all well and good but at the same time most people initially train their assistant when they are holding their phone in their hand and in both of these situations whether you're holding a phone or it's flat on a surface your microphone is gonna perceive your sound very differently so if you are finding that your voice assistant isn't doing a very good job of picking up your voice it's very possible that you trained it in one scenario and you're actually using it in another one so simply hit the settings and select retrain and this time do so while your phone is lying flat I'm not an easy person to annoy but something that really does get to me is whether you're on Android or whether you're on iOS using apps again and again you'll constantly be asked to review them and you don't have time to sit there right and reviews for every single app you download so you select no thank you only to then launch the app again and face the same message all over again so you actually need to do which sounds a little bit counterintuitive is to select okay which will then leave the application take you to the App Store or the Play Store but it will signal to the application that you've left the review and 99% of the time they will never bother you again fingerprint scanners are great they are constantly improving both in terms of speed and security but even the very best often fail to recognize your finger what is often happening here is that even though you register different parts of your finger you're only doing so from one particular grip using the phone in different grip can sometimes change which parts of your finger are in contact with the scanner meaning that the scanner will still not pick up your print so in order to reduce the number of times this happens you've got a register the same finger multiple times in each of the different grips you might be holding your phone in this gives your phone more information about your finger in all of the different possible scenarios it might encounter it in so even if when you are swiping a finger across it your fingerprint doesn't quite match up with finger number one saved on your phone it might very well match up with finger number two or finger number three alright so as a little bit of a bonus I've got another quick one which I think you'll really like the number of times I have to type out my emails addresses phone numbers on my phone is immense a few times a day and it's not a fast process to use a keyboard shortcut this can be done in iOS settings and just about every single Android keyboard the way to normally configure it is to head to the personal dictionary setting and create a word shortcut and once setup you could be typing in as little as two letters and it could trigger your entire email address to be put in its place so this is definitely a real time-saver alright guys thank you so much for watching if you did enjoy this video I've got tons more like this so check out the card above and I'll leave some end screens at the end of this video if you did enjoy it don't forget to smash that subscribe button I would really really appreciate that my name is Erin this is mr. who's the boss and I'm signing out youthis video will change how you use your phone we've got five very surprising things that nobody's going to realize they're doing wrong until they've been corrected I'm saving the best for last so make sure you stick around until the end we all have a problem with alarms they take a lot of time to wake a served and sometimes in fact often times before you know it you've snooze through the entire five alarms you set for any morning right what I'm gonna tell you next is gonna catch you off guard because what you have to do is to set an alarm to say a recording of your name your brain has been biologically wired to respond to this name having done so subconsciously for many years in the past this works trust me so use a voice recorder and either record yourself saying your name or for a slightly less creepy effect get someone else to do it for you alright the number of times I see people unlocking their phone flicking a few pages only to open one application and then turn their phone off is uncountable almost all of us will have apps that we check many times per day and so every second you save in this process starts to add up very quickly what you should really try and do to minimize this time is to either place all the apps that you regularly use together in one folder on your home screen or even better just directly on the home screen and this is going to minimize the number of interactions needed in order to open them saving time saving battery and yes this is a small amount but it will grow to be significant most of the time people use their voice assistance that is Siri Cortana Google assistant their phone is on a flat surface somewhere at 4 or 5 meters away and in these cases you just do not want to reach for the phone and I write what a time to be here live now that's all well and good but at the same time most people initially train their assistant when they are holding their phone in their hand and in both of these situations whether you're holding a phone or it's flat on a surface your microphone is gonna perceive your sound very differently so if you are finding that your voice assistant isn't doing a very good job of picking up your voice it's very possible that you trained it in one scenario and you're actually using it in another one so simply hit the settings and select retrain and this time do so while your phone is lying flat I'm not an easy person to annoy but something that really does get to me is whether you're on Android or whether you're on iOS using apps again and again you'll constantly be asked to review them and you don't have time to sit there right and reviews for every single app you download so you select no thank you only to then launch the app again and face the same message all over again so you actually need to do which sounds a little bit counterintuitive is to select okay which will then leave the application take you to the App Store or the Play Store but it will signal to the application that you've left the review and 99% of the time they will never bother you again fingerprint scanners are great they are constantly improving both in terms of speed and security but even the very best often fail to recognize your finger what is often happening here is that even though you register different parts of your finger you're only doing so from one particular grip using the phone in different grip can sometimes change which parts of your finger are in contact with the scanner meaning that the scanner will still not pick up your print so in order to reduce the number of times this happens you've got a register the same finger multiple times in each of the different grips you might be holding your phone in this gives your phone more information about your finger in all of the different possible scenarios it might encounter it in so even if when you are swiping a finger across it your fingerprint doesn't quite match up with finger number one saved on your phone it might very well match up with finger number two or finger number three alright so as a little bit of a bonus I've got another quick one which I think you'll really like the number of times I have to type out my emails addresses phone numbers on my phone is immense a few times a day and it's not a fast process to use a keyboard shortcut this can be done in iOS settings and just about every single Android keyboard the way to normally configure it is to head to the personal dictionary setting and create a word shortcut and once setup you could be typing in as little as two letters and it could trigger your entire email address to be put in its place so this is definitely a real time-saver alright guys thank you so much for watching if you did enjoy this video I've got tons more like this so check out the card above and I'll leave some end screens at the end of this video if you did enjoy it don't forget to smash that subscribe button I would really really appreciate that my name is Erin this is mr. who's the boss and I'm signing out you\n"