Video compression works by using a program called a codec to get rid of the redundant and/or imperceptible elements of a video. This is how it reduces the size of the file without affecting the quality of the footage. The difference between the original and compressed video's size is called the compression ratio. 

Video compression formats usually gain popularity if they're efficient, widely compatible, actively supported, and provided under a permissive (usually open source) license. 

Some of the most popular formats for compressing video streams include: 

H.264 (MPEG-4 AVC): Short for Advanced Video Coding, it's the most common compression format today. Platforms like TikTok and YouTube use this format for efficient delivery, as it offers high-quality video at low file sizes. 

H.265 (HEVC): Short for High Efficiency Video Coding, it's the successor to H.264. It often produces better quality video at smaller file sizes than H.264, but at the cost of being more resource hungry. It also requires a license for commercial use, which might explain its low adoption rates. 

VP8: Open-sourced by Google after its acquisition of inventor On2 Technologies, it's mainly used for short looping video formats, as an alternative to GIFs. 

VP9: Invented by Google, VP9 is a free and open-source competitor to H.265 and a successor to VP8. It's ideal for streaming above Full HD video, but is compatible with a relatively small variety of devices, so adoption is still slow. 

AV1: Short for AOMedia Video 1, it's meant to be a successor to VP9. Netflix is a major champion of this technology, recently rolling it out to its TV video player. 

FLV: Short for Flash Video, made for use with Adobe Flash. Adobe stopped supporting Flash in December 2020 due to security flaws in the software 

YouTube now allows content creators the flexibility to customize their channel’s name and photo without affecting their Google account identity. Creators are no longer constrained to having matching names across YouTube and other Google services like Gmail. They can craft a unique brand for their YouTube presence, separate from their personal Google profile. 

You can change your YouTube channel name, just make sure it follows YouTube Community Guidelines. After changing your name, it may take a few days for the new name to update and display across YouTube. If you change your YouTube channel name and picture, it will only be visible on YouTube. 

YouTube Shorts is a way for anyone to turn an idea into a chance to connect with new audiences anywhere in the world. Using YouTube’s Shorts creation tools, you can upload a short-form vertical video as a Short. 

To change language preferences: 

TikTok uses your device’s location information to recommend content and popular ads in your area. TikTok also suggests your account to other users based on your region. If you want more English views on your videos, you can tag an English-speaking location in your video. Make sure your video’s language and description are also in English. 

Deactivating your TikTok account allows you to put it on a temporary hold. When you're ready to get back on TikTok, you can reactivate it anytime. You can temporarily disable your TikTok account for 30 days from the Settings and privacy section of the app. 

To deactivate your TikTok account: 

If you deactivate your TikTok account: 

A handle is a unique identifier that makes it easier for you to establish and maintain your distinct presence on YouTube. You can change your handle twice within a 14-day period. 

Your handle must follow these guidelines: 

You can customize your ads in the My Ad Center or on ads you see on Google services. You can access My Ad Center on every Google service where you might see ads, like Google Search, YouTube, and Maps. My Ad Center works best in the newest versions of your browser. 

You can control the ads that you see on YouTube in your Ad Settings. Note that you can also view, delete or pause your YouTube watch history. 

Your banner image must meet the following criteria: 

You can use your computer's image editor or an online image resizer to resize the images. For example, you can use Preview on an Apple computer or Microsoft Photos on Windows. 

Changing your YouTube profile picture takes just a few steps, and it can be done on the YouTube website or on the YouTube app for iPhone or Android.

Your profile picture must follow our Community Guidelines and meet the following criteria:

YouTube watch history makes it easy to find videos you recently watched, and, when it’s turned on, allows YouTube to give relevant video recommendations. You can control your watch history by deleting or turning off your history. If you delete some or all of your watch history, YouTube won’t base future video recommendations on that content. Any videos that you watch while history is turned off won't show up in your history. 

Assuming viewing history is enabled, you'll then be shown everything you've watched recently on YouTube, with the most recent views at the top. There may well be a few videos you've forgotten about here; this is the place to go to if you want to watch again something good or useful that you've seen lately. 

If you really want to clean up your YouTube page, you do need to delete that history because otherwise, you’ll still be getting recommendations based on everything you watched before you hit that Pause button. 

In the YouTube app settings, enable the "Limit Mobile Data Usage" option. This feature reduces video quality to save data, so keep in mind that the video may appear slightly pixelated. 

There are other ways to do it. We recommend being on Wi-Fi as often as possible so you don’t use a bunch of mobile data. You used to need a third-party data saver app to restrict usage even more. 

Keep in mind, live-streamed data uses about the same about of data as a comparably long YouTube video at the same resolution and frame rate. 

Open the YouTube app, hit your profile picture, and then tap the Time Watched option. This shows you how much YouTube you’ve watched in the last week. The option below that, your data in YouTube will show you your watch history, comment history, playlist history, etc. 

You can search videos by location using the YouTube website or mobile application. This allows you to see videos posted from a specific city or town. You can even see where the videos were uploaded on a map. 

You can sort out specific content with respect to Time Frame, Language, Duration, Page Limit. When you search for videos and other content on YouTube, you can refine your search by using advanced filters. You can filter by the type of content (like video, playlist, or movie). For example, if one cat video isn’t enough, click Playlist under “Result Type” in the Filters menu to find an entire playlist of cat videos. 

Tagging location on videos and live streams lets viewers find videos by that location. They can also view other videos that were tagged in the same area. 

You can view tagged locations on the watch page for any of your videos. Viewers will view the tag on any of your public, unlisted, or private videos you share with them. Viewers can click location to search for public videos from the same location. 

While the mobile version is convenient and quick, it doesn’t provide the same depth of data as the desktop version. Both platforms provide real-time data, but the way they present it might differ slightly in layout and navigability. 

YouTube is a considerable part of Google; therefore, it requires you to possess an active Google account linked to the channel. Moreover, you can't transfer the YouTube accounts, such as kids' YouTube accounts. Hence, a G-Suite account can't be transferred to another account if it's set up for work or school. 

If you want to transfer YouTube data to another disk, choose a professional migration tools lik EaseUS Todo PCTrans. The tool allows you to transfer vegan YouTube data, account, and subscription data to another partition or drive. 

YouTube's dark mode provides an easier-on-the-eyes viewing experience. It's particularly nice when watching videos in the dark or at night. YouTube's dark theme is available on the YouTube website and in YouTube's mobile apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android. 

The ‘device theme’ option will match your YouTube theme with the current theme on your device. If your phone or computer is set to a dark theme, YouTube will automatically switch to dark mode, and vice versa. 

The ‘dark theme’ option will change your YouTube background to black, making it ideal for night-time use or simply as a respite from the usual bright white theme. 

The ‘light theme’ option will keep your YouTube background white, maintaining the classic YouTube look that we’re all familiar with. Remember, switching between themes is an easy process that you can do as often as you like. So feel free to experiment with both modes to see which one you prefer. 

For users aged 13–17 on YouTube, the take a break reminder is set to “On” by default. For users 18 or over, the default setting is “Off.” You can change this setting at any time. 

The take a break reminder lets you set a reminder to take a break while watching videos. The reminder will pause your video until you dismiss it or resume playing the video. This feature is available on versions 13.17+ of the YouTube app on mobile devices. 

You can also set take a break reminder by tapping your profile picture and then Time Watched. 

 Going forward, once you hit your self-imposed time limit in the YouTube app, an alert will show up reminding you it's time to take a break. When the alert shows up, you can either adjust the amount of time between interruptions or dismiss it and continue watching a video. 

Business Accounts are public profiles that allow brands and businesses to use TikTok marketing tools to build a cohesive marketing strategy on TikTok. They're a good choice for: 

Anyone whose primary goal on TikTok is to promote their business (either a product or service) should use a Business Account. 

To switch your account type: 

Link TikTok to Instagram: 

To turn on 2-step verification: 

1. Check that you have the latest version of TikTok downloaded on your device. 

2. Tap Profile at the bottom of the screen. 

3. Tap the Menu button at the top. 

4. Tap Settings and privacy. 

5. Tap Security. 

6. Tap 2-step verification and choose at least two verification methods: 

7. Tap Turn on to confirm. 

8. If you choose SMS or Email: 

Daily screen time is a screen time management setting that allows you to manage your usage on TikTok. It lets you set a daily screen time limit so that you get notified when you reach that time on TikTok. You can turn this setting on and off at any time. If you're between the ages of 13 and 17, the setting is turned on by default to 1 hour. 

To add a daily screen time: 

To turn daily screen time off, follow the steps above, then switch the time limit off.You can schedule screen time breaks to be reminded to take a break from using TikTok after a period of uninterrupted screen time. You can turn break reminders on and off at any time. 

If you reach your limit, you'll be notified in the app to consider taking a break. 

If you temporarily deactivate your account, your profile, photos, comments and likes will be hidden until you reactivate it by logging back in. You can only deactivate your Instagram account from a computer, a mobile browser or the Instagram app. Bear in mind that you can only deactivate your account once a week. 

You'll need to be able to log in to your account to temporarily deactivate it. If you can't remember your password or username, get some tips for logging in. 

You may not be able to deactivate your account from Accounts Centre at this time. If you don't want to deactivate your account, but want to change who can see it, you can set your posts to private or block people. 

 

Alongside the usual bold, italics, strikethrough, and monospace, WhatsApp has now introduced bulleted and numbered lists along with block and inline quotes. The new formatting options were rolled out to ensure streamlined texting and better organizing of messages 

Depending what notifications, you want, you can change settings for certain apps or for your whole phone. Notifications show when you swipe down from the top of your screen. Some notifications can also show on your lock screen and home screen. 

To find your notifications, from the top of your screen, swipe down. 

In the certain app, you can control many app notifications from a settings menu in the app. For example, an app could have a setting to choose the sound that app's notifications make. To make these changes, open the app and search for the settings menu. 

You can also choose to show or not show sensitive information on your lock screen by toggling “Sensitive notifications” on or off. If it’s toggled off, you will only see the app that the notification is from rather than the notification itself for example, you’ll see “1 new message” rather than any information about the message. 

You should download any video you have published to the platform. You can also download other creators’ videos, assuming they have made the video public and enabled the app's privacy setting that lets other users download their clips. If you go through the steps to download a video and you don’t see the option to save it locally, it’s most likely the creator has restricted the sharing permissions on that video so that no one else can download it. 

•  Once you turn the video downloads setting off, people can't download videos that you already posted and your future videos. 

•  If the video downloads setting was on and you turned it off, any of your videos that were downloaded when the setting was on won't be impacted. This means that any downloaded videos will stay on another person's device. 

•  If your account is private or if you're under the age of 16, your video downloads setting is turned off by default and you can't turn it on. If you change your account to public, you may choose to turn this setting on or off. 

To turn your video downloads on or off: 

1. In the TikTok app, tap Profile at the bottom. 

2. Tap the Menu button at the top. 

3. Tap Settings and privacy. 

4. Tap Privacy, then tap Downloads. 

5. Turn the Video downloads setting on or off. 

By temporarily disabling your Instagram account, your profile, along with its photos, likes, and comments, will be hidden and they'll stay hidden until you log back in to reactivate your account. Disabling your account is a perfect way to take a bit of a vacation from Instagram. Another option to consider is merely muting a few friends, if that’s your main reason for disabling your account. 

Temporarily deactivate your Instagram account from Accounts Center: 

The first thing to look for is the profile of the account. If the account has been disabled, the profile will not be visible. This means that you won't be able to see the profile picture, bio, or any posts that have been made. If you are able to see the profile, the account is likely active. 

Keep in mind that you can only deactivate your account once a week. 

Note: If your Google Account backup frequency is set to Daily, your chats will also be saved to your Google Account every night after the local backup is made. 

Backup files can vary in size and might use mobile data. Connect your phone to Wi-Fi before backing up your chats to your Google Account to avoid possible mobile data charges. 

If you don’t want to back up chats to your Google Account, you can still transfer your chats between Android devices using WhatsApp chat transfer. Learn how here. 

Backups include messages and media sent and received in communities. They also include updates shared over WhatsApp Channels, but they do not include media unless you are the channel admin. 

To deactivate or delete your Snapchat account, follow the steps below. This will deactivate an account for 30 days, during which time the account can still be reactivated. After 30 more days, the account will be permanently deleted. 

To deactivate or delete your Snapchat account on Android or the web: 

To deactivate or delete your Snapchat account on iOS: 

If you’re having trouble logging in to the accounts portal because you forgot your password, you can reset it. 

 

Since Google's ecosystem is interconnected, removing a credit card from Google Pay or the Play Store removes it across all Google services and apps. If you saved a payment method in the Play Store, deleting it removes it from Chrome's saved credit cards.

This is important as you may not necessarily think about the impact of removing a card from Google Pay. However, if you remove a card you never plan to use when buying something from the Play Store but often use it to pay for online purchases, you won't find it in Chrome's auto-fill suggestions, as it's also removed from there. The best option is to check which cards are used for existing subscriptions without removing one from your account.

Stories shared with close friends disappear after 24 hours. People on your close friends list will know they're on it. No one can request to be added to your close friends list.

If someone has added you to their list, you'll see a close friends Close Friends label when viewing their stories and a green ring around their profile photo.

You may also be able to share a reel with your close friends list. If someone on your close friends list likes, comments on or shares your reel, others on your close friends will be able to see their username and how they interact with your reel.

To save a Snap or Friend’s Story in Chat while viewing, you can press and hold on it and tap 'Save in Chat' or swipe up on the Snap and tap 'Save in Chat.' 

Only photo Snaps set to no limit, and video Snaps set to loop can be saved in Chat. Look for the timer with the “infinity” icon. After saving a Snap or friend’s Story, it will appear in the chat as Chat Media. Either you or your friend can delete saved content in your one on one Chat. 

If you have a subscription with an app and the app gets removed from Google Play, your future subscription will be canceled. Your past subscriptions can’t be refunded, with some exceptions as specified in Google Play’s refund policies. 

Subscriptions on Google Play are for an indefinite term, and you’ll be charged at the beginning of each billing cycle according to your subscription terms (for example, weekly, annually, or another period), unless you unsubscribe. 

WhatsApp disappearing messages are a privacy feature that automates chat deletion. Any user can set their messages to disappear in intervals of 24 hours, 7 days, or 90 days. Participants are notified of the change once the feature is turned on in a conversation. Disappearing messages cannot be recovered on WhatsApp. WhatsApp allows users to customize the notification for each contact and group. 

Just like how you turn off auto-download on iPhones, you can turn off media auto-download on Android too via Settings. Here's how to disable auto save media whatsapp Android. 

If you wonder if there is a quick way to stop WhatsApp from saving photos on Android, the good news is there is. Go to Settings then click on Chats and turn off the toggle for Media Visibility. Now, the downloaded media won't be shown in the gallery. 

For the moments when you make a mistake, or simply change your mind, you can now edit your WhatsApp sent messages. Edited messages will display ‘edited’ alongside them, so those you’re messaging are aware of the correction without showing edit history. As with all personal messages, media and calls, your messages and the edits you make are protected by end-to-end encryption.