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Is OneDrive sending your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

dem10/iStock/Getty Images Plus ZDNET's key takeaways OneDrive Backup moves your Documents, Pictures, and Desktop folders to a new location. If you have a Microsoft 365 subscription, this option is valuable but raises privacy concerns. It's possible to turn this feature off, but cleanup takes a few extra steps. If you don't pay careful attention when setting up a new Windows PC or completing installation after a feature update, you could find many of your data files suddenly relocated to the

Is OneDrive sending all your Windows files to the cloud? Here's why - and what you can do

dem10/iStock/Getty Images Plus If you don't pay careful attention when setting up a new Windows PC or completing installation after a feature update, you could find many of your data files suddenly relocated to the cloud. That might be a good thing, or it might be a mess. And, of course, Microsoft is frustratingly unhelpful when it comes to explaining how this feature works. Also: How to upgrade your 'incompatible' Windows 10 PC to Windows 11: Two ways Should this happen to you, please follow

Instagram adds inbox management tools for creators and big accounts

Big-time creators on Instagram just got a bit of welcome news. The platform is introducing inbox management tools to make it easier for influencers to wade through endless messages and requests. The tools include multi-select filters that let users sort through messages faster to find important correspondences. Remember, popular creators are getting hundreds upon hundreds of messages each day. The software lets these influencers add, edit or remove any filter, which should be helpful. Instagra

Finding the right image on Android just got a whole lot easier

TL;DR Google is bringing several new features to the Android Photo Picker tool. These features include the ability to change the photo grid view size, as well as a new way to choose multiple photos. These additions seem to be rolling out via the latest Android Canary release. Google introduced the Photo Picker tool in Android 13, allowing you to choose which photos an app can access. Now, this tool has received a few more quality-of-life additions. Authority Insights story on Android Authori

Master your clipboard history and supercharge your productivity

ClipClip makes it possible to copy multiple texts, images or files to your clipboard. You can then browse or search through these Latest Clips, or convert them to Saved Clips so you can assign a title and organize them into folders for later re-use. By pressing CTRL + SHIFT + V you get a list of all your clips so you can paste without losing focus of what you were working on. Whether you're an engineer, lawyer, manager, executive, accountant, salesperson, office clerk, customer support rep or j

Apple’s Music app in iOS 26 gains my favorite feature from the Mac

One major theme of Apple’s software this year is unification, as seen in the new Liquid Glass design and more cross-platform feature parity. In the realm of improving app feature parity across platforms, there’s a great new capability in iOS 26’s Music app that had previously been exclusive to the Mac: playlist folder creation. Playlist folders can now be created in Music app on iPhone and iPad More so than most Apple apps, the Music app has a complex history of offering different functionalit

Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

A system to organise your life Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You assign a unique ID to everything in your life. These IDs help you stay organised. They impose constraints that make it harder to get lost. And you create your own index to link everything in your life together. The system is free to use and the concepts are the same at home, work, or that club you manage. The problem In real life, if you stored your stuff in