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My sister is starting college in the fall and asked me which headphones she should get for studying — I had just one recommendation
My sister is starting college in the fall (in a few weeks, actually), so when she asked me for the best headphones for studying, I knew my time had finally come. I don't spend half my life testing headphones for no reason. I recommended just one pair of headphones: the Soundcore Space One Pro. I was so confident in these headphones that I just cut to the chase and got them for her. Why? Well, for starters, they're some of the cheapest high-quality Bluetooth headphones money can buy. Other brands like Marshall, Bose, Sony, Bowers & Wilkins and Apple are reliably awesome, but they're premium cans with premium prices to boot. College students don't have a spare $400 lying around for headphones, so the $199 (often on sale for $169) Soundcore Space One Pro are my go-to recommendation for back to school. Soundcore not for you? Then maybe check out Skullcandy headphones or the old-but-discounted Sony WH-100XM4. Right, so these are the best headphones for college students. What do college students need? Well, when I was at college, I had the now-discontinued Bose SoundTrue headphones (I'm aging myself here). I needed the following things, in order: affordability, style and comfort. I was going to be wearing these headphones for hours while studying (procrastinating), so they had to be comfy. But I also wanted to be cool, so they had to be stylish. And the most important part? I was a poor, poor student. They had to be cheap. Fortunately, the Soundcore Space One Pro headphones are much, much cheaper than premium competition. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. Right now, the Soundcore Space One Pro headphones are discounted to $169, which makes them almost $200 cheaper than the Bose QuietComfort and almost $300 cheaper than the Sony WH-1000XM6 and the Apple AirPods Max. In the U.K., you're getting an even better deal. The Space One Pro headphones are just £149, which blows Apple, Sony, and Bose competition out of the water. Thankfully, you're not really sacrificing anything for this uber-affordable price. The Space One Pro headphones are very pilates-and-matcha coded, especially the white colorway. If you're a little more black-coffee-and-weights, then get the black version. They definitely feel at home in the aesthetic zeitgeist, and I wouldn't think them out of place on any college campus right now. Comfort is also a major plus. Thanks to the cloud cushion cups and padded headband, I was able to wear these headphones for hours. I found them way more comfortable than the JBL Tour One M2 and JBL Live 770NC, and about as comfortable as the EarFun Wave Pro (but I wouldn't recommend those due to terrible sound quality). If you need comfy, portable headphones to soundtrack you through long study sessions, the Soundcore Space One Pro will be everything you want and more. I'd like to thank my colleague Nikita for coining the term above — ANC so good you feel lonely — and it's the best way to describe phenomenal ANC. I'll admit that the Space One Pro headphones don't have as good ANC as other premium brands. Yes, I could still hear traffic noise when walking around town wearing these headphones. But when I wore them in the office, it was like my own personal ghost town. I was in a world of my own. I actually let my sister try out these headphones recently (to make sure she liked them before using them for college), and she was obsessed with the ANC. Everyone else in the family? Less so. When she was cooking, I had to wave my hand in front of her or tap her on the shoulder to get her attention. I was knocking on her bedroom door until my knuckles were raw. She was in the land of Space One Pro — perfect for long studying sessions at the library when you need to lock in. While normally I'd say sound quality is the most important feature on headphones, if you're going to use them predominantly for studying, it kind of falls to the lower half of the list of priorities. Obviously, don't get headphones with terrible sound — that means they've failed their sole purpose as a pair of headphones. Imagine headphones that sound so bad it's actually distracting. No thanks. However, you need not fret with the Soundcore Space One Pro headphones. I actually think the sound quality rivals the Bose QuietComfort headphones ($349). Now, I know some people might disagree with me, and that's fine. But let me tell you why. The Soundcore app has a really nifty feature — HearID. This feature is basically a personalized EQ tuned to your tastes. Obviously, you could do this manually, but where's the fun in that? HearID is basically a game. Maybe that's why I love it so much? The app plays a song (which is also an absolute bop, and I wish was on Spotify or Qobuz for my listening pleasure) with two different EQs. Then, it makes you choose between EQ A and EQ B six times. After completing the listening quest, the Soundcore app generates an optimal EQ based on your answers. Choose the bass-heavy EQs? It'll make you a bass EQ. Choose the treble EQs? Then it'll make you a treble-focused EQ. I could not get enough of this feature when testing out these headphones. Actually, I couldn't get enough of all the features when testing out these headphones. The ANC, comfort, style, affordability, and sound quality are why these are the best headphones for college students. I'm so sure of it that I got them for my sister. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
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Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold gets an official teaser — and it's all about the joy of opening things
It's not long now until the next Made by Google event, which should see the unveiling of the Pixel 10 lineup — one that includes the Pixel 10 Pro Fold. We already know a lot about the phone, thanks to the usual wave of leaks, and now Google has started officially teasing the new foldable. The teaser is in a similar vein to last week's Pixel 10 teaser, which poked fun at Apple for its continual issues with upgrading Siri and Apple Intelligence. Only this time it's emphasizing the joy of "opening" your phone. Not just that first unboxing, but also every time you get to physically open and unfold the screen. We then get a glimpse of the back of the phone. It won't be surprising to anyone who's seen the leaks to find out that the Pixel 10 Pro Fold looks shockingly like the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. Based on what we can see, both these phones are identical from this angle, which doesn't suggest there will be major design upgrades on the rest of the phone. We do get to see another device in Google's new "Moonstone" color, which has leaked multiple times in recent weeks. So if you want your phone in a slightly different shade of gray, this might be the option for you. This teaser isn't openly taking shots at other phones. Unless Google's taking aim at all the phones that don't offer a folding screen, including its own, which seems pretty unlikely. So this is more of a "please buy our super-expensive folding phone." Leaked specs reiterate the fact that the Pixel 10 Pro Fold isn't going to seem all that different from the Pixel 9 Pro Fold — at least not physically. According to the leaks, we're expecting to see a phone with an 8-inch foldable OLED screen and a slightly larger 6.4-inch cover display, both of which should offer a 120Hz refresh rate. That extra tenth of an inch will likely come from slimmer bezels, rather than any major redesign. Inside, we're expecting to see the new Tensor G5 chipset, the same 16GB of RAM, a larger 5,015 mAh battery and a choice of 256GB, 512GB or 1TB of storage. The camera is expected to come with the same 48MP main lens as before, joined by a 10.8MP ultrawide, 10.5 MP telephoto (5x optical zoom) and a pair of 10MP selfie cameras. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. While not physically visible, rumors also suggest that the 10 Pro Fold will be IP68 rated, the first foldable to ever have the maximum dust resistance score of six. It's also claimed that we'll see Qi2 wireless charging, which should boost the wireless charging speed to 15W and offer a magnetic connection — which Google is reportedly calling PixelSnap. Price-wise, we've heard that we may see a $1,600 starting price, which is $100 less than the previous two Pixel foldables. But I wouldn't get my hopes up for that, especially with tariffs always looming. We'll find out for sure on August 20, and until then, you can keep track of all the latest news and rumors in our Pixel 10 Pro Fold hub. Follow Tom's Guide on Google News to get our up-to-date news, how-tos, and reviews in your feeds. Make sure to click the Follow button.
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Changing Just 10 iOS 18.6 Settings Will Make Your iPhone Feel Brand New
As September approaches, I'm looking ahead to the iPhone 17 and working with the iOS 26 betas (on a test device to be safe). But there's still plenty to explore in the recently released iOS 18.6 update, which addresses important bug fixes and security updates. In fact, I know a lot of people who still haven't looked into some of the best new features in the iPhone, from the revamped Control Center to priority notifications. So, after digging into the latest update, I found 10 settings that immediately improved my iPhone use. Some are simple quality-of-life upgrades, while others help cut down on background drain or boost privacy. You don't need to be a tech expert to make these changes, and most take less than a minute to apply. If your iPhone has been feeling a little sluggish or just not working the way you want it to, these quick adjustments might be all it takes to get things back on track. For more on what's new in iOS 18, learn about improvements to the overhauled Calculator app and the Mail app. And don't forget to consult our iOS 18 upgrade checklist, which includes making sure you have a proper backup before upgrading. Now Playing: 11 Hidden Features in iOS 18 06:44 Turn off categories in the Mail app With email, everyone has their own way of dealing with the influx of messages. Traditionally, the Mail app has kept a chronological list, but that can get unwieldy if you also get scores of promotions, receipts and other types of email. The new categories feature creates virtual buckets for Primary, Transactions, Updates and Promotions, and guesses how your messages should be sorted. If that approach doesn't work for you, here are two things to try. • In the event that categories are somewhat useful, but you still want a chronological view of your Inbox, swipe all the way to the right of the categories and tap All Mail. • To turn off categories altogether, tap the three-dot menu (…) in the top-right corner, and then tap List View. Turn off Mail Categories from within the Inbox. (iOS 18.5 beta shown here.) Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Change the default buttons on the lock screen In real estate, location is everything, and the bottom corners of the iPhone lock screen are the prime spots, each an easy thumb press away when your device is still locked. Before iOS 18, those posts were held by the flashlight and camera buttons, with no way to change them. In iOS 18, you can finally replace them with other buttons -- or remove them entirely, a balm for folks who unknowingly activate the flashlight (believe me, there's a better way to turn it on). You can add buttons to recognize music via Shazam, enable Dark Mode, set an alarm/timer, enable Airplane Mode, open your Wallet, send money via Tap to Cash and more. Here's how: 1. On the iPhone's lock screen, touch and hold anywhere on the display until you see the Customize button. You'll need to unlock the phone using Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. If it opens the home screen, swipe down from the center-top of the screen (not the right edge, which brings up Control Center. 2. Tap Customize and then choose Lock Screen. 3. Remove one of the buttons by tapping the – (minus) button on the icon. 4. To replace the button with another function, tap its space (now with a + icon) and then choose the one you want on the next screen. (You can also opt to leave that space empty with no button.) 5. Repeat those steps for the other button if you want to change it. 6. Tap Done when you're finished. 7. Tap the lock screen again to exit the customize mode. Remove a lock screen button by tapping the – (minus) button, and then choose a new control to replace it. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Get important alerts using Prioritize Notifications For iPhone models that can run Apple Intelligence, a new option in iOS 18.4 is fast becoming one of my favorite AI features. Go to Settings > Notifications, and under Apple Intelligence, tap Prioritize Notifications. As new alerts come in -- and some days feel like they arrive in floods -- Apple Intelligence determines which ones are more likely to be important to you. For example, texts from people in your contacts could be flagged in favor of random scam messages. On that settings screen, you can enable or disable priority notifications for individual apps. In iOS 18.4, Apple Intelligence can prioritize notifications to grab your attention. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Set up some of the new tasks available on the Action button The Action button on the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, iPhone 16E and iPhone 16 Pro replaced the dedicated mute switch found on every earlier iPhone model with a configurable control. By default, it serves the same purpose -- hold it to turn Silent Mode on or off -- but you can configure it for other actions like opening the Camera app, performing multiple actions at once or even ordering coffee. The iOS 18.4 update adds Visual Intelligence as an option for the Action button. That makes the AI technology available on the iPhone 16E, which does not include the novel new Camera Control but is now an option for any iPhone with an Action button. In iOS 18, the Action button gets new capabilities. You can bypass Control Center and choose a control of your choice, such as opening the Remote interface for navigating Apple TV or using Shazam to identify a song. To choose a different action for the Action button, go to Settings > Action Button. Swipe sideways to select and activate one of the available actions. For the Controls, Shortcut and Accessibility options, tap the Choose button to pick which specific action to run. iOS 18 now lets you program the Action Button with your favorite Control Center control. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Give your home screen a radical new look You wouldn't think that putting icons where you want is a radical new feature, but that's because iOS has always had a locked arrangement. Apps get added from top to bottom, left to right. You could rearrange the order in which icons appear and move them to other screens, but that was about it. In iOS 18, apps can be positioned nearly anywhere. You no longer need to deal with a wallpaper image of your kids or pets being obscured by icons. They still adhere to a grid -- Apple isn't about to sanction anarchy -- but can be placed freely. Also, Dark mode finally applies to all of the iPhone's home screen, with options for coloring icons and affecting the brightness of the wallpaper image. Here's how to customize the looks. Arrange apps: Touch and hold the home screen to enter "jiggle mode," and then drag the icons to new positions. It will still slide them around to fill spaces, but with patience, you can move them into the spots you want. Position app icons where you want so this very good girl isn't covered. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET You can also quickly turn compatible apps into widgets that display more information. Maps, for instance, can be a map of your current location with shortcut buttons to search for places or bring up a list of nearby places (such as dinner spots). Touch and hold the app icon and look for a row of resize buttons in the menu that appears. Once expanded beyond the standard icon size, you can drag the handle in the bottom-right corner of the new icon. To get it back to its single icon size you need to touch and hold again and choose the single-icon button Some apps can be expanded into larger icons that act like widgets. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Set Dark mode: If you've ever subjected yourself to the retina blast of black text on a white background late at night in a darkened room, you will appreciate the new Dark mode option for the home and lock screens. iOS has previously included a Dark mode, where light backgrounds switch to black or dark gray, text switches to white or light gray and other interface elements are dimmed to coexist in a dark environment. That's never been applied to the home and lock screens in any significant way -- only the dock and some widgets -- until iOS 18. First, touch and hold the home screen to enter jiggle mode. Tap the Edit button in the top-left corner and choose Customize from the menu. At the bottom of the screen, choose a mode for the icons and background: Automatic, Dark or Light (I'll get to Tinted in a moment). In Dark mode, the icons gain black backgrounds, and folders and the Dock become dark gray. (Developers have the option of making Dark mode icons for their apps. In the meantime, apps not yet optimized get a generally darker appearance.) In the home screen's Dark mode, icons and the background are given a darker treatment. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET In Dark mode, the background image also changes. Apple's default iOS 18 wallpaper dynamically changes from light to dark as the day progresses, or you can choose colors that offer a light and dark option. If you use a photo, its overall exposure is reduced to dim the light output. If you want dark icons but aren't a fan of the dimmed photo treatment, tap the sun icon in the corner of the options sheet at the bottom of the screen to toggle back to Light mode just for the background. Tinted icons: A new and different option is to tint all of the app icons so they share the same color. In the Customize options at the bottom of the screen, choose Tinted as the icon style. You can then adjust the Hue (the slider with the color spectrum) and Luminosity (the slider with the dark to light range) to choose the color tint you prefer. Apply a universal tint to all app icons, with controls for adjusting the hue and luminosity. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET What if you want to match a color from a background image? Tap the eyedropper button and then drag the reticle to pinpoint the color you want -- the border indicates the selected color. The tint is applied not only to icons but to widgets as well. For a widget such as Photos, the images it displays show up as duotones to match the theme. Large icons: Do the labels below each app icon seem redundant to you? Now you can remove the labels and increase the size of the icons with one setting. Open the Customize options as described above and tap the Large button. Make the home screen icons larger and hide the app labels. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET After making any of these changes, tap anywhere on the screen to apply them and exit the Customize interface. Change up how the Control Center looks Control Center was once a convenient place to quickly access controls such as playback volume and Airplane mode but under iOS 18 it's a configurable playground. You can position controls where you want, resize many to reveal more information and add new controls on multiple screens. Swipe down from the top-right corner to reveal the Control Center (or swipe up from the bottom on the iPhone SE). To enter edit mode, touch and hold or press the + button at the top-left corner. Just as with moving apps, drag a control to another slot on the screen to reposition it. Many of the controls also include a bottom-right handle that can resize the control -- in most cases, it reveals the name of the control and its current status (such as Flashlight Off). Rearrange the controls in Control Center and, for some, expand them to reveal more information (or just make the button a larger target for pressing). Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Control Center also now spans multiple screens. Swipe up to view controls for media currently playing, Home controls for smart lights and appliances and a page dedicated to the communication options that appear when you long-press the Connectivity block containing Airplane Mode, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Cellular and others. Look closely and you'll see that those screens are actually individual controls expanded to occupy the entire Control Center area. You can rearrange the order of those screens by moving their controls. Suppose you want Home controls to be the first swipe instead of Now Playing: In the editing mode, drag the large Home control up to the previous screen (Now Playing will shift to the right to make room). Some controls get their own screens, such as Home. Normally it's on the third screen, but here it's been moved to the second screen. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET To remove controls, tap the – (minus) button that appears. You can also add other controls: Tap Add a Control and scroll through the available options ranging from starting a Screen Recording to a host of accessibility options. Read more: All the new controls you can add to Control Center Lock or hide any of your sensitive apps Our phones carry some of our most sensitive data and yet it's not uncommon to hand a phone to a friend to view photos or look up something online. That doesn't mean they're going to snoop but it doesn't not mean they might be more curious than you're comfortable with. For data you want to ensure stays out of sight or to add a layer of protection in front of sensitive information, iOS 18 adds the ability to lock and hide apps. For example, let's say you keep an ongoing set of lists of gift ideas for family members in the Notes app. You can lock individual notes but that requires a separate step. Maybe a few ideas were made as individual quick notes or drawings. Instead of micromanaging access, you can lock the entire Notes app by doing the following: Touch and hold the app icon you want to lock and choose Require Face ID or Require Touch ID (or Require Passcode if Face ID or Touch ID are not enabled) from the menu that appears. Confirm your choice by tapping Require Face ID (or similar) in the next dialog. Lock individual apps. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET To remove the authentication step, touch and hold the app and choose Don't Require Face ID (or similar). Nothing outwardly indicates that an app is locked -- you'll find out when you try to open it. There's one more level of app security available, which is to hide apps in a special locked folder. Touch and hold the app and choose Require Face ID and then tap Hide and Require Face ID in the dialog. Confirm the action by tapping Hide App on the next screen. The app disappears from the home screen and gets slotted into a Hidden folder at the bottom of the App Library (swipe left beyond your last home screen to view the App Library). To access apps there, tap the Hidden folder and authenticate with Face ID. When you choose Hide and Require Face ID to protect an app, it gets put into the Hidden folder in App Library (top). Tap the folder and authenticate to access the app (bottom). Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET iOS 18 imposes some limitations on hidden apps. Some, such as many of the built-in ones like Notes or Reminders, can only be locked and cannot be hidden at all. Also, the Hidden folder locks itself when you launch an app or swipe away from the App Library. Turn off Loop Videos in the Photos app Many apps have implemented a small but annoying (to me) feature, and now Photos under iOS 18.2 has it too: Videos automatically replay when you watch them until you tap the Pause button. That can be fun once or twice, or when viewing short clips. I'm not a fan of having to take action to make them stop each time. Now I can take action once. Go to Settings > Photos, scroll down until you see Loop Videos and turn the option off. A video will play on its own but then stop at the end as it should. Turn off Loop Videos to stop every video from replaying automatically. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET If you'd rather the video didn't play at all until you tap the Play button, also turn off Auto-Play Motion in the same Settings screen. Adjust the view of your calendar Big new features like locking and hiding apps are great additions but so are the tiny changes that you encounter every day. The Calendar app includes two new ways to view your schedule. In iOS 18, when you're in the Month view in portrait orientation, pinch with two fingers to view more or fewer details. As you "zoom in," individual events appear as colored bars and then as labeled events with times, all while keeping the monthly grid of days and weeks. In the Calendar app's Month view, pinch to zoom in and see more details. Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET The Day view, which breaks down your day hour by hour, now has a new Multi Day view that shows two consecutive days to give you context for what's coming without turning the phone into landscape orientation and viewing the Week view. Tap the View button at the top of the Single Day view and choose Multi Day from the popup menu. The new Multi Day view in the Calendar shows two days at once (right). Screenshots by Jeff Carlson/CNET Improve movie and TV show dialogue in the TV app Trouble hearing dialogue in movies and television shows isn't a new problem -- for example, Apple TV has had a feature for a while where you can ask Siri, "What did she say?" and it will automatically back up a few seconds, turn on subtitles and replay that section of the video. You can even buy soundbars that can overcome muffled TV speech. There are a lot of reasons it's harder to hear dialogue but the TV app in iOS 18 includes a high-tech workaround to make dialog easier to discern. While you're watching a video in the TV app, tap the More (…) button and then expand the Audio heading in the menu that appears; if the phone is in horizontal orientation, tap the Audio Adjustments button. Tap Enhance Dialogue and choose Enhance or Boost. They each dampen background noise and raise the dialogue's audio. Turn on Enhance Dialogue in the TV app to discern characters' speech better in noisy scenes. Screenshot by Jeff Carlson/CNET These are just a few new features and changes in iOS 18. Check out our broader coverage of Apple Intelligence, more impressions of the system after using it for months and how these all work together with the iPhone 16 models.
