Apple AirTags can be attached to all sorts of things – keys, wallets, luggage, even your pet’s collar – but despite their versatility as tiny tracking devices, AirTags can only be assigned to one Apple ID at a time. That’s fine if you’re the only one using the AirTag and making it difficult for someone to steal or tamper with the devices. However, you will need to remove the AirTag from your Apple account if you want to use it with another one.

You can easily remove AirTags from your Apple ID in the Find My app. However, if you unlink an AirTag out of its Bluetooth range, you will also need to manually reset it before others can use it. Resetting an AirTag is easy, but it requires very specific instructions to be followed.

How one manually Reset AirTag

The first step is to remove the AirTag battery cover:

1. Press down on the metal part of the AirTag while turning it counterclockwise. Continue rotating until the cover stops rotating, and then lift the cover off.

Next, you need to remove and reinsert the battery several times in a specific way:

1. Remove the battery, wait a moment, and then reinsert it.
2. Push the battery down until you hear a sound.
3. After the sound has played back, repeat these steps four more times (five times in total). Make sure you play the sound in full every five times.

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After you’ve played the sound five times, replace the battery cover and do the following again:

1. Make sure the three tabs on the battery cover line up with the slots on the AirTag.
2. Press the cover until you hear a sound.
3. Rotate the cover clockwise until it stops rotating.

Your AirTag is now reset and you can pair it with a new Apple ID.

The condition of your sink says a lot about the rest of the kitchen. A nice, clean sink is good, nice, and clean. A dirty sink, on the other hand, is a bacteria-infested hole in your kitchen counter just waiting to be filled with dirty dishes and spoiled food – if you haven’t already.

Keeping your sink in the shape of a showroom can help improve the overall cleanliness of your kitchen. It’s pretty quick and easy when it comes to thorough cleaning projects too. Follow these steps regularly and you’ll get the benefits of a sparkling clean sink for the rest of your life.

Clean up the trash

Before you can clean the sink yourself, you need to empty it. If you have a dishwasher, this step is a lot easier: dishwashers are designed to pick up very dirty dishes so you can load them up with fierce abandon. If you don’t have a dishwasher, you’ll need to hand wash the plates stacked in the mountain. Mould. Make sure you don’t neglect your drainage basket or strainer: all food and debris that has been collected since the last time you cleaned it should be removed. So give it a good scrub or throw it away and get a fresh one.

Scrub, scrub, scrub

Nothing removes caked-on residue like an abrasive cleanser. If you have a stainless steel sink, a green scouring pad and something like Bon Ami or Barkeeper’s Friend will do. For less durable surfaces, use a soft cloth and a non-abrasive cleaner such as Clorox Soft Scrub. (You don’t want to scratch the surface of your sink – that makes it more prone to stains and funk later.)

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Make sure you clean your garbage disposal as well, in case you have one. Throw Ice cubes and salt or citrus peel in the hatch keep the disposal clean, but larger spills require a little elbow grease. Bob Vila recommends Manually clean the splash guard and main disposal chamber to remove mold, slime, and food debris, then deodorize the chamber with baking soda and vinegar.

Blow out bleach

Now that your sink has been scrubbed, it’s time to sanitize. Half fill your sink with warm –not steaming hot– Add water, then about a cup of bleach. Let the bleach mixture sit at least long enough for the water to cool to room temperature, more than enough time to thoroughly disinfect the surface and neutralize coarse odors.

Put on some dishwashing gloves, unplug the power cord, and let the bleach drain off. Use the spray nozzle on your faucet to rinse off any remaining bleach residue. If you don’t have one, try a “rinse” cycle: fill the sink with clean water and drain it again.

Dry it off

If you have a white kitchen sink, you’ll have to go out of your way to spot water or soap stains, but these are annoyingly obvious on stainless steel. A quick tap with a tea towel when you’re done with the sink is more than enough to prevent the sink from being discovered. If you want, you can too Then add a little vinegar and oil to polish your stainless steel sink without leaving streaks.

Keep it clean

After you’ve spent a weekend Detailing your carUsually, you do everything you can to avoid throwing anything on the floorboards or keeping things piling up in the back seat – at least for a while. Same goes for your sink: once it’s been scrubbed and sanitized, keep it that way for as long as possible.

After I started cleaning my sink so thoroughly, it remained in an almost eternal state of emptiness; Dishes went straight to the dishwasher or were quickly hand washed. Your mileage may vary on this front, but even if your dishwashing habits stay the same, facing a clean sink full of dirty dishes is far nicer than facing a dirty one.

This article was originally published October 10, 2009 and updated May 3, 2021 to reflect Lifehacker’s current style guidelines.

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Apple added some helpful new shortcut actions to iOS 14.5. We have already talked about one with which you can get a new “Take screenshotsAction in one of your programmed shortcuts. Joining is a new action for your device Orientation blockThis lets you fine-tune when you want (almost always) and when you don’t (Netflix time).

At least that’s my preference. You can use the orientation lock as you like. To turn it on and off for each app, all you need to do is create an automation to start the app with or without an activated orientation lock. You can even have the automation reset your orientation lock to your default settings once you’ve closed the app.

Before I start, remember that you can toggle the orientation lock on and off at any time by swiping in from the top right corner of your iPhone and tapping a lock icon with a clockwise circle around it:

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Setting up automation to turn the orientation lock on or off for a specific app is easy. Launch the Shortcuts app and tap “Automation” Tab below. Create a new “Personal automation ” and scroll down and tap “App” when prompted for the type.

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Make sure you enable the app that you want to automate before selecting it “Is opened,” “Is closed,” or both, depending on how you want to customize your orientation lock. (And you can always do a second automation later if you want to toggle the lock to a setting when starting an app and toggle it back when you close it.)

Then tap “Choose” In the “App” section, select which app (or apps) your automation should work with. You can select multiple apps at the same time. This is useful if, for example, you want to customize your orientation lock for all of your streaming apps. There is no need to run a separate automation for each individual app.

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On the next screen you need to add one Action. Tap the blue button and navigate to Scripting> Set orientation lock (under the “Device” section). By default, the action is set to “Switch” the orientation lock, that is, to set it to the opposite of the state it is in before the automation is run.

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If you want to force a specific power on or off state, tap the blue Switch Link in the action and turn it on “Turn.” Finally, do the same with the word “On” to turn it on “Out,” if that’s your preference.

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When you’re done, tap Next in the top right corner to check your automation one last time. Feel free to turn off Ask Before You Run if you don’t want to be disturbed. Depending on how you’ve set up your automation, you can now use the orientation lock at any time and automatically turn it off when you don’t.