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We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. It's not altruism or a marketing strategy: Nintendo was given $300 million in government tariff refunds ,  and they're now using that as an excuse to kick off a " Customer Appreciation Sale ." The sale runs through Sept. 26, and it is available on the Nintendo eShop, Nintendo Store, and at retailers like Amazon , Best Buy , and Walmart . You can find Nintendo Switch digital games and bundles, select physical games, downloadable content, accessories, and apparel at up to 30% off. If you're looking for Nintendo Switch 2 games or hardware, you won't find much of anything, though you can score some accessory deals. Unsurprisingly, you'll save the most in this sale by buying first-party Nintendo games. Best Nintendo Customer Appreciation hardware deals Pro Wireless Controller for ...

Google Photos doesn't have to be one of those things that you set up and forget. Despite its initial simplicity, Google Photos is full of settings and features you can configure to make the app work better for you. With these hacks, you can manage a massive photo library, reduce cloud storage, hide pictures of your ex, and disable AI in search. Use Storage saver mode to upload more photos without running out of cloud storage If you feel like you’re going to run out of cloud storage space, and you don’t care about backing up photos and videos at the best quality possible, try Google’s Storage saver mode. When backing up, it automatically scales down photos and videos to help you save cloud storage space at a respectable quality level. Photos get scaled down to 16MP, and videos stay at 1080p. This only works for new uploads, though, so the sooner you enable this feature, the better off you’ll be. Go to Settings > Backup > Photo and Video Quality and swit...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Maps are an excellent feature on any watch you plan to take running or hiking. Unfortunately they tend to be a premium feature, and until recently you had to spend some pretty serious money to get offline maps on a watch. But that’s changing, and we now have several great options in the mid range and even entry level watches. For this list, I’m only considering watches that are current models—you may be able to find deals on older versions of these. All of these watches have been road-tested either by myself or Meredith Dietz here at Lifehacker.  Why maps matter on a watch This watch has breadcrumb navigation but no maps. Credit: Beth Skwarecki Let me be really clear on what it means for a watch to have maps. This is a premium feature on top of navigation and GPS tr...

During its Sept. 9 keynote, Apple announced the Apple Watch Series 12 and the Ultra 4 , both of which will come with a feature that passively listens to your audio conversations all day and can summarize them for you on demand. It's part of a collection of features called "Audio Intelligence," but the two key features to consider here are:  Live Rewind: If you double-press the Digital Crown on your Apple Watch, it will pull up a text snippet of your conversation over the last fifteen seconds.  Siri Recaps: Your watch listens to your conversations and generates an AI summary of any of your transcribed audio at the end of each day.  At first glance, the basic concept seems like a privacy nightmare, but Apple has put some safeguards in place to help people feel more comfortable with this feature: The audio that is captured is never recorded or stored, and never leaves your device; it is essentially deleted immediately and in real time from local storage; only a truncated...