Android General Tips

Instagram is full of breathtaking photos and many times you may want to download those photos to your device. Maybe you liked that photo of a sunset in Japan, and you want to set it as your wallpaper, or maybe […]

You may have sent text messages to your Whatsapp contacts. You may have sent images. You may have sent voice notes. You may have even sent location details. Have you ever sent an empty message to someone? I bet you […]

If you are someone who goes out too often, you will want to enable a feature that allows your chosen people to track your location on Google Maps. That way, your loved ones will always be aware of your whereabouts, […]

Many times you might have noticed on your Android phone that it wakes up without you doing anything to it. Sometimes, it is due to a notification that has just arrived on your phone, and the phone wants you to […]

One of the not-so-important notifications I get on my Android device is traffic notifications. While these notifications may be useful to others, I do not find them to very helpful, and it is the same for many other users out […]

One of the useful features of many chat apps is read receipts. What these read receipts do is let you know if the recipient read the message you sent. The apps use various ways to inform you if your message […]

Google’s Google Now app has been replaced by Google Assistant on many of the Android phones, and that is actually an excellent thing as the Assistant app does more than what Google Now could do for you. However, thousands of […]

Android O is the latest version of the Android operating system. The full release is yet to come out but a developer preview has been released and is available to download and use on some particular Google devices. If you […]

Chrome for Android is loaded with tons of features, and many of those can be managed easily while some of those require you to go through some secret menus before you can use them. One such feature in Chrome for […]

If you’re a WhatsApp user, you’re likely to be part of many of the WhatsApp groups. Many people send a lot of images in groups, and those images are often saved on your device. While you may have downloaded some […]

Due to most Android phones being really sensitive, it is very easy to accidentally touch something on the screen and end up closing or opening an app on the device. It has happened to many times, and it has always […]

Most Android phones ship with dedicated buttons that let you control the volume of your device. Those are actually the only way to manage volume levels on your device. And if somehow you get them damaged, then another option for […]

One of the great features Android Nougat has brought about is the ability for the users to add quick tiles to the quick settings area of the device. That way, you can just pull down the notification bar twice and […]

Typing on a touchscreen is nowadays as perfect as typing using the standard keyboards. However, there’s an issue that still exists, and it is that we often have issues moving the cursor around when typing text. It is still something […]

I still remember the day when got my first ever Android phone which was a Samsung Galaxy S2. The phone had Samsung browser that I really liked in those days before I switched over to Chrome. The browser worked really […]

Gboard is now one of the widely used keyboards on Android devices, all thanks to the features and the excellent way of typing it offers its users. If you happen to have Gboard installed on your device, but you are […]

When the alarm of your phone wakes you up in the early morning, you surely are not in a position to adequately dismiss the alarm as you can barely see anything with your eyes. In such cases, it would be […]

Volume levels on our smartphones vary, and they depend on where we are. For example, the volume levels of your phone may not be too high when you are at your office, but it will be high when you are […]

While getting apps from outside the Play Store on Android devices is really not that bad idea, but there are a few things that you do not get when you use this approach to get new apps. One of the […]

When you download an app from the official Play Store on your Android device, what happens is that the app automatically gets downloaded and installed on the device. You never get to see the actual APK file of the app. […]

End to end encryption is highly recommended if you do not want for your data to be revealed while it is being transmitted over the Internet. With this kind of encryption, your data remains encrypted during its journey, and it […]

My belief is that work should be done at the workplace, and personal things should be done at a personal place. However, many things go against it. One of the common one’s is email notifications. Even when you have gotten […]

Chrome is the default browser on both my Mac and Android smartphone, and the reason of keeping it as the default is very clear: it has got all the features, is modern and satisfies all of my needs without using […]

Samsung has introduced a new feature in its S7 and S7 Edge that allows you to keep the display of your device always on without draining much battery. It can do so by only lighting up the required pixels on […]

WhatsApp is loaded with tons of features and while many of them can be seen straightaway some are hidden behind the curtains that you need to explore by yourself. One of the less known features of WhatsApp is its ability […]

Most Android phones come with the screenshot capturing feature that allows you to capture the screenshot of your device by just using a few keystrokes. On most phones, you just have to press two buttons, and a screenshot gets captured […]

Android allows you to launch apps from a plethora of places on your device. You can launch apps right from another app, using the icons on your homescreens, or by going to the App Drawer and tapping on the app […]