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Android Phone – Unveiling the Hidden Features

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Are you an Android phone user, but are unaware of most of the features it provides? Do you want to discover safer and interesting features on your phone? Go through this article to know some of the Android tips and tricks, which will be useful for you.

Most of the people in the present world use Android phones daily, for calling, messaging and more. Android is the mobile operating system, which most of the phone manufacturing companies use in their phones. There are lots of features, rather than calling and messaging to be examined. Explore the hidden features and many time-saving tricks in your gadget.

The basic problem, a phone user face, is the battery issues. Most of the Android phones have an inbuilt power strip option, which when activated, provides faster disconnection of all the phone ‘s battery thus killing the applications. Another feature is that, you can be the developer of your own phone settings. Go to the ‘Settings', select ‘About phone' option and tap seven times on your phone's ‘Build number'.

An onscreen countdown will be shown on the screen, which will be followed by a command telling that you are now a developer and ‘Developer option' will be shown just above the ‘About phone' option.

This ‘Developer option' can be utilized well to reduce the lagging of your Android phone as well.

By reducing the ‘Window animation scale', ‘Animator duration scale' and ‘Transition animation scale' in ‘Developer option', from 1x to 0.5x, your phone may actually feel faster than before. Now you can get a grip on those annoying app notifications by long pressing on the notification of the app, on notification bar, which will show an information icon on the right corner. Tapping on this icon gives you option to prioritize your notifications. You can block unwanted apps, hide private information or select priority mode for most prior app.

To zoom in and out your Google maps while driving, all you need to do is a just double tap on the spot and swipe upward or downward. This tip will help you to avoid the problem of pinching your phone screen while managing your phone to stay in place, all while driving.

Nowadays kids use their parents' phone more frequently. To keep away your kids from getting into unsafe games, adult contents or accidental access to your bank, this feature will be of great help. Go to ‘Setting' then to ‘Security' and enable the ‘Screen pinning' option. Open the app you wish to pin and protect, then press the overview button to pin the app.

Another interesting feature is the inbuilt games on the Android phones. In ‘Settings', select ‘About phone' and tap several times on the device's ‘Version number' to get this feature.

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Source by Rizvana Manzoor