Smartphone Hacks You Must Know

Objects like telephones calendars and calculators are dying a slow death next in the line our cameras and laptops all thanks to Smartphones but if you are someone who thinks that's not enough and you want more then you are definitely at the right address.

In this Article I am going to tell you some amazing things that your smartphone can do. Measuring height and distance monitoring heart rate etc are all news now your a smartphone can do a lot more than that like organizing your house, controlling a PC or even solving a basic math problem sounds cool right before we start I would like to tell you that a few of these methods are App-based and they work on iOS as well as Android devices.

So anyway, without further due, let's jump right in.

Here is the list of Ten Smartphone hacks you must know

Number one on the list is the "Developer Option" menu, which isn't a secret anymore, but I can't leave it behind. And this menu has all kinds of cool advanced settings not usually accessible, which we will get to during a bit. To access the menu, attend Settings, then attend "About Phone", then scroll right down to where it shows "Build Number". Then just keep tapping on the "Build Number" and it will start counting down until it says "You Are Now a Developer". After that, now once you attend the Settings app, there'll be a replacement menu under System called Developer Options. Here you will find all kinds of settings, some of which are absolutely useless to the typical user, at all. 

So, Number Two is specifically one among the useful settings in here, The animation Scale. If you scroll down within the developer options, you will see, well really three options control "Animation Scale", which controls how briskly or slow the animations of the OS are played. What this suggests, for instance, is when opening an app, closing an app, transitioning through menus, all of which will be played faster or slower. This makes the phone feel far more snappy since everything appears to reply faster. You can also turn off animations altogether, so there's no delay. However sometimes with animations off, certain apps can start to misbehave, so just remember that. If for a few reasons you wanted, you'll make animations slower, but take care when setting it to 10x, because it'll take forever to disable it again since you have to wait really long. 

Number Three, this one is basically useful, I feel a minimum of, and it's the Notification Log Widget. We've all encountered a situation where a notification pops up on the phone screen and you swiped it right or left accidentally without even looking at it or sometimes it disappeared before you read it, and you think that "oh no what did that say?" Well, this will solve that. What you are doing is create a replacement widget by long pressing on the house screen, attend "Widgets", (and this might look different on your phone by the way), then find the "Settings Shortcut" and drag and drop that onto the house screen. Once you are doing it, it'll show you a variety of various settings you'll choose for that shortcut. There are other useful ones you'll check out later, but immediately you would like to settle on "Notification Log". In it, you'll scroll through all of your recent notifications, and it'll show you a bunch of technical data for everyone, including what the notification said, which is labeled as "android. text". This is also useful if the text of the notification is stopped, and it won't show you what the entire thing says. This is definitely one I find really useful.

Next Number Four, Offline Google Maps. This allows you to select an outsized area in Google Maps that will be downloaded and stored on your phone. The most obvious use of this is often to download a neighborhood a couple of miles around where you reside, which you'd presumably need to access frequently. This way, rather than having to download the map as you go while driving and consuming data, you'll just download an entire region directly while you're on Wi-Fi. This has two benefits, one, it will save you cellular data, and two, it will make Google Maps faster, since you don't have to wait for it to download anything every time, it's already all there. Also, it'll automatically update the offline map on Wi-Fi, so you're covered there. It doesn't take up too much space either. The largest area you'll download seems to be around 2 Gigabytes worth, but which will cover an enormous part of your state, or maybe country maybe.

Number 5, another pretty useful one, is The Hidden Built-In File Explorer. Most people think that you need a third-party app to browse through the phone's file system, but there's actually a basic one already included. To reach it,  go into Settings, Storage, and at the down below click on the "Explore", and you are good to go. You can search for files, create new folders, copy and move files, delete them, all that. You'd probably still need a 3rd party app to try to do anything advanced, but this could cover all the fundamentals.

Moving on to Number 6, is Data Saver Mode. This isn't really hidden, but it's disabled by default. To get thereto, attend Settings, Data Usage, then click Data Saver. This actually restricts when the apps can access your data unless you give it unrestricted data access. So allowing it seems to turn on data saver mode for all apps after you can individually disable it for some apps. Alternatively, though, there is a way to enable data-saving just for Google Chrome, because it's actually built into that. Go to Google Chrome, in settings, look for the Data Saver option, which actually scrunches website pages before opening them. This actually seems to be a special thing altogether though, specifically for Chrome. The Android data saver limits when apps can use data, but Chrome compresses sites to scale back usage. 

Alright now Number 7, is Quick Battery Access. You probably already know that if you go into settings, you can look at battery stats, like usage over time, how much time is left, all that. But there's actually a quicker way to see that info. If you merely swipe down the notifications bar, you'll tap on the battery icon, and it'll show you always an equivalent thing. Obviously, you'll see the share, but also what proportion estimated time left, the battery usage graph, and a toggle for battery saver mode. This could save you a few clicks, and from having to search through the settings, so it's pretty convenient. 

Now Number 8, Google Assistant 

If you use Google assistant extensively you must be knowing that it's pretty helpful what makes it more special is the new inbuilt Google Lens tool to see how this works just fire up your google assistant by long-pressing the home button and tap on the google lens icon which is present on the bottom corner now to recognize anything place the object in front of your camera and tap on the screen and you're good to go I used an Amazon Echo device, a mouse and a camera lens it recognizes them easily you can also use this feature if you are not in a mood to write a lengthy URL, for example, I scan the URL of my website and the way it returned the results were awesome one thing you should note is that Google lens is going to be a part of assistant for high-end devices only but don't worry it's rolling out to all Google photos users which is literally all Android smartphones in that case you can use google lens by opening up any picture in photos even if you are an iPhone owner this method work. 

Coming to Number Nine, Controlling PC/Laptop from Smartphone. Okay! I'm not a lazy person but this method is kind of growing on me like my laptop is lying there and I'm here not even moving a muscle wanna know what happened well remote control happen I mean I can control my whole computer using my smartphone isn't that cool chrome remote desktop is my personal favorite when it comes to PC controlling apps to use this make sure you are signed into the same Google account on phone as well as PC first you need to install the chrome remote desktop extension on your Chrome browser now type this URL [chrome://apps] in the address bar and click on chrome remote desktop you'll see a pop up window click on get started under my computers option enable remote connections and set a pin now download the chrome remote desktop app on your phone and open it you'll be able to spot your device here tap on it and enter the pin finally your smartphone is ready to control your PC you'll be amazed to see the ease of use and it even worked on my multi screen setup you can stop it either by closing the app or pressing the stop sharing option in your desktop.

Finally, Number 10, Solve Math Problems.

There are many math solving apps on the Play Store and app store but if you ask me I liked the Photomath App and Socratic the most reason you don't have to write a thing to get your answer just scan the problem using your phone's camera and you will get it to just download the Photomath App and launch the app and place the equation inside the frame you can drag to adjust the size and shape of the frame and that is all needed that will scan the problem and return the results quickly apart from one-line questions like summation multiplication etc. you can solve some basic algebraic equations as well it can also draw a graph of the solution if possible and here is the best part you can also see step-by-step solution of the question.

Conclusion

So, these are 10 smartphone hacks you must know.  You've probably heard of some of them, but hopefully, you at least learned something new. If you guys have any suggestions for features I missed,  let us all know down in the comments.