Set Up Your Phone’s Always-On Display So You’re Unlocking It Less Often

Break the pattern of unlocking your phone for one thing and then getting sucked into something else. Set up your lock screen ...
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This Hidden Setting Sped Up My Android Phone

Speed up Android by setting Window/Transition/Animator Animation Scale to 0.5× in Developer Options. Enable Developer Options (tap Build Number 7×) to change the settings. It's not a magic fix that'll ...
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13 Settings To Turn Off Or On In Your Android Phone

Android phones are lauded for being feature-rich and highly customizable. However, most of them have a lot of baked-in features that are enabled by default. This is often done to offer a smooth and ...

Survey suggests this is the preferred first step when setting up an Android phone

Everyone has their own checklist for setting up a new Android phone, but what should be the first step? This is what readers ...
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6 quick settings tiles I always add when setting up a new Android phone

Quick settings look really neat and clean on Android 16, specifically on phones running stock Android, like the Pixel 10. You can add and remove tiles, reorganize ...
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Setting up a new phone? Avoid this mistake

Steve was a Senior Writer at AP, where he covered over 40 smartphones a year. Steve has carried the latest and greatest around in his pocket for nearly 30 years, with everything from Motorola StarTACs ...

25 great uses for an old Android device

We all love getting new gadgets, but what to do with the old ones? Here are 25 clever ways to put your old Android phone or ...

I added one of the best Pixel features to all of my Android phones — here’s how

The Quick Tap feature on Pixels is great. But what if you could add it to any Android phone? Here's an app that lets you do ...