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I’m all about the Google Photos app for automatically backing up the photos I take on my smartphone. Thanks to its unlimited free storage and high quality, iCloud doesn’t even begin to compete. And, when it comes to the hundreds of photos stored in shoeboxes in my closet, Google Photos also happens to be the answer.
In this article, we’ll provide you with an overview of how to root Android devices, the tools you’ll need and the difficulties you’ll encounter that are unique to each manufacturer’s devices. The processes used to root individual devices vary greatly and change quickly, so while we don’t provide step-by-step instructions for every device, we will point you to the right place to find them.
Google’s keyboard “Gboard” has become a really useful keyboard alternative over the years. We want to show you a few cool shortcuts that you can take advantage of in order to squeeze even more out of the software.
Want to transform your WhatsApp into Snapchat? The hugely popular instant messaging app now offers a function that automatically deletes messages for all chat participants after one week has passed. This allows you to have (slightly) more control over your privacy as well as getting rid of older messages so that your chat threads do not end up being too long.
Google did not have the smoothest rollout for its “Driving Mode” feature, which was supposed to deliver the Android Auto experience on the smartphone. After some contradictory statements from Google, it looks like things have finally been settled as Driving Mode makes its way into Google Maps in more countries. We will show you how you can locate and enable Driving Mode in Google Maps.
Can you use your smartphone as a landline phone? This is a valid question because fewer and fewer people still have a DECT phone at home, but do happen to ‘own’ one or more phone numbers via their Internet provider. We will show you how you can set up your smartphone as a landline phone.
Signal now lets you post disappearing messages, or self-destruct messages. You can set this in the individual chat of the respective person, or across the board for all your Signal contacts. In our guide, we tell inform you of just which settings you will need to take in order for this to happen.
Did you know that there are two ways to delete WhatsApp messages? You can choose to remove photos, videos, voicemails, and regular texts from your smartphone, or you can remove them from the other party’s smartphone as well.
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