Every Android user needs to know this. Here are 7 awesome new hacks for android users. So, if you are an Android user, keep reading and you will find out.
Stop “WhatsApp” messages temporarily
If you want to take a break only from WhatsApp, and you don’t want to receive messages for a while without turning off your wi-fi, here is how.
- You can temporarily shut down your WhatsApp messages once you go to “Settings” and then to “Battery”.
- There you should find background usage and click on “Background usage limits”.
- Next, click on “Deep sleep apps” and click on the plus “+” icon on your top-right corner to add the app “WhatsApp” to your list.
This will pause the messages from this app, you can only see them if you open the app by yourself.
Real-Time Text Translate
A really cool and awesome hack for android is the google lens. With this app, you will be able to translate some text you don’t understand at the very moment. All you have to do is open the app and point it at the text on some product or document you want to translate.
Then you can take a picture of the text and save it for later. This app is really useful at the store if you want to buy some foreign product and the declaration with the instruction and ingredients is only in that language that you don’t understand, and you can easily translate and find out. Try it.
Link Preview using Chrome
If you are using Google Chrome as a browser, a good thing to know is that you can preview links without opening them up in a new tab. For example, if you are doing a google search and there is some page you found interesting and you want to open, you don’t have to open it directly by clicking.
Instead, you can just press and hold for a second and then click “Preview”, and with this option, you can open the page separately, which you can read, and then once you’re done you can close it on the “x” button on your top right corner, then continue searching, or doing the thing you were doing before.
Slide Chrome Tabs
Another interesting and awesome hack for android users is that, if you have opened more different tabs on your Google Chrome browser, you can shuffle through them, by swiping on the address bar on your right or left side.
Song ID without the app “Shazam”
If you want to know the name and artist of the song you are currently listening to on a radio, a club, or a restaurant and you don’t have installed the app “Shazam” don’t worry, we have another hack how to find your song.
All you need to do is ask your google assistant, which song is playing, or you can just press the mic and let google listen to the song to recognize it.
YouTube Videos in Pop Up
Did you know that you can play Youtube music in the background without having a Youtube premium subscription? Let me show you how.
- Go to your “Play Store” and install the VLC player for android.
- Now when you want to listen to some video, click on “Share”
- then tap “Play with VLC”, and then you have to select the option to play it with a “Pop-up player”.
Then you can resize the video and move it to every corner on your phone screen.
Block Ads & Trackers
The first awesome new hack for android is that there is an easy way to block annoying ads and also trackers. You don’t have to download any app just go to your settings and search for “Private DNS” and type dns.adguard.com and that it’s, this should stop the ads.
