It’s not always that you need to rotate your screen when you change your phone’s orientation for every app, but with a Samsung smartphone it only takes a few steps to disable it through the auto-rotate feature. In this guide, we show you a few simple steps on how to use auto-rotate, including on how to selectively rotate your home screen or lock screen.
Be still, my beating heart. Xiaomi has offered a heart rate monitoring function on its smartphones since MIUI 13 (review) was released. Under HyperOS, this function is still available and lets you measure your BPM via your Xiaomi smartphone’s fingerprint reader. How does it work? Why does it exist? I will explain all of it in this tutorial.
Android 14 offers a range of shortcuts to enhance your smartphone’s home screen, allowing you to quickly open a WhatsApp chat, call a specific contact, or create a TikTok story. This comprehensive tutorial will guide you on how to create these shortcuts and highlight the best Android shortcuts and widgets to add.
Xiaomi may have smartphones with 16 GB of RAM in the market such as the Xiaomi 14 Ultra (review), but like money, there is always a need for more. It is a well-known fact that more RAM means a more powerful smartphone, isn’t it? No, it doesn’t. However, if you do not have 16 GB RAM on your Xiaomi, Redmi, or Poco smartphone but want more, HyperOS has a trick up its sleeve to increase your RAM count. I’ll show you how this magic happens in this tutorial.
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Dark mode has become a standard feature on Android, which applies darker themes in the system and applications once activated. However, not all apps downloaded from the Play Store support the feature. Thankfully, there’s a hidden feature that could force dark mode in these apps. We’ll show you how to enable it.
HyperOS, Xiaomi’s Android skin that replaces MIUI 14 (review), is packed with customization options. Visually, HyperOS does resemble iOS 17 a whole lot but Xiaomi provides far more possibilities to customize your wallpaper, theme, and icons. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the best HyperOS features to customize the home screen of your Xiaomi, Redmi, or Poco smartphone.
With Galaxy AI, Samsung launched an AI platform with the Galaxy S24 series that included several fantastic functions such as “Circle to Search”. This function has now learned to translate. We show you how to perform instant translations on compatible smartphones.
Bluetooth headphones are only useful as long as they stay connected to your mobile or notebook. Otherwise, the search for a solution becomes arduous and sometimes nerve-wracking. If you are stuck with pairing or connection problems, we have summarized tips and solutions for you below.
Are you lost in front of your Samsung smartphone, staring at it in despair because you have forgotten the unlock code? That can be a very annoying experience, but it is not the end of the world. In the best case, you can still unlock your phone without a password. In the worst case, Samsung devices can also be reset without a PIN. We will go through all the possibilities in our primer here.
We’ve always come to the point of losing a device—may it be our phones, smartwatches, or keys. But with the advent of tracking services, recovering them has been far from looking a needle in a haystack. On Android, Google launched its upgraded Find My Device. We share a guide on how to find or locate your lost Android phone or tablet with the new app.