To get to know about your profile on Facebook, there are many ways. One way is from the ‘People You May Know’ box that often appears to the right of the Facebook news feed. The default privacy settings allow Facebook to reveal your profile to everyone (public). However, by making small changes in your privacy settings, you can restrict your appearances in the ‘People You May Know’ box to only friends of friends....

Google Photos is a stock gallery app for Google Pixel and Android One phones. This brilliant app has several features built-in, and the latest addition is the option for removing audio from video. Here’s how to use this new feature. How to Remove Sound from Video Using Google Photos App So, this is how to remove audio from the video using the Google Photos app. If you don’t have the app on your phone, install it from the Play Store....

Many people use their Google Account backups when setting up their new phones. It is the fastest way to set up a new phone, as it will restore contacts, call logs, text messages, saved passwords, and other settings. However, these backups often skip the ‘Edit’ icon in the Quick Settings menu. If you lost the edit button in the Quick Settings panel on your Xiaomi phone (Mi, Redmi, Poco, and Android One phones), then there is a way to get back it....

Whether you are using your phone in your car or just cannot be bothered to move and want to send a voice message to any of your contacts, Google Assistant will help you in that. At this time, it supports SMS (Google Messages) and WhatsApp platforms only. Also, you need to set the Assistant language to English or Portuguese (in the Brazilian locale) to send an audio message. How to send audio messages to your WhatsApp contact via Assistant?...

Read on to know how to use Google’s Mobile Payment App Tez for India and what the app offers. First off all keep in mind that Tez is not like Mobile Wallet app, which means you do not need to top up your account. It is more like Android Pay or Apple pay, but without the NFC. Tez works with over 50 Indian banks, such as SBI, HDFC, ICICI, and others that support UPI....

Huawei already rolled out GPU Turbo acceleration update for some of its top-end devices like P20 Pro, P Smart, and Mate 10 Pro. Honor 9 Lite will also get the GPU Turbo update via OTA, once the beta test completes. Here is how to join for the beta program. Note that this beta program is for testing GPU Turbo issue on the phone. How to apply for GPU Turbo beta testing on Honor 9 Lite?...

If Honor 6X’s bootloader is unlocked and replaced its stock recovery with TWRP, then you will not be able to install the Oreo OTA update, but still you can install the official Android 8.0 Oreo update (EMUI 8.0) on it with this simple guide. However, your device should be running on Nougat (EMUI 5.x.x). The Oreo (EMUI 8.0) update brings several new features, performance enhancements and latest Android security patch to the device....

You can manually install EMUI 8.0 Oreo Beta on Honor 7X BND-L21 European variant with leaked firmware. Thanks to the XDA member IceToast, to install the leaked beta build on Honor 7X’s require unlocked bootloader (you may follow this guide), TWRP recovery, factory images and knowledge on ADB commands. Huawei’s latest Emotion UI 8.0 comes with several new features and optimizations. The AI-based optimizations bring greater stability, fluidity and speed to the device....

The main benefits to rooting the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge are to strip off Samsung’s bloat apps, step away from Samsung’s heavy-handed UI, and boost battery life or change just about anything. While TWRP custom recovery enables you to flash ROMs, flashable zips files and perform full backups of your system. Before get start, please note that the steps below are only for the Exynos variant (Exynos 8890 chipset) of the Galaxy S7 (G930F) and Galaxy S7 edge (G935F)....

In this tutorial, we show you how to make your Nexus 6 cool and extend battery life by reducing screen resolution without root access. All you need to set up ADB, fastboot and device driver on your computer (see this guide), plug Nexus 6 to the computer and issue two commands. The process is reversible, so you can try it, but with care. How to Reduce Nexus 6 Screen Resolution Install ADB, Fastboot, & Device Driver on your PC (You can use the ‘15 seconds ADB Installer’ for this purpose) Enable USB debugging on your Nexus 6 (Go to Settings -> Developer Options -> USB Debugging)....

This is an original blow app extracted from the canvas 4 ROM and will work on all Android devices running Android 4.0 and later. To install this app on your device, follow the below given guide. First of all, if you have enabled a Pattern or Pin lock to your device, you should change it to “None”, because we are going to change the lock type on the device. For that, go to Settings > Security > Screen Lock and then select the “None” option....

Microsoft’s Arrow Launcher for Android is currently a preview version, which means it is yet to be ready for general use. Besides all the launcher features like homepage, app drawer, dock, etc., a cool feature of Microsoft’s Arrow Launcher is its option to choose daily Bing wallpaper as the default wallpaper for your Android phone. Arrow Launcher has three main pages – Homepage, People page and Reminder page. The homepage has two sections – Recent and Frequent....

In this guide, we let you know how to enable system-wide dark mode on all Xiaomi, and Redmi phones run on MIUI 11. It will shift the UI of many system apps and UI elements into true dark or dark gray. It is gentle on eyes, especially in low light. Redmi and Xiaomi phone run on MIUI 11, the dark mode toggle is available in the display settings menu. Go to Settings > Display > and turn on Dark Mode toggle....

In this guide, we will show you how to get Android 7.1.1 Nougat update on Moto X Play (XT1562) Indian variant. Thanks to XDA users Xdasnr for the official Moto X Play Nougat OTA zip file. Tech-savvy users can install the update right now, but before proceeding, there are a few things to consider. Check out the guide below. The Nougat update will bring Android 7.1.1 goodies, new system icons, Google Duo Video calling application, latest Android security patches (September, 2017), Moto experiences, battery improvements, several optimizations and general bug fixes....

With Nova Launcher 5.5, you can bring Google’s exclusive Pixel Launcher 2 style to any of your Android phone. For example, you can add bottom Google search bar (dock search bar), get Android 8.1 Oreo style popup menu, Oreo’s adaptive icon feature (Lollipop and above), notification dots and more. Also, this version lets you replace dock search bar with any widget you like. What is new in Nova Launcher 5....

Of course, the present status of CyanogenMod 13 for OnePlus 3 is nightly, which means the firmware is unstable and may include bugs that are not yet identified and cannot be used as daily driver. However, previous experience shows that the ‘Nightly’ update is reasonably stable with most features working. CyanogenMod is an insanely popular custom ROM and it is being used on millions of smartphones. If you like to install it on your OnePlus 3, the below simple guide will help you....

For your information, HTC handsets are developer friendly, and no exemption for HTC U11. HTC officially support bootloader unlock, so you can easily install custom recovery like TWRP, flash custom ROMs, custom kernels and other files, and customize the device to your liking. HTC U11 is a beautifully designed Android handset. If features a stunning liquid glass back panel, BoomSound stereo speaker experience, 3D glass screen for pure viewing experience, unique squeeze interaction functionality, reactive Google Assistant with display off, flawless performance and responsiveness and more....

Getting the installer up and running on your rooted device can be a bit of a difficult process, because installing framework on Android 5.0/5.1 Lollipop is slightly different than we did it on the previous version of Android. Beginners may need to know about Xposed framework. It is a clever little app that lets you easily add various useful functions and change look of your phone via modules. For example, you can add multi-window feature, change IMEI number, enable always-expanded notification bar, add new Android features on older phones, etc....

Google’s Voice Search Hotword add-on for Chrome lets you search Google on your PC by speaking questions. After installing the add-on (download link at the end of this post), give Google permission to access your microphone. Then, open Chrome and just say the hot word “Ok Google” followed by a question or search command. This app is currently in beta, so expect a few flaws. You can watch below video for more ideas on how to use it....

Since the OxygenOS 4.7.6 OTA update is rolling out in phases, it will take few days to get across the world. You can also download and install the OTA update or full ROM manually. OxygenOS 4.7.6 OTA update (86MB) and full ROM (1.609GB) is now available, which you can download and install manually as given below. The new software update bring Assistive lighting feature for Face Unlock, includes improvements for camera and Selfie in low light, improvements for Wi-Fi display and more....