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How To Customize WhatsApp Notifications In Your Android Device

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Notifications were a huge problem until a year ago. It used to be too much clutter and unmanageable to the end-user. With the new update released to the messaging application, the users can now customize WhatsApp notifications based on individual contacts with custom time and notification tone.

Let us now learn the simple steps involved in making or setting up custom notifications in your Android device.

Customizing WhatsApp notifications in Android

  • Open the Settings section in your Android device and tap on Apps and Notifications. Here, look for the WhatsApp application and open it.
  • Next, tap on App notifications to get all the customization options. Here, you can go ahead and disable any type of notification you don’t want to receive.
  • Along with that, you can also manage notifications more intricately. You can tap on Group notifications and set your preferences for group chat notifications.
  • Based on your choice, you will get notifications either with sound, no sound or just no disturbance. If you choose “urgent” then both sound and a pop-up message will alert you. You can also customize other options like notification dot, message on the lock screen.
  • Similarly, for individual chats, you can customize the notification by tapping on Message notifications. Here, choose the importance level and sound. You can go through other options as well.

In this way, you can personalize your WhatsApp notifications and save time from checking unnecessary messages. WhatsApp is used by almost everyone so there is a deluge of information being forwarded from one contact to another. Also, you can mute the notification for contacts that constantly send you unsolicited messages or customize notification for contacts that are important to you. Overall, you should definitely make changes to your notification settings so that you remain disturbed.

5 Important Smartphone App Permissions That You Need To Concentrate

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Giving permission to the apps is one such a thing that we do without having any second thoughts. We will be in a hurry to use the application, that we lose the concern for our safety. There are certain permissions that are so sensitive and you just cannot go ahead ignoring about these permissions. So, here we put together some such important app permissions.

If you are using Android marshmallow or the later versions of Android in your Android device, then checking these permissions and enabling and disabling them becomes pretty easy.

App permissions are something that the app will ask you to grant immediately you install the app and if you deny the permissions, the app won’t work and we tend to approve or grant the permissions as we don’t want to get into any further fuss.

Important App Permissions

Microphone

A call recording application definitely needs the microphone permission. But think twice before approving this permission to any kind of apps as allowing it may mean that the app has the right to access your microphone. Many games available on the Google Play store uses this permission to record what you are listening to watching by recording secretly and uses it to offer personalized advertisements later.

Camera

Approving an app with your camera permission is not anything you can do just like. Everyone might be knowing the after effects if we do so. So, we have to be a bit careful while approving this permission as well. If you give an app access to your camera, it can take pictures using your camera anytime. So, just be careful with this permission as well.

Location

Generally, apps like Uber, Ola, Maps ask us with this permission as they need to locate our exact location in the map. Knowing your location and the store near you, the area you live in can help the apps build a better picture of you in giving ads.

Contacts

Apps like Truecaller ask us permission to access to contacts and we approve it normally. But we should take care of it as the apps can utilize the number of our family and friends for any promotional purpose. So, just take care while you give contacts access to any permission.

SMS

SMS replacement apps may ask for accessing your messages and you will have to give them. But make sure you don’t give access to this permission just like anything if you think you have some sensitive information in your messages.

So, rather than just giving or approving app permissions blindly, just think twice as it a matter of your privacy and safety.   

How To Set Google Alerts For Particular Topics On Your Mobile Device

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If you are interested in following the news from everywhere and stay connected while you stay updated all the time, then you will also be having a worry of missing the news out. But you will be surprised to know that there is actually a way to keep a tab on your favorite topics. Google alerts is a feature that comes in with Google. It serves as a notification service for web contents, specific piece of news, topics, places, etc. It allows you to select your favorite topics and will be alerting you whenever it finds any matching search results on the web. This is interesting right! Now, we are going to teach you how to set up Google alerts on your mobile device.

How to set up Google Alerts

  • As a first step, you need to open the Google Alerts home page on your browser. Now in the search bar there, just enter a topic of your own
  • Then to refine the alert, just click on ‘Show Options’, here you just go through all the options and customize the alert filter
  • Choose the filters according to your need and wish. Under how often, just select at most once a day
  • Then finally click on ‘create alert’ option
  • Now you are all set to receive alerts on your mobile device.

If you wish, you can also the Google alerts to be delivered to you at a specific time. Now click on the gear icon and choose the delivery time.

This is our simple and easy to understand take on the way to set up the Google alerts feature on your mobile device. You can take control of the content and delivery time with the help of the filter option available. Just give it a try.

This is quite a useful feature which you can make use of it to streamline the information.

Unlock Your Phone With A Simple Ok Google Command

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Unlocking your android device can be done in various ways. Like I have mentioned in my earlier articles, you can easily unlock your device without having to enter any PIN, password or pattern as they will be irritating at times. I have described to you the process of unlocking a phone using the face detection feature in my earlier article. If you haven’t checked it yet Click here. I used it for a long time. I want to try new every time and the unlocking process has a lot of options that we can try. So, today let us go through the simple process of unlocking an Android device with a simple Ok Google voice command.

Unlocking Your Device Using Ok Google

  • Go to settings in your android device
  • Then click on security
  • As this is one of the smart unlock features we are going to use, first your device must be locked using any of the other secured locking features like a pattern, pin, or password.
  • Then you will see an option smart lock, click on it
  • Now confirm the password that you have set
  • It will take you to a screen which says about the smart lock, just read it and click on understood
  • Then click on Trusted voice
  • Here turn on ‘From any screen’ and ‘Trusted voice’ options using the toggle button
  • It will take you to another screen, click on Get started
  • In the next page, just say Ok Google command three times after which it detects your voice and directs to the next page with some information, click Yes I’m in
  • Confirm your password for the last time
  • Finally, click on finish

Use this simple set up process and unlock your device using the Ok Google voice command within no time and without any kind of hassles.

Quickly Search For Things With Just A Photo – Quick Photo Search

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When you got a doubt while reading a book, then what you usually do, you may be referring to a dictionary or an encyclopedia. You may also go on searching for it on the internet. All of these are time taking processes and if you are away from home and don’t have access to dictionary and encyclopedia. Then you will be left with the option which is searching on the internet. As we all know it is not that easy to find some information on the internet and we all know that when we are in search of something it will present us with many other things and we get easily diverted from our topic. A quick photo search is the need of the hour and will actually make your task simple.

Socratic For Quick Photo Search

So, for this purpose, there is an application available in the Google play store. The Android app is called Socratic and it is available to download for free and you can just download it on your device for free.

When you find something that you think you need a better understanding of, then you can just simply take a photo of it using the camera option in the Socratic app and search for it. It will then present you with the available answers from the internet by searching it online for some related answers.

This wonderful Android app with a quick photo search is even very much helpful in helping your children with their homework. So, do give it a try and get the information at your fingertips without having to struggle with searching for the information online.

You may be knowing about Photomath application but it is only for math problems whereas this Socratic is for you all kinds of queries. It comes with a cool interface, so do try it for sure and make your life easier.  The app can help you solving various kinds of questions, it may be History, Science, GK, Maths and many others.