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You often press the back button on your screen repeatedly as a quick way to exit the app. Even if the app disappears, it will still run in the background. It only closes until you've set the app to ...

Tamping down on preinstalled garbage on an Android is a tradition as old as the OS itself. Unlike Apple, which tightly controls both the hardware and software of its smartphones, Android phones aren't ...

Toggle off the automatic system update switch in Settings. For app updates, open the Play Store settings to Network Preferences These directions apply to Android phones from Samsung and Google.

Safe Mode, which is a pre-installed Android functionality, is used by users to solve the problems of their devices by disabling third-party applications from running on the smartphone. Indeed, Safe ...