Only few people buy dedicated flashlights because most modern phones already have one thats adequate for their needs. I think few people know this trick and I would like to share it, you can adjust android phone flashlight brightness by pressing the word Torch (not the symbol). By default its set to 3. It mightnt be a substitute for a good Edc light but handy if you have nothing else. The brightness increase is actually very small but its noticeable. It might also be useful to know how to dim the flashlight if you want to save battery.
Interesting, I’ve a cheap Motorola I bought about 2 years ago running android 12 that doesn’t have that feature. I’ll be upgrading this year so hopefully newer versions of android have this setting to adjust.
Not entirely unrelated, but…as in Android lol
Recently I found a setting (via youtube) that completely blocks all ads, in app, online, pop ups - everything - all you see is a grey placeholder.
No annoying pop up videos and so on - I can’t tell you how much difference it makes - huge. Best of all it’s built in on most phones and NO ONE I know knew about it when I told them, I think it’s likely a feature they had to add but didn’t want to publicise (for obvious reasons).
Just go into your android connection settings, somewhere in there (the 1st page on my pixel6a) there is a setting called PRIVATE DNS.
Go into that, switch it from auto to on - bingo, bye bye ads. ALL ADS.
It’s easy to switch off and on, the only reason I’ve come across you’d need to switch it on is if you play mobile games - it blocks the videos to earn coins/point etc for that app - just flick it off before you play and back on when you’ve finished.
May be that you all know, but hey, if you don’t and hate ads you’ll be a happy camper!
That is not an Android feature, it is a feature of whatever manufacturer skin of Android you have. Base Android looks very differently, and does not have that setting.
A long press on the torch icon does not have any effect (which is how you usually enter the settings for quicksettings tiles in new base android), tapping the text is the same as tapping the icon.
That’s routing all your DNS requests through Adguard, a known DNS service that blocks most known ad domains. Rebooting the phone once after to clear the local DNS cache might be needed for some apps to stop showing ads.
It pretty much works the same way as a pihole in a home network, just that the DNS server isn’t hosted by yourself but by an external entity.
I have never seen any phone auto-switch to Adguard when enabling external DNS though, which brand/model was that?
