5 Android tips and tricks you should try (September 2025)

As an Android user, I know my phone is worth more than I can even think in terms of what it is capable of. Apps offer the best use cases possible, there are abundant Android tips and tricks that often channel the best of things you can do on your device.

There are practically dozens of hidden easter eggs and features that often go unnoticed, but hey, we notice them every day. Presenting our picks of the five best Android tips and tricks of this month that ensure you can make your device faster, smarter, and better, every day.

Five Android tips and tricks you should try this month

Get rid of the bloatware

I use a Samsung, and the worst part, I would say, is the bloatware installed on the phone. I mean, I don’t need 10s of apps that I won’t use anyway. These unnecessary apps add to my app drawer, consume resources, and cause chaos when they’re not needed. Since bloatware or pre-installed apps are signed on the system image, they are harder to get rid of. 

There are basically two ways to steer away from them. First is to uninstall whatever apps you can, say half or less than half of all the bloatware, using the same method as you would to uninstall any other app. Another option is to disable the app, which will stop running even in the background, taking up less storage and other resources. Here’s how.

1. Go to Settings on your Android smartphone.
2. Head over to the ‘Apps’ section.
3. Find the apps that you want to disable.

Alternatively,

1. You can long-press on the app that you want to get rid of and hit ‘Uninstall’ if there’s an option.
2.  If not, head over to more info denoted by an ‘i’ in the circle and ‘disable’ it. 

Enter the developer options

Your Android smartphone is very powerful, and the fact is, you don’t really know how. It has a separate ‘Developer Options’ that basically allows users to force dark mode, tweak animation speed, enter USB debugging for dev tools, test app behaviors, limit background apps (that we will get back in a moment), and more. It is a source of ultimate developer-grade advanced tools that you can use to do just about anything. It isn’t enabled by default, but here’s how you can turn it on.

1. Go to Settings on your phone and head over to ‘About Phone’.
2. Scroll to find ‘Build Number’ and tab 7 times.
3. You’ll get a pill-shaped notification saying ‘You are now a developer!’.
4. Now, you can access ‘Developer Options’ within Settings.

Limit background processes

Do you know how many apps are trying to consume resources on your phone at every given time? Although you can tap into ‘recently used’ apps to find the ones active in the background, it doesn’t paint the whole story. Unsurprisingly, apps consume resources, and every app that you have installed, opened or not, foreground or background, has some requirements. 

Oftentimes, this doesn’t hurt your user experience; however, when you want to play games or indulge in high-resource activities, that is when even a drop of power matters. You could be low on battery juice and with no way near a power source, your phone’s battery might die. Limiting background processes can unleash the kraken by limiting the number of processes that are running in the background. You can limit those background processes to zero, one, or two, or up to four, but that works like a charm.

1. To turn on the feature, head over to your phone’s settings.
2. Head to the ‘Developer Options’; if you haven’t enabled it, the last method will work for you.
3. Search for ‘Limit Background Process’ and put ‘2’ or ‘3’. If you are sure you don’t want any background processes (which means you can minimize an app without squashing it entirely, try ‘zero’).

One WhatsApp. Multiple Phones.

Do you know you can run WhatsApp on multiple phones? Well, it’s not an Android-only tricks, but we had to cover it as it’s worth. In fact, you can use the same WhatsApp account across 4 companion devices and each acts as a standalone WhatsApp once you start using it.

You can make and receive calls and do pretty much everything you could on a secondary phone even if the internet access to the primary phone is cut off. I have two Android phones that I use parallelly. Let’s say I am going for a walk and cant carry both the devices.

All I need is internet access to my secondary phone and I don’t have to worry about whether I’ll receive messages or can make calls or not, because I can do it all. Unless WhatsApp Web, this technique lets you reap the full potential of running sake WhatsApp account on multiple devices.

Cursor that glides

If you have any iPhone friends, you must have seen them showing off how they can glide through a wall of text simply by sliding on the long space bar? Well, if that’s the case, Android offers a similar feature as well. In fact, I tried it on my Samsung Galaxy and it works splendidly.

All you got to do is write a text (or if you already have it, better), and then, long-press on the space bar and glide left or right to move the cursor. It feels rewarding to move the cursor like that rather than painfully selected the space between a particular piece of text only to realize you have clicked on the wrong text leaving no choice but to painstakingly repeat the process.

Wrapping up

Well, well, well, this sums up our take on the five best Android tips and tricks we could list for this month’s edition. Of course, Android offers a lot of known and lesser-known shortcuts, tips, and customizations that could leave you bewildered, and we are here to list them out, five at a time, obviously.