**Using Your Smartphone's Features to the Max**

When it comes to using our smartphones, we often overlook some of the amazing features that come built-in with them. From taking great photos and videos to controlling our devices with gestures, there are many ways to get the most out of our phones. In this article, we'll explore some of these features and show you how to use them.

**Digitalizing Important Documents**

When traveling or living abroad, we often need to carry important documents such as our driver's license, National Insurance number, and passport. However, having these documents with us on the go can be a hassle. One solution is to digitally scan these documents using applications like photo scan by Google or Tiny Scanner. These apps can make any document look like it was digitally created, making them easy to carry around.

**Google Translate's Conversation Mode**

Many of us use Google Translate to communicate with people who don't speak our language. However, have you ever heard about Google Translate's conversation mode? This feature allows you to talk to someone in a different language and have the translation done automatically. The conversation mode can detect who is speaking and translate it to the other language, making communication much easier.

**Creating Panorama Photos**

Our smartphones have amazing camera capabilities, especially when it comes to panorama photos. What's cool about this feature is that you can clone yourself or list appear twice within a photo. To do this, simply hand your phone to someone else and tell them to start taking the panorama with you in front of them as they move around capture more of the scene. You'll then slip into your second position where they will pass you again, resulting in a unique effect.

**Turning Your Phone into a Surveillance Camera**

For those who want to keep an eye on their homes or businesses remotely, there's a great app called IP Webcam. This app turns your phone into a surveillance camera and allows you to access it from any device. You can also record 24/7 if you keep the phone plugged in, making it a useful tool for monitoring your space.

**Repurposing Your Home Button**

If you don't use Google Assistant often, you might not know that you can repurpose your home button by installing an app called Rocket Launcher. When you hold your home button, instead of bringing up Google Assistant, the app will bring up a selection of apps of your choice. This is a handy feature that allows you to access multiple apps quickly and easily.

**Wave Control with Rocket Launcher**

Rocket Launcher takes the repurposed home button idea to the next level by allowing us to control our smartphones using air gestures. This feature works over 95% of the time, as long as you get your hand at the right height above the phone. You can use different air gestures to control various apps and features on your phone.

**Flexible Phone Holders**

If you're looking for a way to watch movies or browse the web without holding your phone, there's an amazing product called a flexible phone holder. This device is basically a flexible neck that locks onto a desk, wardrobe, or shelf, allowing you to clip your smartphone into it and adjust its position as needed. It's perfect for reading books, watching movies, or browsing the web from a comfortable distance.

**P Cloud: The Ultimate Cloud Service**

Finally, there's an amazing cloud service called P Cloud that offers many features we've never seen before. With P Cloud, you can not only keep your files online but also every version of your files. This means that if you accidentally delete a portion of a document or make changes to it and then press save, you can easily revert back to the previous version. Another great feature is Auto Upload, which allows you to upload your photos automatically from your mobile device.

**Conclusion**

As we've seen in this article, there are many amazing features on our smartphones that we often overlook. From taking great photos and videos to controlling our devices with gestures, there's no shortage of ways to get the most out of our phones. Whether you're looking for a way to digitally scan documents or create unique panorama photos, these features have got you covered.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enokay guys this video has been a long time in the making and I think it's gonna blow you away today we have 12 of the greatest Android tips tricks and secrets that I'd go as far to say that most of these you'll never have heard of so we're gonna save the best to last and let's get started very quickly before we get into it this video was sponsored by IP cloud but we'll save that till the end did you know that Google Chrome on Android has a hidden Reading Mode built inside of it and that automatically converts articles into more readable formats and completely removes the adverts all you've got to do is to go into the flags a section of Chrome which is an experimental menu find the reading mode option and click always enable and from there any time you're on an article you'll see this little notification and when you tap that notification Reading Mode is enabled complete lifesaver next up the ring light is a very inexpensive for a simple and very effective way to up your selfie game it's got soft tabs so it doesn't damage your phone and works with a simple hinge mechanism and it's got three different layers of brightness the brightest of which can completely change the way a scene looks if you're in an area where there is no light very little light or just an overpowering color of light this continuous light compensates for that and you've got a sharper photo that is also much more color accurate only thing to bear in mind is sometimes it can block part of the screen which can get in the way of you taking a photo but not a huge deal okay like most people I take my smart phone everywhere but it would be kind of nice if I didn't need to take my wallet as well so if you only wanted to carry some money with you you can actually store it in the back of a case and it's not gonna damage your smartphone just fold it carefully you could even fit two to three notes inside of there and of course this also works with cards if you don't want to use cash you can normally fit two cards behind most smartphone cases killing two birds with one stone onto the next one there is actually a hidden benefit to buying the premium versions of an app now don't get me wrong free apps are great they have almost all the functionality and you just have to put up with a few ads but these ads as well as being annoying also cause battery and data drain it creates one extra background process where the app is trying to figure out which ads to serve next and download them in advance this doesn't necessarily mean premium versions are always worth it but it's another factor to consider next one is a very simple thing you often get notifications for a lot of things you just don't care about and if you hold down on those you can block them from coming which again is another thing that'll save you a little bit of battery because your phone is no longer checking for them but also it stops you getting distracted and pulled into applications that you actually had no intention of going on you might be wondering why on earth am i composing an email to myself or something which I found this super useful is taking photos of all of your important documents and emailing them to you so your passport your driving license your National Insurance number the number of times I've needed these on the go even if it's just a scanned copy of them is countless and if you want to make them look like they've been digitally scanned in you can use applications like photo scan by Google or tiny scanner and these can basically make anything look like they were digitally created alright we all know how fantastic Google Translate is but Google quietly slipped in a pretty revolutionary feature you can see it's called conversation and what this can be used for is to talk to someone who doesn't at all speak your language you speak in your language Google will automatically detect who is speaking and translate it to the other language it doesn't work for every language that Google Translate supports but it does work offline which is a huge bonus the cameras on our phones are getting better and better every year that's no secret but there is something really cool you can do with the panorama feature which has been around for ages essentially you can clone yourself or list appear twice within a photo all you've got to do is hand the phone to someone else and tell them to start taking the panorama with you in front of them as they then move around capture more of the scene you've got a slip into your second position where they will pass you again so because they are passing you twice in this panorama you're gonna appear twice in one photo quite a cool effect very difficult to pull off without some sort of flaw alright have you recently upgraded your smartphone and you've just got an old perfectly decent usable phone sitting around doing nothing well there's something you can do with it actually head on to the Play Store type in IP webcam and download this application it pretty much does what it says on the tin it allows your phone to turn into a surveillance camera and an incredibly useful one at that you can access it on any of your devices it can record 24/7 if you keep the phone plugged in and of course you've got 4k video recording on most modern phones I can guarantee that a good amount of you guys watching this video don't use Google assistant at all but what you might not have realized is you can repurpose that button by installing rocket launcher next time you hold your home button instead of bringing up Google assistant it'll bring up a selection of apps of your choice I wouldn't say it's the cleanest interface but functionally speaking very handy all right quite possibly what you came to this video for wave control once you've downloaded the app and turned it on you can essentially control your smartphone using air gestures which is something we've seen before on phones in the past and it didn't work so well but this right here is the best implementation of it I've seen it works over 95% of the time providing you get your hand at the right height above the phone which is someone you get used to and you can use a number of different air gestures to control a number of different things everything from your media player of choice to your phone book now the next hack ties into this one and takes it a step further so by the company of ountry we've got this pretty nifty cell phone holder and what you do is you screw it in so it locks on to a desk a wardrobe is shelf anything like that and you've got this flexible neck which is very rigid and holds exactly where you left it so of course what you do then is you clip your smartphone into there and it opens up a world of flexibility literally you could use it to use your phone while you're in bed you could use it to watch movies from a little bit further away and this allows you to adjust the angle adjust height pretty much everything it's a little bit wobbly when you touch the screen but this is where the gestures come in pretty neat solution alright guys as I said this video is sponsored by P cloud which is a cloud service and maybe the most complete solution I've ever come across and here I'm just going to highlight some of the cool stuff you can do with it number one rewind P cloud has the ability to not just keep your files online but also every version of your files so say for example you accidentally delete a portion of a document and then press save we've all been there you can use this to River back number two Auto upload so as well as just keeping your Mac or PC backed up the same can be heard with your mobile this can be configured so that anytime you take a photo with your Android or iOS device it appears on the cloud fast and then this P cloud drive which is a desktop app that lets you access your files in the cloud but as if they were on your local computer and without taking up any physical space so that's P cloud I'm gonna drop a link in the description below so go check it but that being said my name is Aaron this is mr. he's the bossokay guys this video has been a long time in the making and I think it's gonna blow you away today we have 12 of the greatest Android tips tricks and secrets that I'd go as far to say that most of these you'll never have heard of so we're gonna save the best to last and let's get started very quickly before we get into it this video was sponsored by IP cloud but we'll save that till the end did you know that Google Chrome on Android has a hidden Reading Mode built inside of it and that automatically converts articles into more readable formats and completely removes the adverts all you've got to do is to go into the flags a section of Chrome which is an experimental menu find the reading mode option and click always enable and from there any time you're on an article you'll see this little notification and when you tap that notification Reading Mode is enabled complete lifesaver next up the ring light is a very inexpensive for a simple and very effective way to up your selfie game it's got soft tabs so it doesn't damage your phone and works with a simple hinge mechanism and it's got three different layers of brightness the brightest of which can completely change the way a scene looks if you're in an area where there is no light very little light or just an overpowering color of light this continuous light compensates for that and you've got a sharper photo that is also much more color accurate only thing to bear in mind is sometimes it can block part of the screen which can get in the way of you taking a photo but not a huge deal okay like most people I take my smart phone everywhere but it would be kind of nice if I didn't need to take my wallet as well so if you only wanted to carry some money with you you can actually store it in the back of a case and it's not gonna damage your smartphone just fold it carefully you could even fit two to three notes inside of there and of course this also works with cards if you don't want to use cash you can normally fit two cards behind most smartphone cases killing two birds with one stone onto the next one there is actually a hidden benefit to buying the premium versions of an app now don't get me wrong free apps are great they have almost all the functionality and you just have to put up with a few ads but these ads as well as being annoying also cause battery and data drain it creates one extra background process where the app is trying to figure out which ads to serve next and download them in advance this doesn't necessarily mean premium versions are always worth it but it's another factor to consider next one is a very simple thing you often get notifications for a lot of things you just don't care about and if you hold down on those you can block them from coming which again is another thing that'll save you a little bit of battery because your phone is no longer checking for them but also it stops you getting distracted and pulled into applications that you actually had no intention of going on you might be wondering why on earth am i composing an email to myself or something which I found this super useful is taking photos of all of your important documents and emailing them to you so your passport your driving license your National Insurance number the number of times I've needed these on the go even if it's just a scanned copy of them is countless and if you want to make them look like they've been digitally scanned in you can use applications like photo scan by Google or tiny scanner and these can basically make anything look like they were digitally created alright we all know how fantastic Google Translate is but Google quietly slipped in a pretty revolutionary feature you can see it's called conversation and what this can be used for is to talk to someone who doesn't at all speak your language you speak in your language Google will automatically detect who is speaking and translate it to the other language it doesn't work for every language that Google Translate supports but it does work offline which is a huge bonus the cameras on our phones are getting better and better every year that's no secret but there is something really cool you can do with the panorama feature which has been around for ages essentially you can clone yourself or list appear twice within a photo all you've got to do is hand the phone to someone else and tell them to start taking the panorama with you in front of them as they then move around capture more of the scene you've got a slip into your second position where they will pass you again so because they are passing you twice in this panorama you're gonna appear twice in one photo quite a cool effect very difficult to pull off without some sort of flaw alright have you recently upgraded your smartphone and you've just got an old perfectly decent usable phone sitting around doing nothing well there's something you can do with it actually head on to the Play Store type in IP webcam and download this application it pretty much does what it says on the tin it allows your phone to turn into a surveillance camera and an incredibly useful one at that you can access it on any of your devices it can record 24/7 if you keep the phone plugged in and of course you've got 4k video recording on most modern phones I can guarantee that a good amount of you guys watching this video don't use Google assistant at all but what you might not have realized is you can repurpose that button by installing rocket launcher next time you hold your home button instead of bringing up Google assistant it'll bring up a selection of apps of your choice I wouldn't say it's the cleanest interface but functionally speaking very handy all right quite possibly what you came to this video for wave control once you've downloaded the app and turned it on you can essentially control your smartphone using air gestures which is something we've seen before on phones in the past and it didn't work so well but this right here is the best implementation of it I've seen it works over 95% of the time providing you get your hand at the right height above the phone which is someone you get used to and you can use a number of different air gestures to control a number of different things everything from your media player of choice to your phone book now the next hack ties into this one and takes it a step further so by the company of ountry we've got this pretty nifty cell phone holder and what you do is you screw it in so it locks on to a desk a wardrobe is shelf anything like that and you've got this flexible neck which is very rigid and holds exactly where you left it so of course what you do then is you clip your smartphone into there and it opens up a world of flexibility literally you could use it to use your phone while you're in bed you could use it to watch movies from a little bit further away and this allows you to adjust the angle adjust height pretty much everything it's a little bit wobbly when you touch the screen but this is where the gestures come in pretty neat solution alright guys as I said this video is sponsored by P cloud which is a cloud service and maybe the most complete solution I've ever come across and here I'm just going to highlight some of the cool stuff you can do with it number one rewind P cloud has the ability to not just keep your files online but also every version of your files so say for example you accidentally delete a portion of a document and then press save we've all been there you can use this to River back number two Auto upload so as well as just keeping your Mac or PC backed up the same can be heard with your mobile this can be configured so that anytime you take a photo with your Android or iOS device it appears on the cloud fast and then this P cloud drive which is a desktop app that lets you access your files in the cloud but as if they were on your local computer and without taking up any physical space so that's P cloud I'm gonna drop a link in the description below so go check it but that being said my name is Aaron this is mr. he's the boss\n"