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Phone Developer Options In Android: How To Find And Enable
Aug 11, 2025
In this video: - What is Developer Mode in Android? - How to find Developer Options in Android - How to enable Developer Options in Android
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Developer options or developer mode in
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an Android smartphone allows you to
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unlock hidden features in your mobile
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phone. Let me show you.
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[Music]
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Hello, this is Mr. Mobility. Developer
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mode enables you to unlock hidden
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features so you can enjoy some benefits
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that you were not enjoying before. to
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make customizations and adjustments to
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your phone. I share what these features
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are and how to find and enable developer
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mode in your phone. For example, one of
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the improvements and one of the benefits
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of enabling and using developer mode or
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developer options in your phone is that
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you can increase and improve the
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performance of your smartphone. How?
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It's more of perception. But again, at
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the end of the day, it impacts how you
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use your phone. So, for example, you can
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reduce the animation scale of your
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device such that it feels faster when
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you use it. If you're using an
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entry-level or mid-range Android
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smartphone and it's feeling a little
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sluggish, for example, enabling
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developer mode and going in there to
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adjust about three items means that your
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phone will suddenly begin to feel
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smoother and more pleasant to use.
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Another benefit of using developer mode
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or developer options is that you can
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debug. Now, this is a developer
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terminology. If you're into app
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development, you already know what this
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means. If you're not, you're going to
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find this more technical than you
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probably can handle. But it simply means
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that you're able to figure out what's
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going on behind the scenes in your
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phone. You have access to technical
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information about what's going on behind
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the scenes in your phones. And it's a
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great way of solving problems that
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encounter with apps and with the
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functionality on your phone. If you're
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not a developer, don't worry about this.
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Ignore this. Another benefit you can
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enjoy when you enable developer mode on
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your Android smartphone is that you can
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achieve a great a greater deal of
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customization for your phone. For
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example, you can limit background
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activity on your device. Which apps are
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connecting online, how often they do it,
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which apps are running in the background
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when you're doing something, or even
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when your phone is idle. You can tinker
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and tamper with all of that to make your
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phone more efficient, reduce your data
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consumption,
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reduce battery consumption so that your
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battery life improves. things like that.
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You can also force uh the rendering of
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your graphical processing unit. Pretty
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much what that means is that you can
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change how well your phone displays
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animations and graphics in games in
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video and all of that. And for those of
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you who love to tinker with custom
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software for your devices, yes, you can
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unlock your boot your devices
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bootloadader and be able to install
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custom software, custom ROMs from third
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party sources. Of course, this comes
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with risks, but if you're the
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adventurous type, hey, what's stopping
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you from doing it? So the question
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you're asking next is how can you find
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or where can you find developer mode or
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developer options in your Android
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smartphone. It's a simple answer. You
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always find it in the settings of your
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device. It's always in the settings of
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your device. The problem is this. It's
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hidden. If you scroll through your
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device, you're not going to find any
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section that says developer mode. You
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have to enable it for it to be visible.
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So the question now is how do you enable
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developer mode? When you load the
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settings app of your phone, go down to
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about phone and then scroll down to
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software information
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and then scroll to where you find build
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number. What you want to do when you
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find build number is tap it multiple
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times. Usually it's seven times,
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but who knows that may change in the
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future. It might even have changed as
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I'm speaking. But you start tapping on
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build number one, two, three, four. It
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says you're three steps away from being
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a developer. Six, seven.
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And then it asks you to unlock your
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device.
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My device is unlocked. And then it asks
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me allow development settings. These
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settings are pro are intended for
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development use only. They can cause
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your device and the applications on it
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to break or misbehave. Be aware of that
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disclaimer if you want to proceed.
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Anything you do in here in developer
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mode or developer options can break, can
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mess up something on your device. Yes,
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we want to. So, you're going to tap
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okay.
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Developer mode has been enabled. Yay.
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Now, where do you find it? You have to
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go back
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to the main
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page of your settings app, right? And
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then scroll down to the very bottom. And
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here you are,
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developer options.
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That's it.
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Once you tap on it, you are now in the
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developer options menu and you can
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access all of the different things that
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you like to do. All the hidden features,
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all the tinkering, all the adjusting
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that you want to do here, they are
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waiting for you. And whenever you're
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done, perhaps you have played around
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with everything you need to play around
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with and you want to turn it off. At the
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top of the settings, you see the toggle
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for disabling it. And all you have to do
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tap on that
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and developer options has been turned
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off. If you go back to the main settings
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uh to the main page of your settings
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app, you find that developers options or
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developer mode which was visible at the
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bottom is gone. If you'd like to enable
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it again, it's the same process. Go back
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to about phone.
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Scroll down to software information,
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build number, tap it repeatedly, usually
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at least seven times till your phone
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asks you to unlock and then you enter
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your PIN, your password, and then you
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have developer mode active again. Now I
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have showed you that here on a Samsung
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phone. Depending on the implementation
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of the different um Android phone
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manufacturers, the location of that
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build number menu may differ. But here
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is a phone from AGM and I am in the
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settings app. I scroll down about phone.
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I scroll down
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and
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here it is build number. So I'm tapping
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one 2 3 4 5 6 7 it's asking me to unlock
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unlocked.
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And then I go back to main page of the
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settings app. And when I scroll to the
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bottom in this case I have to now look
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under system
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system and right here developer options.
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See
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at developer options
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and then I can do whatever I want to do.
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Play around think tinker. And then
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similar to how it works on the Samsung,
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when I'm done and want to turn it off,
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all I have to do is disable it here and
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developer options is gone. When you go
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back to that system menu, you don't you
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don't see developer options visible
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anymore. The specific location,
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depending on the phone manufacturer, it
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will differ a little bit, but you can't
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miss it. You know, you just can't miss
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it. You're looking pretty much you're
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looking under about phone or under
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system or both. The build number can be
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in about phone and then developer
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options will show up under system or
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both can show up under about phone but
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those are the two places where you look
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to find and enable developer options in
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your Android phone. Let me know if
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you've ever used this feature on your
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phone before. What did you use it to
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achieve? I have used it a bit. I've used
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it to make my phone feel snappier. I
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have also used it to limit background
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apps on my device a few times uh which
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led to an increase in battery life and
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also reduced the quantity of data that
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my phone was consuming. Let me know your
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experiences with it. Thank you for
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