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Locked Folder for Google Photos has an understandable restriction Google Photos is getting a Locked Folder feature, but its only available on your phones local storage. This will let you hide photos behind a fingerprint or PIN. The feature is restricted to your phone only. Update: May 20 2021 (7:42 AM ET): We wondered whether Google Photos’ new Locked Folder feature would be accessible on your computer or if it would only be available on your phone. Now, Android Police reports that it’s in...

We asked, you told us: Most of you leave auto-rotate disabled Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority The quick toggle section of the notification shade is one of the more convenient features on a smartphone today, giving you seamless access to a variety of important settings. And auto-rotate is one of the options you’re guaranteed to find in the quick toggle section. But is auto-rotate (i.e. via the quick toggle or system settings menu) actually used by many people though? Well, we asked ...

Poll: Are you logged into an OEM account on your Android phone? Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority A Google account is basically a must if you want to seamlessly use an Android phone (unless you’re living that Google-free life). The account allows you to download apps from the Play Store, back up your photos to the cloud, use Google Drive for storage, and much more. We’ve also seen Android manufacturers allow you to log into an OEM account on their devices too. For example, Samsung u...

Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Smartphones these days do so much more than just make and receive calls. Most of us escape into our phones for instant messaging, media consumption, surfing the web, or just aimlessly scrolling through social media. But when a call actually comes through, does your phone ring? We recently conducted a poll on our website asking our readers about their preferred sound profile on their phones. Here’s are the results of that poll. What sound profile do yo...

Poll: Do you keep auto-rotate enabled on your phone? Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority Auto-rotation is one of the more long-standing features on smartphones today, allowing phones to automatically shift apps and menus between portrait and landscape orientation as the device is turned accordingly. Many smartphones include an auto-rotate toggle in the quick settings section of the notification shade (as seen above), allowing you to activate or deactivate auto-rotate at the drop of a hat....

A new rumor points to Samsung adopting a continuous zoom camera for the S22 Ultra. This would allow for a variety of zoom factors and consistent quality with one camera. The source also claims Samsung will bring an under-display selfie camera and AMD GPU to the phone. Samsung is inevitably working on the Galaxy S22 series, as the company has offered a Galaxy S flagship in the first half of each year for ages now. This year’s Galaxy S21 Ultra follows in Huawei’s footsteps by offering two tel...

Poll: What sound profile do you primarily use on your phone? Credit: Hadlee Simons / Android Authority It’s easy to forget that smartphones are actually phones that can make or receive calls (imagine that?!). But all it takes is a ringtone to make us realize that we’ve got a device capable of more than just taking photos and browsing the web. Then again, how many Android Authority readers have their phone set to ring for incoming calls in the first place? We’d like to know what sound pro...

Multitasking a pain on your Xiaomi phone? A new solution is in the works. Xiaomi is reportedly working on a RAM “extension” feature in MIUI. This would essentially use some free storage space as virtual RAM. Today’s smartphones generally come with plenty of RAM, and it’s not uncommon to find 4GB or even 6GB of RAM in budget devices. Some users might still suffer from multitasking and performance woes though, but Xiaomi is reportedly working on a solution. Xiaomi tipster Kacper Skrzypek ...

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Smartphone designs have come a long way in just over a decade, with full-screen displays, glass or high quality plastic backs, and metal frames being a fixture on today’s high-end devices. We’ve even seen great designs from budget devices, such as the Poco M3, Pixel 4a, and Oppo Reno 5 Pro. But there has been one unpleasant design trend in recent times, and that’s the move by some companies to add garish branding across the back of their phones. N...

A developer has released a Symbian/N-Gage emulator on the Google Play Store. This allows you to play N-Gage games on your Android smartphone. The Nokia N-Gage was arguably the first proper gaming phone around, offering a D-pad, face buttons, and cartridge-based games back in 2003. It’s widely considered to be a commercial failure, but it still had a few interesting titles though. Now, a Symbian emulator dubbed EKA2L1 has surfaced on the Google Play Store, and it indeed allows you to run N-Gag...