Mobile Tips & How-to Guides
Your Free 15 GB Filing Cabinet in the Cloud Every Google account comes with 15 GB of free storage shared across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos. Many people already have this space sitting unused while their phone complains that storage is full — documents lost when a phone breaks, important PDFs buried in WhatsApp … Read more
The App You Want Might Not Be the App You Get Search for any popular app and you will find look-alikes: same icon style, almost the same name, promising extra features for free. In Pakistan, fake versions of WhatsApp, TikTok, banking apps and “free followers” tools spread through forwarded links and random websites every day. … Read more
A Real Keyboard Changes WhatsApp Completely If you work at a shop counter, an office desk or a home computer, picking up the phone for every WhatsApp message gets tiring — and long messages on a small keyboard are slow. WhatsApp Web solves this: it opens your WhatsApp inside the browser on your computer, so … Read more
Most of us are members of several WhatsApp groups, and many of us end up running one. There is the family group, the mohalla group, the school parents group, the office group and the old classmates group that wakes up every Eid. When a group is set up well, it is genuinely useful. When nobody … Read more
The New Tab You May Have Ignored Open WhatsApp and tap the Updates tab. Below your friends’ statuses there is a section many people in Pakistan scroll past without a second look: Channels. News outlets, cricket teams, celebrities, government departments and small businesses now post one-way updates there — and unlike groups, nobody can see … Read more
Why Watch on the Phone When a TV Is Right There? A family video, a cricket highlight or a drama episode looks fine on a phone — until five people crowd around a six-inch screen. The good news is that most Android phones from the last few years can connect to a TV, and most … Read more
The Hotspot You Count On, Gone at the Wrong Time Load shedding has knocked out the home Wi-Fi, an online class starts in five minutes, or a guest needs internet — so you switch on your phone’s hotspot, the way you have a hundred times. Except today it refuses to turn on, or the laptop … Read more
Your Phone Speaks More Languages Than You Think Every Android phone sold in Pakistan already contains Urdu, English and dozens of other languages built in — no app download is needed to use them. Changing the system language makes menus, settings and notifications appear in the language you read most comfortably, which is a real … Read more
Your phone used to reach the evening easily. Now it drops from 40 to 15 percent during one bus ride, and you charge it twice a day. That does not always mean an app is misbehaving. Every battery slowly wears out with use, heat and time. This is battery health, and it is different from … Read more
The Two Minutes That Matter Most Imagine an ordinary day in Pakistan — travelling on the motorway, crossing a busy road in Lahore or Karachi, or at work — and suddenly something goes wrong: an accident, a fainting spell, or a fall. You may not be able to unlock your phone or even speak clearly, … Read more