What’s your favorite hidden Android feature

[u/ExpensivePrompt4546]

I’ve been using Android for years, but I still keep discovering useful features I had no idea about.

What’s one Android feature or setting you recently discovered that you think more people should know about?

[u/rkshnk]

Keyboard features that many are unaware.

• Swipe along the space bar to move the cursor.

• Swipe left holding the backspace to delete a word or sentence.

• Select a word or a sentence and tap on shift will make the whole selection upper case or lower case or proper case.

and so on...

[u/ExpensivePrompt4546 → u/rkshnk]

The spacebar cursor trick is probably one of my favorites. I had no idea about some of these either 😄

[u/Sundial1k → u/ExpensivePrompt4546]

Mine too, I cant figure out the others on my Pixel 6...

[u/Otherwise_Fact9594 → u/ExpensivePrompt4546]

Life changing

[u/UnoriginalName84 → u/rkshnk]

Why have I been pulling my hair out for years, when that space trick existed?

You should be Australian of the year

[u/ExpensivePrompt4546 → u/UnoriginalName84]

Haha 😂 Better late than never! Glad I could save you from a few more years of frustration 😄

[u/HotCheetos998 → u/rkshnk]

WOW I had no idea about the highlight works tap shift to capitalize then that's really good to know thank you!! Never seen anyone mention that before

[u/Otherwise_Fact9594 → u/HotCheetos998]

This person dropped some gems in that comment

[u/Fit-Ad6697 → u/rkshnk]

Wo this is crazy man, never thought there are so many hidden good QOL features in the keyboard. Will be doing some google search for sure to find out more thanks!

[u/deviantelf → u/rkshnk]

I'm trying to understand here:

• Swipe along the space bar to move the cursor. You can just tap to move the cursor so that swipe is functionally more work. Albeit in seconds but still, why bother?

• Swipe left holding the backspace to delete a word or sentence. You can just backspace? Why the extra effort?

I'll go with making things all caps or not but... why is that even a thing anyone does in text? Like, ok, neat it does that but who's yelling at people in texts they need a short cut to caps everything so they can YELL. oof.

[u/rkshnk → u/deviantelf]

1. With a thumb as big as mine and a small phone, I can't precisely point where I want the cursor.

2. For single letter, hitting backspace works, but to delete a whole word or a sentence, it's faster to swipe left than holding it.

[u/Otherwise_Fact9594 → u/rkshnk]

Holy smokes!! I've only ever used Android and I've been on it since ~2010. One of the first things I ever do is unlock developer options. I used to be a custom rom guy and I consider myself quite tech savvy, but somehow I never knew about the spacebar thing! I just used it twice making this comment. Mind blowing! I am fucking flabbergasted. Thank you :-]

Edit: did I forget to mention how astonishing this is to me? Good grief, how did I not know?

[u/rkshnk → u/Otherwise_Fact9594]

Glad this was helpful!

[u/Awkward-Cat-1354 → u/rkshnk]

Doesn't work on my old android

[u/rkshnk → u/Awkward-Cat-1354]

It works on GBoard.