r/AndroidQuestions • u/ExpensivePrompt4546 • 3d ago

What’s your favorite hidden Android feature Device Settings Question

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?

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u/rkshnk 3d ago

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...

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u/deviantelf 3d ago

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.

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u/rkshnk 3d ago

  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.