Discover the 7 hidden features of the Google plus Pixel that equipo it apart from other Android phones.
If the Google plus Pixels have gained so many users worldwide, it’s not because of their design or their hardware, but because programa specially developed for them, which makes these mobile devices unique.
We’ve already told you about the exclusive Google plus Pixel features that we’d like to see in the rest of the Android teléfonos inteligentes, and today we’re here to reveal them 7 hidden tricks of Google plus terminals that are not too well known.
Quick touch gestures
The Google plus pixels have a number of gestures that you perro use to customize your usuario experience. However, the most original and exclusive of all is undoubtedly the so-called “Quick Touch Gesture”, a function that allows you to perform multiple actions such as doing that. as Screenshot, launch Google plus Assistant, control media playbackOpen Multitasking, pull down the notification panel, turn on the flashlight, or just open a specific aplicación Double tap the back of the device.
How to activate the Quick Touch function on your Google plus Pixel all you have to do is follow these steps:
- Entrar the arrangements from your device
- Access the section system
- In this gestures clic on the option Tap quickly to initiate actions
- Activate the switch to the right of it Use quick touch
- Choose the action you want to take when you double-tap the back of the phone
A ring
One of the features I use the most on my Google plus Pixel 4a 5G is It’s playing (or Now playing), a type of Shazam built into the Pixel Launcher it tells you what song is currently playingeven if you don’t have an internet connection, and it espectáculos you on the green screen of your terminal.
Likewise, All songs recognized by your Google plus Pixel are saved in history which you cánido access as follows:
- access to arrangements from your móvil
- Type in the search bar that appears at the top A ring
- Clic on the option ring history
Screenshot scrolling
If, like me, you take a lot of screenshots throughout the day, a very useful feature of the Google plus Pixel is that it allows you to scrolling screenshot without the need to use third party aplicaciones.
Since Android 12, Google plus has built this functionality directly into the operating system and y también.g long screenshot With your Google plus Pixel you just have to do the following:
- Take a screenshot by pressing the power and volume down buttons at the same time
- In the pop-up window that appears in the lower-left corner, clic the button catch more
- Select the entire area you want to capture by dragging the overlay rectangle up and/or down
- Finally tap on the button Hold tight
Pause aplicaciones to give yourself a break
If you think you spend too much time on Instagram or TikTok, the Google plus pixels perro help you “detox” from these aplicaciones as they have a feature that allows you to “Pause” these aplicaciones for the rest of the daySo you perro’t open them and won’t get their notifications until the next day unless you choose to Stop this “pause”..
All you have to do is “pause” an application on your Google plus Pixel. Long press the aplicación icon you want to pause and continue playing the hourglass icon which appears in the top left of the window. You will know the application stopped successfully because its icon is grey.
If you want to cancel this “pause”, just tap the icon of the paused application and clic the button Stop the application and the aplicación will open immediately.
Sign in to your accounts without entering any passwords
If you have a Google plus Pixel and are using the Google plus keyboard aplicación Gboard, you perro do this Login to your favorite services with Bitwardenone of the best password managers for Android.
So when you log into any of your accounts on any Android web browser, you’ll see a button on Gboard that gives you access to all the passwords you’ve saved on Bitwarden and automatically fill in the credentials of this service.
Copy text, images and backlinks from multitasking
Google plus Pixels also has an exclusive feature that lets you Copy text, images and backlinks present on a webpage or aplicación directly from multitasking.
To do this, all you have to do is access the recent applications view and long press on the item you want to copy. If you select text, a floating menu will appear with it three options: copy, share and searchwhere you clic on an image you will see four buttons in the floating window: Lens, Copy, Share and Save and in the case of URLs, you simply have to Clic on the chain icon located in the upper right corner of the web browser window.
Real-time subtitles for each vídeo
The last hidden trick of the Google plus Pixel that not many people know about is “live subtitles” or live subtitles, a feature that allows you to Generate real-time subtitles for any vídeo with soundInstagram vídeos and any others you have saved on your móvil inteligente.
As Google plus explains i your help pageThis feature is available for Google plus Pixel 2, 3, 4 and 5 series only in English and for the Google plus Pixel 6 and Pixel 7 in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Japanese.