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Worried about what your kids are up to on the internet? You could install a spy app on their smartphones. These apps let you monitor their social media, read their text messages, track their location, and even record their calls. All recorded data is stored online, so you can access it from anywhere.
There are a lot of spy apps available for Android and iOS, but only a few are worth your time. Without further ado, here are the five best spy apps available right now:. Important: All the apps listed below are completely undetectable — Once installed on a phone, the spy app hides its icon and runs in the background immediately. All you have to do is install the mSpy app on the target phone the phone you are monitoring , then activate it using your license code. Once mSpy is activated, you can log in to the online portal to access information collected from the target phone such as messages texts, WhatsApp and other messaging apps , phone calls, browsing history, and GPS location.
One of my favorite features of mSpy is its no-jailbreak feature, which allows you to spy on an iPhone without jailbreaking it.
Their trained technicians will help you every step of the way. Want to spy on an Android phone? There is no need to root the phone to use this app. After installation, you can log into your account and start tracking. SpyBubble works with devices running Android 5.
I tested it on a Samsung Galaxy S9 Android 8. Highster Mobile Spy, as the name suggests, is a mobile spying app that lets you spy on Android phones. It has all of the usual features you might expect from a cell phone spyware, including location tracking, remote locking, and the ability to record phone activities.
Other features of the Highster Mobile include:. As with most Android spy apps, Highster Mobile is easy to install and configure.
Once installed and configured, it runs in the background and silently records all user activity, including call recordings, call history, GPS, texts, emails, photos, social media and instant messages Facebook, WhatsApp, Skype, etc. All the data collected can be viewed through a web-based portal or mobile app. There are two versions: Premium and Extreme.
FlexiSPY Premium offers everything you generally need from a phone spy app, but if you want more advanced features, the Extreme version might be what you need. So should you use FlexiSPY? I would only recommend using it on a jailbroken iPhone or rooted Android.
Make sure you NEED all the features before you spend the money. Hoverwatch is a spy app that tracks and records phone calls, texts, instant messages, locations and visited websites. If you are a parent who wishes to monitor the movements and communications of your child, Hoverwatch allows you to do so via a secure Web portal. I tested it on my Android phone and it worked quite well. The Hoverwatch app works on all Android devices running Android 4 and up.
It also has desktop versions for Mac and PC. You must have access to the target phone.
To install spyware app on an iPhone, the device must be jailbroken. Learn how to install the spy app on Android and iPhone. Make sure that the target phone has an internet connection either cellular or Wi-Fi. Internet access is required to download, install and activate the spy app. You can read more about how the app works here. You may need to root the target Android phone. Most spy apps work with both rooted and unrooted Android smartphones.
However, some of the features, like instant messenger tracking and call interception, are only available on a rooted phone. Google first introduced both of these features in Android 9. It's a little different for each phone. I recommend opening your settings and searching for Battery. Your results should get you to the right screen. Another way to improve battery life while also helping save your eyes is to use Android's dedicated dark mode.
We first saw signs of a true dark mode with the release of Android 9, but Google went all-in with the release of Android 10 in late According to Google, dark mode not only reduces the strain that smartphone displays cause on our eyes , but it also improves battery life because it takes less power to display dark backgrounds on OLED displays used in most flagship phones than a white background.
Depending on which version of Android your phone is running, and what company made your phone, you may have to dig around the settings app to find a dark mode. If your phone runs Android 10, you'll be able to turn on systemwide dark mode. If it runs Android 9, don't despair.
Plenty of apps have their own dark-mode option in the settings that you can use whether or not you have Android I suggest using dark mode all the time, but if you're not sure, you can always set dark mode to automatically turn on based on a schedule, say from 7 p. Planning to hit up the Google Play Store for a bunch of new Android apps? Be prepared for a lot of icon clutter on your home screen, which is where shortcuts land every time you install something.
Thankfully, there's a simple way out of this: Long-press on an empty area of your home screen and tap Home settings. Find the option labeled something along the lines of "Add icon to Home Screen" and turn it off. No more icons when you install new apps. You can still add shortcuts by dragging an app's icon out of the app drawer, but they won't clutter up your home screen unless you want them to. If your phone routinely spends the night on your nightstand, you probably don't want it beeping or buzzing every time there's a call, message or Facebook alert -- especially when you're trying to sleep.
Thankfully, Android offers a Do Not Disturb mode that will keep the phone more or less silent during designated hours. On some phones, this is referred to as the Downtime setting or even quiet time.
Using the feature, you can set up a range of hours usually nighttime when you want to turn off the digital noise. But don't worry, any notifications you get while DND is turned on will still be waiting for you when you wake up. Also, you can typically make an exception that allows repeat callers and favorite contacts' calls to go through.
Turn that on. If someone is calling you in an emergency, odds are they are going to keep trying. What someone who finds a lost or stolen Android phone will see after you use Find My Device to lock it. Is there anything worse than a lost or stolen phone? Only the knowledge that you could have tracked it down if you had turned on Google's Find My Device feature. To set yourself up for a successful recovery, here's what you need to do: Open the Settings app and then search for Find My Device.