Most modern smartwatches and fitness trackers now feature built-in GPS. The same is marketed aggressively by brands and OEMs.

Smartwatches with a built-in GPS receiver can use Global Positioning System to locate and track their location. It is similar to GPS on your smartphone, but data and location results may vary based on the watch’s satellite system.

The GPS helps enhance safety and fitness features on the watch. Depending upon the watch, it can alert authorities about your location in case of an emergency and help track your route duration and distance while running, cycling, or doing other outdoor activities.

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Apple Watch is more like a little iPhone on the wrist. However, there’s no built-in option to play videos from the internet. This can be a bummer for people who want to enjoy news updates, podcast videos, or other entertainment on the go.

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch is quite refined when it comes to health and fitness features. However, some people are facing sleep-tracking issues with the Galaxy Watch 4. Thankfully, the problems can be resolved easily with simple troubleshooting steps.

People who are using the Galaxy Watch 4 are facing different issues with the sleep tracking feature on this smartwatch. This includes the watch not showing sleep data, stopping sleep detection automatically.

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Samsung has returned to Google’s WearOS from Tizen on the previous iterations. This has opened up a wider library of apps and the option to sideload and install APKs on the watch. There are several ways you can install apps on Galaxy Watch. You can either use Play Store on the watch, Play Store on your phone or even sideload an APK using third-party tools.

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Almost all smartwatches and bands these days have heart rate sensors. Budget smartwatches and bands rely on optical heart rate sensors for measuring the heartbeat. The optical sensor reflects low-intensity infrared light on your wrist and uses the variation in reflection to detect the blood flow and heartbeats.

However, there have been instances wherein smartwatch manufacturers have been found using a fake heart rate sensor. Whereas, in other cases, the sensor is sub-standard and cannot be relied upon for accuracy. Below are some quick methods through which you can find whether the heart rate monitor on your smartwatch or fitness band is real or fake.

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The Samsung Galaxy Watch gets plenty of features available on this smartwatch, including third-party apps support and raise to wake display. But, several people are facing issues with the feature. If you are also facing issues with your Galaxy Watch’s raise-to-wake feature not working, then check out the ways mentioned below.

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Undoubtedly, smartphones these days have partly replaced portable gaming consoles. Most of us prefer playing games on Android just because it’s handy and easily accessible. This is why a lot of games that have been exclusive for gaming consoles are now available on smartphones.

However, notifications are one of the biggest problems that ruin the gaming experience on the phone. Imagine a notification obstructing your vision while you’re busy combating with the enemy in a game like PUBG or Call Of Duty Mobile.

Anyways, most of the Android smartphones come with a built-in gaming mode that lets you block notifications and calls while playing games. If not, catch up with the methods given below to disable notifications while gaming on Android.

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Scammers are now using WhatsApp to call people instead of regular calls. This is because such VoIP calls are not easily identified by using a call-screening app and the user is not notified before picking up the calls.

There wasn’t any feature on WhatsApp to identify spam calls and silence them immediately. Now, WhatsApp is taking this spam call problem seriously and releasing a new feature to silence WhatsApp calls from Unknown numbers. This feature is currently available in the early Beta version of WhatsApp, but it will soon be available to everyone via an update.

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We connect to so many WiFi networks on our phone, most of which are password protected to prevent misuse by unauthorized users. As we connect to so many password protected WiFi networks, we may not remember the password for each WiFi network.

If you want to share the WiFi’s password with your friend or if you want to enter it on one of your other devices, you will be forced to ask someone for the password. If you are unable to find out the password yourself, do not worry as your phone remembers the passwords of all the WiFi networks that you have connected to.

While the phone stores all these passwords, you cannot access them yourself as the stored WiFi passwords are not visible to the user. To remedy this, a developer has created an app called WiFi Key Recovery, which works on rooted devices only. This app allows you to see the passwords of all the WiFi devices you have connected to.

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Wear OS allows you to install third-party apps from Google Play Store directly on the smartwatch. This includes the infamous Spotify app, which many stream music and podcasts directly through the watch. However, some users have complained that Spotify doesn’t open, sync, or play music. And therefore, here are easy ways to troubleshoot and fix Spotify not working on Wear OS smartwatches.

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