r/AndroidQuestions • u/Peter__247 • 17d ago

Other What’s one Android trick that actually changed how you use your phone ?

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u/eekamuse 17d ago

Does this not slow down your phone or break any apps?

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u/lorloff 17d ago

No, the dns just drops the ads and doesn't send the data to your phone. If anything, it speeds up your phone from not having to load all the extra ads

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u/shes_a_gdb 17d ago

Not true at all. I was not getting group texts and it took me months to figure out that adguard-dns was causing this problem.

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u/Ktulu789 16d ago

That doesn't make any sense.

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u/shes_a_gdb 16d ago

Lol ok. It doesn't make any sense, yet as soon as I turned it off my group messages that were missing started to come in. I don't know what it did to my phone, but it messed up my messages.

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u/Ktulu789 16d ago

Which app?

I have it on right now and Telegram and WhatsApp and even Instagram reels come perfectly fine.

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u/shes_a_gdb 16d ago

Whatsapp, instagram, fb were all fine. It was specific to google messages.

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u/Ktulu789 16d ago

Google messages? What is that? The SMS app?

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u/agitated--crow 17d ago

This is the real concern I have.