Recognition: Andy Walker / Android Authority
While Android phones offer a lot of settings that you can play around with to personalize your devices, some of you may want more control. To do this, you can access Developer Options on your phones by going to the About Phone section in the Settings menu and tapping the Build number repeatedly.
Once accessed, the developer options will give you a lot of detailed controls for your Android phone. For example, you can restrict background processes, simulate or hide notches, speed up animations and much more. Of course, some of these options are only understood by trained professionals. But even if you’re your average Joe, you can just read a little more online and tweak the developer options to get the most out of your Android phones.
With that in mind, we asked you, our readers, to check how many of you enable developer options on your phones. Here’s how you voted and what you had to say.
Are you enabling developer options on your phone?
Results
As an Android power user, it comes as no surprise that most of you enable developer options on your phones. 85% of the 2,665 votes we received in our poll indicate that tinkering with developer options is indeed your thing.
Now 14.1% of you do not use these options at all. It’s possible that you’ve never felt the need to tweak more than what the regular settings have to offer, and that’s fine.
Your comments
EeZeEpEe: The animation is scaled 0.5 times every time I get a phone.
Ski Marterking: The first thing I do on a new phone or reinstall. Then the animation is reduced and ADB is activated.
Joe Black: Yeah, but often it’s just about micromanaging bluetooth audio.
Montisaquadeis: Bluetooth settings, USB debugging, system-wide dark mode for apps that don’t offer a split screen for apps that don’t offer it. Plenty of reasons why I enable it on my Samsung devices.
Ozzie Khoo: When switching from One UI 2 to 2.5, Samsung moved the “Turn off absolute volume” option (this is where the volume controls of your bluetooth device are synced. For me, however, it was better to use this option separately as I could fine-tune it) Control). Samsung has moved this from the Bluetooth settings to the developer options. Would really prefer it to stay in the bluetooth settings so I didn’t have to enable the dev options though.
Derek Scott: (Developer Mode) Force Dark Mode. Do i have to say more?
ANTHONYinCALI: Of course lol that animation scale is so important to the feel of the phone. It’s like night and day.
The second view: on my Moto G Power with Android10, I use Developer Options to turn off animations, do automatic updates, and change the phone’s theme and fonts.
EasyCare: I don’t turn it on. Most of the settings are unnecessary and Android is already fine (besides, I’m not a developer). So it’s a good thing that it’s still available as a selection but is hidden under the build number from average users!