It's not unusual to have a few apps installed on the phone that do the same. Just like apps that are meant to play music or video, or several browsers, especially when the phone brings its own but we are on top of Chrome, Firefox or Opera. Photo editors, video editors. Everything is usually double And, of course, the system needs to know where to go when we ask for certain things.
We often see that we have several apps in common when we do certain things like opening a link from WhatsApp with a company, or asking to edit an image from a camera app. Or even the messaging app wants to take a picture and doesn't know which app to throw. This is where the system asks us which app we can open to do what we ask, and this can be automatically set or changed if we were wrong or just want to change. We'll be distracted by default apps.
What are the default apps?
As we mentioned, the default apps are the ones we have set up so that the system knows where to go when we ask you to do something. For example, when we have two image editors in one place, such as Google images and program defaults or other options, we choose which one we always want to open when we request any part of one image to go into editing mode.
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If we don't have a default app for any specific action and there are several actions in the program, Android will ask us through a pop-up window which app we want to use. In that one window we can choose not to ask too much and always choose the application we want. For example, prioritizing Google Photos above the Shift app gallery. Or open the Instagram app instead of the browser when it clicks on the link.
How to set up default apps for Android
In a floating window itself pop up Android provides us with action when there are many ways we can set up an app. But this can be changed, even if we made a mistake, because we want to change the app or simply because we want the system to keep asking us because sometimes we use one at a time. Moving between these options is a must go to system settings.
We open it Settings and we consider the category of Applications. Perhaps our phone system (Samsung, Huawei, Xiaomi) offers many options for this, such as the availability of System requests and Applications, without much. We should always go to the Common section, often called Applications, without much, or "Manage applications". Inside we will find a list with all the installation on the phone.
With the default apps we can tell the system what to use when two similar functions are found
Once there, click on three straight points from the top right to open additional list options and there we will gain access to "Default requests ". We go in and experience the different options the system offers to set up the default app that makes our calls. Which app to open when we call the browser when you click on the link, or what phone dialer to turn on to make a phone call, or what voice the assistant should go to when we call it. It's all set here.
Each unlock option we can switch between available apps, if there are a few. It will be enough with select what we want the app to be by default so that the system knows what to do without having to ask us, it's very easy. But there is something far better than what we now tell you. Let's go with some quick apps.
What they are and how to configure the fastest apps on Android
Imagine that you installed the Amazon Shopping app on the phone, and that we want that when we click on the link to your website, the store opens. We want to skip Chrome or another browser and take it to the app. This can be done with faster apps, which also work from Chrome itself with the searches we do. And it can be fixed and can be done.
Quick apps are available in the list of Auto Applications we've previously accessed. The category commonly referred to as "Open Links" and when deciding whether we want specific browser links or other applications to open in the browser itself or an external application is requested. For example, that Spotify connection opens the app and doesn't take it to the web. Just go into these "Open Links" to get a list of installed apps and see what each of them does.
If we wish, we can disable these fast capture apps. It will be enough to make the divine transformation ineffective so that the system completely ignores them if that's what we want to do. Or, if not, allow the ones we marked earlier as default by accessing the app and checking "Delete default values" for Android to override it again. An example (again), is that Amazon links to the web and ignores the fact that the app is installed.
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