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What's a great phone app or feature most people don't know about?

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For mine?
Double press power button to go straight to camera.
Long press volume up to skip forwards in poddies, skip tracks in music.
These might be Motorola only features.
For most models and brands: Island app so you can run two copies of the same app with separate or sandboxed settings, without having to swap users.
- If you didn't set those up yourself it might be a model thing to have those by default. On my Moto G 5G the power button thing isn't bound by default. Though the volume button media thing is set for when the screen is off. There's a section in the settings for gestures with all of them.
  Options for my model at least have a couple cool "kinetic gestures" as they call them. If you hold the phone in one hand and make 2 quick chopping motions it'll turn on the flashlight, if you instead twist your wrist back and forth twice quickly that'll open up the camera. Both work even if the phone is locked.
  Might have to look into that island app though.
  
  They're tracking your wrist, bro! They probably have years of wrist-data on you.
  
  I had to think way too long about what you said there to finally get it. Sometimes I'm way too ace for the internet I swear. I sat here for several minutes like "What the heck do they mean? They're just looking for a specific pattern in the phone's gyro sensors and accelerometer. Why would that be interesting?"
  It threw me a little. And I even thought it might have been a dirty joke but I couldn't find it because in my mind if you're using your phone for that you're trying to keep it as steady as possible. Gods I'm dumb.
  
  Yeah I have the chopping torch thing too. Quite handy.
  I probably tinkered with the settings when I bought it (g84) so they might not be defaults.
  
  G84 did have that along with ability to show clock on movement. It was quite handy to check for possible notifications too by just nudging the phone while it is sitting on the table.
  I don't have that feature now in Edge Stylus.

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