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How to enable or remove safe mode on Android phones

Barely a day goes by when we aren’t heavily using our smartphones for a variety of activities. No matter which line of work you may be in, you cannot really do without a mobile device anymore. But amidst all this rush of texts, calls, UPI payments and more, have you started noticing that your smartphone has started to stagger a wee bit? It could also be more than that too. Whatever the cause may be, having a smartphone that is running on fumes is really not an ideal situation. What do you do then? Should you simply go and buy a new one? But, that could be expensive! Before you even start thinking about getting a new phone, we suggest that you start looking at some solutions that are closer to home. If you are someone who has an Android phone, then there’s good news for you. You can try out the features of the safe mode on your smartphone. Want to know what is this Safe Mode on phone?

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Here is our blog to help you know what is safe mode in phone. By the end of this blog, you will be able to understand the utility of the safe mode in Android phone, restart your phone in safe mode and how to turn off safe mode on Android phone too. Keep reading!

What is Safe Mode on phones?

When your Android smartphone is not working too well, crashing, freezing, or showing any signs of under-performance, then the safe mode feature can help you out. The key feature of this mode is to help your smartphone fix itself. Therefore, you do not have to undergo the entire ordeal of getting your phone fixed from the service centre. Or worse, being forced to buy a new phone altogether.

The safe mode restarts your Android device in a mode where all the third-party apps are disabled. Furthermore, the widgets in your phone are also turned off. Basically, your phone enters a mode the way it would be if it was completely new. Once you have enabled safe mode on your smartphone, and it starts working, then you will know there is an issue with one of the third-party apps on your device.

After that you can very easily run a troubleshoot and see which of the apps is causing an issue. Finally, after you have solved all the issues, you can turn off the safe mode on the phone and start using the device normally once again.

How to turn on the Safe Mode in an Android phone?

Follow these steps as we have mentioned to know how to start phone in safe mode.

  1. First of all, you need to switch your off your smartphone. Doing this is easy, and you have probably done the same multiple times before. Simply press the lock screen button on the side of your phone and switch off your device.
  2. Now that the device has been turned off, you will have to restart it once again. But wait, while you are holding the power button to restart the phone, also press the phone’s volume down button.
  3. Make sure that you are holding on to the volume down button until the animations go away.
  4. After this, you will notice that your smartphone has restarted in the safe mode.
  5. Do note that Airplane Mode gets automatically activated when you switch on the phone in safe mode.

Thus, you have now turned on the safe mode in your Android device.

How to turn off Safe Mode on Android phones?

Now, if you want to turn Android phone safe mode off, then you will have to follow these steps:

  1. Restarting your smartphone is easy. Just press the power button for 30 seconds and your phone will be back to normal. Or you could also just hold on to the power button until the phone restarts.
  2. You should also keep in mind that all Android smartphones are not alike. However, the overall process still remains the same.
  3. In case, you see the phone isn’t restarting when you have held on to the power button, then there is another way. Simply hold on to the power button along with the volume button for a while. Your phone will switch on.

How to troubleshoot your smartphone in the safe mode?

The main reason of putting the Android device in the safe mode is that you are looking for ways to fix the device. Therefore, now you have to take an active step in finding out what is really wrong with the device. Hence, once the smartphone has the mode enabled, you will have to start using your phone normally. If you start seeing that the phone is completely smooth, not freezing or crashing at all, then the problem is with an external app that you have recently downloaded. In case the problem does not go away, then it is not an issue with the third-party apps.

However, let us say the phone is working smoothly in safe mode. In that case, restart your phone normally. After it switches on, start deleting each of your recently downloaded third party apps. After you delete an app, restart your smartphone once again and check if there are any issues. If you notice that the device is working fine, then your smartphone is working fine too. However, if not, then you will have to continue this whole process until your phone is finally fixed.

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