How to lock apps on Android
Private Space, Secure Folder, app pinning, or an app lock with a PIN, pattern or fingerprint.
Guides
Android how-to guides
Step-by-step Android guides for everyday jobs: locking apps, sorting out storage, managing apps and contacts, and taking a break from your phone. Each guide shows the built-in Android way first, then the steps with Applore.
Privacy
Privacy guides for Android
Keep private apps, photos and passwords to yourself, with your phone's own tools or with Applore.
Pro
Stop someone uninstalling your app lock
How device admin makes an app harder to remove, and what it cannot do.
How to hide photos and videos
Locked Folder, Safe folder, Secure Folder, or Applore’s Vault Gallery (Pro).
Set up password autofill
Choose an autofill service, add logins and back them up to your own Google Drive.
Files and storage
Files and storage guides
Find what is taking up space and remove what you do not need, without a cleaner app.
Find and delete duplicate files
Find exact copies across folders and review them before you delete anything.
Search files by name, date or size
Find a file you saved weeks ago, or the biggest files on your phone.
Free up storage without a cleaner app
Android’s storage settings, duplicates, large files and unused apps.
Apps
App guides
Remove apps you no longer use and keep a copy of the ones you might want back.
Uninstall multiple apps at once
The Play Store’s Manage apps screen, or Applore’s multi-select with space to free.
Back up an app's APK
Save an app’s installer to your phone or your own Google Drive, and what it does not include.
Find apps you never use
Android’s Unused apps list, auto-archive, and screen time per app.
Contacts
Contacts guides
Tidy up your address book and keep a copy you control.
Find and merge duplicate contacts
Google Contacts’ Merge and fix, Samsung Contacts, or Applore’s Duplicate Contacts.
Back up contacts to Google Drive
Save a vCard file to your phone or your own Google Drive, and restore it later.
Focus
Focus guides
Spend less time in the apps that pull you in.
Set app time limits
Set a daily time limit for any app.
Use focus mode
Block distracting apps while you focus. Schedules need Applore Pro.
Your phone
Guides for your phone's hardware
Check a phone before you buy or sell it.
Test your phone's hardware
Manual tests for the flashlight, speakers, sensors, vibration, fingerprint sensor and buttons.
Check a used phone before buying
A checklist of what to look at before you pay.
Safety
Safety guides
If you think someone may have access to your phone, the safety guides are written separately, calmly and step by step.
Read them at your own pace, and leave the page at any time.
Go to the safety guides