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There are a wide range of apps available that allow you to optimize your phone so that it better fits your needs. There are apps to help you maintain privacy and track your phone to help you boost your security as well as apps for watching movies, archiving data, keeping a schedule, tracking your sleep patterns, finding reading material, playing  Springbok casino bonus games and much more.

Some of the best apps for both Android and iOS phones include:
 

Cell Phone Trackers

Regardless of whether you run a multi-billion dollar business or simply use your phone to stay in touch with family members and friends, chances are that you rely on your phone and would be devastated if you lost it. Yet phones are small and mobile and they’re easy to lose. That’s why you may want to get a cell phone tracker.

Cell phone trackers involve hardware or, for an app, software that will track down your cell phone’s location on demand. There are multiple types of cell phone tracker apps including both installed software or online services.

Many phones already have a pre-installed software that was installed when the phone was manufactured. There is also third-party software for added security that adds layers of security including saving and downloading contacts remotely.

Cell phone trackers work by activating a GPS tracking system that will pinpoint the phone’s location. Since GPS uses satellites to find the item’s location, it can signal down to the receiver that was installed on the phone. Once the signal is received a calculation can be made about the device’s location.

iPhone users also have a Find My iPhone app that ensures that, if you misplace or lose your phone you can find it, send a message to it, lock it or erase everything on it. It’s available at the Apple Store for free.

Passcode Lock

There are a number of third-party apps that can help secure  the data on your phone. Apple doesn’t offer locking tools in the Apple App Store for iOS devices but aside from relying on the individual apps themselves but almost all iOS phones manufactured today come with pre-installed Touch ID and Face ID recognition that must be activated in order for the phone to be useable.

Android allows you to install an app locker so you can block access to any app that you want to secure. There’s a passcode that allows the user to gain access and some apps have additional face recognition and fingerprint sensors. One of the most reliable of these apps is the Norton app lock which is free. It allows you to lock apps with either a pattern drawn on the screen or a passcode. To use it you tap the apps that you want to protect with the pattern or passcode. You can recover the pattern/passcode using the Google account that’s linked to the Android device.

Google Suite

The Google Suite is a free download on Android or iOS devices and gives you access to your gmail account along with all of the other Google apps that you use on your desktop and/or tablet device.  You can access your Google docs, excel sheets (spreadsheets), the Google calendar, your photos, contacts, business pages, collections, slides and presentations and much more and work collaboratively alongside these apps as they appear on your PC.

All of the changes that you make to these apps on your phone will appear on your PC and vice versa.

WAZE

Unless you stay at home 24/7 you’ll find WAZE to be one of the most helpful and time-saving apps ever. It’s a navigation app that directs you to wherever you want to go both through voice directions and via a map that appears on your screen. It also directs you to travel in a way that helps you avoid traffic jams and alerts you to roadblocks and police radar cameras that are ahead of you on the road.

Once you input the address to which you want to travel you’ll be able to simply follow the directions as the app speaks them to you.  If, for any reason, you miss the instructions WAZE will recalibrate and give you updates on how to revise your travel plans so that you get back on track.

Health App

The Health App is a free app that monitors your general health and related elements of your life such as your nutrition, the number of steps that you walk daily, the quality of your sleep and more. The Health App works with systems that are already used in the medical profession so that your data integrates into the health records system, allowing your health care team to review the data archived in your app.

Clap! Phone Finder

Landline telecommunications companies continue to profit off of people who keep their landline for no other reason than they need to call their mobile phone when they misplace it. With the Clap! Phone Finder app, if you can’t find your phone but you know that it’s somewhere around, you just clap your hands and the phone produces a sound that makes its location easily identifiable.

Moovit

Moovit is the best transit app operating in the world today. If you need to get reliable information about any type of public transit, check the Moovit app to find out which form of public transportation goes where and when, which transfers you’ll need to make, etc. Moovit constantly updates schedules and tracks changes.