10 most read articles of 2021 on Androidworld

Yesterday you read the most read reviews of the past year and this time it’s the turn of all the other articles. Which articles have you spent the most time on Androidworld in recent months? You will discover it in this annual overview.

1. Read deleted messages in WhatsApp

You will soon notice that you will hear more about WhatsApp in this article. Using the Notification History Log app, we discussed in April how you can still read the content of deleted apps. If you take into account the reactions of that article, you will notice that this is a very much discussed article, but at the same time it was the most read article of the year.

2. Fear of Inactive WhatsApp Accounts

There was a lot of talk this year about WhatsApp’s new privacy policy, and people have started using Signal and Telegram en masse for a while out of dissatisfaction. At one point there was talk that WhatsApp would deny users access if they do not agree to the privacy terms, but the app eventually abandoned that.

3. You can’t know who is looking at your WhatsApp profile

Sure enough, WhatsApp also closes the top three this year. In this article we made it clear that there is no way to know who has looked at your WhatsApp profile, even if rogue apps claim otherwise. You can see when a message has been viewed or who has seen your status in the messaging app. .

4. Crashing Apps

In March, a bug caused apps to crash for a lot of Android users. We helped you move forward with a solution that was fortunately easy. Because this has affected so many people, this was one of the most read articles of the past year.

5. Secretly Read WhatsApp Messages

The words ‘secret’ and ‘WhatsApp’ fit well together in 2021. In this article, we discussed three different ways you can read an incoming WhatsApp message without showing it to the other person. Get to know the ‘official way’, the ‘easy way’ and the ‘sneaky method’.

6. End of Free Photo Storage

The feast of free and unlimited photo storage came to an end in 2021. Google Photos will now refer users to its paid Google One service. Fortunately, there are also users who can continue for some time with the solid 15 GB storage that they have received with their Google account.

7. Pay in WhatsApp

WhatsApp will inevitably have an integrated payment solution in the near future, also in the Netherlands. Meta uses its Novi payment service for this, which works on the basis of stable crypto coins. In this article we explain how that system works and we tell the turbulent history of its creation.

8. 2021 parliamentary elections

This year the Netherlands went to the voting booth and the rest is history. We explained how to follow the polls and the latest posts using different apps.

9. Malware Apps

Google Play Protect is a tool that scans the million Play Store apps daily for threats. It has been proven several times that it works, but sometimes malware slips through the cracks of the net. In April, we warned you about eight rogue apps that you should remove from your phone right away.

10. New to Google Maps

This year saw the announcement of a bunch of powerful new features for Maps. in this article we are talking about a system that reports the pressure in public transport and about the new ‘Insight’ part in the timeline. There is also a ‘Travel’ section where you can discover where you’ve stayed and which restaurants you’ve eaten at.

Which articles did you find interesting this year? Did a specific review article help you a lot? Let us know in the comments at the bottom of this article. The editors and the entire Androidworld team wish you a happy new year.

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