5 Hilarious Android Phone Pranks You Should Try on Your Friends
You shouldn’t have to wait until April Fools' Day to prank your friends. These five hilarious tech pranks are sure to make your friends scratch their heads. Do note that we’re using a Samsung Galaxy phone, but most of these pranks can be done on any Android phone. Let’s begin.
1. Slow Down Your Friend’s Phone
The first prank is to make their phone incredibly slow to the point where it’s absurd. One way to do this is by slowing down device animations. Follow these steps:
You can also slow down their device by making their phone require an absurdly long time to register a long-press. We do this by increasing touch and hold delay. Follow these steps:
Do note that not all Android phones allow setting custom touch and hold delay, so this prank may or may not work on your friend’s device.
2. Mess Up the User Interface
The next prank is to mess up the user interface of their phone. There are a number of ways to do this. For instance, you can invert system colors, set a random color correction mode, and increase font size to a ridiculous extent. Here’s how to do all this:
it’s possible to alsocustomize the Quick Settings panelin a random order, like so:
you could even hide their favorite apps from the app drawer by going toSettings > Home screen > Hide appsand selecting their most used apps and tappingDone.
And just in case you’re feeling extra naughty, you can also make the app icons tiny so they’re hard to see. Third-party Android launchers usually have an option tochange app icon shapesand sizes, but they also change the look of the UI, so your friend might immediately spot what’s wrong.
On Samsung phones, however, you can do this with theGood Lock customization appwhich preserves the look and feel of One UI, so your friend will never know what went wrong. Follow these steps to perform this prank on Samsung phones:
You can alsoapply icon packsand set incorrect icons for all their apps.
3. Spam Their Phone With Your Funny Selfies
While you’re making a mess of your friend’s phone, why not also spam your funny selfies in it? Here are three ways to do this which we like the best.
Firstly, set your funny selfie as their contacts' profile picture:
Next, set your funny selfie as their video call background image:
Lastly, set your funny selfie as their Gboard theme:
And you’re done! As soon as they begin typing, get a call, or accept a video call, they’ll see you making a face—greeting them hello in the funniest way possible.
4. Mess Up the Audio and Calls
So far, you’ve screwed up their device animations, app icons, system colors, background images, and more. To add a cherry on top of this, you can mess up their audio and calls.
To do this, go toSettings > Accessibility > Hearing enhancementsand turn the Connected audio slider all the way to the left or right to create a sound imbalance while listening through headphones. You can also toggle onMute all soundsinstead so they can’t hear anything.
you’re able to also go toSettings > Privacyand toggle offMicrophone accessso they think their mic is broken. You can also swap contact names in the Contacts app; they’ll inevitably find out about it, but seeing their initial panic of calling the wrong person is more than worth it.
5. Rename Paired Devices
Go toSettings > Connections > Bluetoothand toggle it on. You’ll see a list of their paired devices. Tap on the settings icon and tapRename. From here, you can let your creative loose and think of all sorts of funny names for their earbuds, smartwatch, and other paired devices.
For instance, you can rename their earbuds as “Peer Pressure Pods” and their smartwatch as “Low-Battery Belt” or something similar.
Android Pranks to Mess With Your Friends
You can use all these pranks to have some harmless fun with your friends, but do make sure to reverse all of these settings after you’re done making a fool of them so their phone starts working like normal again.
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