https://scoredapps.com/blog/Guides, comparisons and best lists for Android and iPhone from ScoredApps.en Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/transfer-whatsapp-android-to-iphone/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/transfer-whatsapp-android-to-iphone/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamThere is exactly one official way to carry your WhatsApp history from Android to an iPhone, and it only works during the iPhone's first setup: Apple's Move to iOS app, with the same phone number on both devices. That single condition is what catches most people out, because an iPhone you have already set up has to be erased first. Your Google Drive backup will not help here either, since an iPhone cannot read it. Below is the order that works, what actually arrives on the new phone, and what to do when the transfer stalls halfway.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/stop-spam-calls-and-texts/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/stop-spam-calls-and-texts/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamYou cannot make spam stop arriving, but you can make it stop ringing. On an iPhone the two switches that matter are Silence Unknown Callers and Filter Unknown Senders; on Android it is Filter spam calls in the Phone app, which sends suspected spam straight to your call history with no ring and no missed-call notification. Both take under a minute and both have the same side effect, so the order below sets them up in a way that does not cost you a call from a delivery driver or a doctor's office.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/stop-free-trial-before-it-bills/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/stop-free-trial-before-it-bills/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamCancel the trial the day you start it. On an iPhone that is Settings, your name, Subscriptions, and Apple's own instruction is to cancel at least 24 hours before the trial ends; on Android it is the subscriptions list inside Google Play, and Google notes that a payment hold can appear up to 48 hours before the renewal date. Both stores let you keep using the service until the free period runs out, so cancelling early costs you nothing. The part that catches people is a trial that was never bought through a store at all.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/screen-record-with-sound/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/screen-record-with-sound/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamBoth phones record the screen without an extra app, and on both the sound is a separate choice you make before you start. On an iPhone you add Screen Recording to Control Center and long-press the button to switch the microphone on; on Android you pull the shade down twice, tap Screen record, and pick whether it captures device audio, your microphone, or both. Get that choice wrong and you end up with a silent clip you have to shoot again. Here is the exact route on each, plus why some apps come out as a black rectangle.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/recover-deleted-photos/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/recover-deleted-photos/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA deleted photo is not gone for 30 days on either platform. On an iPhone it sits in the Recently Deleted album, which Apple locks behind Face ID or Touch ID; in Google Photos it sits in the bin, and Google's help states the same 30-day window applies whether or not the item was backed up. After those 30 days, both companies say the same thing: it cannot be restored. So the first move is never a recovery app — it is opening the right folder before the clock runs out, and the steps below take under a minute on each phone.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/permissions-to-revoke-new-phone/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/permissions-to-revoke-new-phone/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamDo not go through permissions app by app — go through them permission by permission. Both platforms have a screen that lists every app holding a given permission, and reading it that way takes ten minutes and exposes the things you would never have looked for: the game with the microphone, the shopping app tracking you in the background. Android calls it the permission manager, Apple splits the same idea across Privacy and Security. Work down this order — location, microphone and camera, contacts, then tracking — and the phone is set up properly before you install anything else.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/iphone-system-data-storage/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/iphone-system-data-storage/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamSystem Data is the grey bar at the end of the iPhone Storage screen, and it is not a bug you can delete in one tap. Apple describes it as space taken by system files, which in practice means caches, logs and buffers that apps left behind. You shrink it by removing what created it, in this order: take the three recommendations iOS offers you, offload the apps you never open, move photo originals into the cloud, then reinstall whichever single app is holding the most. Below is what each step actually frees, and what to do when the bar refuses to move.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/find-lost-phone-switched-off/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/find-lost-phone-switched-off/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA phone with no signal is not automatically a phone with no location. Both Apple and Google run crowdsourced Bluetooth networks — Apple's Find My network and Google's Find Hub — where other people's phones quietly detect yours and report where they saw it, no internet connection on your device required. What decides whether this works for you is a setting you had to switch on before you lost it. Here is what to do in the first ten minutes, what each network can and cannot see, and the two switches to check tonight on the phone you still have.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/block-someone-everywhere/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/block-someone-everywhere/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamThere is no single switch that blocks a person everywhere, and anyone selling one is selling nothing. What works is an order: block the phone number first, then each app they can still reach you in, then close the two routes people forget — group chats and the new account they make afterwards. None of these apps tells the person they were blocked. WhatsApp states that plainly, and the others behave the same way. Below is the order that leaves the fewest doors open, and what each block actually stops.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/app-store-google-play-refund/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/app-store-google-play-refund/Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamBoth stores refund, and neither makes it obvious. On an iPhone you do it at reportaproblem.apple.com, not in the App Store app, and Apple says to allow 24 to 48 hours for an answer. On Android you do it inside Google Play itself, where a self-service refund is available for 48 hours after the purchase; after that the request goes to the developer. Neither store refunds a charge that is still pending, and neither cancels a subscription just because you uninstalled the app. Here is the exact route on each platform, and what to do when the first request is turned down.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-minecraft-realms-is-a-subscription/https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-minecraft-realms-is-a-subscription/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMinecraft Realms is a subscription when the game costs $6.99 once because you are not buying more game — you are renting a computer. A Realm is a private server Mojang keeps running 24 hours a day so your friends can enter your world from any device while your phone is off, and a machine that never sleeps has a monthly electricity, bandwidth and backup bill that a one-time price cannot cover. The two Bedrock plans are $3.99 a month for you plus two players and $7.99 a month for you plus ten, the latter bundling Marketplace Pass; both include three world slots, automatic backups and a one-month free trial for new subscribers. Nothing in the $6.99 game is locked behind it: local multiplayer, joining other people's Realms and public servers all cost nothing.Explainers https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-instagram-darkens-photos/https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-instagram-darkens-photos/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamInstagram darkens your photos because it takes the brighter, wider picture your phone shot and squeezes it into a narrower one for upload. A modern iPhone or Pixel captures in HDR and a wide colour gamut, and its own Photos app displays that extra brightness; Instagram's pipeline converts most uploads to standard dynamic range and the sRGB colour space, then compresses them, and the highlights that made the photo glow are flattened into midtones. The result looks dimmer, flatter and a touch more muted than the original — not darker in the exposure, but darker in the sense of having lost its top end. One setting reduces the loss: Settings and privacy → Data usage and media quality → Upload at highest quality. It cannot restore what the format conversion removes.Explainers https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-facebook-suggests-friends/https://scoredapps.com/blog/explainers/why-facebook-suggests-friends/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamFacebook suggests the friends it does because People You May Know is built from five documented signals, not from reading your mind: friends in common, your networks (current city, school, work), shared Facebook groups, being tagged in the same photo or post, and the phone and email contacts you or other people uploaded. That last one explains most of the unsettling suggestions — the plumber you texted once, the ex's new partner — because a suggestion can come from someone else's address book containing your number, not from anything you did. Meta's help pages say you cannot permanently hide the module from your Feed, only temporarily, but you can remove individual suggestions, delete uploaded contacts, and limit who can find you by phone number or email.Explainers https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/tiktok-vs-youtube/https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/tiktok-vs-youtube/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamTikTok if what you want is a feed that fills ten minutes without asking you anything; YouTube if you also want the long video, the music and the live streams, and can live with the advertising. On our scores it is 7.5 to 7.4, and the tenth hides two different problems: TikTok's is data — eleven collected categories, cross-app tracking and a €530 million European fine — while YouTube's is the advertising load, which 172 million Android reviewers have scored at 3.8. Both are free; TikTok sells coins from $0.29, YouTube sells Premium at $20.99 a month in the app and several dollars less in a browser. Prices as of September 2026.Comparisons https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/tiktok-vs-instagram/https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/tiktok-vs-instagram/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamTikTok if the feed is the point; Instagram if the people are. On our scores it is 7.5 to 7.1, and the gap is weight and messaging: Instagram's iPhone install has grown to 607 MB and its Reels tab now behaves like a rival to TikTok's feed, but much of its traffic is direct messages, which TikTok is not built around. Both score 4.0 for privacy — the joint lowest in our catalogue — for different reasons: TikTok's eleven data categories and a €530 million European fine, Instagram's fourteen categories and a teen-harm settlement reported at $16.7 billion. Both are free with adverts; the only subscription is Instagram's badge at $14.99 in the app or $11.99 on the web, as of September 2026.Comparisons https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/solo-leveling-arise-vs-wuthering-waves/https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/solo-leveling-arise-vs-wuthering-waves/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamWuthering Waves if you want an open world to move through and fights won by parrying; Solo Leveling: Arise if you want the combat itself — dodge timing, combo counters, bosses raised as shadow soldiers — and nothing else in the way. They tie at 7.2 on our scores, and the tie is honest: both have an 8.5 for gameplay, both give the full story away, both list loot boxes, and both score in the lowest monetisation band we use — 4.5 and 4.0. What separates them is shape and Android. Wuthering Waves is a 3.6 GB world with a $4.99 subscription; Solo Leveling is a 2.8 GB arena with a $18.99 pass and a Google Play rating of 3.8 across 719,000 reviews, the widest platform gap in our catalogue. Prices as of September 2026.Comparisons https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/minecraft-vs-roblox/https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/minecraft-vs-roblox/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMinecraft for anyone who wants one game bought once and then left alone; Roblox for anyone who wants a different game every evening and accepts a shop inside each of them. On our scores it is 8.1 to 7.5, and the gap is what money does: Minecraft costs $6.99 and never gates progress, with Realms at $7.99 a month as an optional server; Roblox is free to install and most of its popular experiences sell shortcuts and cosmetics for Robux, with a $4.99 subscription that includes no currency at all. The other line between them is age: since January 2026, Roblox keeps chat locked until a face scan or ID check passes, while a child Microsoft account in Minecraft starts with multiplayer off until a parent enables it. Prices as of September 2026.Comparisons https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-remove-ads-solar-smash/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-remove-ads-solar-smash/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamAdverts in Solar Smash are removed by one in-app purchase — AdFree, listed at $3.99 on the App Store as of September 2026 — bought from the game's shop and restored on any other device with the same store account through Restore Purchases. There is a second route that costs nothing: the simulation runs offline, and adverts need a connection, so a phone in airplane mode plays Solar Smash without a single interruption. What does not work is any bundle you might expect to include it: the All Weapons Pack at $9.99 and the planet packs add content, not silence. Below are both routes, how to restore the purchase on a new phone, and the one case where the adverts come back.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-roblox-account/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-roblox-account/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA Roblox account is deleted from the account's privacy settings — the Delete option under Account data, deactivation & deletion — and Roblox's support page adds two conditions: the account must have a verified email address, and Roblox "will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling your request." There is a softer alternative on the same screen, Deactivate, which hides the profile and can be undone by logging in again. Deletion cannot: it is the only way to have Roblox erase the personal information it holds, and it takes the avatar, the Robux and every purchase with it. Below is the route from Roblox's own page, what to do before pressing it, and what to do if you cannot log in.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-reddit-account/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-reddit-account/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA Reddit account is deleted from inside the app — on iPhone, avatar → menu → Settings → Support → Delete account; on Android, avatar → menu → Settings → Account settings → scroll to the end → Delete account — and confirmed with your password, or a six-digit code if the account was made with a phone number and never given one. Reddit's help page adds three facts that change what you do first: deleting the account "doesn't delete any posts or comments you've made," it "won't cancel your subscription" if you have Premium, and once done it "can't be reactivated" — the username is gone for good, and the deletion process itself starts within 90 days. Below are the steps and the order to do them in.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-geometry-dash-account/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-geometry-dash-account/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA Geometry Dash account is deleted on the Account Manager website, which the game opens from Manage Account in its account settings — RobTop's FAQ answers the question in one line: "You can delete your account from the Account Manager website." Two things make it unusual. The $3.99 game itself is not the account: the levels and the editor keep working with no account at all, so deleting only removes what the account holds — your uploaded levels, comments, friends and cloud save. And RobTop's moderators cannot do it for you; the FAQ states the team "cannot manage your account," so the website and the email you registered with are the only route. Below is the process, what to save first, and the recovery-email trap.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-fortnite-account/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-delete-fortnite-account/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA Fortnite account is an Epic Games account, and it is deleted from the account settings page at epicgames.com/account: scroll to Delete Account, confirm, enter the security code sent to the linked email, pick a reason, and the account is disabled on the spot. Epic's help page gives two clocks — you can reactivate within 14 days simply by logging in, and the deletion becomes permanent after 30 — and one warning worth reading twice: every purchase, item and piece of progress goes with the account, and nothing is refunded. On iPhone the same request can be started from the game's own settings. Below are the exact steps from Epic's page, what to do before them, and the child-account route.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-clear-firefox-cache-on-phone/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-clear-firefox-cache-on-phone/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamOn Android, Firefox clears its cache from the three-dot menu: Settings → Delete browsing data, tick Cached images and files, tap Delete browsing data. On iPhone the path is the menu → Settings → Data Management, where each type of data has its own switch: leave only Cache on and tap Clear Private Data — Mozilla's help page warns the action cannot be undone, so check the switches first. Neither route touches your bookmarks, and neither signs you out unless cookies are included. Below are the exact taps for both platforms, from Mozilla's support articles, the way to clear a single site instead of everything, and the switch that empties the cache every time you quit.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-zoom-workplace-pro/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-zoom-workplace-pro/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamWhere you bought Zoom Workplace Pro decides where you cancel it. Bought inside the iPhone or Android app, it is an App Store or Google Play subscription, and Zoom's support page is blunt that "the Cancel Plan option won't appear in the Zoom web portal" — you cancel it in Apple's or Google's subscription list. Bought on zoom.com, it is cancelled in the web portal: profile picture → Plans and billing → Cancel Plan → confirm, and the Zoom mobile and desktop apps cannot do it. Either way the plan runs to the end of the paid term, no refund is generated, and cloud recordings survive 30 days after it ends. Pro is $16.99 a month or $159.99 a year through the app as of September 2026.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-tiktok-subscription/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-tiktok-subscription/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA TikTok subscription — almost always a LIVE subscription to a creator — is cancelled where it was bought. Subscribed inside the iPhone app, it is an Apple subscription and ends in Settings → your name → Subscriptions; inside the Android app, in the Play Store's subscription list; on tiktok.com with a card, in the website's Settings under LIVE Subscriptions with a Cancel Auto-Renewal button. TikTok itself does not run a subscription for the app — the feed is free with adverts — so the only recurring charge attached to it is a creator's monthly tier, and the perks last until the end of the period you already paid for. Below are the three routes, and how to tell which one is yours.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-planet-fitness-membership/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-planet-fitness-membership/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamA Planet Fitness membership is cancelled at your home club — in person at the front desk during staffed hours, or by a letter sent to that club by certified mail — and only some clubs also offer cancellation online through the member account in the app or on planetfitness.com. Phone and email are not accepted anywhere in the chain. The app itself is only a companion: deleting it changes nothing, and the Crowd Meter will keep working until the membership actually ends. Below are the three routes, the two fees that catch people — the $49 annual fee and the buyout on minimum-term contracts — and how to time the cancellation so neither is billed after you leave. Prices as of September 2026 and vary by location.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-minecraft-realms/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-minecraft-realms/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMinecraft Realms is cancelled from inside the game: Settings → Subscriptions → Cancel next to the Realm, which sends you to the store that bills you — Apple, Google or Amazon on a phone — to turn off recurring billing. Mojang's help centre is explicit that the subscription "needs to be canceled through the same account used to start the subscription," so a Realm started on an iPhone cannot be cancelled from an Android phone or a PC. The Realm stays open until the renewal date, and the world is not deleted when billing stops. Below are the exact routes for each store from Mojang's own pages, and what happens to the world afterwards. Realms Plus is $7.99 a month as of September 2026.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-linkedin-premium/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-linkedin-premium/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamLinkedIn Premium is cancelled where it was bought. Bought from LinkedIn itself, the route is Me → Premium features → Manage subscription → Purchases in the Admin Center → the active subscription → Cancel subscription → Confirm cancel. Bought through the App Store, LinkedIn's help page says to use your Apple device and the LinkedIn app, which hands off to Apple's subscription settings; bought through Google Play, it can be cancelled from the LinkedIn app, the website or the Play Store. Two rules from LinkedIn's page decide the timing: cancel "at least one day before your next scheduled billing date," and know that a paid plan runs to the end of the cycle while a free trial ends immediately. Premium Career is $29.99 or $39.99 a month, Business $69.99, as of September 2026.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-avatar-world-subscription/https://scoredapps.com/blog/guides/how-to-cancel-avatar-world-subscription/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamAvatar World sells no subscription of its own — every item on its App Store listing, from the $9.99 Avatar Pass to the coin packs, is a one-time purchase — so a recurring charge from Pazu Games is Pazu+, the developer's subscription to its whole catalogue, bought in one of its other apps or on pazugames.com. Pazu's own FAQ describes Pazu+ as "full access to over 50 Pazu Games, ad free, on up to 3 devices," and adds the line that matters here: since 1 January 2025, "Avatar World packs will no longer be included in the Pazu+ subscription." So the subscription you are paying for buys nothing in this game. It is cancelled where it was bought — Apple, Google or the Pazu account — and the steps are below.Guides https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/fortnite-vs-minecraft/https://scoredapps.com/blog/comparisons/fortnite-vs-minecraft/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEditorial TeamMinecraft for a game you buy once and play anywhere, including with no signal; Fortnite for the game your friends are in tonight, free, with everything that matters included. On our scores it is 8.1 to 7.6, and the gap is not the games — Fortnite's gameplay mark is 9.0 to Minecraft's 10 — but what surrounds them: Minecraft is $6.99 with no gates, Fortnite is free with a V-Bucks ladder that hides two packs strictly worse than the ones beneath them, and Fortnite asks for up to 4.5 GB against Minecraft's 1.6. Both share a world with console and PC players; both put touch controls against gamepads, and both lose that fight. Prices as of September 2026.Comparisons