If, for example, you’re trying to visit Twitter.com to adjust a web-specific setting, you’ll automatically be redirected to the app. And that holds for just about any app that has a web presence, too. Potentially causing significant problems for those few that do have different online and offline features. Fortunately, with Android, you do also have the option to put a stop to that for any individual application. And, of course, if you make a mistake in setting those features to your liking, it’s easy enough to set all of the apps back to their default settings on Android too. That is, in fact, exactly what this guide sets out to help you accomplish. Like nearly all of our how-to guides for Android, this walkthrough will work for both Android tablets and phones. So let’s dig in.
Here’s how you can reset your default apps on Android
Now, the problem with accidentally or unknowingly setting default apps in Android is that it’s not always easy to know which app was set. And while it’s easy enough — and this guide will show you how — to reset a single app, going through all of your apps can be a hassle. Especially if you have dozens of apps installed. Or hundreds. Fortunately, there’s a solution for that too. Although it does require that all defaults are reset. So you’ll need to set up the defaults you do want all over again, afterward.
Remove default settings for a specific app
Reset all of your apps’ settings back to default.
Be aware of what really happens when you reset all of your app preferences
Now, as hinted above, resetting all of your app preferences does far more than just resetting which apps open what by default. So it’s important to understand what, exactly, is being reset. To begin with, the setting will, in fact, reset all of your apps back to default settings. That means that apps you’ve previously set up not to open by default will again. And a whole lot more. The setting also resets any app notifications changes that you’ve made. So if you’ve set apps not to notify you, you’ll need to do so again. And the same goes for permissions restrictions, background data use restrictions, and more. That will potentially leave you with a lot of settings to set up all over again, depending on how in-depth you’ve gone with your device set-up, to begin with. All of which is to say that you should probably not reset all of your app preferences to their default settings unless you absolutely need to. Resolving any issues you may be having within the settings of a single app, as shown in the first segment here, is the more viable option for most circumstances.
