# Useful Things: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-27, Useful Things has 551,000 subscribers, 76,333,341 total views, and 234 videos. It ranks #138,494 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [Useful Things](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for Useful Things is “Your Android Phone Has a 60Hz Refresh Rate Even with 120Hz Enabled - Turn this On”, a long-form video published Oct 23, 2026.
- These are Useful Things’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Jun 9, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026 (46 long-form videos and 2 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 33,204. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Everyone Who Uses Banking Apps on Android – Turn Off These 5 Settings” (884,249 views, Aug 21, 2026). Least viewed: “How to Clone an SSD or HDD in a Few Clicks” (2,639 views, Jul 20, 2026).
- Median length: 5:25 for 46 long-form videos.
- In this sample, Useful Things’s consecutive uploads were a median of 3 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 8 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 27, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Your Android Phone Has a 60Hz Refresh Rate Even with 120Hz Enabled - Turn this On](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/s9B0owym-xg/) | 2026-10-23 | Long-form | 31,815 | 2:38 | 3.13x |
| [Your Battery Drains Even Faster When You Charge Your Phone Correctly — Do This Instead!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/P9LR_eRQx3M/) | 2026-10-20 | Long-form | 34,593 | 7:13 | 1.17x |
| [How to Create Exactly the Video You Want in Topview AI — No More Random Results](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/91mklS7RJl8/) | 2026-10-16 | Long-form | 5,276 | 7:14 | - |
| [Google Turned On All This on Your Phone — It’s Killing Your Battery! Turn It Off!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/HCoA31cvAhU/) | 2026-10-15 | Long-form | 164,066 | 8:39 | 6.27x |
| [Unlock Windows 10/11 Without a Password or USB Drive in Just 1 Minute!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/28OWC4dvoFg/) | 2026-10-13 | Long-form | 12,386 | 1:43 | - |
| [99% of Banking App Users Have This On — Turn It Off on Your Phone!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/qWIesqWLJ2c/) | 2026-10-07 | Long-form | 98,663 | 6:28 | 2.87x |
| [Turn Off YouTube Shorts Permanently on Phone and Computer](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/XJOhQ1BJ1OY/) | 2026-10-05 | Long-form | 23,090 | 2:35 | - |
| [95% of YouTube Users Have These 5 Dangerous Settings Turned On — Turn Them Off Now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/qAbkfFPBT7o/) | 2026-10-02 | Long-form | 417,976 | 4:41 | 6.85x |
| [Right Now, Chrome Is Eating All Your RAM on Your Windows PC — Turn This Off!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/6QmPwCwsd0c/) | 2026-09-30 | Long-form | 28,220 | 3:25 | - |
| [Turn Off This App Google Installed on Your Phone Without You Knowing!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/4zc4ffvX3Tk/) | 2026-09-29 | Long-form | 28,778 | 5:47 | - |
| [Turn On Super-Fast Internet On Your Android Phone!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/chICtJ55lXc/) | 2026-09-24 | Long-form | 41,514 | 2:53 | 1.52x |
| [Hollyland LARK M3 Review – Professional Features for Under $110](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/P25cdCel0DI/) | 2026-09-22 | Long-form | 7,389 | 7:10 | - |
| [How To See What A Person Visited On Their Phone — Messages, Incognito & More](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/fl4HkpITWNE/) | 2026-09-21 | Long-form | 21,447 | 6:23 | - |
| [Google Keeps Filling Your Phone Storage — Turn On Auto-Cleanup!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/RB0a8T-Q2Sg/) | 2026-09-17 | Long-form | 81,337 | 2:16 | 2.97x |
| [They Added a New Parasite to Your Browser for Advertising — Turn It Off!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/f6s9zWtaTro/) | 2026-09-14 | Long-form | 84,041 | 3:06 | - |
| [Every YouTube User, Do This Before Watching YouTube!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/5ta6W_1MQcI/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 81,365 | 2:21 | 2.96x |
| [Every Samsung User, Turn This Off.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/ZMQc6z3ND-E/) | 2026-09-02 | Long-form | 109,415 | 6:00 | 1.13x |
| [Turn Off These Useless Windows Services to Speed Up Your PC!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/_E6LWOWU2E4/) | 2026-08-31 | Long-form | 35,169 | 8:03 | - |
| [Google Secretly Installed a New App on Your Phone Again — Check It Now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/EhDWMrAYw2g/) | 2026-08-26 | Long-form | 184,487 | 3:50 | 2.88x |
| [Everyone Who Uses Banking Apps on Android – Turn Off These 5 Settings](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/5QETPBLr6zM/) | 2026-08-21 | Long-form | 884,249 | 6:52 | 22.34x |
| [How to Enlarge the Battery Percentage and Icon on Your Phone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/x0ZecR2CoQU/) | 2026-08-14 | Long-form | 707,904 | 3:04 | 21.46x |
| [This New Feature Can Recover Your Deleted or Lost Photos on Your Phone.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/jMB4q0WYRwg/) | 2026-08-13 | Long-form | 17,618 | 4:34 | - |
| [This Wireless Microphone Under $50 Is Incredible – Hollyland Lark A1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/bcSztTFUw2U/) | 2026-08-12 | Long-form | 22,496 | 5:37 | - |
| [Scammers Use This App To Steal Your Money — Delete It](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/9ui2_UR5JBE/) | 2026-08-10 | Long-form | 136,582 | 5:40 | 4.64x |
| [Developers Didn’t Tell You They Installed a New App on Your Phone. Uninstall IT](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/gIx9lYK3EAA/) | 2026-08-07 | Long-form | 84,371 | 5:36 | 3.25x |
| [Stop paying monthly fee for Cloud Storage.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/xIjpYkp96vw/) | 2026-08-05 | Short | 3,891 | 0:48 | - |
| [Stop Paying Monthly for Cloud Storage – Store Your Files Without Monthly Fees.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/AciwHzzl0G4/) | 2026-08-05 | Long-form | 3,850 | 6:21 | - |
| [7 Warning Signs a Spy App Is on Your Phone: How to Remove It in 2026](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/YKTmSU-mqCc/) | 2026-08-04 | Long-form | 43,745 | 8:39 | 2.02x |
| [How to Recover Deleted Photos and Videos from an SD Card and What Can Be Recovered?](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/nMWDdMxjSEQ/) | 2026-08-01 | Long-form | 2,725 | 6:52 | - |
| [Turn This On to Speed Up Your Internet by 5 Times on Your Phone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/RNbBP-fakEE/) | 2026-07-31 | Long-form | 35,436 | 2:15 | 1.3x |
| [Don’t Use WhatsApp Until You Do This With Your Phone Number](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/_iPqTQh3Wgs/) | 2026-07-29 | Long-form | 30,549 | 3:01 | - |
| [Turn Off These 3 Hidden Sensors on Your Android Phone](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/0U68SvzZwe8/) | 2026-07-26 | Long-form | 28,266 | 2:23 | 1.03x |
| [These 3 Settings Allow Thieves to Steal Your Phone – Change Them](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/FcZCeS9BIek/) | 2026-07-23 | Long-form | 23,589 | 5:25 | 2.01x |
| [Delete These 3 Hidden Folders on Every Windows 10 or 11, YOU’LL BE SURPRISED](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/83tx1u7Lld8/) | 2026-07-21 | Long-form | 22,380 | 3:03 | 2.01x |
| [How to Clone an SSD or HDD in a Few Clicks](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/_3u3lsITc24/) | 2026-07-20 | Long-form | 2,639 | 6:20 | - |
| [Everyone Who Has Play Store, Turn This Off](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/OGIVvgCxtGE/) | 2026-07-17 | Long-form | 123,295 | 5:17 | 1.56x |
| [Most YOUTUBE Users Ignore This… Big Mistake!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/ahGAjnBF-lY/) | 2026-07-13 | Long-form | 34,803 | 2:56 | 1.27x |
| [How to Restore Deleted Files from the Recycle Bin with Disk Drill](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/hUnnkshRDR4/) | 2026-07-10 | Long-form | 2,716 | 6:22 | - |
| [Recover deleted files from Recycle Bin with Disk Drill](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/rSGoDtUo6hY/) | 2026-07-10 | Short | 4,016 | 0:20 | - |
| [How to Disable Shorts and AI Short Videos on YouTube](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/W-8egcqrtwQ/) | 2026-07-07 | Long-form | 248,916 | 3:52 | 2.76x |
| [This AI Desktop Planner Ziea ONE Reminds You About Everything You Need to Do Today](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/0_r3uYGRXuA/) | 2026-07-04 | Long-form | 314,542 | 6:45 | 3.23x |
| [You Always Uninstall Apps Wrong in Windows 10 & 11 — Leaving Tons of Junk. Delete It Now.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/5EHvYbr59RE/) | 2026-07-03 | Long-form | 11,586 | 4:08 | - |
| [Create Viral AI Videos for YouTube & TikTok (No Camera Needed)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/YnTlLYCuioM/) | 2026-07-02 | Long-form | 2,679 | 5:31 | - |
| [Android Users – A New Ad Parasite Was Installed on Your Phone. Disable It.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/C6F6ajdz8aE/) | 2026-06-26 | Long-form | 304,002 | 4:13 | 3.38x |
| [Don’t Answer Phone Calls Until You Turn This On](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/Ud9GsDQI6kc/) | 2026-06-19 | Long-form | 161,673 | 5:25 | 4.73x |
| [I Tested Whether You Can Unlock an Android Phone Without the Password](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/c1HE61ExsaQ/) | 2026-06-17 | Long-form | 8,100 | 7:31 | - |
| [How to Enable Convenient Mode on Android to Enlarge Status Bar Icons](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/X19J94wi84E/) | 2026-06-16 | Long-form | 130,973 | 5:39 | 3.83x |
| [Lock Your Private Photos on Android — Before They See Them](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@usefulthings-ht5ju/videos/pokEe6et5oI/) | 2026-06-09 | Long-form | 19,288 | 3:05 | - |

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