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Mail of the month - July - Defaults and a checklist

Fakebook Pro is importing any PDFs I try to view on my phone e.g. if I try to view a PDF attached to an email.  How do I stop that? This is actually an Android setting, and not controlled by each app: when clicking a PDF file your device has a default for opening it. In this case with the Fakebook Pro app, probably because you choose that default at some point (there is a dialog asking if you want to use the app "once" or "always"). In any case, you should be able to reset this default in the Android Settings app. Open that and look for the "Apps" section, in that section look for Fakebook Pro and  click it. There should then be a "Open by default" subsection, in which you can clear any defaults or selectively set whether to open, not open or ask for an app every time. On some devices (e.g. Samsung), this may look slightly different, but the general idea is the same. On my Samsung G7 Edge there is a "Clear Defaults" button for th...