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35 Awesome & Incredible Tasker Profiles [Best]

Posted on the 03 October 2016 by Rahulthepcl

Tasker is one of the most widely used Android automation app that completely revolutionizes the very definition of Android phones. Using this application, you can automate almost everything in your Android OS. The wondrous functions offered by Tasker are only possible because of the Android operating systems vast versatility.

Although this app doesn't come for free, once you start digging more and more into the endless cool features offered by this app, you will begin to realize it's worth every paid penny. The cost of this app is $2.99. You can download it from this link.

What are Tasker Profiles?

Tasker profiles are the kind of triggered tasks that are made up of a set of actions. Your tasks can be automated function at some designated point, let us say at some particular time or some special days, using Tasker profiles as soon as the given conditions are met.

35 Awesome & Incredible Tasker Profiles [Best]

Listed below, are some of the top and important tasker profile:

1. Turn On Battery Saving Mode When You Have Low Battery

Using this profile, you can save some of your battery juice when you are running low on battery charge.

  1. Go to the profile. Select State.
  2. Now you need to choose the battery range as to when to enable this profile. Let us say we keep the range as 0-5.
This method might come handy when you are expecting some important calls while being on low battery.

It mostly happens with many of us that while laying down in bed and listening to some peaceful music we fall into deep sleep, only to keep the songs keep on playing on your phone. Well, Tasker profiles offer a solution for this. Using this pattern, you can stop the song or any other audio playback after some particular time.

  1. Create a new task and press the "+" button.
  2. Under cmd, select option stop.
  3. Now, we want to halt the song playback so we will choose the grid type square icon near the bottom right corner which is the music app.
  4. Upon being asked by the widget to link it to a task, select the sleep timer job created in the first step.

Trying to have a quiet, peaceful sleep at night but the non-stop messages and notifications from phone keep disturbing you? Well, this task profile activates the Silent mode on the phone at night, along with turning the Wi-Fi off and deactivating them in the morning.

  1. Click on "+" sign.
  2. Select the time limit for your night mode. For example, 24:00 to 07:00.
  3. Add a new task and click on "+" icon.
  4. Go to the created task again, and click on the net and turn off Auto-sync and Wi-Fi.
Now finally you can every day have a good sleep free from disturbances.

4. Keep The Screen On While Reading Any e-Book

Having to keep tapping on the phone screen continuously while reading an e-Book to maintain the display light from going off can be very irritating. With the help of Tasked, you can set an automated profile for keeping the screen light on every time you read an e-Book in your phone.

  1. Go tho profile and then navigate to Application.
  2. Select which all e-Book reader app you want to add under this category.
  3. Add new task.
  4. Click on "+" icon.
  5. Next step is to increase the Display time-out limit according to your desire.

5. Turn Phone Upside Down to Keep Your Phone in Silent Mode

While sitting in class or attending some important meeting sometimes suddenly our phone rings up this causing disturbance. To avoid such situations, you can simply use this tasker profile and just turn your phone upside down to stop it from ringing.

  1. Now, create a New Task. And, click on the "+" icon.
  2. To stop the phone from ringing select vibrate.
Next time onward, in situations where you don't intend your phone to ring up, just turn your phone upside down.

We all have a serial of using apps followed by another app. Every time we have to go to menu page of our phone and open the apps. Using these steps, this process can be made easier as one app after another will start opening themselves automatically.

  • Go to profiles, then navigate to "Application."
  • Here select the app that you want to open first, or you usually do open first.
  • Create a new task and click on "+" icon.
  • Now choose the second app that you want to open right after the first app.
  • Long press on the second app and click on the option "Move To exit."
  • Next time your apps will open up serially for you.

7. Play Music When Headphones Are Plugged

With this profile, you need not manually open your music playlist when you plug in headphones.

  • Go to profile and select "State."
  • Next step, go to "Hardware" and click on "headset plugged" then tap on "Any."
  • Create a new task and tap on the "+" icon.
  • Click on "App" and select on "Launch App."
  • Click on your music player app.
  • Now every time you plug in your headphones, your playlist will play automatically.

8. Shake Your Phone to Turn on Flash Light

  • Download Tesla LED flashlight.
  • Go to "Profile" in Tasker and click on "Event."
  • After that press "sensor" and click on "Shake."
  • Now choose your preference for axis, sensitivity, and duration.
  • Create a new task and tap on "+" icon.
This might be handy when the light goes off instantly and suddenly.

9. Send an Emergency Text

Sometimes when you are running on low battery, and you think of sending a text of urgency before your phone goes dead, this automated task profile might help.

  • Create a profile.
  • Select the battery level between 0-5%.
  • Create a new task and tap the "+" icon.
  • Now just enter the Phone number and type the message.
So next time whenever you are running low, and battery and your phone are about to be dead then automatically an emergency text will be sent to that particular number.

10. Turn On Auto-Rotate When You Open Some Apps

Some apps work better on the landscape mode like YouTube videos.

  • Create a new profile and select an application.
  • Choose an application that when being opened the Auto-Rotation should be turned on.
  • Create a new task and tap the "+" icon.
  • Set "Display Auto-rotate" to ON.
Now whenever you watch a YouTube video; the screen will automatically turn to landscape mode so you can enjoy watching your video correctly.

11. Read Out SMS While You are Driving

Looking at the phone while driving might lead to some serious accidental hazard. So this profile helps you read the SMS's out loud for you.
So from now on, no need to look at your phone to read texts and put yourself in harm's way.

12. Find The Exact Location Where You Parked Your Car In The Parking Lot

A long row of cars parked in a parking lot, and too many of them look familiar, and in such situations, it might become difficult for you to find out where exactly is it parked.
This might be helpful when your car is in a packed parking lot, or on an unfamiliar side street.

13. Decrease Your Phone's Brightness In The Morning

Waking up in the morning and suddenly facing high brightness of your phone, that's going to hurt much. So here's a solution to this problem.
In the Task Editor window, you can click on the Play button in the bottom right to preview the task. Then just press the green check button to save your job.

14. Notify When the Battery Is Charged

Overcharging your phone's battery can highly affect its lifetime. Moreover, sometimes we keep our phone plugged into the charger at night and somehow fall asleep and forget to plug it out when battery fills up. Tasker provides a solution for that.

  • Go to "Profile" and select "Event."
  • Click on "Power" and hit on "Battery Full."
  • Now just adjust the Battery limit priority according to your comfort. For example, you might adjust the priority as 'less than 30% and higher than 80%'.
  • Now create a new task & hit on the "+" icon.
  • Click on "Alert" and tap on "Notify Sound."
  • Type "Disconnect your charger."

15. Lock Your Applications

Why unnecessarily install another app for just locking your apps when you can have Tasker do it for you! Listed below, are the steps to do that.

Most of us usually prefer using Wi-Fi at home but when we once leave home we most likely change to our Mobile data connection as it is not possible to get Wi-Fi signal everywhere. Tasker helps in automating this process.

So by this process, your phone will automatically know when you are at the home and will make the Wi-Fi on.

17. Set Your Phone To Mute In Meetings

Having your phone ring up or vibrate while being in a meeting can become embarrassing. So with these steps, we can make your phone go mute during meetings.

Next time when you are in a meeting neither will your phone ring or vibrate.

18. Separate Button To Turn 3G Data On Or Off

Rather than having to go to your settings and turn off your mobile data, what if there was a separate button on your home screen for the same!

These above steps reduce the extra steps of going to Mobile settings every time to set your mobile data on.

19. Turn The Camera On With A Simple Gesture

If you want, then you can also set some other gestures like waving the hand or smiling, etc. The only change will be in step 4 and 5 when you Need to perform your desired gesture to get it recorded.

20. Speak Weather In The Morning

Using this profile, you can have your phone talk to you the weather every day at the same time.

  • Download the Profile from this link.
  • Install the Profile and click on the task and change the HTTP.
  • Type the address of your city and state so that you can get the weather for your location.

21. Build Your Phone - Finding Snitch Profile

22. Lock Phone By Shaking

How about locking your phone by just shaking it? Well here are the steps regarding how Tasker can do that for you.

With this method, you can remotely enable your GPS without any trouble.

Sometimes when you lose your phone, then we get apprehensive thinking about someone else getting to know about all the important details saved in our phone. By this method, you can remotely erase out all the data on your phone.

This process becomes helpful when somebody steals your phone, and you want to keep them off from peeking into any of the important details saved in your phone.

25. Forward or Bock Certain Calls During Night Time

Getting calls during resting hours sometimes gets on our nerves. So Tasker helps you by forwarding or blocking all calls during a period.

26. Disable Screen Lock when Camera is on

Sometimes while clicking pics if the screen lock timer runs out then our phone automatically locks up itself. To stop this, you need to create this profile.

  • Go to Tasker profile and click on "Application."
  • Then choose Camera from the collection of applications.
  • Create a new task and tap the "+" icon.
  • Click on "Display" and set the "screen timeout" to a very high value.

27. Bluetooth Auto-Answer

28. Disabling Keyguard When At Home

Having to enter you unlock code or keyguard pattern, even when you're at home or the office might be very annoying. So with this profile, you can disable your keyguard while being at such regular locations.

29. Enabling Keyguard When You Leave Office Or Home

  • Create a new profile with the name "Home."
  • Add a "WiFi Connected" state context item, with your home/office SSID.
  • Create a new task and go to "Display" & then select "Keyguard" and set it ON.

30. Read Out The Whatsapp Notification

In this tasker profile when you get a what's app notification while your display is off then your phone will read out loud that notification for you.

So with this even when your display is off you get to know your WhatsApp notifications without actually having to open and look into your phone.

31. Alert When Your Friends Try To Open Your Personal Stuffs

With this when any of your friend tried to open some of your apps like Facebook or what's app then they first get an alert beep and your home screen pops up rather than the app being opened.

  • Create a new profile .
  • Go to Application and Select all your private apps
  • Create a new task and set action 1 as go to home screen.
  • Now go to Alert and select beep.

In next step go to flash and enter your desired message which you want to flashed on your phone screen.

When someone else tries to open up certain locked apps in your phone with multiple unsuccessful logins then, a discreet selfish will be clicked.

33. Speak Up When Battery Is Low

When battery level goes below a certain specified level then, a particular song will be played to Alert you and battery saver mode will be activated.

34. Automatically Turn on GPS/Bluetooth/Wi-Fi for MAPS App

That's all of the Tasker tricks and tips we have. Have better luck creating this profiles and take your device to an another level of automation.

35. Switch Between Random Wallpapers In A Folder

Looking at the same old wallpaper on your phone screen might get dull enough, yet we always forget to change our wallpapers. What if we could use Tasker to make it happen automatically for us? Well, that is possible.

var files = listFiles(randoimagefolder, false).split("\n");

var number = Math.floor(Math.random() * (files.length));

setWallpaper(files[number]);

    Now add some Images into the folder and then create a profile which shows when the wallpaper should change.
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