You can enhance efficiency and lengthen battery life with just a few easy Android tweaks.
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No matter which Android telephone you are utilizing — Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, OnePlus, Motorola or others — it got here from the manufacturing unit loaded with predetermined settings that management the way it operates. While many of those default settings may match for some customers, altering just a few of them can shortly optimize your Android telephone.
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However, it is advisable know the place these settings are and what they will do for you earlier than you begin configuring them. We’ll undergo settings that will allow you to enhance your battery life, clear up the muddle on your own home display screen, discover a stolen or misplaced machine and get higher efficiency out of your Android smartphone.Note: Not all Android units are the identical and telephone producers usually put their very own software program on prime of Android, so simply remember that sure settings could also be lacking or in a special place relying on the model of Android you are operating and the maker of your telephone.

An overly vivid show will drain your battery extremely quick. 
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Settings to enhance battery life Living with a telephone that has poor battery life may be infuriating, however there are some steps you may take to maximise every cost proper from the very starting: 1. Turn off auto display screen brightness or adaptive brightness and set the brightness degree slider to beneath 50%. The brighter your display screen, the extra battery energy it makes use of. To get to the setting, pull down the shortcut menu from the highest of the display screen and regulate the slider, if it is there. Some telephones might have a toggle for auto brightness within the shortcut panel; in any other case, it is advisable open the settings app and seek for “brightness” to search out the setting and switch it off.2. Use Adaptive Battery and Battery Optimization. These options give attention to studying how you utilize your telephone, together with which apps you utilize and when, after which optimizing the apps and the quantity of battery they use.  Some Android telephones can have a devoted Battery part within the Settings app, whereas different telephones ( you, Samsung) bury these settings. It’s somewhat completely different for every telephone. I like to recommend opening your settings and trying to find “battery” to search out the proper display screen. Your telephone might also have an adaptive charging setting that may monitor how shortly your telephone battery costs in a single day to protect its well being.Dark mode is your buddyAndifferent method to enhance battery life whereas additionally serving to save your eyes is to make use of Android’s devoted darkish mode. Any Android telephone operating Android 10 or newer can have a devoted darkish mode possibility. According to Google, darkish mode not solely reduces the pressure that smartphone shows trigger on our eyes but additionally improves battery life as a result of it takes much less energy to show darkish backgrounds on OLED shows (utilized in most flagship telephones) than a white background.  Depending on which model of Android your telephone is operating, and what firm made your telephone, you might have to dig across the settings app to discover a darkish mode. If your telephone runs Android 10 or newer, you can activate systemwide darkish mode. If it runs Android 9, do not despair. Plenty of apps have their very own darkish mode possibility within the settings that you need to use whether or not or not you have got Android 10.  To flip it on darkish mode, open the Settings app and seek for Dark Mode, Dark Theme and even Night Mode (as Samsung likes to name it). I recommend utilizing darkish mode on a regular basis, however for those who’re unsure, you may all the time set darkish mode to routinely activate based mostly on a schedule, say from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. day-after-day, or enable it to routinely swap based mostly in your location on the time of sundown and dawn. Using darkish mode on any telephone is a straightforward and handsome strategy to save battery. 
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Keep your own home display screen freed from muddle Planning to hit up the Google Play Store for a bunch of recent Android apps? Be ready for lots of icon muddle on your own home display screen, which is the place shortcuts land each time you put in one thing. If you don’t need that, there is a easy method out of this: Long-press on an empty space of your own home display screen and faucet Settings. Find the choice labeled one thing alongside the traces of Add icon to Home Screen or Add new apps to Home Screen and switch it off.  Presto! No extra icons on the house display screen whenever you set up new apps. You can nonetheless add shortcuts by dragging an app’s icon out of the app drawer, however they will not seem on your own home display screen until you need them to. Read extra: Best Android Phones You Can Buy in 2022Arrange Do Not DisturbIf your telephone routinely spends the evening in your nightstand, you in all probability don’t desire it beeping or buzzing each time there is a name, message or Facebook alert — particularly whenever you’re making an attempt to sleep. Android presents a Do Not Disturb mode that can preserve the telephone kind of silent throughout designated hours. On some telephones, that is known as the Downtime setting and even Quiet Time.Head to Settings > Sounds (or Notifications), then search for Do Not Disturb or an identical identify. If you may’t discover it, seek for it utilizing the built-in search characteristic in your settings.Using the characteristic, you may arrange a variety of hours whenever you wish to flip off the digital noise. But don’t be concerned, any notifications you get whereas Do Not Disturb is turned on will nonetheless be ready for you whenever you get up. Also, you may sometimes make an exception that permits repeat callers and favourite contacts’ calls to undergo. Turn that on. If somebody is asking you in an emergency, odds are they’ll preserve making an attempt.What somebody who finds a misplaced or stolen Android telephone will see after you utilize Find My Device to lock it. 
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Be ready for those who lose your telephone Is there something worse than a misplaced or stolen telephone? Only the data that you could possibly have tracked it down for those who had turned on Google’s Find My Device characteristic. To set your self up for a profitable restoration, this is what it is advisable do: Open the Settings app after which seek for Find My Device. It’s normally within the Security part of the Settings app. Or if in case you have a Samsung machine, you need to use Samsung’s Find My Mobile service present in Settings > Biometrics and safety > Find My Mobile.  Once that is enabled, you may head to android.com/discover from any PC or cellular machine and register to your account. Samsung customers can go to findmymobile.samsung.com to discover a misplaced telephone.  Losing a telephone is rarely a enjoyable expertise. 
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If you run into any bother setting any of this up, remember to learn by means of our full information to discovering a misplaced Android telephone. Assuming your telephone is on and on-line, you need to be capable of see its location on a map. From there you can also make it ring, lock it, set a lock display screen observe to inform whoever has it find out how to get it again to you or, worst-case situation, remotely wipe the entire thing. There’s much more to study a brand new telephone, after all. If you have got a telephone with Android 12, which was launched final fall, this is what it is advisable find out about downloading, compatibility and new options. And for those who’re already on Android 12, listed here are a number of hidden options you need to find out about.

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