Change these settings in your new Android cellphone. 
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If you simply acquired a brand new Android cellphone, you are in for a deal with. Android customers usually tout their platform as superior to the iPhone’s iOS, due to its flexibility and limitless customization choices — and in my view they are not unsuitable.  Android has lots to supply with regards to options and settings. We usually spend a whole lot of time speaking concerning the prime options of telephones just like the Note 10 or Pixel 4 XL, however there are some issues it’s best to do within the first couple of minutes after unboxing a brand new cellphone. We’ll information you thru squeezing each little bit of battery life out of your new machine, taking preventative steps within the occasion of a misplaced or stolen cellphone and protecting your property display freed from pointless litter.

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Settings to enhance battery life Living with a cellphone that has poor battery life might be infuriating, however there are some steps you may take to maximise every cost proper from the very starting: 1. Turn off auto display brightness and set the slider to beneath 50%. The brighter your display, the extra battery energy it requires. Pull down the shortcut menu from the highest of the display and regulate the slider.  Some telephones even have a toggle for auto brightness within the shortcut panel; in any other case, you will must open the settings app and seek for “brightness” to search out the setting and switch it off. An overly vivid show will drain your battery extremely quick. 
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2. Use Adaptive Battery and Battery Optimization. Google first launched each of those options in Android 9.0 Pie: They give attention to studying how you utilize your cellphone, understanding which apps you utilize and when, after which optimizing the apps and the quantity of battery they use.  Some Android telephones may have a devoted Battery part within the Settings app, whereas different telephones (taking a look at you, Samsung) bury these settings. It’s just a little totally different for every cellphone. I like to recommend opening your settings and trying to find Battery. Your outcomes ought to get you to the appropriate display. Using darkish mode on any cellphone is a straightforward and handsome approach to save battery.  Dark mode is your pal Another means to enhance battery life whereas additionally serving to save your eyes is to make use of Android’s devoted darkish mode. We first noticed indicators of a real darkish mode with the discharge of Android 9, however Google went all-in with the discharge of Android 10 in late 2019. According to Google, darkish mode not solely reduces the pressure that smartphone shows trigger on our eyes, but it surely 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 cellphone is operating, and what firm made your cellphone, you could have to dig across the settings app to discover a darkish mode. If your cellphone runs Android 10, you’ll activate systemwide darkish mode. If it runs Android 9, do not despair. Plenty of apps have their very own dark-mode possibility within the settings that you should use whether or not or not you may have Android 10.  To flip it on, open the Settings app and seek for Dark Mode, Dark Theme, and even Night Mode (as Samsung likes to name it). I counsel utilizing darkish mode on a regular basis, however if you happen to’re undecided, you may at all times set darkish mode to robotically activate based mostly on a schedule, say from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. day-after-day. One key advantage of Android is a clutter-free homescreen. 
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Keep your property display freed from litter Planning to hit up the Google Play Store for a bunch of recent Android apps? Be ready for lots of icon litter on your property display, which is the place shortcuts land each time you put in one thing. Thankfully, there is a easy means out of this: Long-press on an empty space of your property display and faucet Home settings. Find the choice labeled one thing alongside the strains of “Add icon to Home Screen” and switch it off.  Presto! No extra icons 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 litter up your property display until you need them to. DND offers your thoughts an opportunity to take a break from the fixed onslaught of notificaitons. 
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Set up Do Not Disturb If your cellphone routinely spends the evening in your nightstand, you most likely don’t need it beeping or buzzing each time there is a name, message or Facebook alert — particularly whenever you’re making an attempt to sleep. Thankfully, Android presents a Do Not Disturb mode that may preserve the cellphone kind of silent throughout designated hours. On some telephones, that is known as the Downtime setting and even quiet time. Bottom line: Head to Settings > Sounds (or Sounds and notifications), then search for Do Not Disturb (or the suitable title). Using the function, you may arrange a spread of hours (normally nighttime) whenever you wish to flip off the digital noise. But don’t fret, any notifications you get whereas DND is turned on will nonetheless be ready for you whenever you get up.  Also, you may usually make an exception that enables repeat callers and favourite contacts’ calls to undergo. Turn that on. If somebody is looking you in an emergency, odds are they’re going to preserve making an attempt. What somebody who finds a misplaced or stolen Android cellphone will see after you utilize Find My Device to lock it. 
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Be ready to lose your cellphone Is there something worse than a misplaced or stolen cellphone? Only the data that you would have tracked it down if you happen to had turned on Google’s Find My Device function. To set your self up for a profitable restoration, here is what you have to do: Open the Settings app after which seek for Find My Device. It’s normally within the Security part of the Settings app. Or in case you have a Samsung machine, you should use Samsung’s Find My Mobile service present in Settings > Biometrics and safety > Find My Mobile.  Once 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 search out their misplaced cellphone.  Losing a cellphone isn’t a enjoyable expertise. If you run into any bother setting any of this up, remember to learn by our full information to discovering a misplaced Android cellphone. Assuming your cellphone is on and on-line, it’s best to have the ability to see its location on a map. From there you may make it ring, lock it, set a lock display be aware 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 find out about a brand new cellphone, after all. If you may have a brand new Google Pixel 4, strive these hidden options. Or if you happen to’re into greater telephones, the Note 10 is sweet and filled with enjoyable options. Android 10 units have a brand new means of getting round that depends on navigation gestures you will must study. Don’t neglect to transfer Google Authenticator whenever you get a brand new cellphone, and if you happen to’re not sure which apps you need to have,listed here are our prime Android app picks for 2019. 

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