Android Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most from Your Phone

Android Tips and Tricks

Android is a strikingly amazing, creative versatile working framework that regularly jumps Apple's iOS in new innovation support. 5G, NFC installment, custom consoles… the rundown goes on. The entirety of that cutting edge usefulness makes for a perplexing, rambling OS, however. At the surface level, the interface is straightforward enough for easygoing clients—who simply need to message, settle on decisions, and utilize their applications—yet secret a layer or two somewhere down in the interface are a wide range of force client settings and devices. You simply need to realize where to look.

We need you to have the option to utilize Google's portable OS like a chief, and our rundown of ideas and easy routes can assist you with doing precisely that. These are just a portion of the manners in which you can exploit Google's OS—there's such a profound rundown of provisions that you'll almost certainly discover more. Make certain to look at our rundown of the best Android applications, as well, and go ahead and toll in on our remarks segment at the lower part of the article. We might add them to future updates of this story!

1. Uninstall Apps You Don't Need

Most Android telephones accompany a solid aiding of preinstalled applications. Many will be invited by almost everybody—maps, email, program, etc.—yet there are without a doubt some you don't need or need. In case you're simply not a webcast individual, you needn't bother with a digital recording application. Also, telephone sellers will in general incorporate their very own lot applications that you may never have to utilize. Essentially long-press an application's symbol and afterward select the I section to get to its detail page where you can uninstall it.

Lamentably, there are some stock applications you can't uninstall. For instance, on the off chance that you just use Firefox or Edge as your internet browser, you actually can't uninstall Google's Chrome program. For those applications, you can basically pick Disable, which will conceal them from the interface and let loose framework assets.

2. Utilize Digital Wellbeing Features

It's not the best thing on the planet to remain up the entire evening messaging and room scrolling. Android 11's Bedtime mode is essential for the Digital Wellbeing highlight. In addition to the fact that it silences your telephone at a set time, it additionally changes the screen to highly contrasting, on the off chance that you do need to take a gander at the screen night-time. There's a Pause choice in the dropdown menu on the off chance that you need additional time prior to resigning. In case you're searching for more rest tips, you should peruse our component on how tech can help (and damage) your rest.

One more suggested Wellbeing highlight is Focus mode, which quiets boisterous applications' notices. A few telephones, including late Pixels and Motorolas, turn on Do Not Disturb mode when you put them down with the screen looking down—a fast and simple approach to get alleviation from aggravations. At long last, utilizing Work Profile shrouds every one of those useful applications when it's an ideal opportunity to unwind.

3. Alter Quick Settings

One thing I'm not obsessed with within Android is that the Quick Settings require two swipes to show more than one column—and surprisingly after you do that, you actually have two pages of them. You can ensure that the settings you need frequently are there in the principal swipe-down line. Just hit the pencil symbol, and you can add valuable apparatuses like Focus mode or Dark mode switches.

4. Redo Message Notifications

Android 11 allows you to pick message warnings so that a few contacts are more noticeable, and discussions stay together. You would now be able to set messages to show up on top of some other running applications as air pockets. You essentially turn them on in Settings and set the contact to Priority. Inside a warning, there's some other setting for Bubbles with three choices: All Conversations Can Bubble, Selected Conversations Can Bubble, and Nothing Can Bubble.

5. Hamburger up Storage

A significant benefit of Android over iPhones is that some telephone models permit you to build stockpiling with a microSD card. In addition to the fact that this lets you store more media and applications on your telephone, yet it likewise offers an approach to move a lot of record information between your telephone and different gadgets. Another benefit is that you can plug some Android telephones into an outside USB stockpiling drive and peruse its records. On the off chance that your telephone has a USB-C port, you can basically connect a USB streak memory drive with a Type-C association.

6. Double Tap the Power Button to Open the Camera

In contrast to the iPhone—which does, nonetheless, remembers a camera symbol for the lock screen—most Android telephones let you twofold tap the force catch to turn on the camera. Fast camera access is fundamental for catching those escaping minutes. You can likewise utilize volume keys to center and make the effort. Long-press on either to begin a video recording.

7. Use Screen Pinning

This is an extraordinary trip from our companions at ExtremeTech.com: If you need to hand your telephone to another person and don't need them nosing about in other applications, simply pin the screen. In case this isn't empowered naturally, you can turn it on in the Security menu. Tap the application symbol on any application in the performing multiple tasks interface and select "Pin" to keep them from exchanging applications. You can secure exchanging applications by requiring your telephone PIN. Note that the application symbol in the application exchanging view likewise allows you to part the screen, stop the application's notices, and see its data.

8. Record Screen Activity

With Android 11, Google added worked in screen-recording ability solidly into the OS. Already, Samsung, LG, and OnePlus proprietors had the ability, yet presently any telephone running Android 11 gets it. It's easy to utilize: You simply pull down the top shade and pick Screen Record > Start Recording. You get decisions for showing contact focuses and recording sound or not. To quit recording, pull down the shade again and tap the huge red bar. It had exactly the intended effect in our testing, delivering a standard MP4 document in the photograph display.

9. Turn on Find My Device

On the off chance that you lose your telephone or it gets taken, both versatile OSes have highlights that assist you with finding it on a guide. That, yet these additionally Find My administrations let you cripple the telephone, wipe it, and play a sound on it. Apple's versatile working framework goes somewhat further by allowing you to show your number or one more message on the screen of the lost gadget, something we're not sure why Google hasn't added.

10. Control Your Smart Home with Your Android Phone

With rendition 11, Android made controlling shrewd home gadgets simpler. In the event that you long press the force button, a screen with large fastens for controlling your lights and different gadgets shows up. For everything to fall into place, you need to set up the gadgets in the Google home application and—alternatively—make a space for the gadgets.

11. Use Battery Saver Mode

Android offers much more power over battery-saving choices than the iPhone does. Not exclusively would you be able to empower Battery Saver mode and have it consequently turn off when the telephone is charged, yet you can likewise utilize the Adaptive Battery highlight, which broadens battery life dependent on your use designs. You can likewise set a timetable for Battery Saver mode and have that consequently picked dependent on your utilization or when you hit a predefined level of charge.