My mother-in-law is not very technological, although she uses several applications daily and is relatively efficient. However, she is still a little afraid of Android and every time I meet her she has homework for me: to help you update apps.
Every time the phone asks her to update this or that, she gets stuck and without the initiative to accept something that she is not sure what it is, even if it is very simple. Taking advantage of the moment, I usually put into practice quick optimization, about five minutes, so that the mobile phone, which is an entry-level Samsung Galaxy, can breathe a little easier. That’s what I do.
Update anything scalable
As I mentioned before, the main problem he has is with updates, because somehow he doesn’t understand why the apps or the system needs to be updated so frequently. It’s even worse when are there more mysterious updates such as system updates or security patches. Even if the process is just pressing a button and waiting for the mobile to restart, it does not dare.
If you dare doesn’t have the patience to wait for it to endWell, it’s a Samsung Galaxy A13 and it has a lot of power, so a system update might take several minutes. If the cell phone doesn’t respond quickly, she gets nervous and eventually turns it off with the verdict “it doesn’t work.”
In short, every time I have his cell phone in my hand, the first thing I do is check for system and application updatesnot so much for the new features they bring, but to avoid future problems in which an application asks for an update to continue using it or ignores a system update and gets a little scared again.
Remove spam notifications from websites
On the way to update the applications I usually encounter a notification panel full of notifications, the vast majority of which are useless. For example, this is direct spam from a website or store that you once visited and accepted notifications by mistake.
Since I am, I take the opportunity to turn off notifications for websites I visit, although if the problem gets worse, I will probably choose to eliminate them all at once. It’s all to free up the notification panel and ensure important messages don’t get buried.
Calm down a little, Pinterest
Speaking of unnecessary notifications, I can’t help but mention Pinterest, which is one of my mother-in-law’s favorite apps. With Pinterest, you entertain yourself by viewing all types of content but in exchange, Pinterest sends an excessive number of notificationsso much so that 90% of the notification panel can be minimized by pin suggestions etc.
Sure, you can configure Pinterest to reduce notifications, but that doesn’t make things any easier either. As time passed, I left block different categories of notifications with notification channels, although it will surely be necessary to remove all notifications at some point. It will have to be amputated.
Clear cache and unnecessary files
Deleting the cache on a mobile phone that has just a little power is a double-edged sword, because after that it will go a little slower having to regenerate the cache every time you open a new application, but taking into account of that too it’s a bit tight in terms of storage spaceI would say it’s worth it.
Of course, instead of going one by one, I use the Samsung maintenance to do a quick cleaning. When his cell phone wasn’t Samsung, he did it by cleaning Google Files. Just a little cleaning and that’s it.
Restart to end session
Eventually, a reboot never hurts. Half because, who knows, when was the last time the phone was rebooted and the other half as a placebo. In the end, there’s not much difference between before and after she gave me the phone, but after someone takes a quick look at it, at least she can rest assured that it works too although possible.
In essence, I simply do a quick little interview which takes no more than five minutes and should help reduce my mother-in-law’s friction with her Android phone and avoid “scares” later. So far I haven’t had any complaints about the service.
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