eight tweaks that will improve your phone

We all have (or we should have) a ritual to do as soon as the phone arrives. Configure it, install our apps, leave it to our liking, etc. Today I want to share with you eight tweaks I make to improve the Android experiencethat setup time I spend when I’m going to use a mobile as my personal.

These settings are valid for all Android phones, regardless of the personalization layer installed. They serve both to speed it up and to make your overall experience a bit better.

First, I set the footprint several times

Virtually all Android phones come with a fingerprint reader, either under the screen or on the power button. In the initial setup wizard, it will allow you to “add more” when you add the first fingerprint. I always register the right thumb and the left thumb several timesand it is that this simple trick helps a lot to improve accuracy.

In fact, if you get a phone with a somewhat slow fingerprint reader, as was the case with the Google Pixel 6, adding the fingerprint a second time makes it faster. It’s not a miracle trick, but it always helps.

I adjust the launcher grid

Either out of laziness or because we do not know this option, we can often end up with a grid of applications that does not convince us. Study how to change the grid of your launcher and leave it to your liking. On some phones you can configure it from the options of the launcher itself, and on others there is a submenu in the settings called “home screen”.

I take the damn vibe off

Vibrations on Android can be annoying if we leave them enabled by default. Personally, that each key vibrates, that each time I operate a gesture it vibrates, or else the rest of the system’s microvibrations make me quite nervous, so I only leave it active for calls.

By the way, if your mobile doesn’t need to vibrate for everything you do with it, you will save an interesting percentage of batteryeven more in mid-range and high-end terminals with powerful haptic engines.

I turn off notifications that I don’t need

If there’s something you don’t usually do that’s essential to being calmer, it’s turn off notifications for apps I don’t need. It’s common for a wallpaper app to prompt you to download some, for a bank to send you notifications with loan offers, and for a game to tell you that you can play again after recharging the power supply.

From the settings section and its notifications, completely disable notifications or those you don’t need of those non-essential applications. You will save battery, resources and dislikes.

Gestures if the screen is flat, buttons if it is curved

Gestures on Android still have a small problem: sometimes the back gesture is confused with that of invoking the side menu of apps. If the panel is flat there is usually no problembecause it’s no problem to bring our finger to the edge and make the gesture.

However, when I am with a mobile that has a curved screen, I configure the virtual buttons, since I avoid problems. Just type “gestures” in the settings search bar and configure what you prefer.

I set the screen off time

Most phones, to save power, come with a screen timeout set to 30 seconds or one minute. It’s very little if you want to read a document carefully, or if for some reason you don’t want the panel to turn off so soon.

I order status bar quick settings

Another of the parameters that some users do not know, because the icon to discover it is very small, is that of move status bar shortcuts. WiFi, auto-brightness, GPS, and even performance modes on select phones. It is important to leave the status bar to your liking

I change the animations if it’s not too fast

I only do this if I’m going to set up a rover that isn’t too powerful or fast. In Android we can change the time of animations, to reduce it by half and that the phone gives us a feeling of greater agility. For this, you will need to enable Developer Options.

• open settings
• Go to “About Device” or “About Phone”
• Click the build number seven times
• Search for “Developer options” in the settings search engine

Now from here just set animations to 0.5xin “animation scale”.