Simple Tips And Tricks To Use Your Android Smartphone More Efficiently

Android tips are a little trickier to offer than iPhone tips, for so many reasons. There are so many tricks which users can apply when operating or using their android smartphone.

I’ve tried to keep these tips as universal as possible. read after the cut

1) Customise, customise, customise

In my opinion, the very best part about being an Android user is the fact that you can mess around a lot with your phone to make it your own. Many readers wrote in to say that they like using custom keyboard apps on their Android phones.

But there’s a whole world of customising apps out there available exclusively to Android phones. For example, you can choose to change the way your very home screen looks, or how your apps are organised by using something called an app launcher.

2) Embrace all of Google
Another key advantage of the Android life is that there’s a lot of integration if you’re a Google user. The core apps such as Gmail, Calendar, Photos and others should work seamlessly with your phone. Google’s voice assistant is just an “OK Google” away.

A particularly nice feature in the latest version of Android (Marshmallow) is Google Now on Tap, which sort of acts as a Google-powered footnote to whatever you’re reading tap a word and you’ll get a Google search about it.

But even if you don’t have Marshmallow, you can run a Google search on any phrase on any website in Chrome by highlighting text. A small window should slide up from the bottom of the screen, and tapping it will initiate a search. You don’t even have to leave the page you’re on. You can also turn this off in Chrome’s settings. Just head to Setting> Privacy > Touch to Search.

3) Know what you’re sharing

One question I get often about apps is how you can see what you’re sharing with them. You can do this by going to your Settings menu and finding your Applications Manager. Selecting any particular app should give you a list of permissions, along with an explanation of what they mean.

If you happen to have the latest version of Android, you should also be able to get a little more control over the app permissions. So if you want to, for example, share your location with an app but aren’t that happy about sharing your contact list, you may be able to switch that off. It depends on the app, as well, so this may not work for every program.

4) Mess around with your default apps
Another major perk of being an Android user is that you can change the apps that handle certain functions automatically. So if you have a browser you prefer, or a PDF reader you really like, you can use it automatically. If you’d rather always see YouTube videos in the YouTube app instead of on the mobile web, you can do that too.

It’s pretty easy to do this; most often, your phone itself will ask you if you want to set a default app when you perform various functions. If you change your mind, you can go into the settings for whatever default app you’ve chosen through the Settings menu and choose Clear Defaults.

Some phones, such as the Samsung Galaxy S6, also have a menu called Default applications, which will list all the defaults you’ve selected on your phone.

5) Track your data use

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Worried about exceeding your data plan? Android phones should have a built-in data tracker that lets you keep tabs on what you’re using. This should be in your Settings menu, under the heading such as Data usage.

You can also customise this feature so that it fits with your billing cycle.

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