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Android Smartphones For Seniors For Dummies
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Android Smartphones For Seniors For Dummies

by Marsha Collier
November 2021
Beginner to intermediate
336 pages
7h 29m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Handling Notifications and Google Assistant

IN THIS CHAPTER

check Having notifications your way

check Exploiting the Quick Settings window shade

check Letting Google Assistant help you out

If you’ve ever owned a smartphone, you’re probably familiar with the confusion of its messy Home screens. Some Android apps like to place their icons front and center on a Home screen when they’re installed, and all end up on a screen in the apps drawer. When I have a new phone, I try hard to keep things orderly. In Chapter 5, I show you how I organize app icons.

Android phones also have the notifications drawer (a handy pull-down from the top of the Home screen), which works like a window shade and offers information and access. That is, the Notifications window shade does a lot more than show you notifications from apps. It’s a quick launch to a bunch of important utilities.

Because Android phones use tools such as the apps drawer and the Notifications window shade, navigating to find everything on an Android phone can be a challenge to an iPhone user. In this chapter, I show you how to breeze through your phone and manage its content. All those mega- and gigabytes of content you add can fill up space ...

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