Chapter 12

Customizing Your Settings

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Configuring when Night Light turns on and off

Bullet Freeing up space on your smartphone

Bullet Setting parental controls with the Digital Wellbeing app

Bullet Adjusting the volume controls

As you first discover in Chapter 10, Android smartphones have a vast array of settings and features that you can set, tweak, and customize. There are so many that an entire book could be dedicated just to the different settings on your smartphone. In this chapter, I focus on just a handful of these settings — Night Light, Storage, and Digital Wellbeing — and offer tips on how to use and customize them to your liking. I also describe how to adjust the volume controls, which behave differently depending on what app you are in at the time.

Remember To access any of the settings featured in this chapter, perform a swipe down gesture from your home screen to open the notification drawer, and then swipe down again to expand the quick access settings. Tap the gear button that appears ...

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