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Clever Settings on Smartphones You Should Be Using

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S martphones are called 'smart' for a reason. These clever little devices contain information that can be useful for you to a great extent.

These devices contain clever features essential for your protection, privacy, and productivity.

Let's discuss the clever settings on smartphones you should be using to get a closer look at what treasures our devices hold.

Features For Safety and Health

Display Medical Information on Device’s Screen

In case of emergencies, your cell phone has a feature to display medical condition-related information on the phones' screen. This feature can help the paramedics know about your medical conditions before providing you with the treatment.

In Android phones: Go to Settings, click About Phone, and then Emergency Information. There you can type your medical conditions. The medical condition you mentioned will display on your device's lock screen. You can add emergency contacts on the lock screen as well.
In iPhones: Go to the Health app, enter your personal information and create your medical ID. You can also add emergency contacts at the end.

Lock or Erase Your Stolen Phone

If your smartphone gets stolen or goes missing, you can secure your data by locking your smartphone or erasing your data by visiting the respective website and following their directions.

For Android: Visit android.com/find
For iPhones: Visit icloud.com/find

Let Individuals Know of Your Location

This feature is not just a safe option but provides your friends and family with a GPS location for sharing addresses for parties or picnics.

You can pinpoint your location on the map and share it with your friends and family.

In androids: Find and click on Google Maps. Press and hold your finger to mark your current location until a card appears. On the card, click Share and then Messages.
In iPhones: Open Messages then, click on the recipient's profile and tap on the icon Send My Current Location.

Fight Tiredness of Eyes or Insomnia

This feature of smartphones helps the users to relax their eyes by reducing bright tones. Blue tones in the light keep an individual's mind awake. The phones reduce the blue tones to provide you with a better version that can reduce eye fatigue and help you sleep.

In Androids: Settings> Display> Night Light.
In iPhones: Settings> Brightness and Display> Night Shift.

Features For Easy Usage

Make Texts and Icons Easily Visible

With this feature, you can increase the size of the text or change the Font of the Smartphone for ease in reading messages or emails.

In androids: To increase the Font Size go to Settings> Display> Font Size and choose your desired font size. To increase the size of every icon on display, Go to Settings> Display> Screen Zoom/Display Size to adjust your desired display size.
In iPhones: To increase the text size, Go to Settings> Brightness and Display> Text Size and choose your font size. For Display size, Go to Settings> Accessibility> Zoom.

To Undo a Typo, Swipe, or Shake

To undo your typing mistakes on text messages or emails shake your device if you have an iPhone and in case you have a Samsung Smartphone enable undo gesture and swipe your mistakes.

In Samsung: Settings> General Management> Samsung Keyboard Setting> Touch, Swipe and feedback> on Keyboard Swipe controls click No Swipe Gestures.
In iPhones: Settings> Accessibility> Touch> Shake to Undo.

Fast Tab Scrolling

Instead of clicking your device to locate or search the web browser tabs, you wish to open, swipe, and open your desired bar.

On both iPhone and Android: Go to the Address bar, Swipe from 'right -left' to open the 'next tab', and 'left-right' to open the 'previous tab'. Swipe 'right', way to the end, to open a new tab in iPhone's web browser.

Feature For Productivity

Scan Your Documents

If you want your emails, receipts, assignments, or any other document in PDF form, scanning is an excellent feature.

On Android: Open Google Drive> Click the (+) sign> Scan> and click a photo of your desired document. You can crop an image or change its printing layout from colored to Black & White.
In iPhone: Apple Notes app> Tap the icon New> Camera button> Scan Documents. Auto mode will scan the document without you clicking.

Are you done reading the above-mentioned clever settings on smartphones you should be using? Go, get your smartphones and explore their hidden, clever, and nifty gems.