6 Coolest Ways to Customize Your Android Smartphones
Android and even iOS devices arrive with the company default setting. Most of the time it is pretty boring to use any of them. Otherwise, they are not as per our preferences or comfort. But having modern technology at our disposal makes it easier for us to customize our Android smartphones and add cool features to them. Browsing on your phone can be fun. If you know your preferences and necessities and adjust everything accordingly.
Old phones carry outdated software and such devices are unable to keep you up with the latest and updated technology. A smart choice would be to sell old phones online and replace them with the latest software smartphone.
- Change the Wallpaper of the Lock and Home Screen
Wallpaper is the first thing that we see when we switch on our phones. Be it the lock screen or home screen they can be soothing to your eyes and sometimes even nerve-calming too. Companies send phones with pre-set wallpaper. They are nothing, just big blobs of color across the screen. Tedious, right?
They don’t hold any meaning in your life. But do you know just like every movie and tv show that requires good background music to compliment the entire plot? It’s the same with phones, an amazing wallpaper not only compliments the phone. But it also makes browsing on various apps seem like a fun activity. Lose the pre-set wallpaper.
Go to your phone Settings. Scroll down to find “Lockscreen and Homescreen Magazine/Wallpaper”. Now look for “Set wallpaper” and tap on it. When it opens up there will be static wallpaper and photos options. If you open the photos. You can choose one of your beloved pictures or your family pictures.
Options will be available if you like specific pictures as your home screen or lock screen wallpaper. You don’t have to pick the same picture for both screens. When you can easily set up two different wallpapers on your home and lock screen.
2. Adding Useful Widgets on Your Home Screen
Having a useful app widget on your android or iPhone home screen will prove to be helpful in the future.
Having a Calendar widget on your home screen will always keep you on track with your schedule. If you have a Weather widget on your home screen. You always are prepared for anything, especially rains or thunderstorms. It will help you to avoid getting stuck in bad situations. Google Assistant widget will end up proving to be the best so far. Also, make sure to have a clock widget on the home screen so you don’t depend on your wristwatch 24/7. A news widget on your home screen will keep you updated about current affairs. Media Player, Music Volume control, Notetakers, etc. It’s all about what is more important for you to take over your phone home screen.
3. Switch to Your Favorite Ringtone or Notification Sound
Do you hate that company pre-set ringtone and text and notification sound? In that case, you don’t need to be irritated for a long time. When you get the option to change it to your favorite song or can even set up a guitar or piano theme for the ringtone. Would you like to know who is calling you without picking up your smartphone? Well, it is possible to do that with the help of a ringtone. There is an option for every contact you can set up a different ringtone. It will make you aware of who the caller is without even checking your phone. Most people like a simple ping sound for text messages or social media app notifications, not a shrill sound. It can be easily arranged by just going to Settings and pressing on the Sounds & Vibration or Ringtone option. You can even adjust the volume. If you don’t like to hear a loud ringing sound whenever someone calls you.
4. Dark Theme Mode
If your phone battery drains quickly and you have started to get eye strain and have trouble sleeping. It’s all due to the bright screen of your phone. Yes, previously you had the option available to lower the brightness level. But it is something you have to do manually. But the new feature dark theme is a game-changer. During the nighttime, there is no sunlight.
So you don’t need your phone screen to be bright to see anything on the display. You can schedule your phone from nighttime to daytime. To switch on the dark theme or you can even do that manually. Whenever you feel like you don’t need the bright screen and would like to save your phone battery. It would be good to use your phone on a dark theme before going to bed. Otherwise, a bright screen only disturbs your sleeping pattern and you face difficulty falling asleep on time.
5. Download Keyboard of Your Choice
Every Android phone arrives with a custom-designed keyboard. Which are a regular keyboard without the additional benefits and is boring to use and also unhelpful in many instances.
Well, you should know that you don’t have to be stuck with your built-in keyboard. When you have a wide variety to choose from. If you go to the Google Play store there are numerous third-party keyboard apps available over there. From Grammarly to Swiftkey and GIF keyboard app based on your preference. Since we are living in the modern tech world, we have keyboard apps with Hindi words on the keys. It makes it easier for Indians to type in Hindi without putting extra effort into just writing down 10 to 50 words.
Grammarly will also prove to be helpful in this case. If you are a writer or someone with a job where you are required to type. The paid version helps you Grammarly correct your sentence and even auto-correct the spelling. But there is a time when your keyboard doesn’t recognize a word and tries to auto-correct it. So it’s always better to switch off the auto correct option and start typing at rapid speed with no worries.
To make chatting more fun with your friends download a keyboard app that comes with cool gifs and stickers. To express yourself in front of your friends without even typing a word. Just communicate with emoji stickers and GIFs and most of the time they help you to get a good laugh.
6. Move Icons
Just like the keyboard our fingers and mind are accustomed to apps icons being on a specific space on our phone screen. But when we purchase a new phone and download apps. Newly installed apps start transferring to a different space. It makes us our fingers and mind confused and make it tough coordinate. It is one of the main reasons that it takes us more than a month to be in sync with our new device. But why should we put ourselves through that when we can move these app icons to the right place. By just long-pressing, right on the empty space of our screen, and voila the app is ready to be moved on different pages and space on your home screen.
Final Verdict:- From now on when we buy a smartphone in the future. We don’t have to stick to the company default setting. It just makes handling your phone harder and end up giving you unnecessary headaches. Yes customizing your new phone as per your preferences is time-consuming and makes you frustrated most of the time. But if you take out a few hours from your precious time. You never regret doing any of that and would be grateful for an emergency. If you are buying a new phone therefore you don’t need the old one to collect dust in your closet or drawer and let it waste away. Make something useful out of it. Sell old phones so that companies can refurbish or recycle them and help us save the environment.
