How To Customize and Personalize Your Phone
You can live a delightful existence using your phone without having to change any settings. But where’s the hype with that? Especially with numerous downloads, your phone can be a den of apps. If you’re keen on giving your phone a personalized look and touch, consider customizing your phone. With both the Android and iOS operating systems, you are able to set up your mobile device to suit your taste and style. Here are some ways you can customize and personalize your phone.
Change your wallpaper
The easiest way to customize your phone is by choosing a wallpaper. You see your phone’s wallpaper each time you turn on your screen. Moreover, using the same wallpaper for a long time can make you become fed up with it and it’ll seem boring.
You can access millions of wallpapers of free image sites such as Unsplash and Pinterest which you can download to personalize your phone or you can also use your own pictures if you prefer.
Add widgets to your screen
Widgets have the ability to make your phone look interesting/aesthetically pleasing. Widgets let’s you gain access to cartain information on your phone’s apps without the need to launch the app.
Whether it’s a calendar widget showing your upcoming schedule or a Spotify widget with playback controls, they save you having to jump between many apps.
Reorganize your screen
To make your phone appear exactly how you want it, simply rearrange your Home screen by tapping, holding and dragging any icon to move it around the screen. You can reorganize your Home screen including widgets, app icons and others.
You can also put apps in drawers and organize either by the maker of the app eg. Gmail, Google Maps and Google Chrome can be put in a single folder titled Google. You can also place software programs serving similar purposes in a single folder like Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram in a folder titles called Socials.
Set up default apps
Have you ever clicked on a link in an email and your phone launched instead of a browser? Or tried to view an Instagram post only to have it open in the browser instead of the Instagram app? You can set up default apps and clear out any default app settings that no longer serve you.
These settings can all be done in your phone settings.
Try dark mode
Both Android and iOS devices have dark themes which offers users many benefits, main being giving your phone a whole new look.
In your Settings app, you can switch Dark Mode on and off whenever you want. There’s also an option of setting up timings for the feature which changes the overall look of your device.
