10 Phone Settings You Should Change Today
Ten minutes in your settings that make your phone quieter, faster, and easier on your battery and your brain.
Quality-of-life settings
Bump the text size up one notch — most people run text smaller than comfortable and never notice the eye strain. Then turn on 'tap to wake' or lift-to-wake and skip a button press a hundred times a day.
Set 'do not disturb' to a schedule (sleep hours plus focused work blocks) with exceptions for starred contacts. This single setting is the closest thing to a digital off-switch that exists.
Last, open your keyboard settings and add text replacements for the things you type weekly — your address, your email, 'running five minutes late'. Small thing, used hundreds of times a year, adds up to real minutes.
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