Google PIXEL 4a 5G Tips and Tricks & Hidden Features!! | First Things To Do! By Life of Lev: Tech

Hey guys hope you have an amazing day! Today we're going to be taking a look at the Pixel 4a 5g top things you need to do with your phone and also the best tips and tricks for your 4a 5g. First thing I like to do is actually show off the battery percentage, it's not on by default, but it's a really useful feature. It's perfect to know what your battery percentage is at all times. All you need to do is do a double pull down, hit the settings icon and then, where it says, battery just hit battery and where it says battery percentage, just toggle that on, and now you can see your battery percentage and that shows up on your screen at all times. Now that we're in the battery sections. Let's go into our battery saver section.

You can see here that there is a bunch of options for us to take a look at. You can turn on and turn off your battery saver, but what I like to do is actually set a schedule as to when my battery saver is going to turn on. So you can click on set a schedule and I like to set it based on percentage, so you can set it at whatever percentage is best for you, but I like to set it at 15, so at 15 my battery saver will turn on and my phone immediately starts using a lot less battery. But what's more important, is this extreme battery saver section I like to go in there and under the section where it says when to use click on that I use the option always use when battery saver is turned on. So when your battery hits 15 percent extreme battery saver will be turned on automatically, and this just helps you because you don't have to worry about running out of battery at that 15 mark.

Your extreme battery saver turns on you're using very minimal battery. Just keep in mind some things might not work like your push notifications and there might be some other things that don't work with battery saver being turned on or extreme battery saver being turned on. So I encourage you guys to just test it out for yourselves and see what works best for you. For me, I like turning on the extreme battery saver, so I really don't have to worry about my battery depleting anymore after the 15 mark, just some other quick tips for maintaining good battery health charging. Your phone past 80 percent, puts more strain on your battery.

So if you want your battery to last a lot longer just charge it to eighty percent as much as you can, of course, I know in everyday life. You might need that extra twenty percent, but the less you charge past the 80 mark, the better. It is for your phone batteries lifespan. Also, another tip for increasing your battery's lifespan is try not to charge your phone overnight, especially since the 485g comes with a fast charger which you can charge your phone from zero to 100 in 90 minutes, but again, just keep in mind to not charge past 80 percent also try not to drop your phone past the 20 mark. These tests will definitely help you increase your phone battery's lifespan.

A lot of people might be coming in from older operating systems when they upgrade to their pixel 4 a5g. You might not be used to gesture navigation, so you might find it incredibly frustrating, and so I just want to show you a tip on how to turn that on and off. So this is super helpful. If you're really used to the three button navigation, you can toggle this on and off whenever you want to make the switch to using gesture navigation on your phone at all times from your settings menu just do a search and type in "nav". You can see we have here system navigation.

So let's click on that, and you can see our system. Navigation is actually blinking. We can click on that again and there you have gesture navigation and your three button navigation. Gesture navigation is actually turned on by default when it ships with your pixel 4 a5g and to turn on three buttons: navigation, just click on it and there you have your three button: navigation that you're probably more used to now. You can come in here and toggle this on and off whenever you feel comfortable, or you might just like having the three button navigation, and you don't want to mess around with gesture navigation, which is totally fine too, and here you have that option.

Let's make more use of our fingerprint scanner, let's go into our settings and in the search field, type in gesture and click on gestures and where it's blinking, click on gestures again and then click on swipe fingerprint for notifications, and you can toggle that on now you can view your quick access menu and your notifications, just by swiping down on your fingerprint scanner. So just swipe down, you can see your quick access menu and your notifications and then swipe down again and your quick access menu expands and swipe up once you want to get rid of the menu and the notifications. I find this super useful and not a lot of people know about this feature. This is definitely one of the most unknown and useful features out there. I actually find myself using this every day.

An important feature that google has built into their android OS system is something called night light. A lot of us look at our phones at night. Right before we go to bed. The blue light from our phone could affect our sleep negatively and disrupt our sleeping pattern. So Google's night light aims to combat that and help us sleep better to turn on night light.

All you have to do is pull down and pull down again and swipe left, and here you can see night light, and all you have to do is turn that on now you can toggle it on and off from the quick menu here and to adjust your night light settings. Click on the settings icon in your quick nav menu in the search settings just type in night, and you can see here the night light option is there, so you can click on night light and the night light again, and here we have a bunch of options. You can turn up and turn down the intensity. I like to leave it somewhere in the middle. The next most important thing here is to actually set a schedule for when your night light actually turns on.

So this just means you don't have to manually turn on and off your night light. You can set it to come on at a certain time and turn off at a certain time, so you can set the schedule here to whatever time works best for you and of course, you can come in here at any point in time and adjust it as needed. This is a really simple one, but I find it can be really frustrating for a lot of people, and they don't even know that they can adjust the settings for this and that's your screen, timeout settings. So let's just adjust that let's go into our settings and then click on display and then, where it says, advanced, just click on advanced and then the option that you want is screen timeout. So you can click on screen timeout, and here you can adjust the time for your screen timeout.

So by default, it's set at 30 seconds and I like to leave it at one minute. I think one minute's a perfect time, but it really depends on you and here you can adjust that time. One of my favorites that I think everyone should try is actually just switching the light theme to the dark theme. There's a couple of reasons for that number one. It actually saves you battery and number two.

It's a lot easier on your eyes, especially when you're looking at your phone in the nighttime an easy way to turn on your dark theme is actually just to go into your settings, and you'll get a notification as soon as you open up the settings, and it says, try dark theme: you can toggle that on and off you can see here we have our dark theme on, but if you don't see it at the top of that menu, you can actually just do a search in the settings. Just click on the search settings and type in dark and click on dark theme, and now you should be able to toggle it on Google makes it really easy to copy text. Now. All you have to do is swipe up from your gestures and click on select. Now you can see that there's highlighted areas where she can copy text from you can copy the text.

You can share it with people. I definitely find myself using this one. Quite often here's a quick tip for your keyboard. This is your default keyboard. You can see, we don't have our number keys up top.

We actually have to click on a button just to access the numbers. So what I like to do is actually have the numbers up top, and this just really helps me for writing emails and messages. It just makes it a lot quicker for me. So all you have to do is click on the settings icon on top of your keyboard, and you can see here we have a bunch of settings and all you have to do is click into preferences, and then you can see that the number row is not enabled you can just toggle that on. I find that this is really useful for everyday use, because we're all writing a lot of messages and or writing emails.

Also, if you guys really like to customize your keyboard, you can just click on that palette. Icon right beside the settings icon, and you get a bunch of options, so you can select your colors for your keyboard and or you can actually pick a picture for your keyboard or even a gradient. So there's a lot of flexibility in how you want to customize your keyboard, so I thought I'd just show you guys that let's talk about taking a screenshot, there are two ways to do it. The easiest way that I find is to actually hold down the power button and the volume down button at the same time, and then you get to create a screenshot which you can share and edit, or you can actually do it through gestures, which you can now see a little screenshot button, and once you click on the screenshot button, you can click on the screenshot itself, and you get into a new section which you can edit to your liking. So you could draw on it.

You can write stuff on it. You can share it. Furthermore, you can delete it, or you can just save it. Here's a couple of camera tips. I use the most to quick launch a camera.

All you have to do is double tap your power button. I find myself missing the moments quite a bit when I'm trying to launch that camera app, and this really saves me all I have to do is find that power button, double click it, and I'm ready to shoot. The next step I have is to actually switch between the front facing camera and the rear facing camera with a gesture. So right now, as we all know, we would use this button to switch between the two cameras, but there's another way to switch between the cameras without even clicking a button. All you have to do is twist your hand twice and there you see it switch to the front-facing camera, and I'm going to do it again, just twist your hand twice, and it will switch to the rear facing camera.

This next tip is about enabling split screen. I find that not a lot of people use this feature enough or not. A lot of people know about this feature, and it's such a big game, changer in terms of productivity and multitasking. I find it helps me accomplish a lot more things, especially if you're an individual doing a lot of work on your mobile phone, so to enable split screen. All you have to do is select the apps that you want so for me, I want to browse a web while also watching a video, so I have Google open, and I also have YouTube open, which I want to split screen with and to get split screen.

All you have to do is click and hold down on the icon and click on split screen, and then you can choose the other app that you'd want a split screen with. So in my case, I want to click on YouTube and there you go. You have split screen now you can customize it by dragging up and down the middle bar, so you can see more of one screen and less of the other, and now I can watch my video while also browsing the web to enable split screen on those of you who do not have gesture navigation turned on and are using the three button navigation. All you have to do is click on the square button and then long press on the app that you'd want to split screen with. So in my case, I want to google, so I'm going to long press on the icon and click on split screen, and then I'm going to also select another app that I'd want to use which is YouTube and there you go.

You have split screen activated now I can watch my video and browse the web. This is obviously just one example of using split screen, but you can use it with whatever apps that you choose. That's the end of my tips and tricks. I hope you guys really like this video and I hope these tips and tricks are super useful for you. If you have any tips and tricks of your own, please leave them in the comments below.

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