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Tips to Spruce Up Your Smartphone
Tidy up your tech to improve battery life and performance with a few tips to make your smartphone part of your clean routine.
Smartphones are often our virtual closets, storing our emails, photos, documents and apps. To tidy up your technology and improve your battery life and phone’s performance, AT&T offers a few tips to help make your smartphone part of your clean routine.
Clean your screen: Mobile phones can carry more bacteria than a toilet seat. Sanitize your device with electronic wipes or a special cleaner like iKlear. Avoid harsh chemicals, alcohol and water on touchscreen devices. Don’t forget to clean the case too. Remove the case and wipe it down with some soap and warm water.
Reset your passwords: Your smartphone is more than a communications tool. It’s your banker, personal shopper and business partner, so it’s critical to protect your personal data from hackers or thieves. Reset your passwords with stronger ones that use a combination of letters, numbers and symbols. It’s also important to set a passcode on the device itself.
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Delete unused apps: Apps can still run in the background and drain the battery even if you’re not using them. Close or quit any unused apps and delete those you never use. Unused apps can also clutter your screen and make it more difficult to find what you really need. To keep your screen tidy, create folders to group similar apps.
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Be battery efficient: To improve the life of your battery, turn off Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS when you’re not using them. This battery-saving tip will help you go longer between charges, so you don’t have to stop to plug in when you’re out and about.
Sync your smartphone: Syncing your smartphone to the cloud can save you massive amounts of space, and loads of grief if something happens to your cell. Organize your device and make it a daily habit to store what you don’t need in a safe place. Consider using a cloud-based storage service, such as AT&T Locker. It’s an easy and automated way to store, sync and share photos, videos and documents in one convenient place. This cloud-based app is free to download, and the first 5GB of storage is also free.
