Google PIXEL 4a 5G Tips and Tricks & Hidden Features!!

Hey guys hope you have an amazing day! today  were 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 its really good 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 were in the battery sections lets go into our  battery saver section you can see here that there  is a whole 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 navy.

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 button 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 lets go into our settings and in the search field type in gesture  and click on gestures and where its  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  navy 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  whole 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 lets 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 its set at 30 seconds  and I like to leave it at one minute i think  one minutes a really good 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 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 whole 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 were 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 whole 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’s 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 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 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.