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if you own an Android phone I've got five settings you should consider changing the first thing you need to do is crank down the brightness it's simple logic the brighter your screen the faster it will consume your battery that's why you should consider lowering the brightness and I'm not talking about a little bit here consider dropping it to 50% or even less you should also disable auto brightness because it could raise the level higher than you really need next up if you own a Samsung phone or a nexus 6p like I do you should be using a black or mostly black wallpaper these phones have an AMOLED display and without getting too technical because the black pixels don't need to be illuminated simply changing the wallpaper to black can actually improve battery life quite a bit now the first thing you usually do when you buy a new phone is to hit up the Google Play Store and download all of your favorite apps but before you do that I recommend disabling new app shortcuts each time you download app a shortcut will be placed on your home screen and if you're downloading a lot at one time you will end up with a very cluttered screen to disable the shortcuts open the Google Play Store click on settings and uncheck the box next to add icon to homescreen next up don't forget to schedule do not disturb mode this lets you set your phone to automatically mute sounds during a set time period for example like when you're heading to bed each night hit the Settings followed by sounds and click on do not disturb tap automatic rules followed by add rule then give it a name and set the time and days you want do not disturb mode to begin and end you can also customize the feature to allow certain calls and text to always ring even if the features enable and lastly make sure to enable find my phone this will help you locate your phone in the event its lost or stolen you can even remotely wipe it and lock it head to Settings tap on Google scroll down to security and make sure the two settings under Android device manager are turned on you can then check the location of your phone and wipe it or lock it by going to google.com slash Android flash device manager for more tips like this one be sure to check out how to see Netcom