On the Battery page, head to Background usage limits. Start the Settings app and tap Battery & device care. Once that's done, you’re going to have to go deep to find Samsung's controls.
If you tell the Android OS not to optimize the battery life of an app, but not the Samsung settings, your phone may still put it to sleep.įollow the instructions given in the section above. If you have a Samsung phone, make sure you've set this up as well as the above battery optimization setting to make sure an app doesn't go to sleep. It's somewhat easier to use, and can supersede (but also kind of duplicate) the OS-level battery optimization setting. If you have a Samsung device running One UI, Samsung provides another way to control sleeping background apps. On the next screen, select Unrestricted, which will allow the app in question to run with far fewer limits while in the background. Locate the Battery entry in the menu that just opened and tap it. Hold and tap it to invoke the long-press menu, and then select the App info shortcut (it should be an (i) symbol or something along those lines). Locate the app you want to work more reliably on your homescreen or launcher. Some smartphone manufacturers, however, completely replace Android's battery optimization for their own implementations. The below steps should work for most Android phones with Oreo (Android 8.0) or above. Fortunately, Android does offer you the ability to configure this behavior on some level, on an app-by-app basis, so that you can be more confident that notifications will be received when they're sent, not when your phone decides you should get them.įixing this is relatively simple, and though the Battery Optimization feature may seem a little confusing at first, it really is just a few quick steps to resolve this annoying issue. Annoyingly, the root cause of this is frequently Android itself, trying to manage your phone's battery life by forcing "low" priority apps to go to sleep, with the end result being those delayed notifications. I normally roll with the notification bar hidden for additional minimalism.There's nothing worse than picking up your phone and turning it on only to realize the notification it's just received was probably supposed to have reached you 10 minutes (or, you know, hours) ago. The other screen has a calendar widget (Calendar Widget Pro) and a task list widget (Todoist).
My home screen only has two pages which I animate with a simple flip transition (so it feels like you're simply flipping a two-sided card constantly). It's a great open source set with really clean glyphs. Saves me an icon on desktop for each of those and just makes everything tighter and more minimal.įor consistency when I created the icon set of this one, I leveraged. I love that each part of the widget can launch specific apps for clock, weather, location, etc. KWGT continues to be clutch for fun clock and info setups. Have been taking this approach for years and its hard to go any other way for strong muscle memory. This is the fastest way I've found for my brain to get to where it needs to without pulling up the app search bar. I always create folder groups that look like single apps which will launch my most used app in that group by tapping on it once, but they will also reveal all similar apps when you swipe up on the icon (so 'listen' would launch YouTube Music, but swipe up and you'll see links for Audible, Pocketcasts, Blinkist, and other audio apps). I'm a sucker for Nova's 'swipe up' to open folder functionality. All icons end up being very reachable without any stress on hand for higher or lower reaching. Moving it up makes it feel much more comfortable and with a dark background you don't even recognize that it's higher up than it otherwise would be. The dock feels too low for comfort on the Flip to me using any launcher, puts more stress to reach that far down on such a tall device. I hid the actual dock entirely but 'imitated' it further up on the screen to give an impression of a dock. Pretty happy with the outcome and speed of getting around the device. Optimizing for cleanliness and usability here.
I almost stuck with Samsung's UI launcher this pass as its really very solid, but the urge still bit me. Spent some time playing with a custom design for my Z Flip 3.