Android Smartphones For Seniors For Dummies

Chapter 7

Handling Notifications and Google Assistant

IN THIS CHAPTER

Having notifications your way

Exploiting the Quick Settings window shade

Letting Google Assistant help you out

If you’ve ever owned a smartphone, you’re probably familiar with the confusion of its messy Home screens. Some Android apps like to place their icons front and center on a Home screen when they’re installed, and all end up on a screen in the apps drawer. When I have a new phone, I try hard to keep things orderly. In Chapter 5, I show you how I organize app icons.

Android phones also have the notifications drawer (a handy pull-down from the top of the Home screen), which works like a window shade and offers information and access. That is, the Notifications window shade does a lot more than show you notifications from apps. It’s a quick launch to a bunch of important utilities.

Because Android phones use tools such as the apps drawer and the Notifications window shade, navigating to find everything on an Android phone can be a challenge to an iPhone user. In this chapter, I show you how to breeze through your phone and manage its content. All those mega- and gigabytes of content you add can fill up space ...