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Welcome, my name is Xiaomi Poco M4 Pro and today I will show you a couple tweaks and
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tricks you can do on this phone. So these things will be quite simple, just things that you might want to change when
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you get the device. So let's get started with the dark mode
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Now on the device we actually have a better option over the dark mode with the option
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of like schedule mode. So let's go under the display section right here and you will have just a hard toggle
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as you can see light and dark mode. But in here we have schedule mode as you can see and you can enable it and then choose
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for instance custom. So you can select what time it will turn on the dark mode and then turn it off
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And the reason why I consider this to be a better option is because you can have it
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to be set to dark mode during the night time and during the day time it will automatically
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switch to the normal light mode which I would consider having, well, this be the best of
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both worlds. Just during the night time, let's be honest, light mode is not the best thing when you're
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getting your irises blasted by the bright screen. So this will help you out
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So moving on to the next option which is also under the display it's going to be the refresh rate which is right here below
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And by default for some reason it's set to 60 so let's change it to 90 which will give
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you a smoother image whenever you're doing anything on your device. Now it does consume a little bit more battery life so if you want to prioritize that I guess
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I recommend you to stick with 60 instead. But for everybody else that doesn't mind sacrificing this couple, I don't know, maybe an hour of
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battery life overall from the entire 100% then 90 is a really great option
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It will just improve the smoothness of navigating the device and you should be able to see it
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like right away. Now moving on to the next thing which is right above the refresh rate is the color scheme
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Now Xiaomi is one of those companies that sets it to vivid and not everybody will like it
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Now I know that Xiaomi isn't as obnoxious as it is on Samsung but still some people
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might prefer as an example standard which makes the display less bluish and gives a
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little bit more of like this what I would consider or compare to true tone look where
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it just kind of makes it a little bit more yellowish and also makes it a little bit more
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easy on the eyes. Personally I do prefer the standard mode. Some people obviously like the vivid which saturates the images quite significantly over
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the standard so there we go that's more of a matter of preference
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That's what I prefer and if you were the same way there you go there's the option for it
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Now moving on to the next option it's going to be the full screen display which is just
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a fancy way of saying gesture navigation but that's how Xiaomi calls it
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Now we can find this in I believe additional settings but you have also the blue text that
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redirects you to it and here on the bottom of the display section so as you can see full
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screen display click on it and this redirects you straight to the option and in here simply
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click on this one it asks you if you want to learn the gestures I'm going to select
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not now I already know them and for everybody else who hasn't ever used them you swipe up
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to go home. There we go swipe up to go home and when you let go it just goes you can swipe up and go
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to recent and then swipe from either side to go back so there we go those are the gesture
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navigation which work really nicely and additionally because we don't have the buttons at the bottom
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icons are being shifted a little bit further down to accommodate for the extra space on
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the display. And last thing that I wanted to show is the home screen section so when we go into the
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settings you will find home screen and in here we have a couple options that you might
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be interested in. So number one I have a couple just general options like for instance the default launcher
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so if you want to use a different one you can change it right here though you first need to download it with backgrounds icon packs and so on
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Now the more interesting things are things like the app drawer so if you have selected
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that you are using just the I believe it's called standard for some stupid reason
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Well I would consider app drawer to be the standard on an Android device but hell what
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do I know. You can change it right here. And finally we have also a home screen which allows you to toggle a couple of things
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And we have a notification badges we also have there we go icon layouts so you can change
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the grid in here as you can see it also shows you how it will look
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So we have the icon size and it looks like it's already set to max so there we go
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And last thing and probably one of the most handy things is the manage app categories
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So let me just quickly actually show you what this is so in here when you go into your app
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tray you have all your applications right here right and category all if you ever realize
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there are actually other categories so you can swipe to the side
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And yes I know I just swiped you don't need to give me the guide once I actually figured
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it out. So there we go. You can swipe between the categories which the device sorts applications to their respectable category
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So these are the default ones but as you've seen we can actually change them for some
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reason it left me get back there. So we can change these categories and we can also add our own and in your own category
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you can just have whatever you want you can categorize the apps however you like
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So it's a neat way to have apps that you might be using quite often easily accessible
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at any moment in a separate category. Now this is really nice though to be fair I will even though I show this as a great
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feature here I'll go into one additional thing so as an example I am using on my phone a
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smart launcher and for me smart launcher comes with this as well as a default just with a
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better implementation so as you can see you have categories as a default option and you
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can quickly swipe between these categories to navigate to whatever you need
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And additionally if you swipe down on it it gives you apps based on your on your like
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recent usage the device kind of detects what app you might be using at a given time and
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gives you this as a recommendation. So that's a great alternative over the stock version right here if you prefer to have something
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that works a little bit better and in this manner here so that would be a smart launcher
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5 what I'm using. So anyway this would conclude the changes that I would recommend doing on your phone
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