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And from me, Zay, a Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 Pro, and today I will share with you a couple tweaks and tricks that
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I can do on this device. So we're going to begin with the one that might agitate some people, which is the notch
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or it's more of a teardrop. And you can actually hide it if you don't like that kind of style
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It will basically create the black pixels right on the same line as the notch itself
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a way hiding it and to do it you go into the settings then to the display right
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here and let's find where is it much status bar was literally under my finger
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and you have the option right here hide notch top on it kind of reboots
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you regard this for some reason it changed the app but you can see that now
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it's a black one and there's no more notch now unfortunately in some cases
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different phones have the courage to actually hide all the times and
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receptions and stuff like that and then black borders and just make them white but
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unfortunately here it's not the case it just moves everything and makes the
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screen completely inaccessible which is a little bit of a shame but still if you're not
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a fan of it this is a good way to get rid of it now moving on we're gonna go into a
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thing that I personally really like which is a gesture navigations and
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on this device they're especially really well done not like the Google ones that are kind
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of wonky so yeah to enable it go back to the settings and from here we're going to go into the
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additional settings so somewhere on the bottom right here and from here for full-screen
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display and you have the two options now once you launch it for the first time it will
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give you a little guide on how to use this so you can tap on learn yep learn and it's
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fairly simple but really nice so swipe up to close swipe up and hold to go to recent and swipe from the sides to go back Now this is particularly nice considering a lot of phones that do the gesture
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navigations just flip the switches off and just make the little bars that you need to
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pull from the bottom that just works weird and I don't really like it particularly
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So this is really nice with the swipe from the side. It's just way more intuitive than anything else
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So yeah, now moving on we're going to be one-hand display which I think I actually need to
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enable the buttons again because without them I don't I'm not really sure if there is a way of
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enabling this. So let's go back even though I don't really like the buttons
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I have to have it on for this particular reason. So basically what this will allow you to do is use the device in one hand by shrinking the display
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so once you're holding it you have easier access to reach to the top because the top will be just way lower
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so to enable this we would go into additional settings again so right here and from here find at the bottom right here one-handed mode
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check it on you also have additional options to what size you want to shrink it to and also a little
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animation that will display how to activate it so all you really need to do is to shrink it
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swipe from the metal to the side that you want to shrink it towards
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So basically today you're, I guess, dominant hand that you will be using this device in
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And just as an example, I'm going to grab the phone in my hand. And just as a comparison, you can see that I can access basically everything
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without doing some kind of hand gymnastics to access it. Now, if you want to get it back to normal
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all you need to do is just up on the empty space. And it goes back to how it was previously
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And going back to this setting, you also can make it a little bit bigger if that was just too small for you, as you can see
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Now it's bigger, now if I would change it, it goes even smaller. So that was basically the size of a thinger
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Now this might be a little bit too small And also just as an example the phone is fully usable in this mode even though it looks hilariously small at this moment considering it is tiny
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It's fully usable. You can do everything that it would normally do on the device. Let me make it again full screen, and there we go
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So moving on, we're going to go into something that I guess people that play games will find useful, which is game turbo
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And what we'll do basically, not only allow, is it limits apps that are in the background
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while boosting the apps in the foreground, giving them additional resources that, for instance
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might have been used previously on something else that was running in the background, while also giving you handy features like muting calls or just making, if you pick up a call
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it goes automatically to do loudspeakers so you don't have to put the phone to your face
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to talk to someone. It's basically customizable to how phone behaves when you're playing something
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And to enable it, we're going to go into the special features
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so right at the bottom of settings. And you have Game Turbo right here. Now it's looking for games
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but there is none installed, so it doesn't find anything. And if it doesn't find
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you can also tap on Add Game and locate it yourself. In this case, you also can add
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any kind of up in this case it doesn't need to be a game let's go back
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and as I said you have settings here and you have the
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game speed booster you have a homepage orientation so basically whenever you launch the
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game it will you can determine in what state the phone will
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launch it so you don't have to like flip it around performance mode so you have
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basically what it does description so bandwidth priority, optimized touch controls, and enhance audio
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Now this is by default enable whenever you launch a game that it has added
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So as you can see, give more bandwidth to the game running in the foreground
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optimize touch control which increase touch response and sensitivity and enhance audio and reduce ambient noise and conversations So it just additional settings that will enhance just a general feel of how
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it is to play a game on a mobile device. And the last thing that I wanted to share is more for
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multitasking and especially handy if you're trying to listen to music while doing other stuff on the
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device so I'm gonna start off with YouTube as everybody probably uses it on the
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device and you're trying to listen to some music let me mute the device so
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there is no sound so once I would launch something and get a unfortunate ad
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okay there we go so you can see that it's playing right now now if I would go
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to recent it's gonna stop but that's besides the point you have the bottom right here, split screen, press and hold on an app and drag it so boom we drag it like
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so skip no one cares and then you can add additional apps. You can tap on home
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button to basically go to your home screen and you can see that the app that we have
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added to multitasking it's still up on the top and we can now add additional
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for instance web browser no thanks and I can top right now to play the video
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and as you can see it's constantly playing. Well I I can continue to do other stuff on here
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Now additionally to that, I can press the home button and it's gonna continue playing in the background
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even though basically the app is closed at this moment. So if I would go, settings, you can see that it's still playing
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So it's a fairly nice thing if you're like to multitask or primarily listen to YouTube without actually having it
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open on your phone or maybe not being limited just using that one app
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And if you want to close it all, all you need to do is just drag over the line to the bottom and now we can close it like you would
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normally do. So yeah, that will basically conclude all the twigs and tricks that I wanted to share
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