SMARTPHONE CLASS: learn, tips, tricks and techniques (relatives, mother, father)
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Here's something specific: our smartphone 101 (for real newbies and other non-technical types) teacher told us to completely shut down our phones by turning them right off, about once a week. This helps to clear out all the little electronic glitches they accumulate in them.
My husband and I have had Tracfones for years now, the last two being smartphones. We really only use ours for talk, text and limited email or FB. Some photos. It is all we will ever need. We purchase the yearly plan with unlimited talk and text and I forget how much data. Mine is pushing 4 years now, so probably will have to upgrade soon, something I don't like to do....
Here's something specific: our smartphone 101 (for real newbies and other non-technical types) teacher told us to completely shut down our phones by turning them right off, about once a week. This helps to clear out all the little electronic glitches they accumulate in them.
I don't see the point in leaving your smartphone on at night when you're sleeping. You might use that time to charge the phone. I can't see a person waking up at 3 AM and deciding to call someone. If they did want to do that, they could turn their phone on.
I don't see the point in leaving your smartphone on at night when you're sleeping. You might use that time to charge the phone. I can't see a person waking up at 3 AM and deciding to call someone. If they did want to do that, they could turn their phone on.
While what you say can be true, if you have family, and it's a 3 am emergency, they WILL call!
Now, if you also have a landline they can reach you on, sure, turn off your smartphone.
We only have smartphones, no landline, so yes I leave my smartphone on all the time.
I don't see the point in leaving your smartphone on at night when you're sleeping. You might use that time to charge the phone. I can't see a person waking up at 3 AM and deciding to call someone. If they did want to do that, they could turn their phone on.
Nighttime is the time when you REALLY want them to be on and ready to use. Lots of accidents happen in the middle of the night and to struggle with calling 911 when your phone isn't even on negates the whole idea of having a phone in the first place.
I don't see the point in leaving your smartphone on at night when you're sleeping. You might use that time to charge the phone. I can't see a person waking up at 3 AM and deciding to call someone. If they did want to do that, they could turn their phone on.
It's probably been mentioned here but you can set your phone up as follows (at least for Android, assume similar for iPhone).
Go to "Settings" - "Sound" and select "Do Not Disturb".
Under that setting you can customize/control what notifications you want to receive. For example you can silence text message notifications, but allow calls. You can limit the calls to all your contacts, starred contacts or allow all calls. This is a very useful setting if you have someone out there than likes to continuously text stuff at 2 or 3 in the morning (don't ask why I might be interested in this).
I think that the default setting is to block texts but allow contacts to call. I prefer to allow all calls in case of an emergency as someone else had mentioned here. I guess if you had a problem with a certain individual calling at night, you could block them as a specific DND exception. Worth noting that most spammers stop calling after 8 PM (at least in my experience).
You can toggle "Do Not Disturb" on and off by pulling down from the top of your phone, where you will see the icon. You can also schedule when you want "Do Not Disturb" to be active, but have never used it. One problem with invoking DND manually, is that you might forget to turn it off. I did this once, and went a day wondering why I was not getting text notifications!
Last edited by GearHeadDave; 12-16-2021 at 07:38 AM..
Here's something specific: our smartphone 101 (for real newbies and other non-technical types) teacher told us to completely shut down our phones by turning them right off, about once a week. This helps to clear out all the little electronic glitches they accumulate in them.
Good habit to get into, for me it's every few days. A cell phone is essentially no different that a PC or a laptop computer; the main difference is that unlike Windows or similar operating systems, the user has very little control over the management of the OS. What little control is available is usually under the "Settings", which folks find out quickly are very limited and a lot more difficult to use and understand than the "control panel" you usually have on a laptop or PC.
What generally happens is that a smartphone, like a PC gets progressively flakier over time as you install/delete apps - part of the reason is that many apps are poorly written, the app and the phone do not do a good job of "cleaning up" after themselves. Eventually the device gets unstable.
You may hear an argument that Google's Android is less stable than Apple's iOS. This was certainly true back in the days of Windows versus Mac, but I have seen problems with iOS as well as with Android. But in general iOS seems to be more stable than Android. (your mileage may vary)
But in general iOS seems to be more stable than Android. (your mileage may vary)
Big time, because Android is far more customizable so there are all sorts of versions. Some are relatively close to pure Android (like Google Pixel) but others have all their own different GUI, OS layer, customizations that you can't remove including bloatware that isn't easy to remove. With iOS it's going to be an Apple Product, period.
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