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<\/p>\nWe not only spend our lives on our smartphones, we put our lives into them too. Endless pictures, messages and apps create a cluttered digital space that can become stressful. A messy workspace or home would get tidied, so why wouldn’t your phone?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s easy to get started and once you have, keeping it up will be a doddle too! We\u2019ve got tips and tricks to help keep your phone experience was smooth as possible.<\/p>\n
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Sifting through and sorting out contacts is something many of us avoid. Over the years, you add in numbers but rarely find the time to sit down and review who\u2019s in there. You can almost guarantee there\u2019s a takeaway you haven\u2019t used in ages and a few people who became your best friends after a few and were never heard of again.<\/p>\n
Not only that, there are probably contacts saved under incorrect names, or that only have first names \u201d\u201c making it harder to work out who it is, or even with old school emo hearts beside their names. We were all young once.<\/p>\n
Take some time out of your day to go through who\u2019s in there and consider if they need to be. It can be in a spare 20 minutes when you\u2019re flicking through your phone anyway! Be ruthless. Plus, if anyone messages you after you\u2019ve deleted them, \u201d\u02dcnew phone, who\u2019s this?\u2019 always works.<\/p>\n
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The majority of our phones are taken up by apps \u201d\u201c it\u2019s what we see the most, they cover the home screens of our devices and are easily accessible. The more we download, the more room it takes up and eventually becomes cluttered.<\/p>\n
There are a whole heap of ways to arrange your apps. Here are a few ideas:<\/p>\n
Colour code<\/strong><\/p>\n You can arrange your apps so that they all align in the same colours, or create folders for the apps (if you have a lot of them) into each colour. Such as Facebook and Twitter in blue, whereas Whatsapp and Spotify in green.<\/p>\n Arrange by use<\/strong><\/p>\n Arrange your apps into folders of what they are useful for. Keep all your social media apps in a single folder that\u2019s easy to find, your banking apps in another and so on.<\/p>\n Emoji folders<\/strong><\/p>\n Using emojis instead of text might just brighten your home screen up a little! As long as you know what each emoji stands for, you\u2019ll soon get the hang of putting everything into folders.<\/p>\n Ease of use<\/strong><\/p>\n Arrange your apps into the most comfortable way to find them. So, if you can only stretch your thumb halfway across the screen, make sure your most used apps are closer to it. That way, it\u2019s quicker and easier to get around. You’ll get used the layout quicker because it’s so easy to find what you need.<\/p>\n Alphabetical order<\/strong><\/p>\n Sorting out the apps by alphabetical order can be super rewarding, and you\u2019ll always know where they are!<\/p>\n Put the most used apps first<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you have apps you don’t open every day? Don’t keep them in the forefront if it isn’t necessary. Keep the apps you find yourself opening more often on the first page – if you have more than one – and sort back down to the app you use the least.<\/p>\n Once you start arranging your apps, take some time to review them too. There\u2019s no harm in downloading apps because loads of people were talking about it \u201d\u201c FOMO is real. But if you haven\u2019t looked at it since, why cling on to it?<\/p>\n If you paid for an app, you can download it again and you won\u2019t be charged. Deleting them doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re gone forever.<\/p>\n Does anyone take the time to delete their old messages? We probably should! Erase old conversations so your devices aren\u2019t being clogged up. Comb through your Whatsapp messages, texts and emails to get rid of the correspondence you don\u2019t need. All those \u201d\u02dcOkay\u2019 messages aren\u2019t adding any value!<\/p>\n Push notifications are useful but they can be incredibly annoying too. They fill up your screen and force you to look at your phone. Do not disturb modes are great for curbing this, or you can turn off push notifications all together.<\/p>\n Be choosy about what you want to be notified about \u201d\u201c is it emails you care about? Think about the notifications you receive and which ones are most tedious. Switching them off means you\u2019ll only delve into apps as and when you feel the need to.<\/p>\n Having the notes app is great to jot something down quickly like a shopping list. It also houses random pieces of information we can\u2019t quite understand. Dig through your notes which might be your greatest thoughts or some serious ramblings. Get rid of the things you don\u2019t need.<\/p>\n Like a lot of parts of your phone, photos end up being out of sight and out of mind. Photo streams can become bloated quickly but it\u2019s worth going through what you\u2019ve got and splitting them into albums.<\/p>\n Keep holiday memories, your favourite selfies and even some situation-appropriate memes in separate places so they\u2019re easy to find.<\/p>\n With the time you\u2019ll take arranging your snaps, you\u2019ll find some you no longer want or need (like the blurry pictures) so you can clear them from your phone.<\/p>\n Back anything up, just in case it is deleted accidentally. You never know what you might want to keep, but you\u2019ll probably also be surprised by what you have inadvertently kept on there!<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/pexels-photo-261706-1024x546.jpeg\")
<\/p>\nSift through old messages<\/h3>\n
Turn off push notifications<\/h3>\n
Clear out notes<\/h3>\n
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<\/p>\nPut photos into albums<\/h3>\n
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