Android Features: There are many permissions in Android phones, by which you can increase the security of your data.
Android Features: When you setup in your Android phone, you give many types of permissions to your phone without reading it. Some of these are very useful for you, but there are some services that you might want to stop. Let's know about them.
Ad Personalization
You must have often seen that you are searching online for something and suddenly you start seeing its advertisement everywhere. This is because most Android phones have the ad personalization feature turned on. With this Google tries to track your online activities. and collects data. If you also want to turn this off, go to Settings > Google > Ads > tap on “Opt out of Ads Personalization and follow these steps.
Hide Sensitive Information From Lock Screen
Many times, messages related to your personal messages such as bank accounts, etc., are visible to you in the lock screen as well. This can be very sensitive. Therefore, this feature has been specially added in all the smartphones above Android 5.0, in which you can hide many such sensitive information. So nobody else in your lock screen will be able to read it. To do this, you can follow the steps in Settings > App & Notifications > Notifications and toggle off “Sensitive notifications”.
turn off automatic shortcuts
Whenever you download an app, its icon automatically appears on your home screen. But many times there is not that much space on your home screen, or due to this, the home screen starts looking very full and cluttered. So in this case you can turn off this automatic setting. For this, you have to follow the long press on your home screen > tap on Home Settings > toggle off Add icon to Home screen option.
There are many other such features in Android that silently keep consuming your phone's battery. WiFi Bluetooth Scan is one such service. When it's on, the phone always scans for nearby WiFi and Bluetooth. You can save your phone battery by turning it off. For this, all you have to do is follow the Settings > Location > Wi-Fi scanning and Settings > Location > Bluetooth scanning, and toggle off Wi-Fi scanning and Bluetooth scanning steps.
Limit background data
This feature, which is enabled in your smartphone, by the way makes your work easier. This makes it extremely easy for any app to load data. But keep in mind that along with data consumption, it also increases battery consumption. So you can turn it off if you want. For this, you just have to follow the steps of Settings > Apps > Select an app, and then Settings > Mobile data and Wi-Fi > Background data.
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