Our mobile devices are where we do so much of our actual work and contemplation these days, and yet it’s all too easy to overlook the importance of maintaining an optimal arrangement for both productivity and security within them. So now, as we gaze ahead at 2022 calendar, join me in taking 10 minutes to get your own Android phone fine-tuned and ready for the coming year. We’ll start with the simplest step of all.
1. THE APP CLEANSE
Installing interesting and potentially useful new apps is easy. However, assessing which apps you use with any regularity and then uninstalling the stuff that’s sitting on your phone and using up data is a lot more difficult.
An occasional app cleanse is valuable on a few different levels. First and foremost, it clears up clutter – both in terms of the actual space an app takes up on your limited local storage and in terms of the visual space it requires on your home screen or app drawer, where its presence makes it less speedy and efficient for you to find the things you genuinely use and seek out regularly.
Beyond that,