Android 6.0 Marshmallow introduced several new features for customizing and optimizing your device, including the ability to: - Uninstall apps directly from the home screen or app drawer with a long press. - Customize Quick Settings tiles and RAM management to view memory usage and force stop apps. - Improve battery life with new Doze mode and fast charging via USB-C, while ignoring optimizations for selected apps. - Access Google Now from the lock screen for voice commands and utilize new Google Now on Tap functionality.

1. Android 6.0 marshmallow
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2. Uninstall apps from your
home screen or app drawer
• In Android Marshmallow you can now
uninstall an app on your home screen or in
your app drawer simply by long-pressing it.
At the top of the screen you'll now see
options for Remove or Uninstall on the
home screen, or App Info and Uninstall in
the app drawer. Simply drag the app icon
to the one you want.
• This is a neat way to save a few seconds over
uninstalling apps in older versions of
Android.

3. Activate Developer
options
• Developer options are nothing new, but
there are a few new ones in Android
Marshmallow.To access Developer options,
go to Settings > About Phone and tap Build
Number seven times until a toast pop-up
notifies you that you are now a developer.
• Back up a step and you'll see Developer
options listed right above About Phone.This
is where you can enable USB Debugging,
OEM unlocking or Show touches, tweak
animations or access some of the other
tips below.
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4. Customize Quick Settings
using System UITuner
• To enable the System UITuner, bring down
your Quick Settings menu (swipe down from the
top of your phone with two fingers) and tap and
hold the settings button (cog wheel) for five
seconds.When you let go you will be asked if
you would like to enable System UITuner. Select
yes and you'll see System UI Tuner at the
bottom of your Settings list.
• In System UITuner, tap Quick Settings and you'll see a
mock-up of your Quick Settings shade.You can
add tiles (press the + at the bottom), move the
toggles around (tap and drag) or delete toggles
(tap and drag to the bottom).Your changes will
be reflected in the Quick Settings menu.
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5. Get to know RAM
Manager
• Android Marshmallow is all about giving us even
more power over our beloved Androids, and
RAM is a huge part of that. Go to Settings >
Memory > Memory used by apps, to see a list of
all your memory-hogging apps.
• Tapping an entry will show you detailed info and
give you the option to force stop the app if
necessary.Take some time to familiarize yourself
with this part of your Android – it's a great tool
to help you understand what RAM usage is
normal and what's out of the ordinary.
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6. Find your Downloaded, Running,All and Disabled app
tabs
• The RAM Manager is also effectively the new home for the
'Running' tab that was in previous versions of the Settings >
Apps section. Unlike previous Android versions, Android
Marshmallow doesn't break your apps list down into tabs for
'Downloaded', 'Running', 'All' and 'Disabled'.
• The 'Running' tab now appears as RAM Manager; 'All' and
'Disabled' are now options in a drop-down menu,
accessible once you've disabled at least one app.The default
view in Settings > Apps is the 'All' apps tab.We'll have to wait
and see how devices with SD cards display the information
that was previously found in the 'SD Card' tab.
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7. Automatically
associate links
• Android Marshmallow allows you to automatically
associate specific apps with specific types of links. So if
someone emails you aTwitter link, for example, you
can setTwitter as the default app for opening such
links, rather than picking from a list every time.
• Although you could set certain apps as default apps
before, the system didn't work all that well. Now you
can associate specific domain URLs with an app of
your choice. For example, all facebook.com links can
be set to open either in Facebook, Tinfoil or another
third-party Facebook app automatically.
• To do this, go to Settings > Apps, then tap the overflow
menu at the top right and go to Advanced > App Links,
then flip the switch for the apps that you want to set
to automatically intercept links from specific domains.
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8. Ignore battery optimizations
• Doze is pretty cool: it activates when your phone is
left idle for a period of time, while unplugged and
with the screen off. It will stop some CPU and
network activity operating in the background for
some Android apps, thus saving battery.
• You might not like it in every scenario though. Doze
mode can interrupt the background activity of your
apps in order to make these battery savings. So if
you don't want this to happen to certain apps, you
can disable Doze mode to keep these apps
running. Follow the steps below to switch off the
battery saving functionality of Doze.
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9. How to disable doze in Android 6.0 Marshmallow
• 1. Head over to your phone's Settings.
• 2. Select Battery from the device list and select Battery
optimization from the menu icon at the top-right of
the screen.
• 3. Select All apps from the drop-down menu in the
centre of the display. Now you'll see all the apps that
are Doze-enabled.You can now select any apps for
which you'd like to disable Doze mode.
• 5. Select Don't optimize and then Done. Now you're
set up.
• Now the apps you've selected won't have Doze
optimizations, just as you'd prefer. Let us know in
the comments section if you see changes to battery
life or app activity as a result of Doze, and if you
think Doze is a good addition to Marshmallow.
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10. Activate Google Now from the lock screen
• You might have missed this one, but the lock
screen shortcut to the dialler has been
replaced by Google Now.This is a welcome
change; you can use Google Now to call
someone just by speaking (along with plenty
of other things), so you haven't lost out on
functionality by losing the dialler shortcut.
• Simply swipe from the bottom left-hand corner
of the lock screen to get Google Now ready
to receive your voice command.
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11. Enjoy Google Now onTap
• Google Now on Tap is easily my favourite
feature in Android Marshmallow.
It brings Google Now functionality to
every part of your phone or tablet.
• There's no need to switch apps or copy
and paste phrases anymore – once
it's enabled, you can bring up Google
Now on Tap from any app, simply by
selecting text and long-pressing the
Home button.
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12. Disable notification peeking
• Heads-up notifications, or 'peeking' as it is
now referred to, is the feature that allows
notifications to pop up over the top of
your display. It was introduced in Android
Lollipop, but since app developers now
tend to enable peeking by default,Android
Marshmallow gives you the power to
decide if you want to allow it or not.
• If these types of notifications bother you, you
can go into Settings > Sound & Notifications
> App Notifications, then select the app
they're coming from, and switch off Allow
peeking.
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13. Check out the Android
Marshmallow Easter Egg
• The Android Easter Egg is one of the most
pointless but fun parts of any new Android
version.You simply go to Settings > About
Phone and repeatedly tap theVersion Number
to find it. In Lollipop you'd see a giant lollipop,
and if you long-pressed it, you'd be taken to a
Flappy Bird clone.
• In Marshmallow, tapping the version number,
reveals a graphic of the letter M.When you tap
it again, you get a marshmallow with android
antenna.
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14. Access the Marshmallow file manager
• Did you know Android Marshmallow
comes with its own built-in file
explorer? Well it does. Go to Settings
> Storage & USB > Explore to... er,
explore it.
• Marshmallow's solution might not be as
in-depth and feature packed as
something like ES File Explorer, but it's
also less intrusive. Check it out for a
clean, minimal interface for browsing
files.
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15. Navigate better with
Bluetooth
• GPS isn't a perfect system and it can't always
pinpoint your location. On Android
Marshmallow, however, you can give your GPS a
hand by using Bluetooth.
• Go to Settings > Location and tap the hamburger (3
dots) icon. Next tap Scanning and on the
following page enable Bluetooth scanning (and Wi-
Fi scanning for even greater accuracy).
• Once you've done that, tap the return or back
button and tap Mode, then select either High-
accuracy or Battery saving mode to make use of
the new setting.
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16. witch on multi-window
mode
• This final tip will need you to get
your hands dirty with rooting and
flashing, but we wanted to
include it anyway. Multi-window
mode lets you open a separate
app in a new 'pop out' window,
so you can run two at once.
• This feature can already be seen
on the Galaxy Note 4 and Note
5, but now you can get it on
stock Android.
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17. Doze and battery improvements
• Battery life remains the Achilles heel of
most devices, and in Android
6.0, Google has introduced a raft of
energy-saving improvements
including Doze and the ability to
charge really quickly via USB-C.
Sadly you can’t retrofit a USB-C port
to your device but you can employ a
variety of tricks to improve battery
life and charging. We’ve included
the best ones here:

18. Clever SD card support
• Android Marshmallow can treat SD
cards as if they were internal
storage, without the limitations
that applied to external storage.
That means goodbye to storage
limits for app installations or data
associated with heavy duty apps. If
you’ve rooted your device,
Link2SD does much the same.

19. Quick launch the camera:
• Head into Settings > Display and
there's the option to quick launch
the camera with a double press of
the home button. It's much faster
than unlocking your phone and
hitting the icon.

20. Search settings
• Rather than rooting
through everything, you
can search the settings.
Just open up the Settings
menu and hit the
magnifying glass and type
what you're looking for.

21. Use Now onTap
• Just press and hold the home button.
If you're looking for the settings, go
into Google Now > Settings >
Now cards and you can enable or
disable Now on Tap.

22. Customise Google Now
• Tap the settings icon that
appears in the search bar.
Here you can select the
content you want to see,
as well as change the
settings, or place
reminders.

23. Change the default app
• Android lets you decide which is
the default app, if you have more
than one that will do the same
thing. Under Apps, select the app,
and hit "open by default". Here
you can clear defaults so you can
change to another app for those
tasks.

24. Control app permissions
• Marshmallow lets you manage all the
permissions for each app on an individual
basis. Go to Apps and select the app and hit
Permissions.This will let you toggle
permissions on and off, so you can disable
location access, for example.

25. Quickly switch to vibrate alerts
• If you want silence, but are after
vibration alerts still, then push the
volume button and tap the bell on the
pop-up.This will switch to vibrate.

26. Turn down media volume
• Hit the volume up or down button, and
the volume slider will appear.Tap the
down arrow on the right-hand side, and
you can change the ringer, media or
alarm volumes.

27. Engage Do not Disturb
• Swipe down Quick Settings and tap the Do Not
Disturb button.This gives you the option to have
total silence, alarms only, or priority only.You can
choose if this is for a time period, or until you
turn it off.

28. Application settings
• To mark an app as a Priority app: Head into Settings > Apps.Tap on the app you
want. In Notifications you get app controls, and you can set an app as a priority so you
always get notifications from that app.
• To turn off notifications on an app: Go to Settings > Apps > Tap on the app you
want. In Notifications you can block all notifications for any app on your device.
• To turn off peeking on an app: Go to Settings > Apps > Tap on the app you want. In
Notifications you can turn off peeking, so you don't get a toast notification for that
app.

29. lock screen notifications:
• Instant access to lock screen notifications: Just tap a notification twice
and it will open up the app.Want to dismiss it? Just swipe it away.
• Hide sensitive information in lock screen notifications: You can have
lock screen notifications without to much information being revealed.
Head to Settings > Sound & notification > App notifications, to manage
apps with sensitive information.
• Then go to Settings > Sound & notification > When device is locked, to
change the information revealed.This will then ensure that all apps you've
marked up don't give anything away.
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30. Android 6.0 Marshmallow Quick Settings tips
• Quickly select a Wi-Fi network: Swipe down for
Quick Settings, then click the network name beneath
the Wi-Fi icon.This takes you through to the Wi-Fi
settings.
• Quickly manage Bluetooth: The same applies to
Bluetooth. Click beneath the Bluetooth icon in Quick
Settings and you'll head into settings to select your
device.
• Turn on torch/flashlight: There's no need for a
separate app, just tap the button in Quick Settings to
turn on your flash as a torch. Or just say "Ok Google,
turn on torch/flashlight" and it will turn on.
• Cast your screen: Want your Android device on your
TV? Just swipe down and tap Cast screen and it will be
sent to your Chromecast. Not all apps are supported
though.
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31. Android 6.0 battery tips and tricks
• See your battery percentage: Open Quick Settings with a two-finger
swipe.Your battery percentage is displayed here. Or enable it through
the System UI Tuner, as detailed above.
• Time till fully charged: Charge time is displayed when connected to a
charger. Look at the bottom of the lock screen and in the battery
status screen, but it takes a little while for Android to calculate how
long charging will take. If you're fast charging, it will say "charging
rapidly"
• See what's eating battery: Swipe down Quick Settings, tap the battery
icon.You'll go to the battery status page and see how long you have
left and what apps are eating your battery.
• Turn on power saver: In the battery status page, tap the menu button,
select power saver.You can elect to have to automatically switch on at
15 per cent or 5 per cent battery.The system bars turn orange when
it is on.

32. Android 6.0 Marshmallow multiple user tips
• Limit what users can see: Create a restricted profile by tapping Settings >
Users > Restricted profile.You can then limit what your children can access, for
example.
• Guest profile: In the same area (Settings > Users) you can create a Guest profile.
While it is setup, you'll get the option to access as a guest from the lock screen.
• See how much storage they're using: If you want to know how much space is
being used up by another profile, head into Settings > Storage.At the bottom of
the list it says how much other profile and the guest is using.
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33. Android 6.0 Marshmallow Security tips
• Instant lock: In Settings > Security there's the option to lock the device as
soon as the screen goes to sleep.You'll find the option to lock as soon as
you press the power button too.These are old settings, but really useful.
• Manage fingerprints: Head into Security >Nexus Imprint and you'll be able
to add or remove fingerprints that will unlock your device.A pro tip is to
register fingers on both hands so you can unlock your phone with
whichever hand you have free.
• Bluetooth unlock: Again in Security > Smart Lock, you have the option to
nominate trusted devices, so your Android will unlock when connected to
something else.You can nominate Bluetooth devices (like your smartwatch
or car Bluetooth) or select an NFC tag.
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