INSTANT UPGRADES
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2 LIGHT UP
Want to look after your eyes
but make the most of that
excellent AMOLED screen?
Open settings and hit Display,
then switch on Comfort Tone so
the colour balance looks great
whatever the ambient lighting
is like. Next, control how much
blue light the screen emits by
tapping Vision Comfort (which
will turn everything a bit orange);
and fire up dark mode to save
your retinas and your battery.5 TIGHTEN UP
Sure, the Google screen (to
the left of your home screen)
is genius. It uses whatever info
Google can get its mitts on
to curate a newsfeed that
couldn’t be more ‘you’. But
if ever there was a case of
something being too good
and therefore distracting, this
is it. To shut down this recipe for
addictive death-scrolling, pinch
your home screen, tap on Home
Settings and toggle Google off.1 TOOL UP
OnePlus’s OxygenOS interface
adds some handy shortcuts to
Android – such as the Toolbox,
giving you shortcuts to stuff like
the selfie-cam or a timer. Swipe
down from a home screen and
you’ll see a load of boxes – step
counter, quick notes and so
on – but Toolbox is where you
customise shortcuts by tapping
on the pencil icon at top-right.
This also works with Google
apps, Twitter, Outlook and more.4 SHARPEN UP
If you think it’s only the 9 Pro
that offers Hasselblad imaging,
you’re mistaken. The whole
series sees the legendary
camera brand upgrade your
phone photography experience,
from the manual mode interface
through to the level of polish in
the pictures themselves. To fire
up that manual mode with its
pro features, open the camera
app, swipe up from the bottom
of the screen and select H Pro.3 LINK UP
The OnePlus 9 can project from
its screen to a monitor or TV
through a wired connection...
and if you have a laptop with
a USB-C port that you hook
up to a big screen, you probably
already have the right dongle.
Whether you need to improvise
for a dead laptop at a meeting,
want to blow up a video or fancy
some not-so-mobile gaming
with a Bluetooth joypad, the 9
is up to the challenge.6 SHUT IT UP
Don’t ignore OnePlus’s handy
little Alert Slider. It’s located on
the top-right side of the phone
and lets you quickly switch
between silent, vibrate and
sound-on, without having to
unlock your phone. Slide up
to mute the phone, slide down
a little to switch the ringer back
on, and slide all the way down
to turn on vibrate mode. Deeper
control is available in settings,
under Alert Slider.N
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