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Choose carefully Apps are great. There's something for everyone. Play, communicate, work, or have fun. But remember, choose your apps carefully. Here are a few tips: • To help prevent spyware, phishing, or viruses from affecting your smartphone or privacy, use apps from trusted sites, like Google Play. • On Google Play, check the app's ratings and comments before installing. • If you doubt the safety of an app, don't install it. • Like all apps, downloaded apps will use up memory, data, battery, and processing power-some more than others. For example, a simple battery level widget will use less than a streaming music player app. After installing an app, if you're not happy with how much memory, data, battery or processing power it's using, uninstall it. You can always install it again later. • Just like web browsing, you may want to monitor children's access to apps to help prevent exposure to inappropriate content. • Certain apps may not provide completely accurate information. Take care, especially when it comes to personal health. Take care of your apps From your home screen tap Apps , then swipe left to scroll through apps. To close the apps screen, tap Home or Back . • Uninstall apps: Tap Apps > Settings > Apps. Swipe left to ALL, tap an app, then tap Disable or Uninstall in the top right (if available). Disable removes the app from your menu-to Enable it, reopen this window and tap Enable (disabled apps are at the bottom of the list). If an app locks up your smartphone as soon as you turn it on, restart in Safe Mode: Turn off your smartphone, then turn it back on-when you see the "Motorola" logo during power-up, press and hold both volume keys until you see the home screen, with Safe Mode in the lower left. Then, try removing the app. • Reinstall apps: To reinstall apps on Google Play Store, tap Apps > Play Store > My apps. The apps you downloaded are listed and available for download. • Show or clear app details: Tap Apps > Settings > Apps. A bar at the bottom tells you how much app storage space you have left. Swipe left or right to see the list of DOWNLOADED, RUNNING, or ALL apps, then tap an app in the list to show its details and storage usage. You can tap Clear data, Clear cache, or other options. 16 Home screen & apps

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Home screen & apps
Choose carefully
Apps are great. There's something for everyone. Play,
communicate, work, or have fun. But remember, choose your
apps carefully. Here are a few tips:
•
To help prevent spyware, phishing, or viruses from affecting
your smartphone or privacy, use apps from trusted sites, like
Google Play.
•
On Google Play, check the app’s ratings and comments
before installing.
•
If you doubt the safety of an app, don’t install it.
•
Like all apps, downloaded apps will use up memory, data,
battery, and processing power—some more than others.
For example, a simple battery level widget will use less than
a streaming music player app. After installing an app, if
you’re not happy with how much memory, data, battery or
processing power it’s using, uninstall it. You can always
install it again later.
•
Just like web browsing, you may want to monitor children’s
access to apps to help prevent exposure to inappropriate
content.
•
Certain apps may not provide completely accurate
information. Take care, especially when it comes to personal
health.
Take care of your apps
From your home screen tap Apps
, then swipe left to scroll
through apps. To close the apps screen, tap Home
or
Back
.
•
Uninstall apps:
Tap Apps
>
Settings
>
Apps
. Swipe
left to
ALL
, tap an app, then tap
Disable
or
Uninstall
in the
top right (if available).
Disable
removes the app from your menu—to
Enable
it,
reopen this window and tap
Enable
(disabled apps are at the
bottom of the list).
If an app locks up your smartphone as soon as you turn it on,
restart in Safe Mode: Turn off your smartphone, then turn it
back on—when you see the “Motorola” logo during
power-up, press and hold both volume keys until you see the
home screen, with
Safe Mode
in the lower left. Then, try
removing the app.
•
Reinstall apps:
To reinstall apps on Google Play Store, tap
Apps
>
Play Store
>
My apps
. The apps you
downloaded are listed and available for download.
•
Show or clear app details:
Tap Apps
>
Settings
>
Apps
. A bar at the bottom tells you how much app storage
space you have left. Swipe left or right to see the list of
DOWNLOADED
,
RUNNING
, or
ALL
apps, then tap an app in
the list to show its details and storage usage. You can tap
Clear data
,
Clear cache
, or other options.