How to Customize Android Marshmallow With System UI Tuner

How to Customize Android Marshmallow With Organization UI Tuner

The ability to customize virtually every square inch of your Android smartphone is a large draw for many users. While that means rooting the smartphone for some users, that's a bridge too far for most of the states -- especially when you customize a great bargain without resorting to rooting.

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Android Marshmallow offers a new set of customization options to users that provide some controls were previously only available via root. This carte du jour is called Arrangement UI Tuner and while it is a bit hidden by default, activating it and taking advantage of these advanced customization options is remarkably simple.

1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to reveal the notification panel. Long press on the cog in the upper-correct corner for 2 to three seconds so release. If successful, you'll see a popular up saying "Congrats! System UI Tuner has been added to Settings."

2. Scroll to the bottom of the Settings page and tap System UI Tuner.

3. Tap Got Information technology on the popular up message.

So what can you do with System UI Tuner? Here's a quick rundown of the settings you can customize.

Add Bombardment Percentage to Status Bar: This setting will identify your current battery pct inside the battery icon in your status bar. Just toggle the switch for Bear witness embedded battery percentage.

Customize Status Bar: This will allow you to select which icons appear in your status bar. Tap Status Bar, and toggle the switch for any item you would like to not announced in the condition bar.

Customize Quick Settings Menu: You're able to add items to the quick settings menu, reorder them or remove them entirely. Yous reorder quick settings by dragging an icon'due south setting and dropping it in the desired location.

Every bit for removing a quick setting:

1. Tap Quick Settings.

2. Drag and driblet the unwanted quick setting to Delete.

To add a new quick setting:

1. Tap Add together Tile.

ii. Select the quick setting you would like to add.

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A cocky-professed "wearer of wearables," Sean Riley is a Senior Writer for Laptop Mag who has been roofing tech for more than a decade. He specializes in covering phones and, of course, wearable tech, but has also written about tablets, VR, laptops, and smart home devices, to proper noun but a few. His articles have also appeared in Tom'south Guide, TechTarget, Phandroid, and more than.