Use quick settings

Open quick settings

Settings you adjust frequently, like Bluetooth, are ‘quick settings’, easy to get to from any screen.

  1. To see your first few quick settings, swipe down once from the top of your screen.

  2. Swipe down again to see all quick settings. Then you can:

    • See all quick settings. You can swipe left for more.
    • Tap to open the Settings app for all phone settings.
    • Tap to turn your phone off.

Adjust quick settings

To adjust the screen brightness, slide .

To adjust other settings:

  • Tap an icon to toggle the setting on/off.
  • Touch and hold an icon to adjust related settings.
IconSetting
Wi-Fi
Mobile data
Bluetooth
Do Not Disturb
Auto-rotate
Wi-Fi calling
Dolby Atmos (You can add this to Quick settings.)
Torch
Aeroplane mode
Hotspot
Alarm
Battery Saver
Screen cast
Screen record
Camera access
Mic access
Data Saver (Appears after you turn on Data Saver for the first time.)
Bedtime mode (Appears after you turn on Bedtime mode for the first time.)
Scan QR code
Colour inversion (Appears after you turn on Colour inversion for the first time.)
Extra dim (Appears after you turn on Extra dim for the first time.)

Find any phone setting

  1. Open Settings:

  2. Tap the search bar at the top and type what you're looking for.

Customise quick settings

You can rearrange quick settings tiles, putting your most used settings at the top. You can also add or remove them.

  1. Open quick settings.
  2. Tap .
  3. Make your changes:

    • Drag tiles to rearrange them.

    • To add new tiles, swipe up for a list of available tiles. Tap one to add it to your quick settings.

To return quick settings to its original state, tap > Reset.

When you leave a media app that allows you to listen in the background while you use other apps on your phone, playback switches to the media player which opens in quick settings and also appears on your lock screen for convenient control.

To let you continue listening from where you left off, the media player is pinned to its spot in quick settings. When it's pinned, you can't swipe it to close it.

To swipe the media player to close it and remove it from quick settings until you play something again, unpin it:

  1. Open Quick settings, press and hold the media player, and touch .

    Or go to Settings > Sound & vibration > Media

  2. Turn Pin media player off .

To pin the media player to its spot in quick settings:

  1. Open quick settings, touch & hold the media player and tap .

    Or go to Settings > Sound & vibration > Media

  2. Turn Pin media player on .

Apps that support background playback

While some apps like YouTube and YT Music require a premium paid subscription to play in the background and won't open in the media player using the free version, many media apps such as Spotify, Pandora and Amazon Music do support background playback in their free versions.

To find more apps, open Play store and search for ‘free background playback’.