We suspect that most people who use Mac desktops or laptops are also most likely using an iPhone, which offers terrific integration with macOS. Finally, using Work Profile hides all those productivity apps when it’s time to relax. Some phones, including recent Pixels and Motorolas, turn on Do Not Disturb mode when you set them down with the screen facing down-a quick and easy way to get relief from disturbances. If you're looking for more sleep tips, you should read our feature on how tech can help (and hurt) your sleep.Īnother recommended Wellbeing feature is Focus mode, which silences noisy apps’ notifications for an allotted time that you schedule. There’s a Pause option in the dropdown menu if you need more time before retiring. You can also swap to Dark Theme during Bedtime mode, or just outright set your phone screen dark and enjoy some peace. Not only does it silence your phone at a set time, it also changes the screen to grayscale, in case you must look at the screen after hours. Android's Bedtime mode is part Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative. It’s not the healthiest thing in the world to stay up all night texting and doomscrolling.

For those apps, you can at least choose Disable, which will hide them from the interface and free up system resources. For example, if you only use Firefox or Edge as your web browser, you still can't uninstall Google’s Chrome browser. Unfortunately, there are some stock apps you cannot uninstall. Simply long-press an app’s icon and then select the App Info entry to get to its detail page where you can uninstall it. And phone vendors tend to include a bunch of their own apps that you may never need to use.

If you’re just not a podcast person, you don’t need a podcast app. Many will be welcomed by nearly everyone-maps, email, browser, and so on-but there are undoubtedly some you don’t want or need. Most Android phones come with a healthy helping of preinstalled apps.

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