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Tech Talk: Spring Clean your Smartphone

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Jason Strong from AT&T is on Wisconsin Tonight every Friday talking about the latest tech gadgets.

Spring Cleaning doesn't just apply to your home. 

Strong suggests taking the time to clean the one item that's always with you.

1.) Clean Your Phone:  Clean your phone with a microfiber cleaning cloth. To clean away germs and bacteria, use a wrung-out disinfectant wipe or spray a paper towel with disinfectant. Don’t spray the phone.

2.) Delete Unused Apps: Even though you may not be actively using an application, it can still be running along with other apps. This can silently drain the battery. Close or quit those unused apps, and if you no longer use the apps, delete them. This also frees up space on your smartphone for new apps or more photos and video.

3.) Organize Your Apps: Create folders by category: Travel, Weather, News, Social Media, Photography, etc. Place apps used most frequently on your home screen. 

4.) Declutter Your Inbox:  Unsubscribe from any promotional emails you don’t open. Create a digital filing system with folders so emails are moved to the appropriate category as they are read. Consider deleting any emails over two weeks old. 

5.) Clean Up Your Contact List: Review your address book and toss out the contacts you no longer use to free up valuable space. 

 

6.) Offload Your Photos: Smartphones make it easy to capture and record life’s moments, but those photos and videos can take up a lot of space. For those who can’t bear to delete even one photo or video consider AT&T Locker or SanDisk Ultra memory cards