Use System UI Tuner on the Nexus 6P

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You're watching VisiHow. In another tutorial, I demonstrated how to turn on and turn off the UI Tuner on the Nexus 6P. In this tutorial, I am going to demonstrate how to use the UI Tuner.

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Steps

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    From the home screen, take two fingers and swipe down
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    This will reveal the gear shaped icon, which will take us over to "Settings."
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    Now, we scroll all the way down to the very bottom of the "Settings" menu and you will see "System UI Tuner." Tap this once
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    The screen will give you a warning, that this is fun for some, but not for all. The warning says: " System Ui Tuner gives you extra ways to tweak and customize the Android user interface. These experimental features may change, break, or disappear in future releases. Proceed with caution."
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    You will click on "GOT IT."
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    And you'll see the items that you can change
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    If you tap "Quick Settings"
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    It will allow you to change the items that appear when you take your two fingers and swipe down on the phone.
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    You can "Add tile."
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    If you want to put in "Broadcast Tile", then you need to cancel it
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    You can also delete a tile
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    If you no longer want the "Hotspot", drag and drop it to the trashcan.
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    To delete a tile, you just drag and drop
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    So if I want to delete "Cast", I will drag it with my finger to the "Delete" symbol. I can delete as many as I want.
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    If I change my mind later, and I would like to add them back in, I will click on "Add tile."
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    Then, I can choose to add back "Hotspot", "Cast", "Location"
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    You can also change the location of these tiles on the screen
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    I can switch "Cellular Data" from being on the right-hand side to the left side, just by clicking and dragging.
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    I can also drag from the bottom to the top
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    That was the explanation on how to customize the quick control settings using the System UI Tuner.
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    Let's go back and see what other options we have
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    We can also change the "Status bar." The status bar is located at the top of the screen
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    And you can see that it gets busy with a lot of icons, when there is a lot of stuff going on.
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    We can tap on the Status Bar
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    I can start turning some of the options off
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    If I want to disable "WiFi" mode, which is the selected triangle symbol next to the battery, I can do that
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    Let's turn all of these off, and let's make the status bar clean up at the top
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    You will see that there is just the vibration mode left.
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    You can also make it go away by increasing the volume a little
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    Now, it's just the battery life that's indicated.
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    Let's go back
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    The last option that we can change inside the System UI Tuner is "Show embedded battery percentage." You'll see that the battery life here, looks like it's half full.
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    If I want to see the actual percentage, I'll slide the switch over to the right
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    You will see now that it shows 57% battery life left within the battery icon.
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    Before, if I wanted to know the exact amount of percentage within my battery, I would have to swipe down and look for the larger 57% located in the control panel
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