Google 4, Nexus 4 Manual Book

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Edition 1.2.

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Table of contents

Part One: Using Nexus 4

1. Get started 2

Insert a SIM card 2

Charge the battery 4

Get around 7

Browse & organize your
Home screens 10

Touch & type 14

Type text by speaking 16

Why use a Google Account? 18

What’s New in Android 20

2. Explore your phone 24

Swipe up for Google Now 24

Swipe down for notications

& settings 27

Relax with Google Play 31

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Use & customize the lock screen 35

Try Face Unlock 38

Share content with Android Beam 39

Change the wallpaper 41

Take a screenshot 42

Connect to keyboards, mice,
& other devices 43

3. Use the Phone app 47

Make a phone call 47

Answer or divert calls 49

Work with the Call log 51

Place an Internet (SIP) call 52

Listen to your voicemail 54

4. Use the keyboard 59

Enter & edit text 59

Try Gesture Typing 63

Use keyboard dictionaries 65

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5. Try some apps 66

Use All Apps 66

Start Gmail 68

Find People 69

Manage your Calendar 71

Open & use Clock 73

Manage downloads 75

6. Use Google Now & Search 77

About Google Now 77

Use Google Now 83

Turn off Google Now 86

Control location access,
reporting, & history 87

Search & Voice Actions basics 92

Search tips & tricks 95

Use Voice Actions 97

Voice Actions commands 99

Google Now Card list 102

About Gmail Cards 114

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About the Location History card 115

About the Stocks card 116

Search settings 117

Privacy & accounts 120

7. Accessibility 122

Accessibility overview 122

Accessibility gestures for
Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) 124

Set up your phone 127

Use magnication gestures 130

Use TalkBack 131

Change TalkBack settings 132

Use Explore by Touch with TalkBack 134

Navigate the Home screen 136

Try Google Play 140

Use Gmail 144

Browse Chrome 148

Use the lock screen 151

Accessibility settings 152

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Part Two: Adjusting settings

8. Wireless & network settings 156

Connect to Wi-Fi networks 156

Connect to Bluetooth devices 163

Optimize data usage 168

Control airplane mode &
other network settings 174

Connect to virtual private networks 176

9. Device settings 179

Change sound settings 179

Set up Daydream 180

Use Wireless Display 182

Transfer les through USB 183

Extend battery life 185

Manage memory usage 187

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10. Security settings 192

Security on Android 192

Manage security settings 193

Protect against harmful apps 195

Set screen lock 197

Encrypt your data 200

Work with certicates 203

11. Personal, account, &
system settings 208

Manage location access 208

Change backup & reset options 211

Add or remove accounts 214

Congure sync options 216

Appendix: Hardware reference 220

What’s in the box 220

Nexus 4 222

Specs 224

Part One

Using
Nexus 4

1

Get started

Insert a SIM card

Before you start using your phone, you may
need to insert your Micro SIM card. If no card
is installed, the message “No SIM card” ap­pears on the phone’s lock screen.

Eject
button
aperture

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The SIM card tray is located on the left side
of the phone below the volume button. The
eject button is a small hole just above the
tray door. To install a new Micro SIM card:

1. Insert the SIM ejection tool that comes
with the phone (or a thin pin) into the eject
button hole, and push rmly but gently un­til the tray pops out.

2. Remove the tray and place the micro SIM
card inside it, with the contacts out and
the angled corner to the right. There is
only one possible way to t the card snug­ly into the tray.

3. Carefully reposition the tray in the slot
and push it gently back into the phone.

TIP: Your phone’s IMEI identication

number is on the SIM card tray. You
may need this number later to identify
your phone for service purposes. Write
down the IMEI number or take a photo
of the label on the product box.

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Charge the battery

Your battery will not be fully charged when

you rst unpack your Nexus 4. It’s a good

idea to fully charge the battery as soon as
you get a chance.

If you’re using the travel adapter that comes
with the phone, connect one end of the data
cable to the charger port at the bottom of
the phone, and the other end to the travel
adapter. Then connect the travel adapter to
a power outlet.

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• The travel adapter varies by country

or region.

• Use only the travel adapter and Mi-

cro USB cable that come with your
Nexus 4. Using a different travel
adapter or cable may damage your
phone.

• The input voltage range between

the wall outlet and this travel adapt­er is AC 100V–240V, and the travel
adapter’s output voltage is DC 5V,
2A.

• Charging your phone through a USB

cable attached to another device,
such as a laptop computer, takes
longer than charging with a travel
adapter.

• Nexus 4’s battery can’t be removed.

Don’t attempt to open the phone.

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IMPORTANT: If you use a wireless char­ger, you must use an approved model
and only as directed. The Nexus 4 trav­el adapter may not generate enough
current to power a wireless charger.

DO NOT throw the battery in
municipal waste. The symbol
of the crossed out wheeled
bin indicates that the battery
should not be placed in mu­nicipal waste.

Set up your phone

The rst time you turn on the phone, you’ll

see a Welcome screen.

• To choose a different language, touch the
menu.

• To continue, touch Start and follow the
instructions.

When prompted, sign in using the email ad-

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dress and password for your Google Ac­count. If you don’t have one yet, create one.

An email address that you use for any of the
following counts as a Google Account:

• Gmail

• YouTube

• Google Apps

• AdWords

• Any other Google product

When you sign in with a Google Account, all
the email, contacts, Calendar events, and
other data associated with that account are
automatically synced with your phone.

If you have multiple Google Accounts, you
can add the others later.

Get around

Every Home screen shows the Favorites tray:
another quick way to get to your apps:

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At the bottom of every Nexus 4 screen, no

matter what you’re doing, you’ll always nd

these three navigation buttons:

Back

Opens the previous screen you
were working in, even if it was in
a different app. Once you back
up to the Home screen, you
can’t go back any further in your
history.

Home

Opens Home. If you’re view­ing a left or right Home screen,
opens the central Home screen.
To open Google Now, swipe up.
Google Now gives just what you
need to know, right when you
need it.

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Recent apps

Opens a list of thumbnail images
of apps you’ve worked with re­cently. To open an app, touch it.
To remove a thumbnail from the
list, swipe it left or right.

If you don’t use these buttons often, they
m

ay shrink to dots or fade away, depending
on the current app. To bring them back, touch
their location.

Settings

On the All Apps screen avail­able from the Favorites tray,
notice the Settings icon. This
brings you to the Settings
screens for your phone, where
you can adjust things like net­work, sound, and account set­tings, among many others.

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TIP: You can use Quick Settings to tog­gle Wi-Fi, change display brightness,
and more. To open Quick Settings,

swipe down with two ngers from the

top of any screen. Or, swipe down with

one nger to pull down the notication

shade, and touch the Quick Settings
icon at the top right.

At the top of the screen you’ll nd Google

Search, which lets you search your phone
or the Internet. Touch Google to type your
search terms, or the Microphone icon to
speak them; you can also say “Google” and
your query to activate a voice search.

Browse & organize your Home
screens

Browse Home screens

To move between Home screens, swipe left
or right.

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The My Library widget displays apps, music,
movies, magazines, books, and games you
already have – including free content that
comes with your Nexus 4:

Touch any
title to
open it

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When you’re ready to shop for more, try the
suggestions in one of the Play Recommenda­tions widgets:

Touch to avoid future
suggestions like this

Touch to
learn more

Touch to see a
different suggestion

To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go
and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch &
hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the
top of the screen.

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Organize Home screens

To add an app or widget to a Home screen:

1. Go to the Home screen where you want to

place the app or widget.

2. Touch the All Apps icon.

3. Swipe right, if necessary, to nd the app

or widget you want..

4. Touch & hold the app or widget until the

Home screen appears, slide it into place,

and lift your nger.

To move an app or widget icon to a different
location on a Home screen:

1. Touch & hold the icon.

2. Slide your nger to the new position.

To move between Home screens, slide to­ward the edge of the screen.
To bump another icon out of the way, slide
slowly into it.

3. Lift your nger.

The icon drops into its new position.

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To combine two icons in a folder, slide one
quickly over the other.

To open a folder, touch it. To rename a folder,
touch its name.

Touch & type

To select or activate something, touch it.

To type something, such as a name, pass­word, or search terms, just touch where you
want to type. A keyboard pops up that lets

you type into the eld.

Other common gestures include:

• Touch & hold. Touch & hold an item on the

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screen by touching it and not lifting your

nger until an action occurs.

• Drag. Touch & hold an item for a moment

and then, without lifting your nger, move
your nger on the screen until you reach

the target position. For example, you can
move apps around on the Home screen.

• Swipe or slide. Quickly move your nger

across the surface of the screen, with-

out pausing when you rst touch (so you

don’t drag something instead). For exam­ple, you can slide a Home screen left or
right to view the other Home screens.

• Double-tap. Tap quickly twice on a web-

page, map, or other screen to zoom. For
example, double-tap a picture in Chrome
to zoom in, and double-tap again to zoom
out.

• Pinch. In some apps (such as Maps,

Chrome, and Gallery), you can zoom in

and out by placing two ngers on the

screen at once and pinching them togeth­er (to zoom out) or spreading them apart
(to zoom in).

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• Rotate the screen. The orientation of

most screens rotates with your phone as
you turn it. To lock or unlock the screen’s
vertical orientation, swipe down with two

ngers from the top of any screen and

touch the Rotation icon in Quick Settings.

Settings

To change your phone’s noti-

cation sounds, volumes, and

more, go to

Settings > De-

vice > Sound.

To change your phone’s bright­ness, font size, and more, go
to

Settings > Device >

Display.

Type text by speaking

You can speak to enter text in most places
that you can enter text with the onscreen
keyboard.

1. Touch a text eld, or a location in text

you’ve already entered in a text eld.

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2. Touch the Microphone key on the on-

screen keyboard.

3. When you see the microphone image,

speak what you want to type.

Say “comma,” “period,” “question mark,” “ex­clamation mark,” or “exclamation point” to
enter punctuation.

When you pause, what you spoke is tran­scribed by the speech-recognition service

and entered in the text eld, underlined. You

can touch the Delete key to erase the under­lined text. If you start typing or entering more
text by speaking, the underline disappears.

To improve processing of your voice input,
Google may record a few seconds of ambient
background noise in temporary memory at
any time. This recording remains on the de­vice only fleetingly and is not sent to Google.

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Settings

To change your phone’s speech
settings, go to Settings > Per-

sonal > Language & input.

Why use a Google Account?

A Google Account lets you organize and ac­cess your personal information from any
computer or mobile device:

• Use Google Play. Google Play brings to-

gether all your favorite content in one
place: movies, TV shows, books, music,
magazines, apps, and more. When you
sign in with your Google Account, you can
reach any of this content from any of your
devices – as long as you have a network
connection. You can also shop for more in
the Google Play store.

• Synchronize and back up everything.

Whether you draft an email, add an event
to your calendar, or add a friend’s ad­dress, your work gets backed up continu-

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ously by Google and synchronized with
any computer where you use the same
Google Account.

• Access from anywhere. Check your latest

calendar, email, text messages, or social
stream, no matter what computer or mo­bile device you’re using.

• Keep your stuff secure and available.

Google works round the clock to protect
your personal data from unauthorized ac­cess and to ensure that you get it when
you need it, wherever you need it.

• Simplify shopping. You can connect your

Google account with Google Wallet, which
makes it easy to purchase music, books,
apps, and more on Google Play and other
online stores.

• Use other Google services. Your Google

Account also lets you take full advan­tage of other Google apps and services
that you may want to use, such as Gmail,
Google Maps, Navigation, Google Play,
YouTube, Google Talk, Messaging, and
more.

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What’s New in Android

Whether you’re new to Android or an avid
user, check out some of the new features in
Android 4.1 and 4.2 (Jelly Bean). For a com­prehensive list of all changes since Android

4.0, see Android 4.1, Jelly Bean and Android

4.2: A new flavor of Jelly Bean.

• Gesture Typing (Android 4.2)

Instead of typing each letter, use Ges­ture Typing to input a word without lifting

your nger. You don’t need to worry about

spaces because they’re added automati­cally for you.

Glide your nger over the letters you want
to type, and lift it after each word.

• Google Play widgets

New widgets on your Home screens dis­play recently used apps, music, movies,
books, or games you already have – in­cluding preloaded content that comes
with your device. Other widgets offer sug­gestions for browsing Google Play.

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Touch a widget to access its content on
Google Play. Touch & hold a widget to re­size it or remove it.

• Quick Settings (Android 4.2)

Use Quick Settings to easily access Wi­Fi settings, manage display brightness,
open the main Settings menu, and more.

Swipe down with two ngers from the top
right corner of any screen to open Quick
Settings, then touch one of the boxes to
open a specic setting.

• Expandable notications

Expandable notications were introduced

in Android 4.1, including the option to per-

form actions from the notication itself.
In Android 4.2, you can expand notica-

tions more easily with a swipe of your

nger.

Swipe down the notication shade from
the top of the screen, then glide your
nger down the notications to expand
them. Touch an icon inside a notication
to handle a task directly.

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• Rearrange Home screens

Slide an icon slowly to move other icons
or widgets gently aside.

Touch & hold an icon and slide slowly to
the location of your choice. Slide an icon
quickly over another to create a folder.

• Screen magnication (Android 4.2)

Users with visual impairments can enter
full-screen magnication by triple-tap­ping the screen.

Go to Settings > System > Accessibility >
Magnication gestures to turn on screen
magnication.

• Google Now

Google Now shows you information at
just the right time, such as today’s weath­er before you start your day, how much

trafc to expect before you leave for work,

and even your favorite team’s score while
they’re playing.

Swipe up from the bottom center of any

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screen, or touch the Google Search bar on
any Home screen.

• Say “Google” to search

When the Google Now screen is open,
you can say “Google” to activate a voice
search.

Open Google Now, then say “Google” and
your query to search.

2

Explore your
phone

Swipe up for Google Now

Google Now is about getting you just the
right information, at just the right time.

It tells you today’s weather before you start

your day, how much trafc to expect before

you leave for work, and even your favorite
team’s score while they’re playing.

All of this happens automatically. Google
Now intelligently brings you the information
you want to see, when you want to see it. No
digging required.

For example, here’s a Google Now card that

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appears when you’re about to start your
commute home:

Give it a try! Swipe your nger up from the

bottom of any screen, or touch the Google
Search bar at the top of the screen.

When you want to see more cards, touch
Show more cards at the bottom of the
screen. When you don’t need them any more,
swipe them out of the way.

You’re in control

When you decide to use Google Now, you’re
turning on location reporting and location

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history. Google Now also uses location
information provided by Google’s location
service and GPS, if those are currently turned
on.

Google Now also uses data that you may
have stored in other Google products. For
example, if you have searches stored in your
Web History, Google Now can show cards
based on sports scores, flight status, and
so on.

Similarly, Google Now can use data that you
may have stored in third-party products that
you allow Google to access. For example,
your phone’s synced calendar may include
entries from non-Google calendar products.
If you have such an entry for a dentist
appointment that includes the dentist’s

address, Google Now can check trafc and

suggest when to leave.

You’re in control. You can choose exactly
which cards you’d like to see, adjust the
details of what they display, and adjust your
privacy settings.

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For more information about Google Now and
your location information, see “Chapter 5,

Use Google Now & Search.”

Swipe down for notications &

settings

Notications alert you to the arrival of new

messages, calendar events, and alarms,
as well as ongoing events, such as video
downloads.

When a notication arrives, its icon appears

at the top of the screen. Icons for pending

notications appear on the left, and system

icons showing things like Wi-Fi signal or bat­tery strength on the right:

Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, &
battery status

Pending

notications

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To open the notication shade, swipe down

from the top left corner of any screen.

Certain notications can be expanded to

show more information, such as email pre­views or calendar events. The one at the top
is always expanded when possible.

To open the related app, touch the notica­tion icon on the left. Some notications also
allow you to take specic actions by touch­ing icons within the notication. For ex­ample, Calendar notications allow you to

Snooze (remind you later) or send email to
other guests.

When you’re nished with a notication, just
swipe it away. To dismiss all notications,

touch the Dismiss icon at the top right of the

notication shade.

You can perform these actions from the no-

tication shade:

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Touch to
respond
to other
guests

Swipe down
using one

nger to

expand
certain

notications

Dismiss all

Go to Quick Settings

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Quick Settings

Use Quick Settings to easily toggle Wi-Fi,
manage display brightness, open the main
Settings menu, and more. To open Quick Set­tings, swipe down from the top right corner
of any screen:

Touch to
open all
settings

Go to notications

Touch a square to

open the specic

setting

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Relax with Google Play

Google Play brings together all your favorite
content in one place – movies, TV shows,
books, music, magazines, apps, and more –
so you can reach it from any of your devices.

Use Google Play widgets

These widgets are available on your Home
screens:

• My Library. Displays your most recently

used music, books, and so on. Touch any

of the images to see your content –plus

free gifts from Google.

• Recommended on Play. Suggests music,

movies, and other content that may inter­est you. Touch the suggestion to learn
more about it.

• Recommended apps. Recommends apps

that you can add to your Home screen.
Touch the recommendation to learn more
about it.

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All Google Play recommendation widgets
work the same way:

Touch to avoid future
suggestions like this

Touch to
learn more

Touch to see a
different suggestion

To resize a widget, touch & hold, then let go
and drag the blue dots. To remove it, touch &
hold, then drag it to the Remove icon at the
top of the screen.

To add another Play widget, touch the
All Apps icon, then Widgets, and swipe from
right to left until you see the one you want.
Then touch & hold, and let go in the Home
screen location you want.

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Shop on Google Play

Play Store

To open the Google Play Store
app, touch the Play Store icon
in your Favorites tray on every
Home screen.

Most things you purchase on
Google Play are available from
your computer as well as from
any of your Android mobile de­vices. (Android apps are one
exception – they run only on
Android devices.)

Sign in to play.google.com to get your enter-
tainment from anywhere.

Find your content

If you purchased on Google Play in the past,
you’ll automatically have access to this con­tent on your Nexus 4 — just make sure you’re
signed in using the same account that you
used to purchase it.

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You can get to your content using any of
the Google Play icons in your Favorites tray,
including Books, Magazines, Movies, and
Music.

Or, touch the

Play Store icon to open
Google Play, and then go to one of the main
sections, such as Apps, Music, and so on.
When you touch the

Menu icon in any

section, the rst item in the menu is always

something like My Apps or My Music, which
will bring you your content for that section of
Google Play.

You can quickly access your content this
way, from the Google Play Store app, even
if you originally purchased it on Google Play
using a different phone or phone. If you get a
new device, all your media will automatically
be waiting for you here when you turn on and
sign in.

Google Play settings

To adjust your Google Play settings, switch
accounts, or get help, choose the option

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you want from the Menu in the top right

corner.

The Google Play Settings screen lets you

control when you’re notied about updates

to apps and games, clear your search histo-

ry, and enable user controls. To lter Android

apps based on maturity level or require a PIN
before completing any purchase, touch Con-

tent ltering or Set or change PIN.

Google Play support

For more detailed information about Google
Play, including phone and email support op­tions, visit support.google.com/googleplay.

Use & customize the lock
screen

You can add widgets to the top of the lock
screen and swipe between them. Lock
screen widgets let you scan recent Gmail

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messages, Calendar entries, and other app
content without unlocking your screen.

To set or change the type of lock, see Set

screen lock.

Navigate the lock screen

Clock is the default widget. To hide the PIN,
pattern, or password lock, swipe down from
the clock or other widget at the top of the
lock screen. Touch the lock icon at the bot­tom of the screen to show the lock again.

To access the Camera app without unlocking
the screen:

1. Swipe left from the right edge of the

screen.

2. If necessary, switch to the mode you

want. The mode is indicated by the cam­era or other icon at the lower left in por­trait mode.

3. Start taking photos or videos.

To view what you captured, swipe left to open

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the Filmstrip view of your Gallery. The image
or video is automatically saved to your Gal­lery, but you can’t view any of your other pho­tos and videos until you unlock your screen.
To get back to the main Camera app, swipe
right.

To close the Camera app, touch the bottom
of your screen to bring up the navigation but­tons, then touch one of the buttons.

Add a widget to the lock screen

1. Swipe left from the right edge of the

screen until you see the

Plus icon.

2. Touch the Plus icon. If prompted, en-

ter your PIN, pattern, or password.
A list of widgets appears. Apps that sup­port lock screen widgets can add their
own widgets to this list.

3. Touch the widget you want to add.

You can add up to ve widgets to your lock

screen. To move between them, swipe be­tween screens.

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Reorder lock screen widgets

1. Touch & hold a widget.

2. Drag the widget and release it in the loca-

tion of your choice.

Remove a lock screen widget

Touch & hold the widget, then drag it onto the
Remove icon.

Try Face Unlock

You can set an automatic screen lock for
your phone. After you set a lock, the screen
locks when the display goes to sleep or when
you press the Power button.

You can set locks of different strengths us­ing lock settings:

1. Go to Settings > Personal > Security

> Screen lock.

2. Touch the type of lock you’d like to use.

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Face Unlock is one of the options available.
After you’ve set it up, you can unlock your
phone simply by looking at it. Although Face
Unlock is not very secure, it can be conve­nient and fun to use.

TIP: After you set up Face Unlock, look
under Settings > Personal > Security
for two additional settings: Improve
face matching and Liveness check.
Use these to make Face Unlock more
reliable and secure.

Share content with Android
Beam

You can beam a web page, a video, or other
content from your screen to another device
by bringing the devices together (typically
back to back).

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Before you begin: Make sure both devices
are unlocked, support Near Field Communi­cation (NFC), and have both NFC and Android
Beam turned on.

1. Open a screen that contains something

you’d like to share, such as a webpage,
YouTube video, or place page in Maps.

2. Move the back of your phone toward the

back of the other device.
When the devices connect, you hear a
sound, the image on your screen reduces
in size, and you see the message Touch

to beam.

3. Touch your screen anywhere.

Your friend’s device displays the trans­ferred content. Or, if the necessary app
isn’t installed, Google Play opens to a
screen where your friend can download
the app.

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TIP: When you touch another device
to the back of your Nexus 4, make sure
it’s near the “u” in “nexus” to success­fully beam content.

Settings

To turn on NFC, go to Settings
> Wireless & networks > More
> NFC.

To turn on Android Beam, go to

Settings > Wireless & networks
> More > Android Beam.

Change the wallpaper

To change the wallpaper that’s displayed on
your Home screens:

1. Touch & hold anywhere on a Home screen

that’s not occupied.
A list of options appears.

2. Touch a wallpaper source:

Gallery. Choose from pictures that you’ve

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synced with your phone.
Live Wallpapers. Choose from a scrolling
list of animated wallpapers.
Wallpapers. Choose from thumbnails of
default images, or touch a thumbnail for
a larger version.
You can download additional wallpapers
on Google Play.

3. To set a wallpaper, touch Set wallpaper

or, for Gallery images, determine the crop­ping and touch Crop.

Settings

To change your phone’s wall­paper, go to Settings > Device

> Display > Wallpaper.

Take a screenshot

You can easily take a screenshot on your
phone that you can save in your Gallery or
share with others:

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1. Make sure the image you want to capture

is displayed on the screen.

2. Press the Power and Volume down but-

tons simultaneously.

The screenshot is automatically saved in
your Gallery.

TIP: To easily share your screenshot
via Gmail, Google+, and more, swipe

down the notication shade and touch

the

Share icon next to the preview

of your screenshot.

Connect to keyboards, mice, &
other devices

You can connect a keyboard, mouse, or even
a joystick or other input device to your phone
via USB or Bluetooth and use it just as you
would with a PC.

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You may need an adapter to connect the key­board or other device to your phone’s USB
port. To connect more than one USB device
at a time, use a powered USB hub to reduce
the drain on your phone’s battery.

IMPORTANT: Using external devices
such as keyboards via USB will cause

a signicant additional drain on your

battery, as will continuous use of a
mouse via Bluetooth.

You pair and connect Bluetooth input de­vices to your phone in the same way as any
other Bluetooth device.

Keyboards

In addition to entering text, you can use your
keyboard to navigate your phone’s features:

• Use the arrow keys to select items on

screen.

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• Pressing Return when an item is selected

is equivalent to touching that item.

• Pressing Escape is equivalent to touch-

ing Back.

• Press Tab or Shift-Tab to move from eld

to eld in a form or other screen with mul­tiple text elds.

Mice

When you connect a mouse to your phone
and move the mouse, an arrow-shaped cur­sor appears, just as on a computer:

• Use the mouse to move the cursor.

• Clicking, pressing, and dragging with the

mouse button is equivalent to touching,
touching & holding, and dragging with

your nger.

• Only one mouse button is supported.

• If your mouse has a trackball or scroll

wheel, you can use it to scroll both verti­cally and horizontally.

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Other input devices

You can connect joysticks, gamepads, and
other input devices to your phone. If they
work without special drivers or adapters on
your PC, they will likely work with your phone.
However, games and other apps must be de­signed to support any special features of
an input device, such as dedicated buttons
or other controls, to take full advantage of
them.

3

Use the
Phone app

Make a phone call

You can place calls from the Phone app ,
the People app

, or other apps or widgets
that display contact information. Wherever
you see a phone number, you can usually
touch it to dial.

To dial using the Phone app:

1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or

All Apps screen.

Notice the three tabs at the top of the phone.
You can make calls from any of them.

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• The Dialer tab lets you dial manually.

Touch the keys to enter the number, then
touch the Phone icon

below the key­pad to dial.
If you enter a wrong number, touch

to
erase digits one by one.
To dial an international number, touch &
hold the 0 key to enter the plus ( + ) sym-

bol. Then enter the international prex for

the country, followed by the full phone
number.

• The Call log tab shows recent calls.
Touch a call to return it.

• The Contacts tab shows the numbers
you frequently call at the top, and all your
contacts below. Touch to dial.

You can switch applications during a call –
for example, to look up information by using
Chrome.

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To return to the Phone app while a call is in
progress:

1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to

reveal your notications.

2. Touch the green phone icon.

To end a call in progress, touch the End Call
icon

at the bottom of the screen.

Answer or divert calls

When you receive a phone call, the Incom­ing Call screen opens, displaying the caller
ID and any additional information about the
caller that you’ve entered in People.

All incoming calls are recorded in the Phone
app’s Call log tab. If you miss a call, you re-

ceive a notication.

To silence the ringer before answering the
call, press the Volume Down button on the
side of your phone.

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When a call arrives, touch the white phone
icon and slide over one of these icons:

Answer call

Start talking to the caller.

Send to voicemail

Direct the caller to leave a voice­mail message.

Send a message

Opens a list of quick text re­sponses. Touch one to send it to
the caller immediately.

TIP: To edit text responses from within
the Phone app, touch

Menu icon >

Settings > Quick responses.

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Work with the Call log

The Call log is a list of all the calls you’ve
placed, received, or missed. It provides a
convenient way to redial a number, return a
call, or add a number to your Contacts.

Within the Phone app

, the Call log is un-

der the middle tab

. Touch a number for
more information about the call, or touch the
phone icon beside it to call back.

Arrow icons beside a call indicate the type of
call. Multiple arrows indicate multiple calls:

• Missed incoming call

• Received incoming call

• Outgoing call

While viewing details for a call:

• Touch the number to call it.

• Touch to send a text message.

• Touch the Contacts icon to view con-

tact details.

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• Touch to add a new People card for

the caller.

To clear the Call log:

1. Touch the Menu icon.

2. Touch Clear Call Log.

Place an Internet (SIP) call

You can place calls over the Internet when
connected to a Wi-Fi network, rather than
over your mobile network. To do so, you must

rst congure your phone to use an Internet

calling account.

After you set up the account, placing an In­ternet call is no different than placing any
other call. However, you must be connected
to a Wi-Fi network. When you’re making an
Internet call, the phone displays Internet Call
near the top of the screen.

Internet calling is based on the Session Ini-

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tiation Protocol (SIP) for voice calls on Inter­net Protocol (IP) networks.

IMPORTANT: Calling a phone number
over the Internet requires that your
service provider supports it. You may
incur additional charges. Check with
your service provider for details..

To add an Internet calling account and cong­ure your incoming and outgoing preferences:

1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or

All Apps screen.

2. Touch the Menu icon.

3. Touch Settings.

4. At the bottom of the screen, under Inter-

net call settings:
To change your incoming call preference
or account settings, touch Accounts.
To change your outgoing call preferences,
touch Use Internet calling.

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You’ll also want to add SIP addresses for the
contacts you want to call this way. To do so:

1. Touch the contact’s info in the Call

log tab.

2. Touch to go to the contact’s card.

3. Touch the Menu icon, then Edit.

4. Scroll to the bottom of the screen, touch

Add another eld, and then Internet call.

5. Touch the Internet call eld and type the

number.

Listen to your voicemail

When you have a new voicemail message,
the voicemail icon appears in the Status
area at the top left of your screen.

To read your voicemail:

1. Swipe down from the top of the screen to

view your notications.
The voicemail notication displays the

number of unread messages and a num­ber to dial.

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2. Touch New voicemail.

Your phone dials the voicemail message.
Follow the instructions to retrieve your
messages.

To change your voicemail service or other
settings:

1. Touch the Phone icon on a Home or

All Apps screen.

2. Touch Menu, then Settings.

3. Touch the voicemail setting you want to

change, or dial the number listed to ac­cess other voicemail settings.

Options during a call

During a call, you can

• Answer another incoming call: You see

the Incoming Call screen, displaying the
caller ID and any additional information
about the caller that you’ve entered in
People. As with any incoming call, touch
the white phone icon and slide to answer,

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respond with a text message, or send the
call to voicemail.

If you answer, the rst call will be put on

hold. If you respond with a message or

send to voicemail, you return to the rst

call.

• Adjust the volume: Use the volume but-

tons on the side of the phone.

During a call, you can also use buttons near
the bottom of the screen to

Switch to the dialer, for example to
enter a code.

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Controls the audio output as
follows:

• If a Bluetooth headset is not
connected: Turns the speaker­phone on or off.

• If a Bluetooth headset is con­nected: Functions as a 3-way
switch between the built-in
earpiece, the speakerphone,
and the headset. The icon
changes to indicate the cur­rent output. Touch & hold to
see a 3-way menu.

• If a wired headset is plugged
into the phone, it replaces the
phone’s built-in earpiece.

Mute your microphone.

Put the other party on hold.

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Switch to another call in progress.

Make another call separately from

the rst call, which is put on hold.

Merge separate calls as a single
conference call.

4

Use the
keyboard

Enter & edit text

You can enter text using the onscreen key­board. Some apps open it automatically. In
others, you open it by touching where you
want to type.

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Touch a
suggestion
to type it

Touch & hold
to type this
character

Touch &
hold to
choose a
smiley face

Touch & hold
to see input
and keyboard
settings

To make the keyboard go away, touch the

modied

Back button below it.

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Basic editing

• Move the insertion point. Touch where
you want to type.
The cursor blinks in the new position, and
a blue tab appears below it. Drag the tab
to move the cursor.

• Select text. Touch & hold or double-tap
within the text.
The nearest word highlights, with a tab at
each end of the selection. Drag the tabs to
change the selection.
The tab disappears after a few moments.
To make it reappear, touch the text again.

• Delete text. Touch to delete selected
text or the characters before the cursor.

• Type capital letters. Touch the Shift key
once to switch to capital letters for one
letter.
Or touch & hold

Shift key while you
type. When you release the key, the lower­case letters reappear.

• Turn caps lock on. Double-tap or touch
& hold Shift key, so it changes to

. Touch Shift key again to return to

lowercase.

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• Cut, copy, paste. Select the text you want
to manipulate. Then touch

Cut,

Copy or

Paste button:

Use next-word suggestions

1. Touch the location where you want to in­put text.

2. Start typing out a word. When the word
you want is displayed in a list above the
keyboard, touch it.

3. Continue to touch one of the three op­tions as your phone predicts words you
may want. If you don’t want any of the op­tions, type the next word without using
the space bar.

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Your phone will continue to suggest
words as you type.

Settings

To change your phone’s key­board and input methods, go
to Settings > Personal > Lan-
guage & input.

To turn next-word sugges­tions on or off, go to Settings

> Personal > Language & in­put > Keyboard & input meth­ods > Android keyboard. Touch

the Settings icon, then check
the box next to Next-word

suggestions.

Try Gesture Typing

To input a word using Gesture Typing:

1. Touch the location where you want to type
to open the keyboard.

2. Slide your nger slowly across the letters
of the word you want to input.

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3. Release your nger when the word you
want is displayed in the floating preview
or in the middle of the suggestion strip. To
select one of the other words in the sug­gestion strip, touch it.

If the word you want isn’t shown while using
Gesture Typing, you can type it out manually.

Use Gesture Typing without space bar

When you use Gesture Typing, there’s no
need to use the space bar — just continue to
slide over the words you want.

To change Gesture Typing set­tings, go to go to Settings >

Language & input > Keyboard
& input methods > Android
keyboard. Then touch Settings
and look under Gesture Typing.

Settings

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Use keyboard dictionaries

To manage keyboard dictionaries, go to Set­tings > Personal > Language & input.

Personal dictionary

You can add your own words to your person­al dictionary so that your phone remembers
them. Touch the Add icon to add a word or
phrase, as well as a shortcut to easily use
that word or phrase.

Add-on dictionaries

1. Touch the Settings icon next to Android
keyboard.

2. Touch Add-on dictionaries.
You’ll see dictionaries for other languag­es that you can download to your device.

3. Touch the dictionary you want, then touch
Install.

5

Try some apps

Use All Apps

To see all your apps, touch All Apps in the
Favorites tray on any Home screen.

This is where you can see all your apps, in­cluding those downloaded on Google Play.
You can move app icons to any of your Home
screens.

From All Apps, you can:

• Move between screens. Swipe left or
right.

• Open an app. Touch its icon.

• Place an app icon on a Home screen.

Touch & hold the app icon, slide your n­ger, and lift your nger to drop the icon in

place.

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• Browse widgets. Touch the Widgets tab at
the top of any All Apps screen.

• Get more apps. Touch the Play Store icon
in the list of app icons, or the Shop icon at
the upper right.

To remove an app icon from the Home
screen, touch & hold it, slide your nger to­ward the top of the screen, and drop the app
over the

Remove icon .

To view info about an app from an All App
screen, touch & hold it, slide your nger to­ward the top of the screen, and drop the app
over the

App Info icon .

Most apps include a Menu icon near the
top or bottom of the screen that lets you con­trol the app’s settings.

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Start Gmail

Gmail

Use the Gmail app to read and
write email from any mobile
device or browser. To open
it, touch the Gmail icon on a
Home or All Apps screen.

But Gmail isn’t just about email. You can use
your Gmail account to sign in to all Google
apps and services, including these and many
more:

• Google Now, for getting just the right in­formation at just the right time

• Calendar

• People, for keeping track of your contacts

• Google Drive, for working with docu­ments, spreadsheets, or drawings

While you’re reading a message:

• Touch the icons and menu along the top of
the screen to archive, throw away, label, or
perform other actions on that message.

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• Swipe left or right to read the previous or
next conversation.

To organize your email, check the box beside
a message to select it. Then use the icons
and menu along the top of the screen to man­age the selected messages.

To change your settings, add an account, or
get help, touch the Menu icon.

No matter where you are within Gmail, you
can always get back to the Inbox by touching
the Gmail icon at the top of the screen.

Find People

The People app gives you quick
access to everyone you want
to reach. To open it, touch the
People icon on a Home or All
Apps screen.

People

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When you rst turn on your phone and sign

into a Google Account, any existing contacts
from that account are synced with your Peo­ple app. After that, all your contacts stay in
sync automatically on your phone, another
device, or a Web browser.

If you use Exchange, you can also sync that
contact information with People.

All your People information is available from
Gmail, Google Talk, and other apps. As you
add contacts from different sources, they’re
synced automatically across all the places
you need them.

When you open the People app, you can:

• View all contacts, favorites, or groups.
Choose from the top left of the screen.

• Read details. Touch a name to see details
for a contact or group.

• View recent activity. When viewing a
contact, swipe to the right to see recent
updates.

• Edit details. While viewing a contact,

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touch icons at the top of the screen or
the

Menu icon to search contacts, add
a contact, edit or share contact details,
delete a contact, and so on. You can also
touch the star beside the contact’s name
to add that contact to your Favorites list.

• Change your settings. While viewing the
main list screen, touch the

Menu icon
to import or export contacts, choose dis­play options for the Groups and All tabs,
and add or edit accounts.

Manage your Calendar

Calendar

Use the Calendar app to view
and edit your schedule. To
open it, touch the Calendar
icon on a Home or All Apps
screen.

When you rst set up your phone, you con­gured it to use an existing Google Account

(such as Gmail), or you created a new one.

The rst time you open the Calendar app on

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your phone, it displays any existing calendar
events from that Google Account on the web.

As you edit events from any mobile device or
web browser, they’re synced automatically
across all the places you need them.

To change the Calendar view, choose Day,
Week, Month, or Agenda from the top of the
screen.

From any of these views, you can:

• Read or edit event details. Touch an event
to view its details.

• Manage events and calendars. Touch
icons across the top of the screen or
Menu to search or create events, return to
today, or adjust settings.

To email everyone who’s invited to an event,
you have two options:

• Open the event from the Calendar app at
any time and touch Email guests.

• When a notication of the event arrives
just before the meeting starts, swipe

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down the notication shade. Then swipe
using one nger to expand the notica-

tion if necessary, and touch Email guests.

Open & use Clock

To open the Clock, touch the Clock icon from
a Home or All Apps screen.

Set an alarm

1. Touch the Alarm Clock icon in the lower
left corner of the screen.

2. Touch the Add icon to add a new alarm.

3. Select the time you want, then touch OK.

Any existing alarms will show in the main
Clock screen. To turn one On or Off, slide the
switch.

You can also add a label to an alarm and
change the ringtone. To change these op­tions for a single alarm, touch the arrow un­derneath the On/Off switch.

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Set a timer

1. Touch the Timer icon in the top left corner
of the screen.

2. Enter the time you want, then touch Start.

When the timer is going, you can add an ad­ditional minute, pause the timer, or delete the
current timer.

The timer beeps when the time is up. It keeps
beeping until you touch Stop.

Use the stopwatch

1. Touch the Stopwatch icon in the top right
corner of the screen.

2. Touch Start to start the stopwatch.

If you want to pause the stopwatch, touch
Stop. You can also add laps while the stop­watch is running by touching the icon to the
left of the stopwatch.

To share your results, touch the Share icon to
share via Google+, Gmail, and more.

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View your Clock

To view the current date and time, touch the
Clock icon at the top center of the screen.

Manage downloads

Downloads

To manage most downloads,
touch the Downloads icon on
the All Apps screen. Movies
and some other content that
you download don’t show up in
the Downloads app.

Google Play streams your purchases and
rentals from Google servers while you’re
playing them. They don’t occupy permanent
storage space. However, you can pin (down­load) books, movies, and other content in or­der to access it offline.

In addition to downloading content from

Google Play, you can download les from

Gmail or other sources. Use the Downloads

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app to view, reopen, or delete what you down­load in this way.

From the Downloads app:

• Touch an item to open it.

• Touch headings for earlier downloads to
view them.

• Check items you want to share. Then
touch the Share icon and choose a
sharing method from the list.

• Check items you want to delete. Then
touch the Trash icon.

• At the bottom of the screen, touch Sort
by size or Sort by date to switch back and
forth.

When your phone is connected to a comput­er, look in the Download directory to view

les available in the Downloads app. You can
view and copy les from this directory.

6

Use Google
Now & Search

About Google Now

Google Now gives you just the right informa­tion at just the right time. Swipe up from the

bottom of your phone to get commute trafc

before work, popular nearby places, your fa­vorite team’s current score, and more.

You can turn Google Now on or off at any
time. Swipe up the same way and touch
Menu > Settings > Google Now. If the key­board’s covering the menu, touch the modi-

ed

Back button to lower it.

After you decide to start using Google Now,

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you don’t need to do anything else. If you like,

you can ne-tune some settings, but Google

Now doesn’t need any elaborate setup.
The information you need is always at your

ngertips.

To know when to display what information,
Google Now uses contextual data from your
phone and from other Google products, plus
data from third-party products that you allow
Google Now to access.

For example, Google Now uses the time of
day, your current location, and your loca-

tion history to show you what the trafc on

your commute is like when you wake up in
the morning. It also uses information from
Google services such as your Web History for
sports or flight updates, or from your synced
calendar entries for appointment reminders.

About Google Now cards

A Google Now card is a short snippet of use­ful information that slides into view right

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when you’re most likely to need it. For exam-

ple, here’s a trafc card:

To see some sample cards from the main
Google Now screen, touch

Menu > Sample

cards. When you’re nished and want to get

back to the main Google Now screen, touch
Hide sample cards.

In addition to the cards shown in the list of
samples, you may also see a Public Alerts
card.

Public Alerts provide emergency information
from sources such as the National Weath-

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er Service and the U.S. Geological Survey.
Coverage is currently provided by a limited
number of key partners, only in the United
States (excepting U.S. Geological Survey
earthquake alerts). Google can’t guarantee
that you’ll see every relevant alert. However,
Google Now attempts to show you what’s
important when you need it, in the hope that
such alerts are a useful additional source
of information. To learn more, visit support.

google.com/publicalerts.

About location access, reporting, &
history

Location access settings determine whether
your phone can use your current location.
When location access is turned on, apps
can use it to give you more relevant informa­tion, such as nearby restaurants or commute

trafc.

To turn off location access for all apps, go to
Settings > Personal > Location access. If you
prefer, you can turn off location access by

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Google apps while still permitting its use by
non-Google apps – just go to Settings > Ac-

counts > Google > Location settings.

Location reporting refers your phone’s abil­ity to report your current location for the pur­pose of recording your location history.

Location history refers to your phone’s ability
to store your past locations, including home
and work.

When you decide to use Google Now, you’ll
start reporting your location and turn on your
location history. Google won’t share this
information with other users or marketers
without your permission.

If you opted in to location history in the past,
Google Now uses your previously recorded
locations as well as ongoing details when
making suggestions. Turning off location
history pauses the collection of location in­formation, but doesn’t delete your history. To
manage or delete your location details, visit

http://google.com/locationhistory.

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Along with location history, Google Now
uses Google’s location service and GPS. To
manage these settings from the Google Now
screen, touch

Menu > Settings > Privacy

and accounts > Location services.

For more details, see “Control location ac-

cess, reporting, & history.”

About Web History & other data

Google Now uses data from multiple sources
to help predict what you need. For example,
if you have a synced calendar entry for a
dentist appointment, Google Now can check

trafc and suggest when to leave. And if you

have relevant searches saved in your Web
History, such as for your favorite sports team
or for upcoming flights, Google Now can also
show cards for sports scores, flight status,
and more.

To manage your Web History, visit google.

com/history. You can delete or pause your

Web History and still use Google Now, but

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certain kinds of information, such as flight
details, won’t show up.

Use Google Now

To view the Google Now cards that are wait­ing for you at any particular time, swipe up
from the bottom of your phone, or touch
Google on any Home screen.

Google Now displays cards when they’re
most likely to be useful and relevant based
on the current time and your current loca­tion. To expand that search and get addition­al ones, touch Show more cards at the bot­tom of the main Google Now screen.

When you’re nished with a card, just swipe

it away to dismiss it from the Google Now
screen. Don’t worry – it appears again when
a new update is available.

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Edit card settings

To change the settings for an individual
Google Now card:

• Touch Menu > Settings on the card.

OR

• From the lower right corner of the Google
Now screen, touch

Menu > Settings >

Google Now.

The Google Now settings screen appears,
where you can turn a specic card On or Off
or adjust its settings. After you turn off a
card, it won’t appear when you open Google
Now.

Dismiss cards

To dismiss a card from the Google Now
screen, swipe it away. The card will return the
next time it’s relevant, which may be hours or
days from now.

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Adjust notications

When a card has a new update, you’ll receive

a notication at the top of your screen. You
can pull down the notications shade to
open the card or dismiss the notication.

Most notications for Google Now cards can

be turned off or set to low or standard prior-

ity. Low priority notications appear at the
bottom of the notications shade without
any additional signal. Standard notications

appear like the others, in chronological order,
and you can set vibration and a ringtone to
accompany them.

To set notications to low or standard prior­ity for an individual card that supports both
options:

• Touch Menu > Settings when the card
appears.

OR

• From the lower right corner of the Google
Now screen, touch

Menu > Settings >

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Google Now, and adjust the settings un­der Notications.

To change ringtone and vibrate options for all

standard notications, start from the Google

Now screen, touch

Menu > Settings >

Google Now, and adjust the settings under

Standard Notications.

Turn off Google Now

Turning off Google Now stops the display of
cards and returns Google Now settings to
their defaults.

1. Open the Google Now screen.
Touch Google on a Home screen, or swipe
up from the bottom of your phone while
viewing any screen.

2. Touch Menu > Settings > Google Now,
then slide the switch at the top right to

Off.

3. In the Turn off Now cards dialog, decide
whether you also want to turn off location

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history. If you do, check Also turn off Lo-

cation history.

Turning off location history may affect
the way other Google products work.

4. Touch Turn off.

Turning off Google Now and location history
doesn’t delete existing history or turn off lo­cation reporting. For more information, see
the next section, “Control location access,
reporting & history.”

Control location access,
reporting, & history

This section describes how to set your home
and work addresses and manage other loca­tion-related features used by Google Now.

Dene home & work

As you use Google Now, you may be asked

to conrm your home or work address to get
commute trafc information, travel help, and

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more. You can change these addresses in
several other ways:

• When a Trafc card appears for home or
work, touch

Menu > Edit.

• On the main Google Now screen, go to
Menu > Settings > Google Now > Trafc,
then edit Home or Work under Locations.

• On the main Google Now screen, go to
Menu > Settings > Google Now > Trafc,
then edit Home or Work under Locations.

• Open the Latitude app, nd your own lo­cation, touch your name on the map, and
then Location history > Change home lo-

cation / Change work location.

• Visit maps.google.com from a browser
and open My Places.

• Visit https://www.google.com/latitude/b

/0/history/dashboard from a browser,

click Change next to Time at Work or Time
at Home, edit the address, and click Save.

You can turn off and delete your location his­tory and still use Google Now, but certain
kinds of information, such as commute traf-

c, may be limited or won’t show up at all.

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Turn off location reporting & history

To turn off both location reporting and loca­tion history for your phone:

1. Go to Settings > Google > Maps &
Latitude.
This brings you to the Location settings
screen for Google Maps.

2. To turn off location reporting, touch Lo-

cation reporting > Do not update your
location.

3. To turn off location history, uncheck En­able location history.

Delete location history details

Even if you turn off both location reporting
and location history, your previously record­ed history is still available to Google services
such as Google Now.

To delete location history details, follow
these steps from a desktop computer:

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1. Open a web browser and make sure you’re
signed in with the account whose loca­tion history you want to manage.

2. Visit http://google.com/locationhistory.
A page appears that allows you to view
your location history for any date.

3. To delete all your recorded location his­tory, click Delete all history.
Alternatively, from this screen you can
delete a portion of your location history
starting from a date you choose in the
calendar.

4. Click OK.

Turn off location access for your phone

Even when location reporting and location
history are turned off, Google can periodical­ly report data for use by various apps from
sources such as Wi-Fi, mobile networks, and
GPS to determine your precise location at
any given time.

To turn off access to precise location infor­mation for your phone, go to

Settings

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> Personal > Location access and slide the
switch to Off.

IMPORTANT: Turning off location ac­cess for your phone also turns it off for
Google Now, other Google apps, and
third-party apps. That means that no
apps can receive your precise location
information and many useful features
will be disabled.

To keep location access on, you must keep

GPS satellites, Wi-Fi & mobile network loca­tion, or both settings checked.

If you prefer, you can turn off location access
by Google apps while still permitting its use
by non-Google apps – just go to Settings >

Accounts > Google > Location settings.

For more information about location access
settings, see “Control location access, re-

porting, & history.”