Huawei Nexus 6P User Guide
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Quick Start Guide
English
Android 6.0, Marshmallow
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Edition 1.04
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This bo ok introduc es And roid 6.0, Marshmallow, for Nexus and A ndroid One devices.
Its content may diffe r in some details from some of the p roducts described or the
software that runs on them. All info rmation provided here is subject to change
without notice.
For bes t resul ts, make sure you’re run ning th e lates t Andr oid sys tem update. To nd
your device’s version numbe r or check for the latest system update, go to Settings
> Syste m > About phone or About tablet and look for Android version or System
updates.
If you don’t have a Nexus or A ndroid One ph one or tablet , and are running Android 6.0
on another dev ice, some details of the system as described in this book may vary.
For com prehensive online help and supp ort , including d etails abou t Nexus hardwa re
runni ng the software described in this book an d links to i nformation about other
Android devices, v isit support.google.com/android.
Table of contents
1 Welcome to Android
About Android 6.0, Marshmallow
What’s new in 6.0
Get started
Sign in to your account
Send a text message (SMS)
Make a phone call
Send an email
Take a photo
Quick Settings
Your app s
Your Home screens
Status bar
Navigation basics
Manage battery life
Help & feedback
2 Personalize your device
Customize your Home screens
Manage your settings
Display
Sound and notication
Pin your screen
Google Now
How it works
What you can ask Google to do for you
Turn “Ok Google” on or off
Now on Tap
3 Use the keyboard
Enter & edit text
Gesture Typing
Keyboard dictionaries
Type by speaking
4 Control access
Manage accounts on your device
Add an account
Remove an account
Share your device with other users
Switch users
Remove a user
Guest user
Security
Smart Lock
Facial recognition
On-body detection
Trusted places
Trusted Voice
Fingerprint
Protect against harmful apps
Android Device Manager
Backup & reset
Pay with your phone
5 Share & store content on your device
Android Beam
Google Cast
File storage
SD card storage
Dual-SIM card support
Screenshots
Printing
6 Try some apps
Play Store
Gmail
Camera
Photos
Contacts
Hangouts
Calendar
FM Radio
7 Accessibility
8 Android on watches, TVs, and cars
Android Wear
Android TV
Android Auto
1
Welcome to Android
About Android 6.0, Marshmallow
Marshmallow is the latest version of Android, the operating system that
powers phones, tablets, watches, TVs, cars, and more.
This book introduces the Android 6.0 software on your Nexus or Android
One phone or tablet. For hardware details, visit support.google.com/
android. There, you can nd comprehensive information about all types
of Android phones and tablets, including more details about Nexus
devices and other versions of Android.
Switching to Android from an iPhone or iPad (iOS)? See Switch to
Android for useful tips on moving your apps and more and onto your
Android device.
What’s new in 6.0
Marshmallow includes new features and updates to make your device
work better:
• Search for any thing in your photos & use free, unlimited photo storage
• Easier ways to manage interruptions
• Ability to increase storage space on some devices with an SD card
• Now on Tap: suggestions from Google Now related to what ’s on your
screen (available only in some locales)
• Longer-lasting battery with Doze, App S tandby, and other bat tery
optimizations
Get started
When you rst turn on your phone or tablet, you’ll see a Welcome screen.
Choose the language you want and touch the arrow to continue.
IMPORTANT: To complete the setup process, it’s best to have a
Wi-Fi connection.
Sign in to your account
When prompted, sign in with your Google Account or create one. Signing
in lets you immediately access everything associated with your Google
Account, like Gmail and Calendar.
TIP: If you have another Android device, Tap & Go lets you quickly
set up a new device just by holding the two devices back to back
and slowly sliding one up and down against the other. Google
Accounts and apps that were already backed up will automatically
be copied over to the new device.
An email address used for any of the following counts as a Google
Account:
• Gmail
• YouTu be
• Google Play
• Google Apps
• AdWords
• Any other Google product
When you sign in, you can easily get all the apps you’ve purchased on
Google Play onto your new device. All the email, contacts, calendar
events, and other data associated with that account are automatically
synced with your device.
For example, if you change a friend’s phone number on your phone, that
change also appears on your tablet and on any computers where you’re
signed in to your Google Account.
IMPORTANT: Make sure you remember the password you use to
sign into your device or else you won’t be able to access it. Even if
you do a factory reset, you will be required to enter the password
you used to sign into this device.
Have multiple Google Accounts? You can add other accounts later from
Settings
Settings
> Personal > Accounts. You can also add guest users in
> Device > Users.
Send a text message (SMS)
To send an SMS from most Nexus phones:
1. Tou ch Messenger
2. Touch
3. At the top of the screen, enter a phone number or a contact name,
type your message, then touch
If the Messenger app isn’t already on your device, you can get it on
Google Play. You can also use the default SMS app that comes on the
phone, which is Hangouts on most Nexus phones.
To change your default messaging app, open the app you want to use for
messaging and change your preferences in the Settings for that app.
For more details, visit Send or respond to a message.
to create a new message.
on your Home screen.
.
Make a phone call
Using a Nexus phone, you can place calls from the Phone
app, the Contacts app, or other apps or widgets that display
contact information. Wherever you see a phone number,
you can usually touch it to dial.
To place a call to one of your contacts:
1. Touch Phone
2. To choose someone to call, scroll or search. If the keypad is in the
way, touch the Back button to lower it.
3. To place a call, touch the contact ’s name.
To view recent calls, touch the Recents
the keypad
TIP: Caller ID by Google identies inbound and outbound numbers,
even for callers that you haven’t saved in the Contacts app.
For more details, visit Use your phone.
on a Home or All Apps screen.
tab. To use the keypad, touch
button.
To send or receive a video call, you can use the Hangouts app. To open it,
touch Hangouts
see Use Hangouts.
on a Home or All Apps screen. For more details,
Send an email
Use the Gmail app to read and write email from your Gmail
account or other email addresses.
1. Touch Gmail on a Home or All Apps
2. If you already signed into a Gmail account during setup, your email
screen.
will be synced to your device. Otherwise, add your email address now.
For more details, see Use Gmail.
Take a photo
To take a photo:
1. Open Camera
2. Frame your picture.
3. Touch the capture icon below the image area to take the picture.
To see the photo you just took, swipe from right to left.
For more details, visit Use Camera.
.
Quick Settings
Use Quick Set tings to easily change frequently used settings, like turning
on Wi- Fi. To open Quick Settings, swipe down from the top of the screen
with two ngers. To change a setting, just touch the icon:
• Display brightness: Slide
your screen.
• Wi-Fi network: Turn Wi-Fi
menu.
• Bluetooth settings: Turn Bluetooth
settings menu.
• Do not disturb: Turn Do Not Disturb
corresponding settings. Do Not Disturb silences your device so it
doesn’t make sound or vibrate when you don’t want it to.
• Cellular data: Touch
off.
• Airplane mode: Turn airplane mode
means your phone won’t connect to Wi-Fi or a cell signal, even if one
is available.
to lower or increase the brightness of
on or off or open the Wi- Fi settings
on or off or open the Bluetooth
on or off or open the
to see cellular data usage and to turn it on or
on or off. Airplane mode
• Auto-rotate: Lock your device’s orientation in portrait or
landscape mode.
• Flashlight: Turn the flashlight
On a Nexus 5, Quick Set tings look like this:
on or off.
Open the main Settings menu by touching Settings
at the top right.
You r ap ps
To see all your apps, touch in the Favorites tray on any
Home screen.
This is where you can see all your apps, including those that come with
your phone or tablet and those you downloaded on Google Play. You can
move app icons to any of your Home screens.
The apps you’ve used most recently appear in the rst row.
From All Apps, you can:
Explore apps. Swipe up and down (on a phone) or left and right (on a
tablet) from the All Apps screen
• Open an app. Touch its icon.
• Search apps. Enter the name of the app you’re looking for in the
Search apps... bar.
• Place an app icon on a Home screen. Touch & hold the app icon, slide
your nger, and lift your nger to drop the icon into your desired Home
screen.
• Get more apps. Touch Google Play
To view information about an app from an All Apps screen, touch & hold
it, slide your nger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app over
App Info .
TIP: Some apps can harm your data or your device. However, you
don’t need to install or purchase anti -virus software for Nexus
devices. Google continually checks your apps to identif y and warn
you about harmful apps.
in the list of app icons.
For more details, see Protect against harmful apps.
Your Home screens
After you nish setting up your device, the main Home screen appears for
the rst time. Here, you can add app icons and widgets (an “at-a-glance”
view of an app’s most impor tant information) to your Home screens.
• To move between Home screens, swipe left or right.
• To see notications, swipe down from the top of the screen with one
nger.
• To open Quick Settings—frequently used set tings—swipe down from
the top of the screen twice with one nger or once with two ngers.
See Quick Settings.
• To open Settings
ngers or swipe twice with one nger, then touch the Settings icon
at the top right.
• From the Home screen, touch Google at the top of the screen, or say
“Ok Google” to search, send messages, ask for directions, or give
other instructions.
, swipe down from the top of any screen with two
Status bar
The status bar is at the ver y top of the screen. On the right, you can see
the Wi-Fi and mobile signal strength, how much battery power is lef t, and
the time. On the left, you can see which apps have sent you notications.
See Sound and notication.
Navigation basics
At the bot tom of your device’s screen, you’ll nd a navigation bar with
these three 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.
Home
Returns to the Home screen. To get suggestions based on
the screen you’re currently viewing, touch & hold this button.
For more information, see Now on Tap.
Overview
Opens a list of thumbnail images of screens you’ve worked
with recently. To open one, touch it. To remove a screen from
the list, swipe it left or right or touch the X.
Some apps hide these buttons temporarily, or fade them to small dots in
the same position. To bring them back, touch the dots, touch the screen
in the middle, or swipe up from the bottom.
Many screens in apps and Settings include a menu
right of the screen. Touch it to explore additional options, including Help
& feedback.
icon at the top
Manage battery life
The status bar shows how much bat tery you have left, but you can also
see the exact percentage and approximate time of battery life remaining.
Swipe down from the top of the screen, touch the status bar, then touch
Battery
Your device’s battery is built to get you through your day. When you’re
running low, Android’s battery saver conserves your bat tery power so you
can still make calls and send SMS messages. To turn Bat tery saver on or
set it up to turn on automatically, go to Settings
> menu
Android Marshmallow includes several other automatic battery
optimizations that are usually in effect. These include:
.
> Device > Battery
> Battery saver.
• Doze reduces batter y usage when your device is not in use, not
charging, and not moving.
• App Standby lets Android reduce battery-draining activities of apps
that you haven’t used for a long period of time (when your device isn’t
charging).
Doze and App Standby do not have separate settings. They are two
of several battery optimizations that are in effect by default in most
situations. However, you can stop all battery optimizations for an
individual app, for example to ensure that it’s always functioning at peak
performance, even when you’re not using it.
For more information, visit Manage batter y life.
Help & feedback
In most Google apps, you can get to Help & feedback from the main
menu
feedback.
This book introduces a few of the key features and apps that come with
Android 6.0. For more details about Android software and apps, Nexus
devices available on Google Play, and all forms of support, visit support.
google.com/nexus.
. Other apps may include a menu icon that includes Help &
Google also welcomes feedback from you about your Nexus device. It’s
easy to send feedback. Just go to Settings
(or About tablet) > Send feedback about this device.
> System > About phone
2
Personalize your device
Customize your Home screens
Make your Home screen feel like home. You can change your wallpaper,
add apps or widgets, or add additional Home screens to the right.
To change your wallpaper:
1. Touch & hold the background, then touch Wallpapers
2. Swipe right to left to choose a wallpaper image. Or choose an image
from your Photos, Downloads, or Drive.
To add another Home screen, swipe to the rightmost screen and drag an
app or widget to the right edge. (The screen to the lef t of the main Home
screen is reserved for Google Now.)
To add an app to a Home screen:
.
1. Go to the Home screen where you want to place the app.
2. Touch All Apps
3. Swipe down (on a phone) or from lef t to right (on an Android One and
a tablet) to nd the app you want.
4. Touch & hold the app until the Home screen appears, slide it into
place, and lift your nger.
A widget provides a quick view or way to access information about an
app on your Home screen, like a larger size clock or a view of books,
music, or movies in your Google Play library. To add a widget:
1. Touch & hold the background, then touch Widgets
2. Swipe down to explore the widgets available.
.
.
To move an app or widget to another position:
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 your nger slowly into it.
3. Lift your nger.
To remove an app icon from the Home screen without removing it
permanently from your device, touch & hold it, slide your nger toward
the top of the screen, and drop the app over Remove
To uninstall an app permanently from your device, touch & hold it, slide
your nger toward the top of the screen, and drop the app over the
Uninstall icon
At the bot tom of every Home screen you’ll nd the Favorites tray: another
quick way to get to your apps.
To drag an app in or out of the Favorites tray or anywhere else on a Home
screen, touch & hold it, then move it with your nger to where you want it.
At the top of All Apps you’ll see App Suggestions: recommendations for
apps you might want to launch. To drag an app from App Suggestions
onto your Home screen, touch & hold it, then move it with your nger to
where you want it.
at the top right. (This is not applicable for all apps.)
in the top left.
Manage your settings
Settings controls the core Android set tings for networks,
hardware, location, security, language, accounts, and
more.
The fastest way to adjust system settings that you access frequently,
such as Wi-Fi or brightness, is through Quick Settings. See Quick
Settings for more information.
You can control many other settings for your device and account by
swiping down from the top of the screen twice and touching
are the main types of device or account settings available. Click the links
to see related help articles.
• Wireless & networks: Wi- Fi, Bluetooth, data usage, and related
settings.
• Device: Sound, batter y, storage, sleep, and other display settings.
• Location
• Security: Passwords and certicates, screen lock, and app installation
sources.
• Accounts
• Google: Adjust preferences for your Google Accounts and services,
including sign-in and data management
• Language & input
• Backup & reset options
• System: Date, time, accessibIlity, and device information.
Most apps also include their own settings, typically available from the
menu
on the upper lef t side of the app, or from menu > Settings.
. These
Display
To change the display settings on your device:
1. Go to Settings
2. Choose from the following settings. Some of these settings may
vary by device and version of Android. All can affect battery life. See
Manage battery life for more information.
> Device > Display.
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