{"id":220283,"date":"2026-03-05T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-and-these-are-the-settings-i-disable-first\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T13:05:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T18:05:11","slug":"ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-and-these-are-the-settings-i-disable-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-and-these-are-the-settings-i-disable-first\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve tested hundreds of phones, and these are the settings I disable first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-these-are-settings-i-disable-first\/\">I&#8217;ve tested hundreds of phones, and these are the settings I disable first<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-these-are-settings-i-disable-first\/\">https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-these-are-settings-i-disable-first\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-05 13:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.androidpolice.com\">www.androidpolice.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have lost count of the number of phones I&#8217;ve used up to this point in my life. I never bothered counting, but I&#8217;m sure the number will be higher than that of any casual user in their lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a wild ride, and I still enjoy getting my hands on new phones every year, perhaps more than ever before, despite the slow innovation in the smartphone industry.<\/p>\n<p>I may have labeled it as an addiction had it not been part of my profession. Whatever the case may be, I wouldn&#8217;t have enjoyed every aspect of the out-of-the-box experience of a new phone.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not aware of any credible survey that gives us an insight into how many people don&#8217;t change the out-of-the-box setting when they buy a new phone. However, I haven&#8217;t met a person like that so far.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m certainly not one of those people who are happy with the default setting of a handset \u2014 if such people even exist.<\/p>\n<p>After testing plenty of phones, here are the settings I would disable first.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\t6 settings I change on every phone to instantly upgrade my Android experience<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I change these settings before installing any apps<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"haptic-feedback\">\n  &#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-these-are-settings-i-disable-first\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tested hundreds of phones, and these are the settings I disable first https:\/\/www.androidpolice.com\/ive-tested-hundreds-of-phones-these-are-settings-i-disable-first\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.anpoimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/smartphone-on-top-of-a-large-gear-icon-displaying-the-android-settings-menu-with-red-and-green-toggles-floating-beside-it.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220285,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220283\/revisions\/220285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}