As technology becomes more and more essential in everything we do, it can sometimes distract us from the things that matter most to us. We believe technology should improve life, not distract from it.

Alot of us are being distracted by our mobile phones, either by Social media, games or some applications, these apps through notifications distracts us most time when we are using our smartphones for something important. That is why TECNO and HIOS Team introduced the Digital Well-being app which is designed to help Android users monitor their phone and app usage, the feature appears as a dashboard that shows you how much time you've spent with different apps, how often you've unlocked your phone, and how many notifications you've received, and it also has a special feature called the FOCUS MODE.


Have you ever been in a situation where you are preparing for an exam or preparing a report, but the notification sounds coming from your phone or the pop up messages keeps distracting and luring you to open them and you cant stop them because if you put off your mobile data you cant work efficiently. All this scenario can be stopped by activating the FOCUS MODE.


Whether you are studying for exams or just want to turn off the constant ping of notifications and messages coming from your smartphone, Android's new Focus Mode can help you resist distractions. Not looking at your phone when you have decided to focus on another task sounds easy, but with the frequency with which our modern devices try to pull us back in, the temptation is always there. "I'll just check this message really quickly", you'll think, and before you know it you've spent 30 minutes browsing Facebook or other social media.

WHAT IS FOCUS MODE:
But what exactly is Focus Mode? Focus Mode is part of Google Digital Wellbeing toolset introduce on Android Pie 9.0 and HIOS version 5.0, It can temporarily pause apps that are the best at distracting you, such as social media and messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook. With Focus Mode, you can silence those apps so your smartphone will not ping with notifications.

Its basically a refined version of Do Not Disturb. Its a mode that blocks notifications from specific apps while active, clearing away any open notifications from those apps, and stopping any further notifications from showing up while the mode is active. In addition, the offending apps will also be blocked during Focus Mode, stopping you from accidentally opening them when you should be doing something else.

Some users confuse focus mode with DO NOT DISTURB, The Focus mode is slightly different from Do Not Disturb, which will silence your entire phone. The focus mode helps you shut some apps not the entire phone but the Do Not Disturb mode shuts all application notification including the important ones and the less important ones, After all, you may want to leave your notification sounds open for important work apps such as Linkedin or Gmail to distract you, whilst shutting off others that are less important at that moment in time,so instead of using Do Not Disturb mode you make use of focus mode.



Do You know you can also set schedules that will automatically turn on Focus Mode at certain times of the day, such as when you are at school or work. You can also opt to 'take a break' from your focused activity and turn notifications back on for 5, 10 or 30 minutes



How to enable Focus mode on your Android devices:
>Open Settings from the app drawer or home screen.
>Scroll down to the Digital Wellbeing section.
>Tap Digital Wellbeing & parental controls.
>Select Focus mode.
>Choose the apps that you want to pause.
>Hit Turn on now to enable Focus mode.
And voila you can now focus while using your mobile phone without distraction from apps notifications.
Note: The Focus mode is only available on HIOS version 5.0 and above.

Thanks to TECNO and HIOS Team for incorporating this beautiful feature in our Tecno devices.

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Most Android phone users complain everyday about battery drainage, or battery not lasting long, or complain about a particular app draining their battery. worry no more because you will get some info about how to save, economize and minimize your battery usage and extend your battery life.

Have you ever heard of HIOS BATTERY LAB,or have you heard of it but never used it before...You will get the Information and tips on how to use it efficiently and effectively below?
If you are a TECNO MOBILE user count yourself lucky, because the HIOS BATTERY LAB only works on Tecno device, so if you don't have a TECNO device i will advise you to get one for yourself.

What is HIOS BATTERY LAB:
HIOS BATTERY LAB: The HIOS battery lab is a one stop shop for your battery monitoring and power savings. Battery Lab adopting AI intelligence helps optimize power conservation without compromising user experience. Its operation entails continual learning of a user's habit, the apps they spend most time in, and thereby through collaborative sensors and CPU, execute an intelligent power saving strategy, creating a 10% increase in overall standby time.


The HIOS BATTERY LAB has several Features in it to help Your battery attain its full potentials it is divided into two sections which are;
*POWER SAVING
*BATTERY

>The features under the Power saving section includes:
1)ONE KEY CLEANUP
2)AI SMART POWER SAVING
3)APP POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT
4) PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS

And under the Battery section we have the
1)BATTERY USAGE
2)BATTERY PERCENTAGE

1) ONE KEY CLEANUP: This is used to clean up any background power consumption with just one tap/key, with the one key cleanup feature, you can clear any background app/apps that are draining your battery.
There are two ways you can achieve it
a) By opening your Battery lab and tapping on it

b) By tapping on it from your Status bar



2) AI SMART POWER SAVING: With the power of AI, your device can learn of apps and restrict power consumption aimed at rarely used apps. This feature detects apps that are not often used and restricts them from draining your battery, without this feature, most rarely used app will keep using and consuming power, whether they are opened or not, so by activation of Smart Power Saving, will restrict power consumption from those rarely used app and block them from draining the phone's battery.
Under the AI smart power saver we have the AI smart strategy reminder and Battery saver



•AI SMART STRATEGY REMINDER: when using the AI smart strategy reminder, you device can schedule to switch to airplane mode and back based on your habits like when you are asleep or using your device less. It has the Auto pre-set and the Active setting (Manual setting).
The auto pre-set learns your phone using habit to know when you are active with phone and when you are not using phone, so it will automatically set the time it would use to switch on the Airplane mode when you are not using your phone so as to save your battery. The Auto pre-set settings differs from each user, depending on how you use your phone daily, some people are night users while some are day users. So if you are a Day user, the Auto pre-set will set it by night time...vice versa.
The Active setting or Manual setting, here you can set the time to suit you, you can choose to make it day or night as it pleases you.


BATTERY SAVER MODE: [/b]You can set when to automatically activate battery saver mode when you device is at a predetermined power level.

3) [b]APP POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT: This is used to activate app smart power savings for individual apps as determined by you, the options has several Features in it to help Your battery attain its full potentials for each app are shown below. You have four options to choose on how you want each app to be in the background.

4)PROFESSIONAL SETTINGS: Here you get to know your phone's Temperature, Voltage and the Battery Technology.
The professional setting include the Power management, battery saver mode, Advance settings.
All these from the settings of your device, Give it a try, power consumption at your control.


• Helps you check the power consumption of different apps and know the apps that drains your battery most. Not only that You also have the Power consumption reminder to remind you when a particular app is Using a lot of power to enable you close the particular app.
Tap x to quickly close Power intensive app to save your battery.

•ADVANCED SETTING: The advance settings enables you control some other functions which helps saves battery.

•BATTERY OPTIMIZATION: [/b]This is a function (known as Doze) built into Android 6.0 Marshmallow and above. It preserves battery life by limiting what apps can do in the background. Apps use what's called a wake lock to keep your device alive even while you're not actively using it, optimizing your apps saves battery and also helps prolong battery life.

>The Features under the Battery section are;
1) [b]BATTERY USAGE: This shows battery usage over time, it gives a Detailed analysis on how different apps consumes battery, and the app usage since Full charge

2) BATTERY PERCENTAGE: Enables battery percentage on status bar, when you put on the percentage button the battery percent will show in the Battery bar.

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