Motorola moto g13 User manual

User Guide

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Contents
Set up phone 1
About your hardware 1
Insert and remove SIM and SD cards 2
Copy data from old phone 4
Manage dual SIMs 6
Set up voicemail 7
Set up email 8
Make it yours 9
Learn the basics 10
About your home screen 10
About your lock screen 11
New to Android? 12
If this is your first smartphone 12
If you had an iPhone 13
About your Google account 14
Status bar icons 15
Phone terms you should know 18
Get around on your phone 21
Learn gestures 21
Move between apps and screens 22
Use quick settings 23
Turn screen off and on 25
Turn off phone 26
Capture your screen 27
Take screenshots 27
Record your screen 27
Discover useful tools 29
Turn flashlight on and off 29
Control phone with your voice 29
Get directions to a location 30
Use clock and weather widget 31
Manage time spent on your phone 33
Work with text 36
Use onscreen keyboard 36
Cut, copy, paste text 37
Use voice typing 38
Fill in forms automatically 38
Personalize your phone 39
Home screen 39
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Change wallpaper 39
Use widgets, shortcuts, or folders 39
Arrange apps and control icon's look 43
Allow or prevent home screen rotation 44
Remove Google feed 44
Remake your home screen with launchers 44
Lock screen 46
Use a screen saver 46
Use apps 47
Open, close, switch apps 47
View two apps on screen 47
View notifications 48
About preloaded apps 50
Get, delete, manage apps 55
Install or update apps 55
Manage or delete apps 57
Protect against harmful apps 59
Search and browse 61
Search the web 61
Search your phone 63
Browse websites 63
Text messaging 65
About text and multimedia messages 65
Read, send messages 65
Manage, delete messages 68
Change default messaging app 70
Change text message reply to incoming calls 70
Get text messages on your computer 70
Email 72
Read, send, manage emails 72
View email attachments 73
Preview inboxes from home screen 74
Add email signature 74
Control email notifications 74
Calendar app 76
About the calendar 76
Find calendar events 76
Create and manage events 77
Control notifications for calendar events 78
Clock app 79
Set alarms 79
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Use timer or stopwatch 79
Set date and time 80
Photos app 82
Share photos and videos 82
Upload photos and videos 82
Contacts, calls, voicemail 84
Contacts 84
Add contacts 84
Edit or delete contacts 85
Star your favorite contacts 86
Sort contacts 86
Share contacts 87
Phone calls 89
Answer calls 89
Make calls 90
During a call 91
Make video calls 93
Make conference calls 93
Block calls and texts 93
Turn call waiting on and off 95
View and delete call history 96
Make emergency call from locked phone 97
Voicemail 98
Use voicemail 98
Send all calls from contact to voicemail 99
Music 100
Listen to radio 100
Listen to music 102
Transfer music files 102
Connect a MIDI device 103
Settings 104
Network and internet 104
Connect to Wi‑Fi networks 104
Connect with Wi-Fi Direct 105
Use Airplane mode 106
Control data usage 106
Share your internet connection 107
Add a Private DNS service 110
Connected devices 111
Connect with Bluetooth 111
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