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From your home screen, touch Apps , then flick left to
scroll through apps. To close the apps screen, touch
Home or Back .
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Favorites: To show your favorite apps, touch at the
top of the screen. Then touch ADD/REMOVE to edit
your favorite apps.
Tip: Apps you download are added to your favorites.
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Uninstall apps: Touch Apps > Settings>Apps
> ALL, touch an app, then touch Disable or Uninstall in
the top right (if available).
Disable removes the app from yourmenu. To Enable it,
reopen this window and touch Enable (disabled apps
are at the bottom of the list).
If an app locks up your phone as soon as you turn it on,
restart in Safe Mode: Turn off your phone, then turn it
back on—when you see the “Motorola”logo during
power-up, press and hold both volume keys until you
see the home screen, with Safe Mode in the lower left.
Then, try removing the app.
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Reinstall apps: To reinstall apps from the Google
Play™Store,touch Apps > PlayStore>Myapps.
The apps you downloaded are listedand available for
download.
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Share, show, or clear app details: Touch Apps >
Settings > Apps. A bar at the bottom tells you how
much app storage space you have left. At the top,
touchthelistofDOWNLOADED,RUNNING,orALLapps,
then touch an app in the list to show its details and
storageusage.YoucantouchShare,Clear data orother
options.
Tip: To quickly show these app details from your app
screen: Just touch and hold an app, drag it to More
options at thetopof yourscreen, thenchoose Appinfo.
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Show app data usage: To show which apps are using
the most data, touch Apps > Settings>Data
usage. For more, see “Datause”.
Update your phone
Use your phone or computer to check, download, and
install phone software updates:
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Using your phone:
If your phone notifies you about an update, follow the
instructions to download and install it.
To manually check for updates, touch Apps >
Settings>SystemUpdate.
Your phone downloads updates over your Wi-Fi
connection (if available) or mobile network. We
recommend that you download updates when you
have a Wi-Fi connection. Remember, these updates
can be quite large (25MB or more) and may not be
available in all countries. If the mobile network updates
are not available in yourcountry, update using a
computer.
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