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Android with less options for my mother ?

Started Jul 25, 2021 | Discussions thread
Cariboo Contributing Member • Posts: 774
Re: Android with less options for my mother ?

I'm not aware of any other Android version unless you want to root your Pixl4.

But I did want to mention, in case you are not aware, that you can Disable any Google app that you want, barring Google System and the Play app, unless you don't want to get apps from the Play Store.

Then you can go into the Settings and then for every single active app and turn Off or On other options such as Notifications, memory use, data use, background data, etc..

You can also open each app and go into the Options, Preferences or Settings of each app and again customize those settings (different than app system settings).

If you mother is not using many apps, then it may not be too time consuming. But good or bad, at least Android gives you the option to customize a lot of things but it's now one app at a time.

That's what I do for my family or low tech users and it keeps things quite simple.

Also turn off Auto Updates in the Google user account Play Store App, because if you don't then some app updates will rewrite turned off settings such as for notifications.

Maybe someone else has more to offer than me, other than as you've tried, a different launcher.

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