Smartphone maestro Oppo has been a busy beaver of late - just this past week alone we've
had two new Oppo phones for review, the Oppo Find X and Oppo F9.
Both blowers sport Oppo’s ColorOs lovingly smeared on top of Android Oreo, which adds
all kinds of crazy features.
So here's our full tips and tricks guide for the Oppo Find X and Oppo F9, to help you get
all setup and make the most of your shiny new mobile.
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To begin with, a couple of quick tips.
First, head into settings menu and go to battery, and then ‘show battery percentage on status
bar’.
This does exactly what you think it might - unless for some reason you think it transforms
your Oppo phone into a poisonous cyborg penguin or anything weird like that.
Also, here’s a quick tip for you: never, ever, place these phones down on a smooth
surface.
On even the tiniest incline, they’ll drift slowly towards towards the edge before plummeting
into possible oblivion.
Bugger.
Oppo’s ColorOS overlay changes up the general look and feel of Android Oreo on your Find
X or Oppo F9, and one of the additions ColorOS makes is the Smart Assistant.
Just swipe right from your home screen to pull this up.
It’s an awful lot like the Shelf feature on OnePlus phones, providing quick shortcuts
to your favourite apps and people and stuff like that, as well as updates on how much
you’ve moved about the place.
It's really handy for jumping straight into stuff and it's well worth checking out.
Another feature that somehow feels rather familiar is the ‘smart sidebar’, currently
only available on the Oppo F9.
This can be dragged out from very edge of the screen.
This once again provides quick shortcuts to your favourite bits, and can be activated
in the smart convenience section of the settings menu.
You can add or remove the apps that appear on the sidebar at any time by tapping that
‘plus’ icon at the bottom.
The Find X does things a slightly different way.
If you head into that Smart Convenience menu, you’ll find the Full Screen Multitasking
option instead.
This feature allows you to drag out a little shortcuts bar from the top end of your screen
when the phone is in landscape mode,.
You can then select your favourite app to open in a dinky window, over whatever you
already have open.
Head to the App Split Screen section of the settings menu on either Oppo phone and you
can turn on a feature that allows you to multi-task with two apps at once - all you need to do
is swipe three fingers up the display when you’re inside of a supported app, and the
screen will split in half, allowing you to open something else in the other half.
In Oppo Find X, you have another option too.
Head to Smart Convenience, then Gesture & Motion - and you’ll find the Curved Screen Gestures
option.
This allows you to split screen by swiping your fingers opposite ways along those two
edges instead.
Now, occasionally you might want to record your screen, for instance to save your awesome
PubG escapades for posterity's sake.
This can be done a couple of different ways.
First up, there’s a shortcut in that notifications bar - which by the way can be fully edited
at any time by tapping this little icon here.
Also, remember that Full Screen Multitasking feature which I mentioned like a minute ago?
Well, you can find the screen recording feature in there as well.
Lovely stuff.
Now, like us, you probably enjoy a good bit of uninterrupted beauty sleep every night
- not that you need it of course, you’re absolutely gorgeous.
But if you do value your rest, you’ll want to head to the Quiet Time section in the settings.
This automatically sticks the phone in silent mode between preset times, so you won’t
get any vibrations or beeps or anything when notifications roll in - although take note,
alarms will still ring out to get your lazy arse out of bed.
You can allow calls from important peeps to break through the barrier if you like, but
frankly screw ‘em - they can wait ‘til morning.
Both the Oppo Find X and F9 support a bit of face recognition for unlocking the phone,
and that’s particularly useful for the Find X as there’s no fingerprint sensor.
Head into Face and Passcode settings to get this all set up - very quick and easy.
Now by default you’ll have to hit the power button and then swipe the screen for your
face to be scanned and the phone to be unlocked.
So once your beautiful mug is all registered, don’t forget to turn on the ‘Press power
button to unlock’ option.
This way you won’t need to bother swiping the screen - just tap the power button and
you’re automatically scanned and bob’s your uncle.
Alternatively, if you go into Smart Convenience section of the settings, then Gesture & Motion,
you can turn on the ‘Raise to turn on screen’ option.
With this enabled, you don’t have to touch the power button at all - literally just pick
up your phone, which you most definitely did NOT just leave on a smooth surface, right?
Job done.
Sick of PPI twats ruining your day?
Well, in the settings menu, head to the security section - and then anti-harassment.
In here you can blacklist specific numbers, or generally block any unknown numbers that
you don’t want to deal with.
Handy if you get a lot of interruptions especially when you're at home trying to chill or at
work.
So moving swiftly on, and this next tip I like to call, ‘Keep kids from screwing with
your s**t’.
If your darling little cherub wants to watch YouTube crap or whatever, first you should
definitely activate the Kids Space tool - switched on in Security, and then kids space.
This allows you to set up exactly what your kids have access to, so they can't get on
there and spend all of your money or post up dodgy pics on your Facebook, anything like
that.
And if you do a lot of gaming on your Oppo mobile you'll want to get involved with the
Game Space feature.
This is similar to gaming modes on other smartphones, allowing you to block notifications and stuff
like that while you're getting your game on.
It also provides a power boost to really demanding titles, which can be manually toggled in the
case of the Find X.
Game Space is its own individual app, although you can also tinker with it inside of the
Oppo Find X or Oppo F9’s settings menu.
When you've loaded the Game Space app, just adjust the options to however you like and
you can start your game.
Now, do you absolutely abhor that navigation bar down at the bottom of the screen, for
whatever random reason?
No worries, you can banish it in a flash by heading to the
smart convenience bit of the settings, and then tapping navigation keys.
In here you can turn on gesture navigation instead, which is similar to the OnePlus effort.
Swiping up from the bottom of the screen replaces those back, home and recent apps commands,
and it's rather intuitive too so we recommend giving it a shot.
So that is out full tips and tricks guide for the Oppo Find X and Oppo F9.
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