The Google Pixel 4 comes with a heap of handy new features
One of the most exciting of these being Motion Sense
Soli's radar tech brings hands-free gestures to the Pixel 4
allowing you to complete a range of basic actions.
We're here to show you what exactly you can do and how you can adjust your settings according to your preferences.
The first handy thing that Motion Sense allows you to do is silence notifications
Simply wave your hand across your phone to snooze an alarm or mute a call
See how easy it is
Now importantly, waving across will just do that;
snooze the alarm or silence the call rather than actually turning it off or declining the call.
A similar motion will also work to skip through songs, either going forward or back
Indeed, wave your hand from left to right to skip a song
or from right to left to go back to a song, which can be changed according to your preferences.
As you can see here
Going backwards and forth really is that simple
Now this should work with a number of popular apps, even if your screen is off
Soli's radar tech is able to detect objects between 0.6 inches and a foot away when lying flat on a table like this
So, it's able to detect your presence with ease
This similarly means that when no motion is detected it switches the display to a power-saving ambient mode
I mean, this is already loaded
As you can see
Even with the screen off, it swipes through the songs
Now, Google's Motion Sense might not be for everyone
so turning it off altogether might be the solution for you
If you do want to turn off the radar feature, then head to your device's Settings, as we have here
and scroll on all the way down to System
You will then see the Motion Sense tab here
and click on that
Now, this will be the base for adjusting everything you want going forward
If you want to turn it off altogether, then select this toggle here
And there you go
Now, if you just want to change the settings of a particular action, then you can do this too
Within your Settings, once more locate Motion Sense - as I already have open here - to find your list of options
We'll turn it back on here
The first thing you can do is utilise Motion Sense to turn on your screen when you're nearby, under Ambient Display, as you might be able to see here
Now, turn on Reach to check phone in order to awaken your screen when you reach for it
as you can see here
Turn it on and off and shows you the exact gesture you need to use
You can also Show display when nearby, as we have here, I'll turn that off and on just to show you
to keep your screen on when you're nearby
You can also adjust your settings to start or stop silencing interruptions
In the same way, from the Motion Sense settings as I have here, find the Silence Interruptions tab
and turn the toggle on and off
So, it's just here
and there we go, it's as simple as that
And again, it's really handy, it shows you the exact gesture that you need to make this work
Finally, you can change the way that you skip songs
either by turning it off or on altogether, or changing the swipe direction. This is the first option you'll get.