You can find and change your settings from any screen on your phone with Quick Settings. To get to the settings you change often, you can add or move them to Quick Settings.
Learn how to change settings quickly on your Pixel phone with our step-by-step tutorial .
Important:
- Some of these steps work only on Android 11 and up. Learn how to check your Android version .
- To improve battery performance on Pixel 6 and later, check battery diagnostics:
- Open your phone's Settings app.
- Tap Battery Battery diagnostics.
Open Quick Settings
- To find your first few settings, swipe down from the top of your screen.
- To find all your Quick Settings, swipe down again.
Turn settings on or off
- To turn a setting on or off, tap the icon. Dimmed settings are off.
- To quickly adjust settings, tap the name of the setting.
- To access advanced settings, touch and hold a Quick Settings icon.
Add, remove, or move a setting
- From the top of your screen, swipe down twice.
- To update the Quick Settings menu, tap Edit .
- To add a setting:
- To find all available settings you can add, scroll down.
- Tap Add.
- To remove a setting, tap Remove.
- To reorganize your settings, tap and drag the settings to where you want them placed.
- To resize a setting:
- To minimize the setting to only show its icon, tap and drag the right side of the icon to the left.
- To maximize and show the name of a setting, tap and drag the right side of the icon to the right.
- To resize a setting: