POCO M8 5G: Top Tricks for Notifications, Multitasking, and Personalization

Notification and Status Bar Customization

• 💡 Notification style can be switched between a subtle default and a classic view, which uses more space per notification but may combine them.
• ⚙️ Users can customize status bar icons, choosing to hide non-essential ones like Bluetooth or alarms, though essential icons like signal strength cannot be removed.
• 🔋 The battery indicator offers three modes: icon only, icon with percentage inside, and icon with percentage outside.

Home Screen and App Management

• 🏠 The home screen offers a choice between classic mode (all apps on the home screen) and drawer mode.
• 🗂️ Drawer mode includes a manage app categories feature that automatically sorts apps, which can be customized with custom categories and emojis for easier spotting.
• 🎨 Users can also set a background for the app drawer itself.

Navigation and Circle to Search

• 👆 System navigation can be set to buttons or gestures.
• 🔍 Circle to Search is activated by holding the home button (with buttons) or a gesture (with gestures), allowing users to select text or images to search, copy, or translate.
• ⚠️ The speaker notes that the gesture implementation for Circle to Search on this device is poorly executed, often failing to launch, and is further hindered if the navigation bar is hidden.

Personalization and Display Settings

• 🔒 The lock screen offers pre-made styles and customization options for fonts, font colors, and wallpapers.
• ⏰ The Always-On Display is misleadingly named, as it only stays on for 10 seconds at a time and can be disabled by battery saver.
• 🖼️ Customization for the Always-On Display includes signatures, various clock styles (analog and digital), and the ability to use custom images as backgrounds, though the speaker recommends images with vignetting.
• 🚫 The wallpaper carousel feature, which displays random wallpapers, is personally disliked by the speaker and can be turned off.

Advanced Multitasking with Floating Windows

• 🎦 Enabling the side toolbar allows access to floating windows, pop-up view, and split screen.
• 📲 Apps can be dragged from the side toolbar to open in pop-up view, which can then be resized or moved.
• 📱 Further interaction allows apps to be placed in split screen with other applications, with options to reposition and resize.
• ⚠️ A limitation noted is the inability to save custom split-screen layouts for later use.