Take Care Of Your Apps; Update Your Phone - Motorola Moto E User Manual

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Take care of your apps
From your home screen touch Apps
scroll through apps. To close the apps screen, touch Home
or Back .
• Uninstall apps: Touch Apps >
Swipe left to , touch an app, then touch
ALL
Uninstall in the top right (if available).
Disable removes the app from your menu—to
reopen this window and touch
Enable
the bottom of the list).
If an app locks up your phone as soon as you turn it on,
restart in Safe Mode: Turn off your phone, then turn it back
on—when you see the "Motorola" logo during power-up,
press and hold both volume keys until you see the home
screen, with Safe Mode in the lower left. Then, try removing
the app.
• Reinstall apps: To reinstall apps from Google Play Store,
touch Apps > > Menu >
Play Store
apps you downloaded are listed and available for download.
• Share, show, or clear app details: Touch Apps
> > . A bar at the bottom tells you how
Settings Apps
much app storage space you have left. Swipe left or right to
see the list of ,
DOWNLOADED RUNNING
touch an app in the list to show its details and storage usage.
You can touch ,
Clear data Clear cache
Tip: To quickly show these app details from your app
screen: Touch and hold an app, then drag it to
• Show app data usage: To show which apps are using the
most data, touch Apps
, then swipe left to
more, see "Data use".
Update your phone
Settings > Apps .
Use your phone or computer to check, download, and install
or
Disable
phone software updates:
• Using your phone:
Enable it,
If your phone notifies you about an update, follow the
(disabled apps are at
instructions to download and install it.
To manually check for updates, touch Apps
>
Your phone downloads updates over your Wi-Fi connection
(if available) or mobile network. We recommend that you
download updates over a Wi-Fi connection. Remember,
these updates can be quite large (25MB or more) and may
not be available in all countries. If the mobile network
updates are not available in your country, update using a
. The
My apps
computer.
• Using your computer:
On your computer, go to www.motorola.com/update.
, or apps, then
ALL
, or other options.
App info .
> Settings >
> >
Settings About phone System updates
Data usage . For
.