【Tips and Tricks】Mobile Manager can keep your ZenFone in good shape

Almost every ZenFone these days comes loaded with the Mobile Manager app. It’s the best way to keep your Android phone running optimally. It encompasses a lot of utilities.

The main screen gives you an at-a-glance view of your battery and RAM status. Tapping the middle stethoscope icon will launch a quick scan that will suggest a series of optimizations based on your current setup. These can include stopping background apps to free up memory, manage apps from starting automatically, and adjust screen sleep timeout.

Along the bottom are shortcuts to individual tools. The first is Data usage. With it, you can set a mobile data limit, in case you’re on a metered connection, and get warnings when you’re approaching that limit.

The next shortcut takes you to Power saver. With it, you can manually or automatically switch between power management profiles, which tweak things like screen brightness and network activity to make sure you get through the day.

Then there’s Boost. This closes all the apps running in he background to free up available RAM. This is handy when there’s just one app you want to run flawlessly. You can also use Super Boost, which will add exceptions to the list of apps that get closed in the process, that way the most important ones will stay readily accessible and functional.

In the bottom-left of the main screen is a notifications manager. Tap it, and you’ll get a full list of every app installed on the ZenFone 3 Laser, and you’ll get the option to disable notifications. Use this when you want to mute some particularly aggressive apps.

The next option along the bottom protects your privacy and security. It will initially scan for any apps or files that may pose a threat, based on the latest databases available, then suggest general fixes, such as locking individual apps with their own pattern code.

Finally, there’s the Permissions button. From here you can pick apps that will have the ability to automatically start up on their own. Though leaving this off for certain apps may mean missing out on functions, it’s good to know that apps that don’t need to always be on are staying closed.

Mobile Manager has a broad set of uses, but combined, they polish the experience to a shine. Do you use it, or do you prefer another app? What improvements do you think are needed to be added to Mobile Manager?