Microsoft Lumia 535 Tips and Tricks

To PIN a website to your start menu, then browse to a site. Then Press and Hold and select Pin to start, to add a shortcut to the website to your start menu.

You can go one step further and zoom into a part of the web page. Then when you Press and Hold to add to your start menu, the Title on your Start Menu will display the area you zoomed to.

To create a conference call on your phone, you need to first call someone.

Then when they are on the line, press the Down arrow on the screen and press Add to call and select another Contact.

Then when you’ve found the second person, press Merge calls

To change the colour of your tiles, go to Settings – Lock and wallpaper – Theme.

You can then change the colour of your Applications or third-party apps.

To maximise the viewable area when viewing websites, then you can rotate the phone to landscape mode.

This has the effect of hiding the menu toolbar and address bar so that you can see more of the website.

If you do not want to be disturbed for a certain period or between certain hours, then you can enable Quiet Hours.

This allows you to divert calls and/or texts to Cortana which is effectively Microsoft’s personal assistant. Just go to Settings – Quiet Hours.

You can set this to be enabled between two time periods, when you have an event in your calendar which is marked as busy or for a certain period.

You can also setup exceptions, or breakthrough rules, so that certain individuals can still reach you even when Quiet Hours is enabled.

Unless you are one of the lucky few who has an unlimited data plan, then you will want to avoid going over your monthly data limit. Fortunately there is a Windows Phone feature called Data Sense.

This feature allows you to monitor your data and Wi-Fi usage and also which Apps are using the most data. You can also set a download limit per month so you don’t go over your allowance which includes the ability to prevent background downloading when you are close to your limit.

Data Sense can be found in your App Drawer.

To shuffle your music tracks, then start playing some music.

Then press the Album cover. You can then choose either Repeat or Shuffle

While in the Music player, you can enable Replay mode. Just open a Song, then press on the Album. A Replay symbol should then appear.

To move a tile to another location, simply press and hold a tile. Then drag it to another location

To skip to the next track in a playlist, press the Track list below the album cover. This will let you move through the playlist