ASUS Zenfone Max Pro M2 – Tips & Tricks

ASUS has ended the year 2018 exceptionally good with the launch of mid-range powerful smartphones – the ASUS Zenfone Max M2 and the Max Pro M2 variants. The larger Max Pro M2 featured a 6.26-inch screen, and it is equipped with a Snapdragon 660 SoC alongside Adreno 512 GPU. It has shipped with Android 8.1 Oreo-based software under company’s stock Android Experience out-of-the-box. We have used the larger Zenfone Max Pro M2 variant for quite a while now and here are the prominent Top Tips & Tricks of this mid-range smartphone.

Get 100GB of Google Drive storage

Asus Zenfone Max users can get 100GB of Google Drive storage by simply signing into their Google Account. Yes, it’s that simple, ASUS has been offering Rs 1,300 worth Google Drive storage for free to its new Zenfone Max consumers.

Gestures

Gestures have been become the new norm in interacting with your smartphone for a while now. The Zenfone Max Pro also has them, which can be enabled in System Settings of the M2. By enabling, users can double-tap the screen to either turn on/off the screen, which is certainly useful for glancing at your notifications.

Adjusting Display Colour Temperature

With the new Zenfone Max Pro, users can toggle their phone’s display color settings as per their individual preferences. What this means is, users can make their display look more warmer or cooler by adjusting the screen color settings on the M2 display settings.

Night Light

If you’re that user who likes to use the smartphone often in the darker environments the featured Night Light feature in the Max Pro M2 helps you to use your smartphone more comfortably. Enabling or users can also schedule it, makes the display look more warmer, and eliminates the blue light emission from the screen. This further helps you take less strain on your eyes and get a quicker sleep during bedtime.

Enabling Portrait mode on the camera

Portrait shots have become new forms of photography, especially in smartphones. The Zenfone Max M2 Pro also has it – thanks to its dual cameras on the rear. This can be enabled manually by toggling the depth effect in the camera interface, which eventually blurs the background and creates the bokeh effect.

Storage Manager

If you are running low on storage on the Zenfone Max Pro M2, you can enable storage manager in the settings. What this does is, it automatically deletes already backed photos from your phone’s internal storage. You can also set a period ranging from 30 days to 90 days old photos that are backed up, which will further be deleted by Storage Manager when required.

Face Unlock

Apart from the conventional fingerprint sensor, which is fast, the Zenfone Max users can also utilize their face for authentication. Users can add their face in Settings – Security & Location – Face Unlock – Registering new face. This might not be as fast as a fingerprint scanner but is indeed an added advantage, which takes you into your phone swiftly without the need of placing the finger accurately on the scanning sensor at the back of the Max Pro M2.

Split-Screen

There’s nothing better than this feature on the bigger Zenfone Max Pro M2. It can make you utilize the whole screen on the M2 by giving you access to multiple apps on the large screen. Users can get into split screen mode by dragging the desired app from the overview of apps to the top of the screen.

Users can add their other preferable app on the other half of the screen through which they can handle multitasking quite easily.

Notification LED

The notification LEDs can scarcely be seen in the Android smartphones lately. Having a notification LED is always an advantage to get to know about your phone’s notifications. And, the notch on the front beholds the Notification LED light, which can be enabled in Display Settings (Blinking light on/off) of the Zenfone Max Pro M2.

Other noticeable features include Ambient Display, which when enabled wakes the screen, whenever you get a notification. And, another feature is the smart screen on, this helps you to extend screen on time while you’re looking at it. Both these features can be enabled in the Display settings on the Zenfone Max M2 Pro.