Published May 12, 2026, 2:00 PM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He's written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career.  As I dig around in my Pixel's settings app, I realize I've never really chosen any of them, really. Most of the settings on your Android phone are given to you by Google as defaults, just sitting there and doing things in the background that we never really think to question. So I started turning some of them off. Five settings later, my phone feels noticeably cleaner, less cluttered, and maybe a bit quieter overall.…