2 ways to personalize a Pixel 10, according to Google

Google wants you to know you can customize the experience of your Pixel 10 phone.

The company published a blog with some hints and tricks to get more personalization out of your phone. Google listed off four tips — you should check out the whole list — but we've picked a couple we felt were most surprising or useful.

1. Make full use of Magic Cue

A major tool Google recommended for personalization of a Pixel 10 is the addition of Magic Cue, an AI-powered assistant aimed at making your life easier. The idea is that it should be able to trawl through things like your messages and emails to automatically solve problems. It should prove to be a time-save because, as Mashable's Cecily Mauran wrote, it "proactively finds information you might need to look up."

Google wrote that you "can also turn Magic Cue on or off at any time, and control what data it has access to" — so it might make sense to play with those settings to get the most out of your phone. If it does a good job, for instance, of managing your meetings, then you'd want to make sure it has access to your calendar and work emails.

2. Switch up the visual design

Google's latest Pixel interface, Material 3 Expressive, gives users plenty of options to change the look their phone. Mashable's Alex Perry wrote that it offers "deeper color customization" and a "livelier" look.

Google noted in its blog that users have lots of options, like customizing their wallpaper and shifting how buttons look. The company wrote:

"Coming only to Pixel, Material 3 Expressive’s Live Effects provides more expressive photo wallpapers by adapting to your notifications and surfacing contextual information in a more immersive and glanceable way. Material 3 Expressive also includes 14 new or updated components that feature more configuration capabilities, like emphasizing typography differently in different spots, switching up color schemes or changing the shape of various icon buttons."

There are obviously lots of cool features to explore with a new Pixel 10 phone. It promises, for instance, a top-of-the line camera and live translation. But it is also neat that there are ways to make the phone distinctly yours.