76 SettingsCustomizing your device’s settings❖ Battery use—Displays a list of the applications using batterypower since you last charged your tablet.Accounts & sync settingsYou can add, remove, and manage your Google™ Accounts andother accounts, using the Accounts & sync settings. For moreinformation, see “Syncing and managing your accounts” onpage 59. Use these settings to also control the ways in whichapplications send, receive, and sync data on their own schedules, orhow applications synchronize user data automatically.Gmail™, Calendar, and other applications may have their ownsetting options. For details, refer to the application’sdocumentation.To change the Accounts & sync settings:1 Touch the Apps ( ) icon.The Apps menu appears.2 Swipe to the second screen, and touch the Settings ( ) icon.The Settings menu appears.3 Touch the Accounts & sync ( ) icon.The Accounts & sync menu appears.4 Touch the item you wish to change in the Accounts & syncmenu.Below are some of the categories you can choose from:❖ Background data—Select to allow applications tosynchronize data in the background even if the application isnot currently being used. Disabling this setting can save batterypower and data use.❖ Auto-sync—Select to allow applications to synchronize dataon their own schedule.If Background data is not selected, automatically synchronizing datais disabled and data will need to be manually synchronized in eachapplication that supports it.❖ Manage accounts—You can manage your Google Accountsand others you have added to the tablet by touching an accounton this screen.NOTE
