Fairphone 6 tips and tricks

Here are the things that annoyed me that required a little bit of fiddling to find on Fairphone 6 with e OS:

Move back navigation button to the right side?
Settings, System, Buttons, tap “Invert Layout”

Galaxy buds2 pro audio not working when playing videos or audio?
Turn off the “LE Audio” option in the bluetooth settings for the buds

Looking for the camera setting to store photos on microSD card? There are 2 settings to enable this.
Open the camera, tap on the settings icon in the top-right corner, tap More camera controls, enable “Storage Access Framework”, then tap Save Location which is on top of “Storage Access Framework” and browse to the desired microSD (external) location. Once in the desired folder, tap the bright blue “USE THIS LOCATION” button at the bottom of the screen.
Test by taking a few photos and confirming that photos are automatically stored where you want them to be.

Show upload and download monitor in status bar?
Settings, System, Status Bar, tap “Network traffic monitor” and select the desired monitoring option.

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I would advise against storing photos on the sd card. The writing speed on the sd card is much slower so this can improve the performance

I’ve tested camera photo-taking speed, and there doesn’t appear to be any speed difference whether storing pics on the SD card or using the phone built-in storage. Sadly the camera is still very sluggish to take photos no matter what, and it has been sluggish since brand new out of the box. I am using prior experience with Samsung and iPhone responsiveness as a comparison.