New phone? Let AI finish the setup in one conversation

The first half hour with a new phone is the most annoying: ads still on, preinstalled apps everywhere, permissions all over the place. Instead of digging through menus yourself, hand it to the AI — say what you want, and it taps through every setting for you.

Three reasons to let AI set up your phone

• Say it, it's changed: no need to remember which menu hides a switch — just say "turn off personalized ads" and the AI finds and flips it.
• One instruction, item by item: your requests become a checklist executed in order, with a record of what's done and what's missed — no forgotten half-changes.
• Reusable for the next phone: keep the setup list and replay it on your next device — a fresh phone tuned to your taste in minutes.

Three things to fix first

• Ads and recommendations: turn off personalized recommendations and splash-screen ads at both system and vendor-app level for an instantly cleaner phone.
• App permissions: grant contacts, location and gallery access only where needed and keep sensitive ones tight — boundaries in 5 safety habits before letting AI touch your phone.
• Base experience: set Do Not Disturb hours, font size, default browser and keyboard once, so you never redo them.

Setup is just the start — daily check-ins, cleanup and backups can all be handed to AI too, see which repetitive tasks AI can take over; to understand how AI operates your phone in the first place, read what AI-powered Android control is.