If you have bought a brand new Lumia 540, then there are lot of new features that you can explore and make use of for better experience. The phone not only comes with Lumia Denim update, but it also comes with Windows Phone Update 2. It brings in some impressive features that you will love to use. Below is a video, followed by details at the end.
- Searchable Settings : You can now search individual settings. However they need to be little accurate as it is not contextual, but they get the job done.
- Pin Settings to Start Screen: Long press on any settings, and you can pin it to start screen. Useful if you access them frequently.
- Double Tap to Sleep: Open Navigation settings, and enable this. You can double to turn off the screen right from anywhere using the nav bar.
- Auto Hide Navigation Bar: Its availble in in the nav settings. You can flick to hide or make it re-appear.
- Enable Cortana: Go to speech settings, select language as UK English. Now hit the Search button and Cortana will appear. Check out the video here.
- Save Phones Periodic Location: This saves phones last location more often and gives you better chances to find your phone.
- App Permissions: Update 2 rolls out option to control how apps access resources like Microphone, Camera, contact and so on.
That said, checkout following settings as well that will help you improve your experience even further.
- Data Sense
- Storage Sense
- Battery Saver
- USB
- Apps Corner
- Backup
- call + SMS Filter.








Hi, Ashish, Can you also tell how to set picture as Glance screen on Lumia 640…. Please.
hy can u tell me my phone’s doesn’t work flashlight in camera