A user equipment, UE, comprising: antennas; transceiver circuitry connected to the antennas to transmit and/or receive signals; a user interface (752, 753) configured to generate notifications to users; a processor connected to the transceiver circuitry and the user interface; a memory storing program code that is executed by the processor to perform operations comprising: repeating, over a time period for a set of applications being executed by the UE: obtaining a radio characteristics measurement for at least one of the antennas; responsive to the radio characteristics measurement satisfying a grip pattern reconfiguration rule, selecting a grip pattern from among a set of grip patterns; and generating a grip pattern notification through the user interface based on the grip pattern that was selected; determining over the time period, effects that different ones of the grip patterns in the set, which were selected based on the radio characteristics measurements satisfying the grip pattern reconfiguration rule, have on communication performance of the UE when executing the applications in the set; identifying one of the applications among the set that is being executed by the UE; and selecting the grip pattern from among the set of grip patterns based on the determined effect of the grip pattern on the UE communication performance of the one of the applications. antennas; transceiver circuitry connected to the antennas to transmit and/or receive signals; a user interface (752, 753) configured to generate notifications to users; a processor connected to the transceiver circuitry and the user interface; a memory storing program code that is executed by the processor to perform operations comprising: repeating, over a time period for a set of applications being executed by the UE: obtaining a radio characteristics measurement for at least one of the antennas; responsive to the radio characteristics measurement satisfying a grip pattern reconfiguration rule, selecting a grip pattern from among a set of grip patterns; and generating a grip pattern notification through the user interface based on the grip pattern that was selected; determining over the time period, effects that different ones of the grip patterns in the set, which were selected based on the radio characteristics measurements satisfying the grip pattern reconfiguration rule, have on communication performance of the UE when executing the applications in the set; identifying one of the applications among the set that is being executed by the UE; and selecting the grip pattern from among the set of grip patterns based on the determined effect of the grip pattern on the UE communication performance of the one of the applications. repeating, over a time period for a set of applications being executed by the UE: obtaining a radio characteristics measurement for at least one of the antennas; responsive to the radio characteristics measurement satisfying a grip pattern reconfiguration rule, selecting a grip pattern from among a set of grip patterns; and generating a grip pattern notification through the user interface based on the grip pattern that was selected; obtaining a radio characteristics measurement for at least one of the antennas; responsive to the radio characteristics measurement satisfying a grip pattern reconfiguration rule, selecting a grip pattern from among a set of grip patterns; and generating a grip pattern notification through the user interface based on the grip pattern that was selected; determining over the time period, effects that different ones of the grip patterns in the set, which were selected based on the radio characteristics measurements satisfying the grip pattern reconfiguration rule, have on communication performance of the UE when executing the applications in the set; identifying one of the applications among the set that is being executed by the UE; and selecting the grip pattern from among the set of grip patterns based on the determined effect of the grip pattern on the UE communication performance of the one of the applications.