Hi guys, it's MTG here, and today I'm going to be going over some more Samsung Galaxy
Note 8 Tips and Tricks that you may not have known about.
Let's get right into it.
The first feature that I am going to talk about today is Bixby Quick Commands.
This feature will allow you to say one phrase to trigger multiple actions on your phone.
To set this feature up, go into Bixby, click the menu button, and go to My Bixby.
From here, scroll down to Quick Commands and click the box under it.
From this screen you'll be able to add all of the Bixby commands that you want to execute
from a single phrase.
In this instance, I will set a Bixby Quick Command for when I'm about to sleep.
I'll add a Bixby command to turn on Do Not Disturb.
I'll also add a command to turn the Blue Light Filter on.
Lastly, I will have Bixby tell me the weather for tomorrow.
But if you search this command, nothing will pop up.
But you can get around this by first asking Bixby the question: "What's the weather tomorrow?"
Then when you go to select a command, you can click, "select from history" and you'll
be able to choose that question that you just asked.
Now I will go back and click "Add quick command" to set the phrase that will initiate everything:
goodnight.
After I click save, the quick command will now be set.
So now I can activate Bixby and say, "Goodnight".
If you want to find out more things Bixby can do, check the description for a link to
my Bixby walkthrough video.
The next feature that I'm going to be talking about today involves the s-pen that lives
in the bottom right corner of your Note 8.
Quick Glance will allow you to have a little shortcut of whatever app you want to be available
to quickly glance at.
To glance back at the app, all you have to do is hover the s-pen over it, and lift the
s-pen up again to go back.
To activate this feature, you'll have to click the air command icon.
This feature may not be here by default.
So if it isn't, scroll to add shortcuts, and select glance.
Now when you want to create a shortcut that you can glance at, simply click the air command
icon and then glance.
You'll be able to move the shortcut to any corner of the screen, and when you're done
using it, you can just drag it up to the top.
The next set of hidden features are ways to activate the shutter button when taking a
selfie.
The first method is palm raise.
When your phone is on the front camera, you'll be able to hold your palm up by your face,
and a timer will begin.
This should help out when multiple people are in shot so everyone knows when the picture
is going to be taken, or when you want to stay perfectly still when shooting.
The next capture method is a heart rate sensor tap.
On the back of the Note 8, between the fingerprint scanner, and cameras, there is a heart rate
sensor.
You'll be able to tap this area to instantly capture a photo.
This feature should also help you take less shaky photos with the front camera.
Both of these features should be on by default, but if they aren't on for you, click the settings
icon and scroll down to shooting methods.
Here, you'll be able to toggle each on.
The Note 8 is a snappy phone, but there is a feature on all Android devices that will
instantly make your phone appear a lot faster.
To activate this feature, you'll have to turn on developer options.
To do this on your device, go to settings and scroll down to about phone.
From here, scroll down to Build Number and tap it six times.
Since I already have it activated, nothing will happen on my phone.
But once you complete this, there will now be developer options at the bottom of your
settings menu.
Clicking this, you'll be able to scroll down and find various settings regarding animation
scale.
For each of the animation options, you'll be able to set the animation speed to half
what it is now, or you'll be able to turn all of them off.
Once they are off, you'll notice the difference.
There will no longer be an animation when you open and close apps, and when you navigate
menus.
The Always on Display also has a cool hidden feature.
Like on the s8 and s8 plus, you can access media controls even when your screen is off.
If you're playing any sort of media, you'll be able to access the media controls by double
clicking the time and swiping either left or right.
From here, you'll be able to pause and play the media, and skip forward or back a song.
The last hidden feature that I'm going to be talking about today could prove to be very
useful because of just how big the Note 8's screen is.
Don't get me wrong, the Note 8 is my daily driver and I love it, but there are many times
where I am forced to use two hands when using it because there are certain menu buttons
that are impossible to reach otherwise.
But Samsung has implemented a feature that can shrink down the content of the screen
so that you can reach it all with one hand.
This feature works by sliding up from either corner of the phone.
From here, the entire screen will shrink down to just the corner that you gestured from.
You'll now be able to click menu buttons that were hard to reach, and you'll also still
be able to navigate through your phone as normal.
And to exit this mode, just tap anywhere outside of the screen.
To turn this feature on, go into settings, advanced features, and toggle on one-handed
mode.
If you click this, you'll be able to select whether you want to activate it by the gesture,
or tapping the home button 3 times.
Hopefully you found some of these tips helpful.
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