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- Hi everybody. David and David here
from PayetteForward.com and UpPhone.com
and today we are going to talk about
9 Samsung Galaxy settings that you should turn on right now.
- So, let's go ahead and open up the settings app.
I like to do that by slipping that
from the upper right hand corner of the screen
and tapping the gear icon.
First, we're going to go into advanced features
and tap on one-handed mode.
When I picked up the S20 for the first time,
I realized this is a really tall phone.
It's kind of hard to hit the top of the screen
if you wanna tap on something.
Like I did with the the gear icon,
I used my left hand to do that.
So I'm going to tap on one-handed mode
and just turn on this switch next to use one-handed mode
and then decide what sort of gesture you'd like to use.
I like to double tap the home button.
I'm going to go ahead and do that.
There it is. Now the screen's smaller
and you can much easier to navigate.
- Right. And how do you get out of it?
- Well, you just tap anywhere on the black.
Now you're out of it.
- That's pretty cool.
- Yep. Got your coffee in one hand,
one-handed mode in this hand.
- Right. So, you can actually get up and go back.
Because otherwise you're going to have to put
down that coffee and nobody wants that.
- Yeah, not me.
Next thing we're talking about is reduced animations.
This is also in advanced features.
This is kind of like reduce motion on iPhone.
Where we're just kind of cutting down
on those on-screen animations that are kind of
unnecessary, drain a little bit of battery life
and your average users aren't going to notice it.
- Yeah, you probably won't notice the difference.
And yes, they do drain your battery.
Because graphics always battery drainers.
- Let's tap back to advanced features
and there's reduced animations.
Tone down motion effects on the screen,
such as when apps are opened or closed.
Turn on that switch. Now it's on.
- Great. The next feature we want to talk about is
called send SOS messages.
Not on by default. It sounds important.
It is important. Let's turn it on.
- It's also in advanced features.
Send SOS messages. Tap on that.
Turn on this switch at the top of the screen, next to off.
Now it's on.
When you send an SOS message,
the message includes your approximate location
as well as pictures and a sound recording captured
when you sent the message.
New SOS messages will be sent every 30 minutes
if your location changes.
Continue.
Send SOS Messages needs permissions.
So these permitting these apps. Yeah.
Start and add recipients.
- You can select from your contacts or create a new contact
here but you want to choose who's going to get
these messages and whether you need to tap the side button
three times or four times to send them.
- Yeah, I'm not going to send one right now
because I'm not in an emergency.
So let's go back.
And real quick, I just want to say
you can also set this up where you can automatically
call someone instead of sending them a text message.
It'll auto call somebody.
- Cool.
- Next thing we're gonna do is go to the device care section
of the settings app on your Samsung Galaxy.
So, I'm going to go back to the main page of settings
and we're going to go to Device Care right there.
- So next, we're going to tap on Battery.
- And then tap on Power mode.
Right now, I have it set to optimized.
That's what we recommend.
It's optimized. It's a good balance between
high performance and medium power saving.
But the setting we want to turn on
here is adaptive power saving.
Set the power mode automatically based on
your usage patterns to save power when it's not needed.
This will not change your screen resolution.
Tap that switch, turn it on adaptive power saving.
You're going to save power.
- It seems like that should be a default, too.
- It seems like it.
- But it's not.
You get to turn it on.
Feel like you're doing something good. Okay.
Next is Wireless PowerShare.
- Yeah. So, we're gonna go back one page
and tap on Wireless PowerShare.
This is reverse wireless charging.
Put another Samsung S20 on this one and it charges.
It's pretty cool. - Right.
- So just tap that switch, turn it on. Cool feature.
- It's rather unlikely that
this would be turned on accidentally.
I guess, theoretically, you could have your phone.
Let's see. Does work with iPhones?
- It might.
- (laughs) It does. - Ha ha. Look at that.
- But then you get in a fight with your friends
because you're trying to like, I want to use my phone.
Okay. Anyway. - Yeah.
- Okay, so you're going to hold them back to back.
- Yeah. And now it's just ready to charge.
- Perfect.
- So, you know when you want to
reverse wireless charge your phone
and you tried to do it and it's not on it
because Wireless PowerShare isn't on.
You need to come and turn that on
for reverse wireless charging to work.
Next, let's talk about the camera.
There are a lot of really cool camera settings that are
off by default that we recommend turning on.
So we're going to go back
to the main page of the settings app.
- And the camera is one of the main reasons
why people buy the S20. It's got a great camera.
64 megapixel, 8K video recording.
So, make sure you're getting the most out of your camera.
Makes sense. Okay.
- Let's tap on apps
and then tap on camera.
Tap that little gear icon to the right of camera.
Here are a whole bunch of features
that we recommend turning on.
First one is a shot suggestions.
Get onscreen guides to help you line up great shots.
Why not? - Yep.
- Next, we're going to turn on tracking auto-focus.
That's down here. Tracking auto-focus.
Keep the camera focused on the selected subject
even if they move.
- Pretty cool.
Yep. - Yep.
- Gridded lines. You want nice grid on the camera.
Awesome. Helps line up the shots.
Make sure things are centered especially.
- Yep, or using that rule of thirds.
- Yep. And then finally, settings to keep.
This will just keep the camera settings the same
every time you close or open the camera app.
- Yeah. This is super helpful.
- Yeah. Especially if you're like,
I'm going to go out and record videos today
and then defaults to when you close the camera app
back to the camera, you keep swiping over to video.
- Yep. Until your thumb gets tired.
You can save literally seconds by turning on this feature.
- Yeah. So, let's just turn on the settings.
Maybe you don't want the filters one.
The filters are kind of more of a fun.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- But if you'd like to have fun, unlike us,
maybe you want to turn this one on.
- So, those are 9 Samsung Galaxy settings
you should turn on now.
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