Hey friend, Brandon here.
So maybe you or a friend or family member has gotten their hands
on a galaxy note, 10 or 10 plus.
And you're trying to find out some advanced tips and tricks for the device.
Maybe you've gone through three different videos and you really haven't
learned anything new or interesting.
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Tip number one may be a little bit scary for some of you.
It depends on if you're really advanced on the Android or not,
but I promise it will be okay.
This one is actually my favorite and I do on every single device I ever get.
So if you swipe down from the top of one finger and you hit the gear icon
up here and you type in animations, you can do reduce animation.
So this is one option of.
Simply click that and it should make animations go a little bit faster,
but I've found that it's not quite as good as my preferred methods.
So I'm going to turn this off and we'll go back.
Now, if you scroll all the way down to the bottom and you click on about phone
and then click on software information and go to build number and just tap on it.
Until it says that you have to put in your pin, this pin number is the one that
you set up when you set up your device.
So it's not my personal opinion.
It's not anything from Samsung.
It's the one that you chose.
So I just put it in my pencil.
Let's go back one.
And then one more time.
If we scroll all the way down to the bottom, you'll see developer options,
click on that and then scroll all the way down until you see the option.
Okay.
And emission scale.
So you'll see three options here and we're going to change it.
We're going to change windows animation scale 2.5, transition to 0.5 and
animation scale or duration to 0.5.
And then you'll notice that this is way snappier now to compare it.
Let's go back to the normal speed.
See how it's a little bit slower, maybe smoother, but I like the snappy field.
So we'll go back to 0.5.
Much better.
It really makes your phone feel really fast.
Tip number two is actually two tips that have to do with your two fingers.
So if he swiped down with both fingers, it'll bring down the notification shade
all the way to your quick settings.
So normally you would have to do it two times to get there.
And the second part of this tip still has to do with the notification shade.
So normally if you swipe down.
You get the app screen because this phone is so big and tall and you
normally have to reach up to pull down on the notification shade.
It can be a little bit weird to do that.
Like maybe you want to use it with one hand.
There's a way to pull down on the notification shade just by swiping
down on the home screen instead.
So if we hold down on the home screen, I can go to home screen settings.
There's this option right here.
It says, swipe down for notification panel.
Let's check that and then cook home.
Now, when you swipe down from the home screen, it'll take
you right to your notification.
Jade.
I think he even swiped on two times to get to your quick settings, right?
Tip number three, let's swipe down to the notification shade
and hit that gear icon for say.
And then we'll go to display.
Since we have this really big screen, it's kind of crazy to have really
big texts, at least in my opinion.
So I prefer to change the font size.
You can go to font, size and style and then make it smaller and it
can fit a lot more on your screen.
Or if it's a little bit harder for you to read, you can turn it.
But we'll move it down.
Yeah.
It's a little bit too big.
And if you happen to have the note 10 plus, and unfortunately this is
not available on the normal note, you can go to screen resolution and
change it to the full resolution.
Normally it defaults to 10 ADP.
So click on it and then hit apply and you'll use.
It's a full screen resolution tip.
Number four is really nice if maybe this a bright screen or
interface is a bit much for you.
It's called night mode or dark mode.
So if you go to the display area, there's night mode right here.
If you check it, it's a little bit darker.
And I think it looks really sharp.
It's a little bit easier on the eyes, at least for me, and a lot of other people.
And because it's an amyloid screen, having a darker interface or black pixels
on your screen will save battery life.
All right.
Number five is really helpful when I'm laying in bed and you probably shouldn't.
Use your phone too much in bed, but if you just happened to, to do that,
like, um, I happened to you and you want to check something out in landscape
mode, you can rotate your phone, 90 degrees, and this little icon popped
up here in the corner when it pops up.
You can manually rotate it.
So it's a quick setting and toggle there and it'll hold it there.
So you're not like having it rotate constantly when you're laying down.
And then likewise, if you rotate it back to portrait mode, the icon will show
up, you tap it and it's back to normal.
And number six is really great, especially because of this big,
gorgeous screen it's created for multitasking it's split-screen.
So we have to do is hit the menu button at the bottom and
then tap on the app icon itself.
And there's an option for open in split screen view.
So it'll pop it up to the.
And then you can choose your other apps.
He can swipe between them.
So say we choose the settings option.
Now you have two different apps that are open, which is really helpful.
This is my favorite.
If you maybe you're watching something and you need to take some notes in a
notes app, or maybe you need to copy something from an email into a documents
app, and then you can readjust this.
And if you want to close it, you drag it all the way down to the bottom.
There you go.
Now, number seven is really neat and you may be familiar with this kind of style.
If you use Facebook messenger, there's those little bubbles that pop up.
So you can actually do that with your apps.
If you go to your settings and you hit the gear icon and just simply
type in smart hop, it'll bring up this option as a smart pop up.
You just click on that and then click on it.
Okay.
Within this menu can choose specific apps that can kind of
show up in that little popup view.
So let me enable like the YouTube app.
So we'll go into the YouTube app and then hit the menu or app overview
and then hit the little icon there.
And you'll see an option says open and pop up view.
Now show up here is a bit of a preview of the app, but you can
hit this little button right here.
That's closing in on the square and it will make it into this little bubble.
And you can move it wherever you want.
And then whenever you want to access it, you just simply
click on it and it opens it up.
He can even change it's transparency, which is a really new.
Enlarge it, if you want to, or simply hit the X tick, close it.
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All right.
Tip number eight is really great.
If you have kids or they just want to make a call and you don't really want them to
go through your phone, go to the settings, click the search option and hit pin.
And then you'll see this pin window is.
It's all the way at the bottom.
So enable it and then hit this little menu icon at the bottom.
And then if you hit the icon of the app that you have, there's
an option to pin this app.
If you pin it now, you can't get out of it.
So this is really great.
If you just want your kid to play a game, to get out of it, you do have to hit the
menu and back arrow at the same time.
And then it'll ask you to log in again, which is really great for security.
Now tip number nine is really great and it may bleed in a little bit to the next
tip, but I'll explain that in a moment.
So say you have an app open and you want to switch to the last app that you're in.
If you simply just hit the menu icon twice, you'll go to the left.
So this is a bit of a fast app switcher.
I'm just double tapping it.
And it's going to the last one, the previous one.
Now remember this because it'll come in handy for this next tip.
Now go back to the settings and click on the search and type in navigation.
And there's a navigation bar or type option.
So depending on your preference or maybe you've used another Android
phone, you can actually change the order of these buttons at the bottom.
Samsung phones have on flip compared to stock Android, or
like you'd find on a pixel phone.
So you can choose that option here.
There's also this option called gestures.
So if we click on that, You'll notice that the bottom looks different.
Now there's three different lines here and they act kind of like those
three buttons that you have normally, and it will follow the different
button order that you have chosen.
So I have mine set up kind of like a pixel phone.
So now instead of just simply tapping on them, you just swipe up
or if you swipe up from the right side, I'll go to your app overview.
And now if you remember our last tip, we just swipe up two times
from the menu overview, which I have now on the right side.
If you do that, Yes, which the last app, but this may feel a little bit clunky.
So one other gesture that you can use is just swiping right from the middle of.
And it'll go to your last app.
I think this one's a little bit more intuitive and of course, to go back,
you just swipe up on the left one.
If you've chosen that for the back button, number 11 is really helpful, especially
because this phone is really big.
You just type in gesture and then you'll see this option here.
It's the second one for one handed mode.
And then you just turn it on since we have gestures on right now,
there's only one option for us, but if you don't have gestures on, you
can choose the button option, but essentially if you swipe up from the.
It will make the screen smaller so you can kind of reach everything.
It's a little bit nice that way.
If you need to switch side, you can do that.
It's like your entire.
On this small little screen.
And then up top, if you tap there, I'll go back to full screen.
Number 12 is a really great if maybe you're an influencer or you have
multiple social media accounts.
For some reason, if you go to the settings and type in dual,
you'll see a dual messenger option there, click on it at the bottom.
And depending on what apps you have installed on your phone, you can have
the option to have two instances or versions of Facebook or Snapchat.
And then each one will act like they're separately.
This is also really great for businesses that happen to handle social media.
All right.
Tip number 13.
If you go into the camera app, hello, and you go to Instagram,
you can take a picture.
And I go right into your Instagram stories to post there.
So you can just edit it there and then just publish to your story, by the
way, if you're not following me on Instagram, I post a lot of things there.
So go follow me at this is tech today.
Now you may have noticed that there's only three buttons on your note,
10, there's a volume rocker and this one other button here, it's kind
of the on-off button, but you can control exactly what happens with it.
So if you go to your settings and type inside key, we'll see that option.
Tap on it and can choose to have it open up big speed.
If you do prefer that as the assistant or he can choose the power off menu,
also, you can change the double click from the camera to a specific app.
If you prefer that, I like just keeping the quick launch
camera and then power off menu.
So that way you can just hold down and turn off your phone.
You can also turn off your phone with this button up here.
Tip number 15.
One of the benefits of the note.
Here's the S pen.
Now, if you go to settings and type in S pen, there's this option, it
says S pen unlock, and then you can enable unlock with the S pen
remote punch in the pin that you chose when you activate your device.
And then when you take your S pen and hit the button on it, it'll unlock your phone.
So you don't have any pin code or your fingerprint.
So just keep that in mind.
There's a little bit of a security loss doing that, but
there's a lot of convenience.
Tip number 16 is the S pen app shortcut.
So whenever you pull out the phone, I'd list of apps or options come up.
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom there's apps shortcuts.
So maybe I want to use that for Instagram.
Now, whenever I take out my S pen.
You'll see, Instagram is one of the options.
There it is.
Tip number 17 is really great because of Samsung notes.
So let's open up Samsung notes to get our S pen started.
Now, now that I've written this down, you can actually go to
this area right here with the T.
Tap on that.
And then it'll convert your writing into texts so you can copy it and then paste
it somewhere else or simply convert it.
Tip number 18, still uses the S pen it's for air actions to go to
your settings type in air actions.
Make sure it's enabled and you can change.
What happens if you hold down the button so it can open up the camera.
That's what I have chosen, but you can change it to other apps, but let's
hold it down and open up the camera.
Now, if I hold the button and wave up, it changes to the.
And then vice-versa back to the back camera.
Now, if I want you to change the mode that I'm in for the camera, you hold down the
button and swipe left or swipe, right.
You can keep doing that.
It'll change between the different settings.
And if you hold it down into a circle left or right, you can determine
how far it zooms in or out Sophia.
Zooms out more and then vice versa.
So now I can zoom in now.
That's really fine if you just want to get really specific with the zoom ins
or out, but if you want to just do that quickly, you just hold down the button.
And instead of doing a full circle, like I was doing before you hold on the button
and just stop, see how it's doing that.
The opposite direction.
So before I was doing a circle, but you can just hold down the button and do like
a half circle and hold it pretty sweet.
And then of course, if you want to take a picture, let's do it this way.
You just click.
Now, this other one is really great.
If you happen to like gifs or jifs, depending on what you prefer.
I prefer GIF.
Let me know which one you prefer, but if you want to capture a gift,
just take out your S pen and then choose the one that says smart.
There's a gift option over here and you just drag your screen and where
you want it and then hit record.
And then now I have my own gift.
You can just download it.
You can add annotations to it if you want.
Awesome.
I love it.
And now it's saved to your gallery so you can share it.
Tip number 20 is screenshots.
If you just click down on the volume button and the power button
at the same time simultaneously, you'll take a screenshot.
And then right here, you can adjust the crop.
If you have your pin out, you can annotate it.
And then save it and share it with someone else.
Really great.
Now, number 21 is glance.
If you happen to be in and happy, you take out your S pen, just click on glance.
And now it's kind of at the bottom right here, and you can hover your
S pen over it and kind of pop into the app, which is really neat.
It's a bit like a picture in picture and split-screen, if you just need
to glance at something real quick and then you can drag it all the way up.
To close it.
Tip number 22.
Maybe there's a ton of apps that you have on the phone that you just don't use.
And it's just kind of cluttering things up.
If you hold down on the home screen and go down to home screen
settings in the bottom, right.
Go all the way down to the barn.
And there's a high to apps option.
Now you can just choose which ones you don't want to see anymore.
So maybe I don't like using Samsung internet.
So I'm just going to click on that and apply.
And then now when I go to the apps, I don't see it there.
It really helps clean things up a little bit.
And if you want to add those back, you just go back and just uncheck it.
Tip number 22 is a really great safety feature.
If you go to your settings and type in SOS, You can send an SOS
message if you're in trouble.
So let's enable that.
So it states pressing the site key twice.
I set that open the camera, pressing the psyche three times since SOS messages,
make sure that you only press the psyche twice when you want to use a camera.
So be very careful about that.
You have to agree to it, and then you have to choose a person that
you want to send a message to.
So this is based upon your contacts.
So I've added one of my friends, but can add multiple friends.
And then what will happen is I'll take pictures using the front and rear camera
and attach a five-second audio recording, and then send a message to them.
Really, really helpful tip number 23.
Speaking of security, if you go to settings and type in lockdown mode, once
again, you have to type in the pin that you created when you activated the phone.
And then the lockdown option is at the bottom.
Now, when you hold down the par button, there's a lockdown mode.
If we click.
There's no biometric option.
There's no face unlock.
There's only the pin option since the new 10 and 10 plus have an
in display fingerprint reader.
It can sometimes be a little bit finicky.
It's new technology.
One way you can improve it and make it faster to use is to add your
fingerprint multiple times to go to the settings and type in fingerprint.
There's a biometrics and security option.
Click on that fingerprints right here.
Entering the pin that you created, and then you can add fingerprints.
This just gives it more data and allows you to unlock your
phone a little bit easier.
I personally like adding my fingerprint when it's just normal.
And then after I've gotten out of a shower, cause your fingerprint looks
a little bit different when it's been a little bit wet tip number 25.
How did I record everything on my screen?
So there is a built-in option.
If you go to your settings and you swipe right, it's under screen
recorder, but I find that it's really.
So I use this app called AC screen recorder.
It's absolutely free.
You go in.
I'm actually using it right now.
And it gives you a ton of options here.
You can change the resolution, the frame rate, the bit rate
you can record the audio.
You can show the camera.
If you want to do that.
Add text and logo, things like that.
It's a really, really powerful and really helps you make these videos for you.
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