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The first thing you want to do when you get your Galaxy Z fold 4 is to transfer all of
your data over from your old device.
The fastest way to do that is with Samsung's Smart Switch application.
This will transfer the most amount of data and works with any Android device or iPhone.
I already uploaded a deep dove video on how this works and I'll have a link to that video
in the description if you want to learn more about it.
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Since the fold 4 is quite an expensive device, the next thing I want to do is pick up a case
and a screen protector to protect it.
I personally purchased a bunch of cases to test out, but I'll hold my thoughts on these
cases until I finish testing them.
If you want to see what I purchased, you can check out the links in the description and
I'll let you guys know which ones are worth it in a future video.
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If you're someone who did not buy an s-pen and you have no desire to use an S pen, the
next thing you should do is go to your settings.
Scroll down to advanced features.
Tap that, then disable S-Pen input.
This will turn off s-pen detection on your screen, saving you a little bit of battery
life.
While you're in the settings.
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The next thing you should do is go to display.
Then scroll down until you get to navigation bar and if your previous device had the back
button on the left side, you can change that with this toggle right here.
And if you're left handed, you can move these buttons to the left side by tapping button
position and switching that to left.
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If you're coming from an iPhone, then you'll definitely want to enable swipe gestures.
This will give you iPhone like navigation, so that means you can swipe up to go home.
Swipe up and hold to bring up your recent applications.
You can also swipe across the bottom to switch between your most recently used applications
and one notable improvement over the iPhone's navigation as you could swipe in from either
side to go back.
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And this back gesture works in any application, not just applications that support it, like
on the iPhone.
If you tap more options, you can adjust the sensitivity of the back button.
So if the back gesture isn't always working for you, you can increase the sensitivity.
And if it's being recognized too often, you can decrease the sensitivity.
One notable difference with the swipe style navigation versus the buttons is that if you
want to activate Google assistant, you need to swipe in and up from one of the bottom
corners when using the gesture mode versus holding the home button like you would do
with the regular buttons.
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You can also switch to a three area swipe option and that makes this left on the back
button.
This center one at home gesture and the right one a recent apps gesture.
One really cool feature that's enabled when using swipe gestures that's not available
when using the regular buttons is that if you long press anywhere next to the taskbar,
you can actually hide the taskbar.
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Then you can long press again and bring it right back up.
While we're talking about the taskbar, let's take a look at some settings you can change
for it.
So, Renee, go back one page in the display settings and tap the taskbar text.
From here, you can choose whether or not to show your recent applications, and you could
also disable that touch and hold feature that I showed you just a second ago.
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I personally think that feature is awesome, so I'm going to go ahead and keep it on.
The next thing you should do on your fold for is get familiar with Multi-Window and
the taskbar makes that incredibly easy.
All you have to do is long, press any application in your taskbar and drag it out to one of
the sides, the bottom or the top.
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Once you let go, it'll open that window in a multi-window view and you can drag more
than one application as well for a total of three applications at the same time.
And if you tap this bar in the middle, you can change the orientation of those three
applications.
You can also drag these bars to either increase or decrease the size of the windows.
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And if you tap this grid in the bottom left of your taskbar, you can see all your installed
applications.
Then you can long press one of those and drag those into one of your multi-window spots
or drag it into the center and have it show up as a pop up above all of your applications.
And if you tap the bar at the top of your pop up window, you can tap this little double
box here and change the transparency of it.
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So you can see the applications behind the pop up.
So you can see the taskbar is incredibly powerful and that's why the next thing you should do
is customize the taskbar to do that.
We're going to swipe up to go home.
I'm going to go ahead and close out this pop up application as well.
Now, all you have to do is long press any of your favorite applications and drag them
into the taskbar wherever you'd like.
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And you can even create folders in your taskbar by dragging a second application on top of
another app, and that to create a little folder and let you name it.
Once this is set up, you can quickly jump back and forth between your most recently
used applications.
Another important feature to enable is found in settings.
Then we're going to go back into the advanced features, then tap labs, then enable full
screen in split screen view.
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What this will do is give you more vertical screen real estate for your Multi-Window applications.
For reference, here's what looks like when the feature is disabled and here's what it
looks like when the features enabled.
As you can see, you get a lot more vertical real estate.
One important thing to note while you're in this mode is that if you want to navigate
home, you have to swipe up once to bring up the navigation bar.
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Then swipe up again to go home.
And the same is true for your notification, Shade.
You have to swipe down once to review it, then once again to pull it down.
If you own a Windows computer, you have to turn on this next feature.
Just put your notification shade down twice to review all of your quick toggles and find
a toggle called Link to Windows.
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If you don't see it on the first page, just swipe over and check the other pages.
And if you still don't see it, tap this plus icon because it may be up here.
Once you've found the toggle, just tap it to enable link to windows.
It'll then walk you through the setup process and once it's done, you'll be able to send
and receive texts directly from your computer using your computer's keyboard.
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Linked Windows also lets you easily copy files back and forth between your phone and your
computer and even control any of your applications right from the computer.
The fold four has a massive screen, and to take full advantage of that, you're going
to want to turn on this next feature.
Go to settings, then display, then scroll down and to see screen layout and zoom and
you'll want to make sure this is set to multi-view.
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What this does is add more information to the screen.
Depending on the application you're in.
So for the Settings app, it allows you to see all of the main settings on the left and
all of the setting options on the right.
If I switch this to standard view, it would make everything much bigger, but I wouldn't
see those menus anymore.
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Now, standard view in particular would be great for people who may not have the best
eyesight and purchased a Ford for specifically because they want a larger screen to be able
to see it better.
Standard view would be better for that type of person, but for me personally, I'd like
to see as much information as possible.
So I'm to switch back to Multi-View.
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And if you want to see even more information, you can adjust the screen, zoom, slider all
the way down and that's going to reduce the size of the text and pack even more information
onto the display.
Some applications like the ring application won't transition to the full screen by default.
Instead, you'll get a tiny version of the application that you can move between the
center, left and right sides of the screen.
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And if you want this to transition to a full screen version of the application, you have
to tap this little icon here.
Then it will reload the entire application, but continue having to reload the application
every time you want to use the big screen on your device is kind of annoying.
Fortunately, there's a way to fix this with Samsung's official powerhouse app.
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That app is called Good Luck and it has to be downloaded from the Samsung App Store,
not the Google Play Store.
So just go to the Samsung Galaxy App Store, then search for good luck and install it once
it's installed.
Go ahead and open up the application and you'll be met with a ton of different plug in options.
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In fact, you have two pages of these options.
Now, this application is so powerful that I had to create two separate 40 plus minute
videos just covering everything this application is capable of.
And if you want to check those out, I'll have a link in the description.
For now, we're just going to take a look at a multisite AR and more specifically, the
I Love Galaxy foldable section of the multi star plugin.
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Towards the top you see this option called Show the app always fullscreen when unfolding.
If I select this, then enable the feature for the ring application.
I can then close my device, reopen the ring application, then reopen my phone and it'll
jump straight into full screen mode without having to reload the application.
Now what if you wanted to do the opposite?
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Let's say I'm replying to some comments on YouTube and I want to close my screen and
use the smaller screen to do that.
Well, by default, if I just closed my phone, it's going to turn the screen off.
And if I turn my screen back on, I'll have to reopen the application.
But if I go to settings then display, then screw all the way down until I see continue
apps on cover screen, then tap that.
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I can select specific apps that I want to stay open when I close my phone.
So if I enable this for YouTube, then reopen my phone and go back to the YouTube application.
Now, if I close my phone, it's going to turn my cover screen on and take me right back
to the same spot in that application.
Now, one important thing to note is that this is going to happen every single time you close
your phone when you're in this application.
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So for the times when you don't want to continue using the application on your cover screen,
you'll have to remember to turn the screen off before you put the phone in your pocket.
Because if you enable this feature for something like messages, then you may actually start
messaging people while the phone's screen is on in your pocket.
One of the most important things you should do when you get your phone for is go to YouTube
and subscribe to take a sound TV, then make sure notifications are set to all because
I have a bunch of incredible unknown phone four features to show you guys in an upcoming
video.
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Also, my analytics tell me that less than 8% of my subscribers actually have notifications
turned on, which means most of you guys never know when I upload a new video.
So if you're a subscriber, definitely double check to see if you have notifications actually
enabled.
If you swipe all the way to the left on your home screens, you'll see either Google Discover
or Samsung Free.
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And these are basically just news aggregators.
If you want to switch between Google Discover and Samsung free, all you have to do is switch
back to your home screen and either pinch in or long press in a blank area to bring
up your options, then swipe across and you can either switch to Samsung free or completely
disable it.
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And once it's disabled, it won't appear anymore.
When you swipe to the left, there's one more thing I want to show you in this menu here,
and it has to do with your widgets.
Samsung now has a smart widget, which allows you to stack multiple widgets on top of each
other.
Let's test out this a four by one widget that's going to drop the widget on my home screen.
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And if I swipe across it, I can see my Samsung Notes widget, a screen time widget, and then
back to a date and weather widget.
If I long press the widget, I can resize it horizontally, but you can't resize it vertically.
And if I long press it again, I'll see these other options allowing me to add a widget.
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And this will give me a list of all the widgets I have available on my phone.
So let's go ahead and add this smart Things widget and I'll select a couple of scenes
and tap done and that'll give me quick access to some smart things scenes.
If you long press the widget again, you can change the current widget settings and that
will allow you to do things like change the background color as well as the transparency
just for that particular widget.
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And further down, you also get the option to have it change with dark mode.
So now when I tap save, you'll see that my smart things widget has that dark in the background,
but the rest of my widgets remain unchanged, long pressing again.
I can remove the current widget and just use the other ones and if we long press one more
time we'll see this other settings here.
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If you tap this, you can change the settings for all of your widgets in one place.
And if you tap this edit icon here, you can change the order that your widgets appear
in.
And tapping these circles allows you to delete the widgets further down.
You get this auto rotate widgets option and what this will do is automatically switch
which widget is being shown based on the context of the widgets.
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So if you had a calendar widget and you have an appointment coming up soon, that widget
will automatically move to the front.
Then after the calendar event, it may switch to something like a weather widget.
The next thing you want to do is activate Bixby and now some of you instantly dislike
the video because you think Bixby's trash.
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But give me just a 20 seconds and I'll show you guys one incredibly useful feature to
activate.
Bixby Just go to your applications and open the Bixby application.
The first time you open it, you go through a quick setup process, then you'll be ready
to test out this feature once it's enabled.
Any time I'm in any text field, in any application, I can just hold the side key and dictate my
text with incredible speed and accuracy.
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Period.
This makes sending messages much faster, period.
And you can even add things like a smiley face.
Since the photo four is eye wateringly expensive, you definitely want to turn on this next feature,
go to settings and scroll down and you get to biometrics and security.
Then enable this option called Find my mobile.
And if you tap the Find my mobile text, you'll see a web address that you should bookmark
to another device.
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This is a generic link to Samsung's find my mobile website that you'll have to log into
with your Samsung account.
If you navigate to this page and log into it, you'll be able to see exact where your
phone is on a map in case somebody stole it.
You can remotely make it ring, you can lock it remotely.
And that's not just locking the screen.
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You can also lock Samsung pass and you can even lock the power off function.
So if someone tries to steal your phone and power it off so you can't find them, you can
remotely stop it from being powered off.
You can track the location of the phone real time remotely, erase your data from the phone.
You can even remotely back up the phone and get things like your call logs, messages,
all your contacts, calendar appointments, even alarms from your clock, your settings,
your home screen setup, and your applications.
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You can also retrieve your calls and messages, and if you scroll down a bit, you can even
remotely unlock it.
So let's say you left it at a friend's house and you need them to quickly get some information
for you that's on the phone.
You could unlock it for them to get that for you.
You can also turn on a power saving mode to extend the battery life on your phone and
set guardians, which are other people that you give permission to locate your device,
activate the emergency mode, or make the device ring.
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But they will be limited to those features.
They won't be able to access any of these other features that you personally have access
to.
So if you don't want your phone for lost or stolen, definitely turn this feature on.
While we're talking about security, let's jump into the fingerprint settings that's
in these same biometrics and security menu.
Currently, Samsung only allows you to register for fingerprints.
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So for most people, that's going to be your right thumb, your right index finger, your
left index finger.
When you pick the phone up with your left hand and maybe your left thumb, depending
on how you pick up the device.
But what if you want to register four of your own fingerprints and you also want someone
else to have access to your phone?
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If you want to do that, you can at trick one of the fingerprints to recognizing both yours
and someone else's fingerprint.
To demonstrate that, I'm going to go ahead and remove a fingerprint here and I'm going
to add a new one.
At this point, you're going to get a few scans of your own finger.
So I'm going to do my right index finger and you're going to keep scanning your own finger
to get to about 50%.
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Now you can have someone else scan their finger for the last 50%.
So to get a different fingerprint, I'm just going to use my middle finger.
Once you're done adding both fingerprints, you can tap check added fingerprints to make
sure it worked.
So if I use my right index finger, it's going to register as fingerprint for.
And if I use my middle finger, it's still going to register as the same finger, even
though I'm using two different fingerprints.
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If instead of wanting to add more than four fingerprints, you just want more accurate
fingerprint reading.
You can actually add the same fingerprint to two of the slots for even more accuracy.
And a quick tip for getting the most accurate fingerprint reading.
Start with the edge of your finger, then work your way slowly across to the other edge of
your finger.
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After that, you should still have some more scans left, so move your finger up and do
it again with the lower part of your finger, and then one last time with the tip of your
finger.
This is the method I use and I always have a flawless fingerprint reading while we're
in this menu, you're also going to want to enable this fingerprint always on feature.
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This is off by default, but I've already enabled it because this is an incredibly useful feature.
What this does is keep the fingerprint sensor always on.
So instead of having to push the button, then read your fingerprint sensor.
All I have to do is touch the sensor and the phone unlocks immediately.
This is particularly useful when holding the phone with one hand because it's a lot easier
to just touch the sensor than it is to have to push the button.
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The next thing you want to do is customize your lockscreen widgets to get your lockscreen
widgets.
Just tap the time on your lockscreen.
And if you had no idea these widgets even existed, let me know down in the comments
below.
Regardless, you can edit these widgets by scrolling to the bottom and tapping settings.
Then unlock your phone and you can select which specific widgets you want to show.
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So you can see I don't have the alarm or weather widget enabled so I can go out and enable
those.
And some of the widgets are customizable, like the music widget.
If I tap the word music, I can change the transparency of the widget and at the top
right.
You also get the option to reorder any of your widgets and at the bottom you have this
show always on display option.
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And if this is enabled and you've enabled your always on display by going to your quick
toggles and swiping over to you find always on display and enabling that toggle, then
any time you're always on display as active, you can just double tap the time, then swipe
up or down to reveal all of those same widgets.
And in case you're wondering, these widgets are accessible on both the cover and inner
displays.
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If you also own a Samsung tab would like this tab S8 Ultra and by the way, shameless plug.
I just uploaded a video highlighting the top 50 unknown features on this tablet.
So if you have one of these, definitely check that out to get the most out of your tablet.
I'll leave a link in the video description if you're interested.
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Now that the plugs out of the way, let's get to the feature.
If you own both of these devices, you're gonna want to go to your quick toggles and find
the toggle called calls and text on other devices and enable that on both of these devices.
Once it's enabled on both devices, your tablet's going to tell you that you're connected to
your Z fold four and from this point forward, you're going to be able to send and receive
calls and texts directly on your tablet.
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And this works as long as your tablet's connected to wi fi.
The only limitation is that if you want to make phone calls using the tablet, both devices
need to be on the same Wi-Fi network.
However, if you just want to send and receive messages from the tablet, only the tablet
needs to be on a Wi-Fi network and the phone could just be on a mobile network somewhere
completely different.
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That means you could theoretically leave your phone at home, but still send or receive messages
from your tablet as long as you have your tablet with you and it's on a Wi-Fi network,
this gets even more useful when paired with something like Samsung's book cover keyboard,
because that would make sending messages much faster.
If you want to see the first 15 plus things you should do with the Galaxy, watch five
or watch five pro.
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the upload.
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God bless.
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