this is the galaxy watch 4 classic and
today we're going to be taking a look at
the first 10 things you should do when
you get yours while i'll be
demonstrating all of these with the
classic version everything will still
apply to the standard version as well
and as always i will have video time
codes down in the description so you
guys can quickly jump around to the
things you care most about if you guys
appreciate video time codes let me know
by dropping a like down below before we
dive into the first 10 things to do on
the watch i first want to show you guys
the first two accessories i bought which
make a big difference when charging the
watch since the galaxy watch 4 and 4
classic ship with this puck style
charger it doesn't look very organized
when you place your watch on it to
charge it it also makes it hard to see
the time and charge status of the watch
from an angle that's why i bought this
silicone charger stand the usb end
slides in through this slot then you
pull the cord all the way through and
the charger fits right into the housing
and on the bottom there's even a little
groove to help keep the cord organized
this stand makes for a much more
organized look and lets you use your
watch as a clock while it's charging
i'll have links to a few different
styles of this charger holder down in
the description in case you want to pick
one up for yourself the second charging
accessory i bought was a one foot usb
extension cable because this 33 inch
cable is barely long enough to reach my
charging brick at my desk the extra foot
gives me plenty of length to have the
charging puck plugged in without putting
tension on the cord i'll have links to
both a one foot and three foot option in
the description if you're interested now
that that's out of the way let's take a
closer look at the watch so the first
thing you should do is set up bixby i
know that may be shocking to hear for
some of you guys but bixby's actually
way more powerful than you think and i'm
gonna prove it if you're big into
fitness and you do many different
workouts on any given day you can start
a workout with your voice by saying
something like
rowing machine
and that'll automatically start a rowing
machine workout
but it gets even more advanced than that
let's say you want to chain multiple
workouts together you can do that too so
let's say you've finished your rowing
workout and now you want to start arm
extensions all you have to do is hold
the home button and say
start arm extensions
so bixby just stopped the previous
workout and started this one within the
same workout session and this is
different than doing two separate
workouts so if i tap ok here and then i
swipe over and finish my workout you'll
see that it recorded two workouts in a
single session and if i scroll down
you'll see that there's the arm
extensions
and below that is the rowing machine if
i just stopped my rowing machine workout
then started an arm extensions workout
that would show up as two separate
sessions so this is a great way to
consolidate your workouts bixby is
useful for much more than just workouts
as well let's say you're in a dark room
and you need to see a little bit better
just hold the home button and say
flashlight
and that will turn your galaxy watch 4
or 4 classic into a flashlight and this
is surprisingly bright in a dark room
beyond that you can also use bixby to
set reminders check the weather ask it
to take heart rate measurements and so
much more in fact i may even have to
make a dedicated video to show you guys
just how useful bixby is on the galaxy
watch 4. let me know in the comments
below if that's something you'd like to
see to set up bixby all you have to do
is hold the home button for a few
seconds and that will activate bixby for
the first time and take you through the
setup process
alternatively you can swipe up from the
watch face and scroll down and open up
the bixby application manually the next
thing you should do on your galaxy watch
4 is check to see which of your existing
phone apps can be installed on your
watch and download the ones you want to
do this swipe up to show all of your
applications and tap the play store icon
then tap apps on your phone now you can
scroll through all the available
applications tap the one you want and
tap install mobile payments with nfc
technology are now being accepted almost
everywhere and because of that one of
the first things you should do is set up
either samsung pay or google pay
whichever you prefer if you want to use
samsung pay just hold the back button
for a couple seconds until samsung pay
pops up then follow the prompts to go
through the setup process if you prefer
to use google pay just swipe up to
reveal all of your applications tap the
google play store icon scroll down until
you see essentials for wear os and tap
that then google page should be right
near the top just go ahead and tap it
then tap install once it's installed
open the application and follow the
setup process by default only a few
applications will actually send
notifications to your watch to make sure
you get all the notifications you want
you'll have to open up the galaxy
wearable application on your phone so
here we are on my galaxy fold 3 and
we're just going to go ahead and open up
the galaxy wearable application and this
application should have been installed
automatically when you first connected
your galaxy watch 4 to your device if
it's not already installed for some
reason just go to the play store search
for galaxy wearable app and download it
back in the application we're going to
go to watch settings
then notifications then tap more tap
this drop down on top and select all
applications then scroll through the
applications you have installed and
select the ones you want to get
notifications from you also want to make
sure that you turn off notifications
that you don't want to receive on your
watch to help save some battery life
when you first set up your watch the
default action for double clicking the
home button is going to open up your
most recent application but you can
actually customize this to open any
application you have installed on your
watch to do this swipe down from the top
to pull down your quick toggles and find
the settings toggle
alternatively you could go to the watch
face then swipe up to show off your
applications and swipe down a bit until
you find settings and tap that gear then
scroll down until you find advanced
features and tap that then scroll down
again until you find customized keys tap
that and you'll see there's this double
press option for the home key if i tap
this
you can see that it's currently set up
to go to my most recent application but
if i scroll down you can see that i can
select any application i have installed
on the watch i'm going to go ahead and
select youtube music and now when i
double press the home button it's going
to take me straight into the youtube
music app if you jump back into the
customize keys menu and scroll to the
bottom you can see that you can also
customize the back key and this is
especially useful because there's now a
back gesture where you just swipe from
left to right to go back a page so since
there's already a way to go back a page
it's kind of redundant to have a
physical button do it too so if you tap
the words short press you can switch the
button to instead show your recent
applications so now when i press the
button i can see all my recent
applications and if i want to close an
application i just have to swipe up or
if i swipe to the end i can close all
applications in one shot while it's nice
to be able to see incoming messages on
your watch it's pretty difficult to
reply to those messages you get options
like voice to text but that doesn't
really work well if you're in a crowded
area and you want to have a private
conversation you can send a voice
recording but that doesn't work for the
same reasons as the first option you
could draw the letters by hand but
that's going to take a long time or you
can use a t9 style keyboard which is
also painfully slow and it'd be much
faster just take your phone out of your
pocket and reply to the message that way
fortunately i do have two solutions to
that problem the first is to set up
custom quick responses so you can
quickly reply to simple messages to do
this we'll have to jump back to the
phone so here we are back in the galaxy
wearable application we're just going to
go to watch settings
general and tap quick responses now just
scroll to the bottom to add a new
response just keep in mind there is a 30
character limit to the quick responses
once you've added a new one tap save
that'll get added to the top of the list
and if you see any of the default ones
that you're just never going to use you
can tap this little edit option here
and delete the ones that you're not
going to use you can also make sure that
message suggestions is enabled what this
is going to do is it's going to read the
context of the message and offer a more
tailored response so for example if
someone sent you a text asking if you
wanted pizza or burgers you could get
responses like whatever you want or
either is fine the second option to be
able to message people much more quickly
using the galaxy watch 4 is to download
the gboard keyboard application directly
to the watch to do this open up the
google play store on your phone navigate
to the gboard application then tap the
drop down at the top when you do that
you'll see your samsung smartwatch there
and you get the option to install it
once it's installed navigate to the
settings on your watch then scroll all
the way down to general tap that then
tap input then tap keyboard list and
default then tap default keyboard and
switch it to gboard now when you open up
a keyboard response and tap to start
messaging you'll actually get a full
qwerty keyboard and the best part about
this is that it supports swipe so this
is much faster and actually becomes
usable
if you want to have fast access to all
of your favorite settings then you're
definitely going to want to customize
your quick settings panel to do that
just long press any toggle and it'll
bring up the edit menu from here you can
remove any that you don't want or you
can long press one of them until they
vibrate then drag it over to one of the
other pages and drop it exactly where
you'd like it and if you want to add new
toggles scroll to the end tap the plus
icon scroll through the available
options
tap the one you want and it drops right
in and in case you're wondering some of
these are super useful like if i swipe
over one you see that i get the option
to quickly turn the flashlight on you
also get options to do things like
quickly find your phone turn on bedtime
mode and more and it's also important to
remember that this can be accessed from
any page so as you can see i'm on a tile
right now and if i swipe down it just
shows up and here i am in the play store
app if i swipe down here it shows up
again depending on how you set your
watch up the default vibration for
notifications may actually be pretty
weak and you might not notice it so i
recommend increasing the vibration
strength to do this go back to your
settings
scroll down to sounds and vibrations
then scroll down until you get to the
word vibration tap that then scroll down
a bit further and make sure that it's
set to strong the light vibration option
may be good for some of you but i've
just noticed that personally i almost
never notice the vibrations when it's
set to light just keep in mind strong
vibrations will use a bit more battery
life especially if you get a ton of
notifications the tiles on the galaxy
watch 4 are incredibly useful and offer
a ton of functionality but when you
first set up your galaxy watch they may
not be set up in a way that's most
useful for you so the next thing you
should do is rearrange and edit these
tiles to do that just long press any
tile and it brings you up to the edit
menu now just long press the tile again
and drag it wherever you'd like some
tiles also give you the option to edit
them and if i tap that you can see that
i can select different workouts so since
i never ride a bike i'm going to go
ahead and delete that workout tap add
and choose a workout that i actually do
and if you want to add new tiles scroll
all the way to the end tap the add tiles
option and select one of the available
tiles
speaking of rearranging things you can
also rearrange all of your applications
by long pressing one of them and
dragging it to wherever you'd like to
drop it so since i use youtube music a
lot i'm going to bring it up to the top
and drop it right there let me know some
of the first things you did on your
galaxy watch 4 in the comments below and
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