- Android hidden features.
You probably know you can get a quick glimpse
at your quick settings menu
by swiping down
to the upper right hand corner of the screen.
Also see some notifications.
Did you know you can two-fingers swipe
down from the top of the screen,
get that full quick settings menu.
Access to a lot more controls on your Android.
- Much more useful, like the brightness slider right there.
- Next up. We're gonna show you how to add a custom message
to the lock screen of your Android.
So I'm gonna tap on that settings gear
at the top of the screen,
scroll down and tap on "Lock screen",
and then tap on contact information.
So maybe you lose your Android
and you want someone to see how to contact you.
So I'll just type in, "If lost, email..."
- [Presenter] Zack, this is where we speed up the video.
- [David] Tap "Done",
and then tap "Done".
Now, if I lock this Android,
tap on the side button,
- To wake it up all the way. - Yep.
"If lost, email test@upphone.com.
Next up.
A little surprise
built into every single Android.
Let's go back to the main page of settings.
Let's tap that "Back" button,
lower right hand corner of the screen,
then scroll all the way down to "About phone",
tap on software information,
and then just repeatedly tap that "Android version".
There you go.
Now, this one is just a little clock.
We'll bring in the Pixel here.
This is running the Android 11.
It's got a little knob you can turn.
These aren't super fun.
There was a "Flappy Bird" knockoff
on a different version of Android.
It's neat. - That's neat.
- [Zack] Neat, little Easter egg.
- I wonder why they're hidden.
- Something that's not so hidden,
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Next up. Let's talk about Google Lens.
We got a Pixel here.
Google Lens is built into Google Pixel phones.
If you have a Samsung phone like we do here,
well, you gotta go to the App Store and download it.
So I'm gonna go back to the home screen,
- [Presenter] Bye bye, clock.
- [Zack] Yep. Open up the Play Store.
And then you can just go in here and search for Google Lens.
I searched for it earlier.
- Look at him. - Tap that "Install" button.
Google Lens is awesome.
Really? - It is super smart.
You can do things like live translate text.
Maybe you're in a foreign country
and you got a menu in front of you
and you have no idea what it says,
maybe you went to a conference
and you got a whole bunch of business cards,
you don't want to enter all of these business cards
into your contacts manually.
That is a pain.
How about we use Google Lens to create a contact?
So I got this Pagely business card right here.
If I open up Google Lens,
there it is,
Tap "Search with the camera",
and then just line it up,
tap "Shutter" button to search.
There we go.
Related content, Marcus Nelson.
We're gonna tap that button right there,
"Create contact",
information fills in for you.
(imitates explosion)
That is pretty cool.
So where do you wanna save that contact to?
I'll just check "Phone" for now.
And then, there we go.
I'm just gonna tap "Save".
It's already done.
Don't need to type anything else in.
- Wow. - Contact saved.
How about that?
- Card,
(laughs),
I'm trying to rip the card.
It's a very high quality card.
Card ripped up.
- Yeah.
Google Lens can do a whole bunch of really cool stuff.
It's not just contacts and live translations.
Check it out, mess around with it.
I think you're really go into enjoy it.
Next couple of hidden features are keyboard features.
So first up, the "One-handed keyboard".
Phones are getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
- And hands are getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
- And Leon's getting larger.
- "One-handed keyboard" is there for you.
Easiest way to turn it on is to start in the "Messages" app.
So go back to the home screen,
tap on "Messages",
and let's just tap on this and go into the keyboard.
You'll get that little settings gear
that'll take you right to your Samsung keyboard settings.
And then we're gonna scroll down to "Mode",
tap on "Mode",
and then tap "One-handed keyboard".
So now if I go back to "Messages",
type in here,
Boom. There it is.
♪ Scoop. There it is ♪
- "One-handed keyboard".
Maybe you're lefthanded.
Tap that little arrow,
slide it over.
How about that?
Now with Gboard, it's a lot easier.
If we go into "Messages" on this Google Pixel,
just open up any message,
pull up that keyboard, press and hold in the comma.
You'll see a little hand icon there,
just go and select that.
There you go. "One-handed keyboard".
It's a lot easier to do it that way.
If this "One-handed keyboard" isn't good enough for you,
you wanna resize it a little bit,
tap on the "Resize" icon,
lower right hand corner of the screen,
and then you can change the size of it
and drag it over here and do whatever you want with it.
And just tap that check when you're done.
- Wow. Truly customizable. - Truly customizable.
- Try finding that on an iPhone.
- You sure won't find it there.
- Nope.
Wasn't there another keyboard tip coming up, David?
- There sure is.
Press and hold in the keyboard
and you could move the cursor wherever you'd like
in my string of gibberish here.
- Yeah. I don't know where you'd start with that
but I think the word "garbage" is appropriate.
- [David] Yeah. There we go.
Garbage - Garbage.
- If you don't think this video is garbage,
give this video of thumbs up.
Leave a comment down below,
tell us how awesome these features are.
Next up, we gotta go into developer options,
but first you need to become a developer on your Android.
It's pretty straightforward to do.
So I'm gonna go back to the home screen,
swipe down upper right hand corner of the screen
and tap on that settings gear.
So tap on "About phone",
then tap on "Software information",
and then just keep tapping on this "Build number".
I believe it's seven times to enter developer mode.
Don't quote me on that,
but just keep tapping it and enter your passcode.
Congratulations. Developer mode has been turned on.
You are now a developer.
So we tap back- - Nerd.
- [David] to the main page of "Settings",
scroll down below "About phone".
We now have "Developer options".
This, in itself, is a hidden feature.
It's lame though, if we don't tell you anything within this
to actually change.
So we're gonna talk about animation scales.
- That's not lame. - It's not lame.
It sounds lame but it's pretty cool.
And you just gotta swipe down a fair bit to get there.
So underneath this "Drawing" heading,
- Drawing? - We have
"Transition animation scale", "Animator duration scale"
and "Window animation scale".
So if you set these to off,
it's actually a pretty decent battery tip,
because it just removes all those animations
on your Android.
Tap "Off",
and then you just close.
- Whoa. - No animations.
It's a bit jarring at first
but
it's neat enough. And it's a little bit of a -
- That's not the cool part, though.
- That's not the cool part. - That was the worst part.
Now it gets cool.
- [David] Turning it off, decent battery tip,
but
looks bland.
If you tap in here and choose 0.5,
the lower the number, the faster the animations happen.
Obviously, "Off", they don't happen.
So to make your Android feel a little bit zippier,
speed up those animations,
select 0.5 for the animation scale for all of them,
and just, you fly.
You fly everywhere. It's amazing
- Superman ain't got nothing on this.
- Now, one other thing you can do, that I was thinking,
is you wanna pull a prank on your friends,
set their animation scale to 10.
(presenter chuckles) You can already,
You can already see what's going on here.
It's really slow.
And they'll get freaked out and they'll say,
"Why is my Android behaving like this?"
And it's a little trippy.
Next, we're going to calculators.
So let's go back to the home screen.
We've got those 10 X animations,
so it's a little slow,
and I'm gonna open up my apps here.
Gonna tap on "Calculator".
So you've got this boring old calculator.
What happens when you rotate it?
Scientific calculator.
All you need to do is rotate your Android,
get a whole bunch of new functions.
- This just gives me anxiety.
It's like I'm back in whatever math course
I was failing in. - Back in precalc.
Those are some Android hidden features.
Leave a comment down below, any features that be missed
that you want to tell us about.
Maybe we'll do a follow up video in a few months.
"More Android hidden features you didn't know about."
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- Yeah. - Yeah.
- I like Androids sometimes.
Not this phone,
but the pixel phone is pretty good.
- Pixel's a great phone. - Pixel's a great phone.
- This phone- - This is the worst phone.
- [Presenter] Woo.
There you go. - Thanks for watching.