Advanced Features

Call & Text on Other Devices

With this on you can call and text with your Galaxy Watch, Tablet or speaker using the phone number on your phone.

Note: for calls to be enabled, both devices will need to be on the same Wi-Fi Network

Continue apps on other devices

This feature will allow you to switch devices freely while using apps on multiple devices. Your devices will need to be signed into the same Samsung Account and have the same bluetooth settings on.

Link to Windows

This allows you to link your Galaxy phone to a Windows PC

Samsung DeX

Samsung DeX allows you to connect your phone to a monitor using a keyboard and mouse or you can navigate through your Samsung device and cast the phone screen to a larger monitor which can be great for presentations.

Android Auto

With compatible phones and vehicles you can connect your smart phone to the display in your vehicle

Quick Share

Quick Share allows you to share content with other Galaxy users more seamlessly

Labs

With labs you can try experimental features on your smart phone

Side Key

With these settings you can change the side key to activate a different feature on the phone. You can:

• Double press
  • To quick launch your camera or open another app of your choosing
• Press and Hold
  • To wake up Bixby or activate the power off menu

Motions and Gestures

With motions and Gestures you can change settings on the phone to activate different features such as:

• Lift to Wake

  • Picking up your phone will turn on the screen, so you can easily see new notifications and messages

• Double tap to turn on screen

  • The screen will turn on when you double tap it. This will help you avoid accidentally turning on the screen

• Double tap to turn off screen

  • The screen will turn off when you double tap an empty space on the Lock or Home screen

• Keep screen on while viewing

  • The screen will stay on the entire time you are looking at it, without requiring you to touch it. The front camera will identify your face in order to keep the screen illuminated

• Alert when phone picked up

  • If you missed a call or message, your phone will vibrate once you pick it up

• Mute with gestures

  • Placing your hand over the screen will mute alarms and calls. You can also turn your phone face down to silence it

• Palm swipe to capture

  • Swipe the edge of your hand across the screen to take a quick screenshot

One Handed Mode

As it suggests, one handed mode allows you to use your phone with one hand. You can temporarily scale down the display size so it’s easier to use with one hand. You can Gesture by swiping down from the bottom center of the screen or double tap the home button

Bixby Routines

Bixby Routines allows your phone to adapt and make suggestions based on location, time, event etc. An example of some suggestions include saving battery life if you forget to charge your phone while you’re sleeping, or suggesting maps when you connect to your cars bluetooth in addition to other adaptive features. You may customize these settings or let your phone do its thing but you must create a Samsung account and allow your phone to analyze your usage patterns.

To set up Bixby Routines click Here.

Smart Suggestions

Smart suggestions allows your device to analyze how you use your phone to make suggestions for useful actions such as calendar events to add or messages to send. The analytical data does not leave your phone so this is a secure feature apps, Samsung, and Google can’t track.

Screenshot and Screen Recorder

ScreenShots

Show toolbar after capturing

This will show additional options after taking a screenshot such as:

• Scroll to capture more of the screen
• Crop to draw on the screenshot
• Add tags to the screenshot
• Share the screenshot

Delete after sharing from toolbar

If you don’t want to accumulate screenshots that you’ll most likely only use to share with someone once you can turn on this setting to delete the screen shot right after it’s shared. This will make sure that your photo storage doesn’t fill up with useless content that you have to take time to go back and delete. If you generally need you’re screenshots then maybe keep this setting off.

Hide status and navigation bars

This creates a more immersive experience so you can use more of the display space after screenshotting or screen recording without the status and navigation bars in the way.

Format

From here you can choose whether the photo format is JPG or PNG. with JPG there is less data being used to store the photo because its a smaller size (in Gigabytes not a smaller photo). PNG on the other hand will maintain the quality of the photo across all devices no matter how often the photo is shared, downloaded, and opened. You want to use PNG to conserve the quality of the photo if you are sending photos for modeling, photography, graphic design etc. For everything else screenshots with JPG format will suffice.

Screen Recorder

Sound

From here you can choose:

• None – This will only record what is on the screen without any sound
• Media – This will record video of what is on the screen and any sound that the phones media makes (videos with sound, tap sounds, etc.)
• Media and mic – With this feature on you can record your screen with any sounds coming from the device and you can also utilize the microphone if you want to add your voice while screen recording

Video quality

 More pixels equates to clearer and more detailed video quality. If you need your screen recordings to be as clear and professional as possible you want to choose 1080p. How the video is viewed is important too. If you are viewing content closer to the screen you want higher pixels if the content will be viewed from farther away you can get away with lower pixels.

Selfie video size

This setting adjust the size of the pop up window while you are taking a selfie. Adjust the bar underneath this setting as needed.

Show taps and touches

Small dots will appear in the screen recording video wherever you touch the phone. This can be helpful if you want to send someone directions on where to navigate through your phone or a website.

Show Contacts When Sharing Content

When you want to share something your phone will show you a list of contacts that you interact with the most on your screen.

Video Call Effects

From this setting you can change the background by adding colors and images in video calling apps such as What App, Zoom, or Google Meet.

Game Launcher

From here you can organize all your games in one place and customize other features like silencing notifications or reducing battery consumption.

Video Brightness

This will adjust the screen brightness temporarily while you’re watching a video.

Dual Messenger

From here you can sign into multiple accounts with apps such as Whats App, Snapchat, and Skype. You can also use a separate contact list for each app if you wish.