Main points
- Customize colors in settings to easily match wallpapers.
- Use interpreter apps for multilingual conversations.
- Swipe up on the Google Circle to search for images on your Samsung.
Samsung’s One UI is one of the most feature-rich versions of Android, and the company adds to it every year, preinstalling it on all new Samsung phones, such as the Galaxy S24 series.
If you’re willing to dig, you can find some real hidden gems. It’s worth noting that if you’re running Android 14, many of these features are also available on older Galaxy S models like the S23 and S22, so be sure to check them out on your phone. So buckle up, read in-depth below or watch the video at the top to try out some of the cool features.
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1 Generate AI wallpaper
Wallpapers become interesting
Like the Pixel, the Samsung Galaxy software has the ability to generate new wallpapers based on basic commands.Go to set up > Wallpapers and styles then click Change wallpaper.You will see an option that says Creative.Select it and click Generative Folders on the next screen.
Now select a style and on the next screen you will be able to click on the bold text to generate images based on different commands. Once you click “Generate” it will bring up four options to choose from.tap put Choose your preferred options, or change the command to create a new selection.
2 Make your phone accent color match your wallpaper
Who doesn’t want to color coordinate?
By default, Samsung’s One UI won’t match its icons and accent colors to your wallpaper color, but you can enable it.Go to set up > Wallpapers and styles then select color palette.You’ll see a toggle switch next to color palette. Open it and select your preferred wallpaper color option from the generated selection.
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3 Use an interpreter app
This is super convenient
There’s a new interpreter app on Samsung phones that lets you talk to people in different languages.Scroll down your Quick Setupfind out interpreter mode When the application starts, select the language you want to use. The list is quite limited, but the most popular languages are there. click microphone Start speaking and it automatically converts your words to text, then translates them and reads them aloud in the language of your choice.
4 The power of AI in Notes
Forget about having to review meetings
If you enter a comment, once you’ve entered 200 words, you can choose to perform a variety of interesting AI functions. To use it, Open note and click little star icon.Highlight the text to which you want to apply changes, then Click on AutoFormat With titles and bullets, or as meeting minutes. The summary gives a short, bullet-pointed demonstration of what is expected in the note, while correct spelling goes as it says, with suggestions for fixing spelling errors.
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5 Double click to identify music
Shazam on Demand
Samsung’s side buttons can be programmed to perform many different functions. One of them is to double click on any application to launch it.If you download and install Shazam (music recognition app) and enter Shazam app settings and open When Shazam starts option, just turn it on and it will recognize the music without having to press that big S icon.
Enter now set up > Advanced Features and then side button.make sure of this double click is opened, then tapOpen application. Then select Shazam from the list. Now, when you double-click the side button, it launches the app, and since you enabled Shazam on launch, it immediately starts recognizing songs.
6 restore power button
Who wants Bixby?
By default, pressing and holding the side button launches Bixby, Samsung’s assistant.To replace this with the power menu for turning off your phone, go to set up > Advanced features and side buttons.under Press and hold choose shutdown menu.
Convenient hidden features
If you tap the clock on Samsung’s lock screen, it will pop up a bunch of card widgets that offer useful features like music, weather, routines, and a voice recorder.Go to set up > Lock screen and AOD then find small parts.On the next screen you can toggle the desired widget in the list if you click rearrange At the top of the screen you can move them around until they are in the order you want.
8 Make camera light flash for notifications
Always know when you receive a message
Now, this is a primary feature, but you can have the screen or camera LED light flash when you receive a new notification.Just go to set up > Accessibility Then advanced settings – You will see a flash notification options.Click on it and on the next screen there is a toggle button Camera flash notification and Screen flickers. The former will make your LED blink, the latter will light up your screen.
9 Find missed notifications
Easily recover deleted messages
If you go to set up > notifythen go to advanced settingsyou will find a Notification history options. Tap the button and you’ll see a list of all notifications your phone has received, grouped by app. Scroll through all notifications received on your phone.
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10 Make your battery last longer
Is 80% enough?
A big new feature is a charging optimization tool that manages how your phone charges to extend the long-term battery life.If you go to set up > Battery then select battery protection, there are three options.switch Protect , then select the charging optimization you want. To maximize battery life, you can choose to only charge to 80% at a time.
11 Swipe screenshot
It’s weird, but it works
On Samsung phones, if you slide the edge of your hand across the screen, a screenshot will be taken. Very handy to know if you don’t want to fiddle with the buttons on the side. If it’s not enabled by default (it should be), you can turn it on by: set up > Advanced Features and then movements and gestures.Toggle displayed options Capture with the swipe of your palm.
12 Swipe to split screen
Multitask like a pro
go set up > Advanced Features and then multi-window, and You will see an option that says Swipe to split screen. If you turn it on, when you swipe up with two fingers, it launches a split-screen view with one app on the top half of the screen and one on the bottom half.
13 popup view
Small windows are helpful
At the same time Advanced Features There is one in the list popup view Gesture switching. With this feature enabled, when you swipe down from the corner of any full-screen app, you’ll launch it into a pop-up floating window.
Once in that view, you can use the tabs at the top to drag it onto the screen. Alternatively, if you tap and hold the tab, you can drag it to fill half the screen, launching split-screen mode. If you tap the top bar just once, you’ll see a popup control that gives you options to fill the screen, change transparency, minimize the app, or close it.
14 Get rid of Samsung Wallet swipe up gesture
That’s annoying, right?
If you’re annoyed that the swipe-up gesture on your Samsung phone launches the Samsung Pay feature instead of taking you to recent apps or home, you’re not alone. Thankfully, you can disable it easily.Open samsung wallet App – Assuming you are logged in and set up – Go to app settings by clicking menu at the bottom, then Setting gear In the top corner.tap quick access, Then swipe up gesture. Here, you can turn it off from your home screen, lock screen, or when the screen is off.
15 Launch the camera and take a photo with the S Pen
S Pen is a remote control
With the S24 Ultra, the S Pen introduces many different dedicated features. Press and hold the button on the pen and it will launch the camera. Now, with the camera app loaded, you can simply press the button to take a photo remotely, or click the button twice to switch between the front and rear cameras.
It even has its own control gestures, so holding the button and performing a clockwise circle gesture will zoom in, and the opposite will zoom out. Or swipe left or right to cycle through camera modes. Therefore, you can place your phone on a tripod and control it without touching the screen.
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16 Use the volume buttons to zoom in on the camera
Forgot to pinch to zoom
When in the Camera app, the default setting for the volume buttons is to take a photo or record a video. However, you can change it to zoom. open camerafind out Setting gear in the corner and then on the settings screen find Shooting method.tap press volume button at the top and select Zoom in or out.
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Photo editing is getting scary
There are a lot of new artificial intelligence tools built into the Gallery app. One of them lets you move subjects and objects, or remove them from the scene. Open photo you want to edit, click pencil Go to the edit screen and then Click on the blue icon with white stars. Now click and hold on the subject or draw around it to select it. To move and resize, just drag it, or drag the points in the corners. Or to delete, click the eraser. Click “Generate” when finished.
18 Drag and drop photo themes
Photoshop, but simpler
Additionally, in the Gallery app, if you open a photo with a clear foreground subject, you can Click and hold on the topic until it separates from the photo. You can then copy and paste it into a document, share it, or save it as a sticker on your Samsung keyboard.
19 Rotate home screen to landscape
it works? controversial.
On larger screens, you might want the home screen to rotate to landscape, but it doesn’t by default. Click and hold on your wallpaper and select set up on the next screen.turn on Rotate to landscape mode.
20 Galaxy AI web summary
Now this is useful
Open Samsung Internet and find the article you want to summarize.Now just click AI star icon then select Summarize. It then digests the page content and gives a handy bulleted summary detailing the key points of the article.