200+ Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Tips, Tricks & Hidden Features

Hello, there is tech sake and in today's video I will share more than 200

tips

,

tricks

,

hidden

features

and basically a complete tutorial for your Samsung Galaxy Note 8. The Note 8 is one of the most advanced smartphones in the world with a deep and feature rich and I want to make sure you get complete mastery over this Titan, so what I'll do is start with some light and quick

tips

and then delve into some advanced tactics that will blow your mind. We'll talk about security, edge display secrets, edge panels, and everything you need to know about the powerful S Pen.

I'll also give you a full tutorial for the Note 8's fantastic camera. This is going to be a long video, so just to summarize, we'll start with some basic tips, then we'll move on to advanced tactics and towards the end we'll have entire sections dedicated to the edge display, the S Pen and the camera, and I'll code the timing of all the main topics for you to navigate more easily, so let's dive in. Come in and find out and of course if you use Twitter, Instagram or Facebook be sure to follow me everywhere. Online technology, okay, come on, so the first thing you want to talk about is the face widgets on your lock screen.

Basically, you have access to a bunch of widgets on your lock screen, so first let me turn off your phone, go to the lock screen and show you what they are and then I'll show you how to enable and customize them. so let's go to the lock screen and the first thing I want you to see, let me get rid of that, it's at the bottom here under the date that says subscribe to sake tech and also the reason why it says that because I put it there and Also, if you swipe you will get a music player, if the music is cleared in the background, if you swipe once more you will see your daily quotes and if you swipe once more you will see the next one. alarm, so those are the face widgets, you have access to four of these types, so again, faith widgets and the information at the bottom, so let's see how to enable them and also customize them, so go into settings and then go to the lock screen. and security and from here at the bottom it says information and face widgets, tap on it and the first thing I want to show you before we go into the face widgets is the contact information.

If you tap this, you can create a word or phrase. here that will appear on the lock screen just like I showed you so you can edit this however you want so this one says subscribe to sake tech which is something you should do anyway and then here it says face widgets if you tap it like you can see you can enable three options, you can make today's schedule in the music controller and next alarm and of course if you don't want them you can disable them. Also, you can also reorder them by importance, so if I hit reorder at the top here I can grab the music controller and I can put it in secondary position in case I'm more interested in today's show, so come back and you're all set , so let's move on to the next tip, okay, let's move on to the next tip and of course the best thing I want to talk about is the hostel with its home screen, so basically, if you hold down on the screen, if you pinch the screen, the menu will appear and from here let's go to the screen of this app, what I could do is if I tap on the home screen settings, I can change the grid of the home screen, so if I tap on this I can go to 5 by 6 and that just allows you to add more apps on your screen, if that's something you want to do you can also go 4 at a time which will reduce the capacity of these apps on the screen so you have all these different grid options, so you know I like the 5 in 1. 5 just makes sense for some reason, let me cancel this, come back here and then the other thing I want to show you is the home screen layout, so if you tap on this, actually They have two options, the first is to have a home screen and an app screen separately, if you want you can only have one home screen and there will be no apps every time all the apps will be on the home screen, no more it will have an app drawer so with this guy if you go back out you have access to this app drawer this is here okay so if you want the app drawer to be able to be removed completely it's really up to you , let's go back to the home screen settings, you tap this and if you choose this, We will remove the app drawer and all the apps that you have downloaded will simply appear on your home screens, as it says here, all your apps will be shown on the home screen, so try it if you like it. keep it that way if not, I like it better that way when things are categorized and let's move on to the next tip.

This here is the apps screen grid. If you tap this, it actually controls the grid system in the app drawer so you can go 4 by 6, it fits fewer apps or you can go 5 by 6, it fits even more apps and one more thing I'm going to show you is how. Move multiple apps at the same time from one home screen. to the next home screen so basically all you want to do is say I want to move these 5 apps here, normally I would have to do it one by one which is a pain so what I could do is tap and hold, I can say select multiple items, I can select all the ones that I wanted to move and then just press and hold, I'll go here and release it right there, okay, it's a very easy thing to do and I'll use the same method if you press and hold pressed something and say select multiple items you can also uninstall multiple items together okay this actually uninstalls the app from your phone that's absolutely fantastic and of course if you want you can create a folder so if I do Click on this, let's say I select three applications. then I click create folder, boom, all that goes into one app, I give it a name and a color and that's it, let's move on to the next app tip, the next thing I want to talk about is called always-on display, so basically when your phone has the screen off, there's a persistent always-on display that you can enable that will show you the time, the date of your appointments, and a couple of notifications, so let me show you. which seems very fast, although it is very light, which is supposed to be because it is supposed to save the battery as much as possible, you can see that there is an always on screen that shows the time, gives you the date and says subscribe.

For the sake of technology, it gives you the battery percentage meter and also shows me two notifications at the bottom, so what you can do with this is customize it and you can also buy or download new always-on displays for free. to fully customize your phone so this is the always on screen where the lock screen is so I'm going to press and hold this is going to go to the lock screen to unlock the screen now let's go to the settings here go to lock screen and security and then move to always on screen now, as you can see always on screen right now is only enabled from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. m. to 12:00 a.m. m., these are the times when you might be sleeping, so you don't need to have the screen always on when you're awake, but at night you can use it to look at it properly and be able to edit it too, so go in there and, before everything, take a look at this, you can configure the screen. schedule here or you can just enable it to show all the time, but the most important thing I want to show you is obviously having all these options, you can choose between these different always on displays, you have dual clocks, you press, you have the calendar. view, it has the image view where we can put an image there, it has the border clock where the clock is displayed on the border, but let's take a look at this digital clock, so if I touch this, I can obviously go in here.

Choose a new style of watch. I can do it like this. I can choose a different color and I can also change the background. Okay, so I can have a little green background. It will be hard to see, but there are different backgrounds here and I can also click Apply. and now that's my new always-on display, this is what I'll see when the phone is actually off now, and the other thing is here, it says content to display, if I tap that, it allows you to customize the always-on display. -on the screen as to what it shows, do you want to see the clock or the home button information or do you just want to see the clock or the information or do you want to see the home button only if I keep this, take a look, take a look glance? see what happens to make everything disappear so check out this Hey Bixby, lock the screen so everything you see is a persistent icon for the home screen so you know exactly where it is, okay so that's it an option that you always have with you. on the screen and this consumes the minimum battery life, so press and hold to go back to the settings here, lock, rotate and security on the always-on display, let's go with the maximum so that you have all the options and finally , you can always download more. in display modes so if I click on this I can say go to

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themes he will take me to the theme store at the bottom you have a panel go to an ody and these are all always on displays that you can download and some of these. the stuff is absolutely fantastic so let's look at this one, this one says recommended, come in and then you'll have to pay for some and some are free so this one is free, the one you have to pay for is no big deal. deal, let's take a look at this one here so you can go and download it.

This could be your always on display with that nice background on the back so all you have to do is click download and once the download is complete just click apply and that becomes your always on display again , although there is so much going on here, look you have the world here that looks absolutely beautiful and if you come back here you have this tree, okay again, it looks very beautiful, so I have all these options, so I encourage you to go to the store and check all these things so that that is the screen always on.

Let's move on to the next tip, so the next tip has to do with the phone app that all of our phones use. the moment, so it's normal to know a little bit more about this phone app here, so let me come in and there's my context, okay and basically the first thing I'm going to show you is these scissors, this is me, that's your information, that is your favorite context and this is your frequent contact context and everything else is just your standard context, so this favorites screen here is something that you can actually fill in, so what I could do is say there's a contact that I want to put in all my favorites.

What I do is I tap that contact to go into the details and then there's a star symbol, if I tap that star symbol it gets added to my favorites when I check out again, you'll see it appears here for quick and easy access and the Lo next thing I'm going to show you is if you go into settings, you can go to the data if you want, no matter where you are, you can tap this button to go to settings and from here at the bottom. it says enter and end calls in the middle, I mean you tap that, wow, tap this and from here you can use the volume buttons to answer calls or you can use the power key to end a call, so if I enable them, let's say . someone was calling me.

I can press the volume key to take that call instead of swiping the screen or when I finish talking to someone I want to hang up so by pressing the red button I can click the power button and that also ends the call , so I'm going to keep them enabled because I like to use those options, let me go back and show you the latest with the phone, so go back to the settings at the top, tap on speed dial and here you can quickly assign contacts at your speed so to number two they're talking about these keys by the way one two three four five so let me come back here so for number two I'm going to assign the contact let's say all this type okay, so number two is Now assigned to that contact, so I'll link here, so let me come back here.

If I press and hold, it will start dialing it immediately, so you can have a lot of quick contacts assigned here if you come back here as you can. See, you can also change the number if you tap this, you can choose any number you want, now you can have many of them. Okay, you can have an unlimited amount, so basically quick contacts now, how does it work if you're going to? fifteen and you choose, let's say let's do the same type, okay, you can do that, you can use the same people, go back out, all you have to do is tap, type fifteen and that shows them right away, you can tap it or doYou can put it. anywhere you want, so start all your games are here, you can tap this.

Icahn gives you options, it shows you my games, you can add more apps, you can see ads, you can go into settings, which takes you back to this screen. Here, from here, you can turn some of these options off and on, but that's not that important. What's really important are the things you can do while you're playing, so let's go over here and just start any game. Okay, let's start the spare man, so with that game mode enabled, what you can do is when you're playing any game, you can swipe from here and you'll get these options at the bottom here, okay, and all of these options belong to your game and you can also do it quickly. let you know if you swipe up there is a button here that allows you to lock the screen so you can know go and do something come back when you are ready to resume the game all you have to do is just swipe the screen unlock the screen then you can lock that screen or very quickly, but here are the options that really matter at the bottom, here you see that icon, the game launcher icon, you tap on it and from here you can turn the game into a full screen game if it's really supported. with that option, if it is not supported, it will be blocked.

I'm not going to try it, but you can try it yourself. You can't enable alerts during gameplay, so if I'm playing a game, I really like it, I don't want to. receive any message, any phone call, any other notification, I can turn off the alerts, the other thing is that you can hard press the home button lock, so this home button here, as you can see, is a sensitive button to the pressure you can press with this and now it's locked. Okay, so you can't accidentally press this and exit the screen and then you can also block the edge touch, so if you do this now you can do anything by mistake.

You know I'm swiping up and down and nothing happens. Notifications will appear. It still shows up, but that's the only thing that's going to stay there and you can also come back here and the other options, the really cool options are that you can take a screenshot of a game at any time, so let's say I'm actually playing this game . that's X, so I'm playing the actual game right now and let's say I want to take a screenshot. I go here, tap this, tap the screenshot boom and it saves it to my gallery. I can do the same thing for recording videos, so if I want to record actual game gameplay, I just do like this to have this record and now it will say at the bottom that there is a record button, okay, so it's recording right now, let me go back and if I do like this, You can press the stop button and that stops the recording and then save the recorded gameplay to your photos in the gallery app.

Well, that was the game mode, so let's talk about the secure folder, a powerful feature on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 that I have come to know. I love and use quite often, this is a feature of the software and it is related to security and it is called secure folder, basically it is a private environment that is locked with a password or your fingerprint or your iris within which you can store private photos , documents, videos. files and further away from prying eyesIf you're not already using it, you're going to love it, so let's dive in and take a look at what I'm talking about and of course if you use Instagram or Twitter, make sure to follow me on both at Saki Tech online.

Alright, the first thing you need to do is enable the secure folder. What you can do is go to the app drawer and then if you go into Samson, somewhere you will see the secure folder. sitting there, in this case, you can tap on that and that will start the setup process or if you don't see it in your app drawer anywhere, you can go to settings, scroll down to lock screen and security and scroll down down and look. for a secure folder right here, tap on this guy and it will start you through this process, so if you read this, it says: keep prying eyes away from your private files and apps with a secure folder, only you can access the photos,

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s and private apps on your phone. which is exactly what we're going to do, so tap on this guy here and once you've reviewed the slides, just click start now.

It is advisable to use your Samsung account in case you forget your secure folder password, then you can go ahead and reset your secure folder PIN number or password. Click Confirm. It will ask you what type of PIN number you want to protect your secure folder with. In my case, I'm going to keep this simple. I will simply use PIN if you want me to enable fingerprint and iris scanner so you can use your eyes or fingerprint to access the secure folder. I'll show you how to do it in a minute, so let's just click Next and let I just choose 0 0 0 0 for this demo and then I click OK and it says it's creating the secure folder now, once it creates the secure folder , this is exactly what you will see.

This is the same screen that you can access when you go to apps, go to Samsung apps, go to the secure folder and then it will ask you to enter your PIN number, that's what we chose first, so I put my PIN number now if I had fingerprint or iris scanner enabled. I would also have that option, in this case I only have a PIN number, so I will click OK and we are back to the same screen. Now take a look at these apps here, the apps found here belong to the secure folder and you can only access them as long as you know the PIN number.

Now let me do a quick demo using the secure folder to show you how you can hide your files so you have an idea and then we'll come back and dig a little deeper. deeper to show you some fantastic

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now as soon as you exit the secure folder it locks so everything that was in the secure folder is locked. Now let me go to my gallery, my regular gallery, which is outside of my secure folder. this one here and as you can see where my albums allow me to go to downloads here is an image that I recently downloaded to my phone, let's say it was a private image that I actually wanted to hide and only I can access it everything I do.

It's touch it, what are the settings here? and then at the bottom in the middle you will see an option that says move to a secure folder so I tap on that and what will happen is it will ask me to enter the password PIN number for the secure folder I'm going to put that , click OK and as you can see it says move items to the secure folder after the process is complete, come back here and let me go back to the actual secure folder again, it's locked, it's been locked. so if I go back in, it will ask me for the PIN number again, so it's really secure.

Every time you exit, it crashes. Come back in and if I go to the gallery, I'll have that photo here. completely

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from anyone else, so let me go to my regular Samsung app where I store my

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s and let's just open the discovery notes and as you can see here, I have a note that says unsafe note for demo, so this is a note that is not secure What if I want to create a note that is completely protected in the secure folder? All I do is go back to my secure folder which is right here, tap on it, put my secret password in there and then from here I can launch Samsung Notes and as you can see, it's completely empty.

I can click on more and I can put a secure note here, let's say secure note, okay, and then I can click Save and now this one is also in my Samsung notes, but it's under the secure label. folder, so if I go back out, if I go out of the secure folder and if I go to my regular Samsung notes, you won't see here, all you'll see is that non-secure note if I want to see the secure note. I have to go back to the secure folder and then I would have to go to Samsung notes from here and the secure note is here but the non-secure note is not here so everything that happens outside of the secure note stays outside, but all that happens inside the secure folder stays inside the secure folder even the camera so if I take I exit here on the right and if I take a photo right now as you can see I'm launching the camera through the secure folder , I tap this and I take a photo there we go, I go back out and then I go to a gallery here and that photo that I just took, the dark image, it's right here, it's in the secure folder, if I go out and go back to the normal gallery , it's not going to be there, that's the beauty of the secure folder, all you have to understand is that everything that happens inside the secure folder stays inside the secure folder.

Ok, you can take photos and save them safely directly to the gallery or you can enter your gallery. app and you can move individual images to your secure folder and of course he can do the same with anything here so if I come back here close it you can do anything here with the calendar you can have secure appointments you can have appointments safe. internet browsing activity contacts email my files you can even hide the file so if I go to my dad's house let me go to my normal files so let's start this you will have access to everything okay let's go to the audio and here there is music. file what I can do is select this guy.

I can tap this icon and I can move it to the secure folder. I play this two, three, four, boom, it's moved, so now this is also the case if I go back to the audio in the normal format. audio in my files app, you won't see if I want to access it, boom, go to the secure folder now, if I go to my files here, tap audio and it's there, okay, so you can protect almost anything, the files of Doc applications, video. images, anything you want, now that you understand the concept, you can start hiding your stuff, but there are a couple more things you can do here, let's jump in and as you can see from here, you can just tap this to lock the secure folder and go out. from here you can add more apps so you can add additional apps to your secure folder if you want to create double copies one secure and one non secure for example this gallery here is a copy of the app gallery but this is the secure version that You can do the same thing with a lot of apps here, okay, and then what you could do is add files.

Tapping this will allow you to add individual files to your secure folder. You can also edit the apps you don't want. one of these apps you can delete them and then if you go here you can go into settings from settings, you can change your lock type, you can even enable it if you want fingerprints and irises right from here in case you want to use them. means like security now make sure this option here is enabled, it says auto secure folder lock automatically every time you exit the app so make sure it's not set to five minutes, ten minutes, you want immediate security, so it's good right away and then you have Here are a couple of things you can do if you want to see them, you can even hide the secure folder.

You already know that I don't recommend it. This is what I recommend. If you enable this, it will hide your secure folder and then it will just be a pain in the butt to go back and access it, so what you want to do is come back here, tap this icon and maybe just use customize, so instead of saying folder sure you can just say let's say it's just an example and then let's bring this down and you'll be able to choose a folder, I mean a folder icon here so you can choose s, you can give it a very informal name, you can just pretend it's a bank breach that it's naturally locked so that no one would suspect that it was actually a secure folder, so if you had this as a bank account, right bank accounts, let's just say Bank, even if someone clicks on it and asks for a password, it's natural that it would ask for one password for something called bank, so that's one way to make it even more secure, but the bottom line is that you can choose any app you want, meaning any icon you want.

Here you have all these customization options and you can give them individual names, so click Apply now when it comes back. On Samsung as you can see it doesn't say secure folder it says app and when someone taps on it it just asks for a password which is natural, everyone hides their bank account information so that's basically the secure folder. Let me go back. Here, very quickly, in the boom of my bank account. There is so much going on here that you can do what I said. You can hide photos. You can hide. Take photos with your camera that go directly to the gallery.

Already protected. You can create secure calendar entries just for yourself and then like I said, just come here, take a look at all these settings and get used to them and also explore the backup and restore settings that allow you to make abackup your entire secure folder, so let's exit and exit again. makes me go to the home screen because technology I was able to unlock my phone using a voice password on the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 using bixby, so let's dive in and find out how to set up this fantastic feature, so the first thing you want to do is you want to scroll down to the Bixby home page and then go to settings here from the top, go to settings and scroll down to where it says unlock with voice password now, as you can see in this scenario, is it currently disabled?

I did it a couple of seconds ago so I can walk you through the whole process, so go here and tap on it and here it will ask you to enter your usual PIN number that you use to unlock your phone or maybe a password, whatever you have set up. so let me put that in right now and then you'll get to this menu from here. What you want to do is enable this option here that says off, just turn it on and it will take you to this screen so you can see. on the screen it says unlock your phone with your voice while using high speed so let me click continue and see what happens so it wants me to create a voice password and they want to make sure you only use two to four syllables.

Can not. be a long phrase, it has to be a short word or a phrase that says, tap the Bix feed logo below to start, so when you already do it, let me do it right now, thanks to technology, okay, so I registered my password correctly if it says this. it's okay to continue otherwise try again it's okay so let's keep seeing what happens please Tec I'll call you when the alarm goes off. I have set a reminder to message beautiful mom, so the voice password is set, as you saw. I have to read a few sentences and repeat my password a couple of times so Bigsby can recognize my voice correctly, so it says: say sake tech to unlock your phone when Bixby asks for your password for your voice password, so let's put this to test let me lock the phone using Bigsby hello big speed lock the screen hello big speed go to the home screen because the technology is absolutely fantastic and I just want you to know that you can do other things too, you don't have to go directly to the screen start, you can do things like this, let me lock the screen one more time, hello Bixby, lock the screen, hello Bixby, go to the display settings, because the technology is fantastic so that I can tell Bixby to do something before when you lock your phone and then it will ask you to enter. your voice password is safe out loud and will take you directly to where you want it to go, for example, I could have told a big screen to go straight to the gallery and then I would have said my wife's password and boom, I would have been in the gallery during and as you may or may not know, the Samsung Galaxy s8 has a theme engine built inside that allows you to choose many different themes.

There are now two ways to access this theme engine. The first is to press and hold the screen and then you can tap on wallpapers and themes which will take you to the theme store right here and of course if you can't access this that simply means you don't have a Samsung account, you need to have a Samsung Account to log in to this store and the other way to access this store is to go to settings and then just go to wallpapers and themes and land on the same place. Now the thing about the theme store is that there are actually four different things. you can do it at the bottom here you have a bar that says wallpapers, themes, icons and a o DS a o DS are always on display, we'll worry about the theme store, but everything you'll find here is basically the same. that goes for the others now with the theme store at the beginning you will only have one or two themes installed where it says my themes so if you want to see everything just tap on it and it will do them all. and then if you want to select and apply a theme, just click on that type and click Apply, so let's apply this just to show you how it works.

It's a very quick process as you can see and basically after finishing this task take a look at the icon packs the icon packs have indeed changed and if I swipe to go to the app tray Everything here too has changed even the folder colors match the Green theme as well as the icon colors and if I open the notification panel it's the same story so here is the quick toggle screen and as you can see , it's all black and green. matches the rest of the team and of course if I keep going in let's go to the settings, same story with the settings so you get a whole new settings look and of course if you go to the forum together it's the same story , OK? and finally, if you go to the messages that are here, let's go to any of these messages here and as you can see the exact same story, the same background, the same color theme, that's what changing the theme on your Samsung Galaxy Note 8 now.

Let's get back to that topic very quickly. We have a lot more options so let's go to the themes and at the top you will see the features that you will see at the top and you will see new ones now some of these themes you can buy and some of them are free for example I can go to the top tracks here and then I can tap that icon here where it says everything and then it gives me the option to say free or pay if I tap free everything free. The themes are listed here and as you can see there are a lot of them here, some don't look that good but many look great and of course if you want something even fancier you can buy them so if you check here you go to paid and then you start getting some really fancy themes like this guy here and of course you will try one of the themes that are paid, you can download the trial version, the trial allows you to apply a theme for 10 minutes so that You can see exactly what it looks like before you buy it, of course, you can also tap on these images and they will show you everything that will be your lock screen home screen or form bookmark, you have the messages, the contacts. the notification panel and everything else is fine so there are two ways to try these things: you can look at the images or you can download and install the trial version and of course you can do exactly the same by tapping the new one here when you go to new. themes you can also do for free and paid now, let's go back to our themes, if you want to see your own installed themes, you just scroll down and that brings up my themes.

The other thing you can do is tap on this icon and In fact, you can browse by categories or even by color palette, so if your favorite color is red, you can tap red and that will bring all the red theme themes in front of you, like this one here, let's take a look at that. So that's the world, it has some red icons and not everything looks very good, but there are also some that if you keep looking you will find some really good ones, like this one that doesn't look too bad. Scroll up, maybe not. for a guy, but it's not that bad for a lady, so come back here again, you can go by colors or by theme, so travel, you know, cute, colorful, whatever, if you touch the technology here, you'll you will face the technological issues that could be.

If you keep looking you can find some really nice ones, like this one, play it. It is a very nice clean looking and futuristic theme. Well, let's see it's complicated, so you have to download the trial version to see if you like it. So that's something you can search by category and then you can also tap the search icon and just search for whatever you want, you can search for anime, so if I search for this guy, it will also bring up topics related to enemies and one thing I forgot to mention that when you apply a theme, it also changes the keyboard, so this is the theme that I currently have, so the keyboard matches that theme, as you can see, so let's go back here and then you can tap this icon here, you can go to my page and also the settings, if you go to my page you will basically see all the items purchased, if you ever buy themes and change your phone, let's say you have a

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s 8 plus and you have a note 8, you can access them directly here you can access all the themes and wallpapers from your purchase and all that good stuff and then the other thing is if you go here you can tap settings and there's a couple of things here that you can tweak, it's not a big deal, but you know you have settings. everywhere on this phone and while we're on the topic of themes, if you don't mind changing the theme but you do want to change maybe the icons just, for example, these guys, here are the icons, you can go to the bottom . here it says, conce, tap on it, you can download individual icons for your phone again, you have my icons, you can see them all and we have one right now, we have never received any until now, but you can go in there, you can just buy different icons and apply them. that on your phone and you can also customize your form that way, okay, all you have to do is download it and apply it as the theme and then all the icons here will look different, let me go back to the themes here. up to my themes Go themes and just go back to the normal one well let me show you a different one take a look at this one for example click apply there we go and that's just another theme if I come back here everything is going to be a little different, go to the settings and you will see that each color has changed, so when I say ex panels, this is what I'm talking about, you pull from one side and you get access to a bunch of panels, each of these things is called panel, that's a panel, that's another panel and that's another panel and then you have all these panels that you can add if you want.

The first thing I do when I show it real quick is some of my favorite panels, so this one here is the soft one. key edge panel, this panel replicates the keys you see at the bottom here, so as you can see it has the home button, it has the recent apps button, it has the back button and it has a bunch of other buttons here they also add in the edge panel, but here is the home button. If you touch it, it will go home. If you touch it, the recent applications that we don't have from time to time will appear.

If you touch it, it comes back and then you can also do whatever you want. What you can do is if you tap this guy here, he can take a screenshot, okay, so you don't have to do anything else. You can use the edge panel to take a screenshot and if you want, you can even lock the phone. stop, tap this, the phone is now locked, so it's one of my edge panels called soft key edge. Now the good news is that all these panels are completely customizable, so you can add more panels, you can even reorder the panels by importance and you can do a lot more, so to customize the edge panels you have to tap on this Settings icon.

Takes you to the edge panel screen. This is not the only way to get to this screen. I'm going to show you one more way. So if you go into these settings and go to the screen, you can scroll down to where it says edge screen, tap that and then from here you can tap this and you'll be in the same menu that we just did. I'm coming from the actual border panels screen, so the first thing I'm going to talk about is how to reorder the border panels. Now let's take a look at it one more time.

You've got the Edge softkey, you've got the apps edge and you've got device maintenance and then I've got a bunch of other panels here and this is what the order is going to look like when I come back here and put it in okay, so that's going to be the edge of the soft key and then I go to I have the apps on the edge, these are app shortcuts and then I have the device maintenance screen and all that good stuff. Now if I go back to the settings, I can see that the same is in order, so how do I reorder this based on importance? all you do is tap this icon here and tap reorder and now I can grab the weather panel and put it here at the beginning and then of course I can grab the calculator panel, something that I use a lot, I can put it. right in the first position and when I'm done I go back and then I come back out and if you pull the edge panel now, as you can see, in the first position you have the calculator panel, you have the weather panel and then everything else the way I like it, this is how you rearrange the border panels.

Now let's go back to the state. I'll show you one more thing now that many of you won't see the softkey border panel from the beginning. Wow, when you first buy the phone, if you haven't played with the edge panels, you won't see the softkey edge, you might not even see the calculator panel, so how did I get them? All you have to do is tap this download icon. here and it will take you to the edge panel store, from here you can download hundreds of edge panels that you want, so as you can see, they have edge maps, they have edge multi windows, they have edge lighting.you have all these options, make sure you download everything so you have the maximum capabilities for your camera, let me go back and one more thing if you want. let's say you're someone who takes panoramic photos all the time let's say this is a motor you use all the time what you could do, let me go back to auto mode, is go here, tap this button and then choose add shortcut on screen home screen and What that will do is add a shortcut, a camera shortcut to the home screen that will take you directly to the mode you selected, panorama is selected, tap on that icon, click add shortcut, just choose the one you want here, you can actually choose several so that's even better so you can click slow motion and pro and then when you go to the home screen, you'll see that you'll have these shortcuts, let me swipe one more time, you've got the panoramic mode in professional mode. and the slow motion mode just to give an example if I tap panorama it takes me right to that absolutely fantastic panorama mode so let's go back here and the other thing is you can access if you swipe this way you have the ability to access to the filter so you can add live filters to this, this is for the beautiful face and then here you have a bunch of settings, drag effects to reorder them, you can reorder the settings if you want to enable them again, these are the settings effects that you can apply life, so that's an effect, another effect, you can preview before you take a photo, okay, and that's if you swipe this way, now let me go back to normal here, okay, and one more thing to which you can also access.

The stickers and decals will again appear on the side and you have all these different options that you can change and choose from. This is all just fun, but just to give you an example, here's our sticker if you touch it. I'll add a sticker to the screen, okay, then take a photo, it will come with that sticker, so tap that best friend, take a photo of your best friend, tap that says Cheers, take the photo and this will be there, like this let me take a photo, let me get out of this mode by hitting the back key and now if I go back to that camera, you'll see that Cheers appears there, it's not bad at all, it actually stays here, so make sure you turn it off, so let me. go back to the stickers and tap on them again, if you tap on them it turns on, tap on them again, it turns off, okay, so those are the stickers, so let's go back to the settings and this time I'm going to talk about some other important things, just a.

When you first go to the settings at the top you will see that the rear camera option says rear camera and these options belong to the rear camera and then you have the front camera options and then if you keep scrolling down you will see common options and let's take a look at this so obviously the image size if you tap on it you can choose the image size you can choose something that's high resolution or you can choose something that's not high resolution and if it's a professional photographer, you probably recognize this option, you can save raw and JPEG files if you are not a professional, don't worry about that, it's okay, so here you choose the image size for the rear camera and normally I would recommend that you keep it at 12 megapixels, that is for the maximum quality for the image the lower it goes, the lower the resolution and the image becomes less sharp and less clear, but that is not so important, the most important thing actually is the size of the video, so which if you tap on the video size, this is where you choose whether you want to record in 4k or full high definition, so UHD is 4k.

The highest resolution you can record to this drive is 30 frames per second, which is qHD, which is a little bit lower than 4k, but normally this is what we do, it's Full HD. that is 1080p at 60 frames per second this is also full HD which is 1080p but this is at 30 frames per second the difference between this type and this one is that this type will give you a smoother video so you can try it record a video with this mode like this and then record a video, wow, come back here, record a video with this mode here and see the difference, the 60 frames per second will be much smoother, it will look better, okay? and then you have all these options where you can choose different modes now one thing to keep in mind is that obviously if you do two recordings in 4k, you will be wasting more space on your storage if you do full HD at 60 frames per second.

It takes up more space than full HD at 30 frames per second, so keep that in mind and let's come back here. We look at tracking autofocus. The timer is very simple. Turn the timer for two seconds, for example, go back. Here, if you take a photo, it will count down for two seconds before taking the photo, so that's the timer, then you have the HDR rich tone, this is high dynamic range. Make sure you can keep it on Automatic unless you really know what you're doing. What you're doing, just keep it on Automatic, you're just going to get the best possible images every time and if you scroll down a little bit more, you have the front camera options, same image size, maximum 8 megapixels, you can turn it down and then you have the video size you can actually record in qHD using the front camera, it's not 4k but it's close to it and then you have all these other options again, the lower the settings the less space it will take up on your phone storage .

Now let's go out and then here. it says save images as preview which doesn't matter you can disable it or enable it and this is called shooting method so let's touch on a shooting method and again remember that these are the front camera settings so for the camera front we have this option. called shooting methods, tap on it and what you could do is if you are taking a selfie you can tap the screen to take the selfie you have to enable it of course this will not apply to the rear camera it will be the front camera or it can show your palm to the front camera to take a photo or you can touch the heart rate sensor which is on the back of your phone right next to the camera and it will take a photo, so there are three ways to take photos with the front camera, which is this camera, it's fine and then again you can set a timer individually for that.

You can also do HDR for the front camera if you scroll down here. You have the option to create a motion photo if you enable this and if you take a photo what the camera does is record a little video before and after the photo and then you can preview it so any photo you want to take will be taken anyway, but then it will take a small recording clip. of video before photo and after photo giving it a live effect again. This is something you just want to go ahead and try to just take a photo with motion photo enabled.

I don't like it and here we have the grid lines, tap on that. you can have a grid line so right now if I come back here there is no sand and we have it if you don't have a grid sometimes you can't line up your prop photos correctly so let me go back down.enable that grid , let's make a 3x3 grid. Go back out now that we have a 3x3 grid. You can see better if I put my hand or I guess you can see, so there's a grid line here that I used to line up the photo.

I mean, focus on it, so let's come back here. You have location tags enabled. If you enable location text every time you take a photo, the camera will know exactly where you were and I mean, it can identify exactly your location, which is great if you want your images to be sorted by location later, but remember that if you have Location tags enabled and if you take a photo and send it to someone, that person can walk in and find your exact location, so this is a security measure. Worry if you don't want that, make sure it's innately disabled by default, but when you don't know you want to use it, you can go in and enable location tags so you can know where you took the photos and the last thing here is to check the images, so if I enable this, I go back to the camera, if I take a photo, let's wait two seconds, take a photo and then review the image and then you can get out of there.

People like to do that so I don't like the setup because I think it's a waste of time so don't review the photos after you take them and we already saw all these things. Now let's go back out. cycle through everything here okay so you're a master at camera settings but let's get back to here and now I want to talk about pro mode which a lot of people are wondering what it is now. I forgot something very quickly. Let me go back. here in the settings I just noticed I skipped it here it says stabilization and it's cool if you ever see this cool the reason this is cool and it's not available is because you also have tracking autofocus enabled so if I disable this guy and go down here to video stabilization now I can enable that video stabilization is necessary for a very good, well stabilized video that looks nice and smooth, so make sure that everything you can is enabled now, let's go back to the pro mode now.

To be clear, I can't just lecture you on how to completely manually control the camera because it is actually an advanced topic, but let me give you an idea now if I go into external mode correctly and if I take a picture, everything happens automatically. in the background, so what happens is that the image is exposed correctly and proper exposure is the key. It's okay to have an image that's not too bright, meaning overexposed, or something that's not too dark, meaning underexposed. You want a well-balanced, properly exposed photo like this one we just took because it happened automatically.

Now what manual mode allows you to do is override all settings for professional effects. Now the things that make the exposure happen are things like the shutter speed of the lens, the ISO value and the aperture, now with this pro mode you can change those settings, so for example I can tap on this and I can change the ISO mode up and down. I can go here and I can change. the shutter mode goes up and down now, as you can see, as I reduce the shutter speed, that means the shutter opens so fast that no light enters the camera, so the image is very underexposed, so it will be dark, but then if I go up here with the shutter speed, if I open it, if I open the shutter, now the shutter will open slower, it will open, it will stay open and then it will close again, unlike what I did the first time, as you can see, it's still underexposed. but it's better than the for, but the goal is to modify these settings to get a properly exposed photo so you can manually control everything that normally happens automatically.

Other things you can do is if I tap this here, you can also add some nice effects, but this one here is the focus, so now I can manually focus in and out of this photo, as you can see, I'm not focused on the form, but I can focus it manually again. Normally it says MF now, by the way. MF means manual focus, so normally with autofocus in this mode you just touch the screen and just focus on what you want with pro mode, if you go to manual focus you have to focus completely individually, okay?

That's what manual focus means the manual mode at the top here you have the white balance you can change the white balance depending on where you are you can warm the colors or make them less warm cool them down and again you have a dial touch it and you can go up and down, as you can see, okay, you can turn it into a warm photo, which is also a good effect and that's basically what manual mode is. Remember that to get a correctly exposed photo you have to make some adjustments, you have to work with the ISO. the shutter speed you can do manual focus you can also change the color balance all those options are available here what I would recommend if you want to master this go and study these values ​​the ISO value the shutter value the aperture value is okay and learn to and then you can come back here and you can play with them and that's basically it, that's the pro mode, it's a very advanced mode, it requires some additional training, some education that I can't do here, but I hope I was able to guide you. in the right direction and then it brings us to the end of this camera tutorial and that also brings us to the end of this massive video.

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