Galaxy S21 Ultra Hidden Features & Settings - First 10 Things to do

you just have to think 14 steps ahead welcome to today's gear reviews. I have the samsung

galaxy

s21

ultra

5g here and what I'm going to do is do a very, very quick unboxing and then walk you through the top 10

things

that I recommend. Do it if you just bought one of these, these are

things

that will improve the performance of your new device. Now I just want to say that it has come to my attention that about 90 percent of the people who watch this channel are not subscribed, which is crazy, if you are a tech geek and like smartphone reviews, reviews of headphones and many other things related to technology, then definitely consider subscribing and if you do, you will be one of the best subscribers known to man and you will also be my day, so I would appreciate it anyway, let's get this out of the box , so of course Sam is singing along with his lead here and going for the slim case, which means no charger here.

Wow, look, that still shows some fingerprints you can see. but they evaporate pretty quickly, so my

first

impression of this is wow, look at this. I love this camera module. Is incredible. Look how they have beveled the edges under the glass. I love how it wraps around as part of the metal frame. It's really cool, this looks like something that could be part of Darth Vader's chest plate. You only knew the power of the dark side so let's see what else comes with this in the box now we don't have a charger so we just got this.

Nice little package here with your USB C to USBC cable, a quick start guide and a warranty card, and that's it, so they've really cut down a lot on the packaging, but they've done a good job, so

first

things first. en You probably noticed that there was no charger in this box, which means that you are going to need a charger and you want the right charger, so I experimented a little with a couple of different charges, so first of all, this one that comes with an oppo device, this is a 65 watt super fast charger, so I have my Sony charger here, this is an 18 watt charger, which one of these do you think will charge this phone the fastest?

Now you might be thinking about the 65, how good actually? You are wrong because when you plug a 65 watt charger into this phone it actually charges slowly which is crazy the fastest speed this phone can charge is 25 watts so if you really want to get the For optimal charging speeds on this device, you should get a 25-watt charger, ideally from Samsung. I'll link some alternatives below this video that you can watch if you want, but check this out. This 18 watt charger here from Sony really charges this device quickly. This phone supports fast charging from 2 to 25 watts. and 10 watt wireless charging too so make sure you get a decent charge get the right one don't go for the fastest one because it might not necessarily charge it faster the other thing you also want to do and I don't even have it I have done it yet.

Get yourself a good case because no matter how nice the back is, at some point you could scratch it and if you scrape one of these pieces of glass on the cameras, you will probably completely compromise them. so I recommend the case. I'm actually going to order a case much later and if like me you can only afford to buy toilet paper and water at the moment you can look around on mobilefun.co.uk because they have a range. of cases, from the official cases to the cheaper ones, so you have a good selection there. I'll also link them below.

Now, let's get into the good stuff, the things you guys should do when you first arrive. this device, so the first thing I recommend is that you do it and I say this because the screen on this phone could be the best mobile phone screen ever created and you want to see what it can do. It's like getting a Ferrari and not testing how fast it can go. I recommend that you highlight what this device can do at first, see what it is capable of slowly reducing and see if you notice a difference, so the first thing I recommend that you do is go into the display options, go to the

settings

, go to screen, go here. to the resolution of your screen, now you have three different resolutions, you have hd, you have full hd plus, which is factory default and then you have the maximum quad hd, set it to quad hd, this is going to give you the maximum resolution that this phone is capable and one of the best things and unique things about this device is that it can actually display this quad hd at 120 frames per second 120 hertz now as standard out of the box it is already on adaptive which means it will go up to those 120 hertz when necessary if you then want to reduce that resolution to full hd and reduce motion smoothness to 60 hertz, which is what an iPhone actually has to this day. iPhone user, anyone who has only been using iPhones would have never experienced 120Hz, so I suggest you set it to 120.

Make the most of the screen. Get the most out of resolution right away. The next thing you need to do within the same

settings

is to turn it on completely. your dark mode now dark mode will change all your system menus to dark this way and I say do this for a couple of reasons, firstly it's better for your eyes but secondly it's also better for your battery life, now a couple of What you need to do is in certain apps like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, you have to go to the settings of those apps to activate the dark modes and YouTube also, go to the settings of those apps, turn on all dark modes, it looks cool and has a purpose, it saves you power, this is very important, you can look in your settings here or you can literally just type security here and then find your safe lock settings so that within Setting your lock screen you can choose what kind of unlocking method you want. and there are a couple of things you need to be very aware of with any device, so when you only have a camera like this on the front of a device and you set up a face unlock, for example, the face unlock will just be a Face Unlock 2D, so actually, if someone had a very clear image of you and held it up to the camera because it's a 2D image that it recognizes, they could unlock your phone with just a picture, so face unlock isn't necessarily the thing. better.

The way to go on this particular device if you're not that worried about security, I would say still setting up your face unlock, it will be much easier to use the more secure methods to use on this particular device, will be a fingerprint reader . or PIN number and a PIN number is required, so you should have already set it up at this point, fingerprint unlock. However, it is what I recommend and I highly recommend it for a couple of reasons and keep this in mind too guys on a lot of phones. They have fingerprint unlock, but they use a 2D method just like 2D face unlock, so you shoot a beam, a light scans your thumb for fingerprint ridges, and then it unlocks.

This phone has Qualcomm

ultra

sonic fingerprint unlock, so it actually uses a 3D method to scan. your thumb using sonic vibrations and it's actually one of the safest ways to do it and the other big advantage of this particular device is that it has the latest version of it, it has a Qualcomm 2.0 sonic fingerprint reader which also has an area larger and for Mi test it is actually very fast and very accurate, it also sets your fingerprints, sets your face if you are not so worried about that and of course you also have patterns and PIN numbers.

I recommend that you configure them if you also need to return to the main settings menu of the device. There's something else I recommend you do that a lot of people probably don't even know about: it's your location services, so I tend to do this on almost all of my devices. Location accuracy of devices, so if they are marked on your device as active, basically what your phone will do is search for Wi-Fi signals even when you turn off your Wi-Fi, which will drain your battery and might also introduce some security risks. I always turn this off.

I don't want my phone to scan for Wi-Fi and drain the battery when it's not meant to do anything and the same goes for Bluetooth, so if you allow Bluetooth scanning when you're walking down the street. your phone is looking for other bluetooth signals and will essentially consume power as it might present and I'm not saying it will but it might present a small security risk so I disable them. The advantage of having them on is your phone can track your location much better when using maps or when it wants to suggest things that are around you and stuff like that, so it's up to you, but I personally have them turned off for security reasons, it's nice know it.

About, let me know in the comments below if you knew it or not. This is actually a unique feature on the Samsung device. It's something I think almost every phone should have and it's the secure folder, so set up your secure folder. you can write to a secure folder and it will appear here. What you can do is create a PIN number for a folder that only you can access, so this will be particularly useful for any of your parents, maybe you give them your phones. your kids to play or watch peppa pig or something like that and you don't want him to have access to your later data and all this other kind of stuff, so for you guys this will be very, very useful, set up a PIN number and that will create a folder on your device that only you can access with a PIN number and you can move things to that folder whenever you want.

Let me give you an example of how to do it so I can go to a picture on my phone, this is my wallpaper that I use for most of my devices, I can share it and then I can choose the safe folder here like this and then I'll send it to the secure folder and in fact I can even choose to delete it. the current location too, so it doesn't exist in the current gallery, it will only exist in the safe folder, so it's a great feature to copy to safe folder. You can keep your banking details and private information safe by setting it up.

I recommend that you set it up, especially if you allow other people to use your phone. The next thing you need to do is customize your power key here so that you think it's your power key that just puts your phone into standby mode, but if you hold it down. out of the box it doesn't actually turn off the device so I personally prefer it to so what you can do here is go to settings, look for the side key that appears here and then you can customize the side. The key does it right now, a double tap on the side key will open the camera.

I can change that to bixby or I can even customize a specific app that will open if I double tap the button so I can set it as Google assistant if I wanted to do that or any other app here, you can see I already changed it to the shutdown menu as standard, Bixby is activated and if you guys never use Bixby then there is no point in holding down that button to activate Bixby, it just doesn't do it. Makes sense, you could also hold down the power button which makes a lot more sense. I never use Bixby personally and have been using Samsung devices for years.

I never use it, so one for me is mandatory and then I customize these others. bits, if you want to double tap for the camera, it makes sense to me, it's a good shortcut, especially if your phone is closed, you can double tap and take a photo very quickly, it's a good idea, so the next one is kinda Buried in the menus here and it's video enhancer, so advanced

features

scroll down and you'll see the video enhancer. It is actually disabled by default. The video enhancer will improve the video image quality when watching movies and things like this, and you can even customize which apps you want. turn it on so we can turn it on and then turn off certain things and leave certain things on like netflix and youtube we could turn off the ticking this basically makes the colors pop a little more on the screen and go back to the first thing I said or the second thing What I said about the screen on this device is one of the best on the market and if you can make it look better with some software like this, the video enhancer, why not?

So it's good. in my opinion turn it on like the 120 hertz and quad hd, scale down over time and see if you can live without it, if you can leave it off if you notice a big difference leave it on it all depends on your personal preference. When it comes to things like this, but I have it on right now, I'm going to see what kind of difference it makes. I'll use it for a week and then turn it off and then see what kind of difference afterwards is whether I notice it or not. If I do, I'll turn it back on.

If not, you could leave it off. I'm not sure if it will drain the battery that much. I just think it's going to show up.the brightness and the colors are a bit ok so the next one is very useful for emergencies so this is Samsung Pay here. Now you have Google Pay. You can link your cards to Google Pay and pay with your phone and watch. all this kind of stuff, so if you set up Samsung Pay with a credit card, I use my American Express with this in the past. The best and only thing about this is that if you are at the checkout and discover that you lost your wallet or are not left in the car, you can actually pay at card readers that do not have a contact list.

In fact, it will allow you to hold your phone close to the sliding panel on those old school card readers and still let you pay. contactless even if they don't have contact lists so this is a great feature that you should make the most of for emergency use but you can also use it day to day but it is a great feature that a lot of people don't know about. The fact that you can do that with Galaxy Pay and even Samsung you don't talk about it much so it's great to set up Samsung Pay for emergencies, are you ready for a ninja tip?

I guarantee you that not many people know this. This one is going to blow your mind, so go to your settings here at the top, scroll down to the bottom where it says about phone. Here you will see a lot of things that don't make much sense. What you want. What you do here is you go to software information and again you'll be faced with another page of information that doesn't mean much to most people other than Android 11, which I'll come back to in a minute, but here where it says compile. number very specifically build number, tap on that and you will see your developer options will open.

You will need to enter your PIN number to do this, enter your PIN number and now your developer mode has been enabled. Now, if you go back a step and are back at the bottom of your settings page, there are now your developer options. This opens up a ton of additional settings and to be honest with you, you shouldn't mess with 90 of these, but there are some. I think you might want to do that if you scroll down to here, where it says the window scale transition animation skill and the animator duration skill, you can turn them all off and they're set to one second. right now once you've done that your phone will be the fastest s20 ultra anyone has ever seen there are literally no animations it's incredibly fast everything moves faster if you do this i personally like having those kind of transitions soft between pages and stuff like that, but I know some of you will appreciate this particular ninja tip, it really makes a big difference and you know, if you also have an older Samsung device, you can do the same thing on those and it will seem to be faster than everyone else's phone, the easter egg, so if you go back to settings, go back to About phone, go to system information, go to Android 11 here and tap on it, keep tapping on it, turn the dial up to 11 several times until 11 appears like this and then when you see a little cat appear here, it will actually unlock an Easter egg and I'll let you explore that Easter egg and see what it does so let me know what you think. tips, if there's anything you think should have been there that wasn't, let me know in the comments below, everyone else would appreciate it too.

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