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How to customize app notifications and what displays on your Galaxy phone’s lock screen
Samsung users or other android users, can’t go a minute without checking your Gmail, but you’re sick of getting alerts from that old game. Instead of constantly sifting through your notifications, select which apps send alerts and which ones don’t.
Thou you can also customize the way your favorite apps send alerts, which include notifications, sounds, and vibrations. To make things even better, you can snooze notifications or access an app’s notification settings from the Lock screen. The below steps helps you to manage your notifications right from the lock screen.
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View notifications
Did you just receive an important email? To view your notifications, swipe down from the top of your phone’s screen. Notifications will be displayed under the Quick settings panel.
- To open a notification, tap it.
- To clear all notifications, tap Clear.
- To close the Notification panel, swipe up or tap Back.
- To customize your notifications, tap Notification settings at the bottom of the panel.
- Tap See all to edit which apps you will receive notifications from.
Block app notifications
You can block notifications you don’t want, so they’ll be out of your hair.
- From Settings, tap Notifications.
- Tap See all and then tap the dropdown menu at the top of the page.
- Select All, and then the switch next to an app to turn its notifications on or off.
Customize app notification sounds
You can also pick different sounds for each notification. That way you’ll know whether it’s someone messaging you or if your lives have been refilled in your favorite game.
- From Settings, tap Notifications.
- Tap See all and then tap the dropdown menu at the top of the page. Select All, and then select your desired app.
- Next, turn its notification settings on or off by tapping the switch next to the different features.
- You can also adjust other notification settings from this page.
Note: Options may vary depending on the app.
App icon badges
App icon badges are the little dots that appear next to your apps when they receive a notification. You can adjust whether your apps display App icon badges or not.
- From Settings, tap Notifications, and then tap App icon badges.
- Tap the switch at the top to turn the badges on or off.
- Choose Number or Dot under Badge style to suit your preference.
Status bar settings
If a bunch of notifications is clogging up your status bar, you can hide them all or only show a couple.
- From Settings, tap Notifications.
- Tap the Status bar, and then adjust the desired settings.
Quick settings
Certain settings on your phone have shortcuts built-in. Let’s say you’re about to take off, and you need to turn on Airplane mode. You can access it and other settings from the Quick settings panel.
- Swipe down from the top of your Home screen using two fingers.
- Then, tap your desired setting; the icon will glow when the setting is activated.
Snooze notifications
If you need to temporarily silence notifications or save them for later, you can set up a snooze option.
- From Settings, tap Notifications.
- Then tap the switch next to the Show snooze option to turn it on or off.
To snooze from the Notification panel:
- Swipe down from the top of your screen to open the panel.
- Then, swipe your desired notification to the left or right.
- Tap the Snooze icon (it looks like a bell), choose your desired option, and then tap Save.
Suggest actions and replies
You can ask your phone to offer suggestions when checking your notifications. This makes checking them easier if you’d like to perform an action without opening the app.
- To turn it on, navigate to Settings.
- Tap Notifications.
- Then tap the switch next to Suggest actions and replies.
Use the fingerprint sensor
Here’s a fun way to open or close the Notification panel: just swipe your finger up and down on your phone’s fingerprint sensor.
- To turn on this function from Settings, search for and select Finger sensor gestures.
- Tap the switch to turn it on.
- After the feature is turned on, give it a try by swiping your finger up and on the fingerprint sensor.
Note: This option is not available on phones with the in-screen fingerprint reader.
Samsung offers a lot of features for capturing photos and videos through its camera app. Along with the many photo mode features, Samsung provides an amazing video mode feature called Auto Framing for Galaxy devices, which allows you to capture professional-like videos. And with the One UI 5.1, the company enhances the Auto framing feature by making it more advanced.
Auto framing is a feature for Galaxy devices that detects people in the camera’s field of view and applies digital zoom and pan to focus the detected person on the screen. It considers the tracking shooting function and detection performance on supported models based on the user-specified area.
How to use Samsung Auto Framing feature?
You can easily enable the Auto Framing feature on your Galaxy smartphone, just need to follow below mentioned steps.
- Open the Samsung Camera app on your Galaxy smartphone.
- Now, select Video mode.
- At the bottom left corner, you can see the Auto framing (scan-like) icon next to the zoom options. Click on it.
- Now, the Auto framing feature is enabled.
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Once you enable the function, you can capture the video with automatic zoom changes that keep the person in the frame. With the latest enhancements, the feature supports the Auto framing of an area other than the person selected by the user. Notably, the advanced Auto Framing feature is available for limited Galaxy devices.
Are you noticing that contacts are getting deleted from your Samsung smartphone? If so, it could be because you’re using the same Google Account on multiple devices, or you’ve enabled the Automatically back up and sync device contacts setting in the Google app. But no need to worry as here you can check the steps to restore Galaxy contacts on your Samsung devices.
If you’re using the same Google Account on multiple devices, deleting contacts from one device will delete contacts from a second device as well. Also, if you enable the setting in the Google app to automatically back up and sync your device contacts, then your device will automatically be moved to your Google Account contacts.
How to restore Contacts on your Samsung smartphone?
Condition 1: If your Galaxy Contacts are deleted because of your Google Account, they are stored on Google servers for 30 days. There are 2 methods of restoring deleted contact:
- Restoring with Undo Changes
- Restore Contacts from Trash
Let’s see how to restore contacts from both procedures.
1.) Restore with Undo Changes
Through some easy steps you can restore deleted contacts, just need to follow them. Firstly, open the Google app >> now select Apps located at top right corner >> click on Settings >> press on Undo changes >> choose when to undo changes >> click on Undo.
2.) Restore Contacts from Trash
For that, open the Contacts app >> Tap on the Menu option >> click on Trash >>Select one contact to restore >> Select Restore All option >> Click on the Recover option.
Condition 2: If you enable the setting Automatically back up and sync device contacts in the Google app, contacts in your device’s contact storage will be automatically moved to your Google Account contacts.
1.) Change the Contact Display Range
Open the Samsung Contacts app >> Click on the Menu option >> Tap on the Phone >> Select All contacts/ Google Account.
2.) Disable the backup and syn settings of the Google app
For disabling, visit Settings >> Scroll down and tap on Google >> Tap on Set up and restore >> Click on Restore Contacts >> Google Contacts sync settings >> Device contacts Sync >> Disable Automatically Backup & Sync Device Contacts.
Samsung offers a Super Steady feature to the camera app for Galaxy devices. This feature compensates for camera shake more powerfully than VDIS offered by Samsung smartphones. Here you can see in which situations you should use the Super steady feature to capture a perfect and high-resolution shake-free video through the Samsung Camera app.
During activities that cause camera shake and dynamic motion, still, pictures may be taken faster than when the VDIS option is active. Therefore, using Super Steady is effective in situations where the photographer moves a lot or in some situations where a steady shot cannot be captured due to the dynamic movement of the photographer.
However, this mode uses a large amount of correction margin to keep the camera shake extremely high. So in a still situation or in a low-light environment, the exposure time becomes longer to capture the light, and motion blur caused by camera movement is reduced.
Situations where Super Steady Feature is recommended.
- Running
- Situations where Dynamic movements occur
Situations to avoid using Super Steady
- When there is a little movement of the photographer
- When the light is dim
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How to enable it?
You can easily enable this feature, just need to open the Samsung Camera app >> Video Mode >> Tap on Palm shaped icon.
