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10 smart uses of Samsung One UI 4.1 Calendar app
One UI 4.1 is the latest custom software system offered by Samsung. It has many new features and improved once. However, not only the features and functionalities, but the company has also enhanced its applications, such as the Samsung Calendar with lots of new functionalities.
Samsung offers its own Calendar application to let you amazingly manage your monthly events. This advanced Samsung Calendar app can now see dates and times in messages and suggest them as events to Galaxy users.
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Besides the stock messaging apps, Smart Calendar also works with WhatsApp, Hangout, Facebook Messenger, Google Chat, Line, Signal, and KakaoTalk. Using this, you can easily schedule events directly from their beloved social media platform.
There are many notable features of this application. Here we are talking about the top 10 smart uses of the Samsung One UI 4.1 Calendar app.
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Smart uses of Samsung One UI 4.1 Calendar app
Weather forecast on the Calendar app
Samsung Calendar can show the weather forecast for each of the next seven days. It shows the icons precipitating cloudy or sunny days. You also get the temperature for today. This feature is not enabled by default, you have to enable it. To dot this:
- Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
- Tap on Settings.
- Scroll down and enable the toggle “Show weather forecast“.
- If have to add the Samsung Weather to the Home Screen to view the weather forecast.
- Now just go back to month view.
- Expand it and you will see the weather forecast for the next 7 days.
Make your calendar look clean
When we open the Calendar app in the month view, we have all these events indicated in different colors on each date. These color codings include your reminders as well. If you don’t want these reminders to be showcased, you can remove them to make your calendar look cleaner.
To do this:
- Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
- Scroll down to see App events.
- Tap on it and then tap on Reminders to disable it.
Setting the week numbers on the left side of the Calendar month view
Yes, you can set the week numbers on the Calendar’s month view. It is very easy to do:
- Tap the three horizontal lines on the top left corner.
- Tap on Settings.
- Scroll down and enable the toggle “Show week numbers“.
Drawing or writing on the Calendar
- When you swipe and expand the Calendar in the month view, you see a Pencil icon.
- Take out your S Pen and you can write and draw on the month view page.
- You can even zoom in on the calendar and edit it using your S Pen.
- It will be saved and shown whenever you go through a particular month. To change the settings:
- Go to the three-line menu.
- Below the Month we have an option “Show handwriting“.
- Just uncheck it and it will show you whatever you write or draw.
Setting a particular color for each event indicator while creating an event
Whenever to create an event, you can set a particular color for that event. To do this:
- Tap the Plus icon to create an event.
- On the top right, you see a color option.
- Just tap on it and select the color you want.
- Finally, click Save.
Change font size
If you are someone who prefers to see bigger font on the month view of your Calendar application, you can increase it or decrease it according to your preferences.
- Open the Menu.
- Go to the Settings.
- Tap on Event title font size.
- Select the font size you want.
Default Alert style
- Tap on the Menu.
- Go to Settings.
- Tap Alert style.
- You see three different options to choose from.
- Light: Notification with a short sound.
- Medium: Full-screen alert with a short sound. While using your phone, you’ll get a pop-up instead.
- Strong: Full-screen alert with long sound. While using your phone, you’ll get a pop-up instead.
Create an event and share it with another contact
As the name mentioned, here you can create an event and share it with other contacts. You can add as many as 99 contacts. To do this:
- Go to the Menu >> Settings.
- Click Manage calendars (very first settings).
- Click on Create shared calendar.
- Select the contents you want to share.
Write with S Pen instead of typing
- Take out your S Pen.
- Tap on add event.
- Start writing with S Pen and it will automatically type for you.
Calendar Widget
One UI 4.1 Smart Widget lets you add multiple widgets on one single widget on the Home screen.
To set this up:
- Tap and hold the Home Screen,
- Tap on Widgets.
- Tap on the Smart widget.
- Scroll down and you will see the Smart widget 4 x 2.
- Select it and add it to the Home screen.
- Tap and hold the widget.
- You will have an all-new option to “Add widget to smart widget”.
- Tap on it, tap on the calendar and add the event widget to the same widget.
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Samsung has just released a fresh update for the Home Up app with version 16.0, which adds support for One UI 7. We have a first look at the new features in the Samsung One UI 7 Home Up app, thanks to tipster Vince Lawrence.
The fresh update is packed with features that are sure to enhance the user experience for Galaxy device owners. Among the most notable additions are new animation settings, a larger folder option, and enhanced pop-up folder functionalities. One UI 7 support delivers some highly requested features that many Galaxy users have been dreaming of.
Features of One UI 7 Samsung Home Up
New Animations Settings:
Home Gestures Animation tuning
One of the most amazing additions in this update is the new animation tuning for home screen gestures. Users can now choose from three different animation styles:
- Pixel by Pixel – Enjoy the feeling of pure animation
- The Scent of a Certain Fruit – Feel the sweet taste of red fruit
- Simple Tuning – Pick between fast animations or more emotional ones.
Beyond these options, there is an option for Advanced tuning Settings that let you adjust specific aspects of the animations.
Advanced Tuning
With this feature, you can customize details like damping, stiffness, and friction for how icons move and scale. Users can also customize where icons track, and there’s an Interpolator option to tweak how the icon scale animations work. This means you can make the animations your own.
In addition to this, the Advanced tuning also includes options for scale, duration, and blur settings for the Home screen and Wallpaper.
Large Folder
Another noteworthy feature is the introduction of the large folder option. You can now choose between medium and large sizes for your app folders while keeping the size of existing large folders the same.
This gives you more control over how your home screen looks and helps you organize your apps better. You can also adjust the folder grid and change the icon sizes, adding to your personalization options.
Pop-Up Folder
The update also enhances the pop-up folder functionality. Users can now customize the size of pop-up folders with options for small, medium, and large. Additional settings allow for variable sizes, fixed positions, and even options to hide the edit bar and remove blur effects.
This next level of customization provides a cleaner, more organized interface while ensuring that users can access their favorite apps quickly.
Overall, the One UI 7 support for Samsung’s Home Up app offers a range of new features that many Galaxy users have been looking for. With fresh animation settings, flexible folder options, and improved pop-up folder features, this update enhances the way you interact with your device.
It’s important to note that these features aren’t available to all Galaxy users yet, but the company soon make them available for eligible devices.
One UI 7 support now available for Samsung Home Up with v16.0
WhatsApp regularly tests new features through beta updates. Call links and new shortcuts for contacts and group chats are currently under testing. Now, WhatsApp has introduced a new feature that adds a limit on the number of contacts and group chat lists you can create.
The fresh update of WhatsApp arrives with a useful feature, which helps users better organize their contacts and group chats. The update reveals that WhatsApp is working on a new limit on the number of lists users can create.
Users will now be able to make up to 20 lists for organizing contacts and groups. It encourages you to think carefully about which contacts and groups you want to include in your lists.
In addition, WhatsApp is adding a shortcut that lets you quickly add contacts and groups to your lists. This shortcut will be situated at the top of your chats.
At the moment, WhatsApp users can create an unlimited number of lists, which sometimes makes the app confusing. To make it more organized and reduce the app clutter, the new limit is under development.
The new limit feature of the list is currently developing with WhatsApp beta update version 2.24.21.37 and will be rolled out in future updates. Stay tuned for more information as WhatsApp continues to enhance its features for a better user experience.
WhatsApp introduces new shortcut feature for contacts and group chats
Samsung users have been facing a frustrating issue with the NotiStar app on their Galaxy phones. Many users have reported that they receive duplicate notifications for messages regularly. This issue occurs with messaging apps and regular text messages.
Instead of one notification, users are getting two for every single message. For example, if a friend sends a message, the user receives its notification twice. It means that users are observing the same notification being displayed twice.
Samsung has acknowledged the duplicate notification issue of NotiStar. In addition, a community moderator has reassured users that the team is actively investigating the issue. He mentioned that Samsung will improve this phenomenon in an upcoming app update to fix the duplicate notification issue.
Users can expect an update soon, which should help remove duplicate notifications and improve how the app works. Samsung is actively working on a solution, and the promise of an update is encouraging for many. For now, Galaxy users can keep an eye out for the upcoming NotiStar app update.
Aside from this, Galaxy users also reported unexpected vibrations and notifications from their Galaxy phones after updating the Samsung Wallet Digital Key app. However, Samsung has fixed this issue with a fresh update for the Wallet Digital Key app.
Here’s how to stop annoying vibrations and notifications on your Samsung device