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How to update apps on your Samsung Galaxy Watch without a phone?
While there are multiple smartwatches available in the market, Samsung offers some of the best feature-rich watches. Samsung Galaxy watches are not compatible with all Android smartphones but iPhone owners can also use them to get access to their brilliant functionalities.
Samsung regularly provides updates to the watches with new security patches as well as features. Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 4 Classic are the two latest offerings by the company. These watches run Wear OS 3 and offer lots of features that other smartwatches do not.
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Even, the watches have received the Google Assistant feature so you won’t have to pick up your smartphone to check out some general information, you can simply ask your watch to tell you. Besides these, you can use Spotify, manage the camera, and many other applications on the wearable itself.
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Samsung also upgraded these applications to offer users a seamless performance. You can easily these updates through the Galaxy Wearable app on your smartphone. What if you want to update Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 apps without a phone? Here’s the how you can:
Update Samsung Galaxy Watch apps without phone
Samsung Galaxy Watch 4:
Since Galaxy Watch 4 series uses Google’s WearOS, updating apps on the watch is a little different from previous models. You have to do it from Play Store. Remember, the Watch 4 Series cannot be set up as a standalone without the phone. But you can still edit some of its settings when the watch is disconnected from the Galaxy Wearable app.
- Press the Home button.
- Open the Play Store app.
- Swipe down until you reach My Apps.
- Tap My apps: all of your installed apps will be listed.
- If an update is available for any apps, an update option will appear.
- Individual apps can be updated.
- You can also update all apps by selecting Update all.
Previous models:
On earlier models of the watch, such as the Galaxy Watch 3 or Galaxy Watch Active, you need to set up the watch without a phone in order to update the apps using this method. If the watch is connected to a phone, these instructions will not work.
- On the watch, press the Home key (the Power key).
- Navigate to and open the Galaxy Store.
- Tap More options (the three vertical dots).
- Swipe to and tap Update
- Tap Update all to install any available software.
- To update an individual app, tap it and then tap Update.
- You can also tap Settings to manage your Auto-update settings.
Note: For a Gear Fit 2 Pro, tap Settings, and then tap About Gear. Tap Auto-update apps to make sure apps stay up to date since the Galaxy Store app isn’t installed on the watch.
If you are not signed in to your Samsung account, the Update option will not appear. To sign in:
- Tap More options (the three vertical dots).
- Tap Sign in.
- Then, follow the same steps to update your watch’s apps.
It should be mentioned that these steps do not apply to a Galaxy Fit, Fit 2, Galaxy Watch 4, or Galaxy Watch 4 Classic. The instructions will only work if your watch was set up separately from a phone.
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Samsung provides a Fall detection feature to the Galaxy Watches in addition to several Health alert functions. But for some time, Galaxy Watch users are facing an issue related to fall detection notifications, due to which they are not able to properly use other functions of their Samsung smartwatch.
Several community users have reported that the hard fall detection notification pops up repeatedly on the Galaxy Watch, even when no fall has occurred. If you are also facing the fall detection notification issue on your Galaxy Watch, then you can check the solution below.
The Samsung smartphone’s fall detection feature triggers a 60-second notification on your watch when it detects a hard fall. If you don’t respond, it will send an SOS message to the emergency contact listed with your location. The smartwatch also allows you to call an emergency contact if you’re in a position to do so.
If you don’t need the fall detection function during daily life then you just need to change the setting of this function.
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How to change the Galaxy Watch Fall detection notification?
For changing the settings of the Fall detection feature, you just need to follow a few steps.
- Firstly, connect your Galaxy Watch to your smartphone
- Open the Galaxy Wearable app on your smartphone
- Now tap on the Watch Settings.
- Click on the Safety and emergency option.
- Tap on the Hard fall detection feature.
- Now, you just need to select the ‘ Only during workout‘ option.
- It is done.
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Navigation Bar is one of the important parts of a smartphone as it allows users to control or navigate all the activities on their smartphone as per their wish. Along with changing the Navigation Bar on Galaxy smartphones, Samsung also offers various options to decorate and customize it.
If we buy a new smartphone, we need to navigate to use it. Although navigating the smartphone is very easy, yet we can make it more comfortable. How? So it is based on you in which way makes you feel comfortable using your Samsung smartphone, perhaps with gestures or buttons.
Here you can check how you can change the Navigation bar of your Galaxy smartphone.
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How to change Navigation Bar on your Galaxy device?
You can easily change the Navigation Bar of the Samsung smartphone, just need to follow a few steps mentioned below.
- Open Settings on your Galaxy smartphone.
- Click on the Display option.
- Scroll down and click on the Navigation bar.
- Select Navigation type from two options:
1.) Buttons
2.) Swipe gestures
Aside from this, you can also change the icons, layout, and background color of the navigation buttons in addition to height through the Good Lock module NavStar.
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Samsung enhances its technology day by day and One UI 5.1 seems to be a fantastic upgrade over its predecessors that brought many new improvements and features to the existing user interface. Apart from the many new features of One UI 5.1, you can also check here 3 amazing accessibility functions of Samsung smartphones that give you the next-level experience.
In the accessibility section of your smartphone, you can find some of the most innovative features of your Galaxy smartphone. The functions of accessibility are more useful for the person who is managing a disability as it helps to supercharge your Galaxy device.
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1.) Flash notification
Flash the camera light or the screen when you receive a notification, call, or when an alarm sound. To turn on this function, you just need to visit Settings >> Scroll down and press Accessibility >> Tap on Advanced Settings >> Flash notification. Now, you can see two options:
- Camera flash notification
- Screen flash notification
You can turn on the function by tapping on the toggle.
2.) Left/Right Sound Balance
Samsung provides a separate option for adjusting the sound of the phone’s speaker and any other connected devices like earbuds, Bluetooth headsets, and more. It is a very helpful feature for those users who use it, however, the feature is not applicable for calls.
You can easily use this feature by following a few easy steps. Open Settings >> Click Accessibility option >> Tap on the Hearing enhancements option. Now, you can find the Left/right sound balance option, which includes the following two sliders.
- Connected device
- Phone Audio
You can adjust them by sliding left or right as you feel convenient.
3.) Accessibility button/gesture
You can add Accessibility floating buttons to easily access several functions of the Accessibility section. Also, you can change its size and transparency accordingly.
To add the Accessibility button, you just need to open Settings >> Accessibility >> Advanced Settings>> Accessibility button/gesture >> Select actions, and it is done.
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