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Here’s how to create shortcuts on your Samsung phone’s home screen
Your smartphone contains many applications, files, chats, pictures, and other content, which makes it challenging to find what you want to use at the present time. However, a shortcut on your phone’s home screen can be very helpful. Samsung offers you the ability to add various kinds of shortcuts to your home screen. Want to know how? Read the complete story.
A home screen shortcut is a quick and efficient way to accomplish various tasks on your phone without the headache of finding that particular feature in different apps or settings. They can also help you be more productive by allowing you to multitask.
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It’s worth noticing that since shortcuts are just links to apps or functions and not main functions themselves, they don’t take up extra space on your phone’s memory. So you can create as many shortcuts as you want on your phone’s home screen.
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How to create shortcuts on Samsung Home Screen:
Create app shortcut:
Simply, go to your phone’s app screen. Tap and hold an app icon that you want a shortcut for, a pop-up will appear. Tap on “Add to Home” and it’s done. You can now shift that app shortcut anywhere on the home screen.
Create pictures, files, or documents shortcuts:
Head over to the “My Files” app on your Galaxy phone and reach the place where that file is saved. Next, tap and hold that file, tap on the “More” option, and finally, click the “Add to Home” option.
This way, you can create shortcuts for your most used files, documents, pictures, videos, and others and can simply tap on the shortcut on your home screen to use it. Now you won’t always need to find that file on your phone.
Create chat shortcuts:
Open WhatsApp, Signal, or any chatting application. Now open the chat you want a shortcut for. Tap on the More option (three-dot menu) and tap the “Add chat to home” or “Add shortcut” option. It’s worth mentioning that all applications do not support this feature.
Debuted with the Samsung Galaxy S23 series, the Light mode is a function that improves the phone’s performance by adjusting its processing speed and ensures optimum battery consumption.
When operating in Light mode, your Samsung Galaxy S23 device uses less power compared to normal mode with no impact on usage. You can continue to browse the internet, and social media, make phone calls or play videos.
Apart from the Galaxy S23 series, the South Korean tech giant brought the Light mode feature to the Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 foldable phones. Notably, Light mode does not apply if any game app is running.
Using deep machine learning, the Galaxy S23’s Light mode prioritizes your battery life and cooling efficiency over processing speed. It enables your phone to use less energy in order to save battery life without affecting general use.
Using the Light mode feature, you can significantly extend the battery life of your Galaxy S23 smartphone, even without compromising performance, which becomes frustrating in battery saver mode.
How to activate Light mode
Step 1. Open the ‘Settings’ menu.
Step 2. Tap ‘Battery and device care’.
Step 3. Tap ‘Battery’ settings.
Step 4. Tap ‘More battery settings’.
Step 5. Tap ‘Performance profile’.
Step 6. Tap ‘Light’.
How to get Light mode in Quick panel
Step 1. Swipe down the main menu to open the quick panel and Tap Add button.
Step 2. Press and hold ‘Performance profile’ and drag onto quick panel.
Step 3. Tap “Done”.
Step 4. Tap ‘Performance profile’ to turn on or turn off.
If you don’t have Galaxy S23 or Samsung’s latest foldable phone, sadly, you can’t access the Light mode feature. However, the company should consider sharing the feature with older flagship Galaxy devices via firmware update.
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Samsung offers a lot of services and apps for its Galaxy devices, but there are many apps that we don’t use regularly. But due to the apps running in the background, the long-lasting battery of your mobile gets drained very quickly. Don’t worry, here you can check 3 smart tips to extend the battery life of your Samsung smartphone.
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Battery life depends on how you use your smartphone and also different devices have different battery life. If you are also troubled by the problem of battery drain on your Samsung device, then definitely see the tips given below.
3 Smart Tips to Enhance Battery Life
1) Enable Auto Optimization Feature
You can reduce battery consumption by closing unused apps and controlling abnormal battery usage. Auto Optimization feature automatically performs optimizations to keep your phone running smoothly. This includes closing background apps and cleaning memory.
- Tap on the Settings.
- Scroll down and open Battery and Devices Care section.
- Click on the Auto optimization option.
- Tap on the toggle to turn it on.
- Auto restart when needed.
2) Individual Apps Optimization
You can easily optimize individual apps to use less battery, just need to follow a few steps. Open Settings app >> Click on Apps >> Select an app to optimize >> Tap on Battery >> Choose the Optimized option.
There are three options for the battery:
- Unrestricted: No battery usage optimization as background activity of the app is allowed without restrictions. This can consume more battery of your smartphone.
- Optimized: Optimize battery usage by allowing or restricting activities in the background according to the usage pattern of this app.
- Restricted: Restrict battery usage while this app is running in the background. The app may now work as expected and notifications may be delayed.
3) Background Usage limits
The more unused applications running in the background, the more battery power is consumed. You can set background usage limits to reduce battery consumption.
To do so, visit Settings app >> click on Battery and device care >> press Battery option >> tap on Background usage limits. Now, you can set the battery usage limits of the apps you want to control.
Sleeping apps: Apps will run in the background only occasionally. Updates and notifications may be delayed.
Deep Sleeping apps: Apps will never run in the background and may not receive updates or notifications. They’ll only work when you open them.
Never Sleeping apps: You can select apps that will not be automatically set to power-saving mode.
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Samsung offers several features to let Galaxy customers manage and customize their phone’s camera. Meanwhile, Good Lock’s Camera assistant has some advanced features that provide more ways to manage camera settings as per your preferences.
The Korean tech giant added new modules to Good Lock with One UI 5.0, Camera Assistant is being one of them. It brings some useful features that you can drive to make your already strong Samsung camera stronger. It automatically switches the camera lens based on your surrounding so that you get the best of the present moment.
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It also lets you prioritize between the picture quality and picturing speed, video recording in photo mode, shoot continuously at regular shooting intervals, and much more.
For photoholics, the Samsung Camera Assistant will be the best choice as it lets them capture their best shots with their phone itself. Here are some tips and tricks that will make it easy to use the Samsung Camera Assistant module:
How to use Samsung Camera Assistant:
All you need to have is a compatible Galaxy smartphone and Good Lock app installed in it. Now open the “Good Lock” app, visit its “Life up” page, and tap the download button beside “Camera Assistant.” The following options will appear:
Auto HDR:
It is a feature that lets you capture more details in your pictures and videos in a bright and dark environment. To use it, all you need to do is just turn the toggle on.
Picture softening:
The picturing softening tools are available for customers who prefer a soft picture texture rather than the Galaxy camera’s default picture quality, which offers you pictures with detailed and sharp textures.
There are two softening tones to choose from – Medium and High. You can choose the one according to your preferences and if you are not a person who likes soft images, can simply turn it off.
Auto lens switching:
Once you turn the toggle of this feature on, your Galaxy phone will automatically pick the best lens based on zoom, lighting, and distance to the subject. This way, you can capture the best shots, no matter the time, place, or environment.
Quick tap stutter:
The quick tap shutter is a new addition to Camera Assistant that improved the users’ shooting experience. It lets you set a photo to be taken immediately the moment your finger touches the capture button, rather than the moment it realizes.
Capture speed:
This feature allows you to set the priority between image quality and capture speed. If you want to shoot quickly for capturing the moment rather than the quality you can try the “Prioritize speed” option.
Meanwhile, you can choose “Prioritize quality” for the best pictures or “Balance speed and quality” for faster capturing without sacrificing too much quality.
Video recording in Photo mode:
The name itself tells its use, it lets you record videos in photo mode. All you need is to touch and hold the shutter button to record videos after you have enabled the toggle.
Timer multi-photo options:
By default, the camera of your Galaxy phone takes one photo with the timer mode. But with this feature enables, you can shoot continuously at regular shooting intervals without having to press the shooting button again.
Camera timeout:
You can choose the camera timeout time here. Once you set it, your phone will automatically close the camera app. You can choose between – 1, 2,5, or 10 minutes options.
Dim screen while recording:
This feature will save the battery of your phone by setting the screen brightness to low when recording video for a long time.
Clean previews on HDMI displays:
Once turned on, this feature will show you the camera preview without settings or buttons on HDMI-connected displays.