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Samsung S Pen works as a remote control on Galaxy S22/S23 Ultra: Here’s how
Samsung S Pen is an amazing tool that comes pre-built with select Galaxy S phones alongside the Note lineup. Well, you can use remote Media gestures on select compatible media apps on the latest Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra and Galaxy S22 Ultra, thanks to the S Pen.
The One UI’s media gestures feature allows you to control songs’ or videos’ playback with the flick of your S Pen on compatible Galaxy devices. Even, you can perform the same commands no matter what media app is being used, which is the best part.
Do note that the Samsung S Pen remote media gestures are supported on Galaxy S22 Ultra and Galaxy S23 Ultra along with the Note10 series, the Note20 series, and the S21 Ultra. And the media gestures feature supports certain apps; Spotify, YouTube, Netflix, Samsung Music, and more.
Compared to the App actions, Samsung S Pen’s media gestures feature is slightly different on the Galaxy S22 Ultra and S23 Ultra. You can use this tool to control songs or videos in an array of media apps with the same commands for compatible apps.
To activate the media gestures feature, open system Settings and tap Advanced features followed by S Pen. Tap Air actions, and then swipe to the Media section at the bottom of the page. Here are the gestures you can use with all compatible media apps:
- Single press: Play and pause a song or video.
- Double press: Skips to the next song or video.
- Flicking up: Volume up.
- Flicking down: Volume down.
- Flicking left: Previous track.
- Flicking right: Next track.
Whenever you want to use media gestures, just flick the S Pen in the appropriate direction while holding down the button. For instance, if you’re listening to a song on YouTube, you can double-press the Pen button to skip the current one and jump to the next song.
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The South Korean display manufacturer recently announced an investment of $3.1 billion (4.1 trillion won) in building an 8.6th-generation IT OLED line, officially reaffirming its expansion plan for the future IT market.
We are supplying MSI with the industry’s highest resolution laptop OLEDs so that gaming users can experience the best HDR content on OLED,” said Brad Jung, VP and head of the Mobile Display Marketing Team at Samsung’s Display business.
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