Galaxy S20 owners often complain that they need to swipe on the screen after they successfully authorize using the face unlock feature. Here is how to make your S20, S10 or Note take you directly to the home screen after you face unlock it. What’s the point of doing extra movements, especially if they don’t boost the security?
Continue readingMany users successfully initialize the fingerprint sensor during the initial setup but they don’t understand how to add another fingerprint later. But it is very important to know how to register another one because many of S10 owners will surely want to be able to unlock their phone with thumbs of both hands. Besides that, in some cases you may also need to allow you wife (or husband) to use the same smartphone and be able to quickly unlock it. In this step-by-step guide I will explain how to add another fingerprint on Galaxy S10 / S10 +/ S10e running Android 9 Pie.
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Some time ago you could not tweak this on Galaxy S devices but Android updates thankfully brought us an ability to customize a lot more settings on your phone.
In this guide we will explain how to change the order of navigation buttons on Samsung Galaxy S20, S10, Note 10, 9 running Android 9 and Android 10 with Samsung One UI. At first glance, this seems nonsense, but these little tweaks help make using the phone more enjoyable.
Automatic word replacement is a feature that is designed to fix typos on Android. In Samsung Keyboard app on Galaxy devices it is called auto replace. It can be rather handy in many cases if you use the official language. But as soon as you start using slang chatting with your friends, you will likely face some frustrating moments. The auto correction feature will replace the majority of spoken words with the “correct” words belonging to the official language that are similar in spelling. The program will simply think that you made a typo while you wrote that way intentionally.
In this tutorial I will show how to disable auto replace on Samsung Galaxy S20, S10, S9, Note 9, Note 8 running One UI on Android 9 Pie.
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In this guide I will explain how to enable the full screen gestures mode and thereby hide the navigation bar buttons on Samsung Galaxy S20, S10, S9, Note 10, 9 and similar models running Android 9 Pie with Samsung’s One UI 1.1 and Android 10 with One UI 2.0.
In Android 8 you could hide the navigation bar but you had to retrieve it to navigate. With Android 9 Pie update you can completely hide the navigation bar with all buttons and finally make the gorgeous screen of you Galaxy S9 or Note 9 clean of all that stuff. If your Galaxy device runs Android 10 with One UI 2.0, you can choose between even more options. And here is how you can switch to gestures without any visible nav icon/button.
Continue readingAlmost every modern phone has at least two microphones. The 2-mic setup is used for noise cancellation during calls and for recording the stereo sound while shooting video. But you can also force a third-party or native app to use both mics for recording audio instead of default mono mode. In such a way you can capture unique material for your vlogs or even music tracks. In this article we will explain how to record a stereo sound with a superb quality on your Samsung Galaxy S20, S10, Note 9, Note 8, S9, S8 and similar Galaxy devices. Continue reading