Three Camera Assistant settings you need to change

Samsung cleverly expanded the camera capabilities of many of its Galaxy phones through the Camera Assistant app. When installed on your Galaxy device, the app adds additional Camera Assistant options right into the Camera app’s settings screen. Some of these extra options let you customize the Camera experience to great lengths. If this is your […]

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Record better audio for videos with Galaxy S24 Audio Monitoring

Although the camera hardware on the Galaxy S24 series hasn’t changed much from the previous generation of flagship phones, the 2024 models bring numerous software, image processing, and AI improvements to the table. And one new feature available exclusively for the Galaxy S24 is Audio Monitoring. This new Audio Monitoring feature was never advertised by […]

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Camera Assistant gets updated to support Galaxy S24 camera features

Samsung has equipped the Galaxy S24 with several new camera features and improvements. Some of those improvements are powered by the more powerful processors used in the Galaxy S24 series. Some advanced camera features are not available by default, though, and come as a part of the Camera Assistant and Expert RAW apps. Camera Assistant […]

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Force your Galaxy phone to always use the zoom camera with Camera Assistant

Camera Assistant is an add-on app Samsung launched in 2022 that enables you to customize some advanced aspects of the camera app. Samsung has added several features to the app since its initial launch, and you should give it a go if you have a compatible Galaxy phone. And if you have a Galaxy phone […]

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Which Galaxy smartphones support Samsung Camera Assistant?

The camera app on Samsung Galaxy smartphones offers a lot of functionality out of the box, but for those who want more, Samsung launched the Camera Assistant app in October last year. Camera Assistant lets you tweak the behavior of some of the stock camera app’s features. For example, Galaxy phones that have dedicated zoom […]

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Camera Assistant app now available for Galaxy A53, Galaxy A54

The Camera Assistant app is expanding to the Galaxy A53 and the Galaxy A54. Both mid-range smartphones now have access to Android 14 and One UI 6.0, and with that, they’re now compatible with the Camera Assistant app that offers more advanced camera settings. Camera Assistant app now works on Galaxy A53 and Galaxy A54 […]

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Samsung’s Camera Assistant app gets an update with new features

Samsung’s One UI 6 update for Galaxy smartphones includes a number of new features and improvements to the camera experience, and the company is now further improving the experience through an update to the Camera Assistant app. Camera Assistant is a companion app that enables more control over photos and videos shot using the Camera […]

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Samsung Camera Assistant Week: Must-have for screen mirroring via HDMI

It’s time to tie a bow on this week’s Camera Assistant series. For our final entry, we’ll be taking a look at a must-have feature aimed at slightly more professional, albeit situational, photo-taking and video-recording setups. Camera Assistant — the app developed by the Good Lock team to add new capabilities to the standard Samsung […]

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Samsung Camera Assistant Week: Add speed to the shutter button

The Camera Assistant app can enhance or change the behavior of Samsung’s Camera app in numerous ways. It expands upon the default app’s feature set with additional options, one of which allows users to modify the way the shutter button reacts. Today, we’ll take a quick look at one Camera Assistant feature that, once enabled, […]

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Samsung Camera Assistant Week: Record videos in Photo mode

Samsung’s Camera app has a fairly clean and straightforward UI, especially after some of the minor changes introduced with the One UI 6.0 update. Users have access to different shooting modes, and it’s all self-explanatory. But did you ever want to combine video recording with the Photo shooting mode? If yes, you should be happy […]

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Samsung Camera Assistant Week: Camera app’s best companion

Lately, you may have encountered the term “Camera Assistant” increasingly often. What is it? In short, it’s a Samsung app that can enhance your mobile camera experience. Exactly how it does that we’ll explain throughout the week as we dive deeper into many of the Camera Assistant features. Today, we’ll give you a more general […]

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The camera improvements are my favorite part about One UI 6

One UI 6.0 represents another step toward streamlining the user experience for Galaxy device users. One app – Video Library – that proved unpopular and arguably outdated is going away. Some apps got renamed. And a handful of other apps are getting significant upgrades or simply a more intelligent UI and consolidated features. The changes […]

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Galaxy S23 gets 2x optimized zoom with Camera Assistant update

Samsung has released a new update to the Camera Assistant app. It brings a new zoom option to the Galaxy S23 series. According to the changelog, after installing the new Camera Assistant update, Galaxy S23 series phones can access the optimized 2x zoom option in the Photo mode in the stock camera app. The new […]

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Samsung dives deep into June 2023 camera update with extended changelog

Lately, Samsung’s changelogs for firmware and app updates have been hit-and-miss. Some prevalent issues are that changelogs for device updates don’t always go into detail, and app updates often borrow old changelogs for new releases. Thankfully, Samsung seems to be at least somewhat aware of its shortcomings in this area. And at least as far […]

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Camera Assistant update with confusing changelog lands on Galaxy S23

Samsung’s Camera Assistant app is getting a new update that adds a couple of new features to the ever-growing Galaxy S23 series camera suite. That’s the theory, at least. The changelog isn’t doing the best job to clarify what’s new. Camera Assistant is getting updated to version 1.1.02.2. The update weighs a little over 8MB, […]

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Samsung’s excellent Camera Assistant app coming to Galaxy A phones with One UI 6.0

Samsung’s regular Camera app that we all use to capture pictures and video is full of neat features and modes, and in the last year or so, Samsung has been extending camera features and camera customization on flagship phones to help users get more creative. Samsung introduced the Expert RAW app in late 2021 for […]

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Galaxy S22 will soon get another Galaxy S23 camera feature

Samsung released a Camera Assistant update earlier today, boasting a new Auto lens switching feature for a few older Galaxy phones and an additional camera feature exclusive to the Galaxy S23 series. Fortunately, it might not remain exclusive for long. The feature in question allows Galaxy S23 users to select a “prioritize focus over speed” […]

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More Galaxy phones get Auto Lens Switching with Camera Assistant update

With the Galaxy S22 series, Samsung released the Camera Assistant app that offered more granular control over the stock Camera app’s behavior and performance. Later, the Camera Assistant app was released to more high-end Galaxy smartphones in the Galaxy Note, Galaxy S, and Galaxy Z series. However, the Auto Lens Switching feature was limited to […]

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Samsung just admitted your phone’s camera is slower than it should be

With a new update, Samsung has brought more features to the Camera Assistant app, and one of those features is Quick Shutter Tap. When activated, the stock camera app captures photos as soon as your finger touches the shutter button rather than when you release the button. This shaves off a few milliseconds from the […]

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Camera Assistant app released to more Galaxy phones running One UI 5.1

Samsung launched the Camera Assistant app to bring more granular camera controls to Galaxy smartphone users. The app was first released only to the Galaxy S22 series. Now, the company has released an update to the Camera Assistant app that makes it compatible with a lot more Galaxy smartphones. The latest Camera Assistant app (version […]

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