Screen time and loud volume monitors return to form in One UI 6.0

Among the many Digital Wellbeing features in One UI are three monitors that can show users how much screen time they had while driving and walking and how long they’ve listened to their headphones at loud volumes. Samsung made some changes to these monitoring features in One UI 6.0, and here they are. First, it’s […]

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Redesigned One UI 6.0 quick panel overview

One of the most striking changes in One UI 6.0 is the revamped quick toggle panel. It’s different visually and functionally compared to previous versions of One UI, and it is the first sign that Samsung might be moving away from one of its core design principles upon which it built its proprietary mobile interface: […]

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What’s this new ‘Silence while driving’ feature in One UI 6.0?

There are many things your Samsung Galaxy phone can automate for you when you’re driving your car, all thanks to Modes & Routines. But there’s another easy way to restrict notifications and ringtones when driving without ever touching a Mode or a Routine. Here’s a quick tip on how you can do it. Android 14 […]

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Everything about One-handed mode in Samsung’s One UI 6.0

With the release of One UI 6.0, Samsung has arguably moved away from one of its core design philosophies for its proprietary Android skin: one-hand usability. This design principle aimed to put the interactive screen area closer to the bottom edge, which is why feature names can take up half the screen when users swipe […]

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Control every aspect of haptic feedback on Galaxy phones

Modern high-end Samsung Galaxy phones feature a versatile haptic feedback engine that vibrates when you tap the screen, receive phone calls and notifications, use the Samsung Keyboard or navigation gestures, and so on. In the latest versions of One UI, these haptic feedback parameters can be personalized by users to their liking in great detail. […]

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Samsung Camera Week: Get the best and easiest photo edits with Enhance-X

Today marks the end of our deep dive into Samsung’s Camera app and mobile photography suite. For the finale, we’ll leave the Camera app to the side and look at one of its companion apps: Enhance-X. Samsung’s relatively new Enhance-X app offers the easiest way for Galaxy phone and Camera app users to improve their […]

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Samsung Camera Week: Capture all the detail with high-resolution mode

Smartphone cameras have come a long way over the years. Whether it’s daylight photography or capturing moments in the night, phone cameras are pretty capable these days. It’s also common for smartphones to feature primary cameras with high megapixel counts, with current Samsung Galaxy phones featuring cameras with anywhere between 48 megapixels to a whopping […]

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Samsung Camera Week: Say ‘Cheese!’ to capture photos

The traditional way of capturing photos and videos using the Samsung Camera app is by tapping the shutter or record buttons, respectively. But users can enable several other shooting modes from the Camera app’s settings. They can even use voice commands to capture a photo or record a video. Today, we’re exploring additional shooting modes […]

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Samsung Camera Week: Set up your custom watermark with ease

Welcome to a new entry in our weekly series, where we explore Samsung apps and services in detail. If you missed yesterday’s article, we’re dedicating this week to the Samsung Camera app. And today, we’re talking about the watermark feature. Samsung added the option to pre-set a watermark for photos captured with the Camera app […]

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A neat One UI trick to prevent apps from closing on Galaxy devices

If you’re used to tapping the “Close all” button in the Recent Apps screen on Galaxy devices running One UI, you may have accidentally closed an app you didn’t want to. It may have happened on more than one occasion. If you want to avoid this from happening, or if you want to make sure […]

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Samsung Camera Week: Know the app that lets you capture moments in time

Mobile photography has been a staple of the mobile phone experience ever since smartphones became a reality and shook the market. Smartphones have more or less replaced traditional point-and-shoot cameras, and mobile manufacturers are continuing to improve their camera hardware and software every year. In 2023, Samsung’s Camera app suite consists of more than one […]

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Samsung Weather Week: Why you should and shouldn’t hide the app

It’s the end of Samsung Weather Week at SamMobile, and we’ll put a bow on it with a simple tip that will get you one step closer to a cleaner home screen and apps drawer on your Galaxy phone or tablet. Today, we’ll show you how you can hide the Samsung Weather app icon and […]

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Samsung Weather Week: Overview of one of the prettiest mobile weather apps

It’s late autumn, the winter is just around the corner, and there’s probably no better time to talk about the weather and weather-related apps. Welcome to a new SamMobile Weekly overview of Galaxy apps and services. This week, we’ll dive deeper into the Samsung Weather app that ships with Galaxy phones and tablets. As usual, […]

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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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Prevent streaming apps from closing on your Samsung Galaxy

Picture this. You’re listening to music on your Galaxy phone through an online streaming service, like Spotify or YouTube Music, and everything goes quiet all of a sudden. The music playback just stopped, and you have no idea why. You retry, hit the “Play” button on your device, and a few minutes later, it happens […]

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Remove old Galaxy devices from Samsung Pass

Samsung Pass is an app that lets you save website login credentials, credit card information, and other sensitive data in an on-device enclave secured by your fingerprint. It’s a great app that helps Galaxy device users have a seamless experience across multiple devices and lets them quickly log into websites and services using their fingerprint. […]

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Prevent your Samsung TV from starting up in TV Plus

Samsung TV Plus is a fantastic free service available for Samsung smart TV customers in select markets. It’s an ad-based platform with free access to hundreds of TV channels. Nevertheless, as great as it is for some users, the way Samsung has set up its TVs to show the Plus platforms every time they power […]

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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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