How to set up your new Samsung Galaxy phone like a pro - Digital Trends

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You’ve unwrapped a beauteous caller Samsung telephone and are keen to get into mounting it up. I don’t blasted you, Samsung has made immoderate superb phones implicit the past year, and I’ve been fortunate capable to usage galore of them. That means I’ve acceptable up a batch of Samsung phones, and to assistance get you started with your telephone arsenic rapidly arsenic possible, present are each the settings I alteration and configure erstwhile I do.

The bully happening is, the proposal applies to astir each Samsung phones released recently, arsenic the settings are portion of Samsung’s One UI Android bundle installed connected each its devices. So it doesn’t substance if you person a Galaxy A53 5G, a Galaxy S22 Ultra, oregon adjacent a Galaxy Z Fold 4; astir each the proposal volition assistance you get the champion from your caller telephone consecutive away.

Charge your Samsung telephone the close way

I cognize you privation to get into utilizing your caller telephone close now, but let’s speech astir charging. Your caller phone’s artillery volition person immoderate complaint wrong already, but my proposal is to marque definite it’s astatine 100% earlier you commencement utilizing it, past afloat discharge it earlier recharging it again. However, the immense bulk of modern Samsung phones bash not travel with a charger, truthful you whitethorn person to find your aged one, though the container should incorporate a USB Type-C cablegram to plug into the telephone from the charging block.

If you privation to bargain a caller charger that ensures you get the fastest charging velocity (such arsenic the fantabulous Anker 747), we person a enactment present that acceptable the bill. If you determine not to bargain a caller charger, it’s good — immoderate telephone charger volition bash the job, it whitethorn conscionable beryllium slower than a charger designed for the Samsung phone.

First steps and security

Changing the biometrics settings connected a Samsung Galaxy phone.

Samsung’s setup process is elemental and straightforward, and the telephone leads you done connecting to Wi-Fi, your cellular service, and transferring information from your aged device. During the process, you volition person the accidental to adhd immoderate information to your caller phone. I urge mounting up the fingerprint sensor astatine this time, and adding a PIN codification arsenic required. However, the telephone often skips up erstwhile you’ve added a fingerprint, and doesn’t ever springiness you the accidental to acceptable up a look unlock feature.

Once the setup process has finished, unfastened Settings > Biometrics and Security, and prime Face Recognition. Follow the on-screen instructions, but erstwhile you’ve finished adding your face, don’t exit conscionable yet. There’s an important mounting to change. Turn disconnected the enactment marked Stay connected Lock Screen until Swipe, truthful erstwhile the telephone sees your look it opens to your location surface without needing to swipe. It’s overmuch faster than the alternative, though immoderate whitethorn similar the other information and permission it on. If you missed the mounting the archetypal time, it tin besides beryllium recovered nether the aforesaid paper utilized to acceptable up look recognition.

Down with buttons, agelong unrecorded gestures

Changing the swipe motion mounting connected a Samsung Galaxy phone.

By default, astir Samsung phones usage the old-style Android buttons astatine the bottommost of the surface to navigate around, but gestures are truthful overmuch simpler and much natural. They request to beryllium acceptable up aft you’ve started utilizing your phone, and to bash this, spell to Settings, Display, and scroll down to find Navigation Bar.

Open this and past pat Swipe Gestures, and the buttons astatine the bottommost of the surface volition disappear, leaving you to swipe astir the operating strategy comfortably.

Change those pesky sounds

Changing the sounds connected a Samsung Galaxy phone.

This is the 1 conception I usually hide until my caller Samsung telephone alerts maine astir a notification really loudly, and by utilizing the acquainted Galaxy ringtone oregon sound. Perhaps it’s conscionable jaded tech journalists that person heard this each excessively often, but fixed the popularity of Samsung phones generally, I stake a batch of different radical person heard those Galaxy sounds excessively overmuch arsenic well. That means you should alteration it, and astatine the aforesaid time, little the default volumes.

Open Settings and spell to Sounds and Vibration. Here, you tin power the telephone to vibrate mode, but earlier doing so, I urge adjusting the default volumes. They’re each acceptable precise loud. At the aforesaid time, determination are options to alteration the ringtone, notification sound, and the strategy sound. That way, erstwhile you bash privation to perceive your phone, it won’t beryllium the aforesaid aged Galaxy tones astatine an ear-splitting volume. What bash I choose? Morning Strum for the ringtone, Crystal arsenic the notification sound, and Calm arsenic the strategy sound. I besides alteration the Notification Vibration Pattern to Heartbeat.

Configure the powerfulness button

Changing the Side Key settings connected a Samsung Galaxy phone.

If this is your archetypal Samsung phone, the powerfulness fastener whitethorn not bash what you expect immediately, and you request to marque a determination astir what you privation it to bash erstwhile pressed. Press the powerfulness cardinal once, and it’ll crook disconnected the display, but property and clasp the button, and Samsung’s virtual adjunct Bixby volition appear. If you privation to usage Bixby, that’s great, but what if you privation to powerfulness off, oregon restart your phone?

By default, you clasp down the powerfulness fastener and a measurement cardinal for a infinitesimal to entree the powerfulness menu, but this mounting tin beryllium changed nether Settings, Advanced Features, and Side Key. Here, you tin opt to usage the fastener to aftermath Bixby oregon to entree the powerfulness menu. It’s besides imaginable to adhd a treble property enactment to aftermath the camera oregon to unfastened an app of your choice. If you ever conflict to find the powerfulness menu, it tin besides beryllium recovered astatine the apical of the notification shade.

Use the always-on display

Changing the Always-on Display settings connected a Samsung Galaxy phone.

Samsung’s always-on show is not always on retired of the box; it’s often acceptable to “tap to show,” oregon disabled entirely. It’s a shame, arsenic it’s a precise adjuvant feature. To usage it each the time, unfastened Settings, find the Lock Screen option, pat it, and look for Always-on Display. Although it volition astir apt amusement arsenic being active, pat it to find a big of abstracted options related to the always-on display.

I power it to Show arsenic Scheduled, and past acceptable an on-and-off clip utilizing the enactment that appears beneath it. Then, pat the Clock Style enactment to alteration the mode the always-on show surface looks and the colors it uses. The customization options are rather extensive, and you tin adjacent usage a GIF oregon Bitmoji to spell on with the clip and your notifications.

Check for bundle updates

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There’s a accidental your caller telephone volition alert you if determination is simply a caller mentation of the bundle available, but it’s inactive bully signifier connected a brand-new telephone to manually check. And erstwhile you do, determination is simply a mounting to cheque for updates automatically.

Under Settings> Software Update, pat Download and Install to marque definite the mentation you person installed is the latest one. On the aforesaid page, marque definite the Auto-download implicit Wi-Fi enactment is switched on. It should beryllium by default, but present you cognize for sure.

One last (and excellent) setting

Man holding the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra showing its ample AMOLED display.

The 1 mounting I’ve gotten successful the wont of changing is the magnitude of clip the surface stays connected betwixt your past enactment and it going to sleep. By default, it’s 30 seconds, which is large for artillery beingness but not each that convenient for doing things. I find it acold much adjuvant to summation the magnitude of time, and successful doing so, haven’t noticed immoderate drastic simplification successful artillery life. The advantages for maine outweigh immoderate artillery shortfall that whitethorn beryllium anyway.

I acceptable it to 2 minutes, and I urge you springiness it a effort for a while. If you’re similar maine and often bash a fewer things astatine the aforesaid clip that requires accusation displayed connected your telephone screen, it’s a large clip and effort saver. To find the option, spell to Settings> Display> Screen Timeout. You tin acceptable it astatine intervals betwixt 15 seconds and 10 minutes.

That’s it! You’ve present acceptable up your caller Samsung telephone successful the mode I acceptable up each Samsung telephone I acquisition oregon review. Remember, these are conscionable the basics, truthful don’t beryllium acrophobic to excavation into the Settings paper to find each the small customizations — including however to alteration your wallpaper. Enjoy your caller phone!