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Galaxy S9 Tips

A smartphone displaying notes or text, held above a laptop keyboard.
Feb 28, 2020

Having your phone's display suddenly dim and black out while reading is an annoyance we've all had to live with. If you have a Samsung Galaxy like the Note 10, however, there's a simple setting you ca ...

Person taking a selfie with a smartphone.
Feb 28, 2020

Smartphone photos look a lot better when you keep the camera steady, but selfies by nature make you do finger gymnastics to hold the phone while keeping your thumb free to hit the shutter button. If y ...

Close-up of a smartphone camera lens with a reflective surface.
Feb 17, 2020

Your Galaxy's built-in flashlight is handy, but if it takes you more than a split second to turn it on, it's not as useful as it could be. Thanks to One UI 2, you're now just a swipe away from instant ...

Smartphone status bar showing date and connectivity icons.
Jan 27, 2020

While One UI 2 comes with a slew of improvements like native screen recording and more intuitive gestures, it also includes some redundant features such as button shortcuts for "Media" and "Devices" t ...

Contact information displayed on a smartphone screen.
Jan 20, 2020

With all the things you can do with your Galaxy, it's easy to forget it's still a phone at heart, and incoming calls that take over your entire screen serve as a rude reminder of this fact. Thankfully ...

Storage management screen showing available space and options to clear data.
Jan 6, 2020

Samsung, like other OEMs, partners with third-party companies to include their apps on Galaxy devices. For example, Microsoft pays Samsung millions to pre-install certain Office apps. But one of these ...

Hand holding a smartphone displaying a collage of textured wall images against a grassy background.
Dec 16, 2019

Is it just me, or are the thumbnail in the Samsung Gallery app a bit small? I spend quite a bit of time looking through rows of images, one at a time, to find the right photo. Wouldn't it be so much e ...

Brightness settings interface on a mobile device.
Nov 26, 2019

Before all the fancy night mode settings in phone cameras, we used the LED flash to take low-light photos. While it's not used for pictures as much anymore, the LED on the back of your Galaxy is still ...

Settings menu on a smartphone displaying toggle options for edge functionality.
Nov 12, 2019

Samsung launched One UI in 2018 to replace the now infamous TouchWiz. Since then, things have been looking pretty bright for Galaxy users. Now, the much-anticipated arrival of Android 10 is ushering i ...

QR code displayed on a smartphone screen.
Nov 7, 2019

QR codes are like smart little cubes of data. To unlock this data, you will need a QR reader. These are annoying because you typically have to download a third-party app, and some of these apps are sh ...