These SECRET Samsung Galaxy Features Are Not Known By 99% Of Users (Use Them Now!) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Separate app sound is a setting hiding
2. 0:02in your Samsung right now, and it fixes
3. 0:04a problem you've probably had a hundred
4. 0:06times without ever knowing there was a
5. 0:08fix. You connect your phone to a
6. 0:10Bluetooth speaker, the playlist is
7. 0:12going, everybody's vibing, and then you
8. 0:14open TikTok. What happens? The music
9. 0:17cuts out and the entire room gets to
10. 0:19hear some guy reviewing gas station
11. 0:21sushi. Separate app sound lets you pick
12. 0:23one single app, let's say Spotify, and
13. 0:26send only that app to the speaker, while
14. 0:29everything else, your videos, your
15. 0:31notifications, your navigation, stays
16. 0:33right there on your phone. You'll find
17. 0:35it under settings, sounds and vibration,
18. 0:37separate app sound. Flip the toggle,
19. 0:40choose the app, choose the speaker, and
20. 0:42that's it. The party keeps its music,
21. 0:44and you keep your terrible TikTok taste
22. 0:46to yourself. And honestly, that's the
23. 0:49warm-up, because a little later, there's
24. 0:50a code you can type into your phone app
25. 0:52that opens a menu Samsung built for
26. 0:54repair technicians, not for you. Battery
27. 0:57protection is the reason some Samsung
28. 1:00phone still last all day after three
29. 1:02years, while others are begging for a
30. 1:04charger by lunchtime, and almost nobody
31. 1:07switches it on. Here's what your charger
32. 1:09will never tell you. Lithium-ion
33. 1:11batteries hate sitting at 100%. Every
34. 1:14night, your phone stays plugged in at
35. 1:16full charge, the battery is under extra
36. 1:18stress, and that stress slowly eats away
37. 1:21at how much it can hold. So, Samsung
38. 1:23quietly built in a fix. Go to settings,
39. 1:26battery, battery protection, and you'll
40. 1:28find three options. Basic stops charging
41. 1:31at 100 and only starts again once you
42. 1:34drop to 95, so the battery isn't being
43. 1:36topped up all night long. Then there's a
44. 1:39sleep time option that learns when you
45. 1:41usually go to bed, holds the charge at
46. 1:43around 80% overnight, and finishes the
47. 1:45job just before you wake up. And if you
48. 1:48want the full bodyguard treatment,
49. 1:49maximum lets you cap charging at 80, 85,
50. 1:5390, or 95%. Sure, you lose a little bit
51. 1:56of battery every single day, but in
52. 1:59return, you get a battery that ages like
53. 2:01Keanu Reeves instead of like a banana.
54. 2:03Wireless Power Share turns your Samsung
55. 2:05into a wireless charger, and yes, that
56. 2:08means your phone charging other devices
57. 2:10straight from its back. If you've got a
58. 2:12Galaxy flagship from roughly the S10
59. 2:15onwards, or one of the foldables, just
60. 2:17swipe down, tap the wireless power share
61. 2:19tile in your quick settings, and lay
62. 2:21your phone face down. Now, drop your
63. 2:23Galaxy Buds or your Galaxy Watch on the
64. 2:25back and watch it start charging. It
65. 2:28even works with other phones that
66. 2:29support Qi wireless charging. So, the
67. 2:32next time your friend's iPhone hits 2%
68. 2:34at a festival, guess who's the hero.
69. 2:36It's not fast. Think emergency drip, not
70. 2:39fire hose. And it switches itself off
71. 2:42once your own battery falls to 30%, so
72. 2:45you don't sacrifice your phone
73. 2:46completely. But when your earbuds die
74. 2:49halfway through a flight, that little
75. 2:51drip feels like actual magic. And
76. 2:54speaking of things hiding in plain
77. 2:55sight, the next one can show you
78. 2:57messages that people deleted before you
79. 3:00ever read them.
80. 3:01Notification history is the closest
81. 3:03thing your Samsung has to a time
82. 3:05machine, and it's the reason this
83. 3:07message was deleted might not be the end
84. 3:09of the story. You know that feeling when
85. 3:12someone sends you something, panics, and
86. 3:14hits delete for everyone before you open
87. 3:16it? Your curiosity goes through the
88. 3:18roof. Here's the trick. When
89. 3:21notification history is turned on, your
90. 3:23phone keeps a log of every notification
91. 3:25it received over the last 24 hours. So,
92. 3:28if that message popped up as a
93. 3:30notification, the text was already saved
94. 3:32in the log, and in a lot of cases, you
95. 3:35can still read it there, even after the
96. 3:37sender deleted it in the chat. Go to
97. 3:39settings, notifications, then, depending
98. 3:42on your software version, advanced
99. 3:44settings, and turn on notification
100. 3:46history. Now, a few honest rules. It
101. 3:49only works if the feature was already on
102. 3:51before the message arrived. It only
103. 3:54shows what was in the notification, so
104. 3:56no photos and sometimes only the first
105. 3:59part of a long text. And if you muted
106. 4:01that chat, there's nothing to catch. But
107. 4:03once it's on, it also rescues every
108. 4:06notification you accidentally swiped
109. 4:08away. Your friends are going to hate
110. 4:10this one. Star #0star#
111. 4:13is the code I promised you at the start.
112. 4:16And on most Samsung phones, it opens a
113. 4:18secret test menu that Samsung never put
114. 4:21a single button for. Open your phone
115. 4:23app, type it into the dial pad like
116. 4:25you're calling someone, and the screen
117. 4:27suddenly flips into a grid of plain gray
118. 4:29buttons that look like they came
119. 4:31straight from 2009. Why does it look so
120. 4:34ugly? Because it was never meant for
121. 4:36you. This menu was built for repair
122. 4:38technicians, and it lets you test pretty
123. 4:40much every piece of hardware inside your
124. 4:42phone. Tap red, green, or blue, and your
125. 4:45entire screen turns into one solid
126. 4:48color, which is the fastest way to spot
127. 4:50dead pixels. Tap touch, and you have to
128. 4:52draw across a grid. So, if part of your
129. 4:55screen ignores your finger, you'll see
130. 4:57it immediately. There are tests for the
131. 4:59speaker, the vibration motor, the
132. 5:01cameras, and the sensors as well. So,
133. 5:04why should you care? Because if you ever
134. 5:06buy a used Samsung, this is how you find
135. 5:08out in 60 seconds whether the seller is
136. 5:11being honest with you. And if nothing
137. 5:13happens when you type it, don't panic.
138. 5:15Some carrier versions simply block the
139. 5:17code, so it's not you, it's them. Back
140. 5:20tap is basically a secret button on the
141. 5:22back of your Samsung. And the crazy part
142. 5:24is that it isn't even a real button. It
143. 5:27comes from Good Lock, Samsung's own
144. 5:29customization toolbox that for some
145. 5:31reason they just never pre-install.
146. 5:33Download Good Lock from the Galaxy
147. 5:35Store, open it, install the module
148. 5:37called RegiStar, and switch on back tap.
149. 5:40From now on, when you tap the back of
150. 5:42your phone twice, it can take a
151. 5:44screenshot, turn on your flashlight,
152. 5:46open any app you like, or even fire up a
153. 5:49whole routine. No more awkward power
154. 5:52plus volume finger yoga just to
155. 5:54screenshot a meme. And while you're
156. 5:55inside Good Lock, grab Sound Assistant
157. 5:58as well because it lets you give every
158. 6:00app its own volume. So Instagram stops
159. 6:03screaming at full blast while your music
160. 6:05stays nice and quiet. iPhone users have
161. 6:08had back tap since 2020, and Samsung is
162. 6:10reportedly working on a built-in
163. 6:12version, but you can have it today for
164. 6:15free. Now, everything so far was about
165. 6:17making your phone better. The last two
166. 6:19are about protecting it from other
167. 6:21people. Maintenance mode is the one
168. 6:23feature you should switch on every
169. 6:25single time your phone goes in for
170. 6:26repair, and it might be the most
171. 6:28underrated thing Samsung has ever built.
172. 6:31Think about it for a second. You hand a
173. 6:33complete stranger your phone. They ask
174. 6:35for your PIN so they can test it, and
175. 6:37suddenly they have access to your
176. 6:39photos, your messages, your banking
177. 6:41apps, basically your entire life. Sounds
178. 6:44a bit terrifying? It should. Go to
179. 6:46settings, battery and device care,
180. 6:48maintenance mode, and your phone
181. 6:50restarts into a separate user account
182. 6:52that has zero access to your personal
183. 6:55data. The technician can still test the
184. 6:57screen, the cameras, the speakers, and
185. 6:59the pre-installed apps, but your gallery
186. 7:01is basically locked away in a vault.
187. 7:04When you get the phone back, you exit
188. 7:06maintenance mode with your fingerprint
189. 7:07or PIN. The phone restarts, and
190. 7:10everything that was created during the
191. 7:11repair is wiped automatically. So the
192. 7:14repair guy gets to see a phone, not your
193. 7:16life, and you no longer have to pray
194. 7:18that he doesn't scroll through your
195. 7:19camera roll. And that brings us to the
196. 7:22feature you'll want if your phone ever
197. 7:24ends up in hands that are a lot less
198. 7:25friendly than a repair shop. Theft
199. 7:28protection is the feature that turns a
200. 7:29stolen Samsung into something almost
201. 7:32useless for the thief, and you should
202. 7:34check right now whether yours is
203. 7:35actually on. Go to settings, security
204. 7:38and privacy, lost device protection,
205. 7:41theft protection. The first thing in
206. 7:43there is theft detection lock, which
207. 7:45uses on-device AI to recognize the
208. 7:47movement of someone snatching your phone
209. 7:49and running, biking, or driving off with
210. 7:52it. And the moment it notices, it locks
211. 7:54the screen. Then, there's identity
212. 7:56check. Thieves love watching you type
213. 7:59your PIN over your shoulder before they
214. 8:01grab your phone. And for years, that
215. 8:03meant game over. With identity check,
216. 8:06whenever you're outside a place you've
217. 8:07marked as safe, like your home, changing
218. 8:10really important things, like your PIN,
219. 8:12your fingerprints, or switching off
220. 8:14theft protection itself, needs your
221. 8:16actual face or fingerprint. So, a stolen
222. 8:19PIN alone just isn't enough anymore.
223. 8:22Offline device lock locks the screen if
224. 8:24the thief tries to cut your phone off
225. 8:25from the internet. And with remote lock,
226. 8:28you can lock it from any browser using
227. 8:30nothing but your phone number. Set it
228. 8:32all up once tonight, and the only thing
229. 8:34a thief walks away with is a very
230. 8:36expensive paperweight. Want to see more
231. 8:38of us? Then, check out this next video
232. 8:40right here. Just click it, and I will
233. 8:42see you in there.