Tips and Tricks for Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge: Unlocking Handy Features with TouchWiz

When it comes to unlocking handy features on your Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge, one of the first places to go is the settings menu. Look for a menu called "Advanced Features" and you'll find a treasure trove of goodies waiting to be discovered.

Games are just the beginning. By turning on Game Tools, you can easily take screenshots, record video, and even disable alerts that interrupt your gaming experience. You can also lock the capacitive buttons at the bottom or the back of your phone to prevent accidental touches, ensuring that you stay focused on the game at hand. Another great feature is Identify Unsaved Numbers, which helps you avoid incoming spam by identifying numbers that haven't been saved in your contacts.

One-handed operation is a game-changer for those with smaller hands. By turning this feature on, you can reduce the screen size and even get the keyboard to appear on one side of the screen, making it easier to type with your thumb. The Quick Launch Camera feature is another must-have, allowing you to double tap the home key to launch the camera app quickly and easily.

There are several other features worth exploring in the Advanced Features menu. Bounce Wait To Capture is perfect for taking screenshots, while the Pop-Up View Gesture allows you to swipe down from the top corner to minimize an app or make a direct call. If you're tired of receiving spam messages, consider turning off notifications for certain apps and only leaving essentials turned on.

Another great set of options can be found in the Sounds and Vibration menu. Tap on "Sound Quality" to access a basic equalizer, and by scrolling down, you'll find a list of different effects to personalize your phone's sound. But before you do that, make sure your earphones are plugged in – some effects won't work without them. To test the effects, play beeps through the headphones and tell if you can hear them clearly. This is like a hearing test, and it will even personalize the sound for your ears.

When it comes to apps, you have more control than you think. By pulling down the notification shades and time settings again, you'll find the Applications menu. Here, you can change the default applications on your S7 Edge, including switching to Chrome if you don't like Samsung's browser. You can also customize the look of your phone with a new launcher, giving you more control over how everything looks.

But before you start customizing, take a closer look at permissions. By going into Settings and finding Privacy & Safety, you'll see a list of all the apps that have access to certain permissions. Take a moment to review which apps have what permissions, and consider revoking permissions for apps that no longer need them. This will help keep your security tight and prevent any unwanted access.

And there you have it – a treasure trove of tips and tricks for unlocking handy features on your Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge. By exploring the Advanced Features menu, you'll find all sorts of useful features to enhance your phone experience. From taking better screenshots to personalizing your sound, these tips will help you get the most out of your device.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi this is Simon L for Digital Trends and now we're going to look at some tips and tricks that will work for the Samsung Galaxy s7 and the Galaxy s7 edge now one of the first places that advise you to go and you're looking to unlock some handy features and Samsung's TouchWiz is to go into the settings and look for a menu called advanced features and there are lots of goodies in here so games at the top if you turn gaem tools on this allows you to easily take screenshots record video as well your gaming but you can also make sure that alerts don't come in and interrupt the game and you can even lock the capacitive buttons at the bottom here or the back and the recent apps so you don't accidentally touch them another great feature in here is the identify unsaved numbers that can help you avoid incoming spam if you turn that on and one-handed operation is great if he is special you have smaller hands and you can reduce the screen size and you can also get the keyboard and stuff to appear over on one side whichever side you prefer and it just makes a little bit easier to type with your thumb the quick launch camera features a great one and this enables you to just double tap the home key so a double tap like that and the camera launches and it makes it easier to grab a short quickly there are actually quite a few other features in here that are worth considering bounce wait to capture is just for screenshots the pop-up View gesture is for a handful of supported apps and enables you to swipe down from the top corner and you can came to minimize the app so that it sits in a window and direct calls another good one and if you're on a contact page you can just raise the phone to your ear and it will automatically call them another tip that's quite handy particularly if you find that you're getting spammed with lots of notification messages is consider it turning some of them off and head into the sayings menu here and you're looking for the notifications option tap on that and it will populate with a list of the apps that you have and you can decide to toggle off the ones that you don't want to receive messages from it's a good idea to just leave the essentials on in there and then you'll get far fewer messages now there's another great set of options that Samsung has for the s7 and s7 edge and it kinda hides them away a little bit and the sounds and vibrations menu you've got your standard options there but if you scroll right down to the bottom you'll find sound quality in FX tap on this and you have a basic equalizer if you tap on advanced you can get a bit more fine-grained control if you scroll down you'll find there are a list of different effects now some of these are grayed out because you need to have your earphones plugged in for them to work and you're also gonna need your earphones if you want to personalize the sound on your phone tap on adapt sound with your earphones plugged in and this is a bit like a hearing test it'll play beeps and the left and right channels and you tell it whether you can hear them or not and it will personalize this sound for your ears now a couple more things relate to apps before we go if we pull down the notification shades and time settings again and the applications menu you can actually change the default applications on your s7 edge and I said you don't like Samsung's browser for any reason you can switch to Chrome in there and you can also change the different messaging apps call in apps and you can even change the whole look at your phone with a new launcher and steady TouchWiz obviously you'll beat install them first with intervenors options one final thing relating to apps again if you're concerned about the permissions that different apps have maybe you just want to review that or you might want to change the permissions of some of them have go into settings and find privacy and safety on that and you'll see the art permissions is there and you can type on our permissions and you can see by permission type how many apps have that permission and if you tap to go in you get a simple toggle so you can actually revoke permissions you might have granny tour or we grant them if you want to keep your security a bit tighter that's all the tips and for the s7 edge that we have for now but if you're still hungry for more head over to digital Transcomhi this is Simon L for Digital Trends and now we're going to look at some tips and tricks that will work for the Samsung Galaxy s7 and the Galaxy s7 edge now one of the first places that advise you to go and you're looking to unlock some handy features and Samsung's TouchWiz is to go into the settings and look for a menu called advanced features and there are lots of goodies in here so games at the top if you turn gaem tools on this allows you to easily take screenshots record video as well your gaming but you can also make sure that alerts don't come in and interrupt the game and you can even lock the capacitive buttons at the bottom here or the back and the recent apps so you don't accidentally touch them another great feature in here is the identify unsaved numbers that can help you avoid incoming spam if you turn that on and one-handed operation is great if he is special you have smaller hands and you can reduce the screen size and you can also get the keyboard and stuff to appear over on one side whichever side you prefer and it just makes a little bit easier to type with your thumb the quick launch camera features a great one and this enables you to just double tap the home key so a double tap like that and the camera launches and it makes it easier to grab a short quickly there are actually quite a few other features in here that are worth considering bounce wait to capture is just for screenshots the pop-up View gesture is for a handful of supported apps and enables you to swipe down from the top corner and you can came to minimize the app so that it sits in a window and direct calls another good one and if you're on a contact page you can just raise the phone to your ear and it will automatically call them another tip that's quite handy particularly if you find that you're getting spammed with lots of notification messages is consider it turning some of them off and head into the sayings menu here and you're looking for the notifications option tap on that and it will populate with a list of the apps that you have and you can decide to toggle off the ones that you don't want to receive messages from it's a good idea to just leave the essentials on in there and then you'll get far fewer messages now there's another great set of options that Samsung has for the s7 and s7 edge and it kinda hides them away a little bit and the sounds and vibrations menu you've got your standard options there but if you scroll right down to the bottom you'll find sound quality in FX tap on this and you have a basic equalizer if you tap on advanced you can get a bit more fine-grained control if you scroll down you'll find there are a list of different effects now some of these are grayed out because you need to have your earphones plugged in for them to work and you're also gonna need your earphones if you want to personalize the sound on your phone tap on adapt sound with your earphones plugged in and this is a bit like a hearing test it'll play beeps and the left and right channels and you tell it whether you can hear them or not and it will personalize this sound for your ears now a couple more things relate to apps before we go if we pull down the notification shades and time settings again and the applications menu you can actually change the default applications on your s7 edge and I said you don't like Samsung's browser for any reason you can switch to Chrome in there and you can also change the different messaging apps call in apps and you can even change the whole look at your phone with a new launcher and steady TouchWiz obviously you'll beat install them first with intervenors options one final thing relating to apps again if you're concerned about the permissions that different apps have maybe you just want to review that or you might want to change the permissions of some of them have go into settings and find privacy and safety on that and you'll see the art permissions is there and you can type on our permissions and you can see by permission type how many apps have that permission and if you tap to go in you get a simple toggle so you can actually revoke permissions you might have granny tour or we grant them if you want to keep your security a bit tighter that's all the tips and for the s7 edge that we have for now but if you're still hungry for more head over to digital Transcom\n"