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Samsung’s LockStar app, a module for the company’s Good Lock, provides additional options to customize the lock screen and always-on display (AoD) of your Galaxy smartphone or tablet. Unfortunately, LockStar doesn’t offer AoD customizations on the Galaxy S24 series smartphones, and that’s because the app doesn’t work with the full-screen AoD that these devices feature. […]
Google Meet is an excellent tool for video calls, conferences, and meetings. It has become even better with each passing year, as Google has been continuously adding more features to it. Google Meet will get better for those who want to switch from one device to another during a call. Google Meet to make it […]
Updates usually bring new features and performance improvements. However, sometimes updates also bring performance and reliability issues. One such issue could come to YouTube on older or affordable Galaxy phones and tablets. Older and lower-end Galaxy phones could have performance issues on YouTube with AV1 decoding Google’s Arif Dikici (Android Video and Image Codecs Team) […]
Since Google and Samsung merged Wear OS and Tizen, Google has been rapidly improving Wear OS by adding new and useful features to it, such as introducing new applications for the platform, including Google Calendar and Gmail, improving existing apps, including Google Home and Google Maps, introducing new Tiles, and offering new watch face and […]
Google Wallet is one of the most useful apps for Android devices as it allows you to store and access identification (ID) cards or documents, payment cards, boarding passes, and event tickets among other things. Unfortunately, it isn’t available in the world’s most populous country, India. Fortunately, that’s going to change soon. As spotted by […]
Samsung has released a new update to Good Lock's Home Up module. This new version of Home Up brings an additional home screen and app drawer customization feature. It lets you change the size of the icon to match your preferences better. Home Up update brings the option to change the size of app icons […]
Samsung has released a software update to an app called ‘Software Update' on Galaxy smartphones and tablets. This has confused many Galaxy users, and they're not at fault. But there's no need to worry, as the app called Software Update is a module that checks for new updates. A software update has arrived for Software […]
Samsung is adding more camera options to the Galaxy S23 series with its Expert RAW app. While Galaxy S23 series phones already support features like astrophotography and ND Filter, Samsung is adding more adjustment possibilities to the ND Filter option. Expert RAW update brings the Auto option for ND Filter The latest version (3.0.05.12) of […]
The Apple-owned music recognition app, Shazam, has a Wear OS app, and it recently received a huge update (via 9To5Google) for Wear OS-based smartwatches. You can install it on your Galaxy Watch 4 (or newer) if want to recognize music playing around you or want to discover new new songs. The newest version of the […]
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you have opened many tabs in Google Chrome for Android over time, which is making the browser look cluttered and slowing down the device, but you don't want to close them as you might need to access them in the future? Well, if you have, Google […]
Samsung is bringing back one of the most requested features related to battery life statistics to Galaxy devices. Galaxy devices have had a way to check screen-on time and battery life stats since they were last charged, but Samsung removed it with One UI 6.0. The company is now correcting its misstep. ‘Since Last Charge' […]
Samsung introduced many new features with One UI 6.1, which debuted earlier this year with the Galaxy S24 series. One such feature was Photo Ambient, which adds weather effects to the lock screen wallpaper. Samsung is improving the performance of those effects with a new update. Samsung Vision Core update brings more realistic weather effects […]
At MWC 2024, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps for Wear OS. This feature shows you public transit options to reach a location. The company reiterated the feature in the March 2024 Pixel Feature Drop. Now, it has finally started rolling out the feature. According to a new report from 9To5Google, Google is […]
Samsung has released a new update to the Wonderland app, which is a module for the company’s Good Lock app that allows you to create moving wallpapers. The latest update bumps the app’s version to 1.5.05 and brings four changes. First, the app now supports fullscreen always-on display (AOD) on the Galaxy S24 series smartphones. […]
While some OEMs don't offer a virtual wallet solution for their phones, Samsung does. It's called Samsung Pay, and it's a part of the Samsung Wallet platform. However, Samsung Pay likely isn't the only mobile payment solution you can use on your Galaxy device. Google offers its own, predictably called Google Pay. Even if you […]