Turn Notifications On or Off for Individual Apps
If one app keeps buzzing your phone with alerts you no longer want, you don't have to mute your whole device to fix it. Samsung lets you manage notification permissions per app, so you can silence a chatty game or a busy WhatsApp group chat while alerts from your other apps keep working. Some apps even split their notifications into categories, letting you block group messages while direct messages still come through.
Move a Widget on the Home Screen
A widget that landed in the wrong spot on your Samsung home screen can overlap app icons or leave awkward gaps in your layout. Many users try to delete and re-add the widget instead of simply repositioning it. The home screen also locks widgets in place until edit mode is active, which makes them feel stuck.
Snooze a Notification
If a notification pops up at the wrong moment, dismissing it means losing track of it completely. Samsung phones let you hide a notification and bring it back after a set time instead of swiping it away for good. Once the timer runs out, the alert returns with its usual sound and pop-up, just like the first time.
Night Mode: Set a Schedule
If night mode on your Samsung phone only turns on when you flip it manually, the automatic schedule feature is probably still off. Samsung lets you pick a fixed start and end time, or let the system switch night mode on and off based on sunset and sunrise at your location. Without an active schedule, the display stays on the same color tone all day and night.
Download New Font Styles
Stuck with the same handful of system fonts on your Galaxy phone? Samsung keeps its full font library inside the Galaxy Store, separate from the regular font size and style menu. Free and paid styles are easy to miss if you do not know where Samsung tucks this option.
Change or Remove Lock Screen App Shortcuts
On most Samsung phones, the lock screen always shows the phone app in the bottom-left corner and the camera in the bottom-right corner, whether you use them from there or not. If you keep tapping the wrong icon by accident, or you just want a cleaner lock screen, those two shortcuts can be swapped, combined, or turned off entirely.
Change Notification Sound
Notification tones on Samsung phones stay stuck on the default chime even when you have already changed your ringtone. Dual SIM devices let you assign a separate sound to each SIM card, but the tone list only offers standard, built-in options. There is no way to import a custom notification sound directly from this menu.
Set Default Keyboard
Installed a new keyboard app but your Galaxy phone still opens Samsung Keyboard for typing? That happens because a freshly installed keyboard is not automatically allowed to become the default input method. It first has to be switched on in the keyboard manager before the system even offers it as an option.
Ignore Repeated Touches: Turn On or Off
If a single tap on your Samsung device sometimes registers as two or three taps, or a light touch triggers extra input, the screen may be reacting to accidental double contact. The Ignore repeated touches feature controls how long the display waits before accepting another tap after the first one. Adjusting it helps if you have shaky hands, a cracked screen, or a case that causes phantom touches.
Change Alarm Sound
If every alarm on your Samsung phone still plays the same default tone, you probably haven't discovered that each alarm can carry its own sound. Many users only ever adjust the general alarm tone and miss the option hidden inside a single alarm entry. This means the loudest, most jarring tone often wakes you every morning even when a gentler option is available.
Restore Deleted Photos from Gallery Trash
A photo or video you thought was gone might still be recoverable on your Samsung phone. The Gallery app keeps deleted files in a hidden Trash folder, but only for a limited time before they are wiped for good. If the recycle bin was switched off or the file is older than the retention window, recovery is no longer possible.
Turn Subtitles On or Off
If captions stay off during video playback or look different from app to app, you are probably dealing with two separate subtitle systems on your Samsung phone. Samsung subtitles and Google subtitles (CC) both add captions but sit in different menus and offer different styling options. Knowing which one is active decides whether size, color and background of the text can even be changed.
Pair a Bluetooth Device
If your Samsung phone will not connect to a speaker, headset, or car radio, the two devices are simply not paired yet. Phones and speakers usually just need to confirm the connection on screen, but many car radios ask for a numeric code to be typed in on the Samsung device. Missing that step is the most common reason Bluetooth audio never starts.
Turn Automatic App Updates On or Off
When apps update themselves in the background without asking, mobile data can disappear fast and storage fills up overnight. On Samsung phones this behavior comes from a Play Store setting, not a system-wide toggle, so it is easy to miss if you are looking in the wrong menu. If you want full control over when apps get new versions, this setting needs to be changed directly inside the Play Store app.
Change Default Apps
If tapping a link always opens the wrong browser, or a newly installed messaging app never launches automatically, a leftover default app assignment is still active. Samsung keeps separate default apps for actions like opening links, sending texts or making calls, and a fresh install does not take over automatically. Until you reassign it, the old app keeps handling those actions.
Reset Camera Settings
If your Samsung camera keeps producing odd results after tweaking resolution, filters, grid lines or shooting modes, restoring the default configuration usually clears the mess fastest. Custom settings like exposure values, watermark options or scene assist can silently stack up and cause blurry, oversaturated or oddly cropped shots. Resetting the camera app wipes every custom option but leaves photos and videos you already captured untouched.