Show Always On Display Always or on a Schedule
When Always On Display stays dark overnight or drains the battery non-stop, the culprit is usually the display mode hidden in the lock screen menu, not a hardware issue. Samsung lets you keep the clock and notifications on permanently or restrict them to set hours, and picking the wrong option either wastes battery or leaves you missing glances at your screen.
Turn Maximum Power Saving Mode On or Off
When your Samsung phone suddenly runs painfully slow, background apps stop updating, and the Always On Display disappears, Maximum power saving is likely active. This mode cuts CPU speed to roughly 70 percent, blocks most background data, and only allows a limited number of apps to run. If you turned it on for an emergency and now need full performance back, or you want to switch it on before a long day away from a charger, you need the correct toggle in Battery settings.
Change Google Backup Account
If Samsung keeps backing up your data to the wrong Google Account, your photos, contacts and app settings end up in a profile you barely use. This usually happens when a second Google Account gets added to the phone after the first backup was already set up. Samsung sticks with the account chosen during initial setup until you switch it manually in the backup settings.
Close All Tabs in Samsung Internet
Too many open tabs in Samsung Internet slow the browser down and make it hard to find the page you actually need. Scrolling through dozens of thumbnails just to spot one tab wastes time and drains memory. Closing unused tabs regularly keeps the browser fast and responsive.
Turn Keyboard Sounds On or Off
Every tap on the Samsung keyboard triggers a click sound that can get annoying, especially in quiet rooms or during calls. This tone runs independently from your ringtone, notification and media volume, so lowering those won't silence it. Two separate settings areas manage the keypad tone, and mixing them up is the usual reason one toggle does not seem to work.
Enable or Disable Quick Launch Camera
If a double press of the power button keeps opening your camera at the wrong moment, or you want that shortcut back after it stopped working, the Quick launch camera option is behind it. This function reacts to the side key whether the screen is on or off, and it ships active on most Samsung phones. A few taps let you turn it off or bring it back.
Change System Sound Volume
If the sound for taking a screenshot or capturing a photo suddenly cannot be turned off on its own anymore, Samsung has likely bundled it into a shared system sound category. This means several alert tones now share one volume slider instead of separate toggles. Adjusting the level for this group affects every sound tied to it at once, not just one action.
Change Ringtone for Calls
If every call on your Samsung phone still uses the same generic ringtone, the setting is hiding under sound options rather than notifications. On dual-SIM phones this gets more confusing, since each SIM line can carry its own separate ringtone. Custom tracks also will not show up in the ringtone list until they are copied onto the phone storage first.
Disable Autoplay Videos in Samsung Internet
Videos embedded in web pages start playing the moment a site loads in Samsung Internet, even over mobile data. That eats into your data plan and drains the battery before you have tapped anything on the page.
Back Up Data to Samsung Cloud
A phone that gets lost, stolen or bricked takes any local backup with it. If contacts, photos or app data only exist on the device itself, a factory reset or hardware failure wipes them for good. Backing them up to your Samsung account keeps a copy safe outside the phone.
Change Edge Lighting Effects and Colors
By default, Edge lighting shows new notifications with a blue spotlight effect no matter which app sends them. That makes it hard to tell notifications apart without unlocking the screen. Samsung One UI offers several alternative effects and a full color picker to fix that.
Change Contact Name Format
If your contacts list shows names as First Name, Last Name and you would rather see Last Name, First Name, the display setting inside the Contacts app controls that order. This has nothing to do with how a contact was originally saved, so switching the format does not touch any contact data. The change only affects how names appear across Calls and Messages, not the underlying entries or numbers.
Adjust Display Brightness
If your Samsung screen stays too dim or too bright no matter the lighting, the brightness slider might be locked to Adaptive brightness instead of manual control. This drains the battery faster and makes reading outdoors or at night harder than it needs to be. Switching to manual brightness gives you direct control over how much power the display uses.
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 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.
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.
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.
Edge Lighting Display Timing
Edge lighting fires for every notification, whether you are actively looking at the screen or the phone is locked in your pocket. If the glow feels excessive or you barely notice it, the timing setting decides whether it shows during active use, only when the display is off, or in both cases.
Create a Custom Photo Album
New photos and videos land automatically in fixed albums like Camera or Downloads, depending on which app saved them. If you want to keep certain pictures together instead - for a trip, a project, or a specific person - the built-in sorting will not do that for you. Gallery lets you set up a separate album and move or copy pictures into it manually.
Unmount SD Card Safely
Pulling the memory card out of your Samsung phone while it is still active can corrupt files or wipe data that has not finished syncing. The system needs to release the card first, otherwise apps that store data on it may crash or lose access. A software glitch on the phone can also block the card from unmounting cleanly, leaving you unsure if removal is safe.
Rename an Album in Gallery
When you try to give a photo album a clearer name on your Samsung phone, the option sometimes seems to be missing. This usually happens because system albums like Camera or Downloads cannot be renamed at all. Albums you created yourself or that come from an app can be renamed without any restriction.
Change Keyboard Theme
The Samsung keyboard ships with a light design that can feel too bright when you type at night or in low light. Switching to a dark design keeps the letters legible without lighting up the whole screen. An adaptive theme goes further and matches the keyboard color to whatever app you have open.