Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 3 tips and tricks: 12 cool features to try

(Pocket-lint) - Samsung’s Galaxy Flip 3 is arguably the astir breathtaking telephone to beryllium launched successful years, if lone due to the fact that it brought a sturdy plan and much accessible terms constituent to the foldable telephone market. 

And - if you’ve realised that - and made the Z Flip 3 your archetypal flexible smartphone purchase, there’s plentifulness successful the bundle worthy digging into that’s much than conscionable aboveground level. Watch the video beneath oregon travel our written instructions if you find it easier. Let's dive in!

1 - Use the screen show arsenic a camera monitor

Arguably the astir utile diagnostic of the small Cover Screen connected the beforehand of the telephone is being capable to usage it arsenic a show for the cameras to instrumentality selfies with. If lone due to the fact that it means you’re utilizing the amended prime cameras connected the outside, alternatively than the poorer selfie camera chopped into the main display. 

To bash it - with the telephone closed - conscionable property the sleep/lock fastener connected the broadside doubly rapidly and it should automatically motorboat the camera. If it doesn’t, spell to Settings > Advanced features and pat "Side Key". Make definite "Double press" is switched connected and that "Quick motorboat camera" is selected from the list. 

Once you’ve launched the camera, you instrumentality a representation by conscionable tapping the screen, and you’ll spot a small countdown timepiece giving you clip to framework yourself earlier it shoots the photo. If you privation to sprout a video, you conscionable swipe near oregon close until it says "video". To power betwixt the ultra wide and superior camera, swipe up oregon down. 

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2. Use your photos arsenic a Cover Screen wallpaper

This year’s Cover Screen is overmuch much utile than the erstwhile version, and it’s afloat colour too. If you caput to Settings > Cover surface > Clock benignant it lets you take betwixt a 11 antithetic styles. Some of them person their ain animated graphic, but the simpler ones fto you take an representation to show down the clock. 

To take your ain photo, take the timepiece benignant you privation - 1 that hasn’t got its ain animated representation - past pat "Background Image" and prime "Choose from Gallery" from the pop-up window.

Now you tin take immoderate representation from your ain gallery. In fact, you tin take up to 15 of them. When you person the images you want, you tin pinch to zoom and framework them the mode you privation and prevention it. Now erstwhile you aftermath up your screen surface it’ll amusement your chosen image, and if you’ve chosen much than 1 it volition rhythm done them each clip you aftermath it up. 

3. Take hands-free selfies

One of the chill things astir having a flexible flip telephone is that you tin get it to beryllium up and instrumentality a hands-free selfie. Simply unfastened the camera app, take your beforehand facing camera and past remainder the telephone down with the camera facing you. 

Adjust the space of the surface until you’re framed and present each you request to bash is amusement the thenar of your manus to the camera. It’ll automatically commencement a countdown and instrumentality a selfie. 

If it doesn’t work, unfastened the settings paper successful the camera app by tapping the cog icon successful the corner. Swipe down until you spot "Shooting Methods" and marque definite "Show palm" is toggled on. There's besides an enactment successful determination to alteration dependable commands. 

4. Cover surface widgets

As good arsenic showing you notifications and a clock, the screen show besides gives you entree to a acceptable of widgets by conscionable swiping near connected the screen. This could beryllium upwind information, euphony controls, a dependable recorder oregon a timer. While there's a default acceptable installed, you tin take to alteration them to different widgets. 

Go to Settings > Cover surface again and this clip take "Widgets". Here you’ll spot a database of disposable options and each you person to bash is toggle connected the ones you’d similar to have, oregon toggle disconnected the ones you don’t. And if you deed "Reorder" astatine the apical you tin alteration the bid successful which they appear. 

5. Flex Mode

For immoderate apps, erstwhile you fold the surface successful an upright position, you tin person the app displayed connected the apical fractional surface and a acceptable of controls connected the bottommost half. This is thing of a beta diagnostic for now, but to effort it each you request to bash is spell to Settings > Advanced Features > Labs and past take "Flex Mode panel". 

Once you’ve toggled the app on, whenever you unfastened that app and crook the surface to 90-degrees, the app volition spell up into the apical half, and the bottommost gives you controls for volume, surface brightness, screenshot and a shortcut for dropping down the notification shade.  

6. Adapt sound

One perchance utile diagnostic - depending connected your property oregon what your proceeding is similar - is an accommodate dependable feature. Head to Settings > Sounds and vibration > Sound prime and effects. Now pat "Adapt Sound".

In this paper you tin take 1 of 4 preset dependable frequence options tailored generically for property groups based connected however - connected mean - parts of your proceeding sensitivity alteration implicit time. 

If you privation to tally a bespoke trial to spot what yours is similar and past make a customized illustration conscionable deed "test my hearing", link your Bluetooth headphones, spell to a quiescent country and tally done the test. 

7. Swipe down anyplace for notifications

On the location screen, you should beryllium capable to conscionable swipe down anyplace connected the wallpaper and person it drop-down your notifications (you don’t person to scope for the apical anymore). However, if it’s not active, agelong property connected your wallpaper and pat "settings". Now alteration the "Swipe down for notification panel" option. 

8. Rotate your location surface to landscape

One enactment that isn’t enabled by default is having your location surface automatically rotate into scenery mode erstwhile you crook the phone. But you tin power this diagnostic on. Just agelong property your wallpaper and pat "settings" again. Now toggle connected the power adjacent to "Rotate to scenery mode". 

9. Reverse wireless charging

Since the the artillery successful the Galaxy Z Flip 3 isn’t massive, we wouldn’t urge doing this each the time, but you tin usage the backmost of the telephone to wirelessly complaint different products. It's utile for things similar your compatible earphones oregon smartwatches for example. 

There are a mates of ways to usage it. You tin toggle it connected by dropping down your speedy settings shade, swiping crossed and past tapping the "wireless powerfulness share" button. Alternatively, unfastened Settings > Battery and instrumentality attraction > pat "Battery" and present prime "Wireless powerfulness sharing" and toggle it on. 

As mentioned, there’s a beauteous tiny artillery successful this telephone truthful you tin acceptable a bounds to however overmuch it’s allowed to beryllium drained by this feature. Just pat "battery limit" and acceptable it to a percent you’re blessed with. 

10. Limit maximum artillery charge

If you enactment successful the artillery settings you’ll spot an enactment for "more artillery settings". There are a fig of options successful present for much oregon little businesslike artillery usage, but 1 diagnostic designed to assistance your artillery past longer is the toggle for the "Protect battery".

With this enabled your artillery volition ne'er complaint implicit 85 per cent, and successful truthful doing shouldn’t degrade arsenic accelerated arsenic if you were to complaint it each the mode up to 100 per cent each the time. It will, obviously, mean you person little artillery foodstuff to play with though, truthful you whitethorn find yourself having to complaint much often arsenic a result. 

11. Bedtime mode

One of our astir utilized features connected immoderate modern Samsung phone is Bedtime Mode. It lets you docket a clip for the surface to crook greyscale arsenic good arsenic muting notifications, to assistance promote you to get disconnected your telephone and spell to sleep. Open Settings > Digital Wellbeing and parental controls. Now scroll down and prime "bedtime mode". 

You tin toggle it connected manually, oregon better, toggle connected the scheduled enactment and take a clip you privation it to travel connected each nighttime and which nights it should use to. 

12. Change your fastener surface shortcuts

By default, erstwhile your telephone is locked determination are 2 icons connected the bottommost of the screen: telephone and camera. If you privation to alteration them to thing antithetic spell to Settings > Lock surface and prime "Shortcuts". Tap connected near shortcut and take from 1 of the different options that don’t necessitate an unlock. You tin person a torch, activate bash not disturb oregon the dependable recorder oregon calculator. 

There's besides a database of apps you tin launch, but those necessitate a fingerprint scan oregon PIN/password to access. 

Writing by Cam Bunton. Originally published connected 9 September 2021.