Samsung Galaxy S24: Pro Tips and Tricks

Optimising Battery Life

There’s nothing worse than being out and about when your phone runs out of juice. It doesn’t matter how many giga-somethings of RAM you’ve got if the thing won’t stay on! 

Keep your S24 running for longer with these battery-saving tips:

1. Protect Battery mode

You may not know this but if a phone is repeatedly left plugged in when it’s already reached 100% charge, it can reduce its efficiency and lifespan in the long run. Not ideal.

Luckily, Samsung has a setting you can use to prevent that, which limits the level of charge to a maximum of 85%. Simply:

2. Dark Mode:

The brighter things are on your screen, the more juice your phone uses to light up the pixels (particularly on the incredible hi-res, energy-guzzling AMOLED displays the Galaxy S24 range has). Dark mode will invert background colours, making more app backgrounds and features black. To turn this on:

3. Disable Background Apps:

If you don’t close certain apps after you use them, they can hang around gobbling up precious battery power as they whir away in the background. Not ideal!

To limit the unwanted activity of apps when you’re not using them: 

4. Reduce notification vibration intensity:

Phones use up a lot of charge every time they buzz. To reduce the impact incoming calls and notifications have on your battery life, simply:

General Tips

5. Turn voice recordings into text

This is a very cool feature. If you’ve recorded a voice note of yourself, or someone else (at a meeting or in a class for example), your Galaxy S24 can turn voice notes into text instantly with their Transcribe Assist tool. To use it:

6. Change what your side key does

You can change the function of your side button so instead of opening Bixby (not everyone’s cup of tea!) to something different, like opening the power/turn off menu or the camera. To do this:

7. Customise Your Home Screen

If you want to personalise the look and features you see on your home screen, you can do the following:

8. Secure Your Device

It’s always good to ensure that you set up the security features properly when you get a new phone. Two of the best things you can do initially are: 

Turn on Biometrics:

Facial recognition or fingerprint scanning technology are both stronger forms of security than simple passcodes. To turn either of these on:

Using this feature, you can find your phone quickly if you misplace it. To set it up, go to:

Camera Magic

9. Pro Mode:

Pro mode allows you to tweak some advanced settings on your camera, which can help you capture some unique, striking images. To use the tools:

10. Single Take:

Let AI do the heavy lifting with Single Take mode. One button press will capture a bunch of different styles of videos and images in one shot. It’s really easy to use too; all you need to do is:

11. Night Mode:

If you’re gonna be taking pictures in a dimly lit area, Night Mode will increase the amount of light your camera can absorb/detect, which makes the image look illuminated without affecting the quality. Simply:

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