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So you’ve got yourself a newSamsungphone and don’t know where to get started with it.
There are so many options you could spend forever digging through them.
To get you started, here are five things that demand your attention right away.
Instead, it’s set to launchBixby.
Head into the controls, then Advanced features where you’ll find the side button controls.
Switch to gesture navigation - it’s not 2018
Samsung loves its three-button controls.
Head into prefs and then Display controls and you’ll find the options for the navigation bar.
Switch this to gestures and join the future.
That will spring fire up the widgets, loaded with information for you to glance it.
But tap “configs” at the bottom and you’re free to customize what’s shown.
For the calling feature, you’ll have to use Samsung’s Phone app.
So if you want to use the AI features, verify you sign into your Samsung account.
Justdownload GboardfromGoogle Playand it will walk you through the installation and making it the default keyboard.
At the bottom of this list you’ll see the option for “keyboard button on navigation bar”.
There’s another step, however.
Once you’ve swapped back to Samsung Keyboard it becomes the default again, but there’s another hack.
In Samsung Keyboard you’ll see the voice input button on the toolbar.
Press and hold on this and you get the option for “input method”.
Once you’ve selected that, you’ll be able to switch keyboards back and forth all you like.
So there you have it.
Those are the five things I think you should do when you get a Samsung Galaxy S24.
