The Samsung Galaxy S4 is one seriously powerful piece of kit, and with it comes a plethora of neat little features, many of which you may not even know about! Here’s a rundown of some of our favourites.
Remove Home Button Delay
If you’re like a Formula 1 engineer and want to squeeze every last drop of speed from your pride and joy, here’s a great tip to get your S4 purring. Simply disabling the “Double tap for S-Voice” option will stop the phone from momentarily waiting every time you hit the home button to see if you’re going to press it again and access Samsung’s answer to Siri.
Easy Mode
The Galaxy S4 has so many features that a lot of users will find it a bit intimidating – particularly when accessories such as the S View cover and other Galaxy S4 covers unlock features themselves – which is why Samsung have included an Easy Mode, which presents a homescreen that would be more at home on an entry level phone rather than a top end behemoth. Simply go to Settings, then My Device, then Home screen mode, and select Easy mode.
Power Saving Mode
If you find yourself frequently running out of battery and don’t have one of our S4 battery cases, then there are some quick, easy ways to make your battery last a little bit longer. Simply turn on Power Saving Mode in settings and you’ll have the option to turn on CPU power saving mode and screen power saving and turn off haptic feedback. All three options will improve the battery life and give you a little extra juice.
Fab Photos
The default camera settings are designed to favour videos over photos. If you’re more of a snapper than shooter, then go into camera settings, and change the photo size from a 19:9 aspect ratio (which utilises 9.2 megapixels) to the 4:3 setting, which ups the megapixels to a whopping 13.
EyePhone
Love your phone but hate having to move your fingers? Fear not. Head to Settings, My Device, and then Smart Screen, and turn on Smart scroll. This allows you to scroll through screens by tilting the device, but that is so 2012. What you want is the tilting head option, where the device tracks your eyes and follows them, scrolling when you’ve reached the bottom of the page. It takes a bit of getting used to, but once you’re acquinated, you’ll wonder how you ever lived it without it.