20 Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 Tips! By Shane Starnes

What's up guys, Shane stars here, I've been using my galaxy watch 3 for the past couple of days. It was my replacement for my active watch 2, and I'm really loving. This leather strap and also this rotating bezel just makes navigating the watch so much easier and so much more accurate. In this video, I'm going to show you guys tons of tips on the galaxy watch 3 so that you can get the best possible experience out of your new watch. Let's go ahead and get started. This video is sponsored by namesake.

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To do that. You go into your settings. Scroll down into advanced scroll down into screen, wake up scroll to touch wake up and make sure to turn that on now, when you want to wake up the watch, you can just touch it and then now you're able to interact with the screen. One thing I loved about my galaxy active watch 2 was the always on display, no matter what I was doing, I could always glance down at my watch without having to touch it or wake it up and be able to see what the time was, what the date was and see whether I had notifications that setting, of course, is turned off by default in order to turn that on you're, going to jump into your settings, go to watch faces and turn always watch on, go ahead and turn that on. This is definitely one to lower your battery life.

So for me, I had this turned on all day. Long with auto brightness also turned on right. Now it is eight. In the evening I took this off the charger at about 6 30, and I still have more than 50 battery life left. So you still should be able to get at least 24 hours, and then you know at least all the way into the evening of the next day, even with always on display turned on, and auto brightness turned on.

Of course, you can change some battery settings to get even more battery life, but just know that the always on display does take up some of your battery life. So speaking of battery life, you do have several options for battery life. If we go into our settings and then scroll down to battery you have a few modes, you have the standard mode, and it says that I've got. You know 20 hours and 24 minutes left. So I'm almost going to get that second full day.

Not quite then, there's the power savings mode. This is going to do certain things, so this turns off everything but calls messages and notifications, and this is going to get you more than three hours of battery life, and then we have the watch only mode. So if you go camping or something you're not going to be around a wireless charger or some kind of power supply, you may want to consider the watch only mode. It says it will get you 21 days without a charge which is pretty incredible. Once you enable this, you would press the power key to show the time, so you're only really going to get your time you're not going to get notifications and things like that, and then to go back into the full watch mode.

You would press and hold the power button to go back into the standard power mode. Another quick way to get some extra juice out of your battery is the grayscale mode I have mine set up to enable with three double presses. The way we're going to set. That up is we're. Going to go into our settings.

Scroll down to advanced, go down into accessibility, go to advanced settings, go to two finger triple tap, turn that on and then below that you have the two finger triple tap settings here and one of those is the grayscale and there's even negative colors there, and then three taps gives you your color back. So the next one here is pretty nifty. You can actually make your watch a trackpad, so we're going to go into our apps, and then we're going to scroll all the way over to ppt controller. So this is actually PowerPoint controller, we'll go ahead and turn that on we'll go ahead and connect to the OnePlus 8 pro all right, and then we will make a touchpad out of our watch. So now you guys can see the cursor on my watch.

This would be great for presentations here. If you were sharing your phone screen with a projector or something you can actually use the cursor here to do things on your phone. You can even use this to take pictures with your camera application like that, which is pretty nifty as well you're, also going to want to make sure that you do enable all notifications so that you don't miss anything. That's coming through to your galaxy watch 3. So do that we're going to jump into our galaxy wearable application, we'll go into our notifications, we'll go to see all notifications and just make sure that everything here is turned on that way, you're not going to miss anything.

If notifications come in from Gmail Twitter WhatsApp, all of those are compatible with your galaxy watch 3, and as long as you have everything turned on you're not going to miss any of your notifications, all right. So if you have your notifications, enabled of course you'll be able to actually access those text messages or those Twitter dms, and then there are some quick replies here that autopopulate just depending on what was said in that particular message. And then, if you click on the microphone here, you can actually speak your reply. So if we click on the mic here, all right, thanks. I appreciate that I'll check it out when I get home all right, and then we'll send, and so that's sent an email and replying to messages is that easy custom watch faces are pretty simple here: we're going to go into the galaxy wearable app, we'll go down here to watch faces and to change.

The watch face you're, just going to click on the watch face, and it's going to instantly change it over on your galaxy watch. Now some of these have some extra customization features. So we'll go back to the one that I have before you can go to this little customize option here you have several colors that are pre-made, for this particular watch face to change that I would just click save, and then it'll show up on the actual watch. If I go back into customize, I can choose my own color, so I can choose my own color here so around the watch face here are my complications. I can change these to anything that I want here.

I can change it to heart rate, so I've got heart rate and heart rate. Furthermore, I can go back to my steps. Furthermore, I can change it to my sleep pattern. My stress levels, anything that I want to monitor with my galaxy watch three. I can change there.

This one has five different complications, so you can change those uh to anything that you want all right. So I'm going to go ahead and save my customized watch face and that's gonna show up right there on the watch screen. There are so many to choose from there's literally hundreds of watch faces. If you click on this discover it's going to give you even more watch faces here that you can choose from you can actually wirelessly charge. Your galaxy watch 3 with your Samsung phone.

If I slide down my notifications here, I can turn on wireless power share. It says it's ready to charge. Put the center of your phone back to back with another device, we'll go ahead and put the watch on the back of the phone in the center here all right, and now it is wirelessly charging. I did notice, though, that when I try to do the same on my OnePlus 8 pro, so if I turn on my OnePlus 8 pro and I turn on my power share, so I've got the reverse-charge turned on the OnePlus 8 pro. I've noticed that it doesn't really work well with the galaxy watch, so it probably only works with Samsung phones.

Another really cool feature is the find my phone feature, so we jump into our applications here, and we scroll over to find my phone we'll go ahead and choose that and if I've lost my phone somewhere, I can't find it. I can actually just turn on to find my phone. It's going to give me a notification and a ring so that I can find and locate that phone. So what's really cool is that you can do this in reverse if you've lost your watch. Misplaced, your watch, but you have your phone.

You can go into the galaxy wearable, app and scroll down to find my watch and click start and that's going to go ahead and give you that sound on your watch so that you can locate your watch. So you also have an option here to get location. So if you can't hear it, you still can't find it. Maybe you've misplaced it away from home. You can hit get location.

It's going to give you a map, pinpointing the exact location of where you misplaced or where you left your watch. You can also set security here. You can lock the watch reset the watch or reactivate the lock. That way. If you have misplaced it, other people won't be able to get your private information from your watch.

So the galaxy watch 3 does include fall, detection and SOS alerts to enable those we're going to go back into our galaxy wearables application. We'll go into SOS here. You can turn on the fall detection, so it says it'll make a SOS call and send SOS message to your emergency contacts when your watch detects a hard fall, and you haven't responded for 60 seconds. So if you do fall, you're going to get a notification over here, if you don't respond, it's going to automatically notify your emergency contacts. It does also make it very clear that you need to keep an eye on your watch during high impact activities like sports, since that can sometimes register as a fall.

Of course, you wouldn't want somebody being called and alerted uh, while you're playing some kind of sport or activity you're, not paying attention to your watch, maybe if you're going to be exercising just turn this feature off while exercising that way, you don't accidentally call someone and then, of course you can turn on this in SOS. If you do that to make that SOS call, you're, just going to triple tap the home button. That way, you know it's going to be very difficult to do that on accident. But if you get into a sticky situation, you need some help, and you're not able to shout out for help or access your phone to make the call you can just triple tap very easily and make that SOS emergency call. If you ever needed to take a screenshot of your watches, screen just press and hold, I just press and hold both buttons here and that's going to take a screenshot, that's going to go directly to the gallery on your phone, and then you can access it and edit it from there.

So another cool thing that you have here are ongoing shortcuts. So any of these buttons here you can actually activate those particular apps. So say I want to go to the weather app here. I can click on that ongoing shortcut and that's going to open up my weather application. If I wanted to see my step counter, that's going to launch that application for me, so I can get more information on my steps.

These are not just to look at. You can actually activate those by pressing them and get more information. Another cool little feature. If you happen to be using the play music app to play, uh, songs or playlist, you can actually click on the little application at the bottom here and then swipe up, and this is going to give you access to that playlist and all the songs. So that you can quickly and easily change your songs without having to pull the phone out of your pocket.

So that's just a cool little feature. I don't think that this actually works on the YouTube music application. Hopefully it will soon because I actually find myself using the YouTube music application a lot more than the play music application. I don't think it all. I also don't think it works for Amazon Music.

Furthermore, I may work for Spotify. Furthermore, I haven't tested that yet. So, if you happen to be casting YouTube onto your screen, you can actually control that from your watch as well. So you can pause and play that you can control the audio here and if you're watching just a YouTube video, you can also fast-forward and rewind right from your watch face, which is pretty neat. You don't have to take your phone out of your pocket while you're casting YouTube to your TV.

So not everyone is a fan of the rotating bezel view on the applications. You can actually get a list view of your applications. The easy way to do that is just to go into your settings. Go into your apps go into layout and choose list view now. Whenever you go to your apps you're, going to have a list view, you'll have your recent sup top, and then you'll have them in alphabetical order below that.

So another thing that can be frustrating is: whenever you launch an application, when you allow your watch to go to sleep for 20 seconds, it's going to make that application disappear, and you're just going to have your watch face. So whenever you wake up the watch, it's going to go back to your watch face if you want it to actually stay on that particular application. You'll just go into your settings. Go into display, go into show last app and turn that on for one hour now, there's it doesn't allow you to actually turn on the last app for more than an hour. Hopefully, one hour will be enough time for that to not be an annoyance whenever you leave an app and then wake up your watch to see that it's not there anymore, so we'll go back into our apps, and we'll launch the galaxy store here now.

Whenever I let it fall asleep, when I wake it back up, it's going to go right back into that application that I had on there before all right guys that about wraps it up for this video, if you like, the video, be sure to give it a big thumbs up subscribe to this channel for more content on the galaxy watch, three there's plenty more tips that I can put together for you guys if you're into that kind of thing, uh the next video may be a hidden tip, video so be on the lookout. For that, thanks guys for watching be blessed I'll see you in the next one.

Source : Shane Starnes