Still, the specs don’t tell the whole story of what the Galaxy Note 9 can do. Here are the four best hidden features of the Galaxy Note 9. Unlock your phone with a wave: When enabled, you can unlock your phone with a wave of the hand. To enable this feature, go to Settings > Accessibility > Dexterity and Interaction, then toggle on Easy screen turn on. Choose Easy screen turn on to see a demonstration of how to wave your hand over the phone to unlock it. Customize the navigation bar: Does it seem like you have to press too hard to activate your home button? Or maybe you don’t like the way the navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen are laid out? No problem. Go to Settings > Display > Navigation Bar to access a menu that allows you to toggle on a Show and Hide button, change the color of the navigation bar, adjust the pressure sensitivity when you press the Home button, unlock your phone with the Home button, and change the layout of the navigation bar. Customize your keyboard for one-handed (or fat-fingered) operation: If the layout or design of the Samsung keyboard is awkward, you can control how your keyboard looks, and how it works. To do so: Put Bixby Vision to work: Even if you’re not a fan of Samsung’s voice assistant, Bixby, you can still use Bixby Vision with your camera as an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tool. Simply enable Bixby Vision on your camera, select the Text option, then point your camera at any text and snap a picture. Bixby captures and transcribes the text, and translates words that are in a different language. You can then copy and paste or share the text with other applications. Use the S Pen Translate function to read text: Using the Note 9 S Pen Translate function is a handy feature. You can enable it to translate blocks of text to make it even better. To change from single word translation to phrases or blocks of text: Use Glance to monitor action in other windows: Samsung App Pairs are a great way to work with two apps simultaneously, but what if you don’t need to work with two apps and only want to monitor one? Glance is Samsung’s equivalent of picture-in-picture and it lets you drop an app into a smaller window in the bottom corner of your screen. Once activated, you can move the smaller window to any location on the screen that’s convenient; increase the size of the app to full screen by hovering your pen tip over the app. To activate an app in Glance: Change the way recent apps display: If you use a lot of apps, when you view your Recent Apps, the standard app tiles can be overwhelming. But you can change the way those recent apps display. From within your Recent Apps screen (tap the Recent Apps button in the bottom navigation menu), and then tap the three dot icon in the upper-right corner of the screen. Then select List View to convert the thumbnails to list items. Send SOS messages without turning on the phone: Go to Settings > Advanced Settings > Send SOS messages to enable this safety feature. When enabled, you can choose to attach pictures and attach audio recordings to send pictures taken with the cameras or a 5-second audio message to your emergency contacts when you quickly press the Power key three times. If you’re often on your own, this is one safety feature you don’t want to be without. Protect your eyes with a blue light filter: Blue light, such as the kind emitted by mobile devices, can be damaging to your eyes. To protect your eyes from this harmful light, go to Settings > Display to toggle the blue light filter on or off. Once enabled, tap Blue light filter to open options where you can adjust the opacity of the filter and schedule the blue light filter to activate during certain hours (for example, during evening hours just before bed).
