The Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 brings in improved battery life, a polished camera system and a newly designed hinge along with a slew of software upgrades. Here are 8 of the coolest tips and tricks that you should know to make the most of Samsung’s latest flipper.
After having used the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4 as my primary smartphone for the past two weeks, I can confidently say that Samsung fixed two of my major gripes with the Galaxy Z Flip 3 — the battery life and the camera. That said, even beyond its improved battery life, polished camera or the newly refined hinge, Samsung’s latest flipper has a lot to offer.
So, if you’re someone like me who has recently bought the Galaxy Z Flip 4 or if you’re on the fence about getting one, here are some excellent tips and tricks you should know to make the most out of Samsung’s latest flip phone.
We all know that the Flip is hip but, at the end of the day, it’s a phone and a phone’s primary task is to answer phone calls. Flip surely does that and in style. On the Flip phone, you can answer a call by simply flipping the phone in style and you can disconnect a call by shutting the phone with a thud. Well, let me tell you how. Open the phone, tap the three vertical dots in the top-right and go to Settings, tap Flip options and then you can choose to enable/ disable the “Open phone to answer calls” and “Close phone to end calls”. Note that these settings are turned off by default, so if you’re getting a Galaxy Z Flip 4 or you have already started using one, why not enable these settings?
Having a cool mini-screen on the outside can look boring if you have that plain old static wallpaper. Well, what if I tell you that it’s possible to set a video wallpaper that will actually make the cover screen look cooler? Here’s how it works.
Go to Settings and select the cover screen. Up top, you’ll see Clock style that lets you customise how the time and date look on the cover screen. You can select a custom wallpaper from the available options, but if you have a video that you wish to set as your cover screen wallpaper, you can do that by tapping the Clock background image at the bottom and selecting the “Choose from Gallery” option to set a video wallpaper. Additionally, you can also customise how the time and date flash on top of the wallpaper from the available options. Tapping Customise even lets you set the text colour.
Apart from looking cool, the Galaxy Z Flip 4’s cover screen is also your one-stop that lets you interact with the flipper without even flipping it open. Now, I understand it’s still not as versatile as Motorola’s implementation on their latest Razr smartphone, but it still gets the job done for basic tasks.
