Samsung Galaxy A15 for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | A15 5G

welcome into the video I'm your tech guide Wayne and today I'm going to be bringing you a full beginners walkthrough of how to use the Samsung Galaxy a15 for beginners we're going to show you how to navigate the phone how to get to all the menus how to get to your settings um how to understand how to turn it off how to turn it on um then I'll move into how to sign to your emails how to download apps all the basic things you would need to know to function this phone will also go into how to make calls and how to send text messages so make sure you watch all the way to the end so you don't miss any important information so the left side of the phone will start here you're going to find your sim card tray and also your micro SD slot so if you have a memory card you're trying to put in the phone you will need to pop out this tray using a paperclip or a SIM PIN to be able to put in your micro SD card of that no other buttons on the left side on the right side here you'll find your volume up volume down your power pause button and this button also acts as a fingerprint reader so uh in the settings you can program this to be able to unlock the phone simply by putting your finger on this button at the top of the phone you won't find anything but just uh a little speaker hole at the bottom of the phone you will find your charging port which which is a type- c charging port if you ever need to buy a replacement charger you'll need to ask for a type- c charging port and as a quick note this phone does not come with a wall charger so I'll have a link in the description for this charger this is by anchor it is a dual charger that will charge the cable from the box the type C to type-c and it has a full-size USB as well so I'll link that in the description in case you need a charger to go with your phone on the left side here you'll find your auxiliary port this is where you'll plug in your headphones all right so that's the quick tour of just the outside the exterior buttons now let's talk about how to wake up the phone and how to get into the phone so on the right side that power standby button I was telling you about all you do is tap that button one time to wake up the phone whenever you press the button it puts the phone asleep but the phone is still on so press the button once to wake up the screen you can also tap the screen two times and it should wake up on its own as well so you've got two different options there now if you want to get into the phone you'll simply need to put your finger on the screen and drag up you'll want to drag up quickly and that swipe will basically unlock the phone let's try it one more time I'm going to tap the screen two times to wake it up put your finger on the screen and then just simply drag your finger finger up the screen like this let's try it again finger on the screen and just drag up the screen and that's how you unlock the phone to get into it now right now we do not have a passcode set up on the phone I will have a separate video coming out which is called how to set up your Samsung Galaxy a15 in that video I'll go over how to unlock your phone and how to set a pin and how to set the fingerprint reader as well when that video is out I'll have it linked right at the top of this video right there okay so we're in the phone now let's talk about how to navigate the screen now first before I get into that I want to show you one important thing you'll notice my screen is going to keep going dim if I don't touch it long enough which is a really frustrating you see that it just went dim because I'm not touching the screen so if you want to stop the phone from doing that you'll want to take your finger put it at the top of the screen and drag down and you're going to have a shortcut in the upper right corner to the settings tap on the settings wheel from here we're going to swipe up and go to display and from here you want to swipe up and go to screen timeout we want to tap on this option and change it to 5 minutes this way the screen will not go dim for at least 5 minutes you don't have to keep touching the phone every couple of seconds to keep it on you'll also want to turn on a feature called keep screen on while viewing this will also keep the screen on because it's going to pay attention to If you're looking at the phone if you're reading something for example the screen will not go dim either so those are two different ways to keep the screen on just a little bit longer let's talk about how to navigate the phone but first a quick word from today's video sponsor in today's Digital World your online privacy matters more than ever but with cyber threats lurking around every corner along with data breaches how do you ensure your online security that's where IP Vantage comes in with their cuttingedge VPN technology they Empower you to take control of your online security and privacy like never before whether you're banking shopping or simply browsing IP Advantage keeps your personal 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it takes you away from the home screen so if you want to get back to the home screen all you got to do is hit this little circle button at the bottom and this will take you back to the home screen no matter what you're doing this button takes you back to your home screen if I were to go to the phone app and I want to go back to the home screen what do I do I tap the home button so just know this always takes you back to this screen now next you have to the left you have what is called the recent apps button right here so if I were to tap on the recent apps this button is going to show me any app that I've used recently so for example I just opened up the phone app and guess what it's still open if I swipe over you'll see Google Chrome is also open because I just opened that program now if you want to get back to that program because you want to continue to use it all you do is just tap on it and it's going to take you right back into that program you can continue whatever it is you were doing okay but if I hit this button and I come to this screen maybe I'm finished using Google Chrome and I want to close it out so the phone is not using a lot of extra memory in the background I'm going to basically swipe up the screen like this and that's going to close out that program it's no longer running in the background the same same goes for this uh call screen if I want to get rid of this I'm going to simply just swipe up and it's going to go away so that's a quick rundown of what the recent apps button does it simply just takes you to this screen to look at all the apps you recently had opened and allow you to either go back continue to interact with them or to close them now you can also tap this close all button right here and this will close all the apps from running in the background Al together and this uh step is good to do because it will speed up your phone and allow it to go a little bit faster okay we've gone over our home button we've gone over the recent apps button next let's go over our back button now this button simply takes us back one step so I'm going to go back to the settings remember we started at the top of the screen we swiped or we dragged down the screen to bring up this menu here we're going to tap on this little settings wheel now guess what I'm in the settings wheel right now and guess what maybe I go back to display because I want to change how long the screen is staying on so let's say we go back to this menu here I make my change and now I want to go back one screen in the settings all I need to do is hit the back button okay next we're going to hit the back button again if you want to continue to go back one screen now you'll notice in the upper left corner there is uh a back arrow this also does the same thing but um this one is a bit easier to reach okay so this button just takes you back one step or one menu and once it takes you back as far as you can go it's going to take you out of the app and back to the home screen all right so that's a quick rundown of what these three buttons do home button recent apps button and back button if the video so far has been helpful and taught you some new information make sure you hit that like button down below that will help this video to reach more people and therefore be able to educate more people now let's continue so we've gone over navigating the phone using these three buttons next we're going to talk about this menu at the top of the screen I've already had you put your finger at the top of the screen and drag down and now let's talk about what is this menu exactly well this menu is known as the notification panel now this section is where you'll get um you'll get notifications that are going to pop up all down this screen here for example if you get a text message if you get an email if you get uh a Facebook message they're all going to show up in this section here and you'll have a chance to be able to tap on the notifications to go right to that app and interact with those messages so that's really what happens in this section as you notice right now it says we have no notifications which is no problem but as the notifications come through this is where they will all begin to show up okay now you have a few other things you also have um this uh brightness meter that would allow you to control how bright right or how dim your screen is if your screen is too bright this will allow you to bring the brightness down a bit to maybe make it easier on your eyes so you can simply control that by dragging this bar up and down just like that now these are simply settings switches that control different functions on the phone for example if you want to connect to your home Wi-Fi network or someone else's Wi-Fi network or a Starbucks Wi-Fi it doesn't matter first of all this needs to be lit up if you notice the little switch is white and that's telling you that it's lit up whereas this switch is not white it's uh kind of blurred out and that's what tells you that airplane mode is turned off and our flashlight is turned off anything that is lit up bright means that it is enabled and if it's dim it means it's not enabled now if I want to connect to a Wi-Fi network all I have to do is take my finger and I'm just GNA put it right on this icon hold down for one second and that's going to bring up our Wi-Fi menu this will now show me all the available Wi-Fi networks I can connect to and it will show me obviously right now I'm connected to a network so it's showing me I'm currently on this network okay so let's say you're at a Starbucks and you want to connect to their public network you would follow the step I just showed you and then look for the menu option that says Starbucks you would then tap on it just like this and then it would ask you to enter the password of the network now uh Wi-Fi passwords are always case sensitive so you always want to ask are there any uppercase letters or any lowercase letters because that will also affect uh connecting that's how you connect to Wi-Fi super easy now you also have a Bluetooth icon if we hold down on the Bluetooth icon it'll take us to the menu and guess what I can now go through and if I have a speaker for example I'm trying to pair to I'm going to put my speaker in the pairing mode and you'll want to look through your your instruction manual for the speaker and say Hey how do I pair this normally you turn it on you hold a button it's going to pair and then you look for that device in the menu here and when you tap on it it will allow you to connect to that device so that's how you interact with your Bluetooth now this button is your volume control button now if you want to control the sound of the phone for example you're going into a meeting and you don't want your phone to ring loud you'll want to tap on this icon and that you'll notice the picture will change there's a slash over the speaker and that's what tells you that now you are on vibrate now if you press it again it's going to change it and now it's Dim when that speaker is dim that means that your sound is turned off your phone is not going to vibrate and it's not going to ring when someone calls it's also not going to make a noise when someone sends you a text message so um to turn the sound back on simply tap on that button again it'll make a noise and you'll be able to see the speaker and that's how you know your sound is fully back on and ready to go now if we tap on our volume button on the right here it's going to bring up our volume menu tap on these three dots here these will show you all of the volume controls for the phone and let's it goes away quickly so we have to kind of move fast with this one now guess what this is the music volume so I want to turn that one up a little bit louder this is the uh just phone settings menu volume this is the ringer when someone sends you a call or makes a call excuse me when someone calls you or sends a text message and this is your menu sound as well so you have uh four different volume control options that control How Sound comes through the phone if you ever are you know feel like your phone should be loud you'll want to remember hit that volume button tap on the three dots and make sure all your volumes are turned up properly so that's the uh uh volume right there and then you have a flashlight all the way in the corner if you turn this on guess what it's going to use your phone flash as a flashlight now those are just a couple of the options you have in the um menu here now now guess what if you swipe down a second time it will bring up more options and you have a bunch of other really cool short cuts to settings um menu features you can also swipe left to get to additional menu options as well and that in short is the notification panel okay let's move into the next section let's talk about apps okay so I talked talked briefly about apps earlier remember apps is short for applications think of how computers have programs phones have apps or applications so to get to all the apps that are on your phone you'll simply need to swipe up on the home screen this will take you to your app screen and this is where you'll find all the apps that are on the phone you'll have these little folders as well so this is your Google folder it has all the Google apps this is your Microsoft folder this is your Samsung folder so you'll have some apps that'll be in these folders and if you swipe over you'll have a couple of pages of apps okay so this is what comes installed on the phone when you first set it up but obviously you can download more apps for the phone and to do that you go to this icon which is called the Play Store the Play Store is your One-Stop shop for everything you would need um to download so applications games um if you needed to buy a book um all that happens within this app right here now um You should have already signed into a Google account before setting up the phone so tapping on that Play Store button should have taken you to this screen however if when you tapped on that uh white button it did not take you to this screen if it took you to a white screen and it's asking you to sign to a Google account just know you will need to sign to a Google account before you can get to this screen or you'll need to create one you should have a button at the bottom left corner of your screen that says create account you can tap that if you don't have a Gmail or if you've forgotten the password to your Gmail and you don't have access to it anymore so just know you will need to sign in to Google account before getting to this screen now let me give you a quick tour of the Play Store and how to navigate this screen here so the most important thing to pay attention to are at the top of the screen you have a search bar and by tapping where it says search apps this is where you can bring up a keyboard and you can basically search for a specific app maybe for example you're trying to download The Uber app so you can get a ride somewhere well you can either type in Uber and then hit the magnifying glass in the bottom left corner of your keyboard to search for the Uber app or there's another easy way to to do this you can simply tap on the microphone in the upper right corner and you can use uh voice to text and just say Uber and it will search for that app for you just like this Uber now this will basically it'll type whatever you say and then it will do a search for you and so guess what here is the Uber app now I can tap on the Uber app first and I can look at some pictures of the app right because also you may be trying to download a game or download something else this is your way to look through and see what it's supposed to look like first let's use our back button to go back on screen and once you feel good about hey this is the app I want I'm going to tap on this little blue install button and now we're going to start downloading the Uber app to the phone now notice for this app there was a little button that said install right you're not going to always see that button say install some of the apps are not free some of them are paid so if it's ever an app that costs money instead of it saying install it will have a price if you see a price just make sure you're aware that if you tap on that price it's going to charge you for that app it's going to ask you to add a credit card to your Google account so that it can charge you for the app so just make sure you don't buy anything unless you're for sure that is what you want to download now Uber is uh downloaded it was pretty fast so now I can either tap on the open button here to take me right into the Uber app or I could hit my home button and then I can swipe up and this will take us to our our app menu and then I can Swip to the left and there's my Uber app you can always find your Uber app app in this section on this page once again on the home screen swipe up and it's either on this page or this page I'm going to then tap on Uber and now I'm in the app and I'm ready to start using it to try to find a ride so that's a quick rundown of how to download an app now I'm going to go back to the Play Store and show you a few more things to pay attention to let's use our back button on the right here to go back one page let's press it one more time to go back one page and guess what now we're finally back to the main page of the Google Play Store so sometimes you will know exactly what it is you're trying to download or search for and sometimes you won't now if you're not sure maybe you're just trying to find a new game or you're just trying to see what apps are available in that case you'll want to um search through a few of these menu options here so two things first of all at the bottom of the screen you have a game section and you have an app section so obviously games are games and they're really just how to find different fun things to do on the phone you'll have these different pages here so you have the top charts basically most popular games you have games for kids you have games that are new to the store you have all these options you can scroll through or you can simply go over to cat ategory and look for Hey I want a game that is a casino game maybe you want video poker well then it'll take you to only games that fall under that category let's hit our back button now maybe you don't want a game maybe you're trying to find an app to help you keep better notes on your phone well you want to tap on apps first and then same thing at this top little menu here tap on top charts kids and categories and this will help you to go through and say you know what I'm looking for an app that is more so about productivity so you may want to go down to the productivity section here and then here you'll find apps that are specifically geared towards productivity so that's sort of how you navigate the the store and how you can just see different options there are are I want to say over 2 million apps that are in the store so that's why they have all these different categories and pages because there's so much information to display this helps you sift through and get right to the important information now let's go ahead and hit our home button and that's going to take us out of the Play Store if the video has been helpful so far don't forget to hit that like button down below in this section I'll be going over how to make calls and how to answer the phone when someone is calling you so let's start with when a call is coming through how you answer the phone I'm going to initiate a call okay so the call is coming through I'm going to take my finger and I'm going to put it on the uh green phone button and drag up that is how you answer the phone now if you want to put the phone on speaker phone obviously tap speaker you've got mute you have uh the plus here if you'd like to add someone else to the call and you have your keypad dialer here in case you're calling an automated system and you need to specifically uh uh enter a uh key command when you're all finished with the call tap the red button to end the call now the same thing goes if you are um if you want to decline the call so if a call is coming through and you don't want to answer it you can obviously just not touch anything but you can also take your finger put it on the red button and you're going to put it on the button and then drag up and that's going to decline the call so it's going to automatically go to voicemail and the person can leave you a message next let's go over how to initiate a call we're going to tap on this green call button in the bottom left corner and I'm going to tap on the keypad button and I'm going to enter a phone number starting with the area code 32 3 8531212 and tap the green button to start the call and let's put it on speaker here the time and temperature is coming up there we go it'll connect you can talk when you're all done you'll tap the red button to end the call so just that easy you can initiate a call to the left of the call button is going to be your messages button if you tap on that this is the text message section and if you'd like to set send someone a message you're going to tap on the bubble in the bottom right corner and then you will uh see a keyboard pop up and you can type in the person's name if they're already saved in your phone or you can U enter just the phone number now a quick shortcut if you tap on this button here this is your dialer or your keypad it will switch it to make it easier for you to input just a phone number let's put that same number in and then we'll hit done so now we've basically set it up so we're going to text that number our keyboard has come up we're now in the text message section at the bottom here and I can now enter a message hi there and when I'm ready to send it I can tap on the button here which is the send button now here's a few more things you can do in terms of sending text messages you have any emoji button here this will bring up your uh emojis you can send someone a picture for example if someone says you know goodbye you can send uh a wave like this and hit the send button and now you've just sent someone a wave Emoji if I tap on the button here this will allow me to attach a picture to the email so you'll have two options you have a camera option which is hey let's take a picture right now I'm going to just hold it up and tap on the white circle that's going to take a picture that I can attach immediately to the text message or I can go to my gallery right here and look at what pictures are saved on the phone let's say I want to send this picture I'm going to tap on it tap on ADD and now I've attached two pictures to this text message message and I'm going to hit this button to send it now that's not all there's a few more things you can do as well if you tap on the plus all the way to the left you can look for a gift if you'd like to send them one of those funny animated pictures you can also send stickers you can attach different types of files not pictures but maybe like a document you can send your location in case you're trying to show someone how to find you you can attach a contact or you can even schedule a message to be sent later by selecting here you also have uh two microphones on the screen one is here and one is here the key the microphone at the bottom here will allow you to say what you want your message to say and it will type it for you it will dictate it so watch this tap on the microphone let's hit skip tap while using agree it's now going to make you press it again good morning I hope you're feeling well today and basically it just typed out everything I said into the message and all I have to do is hit the send button to send out that message now this microphone is a different option this is if you'd like to send someone a voice message you can tap here and um basically say a verbal message and have that sent to them but you'll need to take your finger and hold down on the button it will record as long as you're holding down on the button and then it will stop recording once you lift your finger like this good morning I hope you're feeling well today so it just created a 3 second voice message that I can now send in the message so these are just a few of the things you can do now let's talk about how to set up your email on the phone now you'll want to tap on the Google icon on the home screen there's this little Google folder and tap on Gmail now some of you might say I don't have a Gmail I have a Yahoo I have an SBC Global I have have a verizon.net well guess what you can use the Google app to sign into just about any email account most people don't know this in the upper right corner of the Google app you'll tap on this little icon and you'll come down to add another account and this will allow you to add a second third fourth fifth sixth email account right to the Google app now if it's a Gmail you'll simply tap on Google if it's an Outlook hot Mill or live you tap here if it's yahoo you tap here if it's an exchange or Office 360 you tap here now the other option is right here this one can be a bit tricky it is not always the easiest to navigate so if you don't see your email type in one of these four options here's what I would recommend you to do hit the home button go to the Play Store and you wanted to hit the back button get all the way back to the main screen which is here and you're going to tap on that little search box where it says search apps and you'll want to type in the back half of your email address for example if you hit in the bottom left corner this button here tap on the at symbol I'm just going to tap in aol.com and then I'm going to tap the magnifying glass to the right to do a search search and this will give me apps that specifically work with AOL email addresses so guess what I can go to AOL tap install and now I can use the AOL direct app to sign into my AOL email address now let's hit the magnifying glass again this time I'm going to tap at SBC global.net and I'm going to do a search and these are all the apps that are going to be compatible with that email type so this is a trick that's going to help you identify a better app to help you sign into whatever email type or email account you're trying to use okay now let's go back to the Gmail app really quickly here now again I'm I'm already signed into one email account right now if you end up signing into to multiple email Emil accounts if you want to switch back and forth between the accounts you simply tap on this little circle in the upper right corner and so right here I have my first email type and as you sign into more you'll see them stacked underneath each other you would simply tap on the email underneath this one to jump to that account and that's how you easily can jump to your different email Types on my personal phone I have over 10 email accounts signed in right now and it's very easy to navigate because I just tap on that icon in the upper right corner and I just jump between the accounts you'll also get separate notifications from the different email accounts as well so that's a quick rundown of how to sign to your email accounts and how to get to them next I want to go over how to make the text size larger to make it easier to read things on the phone so we're going to swipe down from the top of the screen in the upper right corner we're going to tap on the settings wheel now next we're going to swipe up and go back to display from here swipe up and go to font size and style you have a few different things you'll want to control first is the font size if I just tick up it's going to show me a preview here and you'll also see how the menu buttons are going to get larger just like this feel free to keep adjusting until you get a comfortable size you can also then hit the home button to actually see how everything looks different you'll notice all my uh text under my apps are now bigger when I swipe down from the top some of these menus should be larger as well let's hit our recent apps button to go back to the settings now you know maybe go all the way to the biggest size and then work your way back down down until you feel you've gotten to a comfortable size next you'll want to tap on Bold font this is another way it'll make all the text bold and it'll pop a bit more that'll help as well you can test this out by going to the Google Chrome app now Chrome is the web browser this is going to the Internet so you can then see how much larger everything looks based on how you changed it and hit recent apps to go back to the settings again and keep tinkering until you find a size that works best for you you can also decide to change the font style and maybe there's another font style here like this Gothic bold that might show a bit better as well so these are just a few of the things you can play around with to try to make the text bigger and again if I go all the way to the right you'll see I mean this is really big so um obviously everyone's eyes are different so you'll want to keep tinkering with it until you find a size that is most comfortable for you all right when you're all done you can hit your back button and notice how much bigger even the menu text is just from some of those changes then we're going to hit the home button to take us back to the home screen so that in short is how you change the size of the text next let's go over how to take pictures and just a quick walk through of taking pictures taking videos and then where to find them after you take them so first you'll want to go to this camera button that's in the bottom right corner and I'm going to just lift the phone so when this button in the front is white that means you're taking a picture so I'm just going to point it at my Rubik's Cube here Tap the White button to snap a picture just like that now if I want to take a video I can just simply swipe over just like this and that's going to put me in video mode now guess what I know I'm in video as well because my button is no longer a solid white now it has a red circle in the middle and that is to let you know that tapping this will start recording so we're taking a video and you'll notice at the top here it has a count up that's telling you hey we're recording a video this is how long the video is going for okay now while you take a video guess what you can simply tap on this little button here to Snap photos during the video so that's a super helpful feature there you can pause the video or simply hit the stop button to stop it from playing now those are the two main camera functions now now you can swipe over and there's some other options for example there is a portrait mode portrait mode is when you have something in the shot that you want to have all the focus and you want the background to be blurry let's see let's try to take this picture here if I take this it's going to have the flower that's going to be in full Clear View and the whole background is going to be blurred out so I'm going to just tap the button to snap and now I have a nice picture where the flower isn't full Focus but the background is blurred out can also tap this button here to change the different blurry uh options that are available so that's just a quick rundown of how to take pictures now you'll notice in the left oh excuse me you'll have this button to the right this button to the right is how you switch to the front camera if you you want to take a selfie you'll tap on this button and now we're working off of the front camera you see and then same thing tap the button to take your picture now one more important thing this is how you get really great pictures when you're pointing at something if you tap on the item the camera will make sure that it's in even more focus and it will adjust the lighting according to that item now maybe I want to change the lighting in this picture and I want it to adjust more to to this little wood base I'm going to tap on that wood base and you'll notice the lighting is going to adjust now if I tap on this little item in the back that's dark it's going to make it really bright so simply tapping on different items in the picture that's how you adjust how the camera responds with the lighting and with the focus quick quick Pro tip now after you've taken a picture you can either tap on this little icon on the left this takes you right to your photo gallery it'll allow you to see the picture and swipe through other pictures that you've just taken maybe you say oh I don't like this last one tap on the trash can on the bottom right corner to get rid of it it's going to move it to the trash now May maybe you're not in the camera at all maybe you just hey I just want to see the pictures that I took today at the zoo whatever you'll swipe up on the home screen and look for the gallery icon and then tap on gallery and this will show you all the pictures you've taken in the first menu option it separates it by the date you can also go over to album and it will separate your pictures by album camera screenshots favorites recent and it also has a cool story mode where it'll create different stories based on the pictures you take so that is the camera section and that's where you'll be able to make your different edits to the pictures as well after you take them all right guys this brings us to the end of our video now don't be sad guess what more videos are to come so make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't miss any of those important videos um I will be creating a tips and tricks video to show you uh a lot of other really cool features you can use on the phone I'll also have a video coming out soon called how to set up your Samsung Galaxy a15 and I'll go over some detailed things like how to set a password for your phone how to set up the fingerprint sensor transferring data from an old phone to this phone so stay tuned for that video um leave me a comment down below let me know what section was the most helpful for you I always love to hear your feedback and just know more videos are to come I love Ed ating folks on how to use smartphones and this is the newest phone of the prepaid world for 2024 and I'll have a lot of videos coming out for this phone so thanks again for watching if you didn't already hit that like button hit the like button down below and we'll catch you in the next video take care and is always have a good one