Samsung Galaxy A15 for Beginners PART 2 (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | A15 5G

welcome into the video I'm your tech guide Wayne and today I'll be going over the Samsung Galaxy a15 for beginners part two there was a lot of great feedback from the first video so we are back with a part two to share more beginner tips to help you with learning the phone make sure to watch the video all the way through and if you have more topics you'd like me to cover drop in the comment section down below I'll gather them up and I'll make a part three around just your comments all right let's go ahead and Jump Right In the first thing I want to go over in the video is how to save a phone number to your contacts so if there's someone you call frequently and you'd like to save them in the phone here are a few different ways to do that go to the phone app in the bottom left corner tap on keypad and type in the phone number that you want to save afterward tap on the Plus in the upper right corner and tap create new contact now now the first thing you'll see is a popup at the top here and it's going to say uh save the contacts to save them to your Google Gmail the reason you do this is because if you ever lose your phone or your phone is damaged and you can't get into it it'll back up a copy of all your contacts in the cloud and all you have to do is sign in on a new phone with the same Gmail account and all your contacts will automatically sync on the new phone so make sure you always save them to your Gmail account all we're going to do is simply type in the name Jim Jones and then if we hit the drop- down arrow in the bottom right corner you can add additional information like an email uh a group you can hit view more and you can add additional pieces of information like an address notes Etc and when you're done you're going to tap on the save button in the bottom right corner now if you would like to associate a picture with this contact so when they call you their picture comes up you can tap on this picture icon at the top you can then tap on gallery if you already have a picture of the person on the phone that you want to make their contact picture or you can tap on camera and then it will open up the camera and allow you to actually snap a picture to associate with that contact so let's just use that as an example I'm going to press okay and now I can basically move this little bubble here to align how I want the picture to look hit done and now every time I get a call from this phone number this is the picture that will come up obviously you would actually take a picture of the person not a Lea um but yeah take a picture of the person save it and then that's what it come come up whenever they text you or whenever they call you now here's another way to save a contact as well if someone sends you a text message so right now we're in the text message screen I can tap on this contact here and you see the phone number at the Top This Means someone new has sent me a text message that is not saved in the phone I'm going to tap on the phone number and then I'm going to tap on the little person with the plus icon underneath the phone number and this will bring up the same menu that will allow you to save it in the phone so these are just two different methods to save a phone number uh to the phone next let's go over how to change the notification sounds and the ringtone on the phone so we're going to swipe down from the top of the screen in the upper right corner tap on the settings wheel you're going to then go to sounds and vibrations first let's tap on ringtone and all I have to do is tap on one of these other options to test out Different ringtone [Music] options so those are just a few options if I want to change it to this I've already selected it I'm just going to hit the back button and now that's going to be my new ringtone and for notification sounds I'm going to tap on notification sound now this is the sound for when you get a text message or an app alert right now it sounds like this and some of you guys might be really uh tired of hearing that so here's a couple of different [Music] options so you can go through here and find the options that you like better this is a very common one that people use if I want to lock in this one is the new sound I'm just going to hit the back button now one last thing while we're in this setting here you may want to turn on the vibrate while ringing uh option and this will make the phone vibrate whenever you get a call sometimes when your phone is in a bag or a purse you don't always hear it ring but if you enable this your phone will also vibrate which will help you to know if someone is calling you now if you found those two tips helpful so far make sure you hit that like button down below if you're not already subscri make sure you hit that subscribe button also I want to show you this cool product that you guys might be interested in getting this is actually a battery charger that is in the shape of a pager so it's a super fun little product here and there is a plug right here you can uh plug in your phone to charge and there's also a fulls sizee USB as well so you can charge not only your phone but your Bluetooth headphones and your other uh accessories so this is a great thing I carry this on me all the time I'm actually able to to charge my phone and I'm able to charge my iPad it's that powerful so I'll leave a link below in the description for this little guy here it's a great little accessory that will keep your phone charged especially if you wake up and you forgot to charge your phone next I want to go over how to change the screen brightness now if you swipe down from the top of the screen you do have a brightness slider right here and some of you guys might have missed this now out of the box your phone is set to Auto brighten and so the screen is going to automatically increase or decrease the brightness depending on where you are to make sure you can see the phone but sometimes the phone can be a little too bright and so in that case where this little bar is you want to tap on the three dots to the right and this will take you to the Adaptive brightness now this is what is normally turned on and this is what will cause your brightness to fluctuate so if you don't want the brightness to fluctuate or if you say hey my screen is just too bright I wish I could just control it on my own well turn this off and now you can drag this bar up or down and this will help you to control how bright the screen is okay and now I can just simply drag it from right here now as a reminder we just swipe down from the top of the screen and this bar you can just just drag up or down to manipulate how bright or how dim the screen is for the sake of the video I have it turned up all the way because that's the best way for you to see the screen but you definitely won't need it that bright next let's go over how to keep your screen on longer you're going to swipe down from the top of the screen upper right corner tap on the settings wheel tap on display swipe up and go to screen timeout now out of the box your phone is normally going to be set to either 15 or 30 seconds and what that means is your screen is going to go off really quickly so I would encourage you to change this to 1 minute or 2 minutes and the way this works is your screen is going to stay on 2 minutes so you don't have to touch the screen so often for it to stay on it'll stay on up to 2 minutes before it starts to go dim so adjust this accordingly based on what works best for you I found that 2 minutes is always a good uh game of the screen being on without me having to touch the screen now one quick note if you found that your phone storage is already starting to run slow I'd encourage you to get a memory card memory cards are really inexpensive and they can help to expand your storage so you can take more pictures and more videos I'll have a link pop up on the screen of of some memory card options here and I'll also have a link up here to my video where I show you how to put in that memory card and how how to adjust the settings appropriately to make sure your pictures and videos are saved onto the memory card next let's go over how to use the alarm app swipe up on the main screen and go to the clock app now in the clock app you'll find your alarms stopwatch and the timer which I use these very frequently so uh let's start with the alarm uh make sure you're on the alarm uh toggle you're going to hit the plus right here and here I can easily program a new alarm so let's have this go off at 10 a.m. or some of you guys probably 6:00 a.m. 6:00 a.m. and you can set what day of the week you want the alarm to go off now if you don't set any day of the week you just leave this blank then it'll automatically default to going off tomorrow here I can name the alarm you can say doctor's appointment [Music] hit save and now I have an alarm set for tomorrow 6:00 a.m. to go off for my doctor's appointment so just a really easy way to set an alarm you can always hit the plus and you can have multiple alarms you can have 10 15 20 depending on what works best for you you can also let's tap on this one here I can have this alarm go off on certain days of the week so maybe you want this alarm to go off on Monday Wednesdays and Fridays I'm just going to tap on those bubbles and now this will be a reoccurring alarm that goes off uh every week and you can just tap here if you want to change the name of the alarm just hit the arrow right here to erase the name and you can name it something else you also don't have to give it a name that's up to you this is the timer app you can set hey I want to set a 4-Hour timer I tend to use this when I do laundry I'll set a 1 hour timer and hit start and I can hit a plus here to add another alarm at the same time so you can also have maybe a shorter alarm if you want or um I can set this for 2 hours 3 4 You can have multiple alarms going at one time and just that easy you can have your alarm set when you're all done you can pause it or you can delete it moving on I want to go over uh how to use your Google Assistant now the Google assistant is really cool because I just showed you how to manually program an alarm but there's an easier way to do that which is if I hold down on the home button for one second just like this your Google Assistant will automatically pop up and all you have to do is tap on the microphone and just ask it to set the alarm for you just like this set an alarm for 6: a.m. and there you go just that easy it set the alarm for us and now I can hit view alarms and I can confirm that the alarm was set I can also use this for [Music] timers set a 1hour cook [Music] timer and I can tap view timers to see that the timer was set this is great for when you have something in the oven you might be in the other room and guess what you may not hear your oven timer go off but you'll have that alarm on your phone that will also remind you when it's time to go check what you put in the oven and you can use this for a bunch of other really cool things you can also use this to set a calendar appointment as well so watch this set a calendar appointment for August 30th at 8:00 a.m. to go to the doctor here you go the title was here the date and the time and the duration and all I have to do is hit create and that will lock in this timer or excuse me that'll lock in this calendar appointment and I can tap on this open calendar button so I can see it show up on my calendar I'm going to press calendar just once and guess what this is my month calendar and now I have my doctor's appointment set for the 30th so this Google assistant there's a lot of things you can do with it I just showed you a few of the most practical purposes you can use it with but you can do aot of other cool things you can ask it to find me a recipe for pesto Pine pasta find me um when is the next baseball game for X team you can ask at anything and it will basically do a Google search if it's a command it will do it on the phone if it you're asking a question about general information it will search the web to get you an answer so that's a really useful feature and you definitely should be using that cuz it's going to make life so much easier for you now lastly I want to go over something called widgets these are really useful functions on the phone and there's one specific widget that I think you will find very valuable so let me show you how this works we're going to hold down on the home screen and when you hold down for 1 second it's going to bring up these menu options at the bottom of the screen and you want to tap on widgets and here you'll find lots of really cool shortcuts that you can add to your home screen to give you additional information and also give you access to shortcuts to different functions on the phone the Gmail function is one that I think is one of the most useful widgets to use so uh we're going to swipe up until we get to Gmail and tap on this little arrow to the right and and this is the main widget for Gmail so we're going to uh put our finger on this little widget here and just hold it for 1 second and it's going to take us to our home screen now I can drop this widget right on the main screen oh but you know what I don't have enough space so I'm going to swipe over one screen now this is also a widget but I'm going to get rid of it I'm going to just hold down on it for 1 second this popup will show and let's tap remove now we have plenty of space for this widget I'm going to hold down the screen tap on widgets and we have the Gmail one that's open here I'm going to just press and hold and I'm going to basically drag it onto the main screen and then let it go and then you're going to tap on primary which is your main uh inbox for email and now you'll see these little dots in the four corners of the screen if you put your finger on the dot and drag you can expand how big the widget is there's also a DOT at the bottom I'm going to take my finger put on the dot and just drag down and with this widget it allows me to see all of my latest emails right from the home screen so this is the main home screen and when I swipe left this is another page of the home screen and now I can scroll up and I can look at all of my latest emails right from the home screen this is a great way to stay up to date with your emails and not miss anything important and if you see it uh a really good email simply tap on it and it'll open up the Gmail app and take you right to that email so you can read through it so this is just one of many uh widgets that are available just as a reminder you press and hold on the home screen and then tap on widgets and then as you swipe through you'll see there's so many other cool widgets so I would encourage you go through this menu and look at all the other widgets that are available and see if there's any others you would like to add to your screen these make life so much easier I have multiple um email accounts on my phone and so I use this widget a lot to keep track of different emails that are coming through different accounts I'm going to add a link up here to another really helpful video this is my how to transfer data video it's also my how to set up your a15 video there's so many other great helpful tips in there that I think would be useful for you in that video I go over how to change the wallpaper on your app I also go over how to delete apps and how to move apps on the screen so after you watch this video make sure you check out that video as well I guarantee you'll learn some more helpful information if you find this video helpful make sure you hit that like button down below and leave me a comment and let me know what was the most helpful thing I covered in the video and and let me know if there's anything else you would like me to cover in the part three to this video which I will make shortly after this video launches thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one