Google Pixel 9 for Beginners PART 2 (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | Pixel 9 Pro Tutorial

how to use two apps at one time. I want to use YouTube at the top and I want to have Amazon open at the bottom of the screen. So, here's how to do that. I'm going to swipe up and I'm going to go to the YouTube app. I'm going to open it. Hit the home button. And now I'm going to open up Amazon and then hit the home button. Now, I'm going to press the recent apps button in the bottom left corner of the screen. Some of you guys might be in the gesture mode. If you're in gesture mode, you're going to just swipe up and hold to bring up this menu. Now, you're going to swipe over and tap on the YouTube icon and tap on split screen view. Then, I'm going to swipe over, tap on u the Amazon app, and now I can have my YouTube video playing at the top of the screen and at the bottom I can be searching on Amazon for some last minute Christmas presents. So, that's a super easy way to use two apps at one time. You can also take your phone and rotate it in the landscape position. Now, you want to make sure that your screen rotation is not turned off. Also, pay attention in the bottom right corner. There's a little icon that's going to pop up that you do have to press for the screen to rotate. But there we go. If I double tap on this white bar in the middle of the screen, it will switch and move whatever's on the left to the right. And when you're all done and you want to get out of the split screen, simply hold on the dash and drag to the right, and that'll take you out of split screen and back into full screen. Number two, how to create custom wallpapers using AI. You're going to hold down the home screen, tap on wallpaper and style. From here, you're going to go to more wallpapers, tap on AI wallpapers. First, you want to choose a theme. And for this, I'm going to make the theme texture. And then I can customize the theme using keywords. So tap on pink and I'm going to change it to green. And instead of sand, I'm going to change it to nylon. Let's tap create wallpaper. Give it a few seconds and it will come up with four custom wallpapers that you can use with your phone. This is one, two, three, and four. I think I want to go with number three. You can also tap on inspire me if you want to continue to play around with it until you get it just right. I'm going to go to the upper right corner, tap on the check, and that's going to save that wallpaper as my new background. You can also, you can set it for just your home screen, or you can set it for your home screen and your lock screen as well. upper right corner, tap on set wallpaper, hit home screen and lock screen. And now we've just locked in our brand new uh AI wallpaper. Number three, how to launch your camera from any screen. No matter what's happening, if something noteworthy is happening and I want to launch my camera, I can simply double tap on my power button and it will automatically take me to the camera. Even if my phone is off and I have a password set on the phone, it doesn't matter. Double tap the power button, it'll automatically launch the camera and allow me to take a picture or a video. Now, number four, this is a really important one. How to launch the emergency mode. And the emergency mode, when it's triggered, it you can have it call 911 and it will trigger a message to your emergency contacts telling you that you're in trouble. This is how you launch it. And then after I'll show you how to customize the settings of who it's going to call and and all the things that it will do. You're going to tap the power button five times consecutively just like this. It'll take you right to the emergency SOS function. And from here, you're going to just tap and hold this for 3 seconds. And when you do that, by default, it's just going to call 911. Okay? But when you dial in the settings, you can have it do a lot more than just call 911. Let me show you how to do that now. So, let's unlock the phone. I'm going to go to the settings and go to the safety and emergency section. Once you get to this screen, you want to go to each option and you want to just plug in the appropriate information. So, starting with medical information, um, if you key in different medical information, let's say you were to faint, but before you fainted, you triggered the emergency mode. On the screen, it would show all this important information, your blood type, your height, your weight. You can have it specifically show allergies, um, medical conditions, any medical notes that someone would need to know. For example, I'm allergic to penicellin. um I can't have this or just had this type of surgery. This way emergency medical personnel would know how to care for you properly. Now, this is the first setting. You'll want to go through each one of these and you'll want to just plug in the appropriate information so that once you trigger that emergency mode, it will do all the things for you. This next hidden feature is one of my favorites. Um, this is you can double tap on the back of your Pixel phone and you can launch the app of your choice or the action of your choice. Go to settings. We're going to go down to system and then gestures and then go to quick tap to start actions. First, you want to turn on the feature. And then here it will give you a list of actions that you can program to launch when you tap on the back of the screen or the back of the phone twice. I like to have the flashlight set for this. So, toggle flashlight. And watch this. I'm going to hit the home button. And if I tap on the back of the this phone twice, it's going to automatically launch my flashlight. See that? All right. So, the other cool thing is you can program it to just launch the app of your choice. Maybe you're like addicted to Tik Tok and you want Tik Tok to be the app. You can come in here. So, go to the bottom and select open app. hit the settings wheel and then pick the app you want to launch whenever you do that gesture and then it will always launch that just by tapping the back of the screen twice. Now, hey, if you learned something cool so far from this video, stop and bump that like button down below. It doesn't cost you anything but 1 second, one action, and it helps this video to get shared to a lot more people. So, please, as a thank you, do that for me, please. Okay, next, I want to show you how to enable the one-handed mode. This phone is a bit big and so it can be a little hard to reach the top of the screen with one hand. So, let's turn on one-handed mode. We're gonna tap on the settings wheel and we're going to back out of this. We're going to go back to gestures and go to one-handed mode. We're going to swipe down and go to one-handed mode shortcut. And it's going to put this little notch here on the side of your phone. And now when you're holding your phone, if you ever want to go down to the one-handed mode, simply tap on that little icon, and it will shrink the phone down and make it easier for you to reach things. And then tap it again to get out of it. You can also hold and drag this to different parts of the screen or drag it to the other side of the screen. Just long press and then move it. And that's your little one-handed mode, little notch. Okay. Next, I want to show you how to scan text into your phone with this trick. We're going to swipe up and open up the camera. I'm going to take a picture of this box here. Okay. [Music] Once you take your picture, tap on the icon to the left of the shutter button. Here's my picture, and I want to scan all the text on the back of this box. I'm going to tap on the lens button. Press okay. And then I'm going to tap on select text. It's going to highlight all the text that's on the back of this box here. And I can press this copy button right up here. And it just copied all the text on the back of my box. Let's hit the home button now. And let's swipe up. I'm going to go to my Google Keep app, which is the best app for taking notes. If you don't have it, Google Keep is the name. Tap on the plus in the bottom right corner and go to text. And now I can long press to bring up this menu and paste all the text that was on the back of that box. So that's a super easy trick if you're just trying to copy text off of anything into your phone. Great for you students. You can copy a section in a textbook and paste it right into your notes to make it easier for you to study it later. Okay, next let's go into the camera. Again, there's some really cool things they've added to the camera. And one specific thing is a feature called add me. We're going to go to the camera icon first and then go to add me. And with this feature, watch this little preview. You can basically take a picture of someone, hold the phone in the same spot, have that person walk over, hold the phone, and then the person who took the picture first, have them walk right into that same section, but right next to where that person was standing, and then you you can have them take a picture, and it will stitch those two pictures together to make one cohesive picture. You never have to worry about asking a stranger to take a picture for you. Just use add me and you can add anyone you want to your photo just like that. Super cool. It's very hard for me to demonstrate that in my studio. So, I just showed the visual of what it looked like. Um, play around with it. It's a really fun feature and it's such a game changer. I think they're the only phone right now who has this feature. So, definitely take advantage of that cool feature. Okay, this next tip is for those of you guys who get a little wrapped up into your phone and often have trouble detaching from your phone to get work done. You'll want to use this next feature. This is called the focus mode. You're going to swipe down from the top of the screen. Swipe down again and you're going to tap on this little pencil and you're going to swipe up and look for focus mode. Here it is. long press and you're going to drag it up up up and just drag it drop it somewhere at the top of the screen here. Okay, let's hit the back button here. We're going to swipe over. Now, here's our focus mode. Now, when you turn on the focus mode, you can tell your phone, hey, I want to disable distracting apps so I can focus. And so, what it's going to do is it's going to hide notifications from those apps. so that you can focus and get work done. So, for example, I can come down this list here and I can say, hey, you know, for the next hour, I'm going to turn on a focus mode and I don't want to get any text messages. Uh, I want to add Tik Tok in there as well. I want to add YouTube. I don't want notifications about new videos. You can add your Instagram messages as well. And these are now labeled as distracting apps. I'm going to hit turn on now. And you can always even set a schedule. You can say, "Hey, from 9 to 12, I want these apps to be disabled in terms of notifications so I can focus on work." Now, I'm going to hit the home button, and I want to show you what this looks like. If you notice, the Tik Tok app is blurred out, YouTube is blurred out, and my my messaging app is blurred out. If I try to go there, it's not going to let me go to it. It says messages and other distracting apps are paused right now. You do have an option to say use app for 5 minutes. You can press okay. It will enable that app to be used just for 5 minutes. Oh, sorry. So, you do need to tap where it says use for 5 minutes and then after that it'll reddisable it again and let you go back to focusing. So, this is a great feature in terms of productivity. Phones can be very addicting and hard to detach from. This is a easy way to detach from them. Now, our last tip is going to be how to launch your new AI assistant, which is called Gemini. By holding down on the power button for one second, it will launch Gemini. Gemini, can you help me write a Merry Christmas post to my friends and family? I want to play it on Facebook and let them know how much I love them. [Music] So, pretty cool. It wrote three different posts and you can always tap on the microphone to even uh give it notes. Oh, I like this, but can you add uh this person's name or can you add a line about um how I this has been a hard year, but my family is amazing. You tap the microphone, you can ask it to make adjustments, and it'll do that for you as well. So, that is your new AI assistant that's built in. And uh right now only Pixel phones have that. So, definitely make the most of having that as a built-in feature. Today, I'm going to show you how to take a screenshot on your new Pixel 9 and I'm going to show you how to print that along with how to print other things on your phone as well. Okay, let's open up Google Chrome. Let's say you want to take a screenshot of this case here because you want to purchase it later. You can simply swipe up and hold and then tap on the screenshot. There's a button right here that will allow you to take a screenshot just like that. You can tap on the pencil right after to then edit that screenshot. So, there's a little bubble here, here, here, and here. You simply drag up on that bubble, and you can align exactly where the screenshot um will save. So, you're basically cropping it down. When you're done, simply uh in the upper left corner, you can hit save. You can hit the trash can if if you decide you change your mind or you can hit the share button right here to share it out to someone. I'm simply going to save it. Here's the other method on how to take a screenshot. This is using the exterior buttons. Pick up your phone. You're going to hold down on the power and the volume down button and you're going to hold them for one second. Just like this. Power, volume down, hold. Let it go. it will snap a screenshot that we can then select to make any edits. We have a few different options here. We have a notification. We can have this picture show up later as notification. We can edit it, crop it right on it using this button or we can share it directly here. Now that screenshot is going to get saved to multiple places. It will be saved one to your Google Photos app right here, but it also will be saved in the new screenshot app called Screenshots. So, I'm on the home screen. I'm just going to swipe up, go to screenshots, and here's my screenshot. And from here, I can tap on that screenshot. I can add some notes. I can even attach a reminder to it. I can tap on this little bell and I can say, "Hey, you know, remind me tomorrow, you know, just hit the reminder and tomorrow this photo will pop up as a reminder. Maybe you want to buy it tomorrow and not today." You can just have an easy reminder like that. Um, you can also add notes at the bottom here. You can add remember to pick up this case. You can also add it to a collection of other screenshots. Maybe you're looking for multiple cases. you can add them all in one collection. So, we've taken our screenshot. We know it's going to be in the screenshots app or photos. Now, what if I just want to print that screenshot? Well, so I'm in Google Photos right now. I'm going to go over to collections. At the very top here, there's a folder that says screenshots. Tap on screenshot. Tap on the photo. Now, let's print this picture by upper right corner. Tap on the three dots and then we're going to swipe to the left and there's a printer all the way at the end. Tap on print and um make sure your phone is on Wi-Fi. Make sure you obviously have a wireless printer that is connected to your network. And you're going to tap where it says select a printer. And right here, it's showing my Canon wireless printer. I'm going to tap on that. Now, I can tap the print button here to send this off to print. I can also tap on this drop-own arrow, and I can change the number of copies that print. I can change uh the color, maybe go from color to black and white. You have a lot of options here to manipulate how the print happens. So, go through all these options here, but essentially, that's how you print a photo. Now, you can repeat those steps for any other picture on your phone as well. Now, next, let's go over how do we print an email. Let's go to our Gmail app. And I just so happen to be in an email right now for the new PixelBuds Pro 2. Pretty sweet. Let's say I want to print this email. Go to the upper right corner, tap on the three dots, and we're going to go to print. Now, the this web page is long, so sometimes it will take a bit longer for all the information to show up if you're printing a long document or section. We're going to go to select a printer. Select the Canon printer again, and you'll see the picture of the email show up in this section, but again, it's a long email, so it might take a little bit longer for it to show up in this section. But once that photo shows up here, that little print button will show up. And that's what will allow you to print. All right, here it is. Our email is ready to go. Now, you can print all the pages of the email. Or you might say, I really just want this first page that has the pixel buttons on it. So, notice there's a check box in the bottom right corner of each page. And I can uncheck the other pages so that only the first page is going to print, which is this one. And then I can tap my print button right here to send it to the printer. Now lastly, let's go over how do I print a web page. Maybe instead of taking a screenshot of this, hey, I just want to print this whole web page. Upper right corner, tap on the three dots. You'll notice there is no print button. What do we do? Never fear. We're going to tap on the share button. And now our print button is here. So, this is why I show how to print on these three different examples because it's different for an email, it's different for a photo, and it's different for a web page. So, for a web page, you hit the share button first, and then this comes up. I'm going to hit print. Follow the same steps. Select the printer and then um give it a second to show up here. Now, one trick to get the image to show up faster to print, um, where it says, uh, where it has the printer, tap here and tap save as a PDF, and this makes the preview show up faster. Then switch back to the printer and then you'll be able to print. All right, so pretty cool. Going to end the video with just showing you my new case. Really sweet case I found on Amazon. I really wanted something that had good grip and a nice style. So, this has a nice textured backing and it has a really nice um rigid grip on the edge here and right here. So, this basically has taken a really slippery Pixel 9 Pro. So, much easier to hold now that it has a lot more grip. This is a rinky case and I'll make sure to drop a link in the description of this case as well and a few other ones that I've been testing out. Love the style, love the grip, and um it's making me feel more comfortable using my Pixel 9 Pro. Today, I want to show you what to do if your Pixel 9 screen is freezing or the touchcreen is not working properly. All you need to do is hold down on the power and volume up button for about 10 seconds. You're going to press them together. Hold them both. You'll see this pop up on the screen. Continue to hold the buttons until the screen goes completely blank. Just like this. As soon as it goes blank, let go of the buttons. Now, give the phone 5 to 10 seconds. It usually will restart on its own. However, if it doesn't, you can simply tap the power button and that will kick it back on. So, what this does is it's not going to erase any of your data off of the phone. It just forces the phone to turn off and turn back on again. There we go. Once you see your logo, we're good to go. It's in the process of restarting. And usually, if you're having a software glitch or an app that's not working properly, this will fix it. However, if your screen is cracked or uh has any physical damage, then you might have a bigger issue. In that case, I would encourage you to take your phone to a local service and repair shop for phones.