Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra For Beginners PART 2 (Most Helpful Tips and Tricks)

The video today is a follow-up to my beginner's walkthrough of the Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. In this part two, we'll be going over some great tips and tricks and hidden features to help improve your experience even more. Let's go ahead and get into it. So for the first one, we're going to swipe down from the top of the screen, swipe to your left, and you'll see you have a built-in flashlight. When you tap on this, it's going to take your screen and it's going to use the light of the screen to turn your watch into a flashlight. See, just like this. And so now I can use this if I'm in a dark room that doesn't have light. I can simply point my watch and use the screen's light to help me to see in front of me. And as you tap, it will actually raise or lower the brightness. When you're all done, just simply tap on that home button. It'll take you back to the main screen. Number two, we're going to swipe down from the top of the screen, swipe to your left, and look for the teardrop or the water drop. Now this is such a great feature. This is the water lock feature. Now it is originally for when you're going to be in water. For example, you'll be in the shower, the bathtub, you're going to be in a pool. This helps you to basically disable the screen. You'll see a little water drop that'll show up in the upper right corner. And now when water hits the screen, it's not going to go crazy because the screen is disabled. So this is great. Again, if you're going to wear your watch in the shower, you're going to wear it in the pool while you're swimming. You don't have to worry about the screen constantly vibrating and glitching because it's being constantly hit with water. Now, another cool tip is that if you have kids, especially little babies, they're very drawn to your watch and they'll constantly want to touch the watch and touch the buttons. If you turn on this lock, excuse me, if you turn on this water lock feature, now they can touch the buttons, but it won't mess with the screen. And so I often use this when I'm holding my one-year-old because now I don't have to worry about her screwing up my watch face or calling someone by accident because she's touching it. I just lock the screen. Now, here's how you turn this feature off. You're going to hold down on the home button for two seconds, just like this. It will make this loud noise. So you want to be mindful of where you turn it off. But it'll make that noise and that is a high pitched frequency that will push water that could have gotten trapped in the watch. It pushes it out to make sure that the watch is totally clear of water. And now guess what? Our touchscreen is working again and it's totally working properly. So this is a great feature. This is the water lock feature, but I like to call it your secret baby proofing feature as well. Now, number three, really fun feature here. If you're going into a movie theater and you don't want to be a distraction to other folks watching the movie, you can swipe down from the top of the screen, tap on this little pie in the upper left corner. This is going to take you to your modes and there is a theater mode. And when you tap on theater mode, guess what? It actually will disable some things on the watch so that it's not constantly lighting up and being bright. It will put the watch in vibrate and it will also dim down the screen. And when you rotate your wrist, it's not going to turn on the display. You'll have to press the home button to turn on the screen. And this basically makes it so that your watch is not a distraction while you're in the movies. Now, I think by default it is set to be on for two hours, but you can force it to stay on if you want it to be longer. And I want to say it turns off automatically after the two hours, but you can also just swipe down from the top and tap in the corner. Notice now it's not a pie. Now it has a little kind of movie symbol. If we tap it again, it will automatically turn off theater mode and take you back into the normal setting. So that is the theater mode. Also guys, if you're getting value out of this video, if you learn even one new thing, my one small request of you is to bump that like button down below. It lets YouTube know that you liked the video you're learning and it will encourage them to push it out to more people with their learning. So definitely go ahead and jump into that. Next up, we have one of the best tips, which is how to locate your phone from your watch. You're going to swipe down from the top of the screen, swipe to the left two times and look for this option in the upper right corner. This is your finder and this will automatically ping your phone and it'll make a loud noise to help you locate it, uh, wherever it is. So super great. Now, obviously your phone does have to be on for this to work and you do have to be within Bluetooth range for it to ping the phone. But this is such a clutch feature. And I use this all the time because my phone always just gets lost. Now let's move on to the flip side feature, which is how do I locate my watch? If it gets lost on your phone, you want to swipe up and look for the wearable app. If you go to the search, type in W-E-A-R, you'll find the wearable app and you'll see there's a button that will say, find my watch. You're going to tap on that and this will basically bring up a map and allow you to try to locate where your watch is. Now I have most of what's on the screen blurred out just for sake of privacy, but, um, one, it'll have a map. It'll show you the last known location. So if I select my watch here, I can actually do a couple of things. I can see on a map where it potentially is. And number two, I have a button where I can ring my watch and the ring option works great, especially when that watch is close and you think it's at home, it's just lost. So watch this. I'm going to hit ring and see that now the watch is going to make that same noise that the phone made when we just pinged it from the other way. And that loud noise should be enough to help you locate where that watch is around the house. Now, if you don't hear a ring at all, that's a little bit harder. And, um, that's when you'll want to look, you'll want to look right below the watch and you'll see, it'll have the last known address of the watch. And so guess what? If it does not show your address, that might be a sign that you left it somewhere else. I would check that address to see, okay. Oh, was that where we were earlier? Was that at a friend's house and try to track it down from that route. Okay. For the next tip, I want to show you how to add new workouts to the watch. Okay. Now, when you tap on this action button to the right here, it's going to take you to your exercises. And there are, uh, different exercises that are preloaded. And these are kind of like the generic ones that the majority of people use, but you might find yourself saying, oh, well, you know, I, I skate, I play basketball. I don't see those in there. I'd love to do that exercise or track that workout. So recently I actually added, uh, the basketball one right here. And so it was able to have a special calibrated mode just for when I'm playing basketball, which is great to add new workouts. You'll want to go all the way to where it says add plus, and then you'll see, um, select an exercise. And there's a huge list of a bunch of other, uh, workouts that are not as common, but are preloaded in the watch. And so you can go through here and just check to find these other workouts. You can also do this from your phone as well, but let's say you find one, like maybe, uh, dancing, for example, you want to track your dance class. You can tap on dancing and now it's going to keep it in the menu. So you can easily get to it just like that. So yeah, guys, this is an easy way for you to add additional workouts. It's not limited to just what you see. There are so many other workouts that are built in that you can add to enhance your experience with, uh, tracking just your activity. Okay guys, for the next tip, I want to show you how to change the order of the apps you see in your app drawer here. You might find yourself saying, you know, wow, I checked my text messages quite a lot and I wish it wasn't so far down the list here. Well, it's down here. If I just, uh, put my finger on the app and keep it there, a long press, it'll allow me to then move it up to a higher position. See that? And now I can drop it, for example, right there. So now when I swipe up, it's going to show up much higher on the list. So you can rearrange these at any time. And, you know, for myself, I found myself using the timer a lot. And so I moved it up much higher so I can get to it easier. Now, another thing you may want to try, and this will dovetail into our next tip, which is, um, I can program one of my button shortcuts to automatically take me to my favorite app or my favorite setting. So here's an example of that. If I double tap on this home button right here, it will automatically take me to my exercises. But guess what? This is not necessary because when I tap here, it also takes me to my exercises. I should program this double tap to do something else. So let's talk about how to reprogram that to launch whatever app you would like. I'm going to go down to the settings. I'm going to swipe down to buttons and gestures, and I'm looking for the double tap right here or double press, double press of the home button. I'm going to tap here. And right now it's set to go to most recent app. But I would rather this go to something specific. In my case, I would really like it to go to my timer because something I use a lot is setting timers for my laundry. Or in fact, let's see. You know what? I'm actually going to change it to the weather because when I wake up in the morning, it'd be so great to just double tap and it takes me right to the weather app so I can see what the weather is for the day. So that's one app you can, you know, set. You can go through and set whatever app you want to be the shortcut when you double press. Now, let's move on to our next tip, which is how to launch your Gemini assistant, because some of the things you would manually be going to, you can just do it by asking Gemini to do it. So if I long press on this button, so not a double tap, but just a long press, it will launch my Gemini assistant and I can ask it to search things or open apps for me or even carry out some commands. Let me show you the most common command that I use on my watch ultra, which is it's so funny and it's such a simple thing. But watch this. Set laundry timer for 70 minutes and in seconds, it'll set that timer for me. So when I walk away from my machine, it will ping me and let me know when it's time to go check my laundry. I love this feature. And again, it might seem so simple, but I probably use that command more than anything else on my watch. Now, one thing you'll notice when you set that timer, it's going to show up in your now bar. So now I can always see how my timer is doing and how close I am to the washer being done, which is great. Now let's move on to this next tip here, which is when you launch a workout, right? Let's launch a workout really quick. I'm going to launch. Let's just say we are walking, even though we are sitting and not having any movement right now. But let's say we head over to walking and there it is. It's going to start our workout. Now there's something you're going to notice that's going to pop up on the screen. So obviously these are the current things you see when you track a workout. It's going to be counting up and it'll show calories and you can swipe up to see the different metrics that are being tracked during your walk. Now, if I hit the home button, I now have two things that my watch is actively doing. I'm working out and I can see the workout right here in my now bar. But when I remember, I also have that timer set and I want to keep track of how much time is left before I have to change, put my clothes in the washer to the dryer. If I tap right here, it'll actually show me both of the pieces of data that were being tracked in the now bar. So I can see my workout and I can see my laundry timer and I can easily jump between the two just by tapping. So right there, I'm right back to my laundry timer and then I can tap it again. And then this time, go back to my workout and keep tracking my workout. And sometimes you have even more things happening. Like for example, I might be listening to music and that's the third big thing. Let's say I'm listening to music. I'm going to put a song on right now. And so my watch will immediately turn into my music controller for what's going on my phone. So when I tap at the bottom here, now it's going to show three things. I'm walking, I'm playing music and I have the timer going. And that's how I can easily jump between the three things I have going. I can just tap on that little icon at the bottom and then I can jump over to music. And now I have my music controls right on screen. Now I kind of jumped the gun here. This was supposed to be our next tip, which is how to control your music from your watch. Now, either way we are here and this shows you, I can pause it from here. I can change the song. I can change the volume as well. If I want to turn it up or turn it down, you can move that audio from your phone to your Bluetooth headphones by tapping on the headphones right here. And I can scroll through my Bluetooth list to send that audio to another device. For example, my Buds 4 Pro, I can send it right there. And guess what? Now I don't necessarily have to hold my phone as long as I have my watch and my earbuds, I'm good. So now I want to talk about how would I get the music to play just through my watch? A lot of people don't know this, but you can actually use your watch as like a little mini Bluetooth speaker. Now this is a little tricky to do, but I'm going to try my best to walk you through it and just my little shortcut. Now I use YouTube music because that's just my favorite music app, but a lot of folks use Spotify, Pandora, a lot of the other apps. So I'm going to explain this just from the perspective of YouTube music, but it shouldn't be too much different with Spotify or with the other streaming apps. So I'm going to swipe up and I'm going to go to music, my YouTube music and the main screen of the app. Okay, next I want to show you how to play music right from your watch. You can actually use your watch as a little portable Bluetooth speaker. And I primarily use this through the app YouTube music because they just tend to work very well together. Now let's go ahead and open up the YouTube music app. I'm going to swipe up, go to the YouTube music app right here. Now I already have playlists that are built in to YouTube music and that's what makes it really easy for me. Now for you, I would say you'll want to go in, search some of your favorite songs and add them to a playlist. Once you do that, you can then simply swipe up. These are like pre-created playlists, but as you swipe up, you can get to your favorite playlist. So here's one for me. This is my Forest Frank playlist. And so I can just tap on the playlist, get to all of my songs. And by the way, the first thing you'll hear is the download button. I would encourage you to download the music right to your watch because this way you'll be able to listen to this music even if your phone is not with you. Let's say you want to go for a run. You can actually just download music right to the watch and then it'll be there for you to listen to it when your phone is not close to you. So that's a small little pro tip that is an additional tip for you to follow just for using this watch. Okay. I'm going to swipe up. Here's some of my favorite songs right here. So I'm going to select this song, Happy. And now it's going to play right through the speakers on the watch. See that? Now, if you have Bluetooth headphones, that's how a lot of folks tend to do this. But now I love the fact that you can do this because a lot of times when I'm walking around the house and I'm doing chores, I'll just put some music on my watch. And as I'm walking around, guess what? I don't have to hold anything. I don't have to have my earbuds in and be secluded from what else is happening in the house. I can hear everything, but I can also jam out to my music while I'm doing my daily chores. So this is just another really cool feature to make the most of your watch. And a lot of people don't know how to do this. So I hope you guys found that helpful. And by the way, if you haven't already done so, bump that like button. I'm just saying. Now, I would tell you, so look, all the songs in this list here, you'll notice now they have a little arrow next to them, the down arrow. And that's telling you that these are songs that are downloaded. So you can maneuver back and forth. I'm going out of it by just starting on the left side of the watch and swiping in. And now I can go through and find some of my other playlists. So let's see here. Where are my playlists? You'll need to go to your library and then here you can go to playlists and then you can begin to see some of your different songs. And all you have to do is simply select them and hit that download button. And then that's how you'll add more music to your watch. So super easy. It just starts with using YouTube music and downloading or adding those songs to a playlist first, and then you can go back and then add them to your watch later. OK, this next tip is super cool because you can use your watch as a controller for the camera on your phone. Now, if you swipe up and tap on the camera icon, this will take you to your camera controller. And guess what? Now I can simply tap on the shutter button to take pictures. I can even tap on the camcorder icon and I can record a video using the watch as the controller. So this is a super fun feature. Hey, saying hi, you guys can see me right there. And if you have your gestures turned on, you can also use the double pinch gesture to initiate taking pictures or videos. So super cool feature. This is great for group pictures. If you want to set your phone up like on a mantle or something and then everybody gets in the picture, make sure on your watch you open up the camera controller and then you can start snapping those pictures right from your watch. This is the gesture settings. Now, if you swipe down from the top of the screen, tap on the settings will in the upper right corner. This will take you to your menu here and we're going to go down to buttons and gestures. OK, we're going to swipe up here and we're going to go down to the gesture section right here. It says gestures and these are some of the specific gestures that you can program. So first you have what is called the double pinch. Now, this is basically taking your pointer finger and your thumb and doing this when you do that. You can use that gesture to launch different actions. So right now I'm on the home screen and I have my double tap programmed to allow me to cycle through my notifications. So watch this. I'm going to just tap twice and it's going to take me to my watch notifications. And as I keep tapping, I can scroll through my different notifications that have come through my phone. Remember, whatever is coming to your phone is going to end up hitting the watch as well. So right now I'm able to cycle through all the notifications just by double tapping the pointer finger and my thumb. So super cool feature there. But there are so many other ways you can set this up. So that's one of the next thing. So if I tap where it says double pinch, this is where I can change the gesture to do something else. So right now I'm going to scroll through and it's showing me here when I'm on the watch face, I have it scrolling through my different notifications or open the now bar. Now, if I scroll up, you can see that double pinch will control multiple things. It just depends on what screen you're on. So when I'm on the home screen, it does notifications. But when I'm in the music player, you can actually use it to play or pause your music, which that's a really fun feature as well. If you're working out, all you have to do is do that double pinch and you can have it pause your music for you, which is really convenient. You can also have it dismiss alarms. So if your alarm is going off, double pinch, same thing, it'll go off. You can have a dismiss calendar alerts and reminders as well. For the next tip, I want to show you guys how to turn on the always on display. This is a really fun feature. And basically when your watch is asleep, it won't just have a blank screen. It'll actually still show the time, but the screen will be slightly dimmed. So if you swipe down from the top of the screen and you tap on this icon here, this is your always on display. Now, when this is turned on, again, when the watch goes to sleep, you'll still be able to see the time on your watch at all times. It's a really fun feature. The only downside to this is that it does drain a lot more battery. I would say you're probably going to lose a third of your battery just to this feature, but it's so cool. And I try to use it as often as I can. So right now you can see my watch is asleep. But this is the always on clock that shows up when my watch is not being used. Now watch this. If I pick up my wrist, the watch face will change to the normal thing and that's the normal watch face. So that's the normal. And again, I'm going to take my watch down like this. It'll automatically turn on the always on display. And so I can still see the time and it looks really nice and clean. And definitely a fun feature to play around with. Just again, be mindful because it does drain your battery quite a bit. All right. Now I wanted to end the video with a really cool accessory that goes with this phone. This is a portable power bank from a company called Static. They make really cool accessories. And I came across this recently and I was like, man, I got to show this off in a video. So this is just a power bank, right? It's a 10,000 milliamp power bank. And it's got charging cable right here to easily charge your phone. The plug does pop out. But the biggest thing is that it has a wireless charger built into the side and it is compatible with your Samsung watch. So I can actually take my Galaxy Watch Ultra and I can put it on here and I can basically charge when I'm on the go. As you can see right here, it's showing the battery icon. And that's what is telling us that guess what? It is officially charging now. And so when I go on trips now, I don't need to bring my watch charger. I just need to bring this one device because now this is enough to charge my watch along with being able to charge my phone and my other tech. So, you know, one of the downsides of all the technology that's coming out these days is the fact that more chargers, you have to bring so many more chargers with you now because everything needs to be charged. Well, guess what? Now this is a device you can just bring one and this will allow you to charge multiple devices at one time. Now, this does bring us to the end of the video. I hope you guys did find this helpful. If it was, please bump that like button down below. And if you see a button that says hype, if you can tap on that hype button and hype the video as well, we really appreciate that. Again, that all that does is tell YouTube that you got value out of the video. You learned a lot and that they should share it with more people. And if you do that, they'll share it. And it definitely is a big win for our channel. So I appreciate you doing that. Can you leave me a comment down below and let me know which tip was the most helpful of everything we went over. I always love to see your feedback and it helps to inform new videos I make. So do me a favor, leave that feedback down there and I'll catch you guys in the next one. If there are other questions you have about this watch and other things you want to learn how to do, make sure also drop that in the comment section down below and I'll try to address those as well. Thanks again for watching. Take care. And as always have a good one.