Samsung Galaxy A36: Top Tricks and Hidden Features for Enhanced Experience

Sound Customization with Adapt Sound

• 🎧 Adapt Sound in Sound and Vibration settings allows for a personalized equalizer based on age range, compensating for common hearing loss.
• 💡 For a more tailored experience, use the Personalized Sound Profile to create an equalizer suited to your specific earbuds, boosting frequencies that might otherwise be lost.

Notification Shade and Toggle Customization

• 🎛️ By default, Samsung splits notifications and toggles into two sides, but you can combine them into a single view via Panel Settings.
• 👆 This allows for a more traditional notification shade where both notifications and toggles are accessible with a single swipe down anywhere on the screen.
• 🎨 Further customization includes reorienting brightness sliders and adding more toggles to the panel for quicker access to frequently used functions.

Lock Screen and Display Settings

• 🔒 The lock screen offers customization for fonts, clock size, colors, and styles, along with the ability to add widgets like battery status.
• 🌃 Light and Dark mode can be scheduled or set to a custom timer, with dark mode settings offering options for a scheduled switch from sunset to sunrise.
• ⚡ Motion Smoothness can be set to Adaptive (default, conserves battery by lowering refresh rate) or Standard (consistent 60Hz), with Adaptive being better for battery life.
• 🌈 Screen Mode offers Vivid and Natural color saturation options, with Vivid including white balance adjustments and advanced settings to tweak RGB colors for a more personalized display.

Edge Panel and Navigation Bar

• ➡️ The Edge Panel is a customizable sidebar that can be made invisible and positioned precisely, for example, near the volume rockers, for discreet access.
• 🛒 Additional panels can be downloaded from the Galaxy Store, though some may require purchase, which can be a drawback for some users.
• 🖱️ Navigation can be switched between Buttons and Swipe Gestures, with advanced customization for swipe gestures previously available but now more limited without third-party apps.
• 🛠️ The Good Lock app (via Galaxy Store) and its 'Nav Star' module offer enhanced customization for the navigation bar, including size and transparency adjustments, and the ability to hide icons at the top of the screen (Quick Star module), though some features may require a Samsung account.