6 Samsung phone features to turn on if you haven’t already

Samsung builds fantastic phones, but the company also has a habit of shipping them with some of their absolute best features turned off by default. If you want to unlock the full potential of your Galaxy device, let’s take a few minutes to dive into your settings menu. There, you’ll find some incredibly cool features you should enable right away. Wireless power sharing Imagine your friend’s phone is dying, or your wireless earbuds completely fizzle out right before a flight. If you have a modern Galaxy phone, you’re carrying around a portable wireless charging pad in your pocket. You just have to activate it first. Go to Settings, scroll down to Battery, and tap Wireless Power Sharing. Toggle it to On, then flip your phone face-down and place the dying device right on its back. Notification history We’ve all done it: A notification pops up, you reflexively swipe it away to clear your screen, and a split second later you realize it was actually an important text, email, or delivery alert. Turning this feature on creates a digital paper trail for every single alert that hits your device. Open Settings, tap Notifications, select Advanced settings, and tap Notification history, then flip the toggle to On. Once enabled, this screen will keep a chronological log of every single notification you received over the past 24 hours, even the ones you accidentally dismissed. If you ever wonder what an alert said, you can just jump back in here to read it. Separate app sound If you’ve ever tried to play a podcast or music from your phone to a Bluetooth speaker only to have your audio violently interrupted by the loud chime of an incoming text message or a random game notification, this one’s for you. The Separate App Sound feature isolates your audio streams so you can, for instance, set Spotify to play exclusively through your Bluetooth speaker or earbuds while your phone’s notification sounds stay local to the device’s actual speakers. Head over to Settings, s