Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes)

welcome into the video I am your tech guide Wayne and today I'll be bringing you a beginner's guide for the Samsung Galaxy watch 7 in the video I'll walk you through everything you'll need to know to set up and use your new Samsung Galaxy watch 7 so make sure you watch all the way to the end so you don't miss any important information all right okay let's go ahead and get started the first thing you'll need to do is simply plug in your charger and connect that charger right underneath to turn on the watch and in most cases it only take a few seconds for it to make the connection so there we go we see a little charging icon and it looks like it already has some battery now what you may also need to do is hold down on the power button for 1 second to give it uh a little kick on and the orange button the button that has the orange outline that is your power button so we verify that it has some juice we hit the power button to turn it on and now it's going to take a few seconds for it to boot up but then it should send out a ping to all the surrounding phones to try to pair and there it is it just sent the Ping to the phone we're going to tap connect now for the video I'll be pairing the watch 7 to my Samsung Galaxy s23 Ultra but I do want to point out that you can also pair this with any Android phone it doesn't have to be a Samsung phone now if you're not pairing it to a Samsung phone what you'll need to do is um you'll want to go to the Play Store and you'll want to search for the Galaxy wearable app this is the app that you use to set up and control the watch so you'll need to download this app to your phone if it's not a Samsung phone you can simply go to that Galaxy weo app and we can just do it right through there I'm going to go to the Play Store I've already downloaded My Galaxy wereable app I'm going to open this up and I'm going to hit start here we go so you'll want to just make sure that this number uh matches what's on the watch here and it does I'm going to hit confirm now it's going to download the appropriate software that it needs for this particular watch I do want to point out as well um this is the Wi-Fi variant of the watch 7 it's not the LTE version um once the setup is done or somewhere at the end of the setup there is a popup that will ask if you want to activate the watch with your carrier so just keep that in mind look out for that popup if you'd like to enable the LTE service so you can answer calls and texts when you're not by your phone I'm going to enable or basically check the box for all the terms and conditions and hit continue I'm going to allow permissions for the watch to access all these services for the next step here you'll want to link it with one of your Google accounts now this is really important because um if you ever lose your watch you can use the find my device option to be able to locate the watch so just FYI there I'm going to hit continue next we'll need to accept the terms and conditions from Google hit I agree so on this page we can select a few of the apps that we already have on our phone to be synced up with the watch I'm going to hit continue menu and next we can turn on the auto watch backup so it's always backing up your data next you'll select what wrist you'll be wearing the watch on I normally wear it on my right Wist next it's letting you know you can create custom workout routines check your body battery levels better sleep next now this is pretty cool this is the gesture one of the uh fun gestures you can do which is a double tap just like this an on the wrist that has the watch and this will allow you to answer calls dismiss alerts you can play and pause music and you can also take photos using the camera as well so that's definitely pretty cool and there's some new features in terms of uh in emergency mode that you can trigger Emergency Services um one being if there is a fall detected or if you're I believe if you're involved in a crash as well let's hit next [Music] there we go so our watch is now fully set up and ready to go so I'm going to move away from the phone right now and I just want to do a quick walk through of how to use the watch we'll talk about how to navigate just the menus and just the basic things you'll need to know in terms of navigating the watch does a ton and we can't go over every single thing it does but I just want to make sure you understand like where to find things how to access the settings and what are the important things you'll need to be paying attention to okay now you can take a tour I'm going to skip the tour for now but for your watch take the tour and it'll let you practice some of the different gestures and things so we'll skip that all right so here's our main watch face and it's showing you that whenever you see a little orange or red dot to the left here it means you have a new notification so you'd want to swipe to the right and then you can swipe through those different notifications and things that are coming through the phone after you've swipe through everything you can tap this clear all button to get rid of those notifications so first let's just start with simple navigation like how to move around so um swiping down from the top of the screen we'll access your shortcuts at the top here and you have some fun things here so first of all you have your sound settings so if you want to put your watch on vibrate or sound off you're going to tap that this is the mute setting when this is on if you get a text message it will make a ping sound and when you make calls it will also uh it'll ring as well in the center here this is the always on display and basically when this is enabled whenever the screen is off you'll still be able to see the time so if you give it a few seconds the screen is going to go off but then you'll still be able to see the time even though the screen is technically not on okay so now you can see that the the watch face is now dim and this is the always on clock so even if you're not using the screen you'll still always be able to see the time and the cool thing is as you download different watch faces they all have their own unique always on clock that will show and as soon as I tap the screen it will wake up all right so now while I love this always on clock feature it can be a big drainer on battery so um I don't recommend that you keep it on all the time unfortunately it just is a big drainer on battery but it's fun when you go out to a vents to have it on so you know it might be something you want to use sort of sparingly I'm going to just turn it off for now okay and also forgive me I went in a really weird order I don't know why I started in the bottom right I should have started in the top left so I'm just that was silly of me to do but anyway to the far left here this is your power saving mode you can turn this on if you're simply just trying to you know conserve battery you have your power button here and this uh you can power off the watch or you can make a call to Emergency Services you can also program medical information on the watch as well and I'm not going to go through every single one I want to mainly focus on navigating the watch but I just wanted to show you some of those important things now this is your shortcut to settings this will take you right to your settings menu and this will take you to your different modes now this is an important one to know because for example if you go into a movie theater you can turn on the the theater mode which will dim down the screen and it will um it'll uh silence all notifications and this is the sleep mode mode as well and this um you can manually turn this on so at night again you won't get bombarded with notifications and you can also customize that in the settings now you can also swipe to the left and there's another list of options you can turn your watch to a flashlight control the brightness uh Do Not Disturb mode you can toggle the Wi-Fi on and off and you can turn on the water lock mode which is great for when you're uh in the shower or in a pool um the watch is very sensitive to touch and so if you're going to be around water you'll want to turn on that water lock just so that your watch doesn't go crazy and then you have a few other options here as well so this is just your main shortcuts to the most frequently used settings now so just want to point out once again when you swipe to the right it will show notifications but when you swipe to the left on the home screen it will show some different things so these are called tiles this is your activity tracker and this will basically track your steps your active time and your activity calories as well so this is great for just tracking how active you are for the day and as we keep swiping through you have some shortcuts to launch workouts so walking running biking and and more um the watch will also uh actively detect your workouts so for example I tend to run a lot and so uh if I'm walking or running after about 10 minutes it will detect it and it will pick up tracking the entire workout so um you either want to start this at the beginning of your workout or just simply start the workout and the watch should detect what you're doing and start tracking now right now I just tap the wrong uh option if I want to go back I simply just need to start on the left side of the watch and swipe in and that takes you back one step so side of the watch and just swipe in that's how you go back one step as we keep swiping through here you have an energy score tile um you have this tile which is sort of a snapshot of your heart rate your steps and some other things here your sleep you have your weather you have your calendar and your battery life for the watch and for your phone ECG score and you can add more tiles and you can rearrange those tiles now I want want to point out if you hold down on any one of these tiles for 1 second it will allow you to uh erase a tile that maybe you say hey I'm not going to use that for example you might say uh I don't really want to use this one I don't know what that does tap on the red minus in the upper right corner and that will just delete that tile you can also hold down the tile so hold down to get to the menu hold down again and then you can drag left or right and you can change the order maybe you want your weather to be much closer to the front when you swipe so you can drag it over like that so those are just a few things you can do in terms of just organizing the order of what tiles you see okay now when you swipe up on the main screen it takes you to your apps this will show you all the apps that are currently installed on your watch and you can swipe through so you have you know timers alarms you have a video player Outlook email your camera controller your voice recorder calculator your uh alarm or your routines Galaxy buds you have all kind of uh apps that are already installed here and you can obviously install more as we swipe up now if you tap on this little circle right here this is your recent apps now this will show you all the apps that are currently running in the background of your watch you can simply hit close all if you want to close all the apps this is something you should do once a day just to help with uh the watch not overworking and the battery training now also I can hold down on the home screen here and this will allow me to either customize the current watch face I'm using or watch this hold down again swipe over or I can add a new watch face so let's add a new watch face there's a couple that come pre-installed I really like this one because this is the watch face that comes installed on the ultra so maybe you opted to get the uh lower end model but you can still have the same look that the watch uh the Samsung Galaxy watch Ultra has which is pretty sweet so now there are a lot more watch faces you can download and I'll show you how to do that once we get back to the wearable app now if you hold down the home screen and you tap on customize here you can basically change you know how all the colors um what data is shown you have a lot of control here so right now uh at the top here is showing you this is the background so I can just swipe around the edge of the watch here to switch between different background options so from there or I can swipe this way and there's a ton of background options that are available let's go with uh oh went back to the main one okay we can go to this one if you go up to the top here there's some fun two-tone ones as well let's go with that one and if I swipe left I can change the font size or the font type let's go with this one now I can change more colors on the screen so let's go with this one here I like that and then swipe left and then I can actually change what data is shown on the screen so maybe you don't want the compass to be in the center maybe you would rather see your battery life you can simply tap on that little blue circle and you can then pick a different option so let's go to for example battery I want to know my battery percentage so I know if I need to charge up and there's so many options that are going to be available in this menu here okay let's pick our messages and now I have a shortcut to my messages right in the center here and then you can pick on any one of these other options if you want to change the data that's shown and if we swipe left you can also change what data is shown here here and here so you have a lot of different options when it comes to customizing and every watch will allow you to customize different things about the watch so pretty cool all right let's switch over to the wearable app so I can show you some of the things you can do within there and things that you'll want to set right out of the gate so let's swipe up and let's go to watch settings now let's start with going to Notifications because you'll want to set what apps have permission to send notifications to the watch we're going to tap on app notifications and here you'll see that there's some that are already selected but you can go through and you can select more I encourage you not to select all you don't want to allow every single app to send notifications cuz if not your wrist is going to just vibrate all day and it's going to be very annoying so go through and decide maybe you use the Google messages app and you don't use the Samsung messages well in that case you want to turn on messages and turn off this messages you may also go through here and say okay um I want my Google Chat to send messages let's see what else I caution you against uh Instagram alerts and YouTube alerts because those just send alerts all freaking day and it can be really frustrating so it's something that you know if you want you can always turn it on and then turn turn it off later if it gets annoying in my experience those just tend to be very tedious and they're always popping up now Uber that's definitely one I'd love to have the alerts Cod on my watch so if my RI is here I can look down and know my ride is here so anyway um this is how you control what apps are going to send you notifications now right now out of the box it's set where you're only going to get notifications to your watch if you're not on your phone because if you're on your phone you should be seeing the not ification so it's only going to ping you when you're not using the phone but you can change that you can tell it hey show me alerts even if I'm using the phone so that's up to you to figure out what works best for you now another thing right now it's set to sync the Do Not Disturb mode with your phone so basically if you turn on do not disturb on your phone it's going to put your watch and do not disturb and vice versa so that also might be a setting you may want to change sometimes we don't want our phone to pain but we do want our watch to still let us know if something is happening now let's go back so next let's go to buttons and gestures and here you'll notice that all the gestures by default are turned off and so you may want to turn these on the gestures are really cool and you can do a lot of just fun things with them so you'll simply want to enable these and when you try to turn them on it's going to give you a demonstration of what it looks like so when you pinch um again that's going to allow you to answer a call dismiss an alert launch an app control your music or take photos you just pinch twice so let's turn this on you can always turn these off later but I would say just turn it on now this is showing you when you twist your wrist twice you can shake to dismiss alerts as well and there's a feature called knock knock which is knocking twice you can program the watch where when you do a double knock gesture you can have it launch a specific app a specific workout routine you can tie it to a lot of different things I actually have a whole video where I talk about the different gestures and I'll link that video right here so you can see kind of what the gestures look like and some of the different things you can do with them now here's another one so right here it says press and hold to launch Bixby now you can change it so this is showing you when you basically press and hold the power button it'll launch the be assistant but you can actually just make it so when you press and hold it will um bring you the power off menu so you kind of decide what works best for you there I'm also going to link here a tips and tricks video so you can see a bunch of other things you can do with the watch again there's so much I can't cover it all in this video but I want to just make sure you have all the information on what you can do with the watch 7 okay next let's talk about how to get more cool watch faces for the watch so right here we're going to tap on watch faces and you'll find um a big list now I just want to show you as we swipe through here you're going to see there's only two that are currently synced with the watch so if you want to add more to the watch you simply just have to go through this list here I think you can do up to 10 watches at one time so let's go through and just download a few more watches let's download this one you're going to hit allow and install and let's see that one looks pretty cool let's do that one and just simply swipe through the list and there's even more watches available than what you see on this list here but these are the main ones that are going to come pre-install and you can download more obviously from the Play Store this is a cool one here and this one mirrors the watch 4 which was definitely one of my favorites back in the day so I'm going to add that one and you can see how it's also updating on the watch as well all right so we've added a couple here let's add two more because again whatever you see up here is going to be available on the watch it's actually going to download and install to the watch so that's why why you want to add a couple because if you ever want to change it you won't always have to use the phone to sync it so I like this weather app this one's kind of cool let's update that one and let's just pick one more this one is pretty cool as well this photo one will actually let you add your own picture as the background of the the watch so right now you can see it's a picture of a dog now right here if I tap on this little pencil this will let me change the background I'm going to tap background I'm going to hit uh plus Gallery allow all and now I can go in and I can make my own picture the background there we go I'm going to increase the brightness a bit hit done and now I'll have my own picture as the background obviously you may want to make it a family member or a a place that you like to hang out so that's how you change the background so that the watch will show one of your own custom pictures we're going to hit save so now it's locked in and you can see that's what it looks like on the screen so again you can add more but right now we have four watches that are synced that are going to sync with the watch and be on actually on the watch so you can change it whenever you want now if I swipe all the way to the bottom I can go more watches on Google Play and then I can go to the Play Store and download lots of other fun watch faces here so that's kind of watch faces in a nutshell and again tapping on any one of these will allow you to customize it in the app as well you select it and then tap on that little blue pencil and that's going to let you change the color and do any other uh customization um based on what you see in the settings here so far guys if you found value in the video don't forget to hit that like button down below it will help this video to reach more people and just help folks who are new to this watch now next let's talk about the tiles now I showed you when you swipe to the left and you see all those different tiles um there are more tiles that are available now these are all the ones that are currently on the watch if you'd like to delete more you can also do it within the app here for example maybe this today's events you can hit the minus and erase that and you can go through and you'll find some other really cool widgets or excuse me tiles that are available so for example like tracking your food that's a good one this is a more detailed steps tracker this is a heart rate tracker um AG index so go through and find you know other watch faces that you like you can also change the order from here by simply holding down on one of the watches and dragging it left or right so the further left you bring it um the closer it'll be now once you hit save it's going to syn with the watch so now when you swipe left you're going to see that first instead of that uh other uh set of this thing right here so you can you can do a lot of the customization within the app and I would encourage you to do that because the app just it's just easier to move things around so next spend some time in the tips and user guide section you'll find a bunch of other really helpful tips there I want to show you what it looks like when a call comes through the phone so you know how to answer the phone it's really simple but I just want to show it anyway so I'm going to trigger a call right now and you'll see it pop up on the screen now you can um put your finger on the green button and drag up and that will answer and then you can also drag here to raise or load the volume now let's trigger that call again but this time we're going to decline the call and I want to show you how you can send an auto reply okay so to decline the call First you can either drag the red call Button this way or if you swipe up you can send a text reply please text me now that way it will decline the call and it will also send the auto text as well saying hey please text me I'm not available right now now let's jump back to the watch here I want to show you a few more things before we close out the video I want to show you how to set up your Samsung pay because you can add your credit card right to your watch and you can pay right from your watch so holding down on this bottom button here simply hold down for one second that's going to launch your Samsung wallet you're going to hit the arrow and this is going to first install it and then it's going to kick you right back over to the phone where you'll need to set up Samsung pay on your phone first once you set it up on the phone then you can sync specific credit cards with your watch and you'll be able to pay with your watch so we're going to hit install once installed we're going to hit open we're going to hit verify and you'll want to set a pen for your wallet you're going to have to enter this pen every single time you try to pay with your watch all right so now my pin is is in I'm next going to need to scan my fingerprint hit continue now in order to use Samsung pay you will need to set up a watch screen lock which is going to be a code that you will enter on your watch um so it's going to lock your watch and make it more secure we're going to hit settings you'll decide if you want to be a a a pin code or a pattern I'm going to make mine a pin code we're going to check the box here tap on set pin and then you set a four-digit pin for your watch it will make you enter it twice make sure it's something that you can remember obviously and if you look at the phone here we're all done we're going to hit done and now so again I've already my account is already set up so I may ask you to do a few more things first but you'll want to go to payment cards now I already have a credit card that is synced again to my account so all I need to do is hit activate to add the card and then I'll be good to go now just so you can see this is what the pin screen looks like and I have to enter this pin code first before I can do any more uh changes on the phone that will show on the watch so tapping the screen here and you'll see the little lock at the top here and I'm going to enter that PIN code okay so my PIN code is in now I can jump back over and I can activate this credit card and then you'll need to have your card handy so you can enter the expiration the security code and your ZIP code now there was one small hiccup when I tried to do this for some reason it said that the credit card company declined the request to be able to add the credit card to my wallet so here is the backup way if that happens to you so on your Samsung phone you're going to swipe up to get the Samsung pay and you'll hit the Plus in the upper right corner to add a a new card to your wallet so I'm going to hit payment cards and then add a credit card now you can add the card by scanning it or you can hit add card manually and then you can enter the credit card number the card name and let's do all that right now okay so I added all the information in I'm going to agree to the terms and then we'll go back and try again to add the credit card we do need to have it send a text message to verify the information it's blurred out for security purposes so if you see any blurriness on the screen that's why okay so we've successfully added a new C to our Samsung wallet now it's going to ask you automatically if you want to add that car to your watch so this is even better so we're going to hit set hit replace as our default card tap add to watch we're going to agree to the terms again we have to verify the card again and there we go our card is officially added to our wallet so now we do need to do a quick update so we'll update the wallet lots of steps you know for the sake of security and running the latest software so it's a little tedious but I wanted to make sure to walk through all these steps with you so that you can successfully add a car to your watch as well you should be able to use your watch at any terminal that uses NFC a lot of the terminals in the US are being convert it so that you can do Wireless payments so if it accepts um just tap uh payments then you should be able to pay with your watch let's switch back over to the watch now we will have to put our pin code in okay now let's hold down on that bottom button to launch our Samsung pay and we'll enter our pin and now our credit card is showing up which is perfect and now we just simply you take your watch and you hold it right next to the reader and it will be able to pick up uh your credit card signal and allow you to pay so anyway that is the process to set up and use Samsung pay and this takes us to the end of our video so hope you guys found this helpful if it was hit that like button down below again the goal was to make this a beginner's walkthr so you could know how to set up your phone what settings you'll want to tweak and just how to get you going so if you found this helpful hit that like button down below if there's more things you would like to see please drop it in the comments section down below if I get enough people to respond then we'll make a part two and we'll just keep going over all the cool things you can do with this watch so I'll also drop a link to a playlist right here that'll have all the videos that I've shot on this phone as well I've shot tips and tricks videos how to improve the battery I've shot all these other videos so check out that playlist there to learn more and thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one