Motorola Edge for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | Moto Edge 2024

welcome into the video I'm your Tech Guy Wayne and today I'm bringing you my beginner guide on the new Motorola Edge 2024 I'm going to walk you through everything you'll need to know on how to use this phone from how to navigate the screens how to make calls how to send text messages how the camera Works how to set up your email how to put a password on the phone um everything you'll need to know is going to be covering this video so make sure you watch all the way to the end so you don't miss any important information now I always start with a walkth through of the buttons just so you can understand the exterior buttons and then we jump into the um the main screen so let's start with the right side of the phone you're going to have a volume up volume down button and the power sleep button and when we press that power button it's going to wake up the phone if we press it again it will put the phone asleep now the phone is still on it's just in a sleep mode which is using a little bit less battery because we're not actively using the phone as soon as we press the button again the phone will wake up on the left side of the phone you have a motor roller button and what this button does is it will launch the motor roler features it takes you right to the motor Rola app and it gives you some quick tips on how to customize the phone how to enable different gestures that are very handy which we'll cover later in the video and a bunch of other really cool tips so um you can also program this button button to launch specific apps for you as well at the bottom of the phone you will find your sim card tray and you will find your charging port now this is a type-c charging type or USBC so if you ever need to replace the charger you need to look for a USBC charging type all right here is where you'll find the uh SIM card for the phone which has your service and then also if you want to expand the storage and use a micro SD card you also would use that uh in this slot right here now that we've gone over the exterior buttons let's go over how to get into the phone so we're going to press that power sleep button here to wake up the phone and then we just take our finger put it on the screen and just drag up and that takes you right into the phone I'm going to show you one more time we're going to wake up the phone take our finger just put it on the screen and just drag your finger up the screen and that will unlock the phone this is the main screen you'll see every time you unlock your phone now to navigate your phone you're going to be using these three buttons at the bottom here you have a home button in the middle you have a back button to the left and then you have a button to the right called the recent apps button now I want to go over what each of these buttons do and why they're important but first I want to show you how to keep the screen on longer if you notice the screen keeps going dim and I have to keep touching the screen to to keep it on longer or keep it right so if you want to change that swipe down from the top of the screen swipe down again and tap on this settings wheel in the bottom right corner and from here you're going to go to display and then we'll swipe up and go to screen time out we want to change this from 30 seconds to either 2 minutes or 5 minutes that way the screen will stay on longer without you having to touch the screen you can also turn on this feature called attentive display and this prevents the screen from going off if it sees that you're looking at the screen so if you're like reading an article or you're reading a book the screen will continue to stay on as long as it detects that you're looking at the screen so we can turn that on as well now we don't have to worry about the screen going dim so fast now let's go over this home button to start now this button simply takes you back to this screen to the home screen so if I were to go into one of these little icons which are uh applications or apps for short so this one for example is Google Chrome this is the internet if I go on the internet and I want to go back to my main screen or the home screen I'm going to tap on the home button okay and that's all this button does it takes you back to this screen if I swipe over because there are different pages on the home screen if I swipe over to a different page I want to go back to that main home screen page hit the home button okay to the left here you have the back button this takes you back one screen a good example of this is we were just in the settings right so I'm going to go back to the settings remember we went to display and then we went to the screen timeout now if I want to stay in the settings but go back one page all I have to do is tap on this back button here and it takes you back one step if I press it again guess what it takes you back another step that's all this button does it just takes you back one step now right now I'm on the main screen of the settings app if I were to press this again it's going to take me out of that app and back to the home screen so home button back button takes you back one step to the right here we have What's called the recent apps button and all this does is it shows you the recent apps that you've had open we just use the settings app and so therefore it's right here now one thing to point out if you're ever using one of these applications um when you hit the home button it doesn't close out that application it's still running in the background of the phone which over time can cause your phone to run a bit slower so um when you finish using an app you want to hit that recent apps button and then you want to swipe up and by swiping up that actually will close the app so it's no longer running in the background okay and same thing I can close out Google Chrome and all these other things that were running in the background of the phone okay now one other thing I want to point out is when you hear me say the word application or apps I want to just uh help you guys understand what that is so computers have programs and phones have applications and instead of saying applications we say apps for short so whenever I refer to these little icons I'm referring to the apps these are the apps the programs of the phone that you use to do different things okay so now that we've gone over our three navigation buttons we're going to transition it's talking about what is called the notification panel and to get there you simply swipe down from the top of the screen now in this section you'll find two things you'll find switches these are shortcuts to the most frequently used settings on the phone for example your Wi-Fi your mobile data your Bluetooth your uh Mobile Wallet for payments and other things and below here you'll find different notifications from my apps okay so I got a message that my uh Metro by mobile app was installed okay so I can see that here I can swipe to the right to close that out so it's done I have a popup here uh from the Moto app and it's telling me Oh there's a cool feature called attentive display you can turn on if I want more information I can just tap on this and it will take me into the settings so I can read more about it so whenever you go to the notification panel you ever see these little popups you can swipe it away to get rid of it or you can tap on it to get more information here Taylor Swift makes historic and notice I can't read anymore but if I tap on this little arrow to the right I can read more now Taylor Swift makes historic announcement at final eras tour show so now that I read the whole title of this article if I want to actually go to the article I'm going to tap on it and it's going to take me into the article so I can read the whole thing or I can say oh okay good to know I don't want to read it and I can swipe it away you can also tap not interested if you don't want to get more alerts about Taylor Swift that's another option as well and we'll just swipe this away so that's a rundown of what you'll find in this section now I want to point out something when you swipe down one time you'll see these four switches at the top of the screen but if you swipe down a second time it's going to give you a lot more uh options to uh to play with so one is you have a brightness bar at the top of the screen which will allow you to lower the brightness or raise the brightness now one important thing to note this phone has the auto brightness turned on by default so the screen brightness is going to fluctuate depending on how bright uh the room is that your phone is in if your phone is in a dark room the screen is going to turn up really bright if the phone is in a very well lit room it's going to actually lower the brightness so it's always adjusting but you can manually control it here with this brightness bar you also have some more um shortcut options here and you can swipe left to access even more settings shortcuts okay swipe left again you have a few different pages of these different shortcuts that you can access and they're all just again different shortcuts to settings that people tend to use a lot on the phone all right I encourage you to swipe through here and play around with this you'll learn a lot about the different options you have in that setting all right so that concludes kind of the intro where we were just going over navigating the phone and next I'm going to go into apps where do I find all the apps on the phone and how do I download new apps for the phone now I just want to just pause and say if you've gotten value out of the video so far you're learning if it's helpful please stop and bump that like button down below it will help the channel and help push this video out to more people all right so where are your apps well by swiping up on the home screen just just dragging your finger up the screen like this it takes you to what is called your app drawer this is where you you'll find every single app that is currently installed on the phone all right now one thing to point out you have what are called folders up here this is a Google folder so when I tap here it actually is going to bring me to a folder full of more apps sometimes people don't know that's a folder and they're like oh how come I can't find the YouTube app well YouTube app is in the Google folder I have to tap on the folder and then I swipe left there's the YouTube app you can also search for the app by tapping on this search box and then typing in YouTube and that's another way to search for an app that you know is on the phone but you can't quite find it and there's our YouTube app okay now how do I get more apps you might say I want to download a sodoku game because I love to play sidoku or I want to download Uber because I need to get around well you're going to go here to What's called the Play Store tap on that and here this is where you download apps so there are millions of apps that are available in the store and you simply need to tap on the search icon in the middle and if you press it again it'll pull up a keyboard that will let you start typing to search for a new app now you can always type the name or you can use this cool shortcut which is tapping on the microphone and just saying the name of the app like this [Music] sodoku there we go notice so sodoku is now in the search and here you'll see there are are a lot of sodoku games you can pick from now some of the games are free and some of them are paid so it's important to pay attention now this one in particular is a paid one and we know it's paid because here it says it's $2.69 whereas down here we don't see a price so if I purchase if I download sidoku the clean one I'll have this blue button here I can just tap to install it and it's going to begin to download it and put it on the phone now guess what this is a good time to use our back button that'll take me back one page and if I were to tap on this s this is the one where notice the blue button is it has a price it says $2.69 the last Blue Button just said install because install means the app is free so just be mindful of this because uh some of the apps are paid and you want to make sure that you're trying to pay for an app versus to accidentally download an app you didn't mean to and pay for it the Play Store will give you 10 minutes to refund the app if if you were to purchase it by accident but just try to pay attention so it doesn't happen let's use our back button so we just downloaded a sadoku game how do we find it now we're going to hit our home button and we're going to swipe up and now we're at our app drawer and now all the apps are in alphabetical order so let's go to the S's and here it is sodoku and that's our new sidoku game so that is in short the process to download applications on the phone you can download more apps uh your phone does not have unlimited storage at some point it will run out so um you don't want to download too many things but you do have a good amount of storage you can also purchase a memory card that will allow you to add more storage and uh I will link one on screen right here and you guys can check out that memory card that's a great deal that is compatible with the phone okay next let's go into how to make calls now first I'm going to show you how to make a call then I'll show you how to answer the phone when a call comes through okay so to make a call you're going to tap on the phone icon in the bottom left corner and here I'm going to tap on the dialer which is right here this will bring up the keypad and then I can type in a phone number to call there we go area code phone number and hit the green phone button and it will initiate the call now I can hit the speaker to put the phone on speaker I can mute here I can tap add a call here to add another number to the call and do a three-way and I can tap the red button here to end the call when I'm done so that is the process to make a call now you can always call that number back again if you want to call them again but this time you won't have to type in the number you can simply see right here in your call log that you had a call from that person you can tap on the call button here and this will initiate a new call to that person now for you to make the call now when a call comes through this is what it will look like and how you answer the phone okay there's our call I can tap the green button to answer or tap the red button to decline it let's tap the green button here's our call it's got the same menu options as before uh depending on what carrier the person has you can always switch to a video call which is pretty cool now right now this is a metr by2 mobile phone calling another Metro by2 Mobile phone so it it gave us the video call icon we were able to switch it to a video call see that when you're all done simply hit that red button and end the call all right now I want to show you one more time what it looks like when a call comes through because when the phone is on that's what it looks like when a call comes through however when your phone is asleep it's going to look different and the way you answer the phone is different so pay attention to this as well I'm going to initiate a new call here it is now notice I can't just press the button to answer you actually have to take your finger and you have to drag up the screen and that's how you answer it so it's a little different now if I want to decline a call that comes through when the phone is asleep okay if I want to decline the call I'm going to drag down instead so just like this drag down and that will decline the call say hey don't want to answer now one other thing I'm going to do this one more time there's one more option now if you want to decline the call but you want to send a message you can drag from the corner see this put your finger on the button and drag out like this I can decline the call and I can have it send a text message right after can't talk now what's up so it'll automatically decline the call and it will send the person a message saying can't talk what's up so that's a brief rundown of just how to make calls and how to answer the phone when a call comes through now next let's go over text messages how do I send a text message and what does it look like when someone sends me a message we're going to go to the text messaging app here Google messages and the first thing we'll do is we'll start a chat that's how you start a brand new message and you can and type in a phone number or you can type in the name of a contact that you have saved in your phone and then they'll come up like this so typed in a phone number and my contact came up right here and I can simply tap and now I've started a message with my fake contact Jim Jones now I can tap in the text box here and that'll pull up the keyboard and then I can start typing my message hello now to the right you have an emoji button if I tap this it'll bring up different emojis I can use I just tapped on emoji and now I can send uh a little face to go with it like maybe a cool face and when you're done you're going to tap on that little button to the right it's a little arrow and it will send off the message now get tap in the Box how are you now you can type with your hands right on the keyboard or you can tap on this little microphone and you can say what you want to type like this just wanted to say I hope you have a great day tap the microphone when you're done so it will stop adding words and then you can tap on that little arrow to send off the message now you can also attach a picture to this message by tapping on this little arrow on the left and then tapping on this little icon with it's a little square frame and a camera and this will allow you to either pick a picture that's already in your phone or you can take a picture right now to send to that person so I can tap this to attach that picture to the message or I can tap here and this will pull open the camera and it will allow me to actually take a picture to send to that person like this tapping on the white button to snap the picture and now I have two pictures that are attached to this message here and I'm going to tap the send button to go ahead and send it off now if you want to send someone a gift you can access those by tapping on the gift button right at the top here and you'll see some recommendations or you can tap in the search box and you can type I don't know funny and then see what comes up you know someone laughing tap on that one tap on that one and then send it off another cool trick is you can send a voice message by holding down on this blue button with the waves with the vocal waves on it hey don't forget to call the school and find out when picture day is you do have to hold down that button while you talk and as soon as you're done you let go of the button and then it will save it as a voice memo you can tap here to listen to it before you send it and then if you change your mind decide you don't want to send it tap on this little X here to remove it if not tap on that send button to send it out so that's the gist of how you send a message and all the different things you can send with that message okay now let's talk about what it looks like when a text message comes through so I'm going to use that back button to back out and then I'm going to hit my home button to get out of the app and I'm going to send myself a text message so you can see what it looks like this is the popup how are you I can hit reply to respond to that message right away or I can tap on the text messaging app and I can see my new message is in and you you know what it has a one next to it and that number is telling me that I have a new text message okay and as more messages come through then that number will go up so that's how you decipher when you have a new message and once you select it then that message won't have a number next to it anymore same with this one there we go so that's just just a brief rundown of text messaging receiving sending and kind of what everything will look like if you didn't value out of this video don't forget to bump that like button down below I truly appreciate that and it's doesn't cost you anything but uh that one action and it does such a Wonder in terms of YouTube promoting the video out to more people all right next let's go over how to use the camera how do I take pictures well in the bottom right corner you'll find the camera button and we'll tap on that now the first thing it's asking us is uh does the camera have permission to use your location the reason for this is it will begin to save your pictures um by location and so it's kind of cool to see pictures you've taken in different places so you don't have to turn it on you can always decline it uh it's up to you so um you'll see here um we're on the photo setting and it says photo and every time I want to take a picture I'm just going to tap that white button there to snap that's how you take pictures I want to take a video I'm going to tap on video notice the button is now red so I can tap that red button and now my video has started and I have a little countdown in the corner right here and if I tap this button I can snap pictures while I'm recording that video which is pretty cool and sorry you might hear my kids playing in the background they're a little loud now also you'll see these numbers up here this is for Zoom so if I want to zoom out I can do that if I want to zoom in closer I can do that you can also pinch the screen to zoom out or pinch the other way to zoom in all right tap that red button it will stop that video now a few more things you want to pay attention to um so simply swiping over is how you switch between the settings as well you can tap or you can just swipe left and right to move between photos and videos this button to the left will allow you to switch between the front and the rear camera so right now it's looking at the front camera here and if I switch now it's looking out of the rear camera so that's how you switch and then also on the left side here after you take a picture this is how you look at that picture and see what it looks like or video now let's say I want to send this picture to someone I can hit this share button and this will allow me to then send it as a text message message U I could send it as an email um I can send it as you know kind of whatever you want or now if I want to send this picture to someone I would hit this button the share button and then I can go through and I can decide how I want to share it I can send it on Facebook as a text message Instagram or an email you just tap that and then you Tee It Up to send now if you want to look at all the pictures that you've just taken not just that last picture you're going to go to the photos app which is right here and when you first open the Google photos app the first thing you'll ask is do you want to automatically back up your photos and videos now there's pros and cons to this the pros are every time you take a photo it will back it up to the cloud so if you ever lose your phone your photos are saved in the cloud and you can access them anytime going to the website photos. goole.com that's the pro um and you the the thing to keep in mind is that you have limited storage available you only have 15 gigs of storage that's free so once that 15 gigs fills up then you'll have to begin to pay money every month to have more storage to hold all your pictures and videos in the cloud so it's up to you how you want to do that I'm going to turn it off for now um but it is a really cool feature just keep in mind that it's limited okay so now we're in the photos app and right now I'm in the photo section and so so these are all the pictures that we just took right here if I go to collections it will break them out by folders so these are pictures that are currently on the device these this is another album of pictures and then this this is all the pictures saved by location so if I took pictures in Long Beach I can tap on this map and see all the pictures I took in that City if I were on a vacation I could go to whatever that city state or country is and I can see all the pictures from that last state as well if you've taken a screenshot you can tap on the screenshot button and it'll only show the screenshots that you've taken so that's just a quick rundown this is where all the pictures and videos are stored on the phone all right that's just a brief rundown of the camera and photos now next let's talk about how to make the text size larger if you want the words to be bigger maybe it's hard for you to see it at the current size you're going to go to the settings app we're going to swipe up and swipe up again and go to settings from here go to display from here you're going to go to display size and text and you have these two toggles here you can use to make the text larger so watch this just hit the plus and you'll see the text is going to get bigger there you go and notice everything is getting bigger as I'm as I'm doing that everything on the screen and that's the biggest you can have it so feel free to adjust that until you get to a size that you're comfortable with I'm going to take it back to where it was you can also increase the display size which makes everything bigger so it makes the actual icons larger so you can kind of play around with these two different options here if I go to the home screen you'll notice all my words are bigger and a little bit easier to see as well and swiping down everything is slightly larger as well so those are the two uh things you kind of want to adjust to um make everything larger and get it to a size that is comfortable for you you can also enable bold texts and it'll just make all the text bold which also makes it easier to read um you know everything on screen all right next let's talk about how to put a passcode on your phone how to protect it so that if anyone were to pick up your phone they would have to know the passcode in order to get into your phone so to do this we're going to swipe up go to our Settings app use our back button to get out of the display and we need to go up all the way to security and privacy and we're going to tap set screen lock and here you you can set a pattern a pin code which is just a series of digits or a high security password which is a combination of letters and numbers I normally like to do a pin and I'm just going to make it 1 2 3 4 hit next and then 1 2 3 4 confirm it and now if my phone is locked or asleep excuse me and I want to get into it if I try to drag up the screen it will now ask me to put in a pen and if I don't have that pen I can't get into the phone if I put in that 1 2 3 4 now I can get back into the phone now since I already have a pin now I can set up my fingerprint reader as well so here I went to device unlock and now I want to set a fingerprint I'm going to go fingerprint put in that code hit set up now our fingerprint is right in the center of the screen so you'll need to put your finger right on this point and we'll have to continue to raise it and lower it until it reads the thumb just like this I'm just lifting and dropping it lifting and dropping it you you usually need to do this about uh 10 to 12 times before it fully reads your thumb one tip is try to hold the phone as naturally as you would hold it when you pick it up and that's how you can make sure it reads your finger properly and so it you won't have to do this multiple times so our fingerprint is added which is great if I lock the phone and unlock it now I can just take my finger and put it on that fingerprint uh section and it will automatically unlock the phone you can also set up a Face Unlock which is it will read your face when you bring the phone up to your face it'll automatically unlock doing that and that's super easy as well just tap on Face Unlock and hold the phone up to your face and it will take a scan of your face so you can unlock your phone that way as well all right so that's a rundown of how to put a PIN code and also how to set up the fingerprint sensor now we're going to end the video with how to set up your email and some of you already have your email on the phone because you signed into your Gmail when you first set the phone up however for those of you that have not installed your email or you have more email accounts and you want to install them all on the phone here's what you need to do go to your Google folder go to Gmail tap got it now you'll tap on add another email address and here you can select the option that closely corresponds with the type of email that you have but let's say you don't have a Gmail or an Outlook Hotmail live Yahoo or Office 360 what do you do you can select the other option and put your email address and password in and it will try to assist you with the manual process but it can be a little tedious so here is another option you have to try and unlock to to try and set up your email you're going to hit the home button go to the Play Store tap on the search twice to bring up that keyboard next tap on the number key in the bottom left corner and tap on the at symbol and then type in the back half of your email address for example if you have an SPC global.net then type Inc global.net just like that that and then oh make sure it's spilled properly and then you're going to hit the search in the bottom right corner this is going to recommend apps that are compatible with your email type so s SPC Global I can use it with the Yahoo app or all email login or my AT&T these are all options that will work same thing if you were to enter in aol.com AOL and hit the search and these are apps that are compatible with the AOL email type so you simply download one of these apps and then you can sign in using this app to get your emails all right let's go into the Gmail app I just want to give a general rundown of of how to check emails so we're in the main email app right now here I have a list of emails that have come through if I want to read an email I can simply tap on it to get into it and I can swipe up to see the whole message now guess what you read the email there's nothing you would like to respond you can simply tap on the trash can to delete this email and it's out of your inbox now let's say you want to delete these three emails you don't need to open each one to delete them you can simply tap on the icon next to the email the the G like this and guess what I've selected three emails and now I can hit the trash can up top here to delete them just that easy so that's how you bulk delete emails now if you want to write an email you're going to tap on the pencil in the bottom right corner and now I have to empty out my inbox so it's not letting me do all the things I want to do but let me just give you a short rundown tap on the pencil in the two box you just tap in that box you're going to type in your email address then you tap in the subject box type in the subject you want for the email then you tap where it says compose email type what you want to say in the email and then you'll see a button that says send or excuse me you'll see this button at the top of the screen tapping that button will send off the email now if you tap on this little uh paper clip to the left you can use that to attach a picture or a file to the email before you send it so that's a very quick and brief rundown of just how the email app works all right now this brings us to the end of our video I hope you guys found this helpful now I have more videos coming for this phone I'll be making a moto Edge tips and tricks video so definitely uh look in the comment section below and I'll drop that video there once it's ready if you got value out of this video If you learned 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