Samsung Galaxy A16 for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | PART 2 | A16 5G

welcome into the video I am your Tech Guy Wayne and today I'm bringing you part two to my how to use the Samsung Galaxy a16 for beginners we did a whole beginner video teaching you the basics of what you'll need to know to learn how to use this phone if you missed that video and you stumbled onto this one first no problem I'll link that part one right here so you can check out that video and get all the beginning steps this is going to be part two and I'm going to go over more useful information to just help you really Master using your phone let's talk about the apps so this is our home screen and I want to show you some different tips for interacting with the apps on the home screen you might have some things on this screen that you say I never use that I wish I could just get rid of that well let's say this one drive app here you don't use that you don't know what it is you don't need it if you take your finger and you press down for one second it'll bring up this menu and in this menu you can hit remove and simply make it disappear from the home screen it's still on the phone but it's not going to show up on this screen okay and maybe there's something on here for example the Play store okay that's good I don't use it very often but I like to have it on the home screen you can actually hold down on it and then drag to the right and you can move it and create a new page so now you have your main page and when you swipe over you'll have this new page that has that app on it so that way you can organ organize the apps based on how you want the screen to look now in terms of organizing the apps um another important thing is well what if there's an app that I don't like and I just want to delete it all together off of the phone you're going to swipe up and go to your app drawer and this is where you'll see again all the apps that are currently installed on the phone you might say somebody put this Uber app on my phone I I never use that I want to get rid of it well hold down on it for one second and this menu will pop up and you want to tap on the uninstall option here and this will actually give the option hey do you want to uninstall this yes press okay now this app is deleted off of the phone and no longer will show up so that's how you get rid of apps that you just do not use and don't care about you just you have to be in the app drawer you can't do it from this screen you have to swipe up and you have to do it from the App Drawer now there might be some apps on this screen that you say oh gosh I wish my Facebook was on the home screen well long press on Facebook and the second option here says add to home screen you got to do it quick or it's going to disappear let's try it again hold down on Facebook tap on add to home screen and now it's going to add Facebook to the home screen for you just like that now you might say hey I want to put Facebook on this page not this this page hold down again and then after 1 second you can move it and you can simply drag it onto the home screen just like that you can also create a folder and you can organize apps based on their type or whatever category you want to set maybe this store app you want to put it in this Google folder long press for 1 second and then drag it to the right and then I can either drop it in this folder just like that or let's hold down on it and let's drag it out of the folder just drag away from it and drag it over Facebook and this will create a new folder so there's two different options you have there make a new folder or drag it into an old folder so that's another way to organize the apps that are on the home screen now some of you guys might run into the issue where the apps keep moving you might have put an app on a certain spot and then it got moved well if you long press on the home screen and you go to settings this is a helpful feature to enable it's called lock home screen layout and when this is enabled you can't move the apps on the home screen so watch if I try to hold down on this it won't let me move it it says home screen layout is locked you can change this in the settings for those of you that are setting up your phone for someone who's new to smartphones you may want to enable this feature so you can set it up in a way that makes sense for you and that person and then lock it so that the apps never get deleted or erased by accident because that does happen pretty frequently I'm going to turn this off for now by going back to the settings and just turning off home or lock home screen layout now so far if you got value out of those tips right there can you stop and bump that like button down below it just helps the video to get shared into more people and it helps me as well cuz I want a lot of people to watch the video so appreciate your support on that okay this next tip is a really good one I want to show you something that is called a widget now this will allow you to add useful information to the home screen so if I hold down on the home screen come down to widgets here I have these list of these really cool tiles and different things that I can add to the home screen to just give me more options okay so for example this is a really useful one here for G for Gmail tap on this little arrow to the right tap on inbox and add I'm going to tap primary and now it's going to add this little display window that I can use to see if I have any new emails so this is what it looks like I can hold down on it and then I can just drag it down just like that you'll notice in the corners there's these little white dots if you drag up on the dots you can change the size of this and it'll let you see more of your inbox now every time you open your phone you can swipe over and see oh do I have any new emails is there anything important I need to be taking a look at in my inbox if you tap on an email it'll open up Gmail and take you right to that email so that's just one example of a widget this is a Gmail widget now here's another really good widget I'm going to swipe over to my main screen here hold down go to widgets now I encourage you to swipe through this list because there's a ton of widgets that are available so you can kind of see all the things that are available just by swiping through the list and just tapping on the little drop down arrow now if you go up to clock tap on the drop down you can add an alarm widget so I'm going to tap on this tap add and now I can set my alarm maybe you get up every day at 6:00 a.m. I'm going to check the box here and if I tap into it it's going to add this to my home screen and I can guess what hold down on this for one second and I can drag it over to my to the other screen here and now I can see my alarm every morning on the home screen and I can also easily tap into it to make changes so here's my alarm it's set to go off every Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday and Friday maybe you say all Tuesdays I sleep in along with Saturdays and Sundays uncheck that box and you can go in and you can update the sounds so this essentially is just creating a shortcut so that it's easy for you to set your alarm before you go to bed or before you do something so those are just two examples of widgets there's a lot more options that are in the settings so go through there and play around around and you're going to find a lot of other really helpful features available in that section okay next I want to show you how to check your voicemails on the phone and also how to make changes to your voicemail as well so you'll want to tap on the phone icon in the bottom left corner here and let's erase the phone number that's currently in here right now and uh if you want to call your voicemail you simply need to tap on the number one and as I zoom in here you can see there's a little voicemail icon right under the one so tapping the one and then pressing the phone button will automatically dial your voicemail you can also dial your voicemail by simply just dialing your phone number type in the phone number and then tap the green button and it'll take you right to the voicemail now you'll probably need to call your cell phone provider and have them walk you through setting your initial password to begin and then you can can uh ask them to change the password and then it'll be easier for you to sign in and be able to check your voicemails now one quick note some carriers have a voicemail service where instead of you having to press the phone button and dial your phone number there's an app you can download and you can just check your voicemails right from there um if you have T-Mobile just to show you let going swipe up and let's go to the Play Store T-Mobile visual voicemail so this is the name of the app for T-Mobile it's called visual voicemail I'm just going to tap install and with this app here you can actually see here let me tap on the images so you can see it so whenever a voicemail comes through you're going to have this menu so you can go to each one you can tap on it and it'll let you play back the voicemail and it it'll usually give you a typed out transcript of the voicemail as well in fact this is what it looks like this was the call from Corey Klein that's the message I can play it back here and you can call them back or text them right from the app so this is one option now if you don't have T-Mobile no problem um generally dialing 611 on your phone will take you to your your customer support you can get to a live operator and say hey I want to set up visual voicemail how do I do that and they'll tell you the name of the app for their service and you can download it and then use that to check your voicemail it's really much easier than what I showed you with calling and dialing one because it's a lot longer having to go through the automated system versus just going through an app next let's go over how to take notes on your phone so if you swipe up you have an app on your phone that is called notes this is the Samsung Notes app and we can tap on that and they have a really nice clean interface that you can use to uh take notes now um the first thing you need to do is go to the bottom right corner and tap on this little pencil icon here to start a new note and here this is our note I can tap in title and put you know whatever I want to name it shopping list and somehow I clicked out of it shopping list 2 20 okay so that's the name of our note and then here I have different options at the bottom so I can tap on the screen to bring up the keyboard and I can begin to type out my message I can tap on this quickly line here if I want to draw the message some of your phones have a stylist pen so you can write this with a pen or you can write it with with your hand or you can buy one of these really cool stylus pins I like the ones from bamboo um and I'll link that one on screen as well this one links really well with the phone eggs cheese butter so really easy shopping list there and the cool thing is when you're done all you need to do is hit the home button it'll automatically save your note so when you go back to send samung notes again and let's say we go out of this note it's going to save it and it's going to give you a preview of what the note looks like so I can see this was my eggs cheese butter shopping list right here now this is one note app this isn't my favorite my favorite note app is actually called Google keep if you hit the home button let's go to the Play Store and we're going to let's go back tap the microphone Google keep very simple this is the app it's called Google keep we're going to tap the install button I love this app I've been using it for almost 10 years the reason I love it is because it syncs seamlessly across your phone tablet and your computer so you can take a note or start a note on the on the phone here and you can jump right to your computer and go to the website keep. goole.com sign to your Google account and you can continue working on that note right from the computer now Samsung Notes does that too but it's a little trickier how it is facilitated I just like the Simplicity of Google service you're going to hit continue to give it initial permission and here I want to show you what their notes look like so in the bottom right corner you'll tap on the plus to start a new note and you can have a note include an image a drawing a checklist I'm going to hit the list here and this is the layout so that same option I'm going to type shopping list and then uh here I'm going to have a list with checkboxes so when I type something it's going to show up with little boxes to the left and the cool thing with this is when I go to the store once I grabed my eggs I can just check the box and then it'll move down the list so it's a little more intuitive and there's a lot more you can do with it so those are two different options when it comes to taking notes feel free to use the one that looks better for you or you think would work better with how you like to take notes how to change the wallpaper the wallpaper is this picture you see on the home screen it's the background you might like this one it's a cool look but you might want to make it something different so let me show you how to do that take your finger hold down on the home screen and you'll see it'll pop out like this and give you these three options or four options at the bottom here so you've got two options for this one go to wallpaper and style and here you can choose from some of the um wallpapers that have been pre-selected and added to the phone so go to change wallpaper and at the top under featured you'll see wallpapers that Samsung has put on the phone so they have really nice beautiful images that they will add you might find one of these beautiful and you just simply would tap on it it'll show you what it'll look like on the phone hit next and then it will change the background to that hit done and just like that we have a new wallpaper okay now you might say that's nice but I have this picture on my phone I'd rather make this picture of my mom the background well to do that we're going to hold down the home screen for one second go back to wallpaper in style go to change wallpaper but instead of going to feature it come down to Gallery tap on gallery and here it'll take you to your gallery app and you can go to any photo that you've taken on the phone and you can make that the background so for example I can go to my camera folder here and these are all the pictures I've taken let's make this picture right here our new background hit done and this is what it's going to look like we're going to hit next now if you only want this picture to be the phone the home screen background you uncheck the lock screen you can have a different picture on the lock screen versus on the home screen and this is the lock screen when you basically wake up the phone that's the lock screen so this is your home screen and that first image is the lock screen so just FYI that's the difference you don't have to make the picture the same one for the lock screen and the home screen you just toggle which one you want I'm going to just check the box for home screen hit next and on this screen you can actually zoom in and make adjustments to the picture before you save it I'm going to hit done and now this is going to become our new home screen picture just like that okay so that is another option you have in terms of changing the wallpaper now this next option is pretty cool go to wallpaper and Style again go to change wallpaper now there are a few other options in here there's a graphical option these are more wallpapers that Samsung has added there is the colors wallpaper as well and there are wallpaper services and if you go to wallpaper Services there are these other options you have that will pre-select photos for you and they'll add them as your wallpaper you can also go to get more wallpapers and Samsung has a whole store called the Galaxy theme store we'll need to update it the first time we try to go into it and in here they have hundreds of wallpapers you can pick from to download and there's some free and some paid so you can kind of decide you know if there's one worth paying for but watch this let's hit get more wallpapers I'm going to show you how to find find the free ones first and then after that you can go through and and search through the paid ones so this is the app here and we're under wallpapers they do have themes as well and they have icons and there's a bunch of other things you can customize aside from the wallpaper just as an FYI if you go to top and then where it says all tap there and go to free it'll sort the wallpapers by free first so you can just see what's free I always say look at the free ones first and see if you find one you like you might find a good one then you don't have to pay for one so I can swipe through to see the different images on this one and if you like it hit download and then you can choose from these wallpapers to now add to your home screen so this is just another option that you have in terms of changing the wallpaper to give your phone a little more character I'm going to hit apply now now the cool thing with the lock screen you can actually have multiple pictures cycle through you don't have to just have one so this is actually a pack of five right here it says five items let's hit done and now if I turn the screen off and turn it back on this is our new wallpaper but watch this if I turn the screen off and turn it back on again it's going to switch to the next wallpaper and every time you unlock it it'll keep changing so this is another fun way to just customize your phone and you know have something different show up every time all right so that is changing the wallpapers now lastly I want to show you how to use the clock app so I showed you we kind of went over how to set an alarm but I also want to show you just like setting timers and things like that so swipe up go to the clock and you have four options here you have an alarm you have the world clock you have a stopwatch and a timer I surprisingly use this app a ton because when I'm washing close I use this to set a quick alarm hey I need to check the laundry in you know 68 minutes or you know 70 minutes I'll come in here and I'll set this and then now it's going to show up as a pop up on the screen and guess what I can move that pop up anywhere on the screen and I have that visual reminder that in an hour or 9 minutes minutes I need to go check the laundry now if we go back to the clock here you can set multiple alarms so you might have your 6: a.m. alarm for Monday Wednesday Thursday Friday I can just set an alarm for today as well and just say oh tomorrow I want to get up at 8:00 a.m. and I'm just going to 8:00 a.m. hit save and you can have tons of alarms going through here a lot of us have different things that happen on different days so feel free to set as many alarms as you want within the app here you've also got your stopwatch here that you can use to keep track of the time and your world clock all right so this brings us to the end of our part two now I want to give a quick shout out to um this cool watch it's called the Samsung fit 3 this is a really inexpensive Fitness tracker and if you're looking for a way to just keep track of your steps and your heart rate and your water intake this is a great option this Fitness tracker runs for about $60 and uh it pairs really well with the Samsung a16 and uh I'm going to link it on screen right here so if you guys want to check it out uh definitely look into this um it's a very just simple interface and again it's going to allow you to you know get your weather track your heart rate track your steps you can track your water it's great and it's just very simple and easy to use and so it's a great compliment to the Samsung a16 all right also if you're looking for some case recommendations check out this case from f&t case this case has uh a very rugged design on the side it has these bumpers it has a camera shutter so you can actually hide your camera when you're not taking pictures some people have a fear of you know their phone being hacked and then you know your camera being accessed and them being able to see through your phone well you can simply hide it when you're not using it so there's no fear of them tapping into your phone I've never heard of a case that happening but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen so anyway this is just a cool case cuz it does give you that extra privacy and there's a kickstand on the back you can use to hold the phone up in this landscape position for watching movies or you can have it stand nice and Tall just like this really an expensive case on Amon so I will link that case up here in case you guys want to check it out I have a bunch of other cool accessories that I recommend with this phone too and I'll also link those in the upper right corner too um lastly um there is one more part to this video there's a part three and I'll link that on screen right here so if you've gotten value out of this video first if you can bump the like button down below second subscribe if you're not already a subscriber number three leave me a comment let me know what tip was the most helpful and lastly check out that other video so you can keep learning all the cool things you can do with the Samsung a16 thanks again for watching take care and as always have a good one