Samsung Galaxy A26 for Beginners (Learn the Basics in Minutes) | A26 5G

Welcome into the video. I am your tech guy, Wayne, and today I want to walk you through how to use the Samsung A26 for beginners. We're going to go over everything you'll need to know to learn how to use this phone. We'll do a walkthrough of all the buttons, how to navigate the screen. I'll go over how to download apps, how to make calls, how to send text messages, how to set up your email accounts, how to take pictures, and we'll end the video with how to set a lock screen passcode and set up the fingerprint so you can secure your phone. So, not just anyone can get into it. So, make sure you watch all the way to the end so you don't miss any important information. Let's go ahead and get started. On the left side of the phone here, there are no buttons, but you will find your SIM card tray. And this is where you can plug in a micro SD card if you'd like to expand the storage. It's also where your carrier SIM card goes. On the right side of the phone, you'll find your volume up, volume down, and your power/ standby button. And now this is also your fingerprint reader and you can use this to unlock the phone just by touching the reader here. And again, we'll set that up later on. The button serves multiple purposes. Now, at the bottom of the phone, you'll find the charging port. Now, this phone uses a USBC charging type USBC, and I'll link uh on screen here to some charger recommendations. Obviously, this phone will come with the cable, but it will not come with the wall brick, the part that actually goes into the wall. So, check out that uh recommendation on screen. That's an anchor charger, and that one works great. I recommend it. I use it with a lot of my phones. You'll notice this phone does not have a uh auxiliary port, which is what you would use to plug in traditional wired headphones. Now, there is an adapter you can purchase. It is a USBC to ox adapter. I'll also link that on screen right here. You can use that to plug in and still use your traditional headphones with the phone. So, those are all the buttons on the exterior of the phone. Now, let's get into how do we actually unlock the phone and get into it. So, if you tap the home screen two times, it should wake up the screen. Sometimes you got to uh press a little harder. This will wake up and take you to what is called the lock screen. And on this screen, you you'll take your finger and you simply want to just drag it up the screen. By doing that, you will unlock the phone and it will take you to what's called your home screen. Now, one important note, we don't have a passcode set up yet on the phone. So, that's why we can just swipe to get into the phone. But once we set a passcode, when you try to swipe, it will take you to a screen that will ask you to enter a code before you can actually get into the phone. So again, we'll go over that later, but I just want to give you the expectation that what we're seeing right now is a phone that doesn't have a code, and it'll look a little different once we set the code. So this is our home screen, and there's three buttons on the screen that you'll be using to navigate the phone. First, we'll start with the home button, which is in the center. And all this button does is take you back to this screen. So if you ever open up one of these little icons here, it's going to take you into the programs or the apps of the phone. And if you want to get back to this screen, you press this button. Now, throughout the video, I'll be using the term apps. And I want to explain what that is. So, computers use programs and smartphones use applications or apps for short. So, if you ever hear me say apps, I'm just referring to the little programs or the little apps of the phone. Now, on the home screen here, let's go over just a couple of these apps so you are familiar. This is our phone app. We use this to make calls, and we'll go over calls later on the video. This is our text messaging app. We use this to send and receive text messages. This is our web browser. It's called Google Chrome. You'll use this to go on the internet and search for things and go to websites. This is our camera app and this is what you'll use to take pictures. We'll go over that in a later section of the video as well. This is the Play Store icon and this is what you'll use to download new apps. If you want to download Uber or a soliter game or any other fun apps that you've heard of, it all runs through the Play Store. And then this is a folder that has uh different Google apps. So your Gmail app, which is for checking your email, your maps, which is for getting directions and seeing where you are, YouTube, Google Drive, this is your online cloud storage, your YouTube music. So these are just other apps that are on the phone. And when you on the home screen, if you drag up the screen or you swipe up, this will take you to all the other apps that are currently on the phone right now. And there's two pages of apps. This is the gallery. This is when you take a picture. This is where all the pictures are saved. So that's just where you'll find all the apps that are currently on the phone. Now, if I were to go into Google Chrome, which is the web browser, and I just want to go to a website, I can tap in the search box here, and I can type in a website. Whenever you tap somewhere on the screen where you can type, your keyboard will automatically pop up and then you can just start typing. If I were to type in aol.com and obviously let's type it right aol.com. Then I'm going to tap on this go button. This will take me to the website aol.com. That's how easy it is to go to a website. Now you might go to AOL cuz you want to check the news for the day. And when you're finished, you want to go back to the home screen. and you're going to tap on the home button. It'll take you here. So, that's all this button does. It takes you back to the home screen. It does a few other things, but the primary purpose is just taking you to this screen. I'll have a separate video where I'll go over tips and tricks and I'll explain some of the other functions that work out of this button. Now, on the right here, you'll have what is called the back button. Now, what this does is it just takes you back one step. Now, a good example of how this button works, let's go to our settings app. I'm going to swipe up on the home screen and look for the settings. This is our settings app here. Now, let's say I go to connections and then I go to data usage cuz I just want to see how much data have I used on the phone. Okay, so I've gone into settings. I went to data usage. Cool. I was able to check. Now I want to go back one page. That's where I'll use my back button to just go back one page. And now we're in the connections page. and I can swipe through and there's different things here. If I want to go back another page, I'm going to use the back button again. Now, we're on the home screen of the settings app. Now, guess what? If I'm finished with settings and I want to go back to the home screen, I can either tap my home button or I can tap the back button because if I press it again and there's nowhere else to go, guess what? It's going to back me out of the app and take me wherever I was before I went in it. So, that's all the back button does. It just helps you to navigate through the different pages and different apps on the phone. The left side here, you'll have what's called the recent apps button. And what this will do is it will show you what apps you've previously used. We just used the settings app. So, that one is still running in the background. We just used Google Chrome that's running in the background. And this is our text messaging app and some other apps I was using before the video started. So, I can easily jump back to an app I was using just by pressing recent apps. Let's see. Let's swipe over. I want to go back to Google Chrome and I want to continue to look at the news and AOL. That's how easy it is to do it. Now, when I'm finished with Google Chrome and I want to close it, that's where this comes in handy as well. If you're ever in an app, if I'm here and I hit the home button, the app doesn't close. It continues to run the background of the phone. That's why we we need to press that recent apps. Look at what's open. And if you're finished with this and you don't want to use it anymore, you can drag up or swipe up to close the app out totally. And you can do this for each one. You can also press close all. And this will close all the apps that are running at one time. And this will free up some of the space and all the memory the phone is using to power those apps. That's a quick rundown of just what these three buttons do. These are your navigation buttons. Okay. Next, let's talk about what's called the notification panel. And basically when you're on the home screen and you swipe down or you drag down the screen, it'll bring up this menu. Now this will show your notifications. So this is if you get a new text message, an email, a missed call, they'll all show up in this menu here. What will also show up is app notifications. So you get a Facebook message or a WhatsApp message, uh Instagram, all that, they all show up in this menu here. This is how you manage all the information that is coming through your phone. And if you want to get more information, for example, I have this text message. If I want more information, I can tap and that'll take me right to the text messaging app where I can then follow up on that message and I can reply. One important thing to note, when you swipe down on the left side of the phone, it'll show notifications. But when you swipe down on the right, this brings up what is called your control panel. And this is how you control different functions on the phone from your Wi-Fi, your Bluetooth, uh your flashlight, your airplane mode. There's a little dash here, and you can drag down or swipe down, and that will show you even more switches. So, just these are all shortcuts to the most frequently used settings on the phones. Usually, if there's something you want to do, you check here first to see if it's here, and if not, you actually go to the settings app. Now, one thing to point out in the upper right corner here, you always have a shortcut to your settings right here. So, I can tap on this little settings wheel and it'll take me to the settings app. You also have your brightness adjustment bar here to make the phone brighter or make it dimmer. Now, out of the box, just know the phone is set to auto adjust the brightness. So, if you're in a room that's very bright, it will, you know, adjust the screen. If you're in a dark room, it'll make those adjustments. So, you don't normally have to control this or do too much, but if you need to, you can control it here. You have your volume control right here as well. Now, this button here is how you control the sound on your phone. So, if you need to quickly put your phone on vibrate, you would just tap on that little button there. It puts a slash over the speaker and that means your phone is now on vibrate. You press it again, now the button is grayed out. That means that your sound is totally off. The phone is not going to ring or vibrate. It'll be totally silent. If we tap it again, guess what? Now it's lit up. That means that your sound is on. And now if a call comes in or a text message, you'll hear the phone make a noise. Okay. Right above it, you have the little moon. And this is for putting the phone in what's called dark mode. Dark mode changes the color of your icons and the color of the menu. It makes the menu dark like this. Some people prefer dark mode. It just depends on what you're going for. Um, but by default, this is turned off. Now, dark mode does tend to use a little less battery, and that's one reason why people tend to keep it on. Now, the bottom here, you'll find controls for media if you're playing music or YouTube video. And you'll have some other switches down here with smart things. You can control your your TV if you have a Samsung TV. And here you have smart view. You can use that to mirror your phone to a TV. So, this is the control panel. Now, I want to show you a really good tweak that you may want to make to make your phone easier to use. For those of you that have used a Samsung phone in the past, it didn't used to look this way. You didn't have one side for notifications. So, if you want to make your phone look more like how Samsung phones used to look, you can do this. Tap on the pencil right at the top and then you'll tap on panel settings. And then you just want to switch from separate to together. And that's it. Now, if we hit the back button and we hit done. Now, when you swipe down, this is what your menu will look like. You'll have the traditional switches at the top of the screen and then the notifications are going to show up at the bottom. It won't be two separate menus. Okay? So, and if you want to get to all the other controls, you'll just swipe down at the top and then it'll bring up that menu. So, this is how it used to show on most Samsung phones, but it recently was changed with one of their updates. But that little tweak will take you right back to how things used to look. So, that's the notification panel. Let's move into apps and a little bit more details of just things you'll need to know. So, when you swipe up on the home screen, this takes you to what is called your app drawer. This is where you'll find all the apps that are on the phone. You'll also have some folders up here. There's a Samsung folder for Samsung apps. There's a Microsoft folder and there's a Google folder. So, sometimes you can't find an app. It's just in one of the folders. At the bottom, you have a search bar that you can tap if you want to search for a specific app. This will help you as you begin to download a lot more apps. It'll be harder to find certain apps, but you can just tap on search and I can type in YouTube, for example, and it'll take me right to the YouTube app. So, you can use that to find any apps that you maybe can't see initially in the menu here. Now, if you want to download new apps, what you'll need to do is go to the Play Store. We briefly talked about this app earlier in the video, but the Play Store is basically the central hub where you download apps, paid apps or free apps, and it has a couple of other cool functions. So, let's tap on the Play Store. Now, one important thing to note is you will need to be signed into a Google account in order to use the Play Store so that they can keep track of the apps that you purchase. And it also allows you to add a credit card to purchase apps that are not free. So, I'm going to tap on the sign in button. And here it'll take me to a page and allow me to put in my Gmail email address and password. Now, if you don't have a Google account, no problem. You simply tap on the create account button and in a matter of 2 minutes you can make a free Gmail account that you can then use to sign into the Play Store. All right, so now we're into the Google Play Store and I want to show you how easy it is to download apps on your phone. The bottom of the screen you will find a search button and a magnifying glass. Simply tap on that and then tap it one more time. This will pull up the keyboard and allow you to begin searching for apps. Now, there's two ways to search for apps. Well, there's multiple ways, but one of the ways is by typing in the name of the app that you want to put on the phone. For example, if you wanted to put Uber on the phone, you can type in Uber just like this, and then hit the magnifying glass to search for the app. The other way, which I think is a bit funner, and this also works if you know the name of the app, but you don't know how it's spelled, you can tap on the microphone in the upper right corner and just say the name of the app. Door Dash. Perfect. So, we set the name, it searched it, and now it's brought up the Door Dash app. I can tap on Door Dash. And here I can get a preview of the app. I can tap on pictures. I can swipe through just to confirm I have the right app. Everything looks good. I'm going to hit my back button. And now I'm going to tap this blue install button. And that's going to begin to download the app to the phone. And then it will begin installing it. So, that's it. That is the process to download an app. Now, one important thing to note, if this app was not free, this is what it would look like. So, here's the Instacart app. Now, this button where it says install, if this wasn't a free app, instead of it saying install, there would be a price. If you ever see a price in that box that's letting you know this is a paid app, and you'll want to just confirm you have the right app. And then they will ask you to add a credit card to your account before you can download the app. If you ever buy an app that's not free, you have 10 minutes to try the app out. And if it doesn't work, you can always find the app again in the Play Store and this button will say refund. For the first 10 minutes you purchasing the app, you'll have an option to refund it. And after that 10 minutes, then this button will no longer say refund. So that's just uh an FYI. So we just downloaded the app. How do we find the app on our phone? We're going to hit the home button. We're going to swipe up. Swipe to the left. And there is our Door Dash app. So, just that easy. We were able to download that app. And that's just one example. Maybe you want to download a new Solitaire game or a Sudoku game. There are over 2 million apps in the app store. And so, you can just simply search. You can type in solitire or word search and you'll get apps recommended to you from that search. Let's move into how to make the text size larger on the phone. So, to do this, you'll want to swipe down from the top of the screen. In the upper right corner, you're going to tap on this little settings wheel. And from here, we're going to swipe up to display. And then swipe up to font size and style. And here it will allow you to adjust the size to make the words larger and easier for you to read. Uh you'll simply need to drag this little dot to the right or just tap to the right of it. And here it will show you a preview of what the size of the text will look like. So I can keep ticking over and you can see how the text is getting bigger. You'll notice that these words will also get larger and the title will get larger. So everything is getting large at the same time. And let's say you're like, "Oh, this is a good size. I like this." Next, we'll hit the home button. You'll notice that all your names underneath the apps are larger. If I go to the text messages, the size of the text is much larger now. So, a lot of things will get bigger. Now, one disclaimer, if I go to Google Chrome, some things will be larger, but not everything. So, for example, on the AOL website, everything is still the same size. So, just know that the size of the text for phone menus and apps, those will get larger. But on Google Chrome, the size will be the same. However, if you want to make the size of the text larger, you'll need to put your two fingers on the screen and pinch out like this. and it more so this is just allowing you to zoom in to see things closer. That's one way you can get the text to be a little bit bigger. All right. Now, I want to go back to the settings to continue to play around with the size of the text. I'm going to hit my recent apps button and swipe over. Swipe over. And here I'm able to get right back to the settings and to the page where we were controlling the size of the font. You can also tap on bold font and that'll make the words thicker. You can also change the type of font to make it something that maybe is easier on the eyes. So, those are just a few recommendations on how to change the size of the text. I'm going to reset it back to what it was before. And I want to show you one other thing in this same category of just making the phone larger and easier to read. Let's hit our back button one more time. and I want to swipe up and go to advanced features and then swipe up again. We're going to go all the way to the bottom of the phone where it says easy mode and tap on easy mode. Now, this is a great setting if you happen to be setting the phone up for someone who is a firsttime smartphone user and they just need the phone to be as simple and easy as possible. You can turn on the easy mode. Now, when you turn this on, it's going to change the layout of the home screen and make all the text much larger and easier to read. Watch this. Let me hit the home button. So, on the home button, there's much less apps. There's just internet gallery and camera and calls and text message. And now you have a button that you can use to get right to the apps. So, everything is bigger. There's a magnifying glass that'll be on the home screen. And there is a page. So, if you're on the main page here, if you swipe to the right, there's a page that has shortcuts to your contacts. You can simply tap on the plus and then it will allow you to add phone numbers as a contact. Once you add those contacts, then you'll be able to simply tap on that person's contact and call them or text them. So, this is a really easy way to set the phone up, but it's not for everyone. So, um, I always want to show it so you guys have the option. And if you want to turn it off later, it's really easy to do. You'll need to tap on the app drawer button here and swipe over, go to settings, and from here, we'll just toggle easy mode off, and things will be reset to the way it was. So, that is how you change the size of the text and a few other tweaks to make the phone easier to use. All right, now let's go over how to make calls and how to answer the phone when someone calls you. In the bottom left corner, you'll find the phone app. And here, if you want to make a call, you're going to tap on the keypad button and you'll type in the phone number you want to call. Here we go. And then we'll tap on the green button to start the call. And you'll see here you'll have your speaker phone button to play the call on speaker. Got your mute here. If you want to add someone to the call, you can tap on that plus button here under add call and then type in a new phone number to basically get two people online at the same time. And when you're done with the call, you're going to tap on that red button to basically end the call. Okay. Now, if you want to check your voicemail, you'll notice on keypad right under the number one, this is the voicemail icon here. So, if you press and hold number one, it'll automatically call your voicemail. All right. Now, here's what it looks like when someone calls you. I'm going to initiate a call right now so you can see it come through. All right. So, a call is coming through here. If you want to answer, take your finger, put it on the green button, and you need to drag up like this. That's how you answer the call. And same thing, all the buttons are going to be the same. And when you're all done, you hit the red button to end the call. Now, if a call comes through and you don't want to answer the call, here's what that looks like. So, we'll initiate that call again. Same thing. Take your finger and you'll drag up on the red button. You can also do this. You can at the bottom it'll say send message. If you swipe up where it says send message, it'll decline the call, but it will also let you send a follow-up message. So, you can say please text me. Can you call back later? I'll call you back. So, if I send this, it's going to basically decline the call, but it will also send a message to that person as well, letting them know you can't talk right now. That's what calls look like. Now, if you're not using the phone and a call comes through, it's going to look the same. I'm going to initiate that call one more time. There we go. So, swipe through to cancel. So, that is the process to make a phone call and also how to answer the phone when someone calls. Now, let's transition into how to send text messages. Right here, that button right next to the phone button, this is your messages button here. Now, the first thing you'll see is your inbox, and this will have all your current messages. So, here are a couple of messages here. Here's another message right here. If I tap on it, I can get in. I can scroll through and see the whole conversation. You'll always have a shortcut right at the top to call that person if you want to call them. If you want to send a message, you'll tap where it says text message. This will bring up your keyboard and allow you to begin typing a message. Hi. And then you'll tap on this button. This is your send button. This will send off the message. Now, if you tap on the plus here, this will give you some other options. For example, if you want to send a picture that you just took, you can tap on gallery. And here, it'll usually show pictures that you've already taken on the phone, or you can tap on this little bottom window here, and you can take a picture right now that you can then attach to your message. So, right here, my camera is open. And if I tap on the little white dot, it'll begin to take pictures and then attach them right to the email. And then I can hit that button to send it off. You also have this little button right here. If you hold down this button, you can actually send a voice message. So right now I'm talking. Hello, good morning. How are you? And it's going to record it as an audio file. I can tap on this little play button here. Send a voice message. So right now I'm and I can play it back. So instead of sending text, you can just send a voice message instead. Okay. Now, if you tap on text message here, there's a couple other things that are cool. If you tap on the microphone in the bottom right corner or bottom left corner, excuse me, you can use this to use what's called voice to text, which means you can say the message and it will type it out for you. You'll tap on while using the app, you'll agree, hey, good morning. I hope you're having a great day. Call me when you get a minute. Tap the microphone to stop it from listening. And that way it just typed in everything I said and I can just hit the button to go ahead and send it off. So this is essentially how you communicate through a message. Now if I hit the back button two times, it'll take me out of there and take me back to the inbox. If I want to start a new message, I can tap on this button here. And then I can type in a new phone number or a name of someone who's in my contacts. I'm going to type in this number here. Now, you'll notice here it says Jim Jones cuz this number is already saved into my contacts. So, I can simply tap right here and then it will start a new message with Jim Jones. And then I can just tap in the box that says text message and then I can start typing out the message. So, that's just a very brief rundown of how the text messaging app works. And we'll hit the home button. Now, one thing you'll notice, too, sometimes there's a red number that will show up on the top of the messaging app. If you ever see that red number, that's telling you that you have new text messages. And so, you'll want to tap on the app to be able to check the message. Okay. Next, let's go over how to secure your phone by setting a passcode. Now, you're going to swipe down from the top of the screen. Remember, in the upper right corner, you're going to find that little settings wheel. Tap on the settings wheel. Let's swipe up and we're going to go to security and privacy. From here, from here, tap on screen lock and biometrics. And these are the different options you will have to secure your phone. Now, the two most common methods are going to be with a pen and with a pattern. If you do a pen, you're allowed to select up a four to sixdigit number combination. And if you do a pattern, you can basically draw a pattern that is used to unlock the phone. Now, I'm going to do a pattern for this because it's a bit easier and it looks like this. You'll get this grid that'll have these nine dots and you can just draw a pattern. I like to do something simple like an L or you can go all the way elaborate like this. It's up to you. Let's retry. For the sake of the demonstration, I'm just going to make it an L just like this. That's our pattern. That's it. We're going to hit continue. I'm going to draw it a second time. And now it's going to lock that in when I hit confirm. And now I have that set up on the phone to help secure it. Now I'm going to hit done. Hit the home button. And I'm going to press the power button here to go ahead and put the phone to sleep. And if I press it again and I try to drag my finger up the screen to unlock it, it's now going to ask for me to draw that pattern in order to be able to unlock the phone. So, I'll just simply draw just like that. And that easy. We're now into the phone. So, that's how you set a passcode. Now, the next level of this is to set up the fingerprint reader, which is done through the fingerprint sensor on the power button. So, let's go back to settings. Swipe down from the top. Tap on the settings wheel. And from here, we're going to go back to security and privacy and go to screen lock and biometrics. We'll need to put in that pattern first. And now we can come down to the bottom where it says biometrics. You can program your fingerprint and also a face print or face recognition as well. I'm just going to do a fingerprint for the sake of this video. We're going to hit continue, register, and then you'll want to pick up the phone and you'll want to begin tapping the power button just like this. So, just take your finger and press down and lift. And you'll want to keep doing this, but every time you press your thumb down, you'll want to slightly move it so that it can get a better read on your finger. Try to hold the phone in the way that you would normally hold it. The more natural you can hold the phone, the better because you have to think when you actually grab your phone and try to do this. You want to make sure your reader is programmed to your uh to your thumb in the most natural way so it has a better chance of reading. Right now, I'm just lifting my thumb and just putting it down. You just keep going until you get to 100%. Now, once it programs, the next thing you'll want to do is program a second finger on a different hand. Why is this? Well, if this hand is wet or has grease on it, guess what? The phone is not going to read it properly. So, I always say program a finger on each hand. That way, if you have something on one hand, you can easily grab the phone with the other and then you'll be able to unlock the phone. So, just that easy. Our fingerprint is now uh scanned into the phone and you can hit add right here to now switch hands and then program another finger. Okay, now here's how this works. Let's take the phone. I had to press one more time for the final lock in. Okay, now I'm going to lock the phone again. Take my thumb and press it against the sensor. Now, the cool part is you don't have to tap the screen to wake it up first. If the phone is asleep, just like it is right now, I just tap the sensor and it will wake up the phone and take me right into the phone. So, this is just an extra level of protection and also an easier way to unlock the phone. So, you don't always have to put in that pattern. Now, next, let's move on to how to set up your email accounts and how to use the email app. So, first and foremost, there's a Google folder on the home screen. If you tap on that folder, you'll find your Gmail app. Now, some of you might say, "I have a Gmail, but I have other email accounts. I want to put them all on the phone." Well, good news. With the Gmail app, you can actually program multiple email accounts into the app, and you can program non-Gmail accounts as well, which most people don't know. Right here, if I tap add another email, it'll show you all the email types that are supported from Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, Exchange, etc. So, one thing that people tend to run into is if you select the other option, maybe you have an AOL email address or you have an SPC global.net. Sometimes it's a bit harder to program those email accounts, like the the app will ask you for additional information that the average person doesn't have. So, I want to show you a little trick if for whatever reason you're not able to sign into one of your email accounts using the other email option. For these, it's going to be easy. You're going to select the right option, put in the email address, put in the password, and it'll take you right in. But for the other option, that's where things get tricky. So, here's what you can do. Hit the home button. Go to the Google Play Store, which is right here. Tap on the search button twice to bring up our keyboard. In the bottom left corner, tap on this little number, this little symbol in the bottom left corner, and tap on the at@ symbol and just type in the back half of your email address. So, if yours is whatever your email address is ataol.com, you're going to type in aol.com and then hit the search button in the bottom right corner. This will then show you all the apps that are compatible with that email type. Samsung even has their own email app as well that you can download and use. The easiest one I would say for AOL is just the AOL app. You can simply tap install, download AOL's app, and you can sign into your email using their app, and that's it. Tap open, put in your information, and now you can add that account. So, if you have any obscure email types that are not the generic Hotmail, Live, Yahoo, this is a shortcut or trick that you can use to help you in accessing email for those accounts. Let's hit the home button. I'm going to go into the Gmail app and just give you a quick walkthrough of how the app works. I already have one Gmail account that is signed into this phone. I'm going to tap take me into Gmail. And this is our inbox here. Now, couple important things to note. Um, Gmail has their software that basically sifts through your emails and organizes them based on categories. So, in the upper left corner, if you tap on this menu here, you'll notice your emails are going to be sorted by primary, promotions, social, and updates. So, promotional emails are like emails from Google Fed, Samsung. These are emails that are more so advertisements. So, these are moved into a different folder to kind of help free up your inbox and keep it focused on things that are really important. So, just know you may find some of your emails there. You have a social folder which is for like your social media, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. All those are going to be pushed into a separate place. So you can read those here. And then you have an updates folder as well. And this is usually it's still sort of promotional, but you'll see other things like if you have a shipment that's coming, you might see the tracking information in this area. So just know your inbox is sorted by those four categories. Now, if you don't like that and you just want to see all your emails unfiltered, you'll want to come all the way down to all mail. And this will not filter the emails. It'll show you every single email and you'll have a lot more to go through, but you won't miss any important emails. And for some of you guys, that might just be the best way to do it. Now, if you want to open an email, you tap on it, you look through it. It's just that easy. When I'm done, I can choose to archive it, which is moving it out of the inbox, but it's saving it. It's kind of moving it to a folder called archived emails that you may want to access later. But if you say, "I don't ever want to see this email again because it's it will no longer be important." Well, then tap on this trash can and just delete the email and it's done. Now, if you were going to try to go through every single email that way, this would take a very long time. So, a shortcut to delete lots of emails at one time is to tap on this little icon to the left. I know for sure I don't want to see these emails again. I'm not going to be using these. I just hit a check next to each one. Tap on the trash can and I can delete a couple at one time. So, that's a little trick. Now, if you want to write an email, tap on the compose button, and from here, you'll type in who the email address is to. I'm gonna put [email protected] just as an example. And then from here in the subject I'm going to just type in hi and then hello. I can attach a picture or document by tapping on the paperclip at the top of the screen here. And here it gives me the options photos, camera, files, drive. I could tap on photos. Just select one of these pictures and tap add. And now it's going to attach this picture to the email. And when I'm ready to send it, I can tap on this little button here to send off the email. So that's how easy it is to just send off an email. And we'll hit the home button because we're all done. So that's just a brief rundown of how to use the Gmail app. And next, let's move into how to use the camera, how to take pictures, and just some good information you'll want to know for that. So we're in the camera right now. It's looking through the rear camera. That's why it's dark. If I tap on this button, this will rotate the camera to the front. So, this is how easy it is to jump from the front to the rear camera. You have this button here that will basically allow you to zoom out a bit. You can kind of toggle between close-up or wide shots. Obviously, this button is for taking pictures. To the left here, you'll see a preview of whatever picture you just took. So, you can quickly just scroll through and see if you like the picture if or if you want to take more. If you want to take a video, you can swipe left on the screen or at the bottom you'll see the little uh titles. So we have video, we have photo, portrait, and fun. So four different categories there. So swiping will also take you through that menu. You can tap on this menu button here as well, and this will give you some more options. You can change how the pictures are going to show. Right now it's a 9x6 ratio, but I can change the ratio here to a 1 one, which is ideal for Instagram or even a full size picture as well. And then you have a bunch of other things. You can change the resolution for video here. You can control the exposure. You can also do an autoframing for it to help you find the best spot to do focusing and access more camera settings here. That's a rundown of just how the camera works when you record a video. Obviously, you'll see the red dot in the middle. So that's how you'll know your own video. If you tap on this white button here, it'll let you snap still pictures while it records video. And when you're done, simply hit the stop button. Now, if you want to access those pictures later, we're going to hit the home button. Swipe up and go to our gallery app, which is right here. And this is where you'll find all the pictures and videos that we've taken. Album here. It'll sort the pictures by different categories from um the camera, what's come through as a message. If you download something, it'll show up here. If you take a screenshot, it'll show up in a separate folder. So, this will just organize everything for you. And then stories will organize the pictures into stories once you get a lot of pictures in your gallery. So, that's a rundown of just how the camera is used. Oh, one last thing I want to show you. If you want to take really great pictures, when you're holding the phone, you always want to tap on your main subject. By you tapping, it's going to adjust the lighting specifically for your subject. So, like watch this here. I want to really focus in on this uh leaf here. So, I'm going to tap and then you'll see it focusing and you'll see the lighting adjust. Now, if you ever tap in an area of the picture that's dark, that's how you get the photo to be brighter. If you tap on a bright area, then it will dim down. So, notice here it's going to dim it down. Here, it's going to darken it. That's how you adjust. And then you can lock in the focus by basically putting your finger on the spot and holding for one second and it'll actually lock the focus into that one spot. There's a lot you can do, but really just tapping on your subject is the best thing you can do to take really great pictures. All right, guys. So, this brings us to the end of our video. I hope you found this helpful. This is just one of many videos that I have on the Samsung Galaxy A26. So, at the end of the video, I'll make sure to link on screen to my playlist that'll have all my other A26 videos so you can continue to learn after watching this video. And I'll also link another really helpful video on screen as well. 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