Motorola Razr for Beginner's PART 2 (More Helpful Tips) | Moto Razr 2024

Number one, use this gesture to launch your camera whenever you need to snap a quick picture. So, hold the phone and simply twist it twice, just like this. This will automatically open up your camera and allow you to take a really quick picture. Now, this will also work if the phone is open as well. So, if I'm holding the phone in the normal position, just with it open, same thing. Double twist. No matter what you're doing, it'll automatically jump over to the camera and allow you to snap a quick picture. Number two, how to quickly launch your flashlight. Same thing whenever you need to use it. Getting lost in the middle of the night. Double chop to turn it on. Double chop to turn it off. It works the same if the phone is open or closed as well. Phone is open. I can just simply hold it by the sides. Double chopping motion to get it on. double chop to get it off. Now, you might have noticed at the beginning um I had to chop a bit harder when the phone is closed because it's a shorter uh distance. Number three, how to customize your lock screen. Now, so first you'll have to swipe through and put in whatever your code is or use your fingerprint to unlock the phone. But once the phone is unlocked, there's a lot you can do to customize this screen. So, first what you're going to do is long press on the screen and it'll bring you to this option. Now, from here you can tap on manage panels and this will show you all the different screens that will show up on the lock screen. So, um there's these five to start, but there's a lot more you can pick from. If you tap on the plus in the corner here, here are some of the other cool options you have. Now, one of the ones that I love is the stock. So, I can tap on that plus and now I can track my favorite stock. I can add a timer as well. I can add a stopwatch. I can even add Spotify so I can control my music in a cleaner interface right from the closed position. And there's also an app screen as well. So now if I go back, you'll see those are the the two new ones that we just added. Now let's go back and let's see what those look like. So as I swipe through, there's my timer and there is my stock watch list here. And you can kind of go through and and you can add different stocks on the screen. So super cool. Okay, but that's not all. This only grazes the surface. So next, again, long press to get to the menu. Now, we're going to tap on this first window right here. One tap. Now, here you can customize the background and also the font for the clock and uh a bunch of other stuff. So, I'm going to fully customize this screen. Now, let's start with the picture. I'm just going to swipe left and I can choose from some of the preset wallpapers that are built in or I can just tap on themes. And here there are some preset themes that are already built in. Let's try this one right here. That one's pretty cool. And in each theme, you can swipe through and there's a bunch of other options to select. You might say, "Ah, these are cool, but they're also a little cheesy." You can also hit the gallery button here to take one of your own pictures and make that the background. So, try that as well. Next, I'm going to change the font of the clock. So, as we scroll through, you'll see these are some of the different options for the clock. I think h I think I like this one. Let's go with that one. Hit save. You can change the color of the clock by tapping on this little bubble here and scrolling through. So, you may want to make it a bit darker since the background is light. And obviously you've got just those few options for colors right there. Let's hit save. Save again. And that's our new lock screen. But there is still more that we can change. So now let's go ahead and change the apps that are going to show up on this screen. Because you might say, I don't really want Gemini right here because I can actually launch Gemini with a gesture from the home screen. So, let's now change the apps that show up on this screen. So, long press, tap home screen, and then tap again. And when you tap that last time, it'll bring up the four apps that are currently selected. And then it will allow you to go through and change them. So, let's get rid of Gemini and get rid of Google Photos and let's replace them with something that makes a little bit more sense. For example, let's add Tik Tok and let's add YouTube. Those are much funner. And since we learned how to launch the camera, why would we want the camera to be on that screen? We can just launch that with a gesture. Let's change that as well. And let's add YouTube music. Hit the check. And now we have our new set of apps that are selected for our home screen. So, that's a a brief rundown of how to customize that outer screen to just make it a little bit more funner and again more personalized to the apps that you use versus the stock default apps. Now, so far, if you're getting value out of this video, take a minute, stop, bump that like button down below. It cost you nothing, but that little gesture will help to push this video out to more people as YouTube will see that you like it and they'll try to push it out to more people. Now, I just want to show you one cool accessory that I love to use with this phone. Since this phone is so light and thin and compact, sometimes I wake up and I have forgotten to charge my phone. So, I always keep this little Ankor Nano charger handy. Really inexpensive and super powerful. It just pops right in to the bottom of your phone. Fits really easy in your pocket. And this will help to give your phone a little bit of a boost in terms of the charge without you having to stop and sit next to a charging cable. I bring this thing everywhere I go because some days I use my phone more than others and I never want to have to worry about not having enough battery to do what I need to do. So I'll just pop this thing in my pocket and when the phone gets low I'll just put it in. You'll notice at the bottom here it has these four lights and these are the charging indicators. So each light represents 25% of battery life. So right now I've got 75% worth of battery in this. And this is going to basically put all that juice into the phone and get me quickly back to 100%. So I'll link this on screen right here in case you want to pick up one of these. Um definitely a game changer. For our next tip, I want to show you how to show the battery percentage on your home screen. So, right now I can see my battery in the upper right corner, but I don't know quite how much battery I have. Now, if I swipe down, it will show me, but you have to swipe down in order to see the percentage. However, if you make this small tweak in the settings, it will always show you the percentage on the home screen. So, let's swipe up and let's go to the settings. And from here, we're going to go to display. Swipe down to battery and then swipe up and go to battery percentage. And now it's going to always show our battery percentage in the status bar. So here we're on the home screen and now I can see I have 96% of battery left. It's a small tweak, but I guarantee you it's going to make all the difference because sometimes we think we have more battery than we do. And guess what? you you never want to get caught with your battery being super low and you not having been able to have charged it. Hint why this thing is super cool as well. For our next tip, I want to show you a really, really important feature that most people don't even know about. This is called the emergency SOS mode. And in the event of an emergency, this feature could save your life, but you need to know about it and you need to have it set up. If not, it's not going to help you. So, the way this feature works, you're simply going to press the power button five times to trigger the emergency SOS mode, just like this. 1 2 3 4 5. It's going to go into this mode. And here it says touch and hold for 3 seconds to start the feature. So, it takes you to this screen and you basically need to basically keep your finger on this circle for 3 seconds to basically automatically call 911. Now, this is one of many features that it will trigger once it's in this mode. Now, it works the same way if the phone is open. 1 2 3 4 5. This is what it looks like. Press and hold and it will automatically call 911. Now, what else does it do? Great question. Let's tap on the settings wheel right here. And here you can see some of the other things you can enable. Now, again, this is super important. If you don't set this up, it's not going to fully work for you, and you really want to make sure this is set up. So, aside from calling 911, you can also share information with your emergency contacts. So, let's turn this on. And right here, you'll need to sign into your Google account. So, let's sign in right now. Now, it's going to give us a tour. I'm just going to show you the tour on screen. So, hit next. So, find safety features. Okay. Down here under features, view and manager info down here. Gosh, that was anticlimactic. I thought it was going to show more. Let me show you the important things to focus on. Here's the first thing. If you have a special medical condition, for example, low blood sugar, um you can put that information so that when you trigger the setting, it will show up on screen. Tap medical information. And here you can put in date of birth, blood type, height, weight, and then you know specific allergies, pregnancy status, medications, your address, medical notes, I'm allergic to penicellin, organ donor, yes, no. So guess what? If you have low blood sugar and you tend to faint because of it, that is something that you should have in this uh app because when you trigger it, all that information is going to show up on the screen. So hopefully emergency medical personnel can see it and can treat you properly. Here's the next thing. You'll want to pl program in your emergency contacts. So you can add in multiple people so that when you trigger this feature, it'll automatically send them a text that tells them that you're in trouble and you need help. It will send them your GPS location and it will send uh a picture and a voice clip of what's happening. It's very short, but it will send them hopefully enough information to be able to track you down. Now, emergency info access. Now, this one I'm not as familiar with. Let's take a look together. Show when locked. Emergency info and contacts will be visible. First responders and people with access to your device can dial your emergency contacts. So, this is great. This is basically giving permission so that if you're passed out, but you're holding your phone on the outside, it will have the contact information of your emergency contacts. So, if the paramedics are there, they have someone they can reach out to to try to alert uh them to let them know that you're in trouble and that they're helping you. So, I would encourage you to go through this app and plug in all the relevant information so that in the event of an emergency that you have to use this feature, it's set up and ready and it will alert the proper people to hopefully get you the help that you need. That is the emergency SOS mode. For the next tip, I want to show you how to run two apps at one time. And there's different ways to do this, but I'm going to show you my favorite way to do it. So, I'm going to first open up the YouTube app because I want to have YouTube open at the top of the screen and at the bottom I want to have uh Google Chrome and I'll show you how I'm going to use it. So, first I'm going to open up this video here and let's lower the volume. Now, I'm going to pause the video for now, hit the home button, and then I'm going to open up Chrome. Again, there's different ways to do this. This is how I like to do it. I'm going to open up the Amazon app. Let's hit the home button. Now, press the recent apps button in the bottom right corner. Swipe over to YouTube and tap on the YouTube icon at the top and go to split screen. Then, swipe over and go to Chrome. And now it will split the two apps for you. Now, I can play my YouTube video. In the bottom right, I can tap on this square to make it full screen. And guess what? While I'm watching this video, I can scroll through Amazon and I can do some shopping while I'm watching this video. I believe you can drag this up just a bit to give you a little bit more room on the bottom screen. And it works perfect because the YouTube app, it doesn't give you, you know, it there's all this wasted space with the bars. So full screen, I've got all this wasted bar space. I can drag this little bar, the white bar up just a bit. And now I have more room to scroll through Amazon while I'm watching the video. Can also take the phone. I can rotate it. Now in the bottom corner, you have to tap on this button here to get it to finish the rotation. But now it's going to be in the landscape position. I can continue to scroll through Amazon while I watch this video. So super cool feature. And when you're done, simply take your finger and drag down on the white bar here like this or swipe down and that will take you out of the full screen. That is how you use two apps at one time. Now, some of you may already know this trick, but I'm going to show you anyway. It's on the same vein of multitasking. If I want to continue to watch this YouTube video and do something else, I'm going to basically play the video. So, the video is playing and I'm going to hit the home button. This will now shrink the video into a popup window that I can move around the screen while I continue to use the phone. Maybe you want to go to the Play Store because you want to download a new app. Feel free to do that. And while you're doing that, your video is still playing. You can move it over here. You can even move the video off the screen like this, and you can continue to hear it while you're using the screen for other things. So, this is another way to multitask, especially if you don't need to look at the video at every second. You can enjoy using the full screen for a few minutes and then you can simply just pull that video back over. You can also take the video and you can pinch to make that screen bigger and drop it down to the bottom of the screen or to the top. And when you're all done, simply tap on the video, pause it, then hit the X to close it out. Just like that. So, now we know how to run two apps at one time. And that's two different ways to do it. Now, if you haven't done it already, if any of these tips were helpful or you've learned something that you didn't know before, show some love by hitting that like button down below. For the next tip, I want to show you how to add more apps to the cover screen. Now, we went over earlier how to customize this screen, and we picked these four apps as our main shortcuts, but maybe you want to access a lot more apps without opening the phone. There's a really easy way to do this. So, first you're going to long press on the home screen, go to manage panels, hit the plus, and make sure you add the app screen. Tap there. Go back. Go back. Now, when you swipe to the right, you'll get to your app screen because it's the last one in the list of tiles. And if you tap on the pencil in the upper right corner, now you can go through and add eight more apps and have them as shortcuts for the home screen. Maybe you want to do your Gmail. You can do a quick glance to see if you have any new emails. Let's see, what else should we add? Maybe a fun game like solitaire. your your Google wallet because you can pay right from your phone while this phone is closed. And you can go through and just add more apps. Let's add Facebook, Calculator, Amazon Music, and Block Blast. Hit the check box to save it. Now, you can also go to shortcuts and you can add some other features as well. Maybe you don't want to add an app, but maybe you want to add a shortcut to one of your favorite contacts. For example, maybe your mom, maybe your best friend, someone you call often, you can add their contact. And now you can set it so that you can just tap that person's contact to send them a text or call them. You can also add a shortcut to the dialer as well, which will make it easier for you to make calls while the phone is closed. And there's a bunch of other ones in here. Swipe through to see all the different shortcuts that you can add to that lock screen. Hit the check in the upper right corner to save it. And now, so this is actually cool. I thought at first it was only eight, but you can add more. So we have basically nine things right now. So you can continue to add as many as you want, as far as I know. So that's pretty cool. you can have this separate screen with a list of the shortcuts that you would like to see and access from this um closed screen. For the next tip, I want to show you how to launch your Gemini Assistant right from the lock screen. Now, this you can do from the lock screen or you can do it from the uh internal display as well. It's the same gesture. You're simply going to long press on the power button right here. It'll automatically launch Gemini and then you can begin to ask it questions. Hey Gemini, when do the Lakers play again? There we go. If we raise the volume here at 6:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight saving time at the link to crypto.com. >> There we go. So, there's our next game. Now, something that a lot of folks miss with Gemini is Gemini Live. So, right now, I just asked a question and it gave me a reply. But guess what? If I want to ask a new question, I have to press the microphone again to respond. However, if you tap on this button to the right of the microphone, you can activate Gemini Live >> and now you can turn it into a live conversation. >> So, watch this. Hey Gemini, you said the Lakers are playing today, right? Can you tell me when they play again? >> Okay, so they play against the Suns on Tuesday, October 14th. That game starts at 7 p.m. Pacific Daylight saving time. >> Hey Gemini, how many more preseason games do they have after that? >> Well, after that Suns game, they still got two more preseason games. They play the Mavericks on October 15th and then the Kings on October. >> Oh, very cool. Uh, can you tell me what's the first day of the regular season? >> The Lakers kick off their regular season on Tuesday, October 21st against the Golden State Warriors at 700 p.m. Pacific Daylight. >> So, that's how you switch Gemini into the conversation mode where you can or it's called live mode, but basically you can actually have a back and forth conversation um and ask follow-ups. It just makes it easier to interact. Now, here's the next thing you can do. You can actually open up the camera. You can show Gemini something and you can ask it a question just like this. Let's tap that button to go back into the live mode. Now we're going to tap the camera. We're going to tap while using the app. And here I'm going to show Gemini a phone and ask, "Hey Gemini, what phone is this? Can you tell me what model this is?" >> That's a Samsung Galaxy S20. Are you having issues with it? >> That's kind of funny. So, I got it wrong. This is actually the S25 FE. So, it's not perfect, but you can show it different things and you can ask it questions. Now, something really cool I did with Gemini recently is I actually showed it uh a picture of uh four measuring cups that had the actual measurements. They were scraped off because they were so old. And I said, "Hey, Gemini, can you tell me what measuring spoon this is?" and it actually was able to tell me the exact measurement for that spoon which was crazy. Now I obviously know that this stuff is not perfect and sometime there are little glitches. So in this case I didn't show it enough of the phone so it probably mistake you know what phone it actually was. But either way you've probably seen on the Google commercial where they actually show they'll show Gemini something and they'll ask a question. That's how you use that feature. Anyway guys this brings us to the end of our video. I hope you did find this helpful. If it was and you haven't already done so, please bump that like button down below. One more ask of you is if you could go in the comments and one, drop a line on if you thought this video was helpful. And number two, let me know which tip I mentioned that was the most helpful. Those that feedback is great for me to know what things that I'm teaching you guys that's new and what things that are common knowledge. I always love to adjust and adapt to make sure I'm showing you guys the latest and greatest that you can do with these phones. Thanks again for watching.