How to lock your home screen on your Galaxy Note to prevent accidental changes?
Posted by cnecorp in Galaxy Note Phones on Jul 6th, 2021My wife had this special ability to absolutely destroy the home screen on her phone regardless of what I did. I even bought several themes with home screen lock features to no avail.
I’d set up her home screen with her favourite widgets and apps and lo and behold, apps and widgets would go missing or get moved to a new page sometimes within 24 hours.
I was browsing through the lock screen options on my new Note 20g Ultra, basically familiarising myself with the features of my new toy and stumbled across a new, or previously unnoticed feature, called Lock Home Screen Layout.
I checked my wife’s Note 8 and sure enough the feature was on that as well.
It’s now been 3 weeks and her home screen has remained intact.
Simply go to settings:
- Scroll down a little and select Home Screen
- New the bottom of the page, set the toggle for Lock Home Screen Layout to on
How to avoid having to unlock your Galaxy Note phone all the time?
Posted by cnecorp in Galaxy Note Phones on Jul 6th, 2021Protecting your privacy on your device is important but it can get annoying especially if you have a very short timeout to extend your battery life.
You can alleviate this life’s little annoyance by adding trusted devices and/or locations to your lock settings e.g. when driving or at home.
To do this, go to settings:
- Select Lock Screen
- Select Smart Lock
- Add trusted location
I only set this to my home, setting it at work is not that advisable - Add trusted device
e.g. I add my bluetooth headset and my car media as trusted devices
This way I do not have to unlock my phone when at home or when my device is connected to my headset and/or my car
How to block Ads on your Galaxy Note Phones
Posted by cnecorp in Galaxy Note Phones on Jul 6th, 2021Android introduced this new feature since Pie. I found out about it recently and it has been great.
Go to Settings, Connections, More Connection Setttings:
- Select Private DNS Mode
- Select Private DNS provider hostname option
- Enter dns.adguard.com
That’s it, enjoy ad free games etc
