Samsung’s One UI is a powerful package of convenient features. It also includes a hidden pop-up menu for application shortcuts, which users can access through a tap-and-hold command.
Samsung One UI Instant App Shortcut Feature
This pop-up menu helps you access certain functions quickly; for instance, you can hold any particular application shortcut, like Camera. From the pop-up menu, select if you want to launch the Camera application directly in selfie or portrait mode or start a video recording immediately.
You can turn app shortcut menus into permanent shortcuts on your home screen. This seems beneficial for apps that don’t offer direct access to frequently used features, such as starting specific tabs within Instagram directly instead of the Home tab.
The social media app Instagram is a perfect example of this. You must know that when you open Instagram, it always opens on the “Home” tab, and you can’t change this. But OneUI’s hidden feature lets you access any particular app function directly.
For instance, if you want to open a message tab within Instagram, you can create a custom shortcut for the message tab. You can also create an Instagram shortcut that always opens the app on the “Reel” tab. “Search” tab, or any particular tab that you use the most.
Noticeably, One UI’s hidden quick access shortcut feature is not compatible with each app, like Samsung Health and more.
Here’s how to create quick access shortcuts on Galaxy devices
- You can easily create quick-access shortcuts on Galaxy devices by just pressing and holding an application’s shortcut.
- Once you open the pop-up menu, tap and hold one of the app’s functions from the menu, then drag and drop it on the home screen or inside a folder to create a shortcut.
- Once you are done, you can place these apps’ function shortcuts on the home screen. You can also organize them in folders.
