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How to remove Orange dot from Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 screen
Samsung is one of the innovative company, which has worked on different segments in the gadgets industry; the company has a lot of varieties of gadgets, in which the wearables are best, especially the Korean giant is doing commendable work in the smartwatch segment. If we talk about the recent development, the company has successfully launched the up to the fifth generation watches sequentially. In which the Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 are quite popular among users.
The Galaxy Watch 4 and Galaxy Watch 5 offer several functionalities to the users so they can do most of their work easily and comfortably. All the features Samsung has given are given for the convenience of all users. But in some cases, they are not as useful for each user, just like the orange dot, which is a useful feature that indicates the notification of a new message has arrived. This dot somewhere spoils the look of the watch screen. If you are also among those users who don’t like the appearance, you can apply these methods to remove it.
How to remove orange dot from Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 screen
There are three ways to remove the orange dot from the watch screen; in the first one, you can turn it off by going to the watch settings; secondly, you can read all the notifications; and in the third one, you can clear all the notifications on the single tap, now let’s understand how to do it step by step.
Turn off the notification indicator or Orange dot
By following the below steps, you can easily turn off the orange dot
- First, wake up your Galaxy watch;
- Then swipe up the screen;
- Here you will see different icons, and you have to tap on the gear icon;
- Now you are in the setting menu; here, tap on Notifications and select Advanced settings;
- Turn off the notification indicator toggle.
Read all the notifications
The orange dot indicates the notifications which are arrived and doesn’t read by the users, so just open all the unread notifications by swiping from left to right on the watch’s home screen. After you successfully read each notification, the orange dot will be removed automatically.
Clear All Notifications
You can also clear all the notifications in a single click then the orange dot will be immediately removed. To do so, follow the below steps
- Wake up the watch screen, then swipe right on the watch home screen till the last page
- Now click on clear all to instantly clear all the notifications.
How to remove the orange dot permanently from Galaxy Watch
If you want to permanently remove the orange dot from the watch screen and don’t want it as a notification indicator, you can turn off all the notifications of the app; by doing this, you will not be able to get any notifications, no matter how important it is. To do it, just follow the below steps:
- Open the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone;
- Now go to the watch settings and tap on the notifications menu;
- Touch the app notification menu and now turn off the toggle mentioned “All apps.”
Nowadays, every smartphone user generally uses hundreds of applications on their devices, and due to the large number of applications, it’s a bit difficult to find the desired application, so to make it simple, users have only one solution: manually search for the application with its name using the finder option.
Samsung Swipe Down To Access App Finder
Samsung has rolled out a new update for the Home Up application. With the latest update, users have received some useful features; Finder Access is one of them, which has made app access more convenient. It allows users to quickly jump to the app finder with one swipe. Let’s understand how you can use it.
How to Enable Samsung Home Screen App Finder with Good Lock Home Up
To use the App Finder, your Samsung Galaxy phone should support the Good Lock application and then you need to update the Home Up application to the latest version (v15.0.01.19), then follow the below steps:
- Go to the Good lock.
- Here, select the Home Up module.
- Turn on the Home Up
- Then tap on the Home screen option.
- Here, you will get the Finder access option, then tap on it.
- Now choose any option from the “Home screen” or “App screen” where the feature should be activated.
- Now if you swipe down on the Home Screen to access App Finder.
Note: The latest update for Home Up is only available for Galaxy devices that are running on One UI 6.1 or above. And Swipe Down control centre won’t work after enable this feature.
Samsung has recently rolled out the One UI 6.1 update for several Galaxy devices. With the late One UI update, the company has brought several innovations that will provide several utility options for the users. From several features, the AI power ones are the most highlighted, and voice record summarization is also a unique feature.
What is voice recording summarization?
Now, with the One UI 6.1 update, Galaxy users can easily transcribe any voice recording into text form and summarize it in their own language. This will help users easily make notes according to what is recorded.
To use this feature, you need to go to the settings and then select the Advanced feature. Here you will see the voice recorder, tap on it, and then touch the summaries option. Now turn it on. When it is turned on, you can enjoy summarizing voice recordings.
To summarize the voice recording Go to the recorder application, select the desired recording file, and here you will see the option ‘transcribe’. Once it finishes transcribing, you will see one more tab for summarization. However, the option is currently not working correctly as it fails to detect the exact wording of other languages except English. However, it is expected that the company may bring more optimization to the device to make the feature more powerful.
How to Transcribe Voice Recording into Text on Samsung Phones
If you are using a Galaxy device that has installed the One UI 6.1 update, then you can easily use voice recorder summarization by following these steps:
- Go to the Settings and select the advanced feature.
- Here you will see a voice recorder option. Tap on it to access
- Now turn the toggle on to activate it.
- Once activated, open the voice recorder, then select any saved file.
- Now you will see the option “transcribe.” It will provide all the information from the test.
- Once the transcription is done, you will get a summarize tab adjacent to it; just swipe write to access it.
Samsung has introduced some new utilities with One UI 6.1 for the AOD display. Users who own the Galaxy S24 can put wallpaper in the Always on display and add some widgets as well; however, the company has removed the manual brightness settings for the same feature. But you don’t have to worry, as you can still manage the always-on-display brightness with new methods.
How to manage AOD brightness for Galaxy S24 series
With the latest One UI 6.1, Samsung has removed the manual brightness settings for the Galaxy S24 devices. If you want to adjust the auto brightness, you have to set the preferred brightness level of the main display from the notification panel. The reason behind the removal of the feature is to give convenience to users, as it brings automation for brightness by default, so it will dim or increase the brightness of the AOD according to the light condition.
How to Manage AOD Brightness after One UI 6.1 update
Apart from Galaxy S24 devices, Samsung has placed the AOD manual control option in the Good Lock – LockStar App settings, so if you want to take advantage of the manual control settings, first you need to update the Lockstar application to the latest version, then follow the below steps:
- Open the Good Lock on your device’
- Then tap on the LockStar module from the list of “Makeup” modules.
- Here you will see the option Always On Display Auto Brightness.
- If you don’t see the manual brightness control, then turn the auto brightness off.
- Then you will get a dedicated slider so you can set the brightness to a different level.
