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Samsung SmartThings App: Detailed Info, Version Update, Features, And How To Use
Today we will tell you about one of the most advanced apps from Samsung, SmartThings. This app allows you to connect your Galaxy devices to your home appliances.
First, let us tell you that Samsung connect is now SmartThings. With this update, you can now control your Samsung and third-party SmartThings-compatible devices with a single user-friendly app. SmartThings allows you to connect and control multiple devices more quickly and easily. You can monitor and control smart devices, home appliances, TVs, and speakers registered on the server from anywhere.
Samsung SmartThings App Key features
- Remotely control and monitor devices connected to a Wi-Fi access point.
- Combine multiple devices into a Mode and control them all at once.
- Set your device’s settings, including the time and operating conditions, to run automatically.
- To enable shared control, invite others to a location where devices are registered.
- The notification feature allows you to receive device status information.
How to access SmartThings ;
On a Galaxy phone
- When you are ready to take control of all your smart devices, use the following guidelines. But first, you should double-check if your device is compatible.
- Locate and launch the SmartThings app on your phone.
- Select the device’s preferred location by tapping the Home icon on the Devices tab.
- Tap Add (the plus sign), followed by Add device.
- If the device has Bluetooth, select Scan nearby, and then, if your device shows up, choose its name.
- If your device is not detected, you can manually add it. If it’s a Samsung product, tap By device type to select the device type, such as a hub, TV, and so on. If not, choose By brand (SmartThings, ADT, and so on). You can also use the search bar to find your device.
- Then, follow the on-screen prompts to connect your device to SmartThings.
- You might need to press a button on a connected Samsung smart appliance to activate its smart features and complete the connection. It’s similar to accepting the terms for using intelligent features.
On your iPhone
Your devices can be added using your iPhone as well. But first, you should double-check if your devices are compatible.
Navigate to and open the SmartThings app.
Tap the Devices tab, the Home icon, and the device’s desired location.
Select Add (the plus sign). If the device is Bluetooth-enabled, you can find it by tapping Scan nearby at the bottom.
You can also manually add it by tapping By device type or brand and selecting the device from the list. Alternatively, you can use the Search icon to look for it.
After you’ve chosen your device, follow the on-screen instructions to finish the setup and connect it.
When connecting a Samsung smart appliance, you may need to press a button on the appliance to activate its smart features and complete the connection. It’s comparable to agreeing to the terms of use of intelligent features.
Home automation monitoring
Users can easily use security services by configuring their cameras and sensors through Smart Home Monitoring.
– Suggest Automation
By selecting Recommended Automation, users can quickly create an Automation rule.
– The location mode
Location mode becomes available when the user creates automation as a condition or action.
Download the latest version of Samsung SmartThings App
This app has many features to offer and can make people’s life easier and more comfortable; such are the perks of the technology. However, users should remember that the features’ services and availability depend upon the region.
How to update Samsung SmartThings App
- Open the Play Store, tap your profile picture, and then tap Manage apps & device.
- Tap Updates available to see what apps need updates.
- From here, you can tap Update to Samsung SmartThings app.
Google is continuously working towards the betterment of the Android ecosystem. It has brought several new features and innovations to its own designed applications, including Google Wallet, Google Maps, Google Messages, and many more. Now, with the latest development, the company is getting a new option in settings that lets you turn off the expressive animations.
Google Messages introduced expressive animation two months ago. Under this functionality, users get a cool animation feature that enables your still emoji to be expressed in an expressive way and makes the conversation more interesting. Now, with the latest development, if you don’t like this animation, you can also turn it off.
You can follow these simple steps to turn off the expressive animation: Navigate to the settings and then scroll down. Here you will find the new toggle option’show expressive animations’. Just tap it to turn it off.
The new option for turning off the animated expressiveness appeared with the latest Google Messenger beta 20240426_01_RC00, which indicates that the new changes are limited to those users who have already joined the beta program, while for other users it will take a while to expand this feature.
If you haven’t enrolled in the beta program and want to try this new option, you can apply for it now from the Google Play Store. Once you get registered, it will provide you with a new update immediately. Now you just need to install it and check for the option.
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ByteDance wants to kick off TikTok in the US market rather than selling it to an American firm
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, would have to shut down TikTok in the US market rather than sell it to an American firm. Following many assertions and statements for years, finally, it appears that ByteDance wants to ditch TikTok from the US market. Menahile, earlier reports significantly suggested that eventually TikTok will get banned in the US and was officially approved by the US House, Senate, and President of the US, Biden.
According to a source shared by Reuters via Android Police, ByteDance, which is the parent company of TikTok, seems looking up to ditching TikTok in the US completely rather than selling it to an American firm, while after the official approval, ByteDance was given the last 270-day deadline that either the company needs to release TikTok from its ownership forever or completely stop TikTok in the US market.
ByteDance counts a small part of TikTok’s revenue, though:
Meanwhile, the company is currently eyeing over some other legal options, but if all the legal options proved unsuccessful, then it’s quite clear that TikTok would be leaving the US market forever. On the flip side, some sources also reveal that the highly engaging properties of TikTok are due to its core algorithms, while these core algorithms are the most essential section of ByteDance’s technology. Moreover, this ditching of TikTok in the US will not really impact ByteDance’s current operations in the US market, as the company accounts for a small part of revenue through the app.
Sources further added that last year, TikTok gained about 25% of its revenue from the US market, which significantly means that it could be a sudden decrement within the revenue stream. However, ByteDance’s dedicated app, Douyin, which is certainly a Chinese version of TikTok, Also, no American firm is willing to pay billions to acquire TikTok without its core algorithms. Meanwhile, all these factors significantly indicate that if the legal efforts proved to be a failure, TikTok would have to leave the US market for sure.
Over the years, Google has made several improvements to its most crucial application, the Google Play Store, and it constantly provides new utility features and improvements. Now, with the latest development, the company is working on a new capability to handle multiple application downloads.
According to the information, Google is looking to bring a new capability to download multiple applications together. Previously, when you tap on the install button of the applications, it starts downloading them one by one. When one application fully downloads, it starts downloading the second application.
However, it is worth noticing that the phenomenon of multiple downloading is limited to only two applications, meaning if you tap on more than three applications to download, it will start downloading two applications while the third one is still pending.
Additionally, the simultaneous download is limited to the new installs, but it will not apply to the update section. We hope that Google may expand the multiple downloads to update phenomenon and may increase the number of downloads together in the next developments.
As per the information, the new change has already started working on several devices, at least for the Android 14 installed devices with the latest version of the Play Store (40.6.31).