How to create custom shortcuts with the Samsung mobile ignition button with UI 7

Let’s explain How to create custom shortcuts on your Samsung mobile with One UI 7so that you can do some tasks more quickly. It is a new option quite hidden in mobile settings, and used by the ignition side button.

Until now, the Samsung side button allowed you to open the camera or an application by pressing it twice. But now, These shortcuts can be configured much morebeing able to add several camera functions, activate the flashlight, and much more.

Here, remember that to be able to do this first You have to wait for you to get UI 7. In Xataka Basics we have already told you the list of Samsung devices that will receive this updatethat is, if yours is on the list you will only have to wait.

What can you do with these shortcuts

These are the shortcuts you have available For the Samsung mobile ignition button with One UI 7. You will be able to configure the shortcuts for when you make the gesture of clicking twice:

• Camera: open camera, capture portrait, capture selfie, record video
• Wallet: Start Samsung Wallet
• Flashlight: Activate mobile flashlight
• Magnifying glass: Use the magnifying function
• Voice recorder: Open the voice recorder, start recording
• Samsung Notes: Open the app, write with the pencil, write note, record voice note, paint with the brush
• Samsung capture: screen capture, record the screen, selection with AI
• Modes and routines: Activate a routine
• Open an application: You choose an app that you want to open.

How to configure your personalized shortcut

To configure the personalized shortcut with the side button, you first have to enter the settings menu to access the configuration. Once inside, click on the section Advanced functions That will appear.

When you enter the advanced options, click on the section of Side button. Here you can configure the long pulsation for your assistant, but what you should do to have more flexibility is click on Press twice.

This is going to take you to the screen where you will be able to Choose the action you want to perform When you press twice on the off button. In some options, in the right part you have a configuration button, which will allow you to configure the concrete action within this function.

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