The gallery app that comes pre-installed in your Samsung telephone is extra than simply storage in your pictures and movies. It comes with all kinds of instruments designed to make your gallery expertise higher that you just won’t even find out about. Listed here are some value testing.

Doodle Good Shapes With out a Stylus

Most gallery apps mean you can draw on prime of your pictures and customise the colour and girth of the pen stroke, however until your telephone has a stylus just like the Galaxy S25 Ultra, it is not very doubtless that the doodles you make utilizing your finger are going to look that nice.

That’s, until you utilize this lesser-known trick that robotically fixes your doodles in actual time. With this trick, hand-drawn strains, shapes, and symbols snap into their excellent kinds, so that you need not have a super-steady hand or obtain a separate app with drawing help.

To do this, open a picture and faucet the edit button (pencil icon) to start enhancing.

Subsequent, faucet the “Decorations” button (the squarish smiley face).

Draw your required form and pause briefly on the finish of your stroke. The app will acknowledge the form you meant to attract and robotically snap it right into a clear model—be it a circle, triangle, arrow, sq., star, coronary heart, or perhaps a hexagon.

The savvy amongst you may acknowledge that that is principally an imitation of the QuickShape characteristic discovered on Procreate. I exploit this trick primarily to attract arrows on the screenshots my mother sends me of her telephone’s interface, asking which button to faucet when she wants some technical assist. It is quick, simple, and turns out to be useful.

Cover Delicate Albums or Transfer Them to Safe Folder

If there are particular albums that you just need to hold out of sight of prying eyes, you possibly can disguise them from the gallery. To do that, faucet the three-dot menu on the prime.

Choose “Cover Albums” from the drop-down menu.

The albums which might be accessible to be hidden may have a toggle swap subsequent to them. Faucet to allow the toggle for the album you need to disguise.

Take into account that hiding an album from view does not imply it is hidden all over the place; somebody can nonetheless entry your album by way of the recordsdata app. If you wish to disguise albums or sure photographs and movies such that they can not be accessed by anybody else or seen by a third-party app, think about transferring them to the Safe Folder app.

To do that, long-press on an album, faucet “Extra,” and choose “Transfer to Safe Folder.”

Lastly, enter your password to finish the transfer. It’s also possible to transfer particular person pictures or movies the identical method.

Rapidly Entry Favourite Albums From Your Residence Display

If there is a specific album in your gallery that you just entry virtually consistently, say, Downloads or Screenshots, you possibly can place it on your own home display to make it immediately accessible.

To do that, open the album, faucet the three-dot menu, and choose “Add to Residence Display.”

Subsequent, faucet “Add” on the pop-up to verify.

If there’s not sufficient area on any of your own home display pages, a brand new one might be created.

Take Screenshots Throughout Video Playback With out Buttons

In the event you’re watching a video within the gallery app and see a scene you need to take a screenshot of, you need not use the usual technique of concurrently urgent the facility button and the quantity down button. That may be gradual and never at all times simple to do in case you have a thick case put in in your telephone.

By the point the screenshot really will get captured, the video may’ve progressed a lot farther from the scene you needed to seize.

To immediately seize a screenshot throughout video playback, faucet the “Fast Crop” button on the backside left. Observe that screenshots taken utilizing this button will not be saved within the Screenshots album, however in a separate album named “Video Captures.”

Set a Customized Album Cowl to Spotlight the Greatest Photograph

I do not find out about you, however I wish to hold my gallery organized, and part of that features ensuring it appears presentable every time I open it. Identical to a bodily photograph album cowl, the best digital album cowl units the tone for what’s inside and means that you can showcase a few of your greatest pictures.

By default, an album reveals the latest picture that was added to it. This may be handy, however as a tech author, my gallery is often stuffed with UI screenshots and promotional photographs from tech firms, which is not one thing I need to have a look at each single time I open the app.

To alter the quilt of an album, long-press on it and faucet “Extra” and choose “Change Cowl Picture.”

Subsequent, faucet “Choose an Picture.”

Choose a picture from the album, crop if needed, and faucet “Apply” to verify.

Invite Pals and Household to View a Shared Album

Inside the gallery app, you possibly can invite individuals to view and add to a shared album if in addition they occur to make use of a Galaxy telephone. To do that, begin by deciding on the objects you need to share. Faucet “Extra” and choose “Add to Shared Album.”

Faucet “Create Shared Album,” and provides it a reputation.

Select the way you need to share this album—by way of saved contacts or a share hyperlink. I often want the latter, so faucet “Share Hyperlink” and ship the hyperlink to the recipient(s) such as you usually do.

The recipient can faucet this hyperlink to just accept the invite and think about your shared photographs. If the recipient would not have a Galaxy telephone, you should utilize Quick Share as a substitute.

Pinch In or Out to Resize the Display Structure

A very intuitive method to change the format of the albums or objects displayed inside an album is to easily pinch in or out. On the primary web page, pinching inward all the way in which reveals your albums in an inventory format. Pinching outward as soon as reveals them in a grid with three albums in a row, and pinching inward as soon as extra adjustments the format to 2 albums in a row with a lot larger album covers—superb for senior customers.

Inside an album, pinching inward all the way in which provides you a chicken’s-eye view of all of the photographs you have taken in a given month, with the photograph tiles being very small. The tiles get larger as you retain pinching outward, and are proven of their unique ratio while you pinch out all the way in which.

Auto Play Movies When Shopping an Album

When scrolling via an album, you possibly can set the gallery app to robotically begin enjoying a brief four-second clip (with out audio) from the movies saved in that album.

This grabs your consideration and makes you extra prone to open and think about these movies, permitting you to both relive a second or understand that the video is not definitely worth the area it is occupying in your telephone and subsequently delete it. And possibly it is simply me, but it surely additionally makes your gallery really feel a bit alive.

To allow this, go to the Albums tab and faucet the hamburger menu (three horizontal strains).

Subsequent, faucet “Settings.”

Right here, faucet the toggle swap beside “Auto Play Movement Images.”

Add Background Music to Your Movies

You possibly can add an audio observe of your option to your movies to jazz them up, like including a music you like to your own home vlogs or journey montage. To do that, open your required video, faucet the edit button, after which faucet the speaker icon.

Right here, faucet “Add” within the Soundtracks row.

Select from the listed soundtracks or faucet the “+” icon to select from audio tracks saved in your system.

As soon as accomplished, you should utilize the quantity slider to regulate the loudness of the video quantity and the soundtrack, and easily faucet “Save” to verify the adjustments.

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I used to be shocked by how a lot Samsung’s Gallery app can really do. In the event you’ve solely used it to view pictures, it’s value digging deeper—you may discover a characteristic you by no means knew you wanted.