Samsung Gives You Complete Control Over Your Galaxy’s Display
The gap between smartphones and computers has never been closer: your phone is powerful and can probably do most of the tasks you’ve traditionally needed a computer to do. Some things, however, are still completely different. Display settings, for example: the controls I have on my iPhone’s display pale in comparison to what I can adjust on my Mac. For most display settings, I rely on Apple’s default settings.
With Samsung, this is no longer the case – at least for some devices. While Android devices typically offer more control over settings (including the display), Samsung takes things to another level. The company has just released the new Display Assistant app in beta along with the One UI 7.0 beta. This new app adds a number of new display controls to your Galaxy S24 that will help you extend your battery life or simply get more out of your screen.
What does Display Assistant allow you to control?
In the new Display Assistant beta, you’ll find six different settings to work with, all of which adjust how your display behaves. With “App Screen Timeout” you can set a timer for each app that turns off the display. You might want your display to stay active longer in apps like Instagram or WhatsApp, but prefer it shorter for apps like banking or credit card apps.
Keep Screen On allows you to choose to keep your device’s display on for 30 minutes, except when you press the power button, reboot your phone, or the battery level is below 15%. “Brightness Limit Profile,” on the other hand, allows you to bypass the default brightness limit on your Galaxy and make it brighter than Samsung usually allows. Android Police warns that this will make your phone hotter than usual and take longer to cool down.
Adaptive Brightness Options let you double or quadruple the speed at which your display brightens, while Standard Refresh Rate Apps lets you set the refresh rate to 60Hz for certain apps. This is a good call for apps where you won’t miss out on the smooth motion of 120Hz: cutting the refresh rate in half will save battery, and since it happens on a per-app basis, you don’t have to give up the 120Hz refresh rate entirely. your Galaxy.
Finally, there’s “Screen Curtain,” which puts the screen into a “sleeping” state, as it’s called in the beta. It doesn’t go into more technical detail here, but Android Authority says it puts your display into “extremely low brightness mode” without actually locking the screen. Samsung claims it’s good for situations like phone calls, gaming, YouTube, and YouTube Music, but I’m not sure about two of those examples. Of course, for phone calls or YouTube Music, turn the brightness all the way down (or even turn it off), but you’ll probably want to see what you’re doing if you’re playing games or watching YouTube.
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How to try Display Assistant
If you want to try the Display Assistant beta and have more control over your phone’s display, you’ll need a couple of things. Firstly, this only works on Galaxy S24 devices at this time. Secondly, your S24 must be running One UI 7 , which is currently in beta. Once the beta launches, you can install the app from the Galaxy Store .