Personalizing the Way Your S7 Looks and Works
- Personalizing the Screen Background
- Personalizing Screen Settings
- Personalizing Sounds and Notifications
Quickly learn how to personalize your screen background, settings, and sounds and notifications on your Samsung Galaxy S7.
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
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Out of the box, Samsung’s Galaxy S7/S7 edge is a nice-looking phone. It’s easy enough to learn how to use, the screens look good, and the operations feel natural.
That doesn’t mean there isn’t anything that you might want to change. Maybe you want a different screen background. Maybe you don’t like the sounds of the notifications. Maybe you don’t like notifications at all.
Well, you’re in good luck. There are lots of ways you can personalize your new Galaxy S7 or S7 edge to make the phone better fit the way you like to use it.
Personalizing the Screen Background
One of the first things that many people personalize about their phones is the screen background. On the Galaxy S7, you can set different backgrounds for the Lock screen and the Home screens. You can choose from preselected wallpaper images, or use one of your own photos as the background.
Change the Lock Screen Wallpaper
The Lock screen is the screen that appears when you power on or unlock your phone. You can set the Lock screen to have its own background wallpaper, or to share the background of the Home screen.
Swipe down from the top of the screen to display the notification panel.
Tap Settings to display the Settings screen.
Tap to select the Personal tab.
Tap Wallpaper.
Tap the down arrow at the top of the screen and select Lock Screen.
Scroll through the available images and tap the one you want to use.
Tap Set as Wallpaper or…
To use a photograph as a background image, tap From Gallery. Your photo gallery opens.
Tap the photo you want to use.
Tap Done.
Tap Set as Wallpaper to approve the image you’ve chosen.
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Change the Home Screen Wallpaper
You can similarly change the background image on your phone’s Home screens. (Actually, on both the Home and Apps screens.)
- Swipe down from the top of the screen to display the notification panel.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings screen.
- Tap to select the Personal tab.
- Tap Wallpaper.
- Tap the down arrow at the top of the screen and select Home Screen.
- Scroll through the available images and tap the one you want to use.
- Tap Set as Wallpaper or…
- To use a photograph as a background image, tap From Gallery. Your photo gallery opens.
- Tap the photo you want to use.
- Tap Set as Wallpaper to approve the image you’ve chosen.
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Change Your Phone’s Theme
If you want a more radical change to the way your phone looks, you can change the phone’s entire visual theme. A theme is a preset combination of background images, fonts, and icons that affect the look and feel of every system screen.
- Swipe down from the top of the screen to display the notification panel.
- Tap Settings to display the Settings screen.
- Tap to select the Personal tab.
- Tap Themes to display the My Themes page.
- One or more themes may be present on your phone. (Some carriers preinstall themes; some don’t.) Tap to select one of these themes.
- Additional themes are displayed in the Recommended Themes section. Some are free; some aren’t. Tap to select one of these themes.
- Tap More Themes to view additional themes online. The Theme Store opens.
- Tap a tab to view themes by type: Categories, Featured, and All.
- Scroll to and tap the theme you want.
- Tap either the Download or price button.
- Samsung now downloads the theme. When the download is complete, tap Apply.
When prompted, tap Apply to close all open apps and apply the new theme.
To return to your phone’s default theme, return to the Themes screen and tap Default.
When prompted, tap Apply. This closes all open apps and reinstalls the original theme.
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