The Samsung Galaxy S9 may have a variety of features and design elements arranged differently the first time it is launched, as may have been the case with your previous smartphone.

However, with the Samsung Experience 9 interface, formerly known as TouchWiz, you have many customization options. For example, the Back button on your Samsung Galaxy S9 may be positioned in the wrong place on the bottom bar. Usually you are used to the back button located at the bottom right of the home button.

If this is not the case with your Samsung Galaxy S9, you can change the position of the back button as follows:

Rearrange the Back button on the Samsung Galaxy S9

1. Start from the start screen and open the App menu and then the settings

2. Open the menu item "Display" and then the submenu "Navigation bar"

3. At the bottom you see the option "Button layout" - select it from

4. You can now change the button layout in:

• Active Application - Home Button - Back Button

Now you have successfully repositioned the Back button to the right of the Home button.

This should now make it easier for you when you are inside menus, websites and applications. Navigation via the buttons is now also available on the Samsung Galaxy S9 as usual.

An important feature of smartphones today is whether the device is waterproof and protected against contamination by dust etc. The Samsung Galaxy S9 or the S9 Plus may also meet this challenge. We have the correct answer to the question for you here.

The Samsung Galaxy S9 is IP68 certified

Yes, the Samsung Galaxy S9 is waterproof and meets the IP68 standard. 

So what exactly does that mean? This means that the Samsung Galaxy S9 is protected against dust and fresh water up to a depth of 1.5 meters and a maximum residence time of up to 60 minutes.

So you are well prepared if your smartphone should fall into the water. Also the use outside in rain is of course no problem.

However, you should not dive or take underwater photos with the Samsung Galaxy S9. Use in salt water or in the pool should also be avoided.

Especially if you jump into the water with your smartphone, for example, the water pressure can already become too high and liquid can penetrate into the housing.

If this happens, it is usually electrical damage and that would be a pity.   We wish you a lot of fun with your smartphone.

The Always On Display of the Samsung Galaxy S9 always displays notifications, time and other data on the screen even in standby mode.

A technology is used which requires very little battery power. However, if you do not use Always On Display, it is still worth deactivating it. How this works in the Android settings is explained in the following step-by-step instructions:

Switch off the Always On Display permanently on the Samsung Galaxy S9

1. On the Samsung Galaxy S7 pulls the status bar with two fingers from above into the screen.

2. You will now see several "toggles", i.e. buttons with functions. One of these buttons is called "Always On Display"

3. Touch the button to disable Always On Display on the Samsung Galaxy S9 or touch it again to reactivate it.

If the button is not visible, press "Edit" so that all available toggles on the Samsung Galaxy S9 are displayed. Here you can find the "Always On Display" toggle.

Now you can quickly and easily switch the Always On Display on and off without navigating deep into the Android settings.

Every call made on the Samsung Galaxy S9 saves the phone app in a so-called call log. In this way, you can still trace who you spoke to, when and at what time at a later point in time.

However, sometimes it may be necessary to delete this log. In this article we would like to show you how to do this:

Deleting the call list on the Samsung Galaxy S9

Deleting entries in the call log works as follows:  

1. First open the phone app on the Samsung Galaxy S9 or S9 Plus

2. Select the "Last" tab - you will now see the call log

3. Tap the three-point icon in the upper right corner and then tap "Delete"

4. Now select the entries you want to delete from the call log

5. Tap "Delete" in the upper right corner to delete these calls from the phone log.

If you select "All", you can also empty the complete log instead of individual entries.

The Samsung Galaxy S9 synchronizes a lot of data in the background. Besides email, WhatsApp, Google Account etc. many other apps can synchronize data. However, this synchronization can be completely deactivated or deactivated via a main function.

This is the so-called "master synchronization". If master synchronization is disabled, many apps will no longer be able to receive data in the background, causing WhatsApp to stop receiving messages or e-mails, for example.

Reactivate Master Synchronization on Samsung Galaxy S9

1. Drag the status bar with two fingers from above into the screen

2. Wipe right onto the second tab

3. You will now see a toggle with "Sync"

4. Activate this to activate or deactivate the master synchronization

You now know how to reactivate the master synchronization on the Samsung Galaxy S9 and thus synchronize content from the Internet again.

Every time you take the Samsung Galaxy S9 out of standby, you must unlock the lock screen to access various functions of the device. When unlocked, you will hear a sound indicating that the screen is unlocked.

This noise may be annoying in the long run, so you want to disable it. We show how this works in Android:

Deactivate screen lock tones on the Samsung Galaxy S9

1. Start from the home screen and navigate to the app menu and then to "Settings"

2. Select "Sounds and Vibration" from

3. In this submenu there is now the entry "Screen lock tones"

4. Deactivate the function - done!

If you lock or unlock the Samsung Galaxy S9, you will no longer hear a sound indicating this.

The Mobile Hotspot feature of Samsung Galaxy S9 is designed to share the mobile Internet connection with multiple devices, such as your laptop or other supporting devices.

If you want to know how to use the Mobile Hotspot, the following instructions will describe exactly how to do this:

Activate mobile hotspot on the Samsung Galaxy S9

1. Open the App menu and then the settings

2. Press "Connections" and then "Mobile Hotspot and Tethering"

3. Tap "Mobile Hotspot" again and you can activate it via the master controller or view the password for it.

4. You can use the three-point symbol in the upper right-hand corner to call up further setting options.

You can choose from the following:

• Permitted devices
• Configure Mobile Hotspot
• Timeout settings when no device is connected

Please note that if you activate the Mobile Hotspot without a password, anyone can use your Internet connection!

You should also know that laptops see a Mobile Hotspot as normal W-Lan access. This means, for example, that Windows updates are downloaded normally. This can consume your data traffic very quickly.

Ever heard of the Dual Messenger on the Samsung Galaxy S9? No, then maybe it's high time. Because the Dual messenger is a very useful function, which is so far only available on Samsung devices.

The intention is that an app can be created twice. This makes sense whenever you use several accounts. For example on WhatsApp (Dual Sim) or Facebook. With the Dual Messenger you no longer have to switch between two accounts by logging out and logging in again, but simply open the corresponding app, which was created by the Dual Messenger.

Where you can discover and activate this great feature on the Samsung Galaxy S9 is now explained in more detail in this article:

Activating and using the Dual Messenger function on the Samsung Galaxy S9

1. Opens the settings on the smartphone

2. Selects the entry "Advanced functions" in the list

3. Scroll down to "Dual Messenger"

4. Activate the slider on the apps you want to use in two separate accounts.

5. The corresponding app will be installed again and is now available twice on your S9.

You can now log in with different accounts on the two apps. Unfortunately not all apps are compatible yet, but Samsung is working on several app developers to support this.

If you ever lose the Samsung Galaxy S9, it will help you if you have made a backup of your data before. There are many different backup solutions, we would like to discuss the option with Smart Switch in more detail here today.

Samsung Smart Switch is a backup solution for Windows PC. This is installed on the PC and then the S9 is connected via USB cable. This backup solution is fast and you have always backed up your data to your computer. Below we would like to explain how you can create such a backup of your Samsung Galaxy S9 with Smart Switch:

Complete data backup of Samsung Galaxy S9 with smart switch and a PC

What you need:  

• USB cable
• computer
• smart switch software

You can download smart switch directly from Samsung online.

• Download

Once you have installed Smart Switch on your computer, open the software. You will now be prompted to connect your Samsung Galaxy S9 to your computer using the USB cable.    

You can then choose from various options to be backed up in the backup. From contacts and messages, to memos, to pictures and videos, everything can be stored. We recommend that you check all boxes if you have the available hard disk size.

This is how most of the data on your Samsung Galaxy S9 is backed up.  Then start the backup process. Depending on the size of the files to be backed up, this can sometimes take longer.

You now know how to easily backup your Samsung Galaxy S9 with your computer, which can be restored if necessary.

The Samsung Galaxy S9 has a super camera and combined with the processing power of the built-in processor, super slow motion videos are possible. These are simply said slow motion videos, which play processes extremely slowly.

To do this, the camera records a scene at up to 960 frames per second. However, only resolutions of up to 1280 x 720 pixels are possible with the Super-Slow motion function.

How a super slow motion recording can be made with the Samsung Galaxy S9 or the Galaxy S9+ is explained as follows:

1. Opens the camera app

2. Selects the corresponding mode in the live screen: "SUPER SLOW-MO"

3. A small square appears on the display, where you should now play the scene you want to record in Super Slow Mo

4. Use the "Record" button to record a video to

5. Your Samsung Galaxy S9 will now automatically decide which part of the scene is recorded with Super Slow Mo.

It is important to know that 20 slow-motion moments can be recorded within a video. Such a slow-motion moment takes a maximum of 0.2 seconds, which is not much. The video is then saved and you can check what was recorded in Super Slow Motion.

These can then be cut from the video or converted into a GIF, for example. GIF´s can contain a maximum of 6 seconds of video material. If you do not want to rely on the automatic mode, you can also switch to the manual mode. Here you have to choose the moment yourself by tapping on the special Super Slow Motion button.

But it is usually more difficult to hit the right moment here than the automatic mode already does. You now know how to record a Super Slow Motion video on the Samsung Galaxy S9 or Galaxy S9+.