Viral Samsung hack CAN’T be done on an iPhone – make your mates jealous
IF YOU ever needed a reason to get one over on your iPhone friends, this has to be it.
There’s a feature the iPhone can’t do – and it’s bound to make you popular with friends in times of need.
“This is a feature that Samsung users can show off,” TikToker Hamza Nadeem showed his 235,000 followers.
The feature in question is a very useful battery sharing tool, using wireless charging technology.
It means any Samsung smartphone with wireless charging available can provide someone else’s phone with emergency juice.
The recipient doesn’t need to be a Samsung phone necessarily either, but they do need wireless charging onboard.
This means you can even come to the rescue of iPhone owners.
But it does mean you’ll use up your own power, so make sure you have enough battery to spare before giving it away.
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Doing it from a Samsung phone is very easy.
All you need to do is slide down to open the notification bar and tap the Wireless power sharing button.
Then all you have to do is flip the phone over so it’s face down.
Get the other phone that requires charging, and lay it face up, crossways, on top of the Samsung phone.
You should then notice the battery starts charging up.
Huawei was the first smartphone maker to introduce reverse wireless charging with the Mate 20 Pro in 2018.
Samsung began offering it in 2019, starting with the S10 series.
Remember though, wireless charging is nowhere near as fast as wired charging, so it’s not some quick fix.
It’s probably only best for desperate emergencies to provide a little bit of power at a time.
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Tech giant Microsoft is trying to make the world more woke by rolling out an “inclusiveness” checker in its Word software.
And a federal anti-trust case against Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has been given the go-ahead.
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