Samsung owners rave over hidden button that instantly makes phone feel faster and say switching it back is ‘unbearable’
SAMSUNG phones have an often-overlooked setting that can make your device feel much faster.
It’s buried inside the Developer Settings so you might never see it unless you go looking.
The feature lets you changed the animation speeds for when you navigate your phone.
And many Samsung fans swear by reducing it from the regular 1x speed to make the phone feel faster.
In a post to Reddit, one Samsung owner asked: “Do most people still use 1x speed for animations instead of 0.5x? 1x is so slow that it’s driving me crazy.”
Another said: “Once you go 0.5x you can never go back to 1x. Even with my new 120Hz phone instead of my previous 60Hz one, it was immediately noticeable and unbearable.”
One added: “That’s one of the first things I change on a new phone or new rom/OS.”
And another wrote: “Always on 0.5x, any phone I’ve got, 0.5x. I hate 1x. So slow.”
HOW TO CHANGE ANIMATION SPEEDS ON ANDROID PHONES
First you’ll need to enable developer settings on your Galaxy phone.
Go into Settings > About Phone > Software Information.
Then tap on the Build Number seven times, which will activate Developer Options on your phone.
Then you’ll want to go to your Settings > Developer Options > Drawing and then adjust the animation scales.
There should be three to choose from:
- Window animation scale
- Transition animation scale
- Animator duration scale
Try setting all of them to 0.5x from the default 1x option.
Samsung – a brief history
Here's what you need to know...
- Samsung is a major South Korean company made up of many businesses that operate globally
- It’s known locally as a “chaebol”, which means “business conglomerate”
- It was founded by Lee Byung-chul in 1938 as a trading company
- But over several decades, it branched out into food processing, insurance, textiles and retail
- It wasn’t until the late 1960s when Samsung entered the electronics industry – for which it’s best known in the West today
- It also launched businesses in construction and shipbuilding in the 1970s
- Today, Samsung’s most important sources of income are its smartphones and computer chips
- The firm accounts for around a fifth of South Korea’s total exports, and roughly 17% of the country’s GDP
- More than 270,000 staff are employed by Samsung globally
- And in 2023, Samsung Electronics turned over the equivalent of $194 billion in revenue
You should notice that your Samsung Galaxy phone now feels much snappier to use.
And remember: if you don’t like it, you can always change the settings back to their default values at any time.
OTHER SAMSUNG PERFORMANCE TIPS
Another handy tip is to use the Optimization Cycle feature.
“Give your device a quick boost by running a quick optimisation check,” Samsung explained.
“This feature is designed to identify apps that use excessive battery power, clear away redundant items from your device’s memory, delete unnecessary files and close apps that are running in the background.
“You can run a one-off cycle manually or set your device to automatically optimise once a day.”
Just go to Settings > Device Care and then choose Optimize Now.
You can also tap More Options > Advanced and then set up automatic optimizations.