The gap between smartphones and computers has never been greater: your phone is powerful and can probably do most things you traditionally need a computer for. However, some things are still very different. First, the display settings: 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.
This is no longer the case with Samsung – at least with some devices. While Android devices tend to offer more control over settings (including the display), Samsung goes one step further. The company just released a new “Display Assistant” app in beta alongside the company’s One UI 7.0 beta. This new app adds a number of new controls for viewing on your Galaxy S24This can help maximize battery life or generally get more out of your screen.
What can you control with Display Assistant?
With the new Display Assistant beta, you’ll find six different settings you can play around with to customize the behavior of your display. With “App Screen Timeout” you can set a timer per app to turn off the display. You might want to keep your display active longer on apps like Instagram or WhatsApp, but you’d prefer to keep it shorter on apps like banking or credit card apps.
With Screen On, you can set your device’s display to stay on for 30 minutes at a time unless you press the power button, restart your phone, or the battery is below 15%. The “Brightness Limiter Profile,” on the other hand, lets you override your Galaxy’s default brightness limit and make it brighter than Samsung normally allows. Android Police warns This will make your phone hotter than usual and take longer to cool down.
“Adaptive Brightness Options” lets you either double or quadruple the speed at which your display’s brightness changes, while “Apps with Standard Refresh Rate” lets you set a 60Hz refresh rate for specific apps. This is a good call for apps where you won’t miss the smooth motion of 120Hz: cutting the refresh rate in half saves battery, and since this is done on an app-by-app basis, you don’t have to give up 120Hz throughout yours galaxy.
Finally, there is the “Screen Curtain”, which puts the screen into a “sleep state”, as it is called in the beta. It doesn’t go into further technical details, but Android Authority says it puts your display into an “ultra-low brightness mode” without actually locking the screen. Samsung says it’s good for situations like phone calls, gaming, YouTube and YouTube Music, but I’m not so sure about two of those examples. Sure, you’ll want to turn the brightness all the way down (or even off) for phone calls or YouTube music, but you probably want to be able to see what you’re doing when you’re playing games or Watch out YouTube.
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How to test the Display Assistant
If you want to try out the Display Assistant beta and have more control over your phone’s display, you’ll need a few things. Firstly, this currently only works on Galaxy S24 devices. Secondly, your S24 must be running One user interface 7which is currently in beta phase. Once you’re running the beta, you can install the app via Galaxy Store.
