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Screen pinning, Ambient display settings

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Cover selection When using a screen cover, adapt your screen to work with the screen cover type. Video image enhancement You can use X-Reality with HDR converter to improve the visual quality of videos when you view them on your device. With this feature, videos recorded in SDR mode are played with HDR-like quality. This feature is applicable only for certain applications. To change a lock screen setting 1 Find and tap Settings > Display > Advanced > Lock screen preferences. 2 Tap the setting you want to change. 3 Use the switches, checkboxes or additional menus to adjust. Screen pinning Use screen pinning to set your device to display only the screen for a specific application. For example, if you are playing a game and you accidentally touch the Home navigation key, the screen pinning feature prevents the active game app screen from being minimised. You can also use this feature when you lend your device to another person to make it harder for them to access more than one application. For example, you can lend your device to somebody to take a photo and pin the screen to the Camera application so that the person can't easily use other apps such as Email. Screen pinning is not a security feature and does not fully prevent other users from unpinning a screen and accessing your device. To protect your data, you should set up your device to request a screen lock PIN, password or pattern before someone can unpin the screen. To enable or disable screen-pinning 1 Find and tap Settings > Lock screen & security > Advanced > Screen pinning. 2 Tap the slider to enable or disable the function. A pattern, PIN or password is not mandatory for screen pinning to work. To pin a screen 1 Make sure that screen pinning is activated on your device. 2 Open an app and go to the screen that you want to pin. 3 Tap . 4 To display the screen pinning icon, swipe upwards and tap . 5 In the window that appears, tap Got it. To unpin a screen • On the pinned screen, touch and hold and until the screen is unpinned. If you selected a security option when you activated the screen pinning function, you have to enter your pattern, PIN or password to unlock the device before the screen can be unpinned. Ambient display settings The ambient display lets you view information such as time, notifications, and music on the screen when the screen is turned off. The ambient display can also show album art while playing music. 58 This is an internet version of this publication. © Print only for private use.

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Cover selection
When using a screen cover, adapt your screen to work with the screen cover type.
Video image enhancement
You can use X-Reality with HDR converter to improve the visual quality of videos
when you view them on your device. With this feature, videos recorded in SDR
mode are played with HDR-like quality.
This feature is applicable only for certain applications.
To change a lock screen setting
1
Find and tap
Settings
>
Display
>
Advanced
>
Lock screen preferences
.
2
Tap the setting you want to change.
3
Use the switches, checkboxes or additional menus to adjust.
Screen pinning
Use screen pinning to set your device to display only the screen for a
specific
application. For example, if you are playing a game and you accidentally touch the
Home navigation key, the screen pinning feature prevents the active game app
screen from being minimised. You can also use this feature when you lend your
device to another person to make it harder for them to access more than one
application. For example, you can lend your device to somebody to take a photo
and pin the screen to the Camera application so that the person can't easily use
other apps such as Email.
Screen pinning is not a security feature and does not fully prevent other users from
unpinning a screen and accessing your device. To protect your data, you should set up your
device to request a screen lock PIN, password or pattern before someone can unpin the
screen.
To enable or disable screen-pinning
1
Find and tap
Settings
>
Lock screen & security
>
Advanced
>
Screen
pinning
.
2
Tap the slider to enable or disable the function.
A pattern, PIN or password is not mandatory for screen pinning to work.
To pin a screen
1
Make sure that screen pinning is activated on your device.
2
Open an app and go to the screen that you want to pin.
3
Tap
.
4
To display the screen pinning icon, swipe upwards and tap
.
5
In the window that appears, tap
Got it
.
To unpin a screen
•
On the pinned screen, touch and hold
and
until the screen is unpinned.
If you selected a security option when you activated the screen pinning function, you have
to enter your pattern, PIN or password to unlock the device before the screen can be
unpinned.
Ambient display settings
The ambient display lets you view information such as time,
notifications,
and
music on the screen when the screen is turned
off.
The ambient display can also
show album art while playing music.
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This is an internet version of this publication. © Print only for private use.