How to Use All 16 Galaxy AI Features on Samsung One UI 6.1

It was not for a more powerful processor, larger battery, sharper camera, titanium body, and Corning Gorilla Armor glass I upgraded to a Galaxy S24 Ultra from my old S23 Ultra. What intrigued me more was the integration of generative AI in the S24 series. After purchasing the S24 Ultra, I was impressed by its AI capabilities. Below is a list of all 16 Galaxy AI features, along with instructions for using them.

Most of the Galaxy AI features on the S24 Series take advantage of Google’s Gemini Nano model and run locally on-device. However, Google Cloud-based AI features that rely on Gemini Ultra, Imagen 2, Generative Edit² (powered by Gemini Pro), etc. require an internet connection. Samsung plans to charge users for some of these features from 2025 onwards.

Anyway, let’s check out the list of all the AI features on the Samsung Galaxy S24 series.

List of Galaxy AI Features

After tinkering with my S24 Ultra for 24 hours, I found the following 16 AI, or what Samsung calls ‘Advanced Intelligence features’.

1. Custom animated emojis (Samsung Keyboard)
2. Auto format (Samsung Notes)
3. Chat translation (Samsung Keyboard)
4. Circle to Search (Everywhere)
5. Correct spelling (Samsung Notes)
6. Generative Edit (Samsung Gallery)
7. Generative wallpaper (Wallpaper settings)
8. Interpreter (Standalone)
9. Instant Slow-mo (Gallery, Videos)
10. Live translate (Samsung Phone)
11. Photo ambient wallpaper (Wallpaper settings)
12. Spelling and grammar (Samsung Keyboard)
13. Summarize (Samsung Notes, Samsung Voice Recorder, Samsung Internet)
14. Transcript Assist (Samsung Voice Recorder)
15. Translate (Samsung Internet, Samsung Notes)
16. Photomoji and Magic Compose (Google Messages)

How to Use AI Features on Samsung One UI 6.1

Now, we’ll check out all Galaxy AI features in detail and see how to use them on the Samsung Galaxy S24 and S23 series.

1. Custom Animated Emojis

It may not be an AI feature but it deserves a mention. Custom Animated Emojis works only with the Samsung Keyboard app. Gboard has always been my first choice for a keyboard but I switch to the Samsung Keyboard only to avail it’s features.

Let’s see how to use custom emojis with animation.

1. Open the Samsung Keyboard and tap on the Emoji (🙂) icon.
2. Now tap on the Create option.
3. On the next screen tap the ‘+‘ icon to add the two emojis of your choice.
4. Tap on the Animate option.
5. Choose the animation effect from the provided list and tap on Done.

Your custom emoji will be added to the list of animated emojis.

2. Using AI Features in Samsung Notes

AI features like Auto Format, Summarize, Correct spelling, and Translate require an internet connection to process text and support 200-2000 characters only. They are available in the Samsung Notes app and using them is pretty easy. You can perform a spell-check, create a summary, and organize your notes into headers, bullet points, paragraphs, or meeting notes in different styles.

1. Open the Samsung Notes app from the app drawer.
2. Create a new note or open an existing one.
3. Tap on the Galaxy AI icon on the bottom ribbon.;
4. You’ll have 4 options namely Auto format, Summarize, Correct spelling, and Translate in a pop-up window.
5. Select Auto format > Headers and bullets or Mettings notes and let the Generative AI do its magic.
6. You can copy the generated note, replace the content of the original note with that of the new one, or add it to a new note.

You can translate the text of your note into the language of your choice using the AI Translate feature as shown below.

3. Chat Translation

While the AI Translate feature in Samsung Notes translates only the selected text, the Chat Translation feature keeps working automatically once enabled. It works with the Samsung Keyboard active while using apps like Android Messages, Samsung Messages, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Instagram, Google Chat, KakaoTalk, and Tango. It doesn’t yet support apps like Messenger, Telegram, Facebook, etc.

Let’s see how it works.

1. Open a supported messaging app listed above on your Samsung Galaxy S24.
2. Open a chat and tap the text input box to bring up the Samsung Keyboard.
3. Then tap on the Galaxy AI icon and select Chat Translation.
4. Now select the language you want and download the desired language pack if it is not already downloaded on your phone. The size of the language packs ranges from 220-550 MB.
5. Your phone will start translating all incoming messages in real-time. Also, if you want the recipient to receive your messages in their native language, you can type your text in the translation box.

4. Circle to Search

This is the most easily accessible and interesting Galaxy AI feature. Powered by Google’s Generative AI, Circle to Search lets you search for anything on Google. The feature is not exclusive to the Galaxy S4 as you can also enjoy it on Google Pixel 8 and 8 Pro. This feature is helpful when it comes to finding recipes, getting information about any on-screen item, shopping online, etc. You can further refine your search by adding text queries with the image.

To use the Circle to Search on your Samsung Galaxy S24, touch and hold the Home button for 2 seconds and circle an on-screen item. Additionally, you can scribble the item with the S-Pen or just tap it to perform a Google Search.

Watch the following video to see how it works.

5. Correct Spelling (Samsung Notes)

Correct Spelling is a part of Galaxy AI’s Chat Assist features. It helps you rectify any spelling or typo errors in your note. Launch the Samsung Notes app and open a saved note or create a new one. Just tap on the Galaxy AI icon on the toolbar ribbon. Select the Correct spelling option to remove all spelling mistakes in a blink of an eye. At a time, it can process up to 3000 characters. You can replace the current note with the processed text using the Replace option.

6. Generative Edit (Samsung Gallery)

The Generative Edit feature on Samsung Galaxy S24 resembles Google’s Magic Edit introduced with Pixel 8 phones. This Galaxy AI feature lets us reimagine pictures by:

• Adjusting the angle of images and generating a background to fill in the gaps around the edges.
• Moving objects or people in a picture.
• Resizing objects and people in images.
• Removing people and objects from a picture and filling the gaps in the background.
• Erasing shadow and reflection
• Adding copied objects and people from the clipboard to pictures.
• Creating stickers with the objects and people extracted from an existing image.

If you want to learn how to edit photos in Samsung Photo Editor with Galaxy AI, refer to our detailed tutorial.

Removing Objects from Images

1. Go to Samsung Gallery and open an image.
2. Tap on the Edit icon.
3. Now tap on the Generative Edit icon.
4. Touch and hold the object you want to remove. Alternatively, you can outline the object with your finger or the S-Pen.
5. When the object is selected, tap the Eraser icon to remove it.
6. Finally, tap on Generate.
7. When the image is processed, select Done.

Here is a video showing how to remove an object from a picture.

The edited images will have a Galaxy AI watermark and a “Modified with Generative edit” tag.

To move objects in an image, tap Edit > Galaxy AI icon, outline the object to move, touch and hold the selected object, move it to a desired place in the picture, and tap Generate.

7. Generative Wallpaper

Generative Wallpaper is an on-device feature that leverages Google’s Imagen 2 text-to-image diffusion technology to generate new wallpapers using pre-defined AI prompts. It works Here is how to create generative wallpapers on Samsung Galaxy S24.

Note: Photo Ambient Wallpaper is currently a part of the experimental features on the Galaxy S24. You must enable it first from Settings > Advanced Features > Labs > Photo Ambient Wallpaper.

1. If you use Samsung One UI Launcher, touch and hold the Homescreen to view customization options.
2. Select Wallpaper and Style. You can also access this option from Settings > Wallpaper and Style.
3. On the next screen, select Change Wallpapers.
4. Now select Generative on the Creative card.
5. Select one of the suggested wallpapers, tap on the suggested prompts, and select from the available options and styles.
6. Finally, tap the Generate button.
7. Galaxy AI will create several wallpapers based on the prompts you selected. Tap on the Set option to apply the generated wallpaper to your home and lock screens.

8. Photo Ambient Wallpaper

Photo Ambient Wallpaper is another interesting Galaxy AI feature. It changes the ambiance of wallpapers throughout the day according to the time of the day. Moreover, it also adds animation effects to the picture of your choice reflecting weather conditions based on your default location.

Here is how to set a photo ambient wallpaper on the lock screen of your Galaxy S24.

1. Touch and hold your Homescreen and select Wallpaper and Style. Alternatively, go to phone Settings and select Wallpaper and Style.
2. Tap the Change wallpaper option and select Photo Ambient under the Creative section.
3. On the next screen, tap the Try Now button and select the image you want to set as wallpaper with ambient effect.
4. To view the applied weather animation, tap the Play button in the bottom-left corner of the screen, and select Done.

The ambient wallpaper will be applied to your phone’s lock screen

9. Interpreter

This Galaxy AI feature can be helpful during communication with someone who speaks a foreign language. The Interpreter app takes voice input and translates it into text, which is then spoken using text-to-speech technology. You have to set the preferred languages manually. Since it processes languages on-device, you must download the preferred language packs.

Here is how to use Interpreter on your Samsung Galaxy S24:

1. Go to the Quick Settings panel, look for Interpreter, and tap it.
2. In the Interpreter app screen, select the languages for both parties.
3. Then tap the mic icon to start a conversation. You can flip the top language card so the other person can see the translated text.

Since the spoken languages are processed in real-time, only the most recent voice input and its translation are visible on-screen throughout the conversation. However, you can view the previous voice input texts and their translations. You can also play the last conversations by tapping the Play button next to each item. To access your conversations, tap the 3-dot icon in the top-right corner of the screen and select Recents.

10. Instant Slow-Mo

Instant Slow-Mo is a feature that slows down videos instantly. To achieve the effect, it adds AI-generated images between the frames. This can be done by tapping and holding on a video in the gallery preview, which triggers the instant function. The video plays in slow motion as long as you keep it tapped and held.

The following video shows the Instant Slow-mo feature in action.

You can also add slow-motion effects to selected frame ranges in your videos manually using the Edit option in Samsung Gallery. You can choose from the available speed modifiers (that include 0.125x, 0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, and 2x) to make sections of your videos slower or faster.

11. Live Translate (Samsung Phone)

Galaxy AI’s Live Translate feature is available during calls in the Samsung Phone app. It works on-device with the aid of the 17 language packs available so far. Needless to say, you have to download the preferred language pack beforehand and set it manually. The transcript of the conversation can be viewed on the screen. The person on the other end will hear the transcription in the language you have for them.

12. Spelling and Grammar Check & Writing Style

Spelling and Grammar and Writing Style are Samsung keyboard-specific features that work with all apps except web browsers. They are key components of Samsung’s Write Assist tool that help with writing without spelling and grammatical errors. The Writing Style component offers 5 tones: Professional, Casual, Social, Polite, and Emojify. Both features have a maximum text capacity of 500 and 1250 characters for on-device and online processing respectively.

Here is how to use these Galaxy AI features on the Samsung S4 phones with the Samsung Keyboard app.

1. Open a messaging or note-taking app on your Galaxy S24.
2. Type some text with at least 200 to 500 characters.
3. Tap the Galaxy AI icon on the Samsung Keyboard and select Writing Style.
4. When the text is processed, you’ll have 5 writing style tones to choose from.
5. You can copy your preferred style to paste it elsewhere or insert the processed text into the current text editor.

You can use the Spelling and Grammar check feature the same way.

13. Summarize

Powered by Google’s Gemini Pro, Galaxy AI’s Summarize feature works in Samsung apps like Notes, Internet, and Voice Recorder.

In Samsung Notes

Here is how to use this AI-powered feature in Samsung Notes:

1. Open a note in Samsung Notes.
2. Tap the Galaxy AI icon on the toolbar strip.
3. Select Summarize from the pop-up and wait for a few seconds.

In Samsung Internet

The Summarize feature is also found as a Browser Assist tool in the Samsung Internet app. It lets you create a summary of a webpage.

1. Open a webpage in the Samsung Internet browser and tap the Galaxy AI icon on the navigation bar.
2. Select the Summarize option from the pop-up.
3. Galaxy AI will generate a summary of the webpage.
4. You can copy the summary and even translate it into any of the 17 languages supported currently.

14. Transcript Assist

The Transcript Assist in the Samsung Voice Recorder app uses text-to-speech technology to process voice and call recordings to provide transcripts. You need to set one of the 17 available languages to generate transcripts. This feature has a limitation of processing recordings up to 3 hours long. If AI detects multiple speakers, it labels transcripts with numbers (Speaker 1, Speaker 2, etc.). Once the transcript is ready, you can summarize it to quickly review lectures, meetings, voice memos, etc.

Below is an example of a transcript of a call recording on my Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra.

15. Translate

We already checked how to translate chats and calls on the Samsung S24 series phones using Galaxy AI. The feature also works in apps like Samsung Notes and Samsung Internet. The feature automatically detects the source language but you need to set the second language manually.

To translate text in the Samsung Notes app, open an existing note or create a new one and tap on the Galaxy AI icon > Translate.

While browsing webpages using Samsung Internet, tap the Galaxy AI icon on the browser’s navigation bar and select the Translate option.

16. Photomoji

This feature is not a part of the Galaxy AI features. This feature called ‘Magic Compose‘ is powered by Gemini Nano and Generative Edit and works in the RCS chat on the Google Messages app. Magic Compose takes on the task of composing messages for you. As you type your message during a text conversation, it provides context-aware suggestions or complete sentences to reply with in real time.

The Photomoji feature lets you create custom emojis from photos stored in your phone’s gallery. Unfortunately, I could not make Photomoji work on my Galaxy S24 Ultra but here’s how it works.

If you think I have missed any Galaxy AI features in this article, please let me know. Thanks!

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