Samsung Galaxy: how to change default apps 1

Samsung Galaxy: how to change default apps

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Like every year, you might be one of the many lucky ones to receive a new smartphone for Christmas. After the perfect initial surprise, your experience may be slightly spoiled by this new interface that you understand nothing about. If you come from the iPhone world, you will be even more unstable.

It is worth saying that, unlike the Apple ecosystem, Android smartphones have a large number of applications to perform even the most basic tasks. You may also be opening the wrong app to read a file or calculate a route, or at least not the app you initially wanted.

How to Change Default Apps on Galaxy Smartphone

This can be especially destabilizing on Galaxy smartphones, as Samsung’s native apps don’t open for certain tasks. This is because Google paid the Korean manufacturer a hefty sum to install it on One UI (overlay). In most cases this shouldn’t be a problem. However, you may still want to choose another specific app without having to scroll through the entire list on your smartphone.

Good news: It’s extremely easy to change the default app for a specific task. Even more so if you just bought your smartphone and it is not yet fully configured. If this is indeed your case, here is the procedure you need to follow to select the app of your choice.

  • Open a new file type or link from another app
  • A pop-up window appears containing various applications that can perform the desired task
  • Select the app you want
  • Press Always

Once the process is complete, your Galaxy smartphone will systematically open the selected app whenever a file or similar link is executed.

However, the default application may already be configured. In this case, you will need to go to One UI Settings to change it. Here’s how:

  • open them Settings
  • Go to section Applications
  • Press Selection of default applications
  • Select the task you want to perform (read SMS, open links, make calls, etc.)
  • Check the app you chose for this task

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And there you go! The application you selected will run every time you try to perform the specified task. Of course, you will need to repeat this information when you want to change applications, for example, download another application that better meets your expectations. Also note that the apps themselves ask if you want to configure them as default when you first open them (and sometimes even after you reject them…).

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