Settings On Your Samsung Galaxy S23 That Are Ruining Your Experience – SlashGear

This one is for S23 Ultra owners only, but if that’s you, the S Pen probably influenced your purchase. The S Pen, a Bluetooth stylus that stores inside a silo at the bottom of the phone, was always the icing on top of Samsung’s old Note lineup, and thankfully the company carried it over to the top end of the Galaxy S line after the Note finally went to pasture. Improvements continue to be made, and the S23 Ultra’s S Pen has a virtually nonexistent latency of 2.8ms for naturalistic writing and doodling.

However, out of the box, the S Pen is far from optimized, and most users will get the most use from it after a bit of tweaking. You can customize pen shortcuts, customize the wand-like Air Actions, and more.

The quickest way to find S Pen settings is by hovering the tip of the stylus close to the screen and pressing its side button to launch the Air Command menu, then tapping the gear icon at the bottom left of the screen. From there, you can choose what each gesture does, and customize the shortcuts in Air Command. We also recommend enabling “Screen off memos,” which creates an OLED-friendly notepad when you take out the S Pen while your screen is off and lets you pin those notes to the always-on display.