So you bought a Samsung Galaxy S25.
Im here to validate you!
The Now Brief got a lot of stage time at the last Galaxy Unpacked.
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Most of the information that the Now Brief presents youishelpful.
It offers weather forecasts for now and later, plus links to your calendar and other apps.
But when the content pushed through is irrelevant, you cant edit it to make it so.
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You are better off eliminating the feature from the Now Brief altogether.
Tap in theNow Brief tweaks panel, tapContent to Include, then scroll down toNews.
Toggle it off and continue living headline-free.
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Your blood pressure will thank me.
Hopefully, well see the ability pop up on older Samsung phones in a software update.
The slider pops up when you tap on a zoom amount while in video mode.
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Use it to add a dramatic flair to your videos.
It works like a charm, sort of.
The only thing to remember is that youll have to recordwiththe Galaxy S25 to use the effect.
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I used it to kill thescreeching sound of transitin my videos.
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Thats where AI Select will come in handy the most.
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Samsung tried to pass off AI Select as a brand-new feature with the Galaxy S25.
Its a longtime Samsung feature called Smart Select, which has been rebranded for todays AI-focused marketing.
AI Select will freeze your screen and let you select a portion of the content to interact with.
Youll see options to crop an image and mess around with it in AI.
Thats all you oughta make memes of the worst people.
Use AI select to freeze the screen and then highlight dates to add to your calendar.
The Galaxy S25 will add the dates to your calendar.
This is a small example of what Samsung is working on with the cross-app compatibility of its AI infusion.
Hopefully, future iterations of this will be a little more robust.
For now, at least theres a way to add dates to a calendar without too much tapping.
News from the future, delivered to your present.
Samsung’s Now Brief could do so much more if it just let me control it a bit.
