Your Samsung phone has a secret Wi -Fi menu that is super useful – how to access it

You must first use your intelligent Wi-Fi settings by opening your setting app, tapping. Connection Tab, then WifiThen the top-right corner at three dots (for extended settings), and then Intelligent Wi-Fi,

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This will present you with a list of adaptive Wi-Fi options.

To activate connectivity labs, scroll under the intelligent Wi-Fi page and tap on the software version seven times (as a current label Wise Wi-Fi 7.0.0,

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As you tap repeatedly, a pop-up message should appear, which gives you a vomiting count for how many more taps are left to activate the connectivity lab. Once this happens, you will see the secret menu at the bottom of the page.

When you open a connectivity lab for the first time, you are presented with a column of graphs depicting different bands, types and networks that is connected to your phone. There is also a “daily average” tick that your phone is connected to Wi-Fi every day.

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However, the meat of this page is in half below. As you scroll down, you will get a list of useful internet connection togle, including Wi-Fi 7 mode, Wi-Fi handover, network quality information, and more.

I am experimenting with all options, and while most of them are niche, three are generally useful:

1. Home Wi-Fi inspection: This option runs a live Wi-Fi signal test, which shows you a drop-off and spikes in the strength of the connection as soon as you move around your home. I recently installed new video safety cameras around my house and required a efficient space to keep the monitoring hub. I drove the Wi-Fi inspection equipment, found an area in my office with high signal strength, and installed it.
2. Rapid switch to mobile data: Have you ever experienced a slow internet because you are on the limits of a public connection (say, outside a cafe or office building) and your phone is juggling between mobile data and Wi-Fi? Toggling this option will indicate to switch the phone quickly to mobile data when it is weakened that your Wi-Fi signal is weakening. This option is particularly very good if you are subject to an unlimited data plan.
3. Wi-Fi developer option: This tab has another list of settings, but one of the most auxiliary is “pass Wi-Fi information”, which lists the signal strength of your local network. This can be useful when you have many public Wi-Fi networks available-like an airport-and want to know which fastest browsing speed will get.