How I entry Samsung's secret Wi-Fi settings menu on my telephone

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Samsung telephones have a secret Wi-Fi settings menu known as Connectivity Labs.
To unlock Connectivity Labs it’s essential to navigate to the Clever Wi-Fi settings menu below Connections and faucet the Clever Wi-Fi button 5 occasions.
The Connectivity Labs menu gives helpful instruments like Dwelling Wi-Fi Inspection, which you should use to check your Wi-Fi’s sign energy, and Close by Wi-Fi Info.

One of many most important options of Samsung’s One UI experience is its in depth settings menu. It gives all kinds of choices for customizing your Samsung telephone, together with altering wallpapers, managing battery life, organising routines, adjusting the show, and rebinding the side button, amongst others. Samsung’s settings app simply beats Apple’s and Google’s, and with Galaxy AI built-in into the app, discovering the setting you wish to change turns into a lot simpler.

Nevertheless, Samsung’s settings app nonetheless has just a few hidden options that even AI cannot reveal. One in all these is tucked away within the Wi-Fi settings menu known as Connectivity Labs (by way of Android Authority). By default, this characteristic is totally hidden. It doesn’t seem within the Wi-Fi settings, and till you allow it, it will not present up within the search outcomes throughout the settings app both.

Connectivity Labs is a setting that have to be unlocked manually. When you do, it gives quite a lot of helpful Wi-Fi choices to discover. This is what Samsung’s Connectivity Labs can do for you and methods to unlock it in your Samsung Galaxy gadget.

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The way to unlock Samsung’s hidden Wi-Fi settings

Whenever you go to the Connections tab within the settings app in your Samsung gadget, you will discover that Connectivity Labs is not seen. It is because it’s essential to enter a particular enter to make it seem. This is methods to do it:

1. Go to Connections within the Settings app.

2. Choose Wi-Fi.

3. Faucet the three dots within the top-right nook.

4. Select Clever Wi-Fi.

5. Faucet the Clever Wi-Fi button on the backside repeatedly.

6. Connectivity Labs will then unlock as an choice to pick on the backside of the Clever Wi-Fi menu.

As you retain tapping the Clever Wi-Fi button, a pop-up ought to seem indicating that persevering with to faucet it should unlock Connectivity Labs. Hold tapping till it reveals up. I needed to faucet the Clever Wi-Fi button 5 occasions for Connectivity Labs to look. Now that you must have it unlocked, let’s dive into the enjoyable you possibly can have with Connectivity Labs.

That is the strategy I used to allow Connectivity Labs on One UI 7.

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What are you able to do with Connectivity Labs?

You possibly can take a look at out the sign energy of your private home Wi-Fi

Now that you have unlocked Connectivity Labs, you possibly can faucet on it to entry all the brand new settings. Whenever you first open the menu, you would possibly really feel a bit of overwhelmed as a result of there are lots of completely different choices to discover. The primary one I like to recommend making an attempt known as Dwelling Wi-Fi Inspection. This characteristic enables you to stroll round your home and take a look at your Wi-Fi sign energy to determine any weak spots.

I ran the Wi-Fi inspection take a look at twice and located it to be fairly correct. One space in my dwelling has a really weak Wi-Fi sign, so I arrange an extender there, and the device was capable of detect that weak sign space. Once I examined my Wi-Fi extender, the Dwelling Inspection device detected a stronger sign, which was a useful strategy to confirm that my extender was working correctly.

One other setting on this menu is the choice to allow a characteristic known as Switching to cellular knowledge sooner. By turning this on, your Samsung telephone will change extra shortly to cellular knowledge if it detects a weak Wi-Fi sign. If in case you have a limiteless cellular knowledge plan, I like to recommend turning this on so you possibly can at all times preserve a robust web connection.

There’s additionally one other setting known as Switching to cellular knowledge with AI. I am not precisely certain what this includes, however given the title, I assume it makes use of some type of on-device AI to find out the very best time to modify from Wi-Fi to cellular knowledge.

One other helpful characteristic on this hidden menu known as Close by Wi-Fi Info, discovered below Wi-Fi Developer Instruments (as seen within the picture above). This device reveals all of your close by Wi-Fi networks and signifies which one has the strongest sign and which one is the weakest. This may be useful while you’re in a public place and making an attempt to determine which Wi-Fi community to connect with.

It isn’t clear when Samsung first added Connectivity Labs to One UI, however there are posts about it on the Samsung forums courting again to 2023. I examined this on my Galaxy S25+ working One UI 7, and it labored very properly.

If in case you have a Samsung telephone, I recommend making an attempt this out and unlocking Connectivity Labs your self. Even in case you do not allow any of the options, it is nonetheless a cool web page to have entry to. Plus, it provides you one thing to do whereas ready for Samsung’s next Unpacked event on July 9.