Samsung's TouchWiz software on the
Galaxy s8 puts tons of customization at
the users fingertips in a recent update
Samsung added yet another customization
to the navigation bar
now you can hide it altogether here's
how like on most Android devices with
on-screen navigation buttons the
navigation bar will hide itself in
certain situations such as when you're
viewing a full screen video this
maximizes the screen real estate and in
the case of a game can keep you from
accidentally backing out of it however
in other apps like the browser or
Twitter the navigation buttons remain in
place if you want to cram more
information on the screen where those
pesky software buttons would normally be
you can now do that after the update you
might have noticed a dot to the far left
of the navigation bar tapping that dot
will toggle where that the navigation
bar automatically hides or not in any
application if you don't see the dot you
may need to enable the feature in
settings go to settings display
navigation bar and then tap the toggle
beside show and hide button to switch it
to the on position if you don't see this
option at all in settings check for any
available software updates the update
may not be out for some carrier-specific
Galaxy s8 models just yet when the
navigation bar is set to auto hide you
will see a grey circle with a white
center and the navigation bar will be a
translucent gray when auto hide is
disabled the circle will be solid gray
and the navigation bar will be the color
that you've selected when the navigation
bar is hidden you can still press with
force where the home button should be to
return home to show the navigation bar
just swipe up from the bottom of the
screen it will remain visible for only a
few seconds and then slide off the
bottom of the screen once more for more
tips and tricks and other how to's be
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