How to use Flex Mode on the Galaxy Z Flip and Z Fold

Samar Haddad; Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

So you're the proud owner of one of Samsung's foldables. Look at you, you early adopter! There are obviously a few more ways to use your phone than a typical slab-style phone, and that's probably why you bought one.

Flex Mode is one of those features. That's basically just a term for whenever you use the phone's main screen folded halfway. It's most useful if you want to set the phone down and use it hands-free, like for video calls, and some apps are optimized by default to take advantage of it.

Here's how to use Flex Mode with the apps that support it natively - and also how to enable it for apps that don't. I tested these steps on a Galaxy Z Fold 4 and Galaxy Z Flip 4 running One UI 4.1.1.

For apps that support Flex Mode

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