Google Pixel 8/ 8 Pro TIPS, TRICKS & HIDDEN FEATURES!!

00:00:01 [Music] Google has blown my mind with everything new you can do on the pixel 8 and 8 Pro from creating AI wallpapers and editing photos using AI to making instant AI summaries of websites let me show you all of the smartest tips and tricks on what everyone is calling the smartest smartphone in the world so to start off one of the best new features on the pixel 8 is actually hidden inside your Chrome browser so when you open up a website like Wikipedia for example now check this out if you hold down on the side button to

00:00:37 bring up Google Assistant you'll find this brand new button called summarize and if you press it Google will instantly scan the entire website for you in a few seconds and actually give you a short summary of the entire websites in these bullet points this works on just about any websites like news blogs Wikipedia for example and it does a really good job at summarizing everything I did notice though that this only works in the US so if you stay till the end I'll show you how you can get it to work

00:01:09 anyway now for the next trick back inside Google Assistant you'll also see this new button called read aloud and basically what this does is actually turns your entire website into an Audi book for you to listen to Google LLC is an American multinational the cool thing is you can even scrub through the audio to any point adjust the speed to make it slightly or a lot more faster has as most and even choose from 51 different languages I mean that's just nuts but the AI on the pixel doesn't just end

00:01:41 there you can still do so much more like check this out so I've actually been waiting for this feature for months and you can finally find it within wallpaper and styles once you click on more wallpapers you'll find it right over here AI wallpapers in here you can choose from a couple of these different styles like imaginary for example then just click on this inspire me button and your Google pixel will actually generate an AI wallpaper for you in just a few seconds it's just so freaking nuts that you can

00:02:10 now do this on a phone and what's even crazier is you get even more control where you can actually change the different prompts like a surreal castle made of cotton in shades of blue and indigo then just click create wallpaper and the BAM just like that you can create an unlimited amount of AI wallpapers in seconds that are completely unique to you then right next to AI wallpapers you'll also find something called Emoji Workshop that I equally love and basically with this one you can create some wicked cool Emoji

00:02:41 wallpapers that you can change the pattern of the color basically any style you'd like and when you're done I even noticed the wallpaper slightly bounces every time you touch the home screen hm but it doesn't end there because if you tap on my photos then choose an image from your gallery you'll notice this brand new icon and if you tap on it you can turn it into a cinematic wallpaper and how this works is your pixel uses some AI Wizardry to give your photo this unique fun 3d effect that is so cool and

00:03:11 I totally suggest you try so believe it or not there are still so many customization tricks you can do like if you tap and hold on your lock screen you'll now see this brand new customized lock screen button where you can now finally customize the lock screen you can swipe through and choose from quite a few different clock Styles and I actually really like all of them but if you select the clock color and style button here you'll find even more customization where you can change the size color and even opacity and what I

00:03:41 love about these clocks is each one has its own little unique always on display animation that plays every time you unlock the phone just such a cool little detail then another brand new customization setting you'll Now find is this shortcuts button this allows you to play with a right hand or leftand shortcut like I chose the a flashlight for example and for the right hand side I went for the super useful mute button now anytime you want to use them just tap and hold and a voila then back inside those same settings if you scroll

00:04:11 down to more lock screen options you'll see this add text to lock screen and in here you can type out whatever it is you want so you can write down an inspiring affirmation or something like put the pro in procrastination nice okay now let's move on to the cameras which are absolutely mindblowing because every single one of its lenses has a 50 megapixel sensor and so now unlike the older pixel phones if you head into your camera and into this brand new quick settings button over here then into the

00:04:46 Pro Tab right over here you'll finally be able to change from 12 megapixels to 50 and again it doesn't matter whether you use the ultra wide wide or telephoto the 50 megap option will always be there and always give give you super high rise photos no matter what lens you're using which is literally just nuts but to have some more pro control over your camera lenses I'd suggest inside your pro settings you turn on lens selection from Auto to manual basically what this will do is allow you to actually go and pick

00:05:17 the exact lens you wouldd like to use instead of just having this Zoom control and letting the pixel pick the lens for you which I personally really like and back inside the main camera you'll also find this brand new button which basically turns your pixel camera into a pro camera because in here it actually gives you control of the image brightness the Shadows Focus white balance and all that jazz but what makes the pixel cameras really Pro is what the AI can do with your photos afterwards so let's just say you're

00:05:49 acting about with friends taking a whole bunch of different selfies but later on when you go through them you don't really like the way you look in one well now if you go into your photos and select one of your selfies then edit it and head into this tool section you'll find a brand new tool called best take and what this does is it uses AI to scan the faces in all the photos you took so that you can literally change the face and choose the best pose this is just such a wild feature and I also can't

00:06:16 believe at what a good job it does so if you really like a photo but not the way you look in it you can quickly just go ahead and change your face or everyone else's face in the picture like what but the does not end there because if you go into a photo like this one and upload it to your Google account check this out inside your editing settings you'll Now find this brand new magic editor ooh in here there's a few new tricks you can do with this and the first one is if you tap on any object you can actually

00:06:47 choose to erase it from the photo the AI will then start doing its thing and give you three options to pick from but for the other trick you can do if you tap on an object and select it then tap and hold down again you'll see that you can actually move it you can place it just about any way you'd like and the AI will do the rest and make your photo look completely normal almost like having AI Photoshop but on your phone but the pixel also has a few AI tricks you can do with videos there's a few AI tricks you can

00:07:20 do with your videos and the first one that blew my mind is found inside your video editing settings then under audio where you'll find this brand new tool called audio eraser what this does is uses AI to scan the video for any sounds like nature with birds chirping noise of dogs barking or cars wind or a river in my case which you can then control and try to completely remove that sound so you can basically go from something like this Google used to be called backr to something like this Google used to be

00:07:54 called backr it's pretty crazy how you can do this all on your phone and just just imagine how much better it's going to get over time but another thing you can also do within the video editor under the Quick Settings panel is turn on speech enhancement which is kind of okay and basically what this will do is try to automatically reduce any background noise in your video like traffic for example pretty nifty now let me show you guys one of the coolest texting tricks you can do on a pixel when you open up messages and

00:08:27 start typing a text to someone instead of sending that text straight away what you can actually do is tap and hold on the send button and get the schedule window to open up so you can literally schedule a message for later that day or if you want to change the time just tap and hold again but what is probably the best option in my opinion is you can actually pick the exact date and exact time you want to send that message and it'll automatically send it h something else I totally recommend you guys check

00:08:55 out is inside your settings under notification settings if you scroll all the way down down you'll see this flash notification that I'd suggest you turn on because then you can pick from any one of these crazy cool colors and now whenever someone sends you a message or an email your phone will do this nice little flash to let you know you've got a notification okay so believe it or not Google actually gave the front-facing camera a massive upgrade to improve its face unlock so now if you head into your

00:09:25 main settings then under privacy and security then under device unlock in here I totally suggest that you set this up it's super simple and easy to follow and once you've set it up you can then turn this little setting on which then allows you to unlock things like banking apps using Face Unlock and as far as I know this is the only Android phone currently that can do this with its camera and how this actually works I believe is Google gave the front facing camera some kind of AI that makes it a

00:09:56 lot more accurate at detecting faces once you're done setting up your face unlock inside the settings make sure you turn on skip lock screen because what this does is anytime you go to unlock your phone by clicking the side button it'll automatically take you right to the home screen nice now this is a really cool quick setting you can turn on by tapping and holding on battery saver once in here you can actually change from standard to Extreme battery saver so now whenever you turn on the battery saver from your

00:10:28 quick setting p Chanel you'll see that it turns instantly to extreme mode instead of standard mode H but instead of switching it on yourself what you could do inside schedules and reminders is have it automatically turn on when it reaches a certain percentage like 40% for example you can then set it to turn off when your battery reaches 90% charge those are some cool settings but what I probably love the most is if you see your battery is draining too quickly cuz maybe your phone's getting hot back in

00:10:59 inside the battery settings you'll see this battery Diagnostics and in here you can actually follow the prompts like your phone is very warm then the pixel will quickly check if there's anything wrong with the phone or if let's say your battery is draining too quickly perhaps it's your screen display and you can rather choose to turn off smooth display and save some juice now onto some of my favorite pixel quick tips starting inside Chrome where if you want to quickly share a link with someone did you know that you can

00:11:30 actually share it as a QR code so your friend or the other person literally just has to scan that QR code and Bam they got that link while we're on the topic of sharing did you know that inside your photos app if you tap and drag to select a few photos then tap and hold on them they'll pile up just like this and now you can quickly go into another app like WhatsApp for example and drop that pile of photos directly in the app wow and something that is so interesting is the the pixel8 pro now also comes with a temperature sensor

00:12:02 next to the cameras which you can use with the brand new thermometer app you get a few different options to pick from and once you've selected one then just go ahead and tap to measure and now your pixel is pretty much a thermometer now that's hot but now let me show you how you can get the pixels features to work anywhere in the world so if you live outside the US you'll probably notice that inside your Google assistant on a web page you won't actually see the summarized button next to read aloud but there's actually a

00:12:37 little trick I found to get around this problem and actually get that summarized button there using a VPN like surf shck basically the way surf shark works is it connects you to the internet in another country like the United States for example so that everything on the internet in that country is made available to you as well kind of like tricking the internet into thinking you're somewhere else instead of where you actually are and this comes with a ton of different benefits like unlocking an entire Netflix library from another

00:13:07 country and even unlocking blocked websites but in this case the biggest benefit is that you can download surf shock onto your Google pixel and log in with your Google account for example then once you've logged in make sure you connect to a US server now just restart your pixel and once it turns back on connect to the surfshark VPN and if you go into Chrome then into Google Assistant the BAM you now have the Google summarize feature and the reason why I specifically suggest you guys try out surf shock is because it literally

00:13:41 costs the same as a cup of coffee and if you use code hailes during Black Friday this month not only will you get a cheaper but you'll also get 6 months for free so big shout out to Surf shock and I'll see you guys in the next one toles [Music] a