What is Samsung Developer option? Here’s how to use it on your One UI 4.1 phone

Samsung smartphones come with hundreds of settings for changing everything from volume, notifications, and wallpapers to system colors, AOD screen, and more. A few months old One UI 4.1 brings more features and customization options to fully personalize your device.

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Meanwhile, there are even more settings and useful features hidden under the Samsung Developer option. As the name mentions, these options are extremely helpful for developers as they let you configure system behaviors. You can use them to improve app performance.

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What is Samsung Developer option?

Samsung offers multiple additional options and settings to the Developer menu. These include some of the worth using as well as not-so-important features. Among many, one is Stay Awake. When enabled, your phone’s screen will stay on when plugged into a charger.

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Next, there’s OEM Unlocking. Samsung devices provide you the ability to install a custom ROM, which replaces the default OS with a new one. To do this, you must first unlock your bootloader and this developer option will help you in this.

Other than these, it has a Memory option, which shows how much RAM your device is currently using, along with averages based on intervals of 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, or 1 day. The Bug report feature allows you to generate a bug report for the Android system.

Desktop backup password creates a backup password for using adb commands to back up and restore device apps and data, whereas, Picture color mode switches your device to use the sRGB color space, which used to be helpful in the days before most devices used sRGB by default.

Well, there are multiple more options in the developer menu of your Samsung phone. Here’s how to enable them.

How to enable Samsung developer option?

The developer option comes hidden by default, however, it’s easy to reveal the menu and use the additional features. To take advantage and enables the Samsung developer option, head over to the Settings of your phone.

From here, scroll down and tap About phone. Enter the Software information section and tap the Build number 7 times. Your phone will ask you to enter the password. Once you enter, a pop-up message will appear that says ‘Developer mode has been enabled.’

To access these Developer options, go back to the Settings page and scroll to the end, there’s now a new option called ‘Developer options’.