Galaxy AI goes beyond photography-related features.

Circle to Search

This is Samsung’s fun new way to search for things more seamlessly on your Galaxy S24 phone. The title explains it all: if you’re, say, watching a video about plants on YouTube and you see one that you’re not familiar with, you can:

1. Tap and hold on the Home button
2. Circle (or tap) on the plant
3. Get results about what that plant is, without ever leaving YouTube

Live Translate

Don’t get this one mixed up with the one from Google. The Big G’s variant is capable of translating texts or even transcribing audio from vids pretty quickly, but Samsung’s take means things literally: a real-time translation during a live phone call.

Interpreter

What about if you’re not on a call, though? Well, Samsung has considered that too and hence: this feature. It turns your Galaxy S24 into a split-screen experience, allowing you to break the language barrier. People on both sides get a transcription of what the other one is saying in a language that they can understand.

Chat Assist

You’ve seen this one before: you get a text in a foreign language and the Galaxy S24 will be able to translate that for you. Neat.

Hands-free communication assistant on the road

This one seamlessly integrates with Android Auto, even bringing a touch of OneUI’s design magic to your car. But we’re here to talk about Galaxy AI, so how does that play into things?

Transcript Assist

We’ve seen this one on Google’s Pixel line of phones before, but it’s nice to see it becoming more mainstream: live transcriptions. You can let the voice recorder on your Galaxy S24 run and it will transcribe the recording as it happens.

Note Assist in Samsung Notes

Galaxy AI can help you set up notes from pre-existing templates, which seem to be based on your reoccurring needs. This means that the AI will monitor to check if you’re making, for example, grocery lists often, and if you are, it may start offering you premade templates to save you some time.

Another cool trick that Samsung showed off during its Galaxy AI presentation was specially designed for note-takers (just like me!). With Samsung Notes, you don’t need to add bullets: you can just jot everything down as it comes and, with a tap of a button, Galaxy AI can reorder and rephrase your notes in a more presentable and understandable manner.

Galaxy AI and photography on the Galaxy S24:

AI Photo Editing:

• Edit Suggestion: AI will be able to scan your shot and suggest ways to improve it automatically.
• AI-powered editing: users will be able to remove blurring, and reflections or to make their photos more crisp manually if they don’t like the automated suggestions.
• Generative editing: Want to straighten out your shot without cropping it? This one can fill in the empty spaces created in the process. It will also allow you to delete objects from a photo, without leaving an ugly blemish behind. Oh, and it can also let you move things around entirely if that’s your preferred way of doing things

AI Zoom

Digital zoom? Not enough! The Galaxy S24 series is rocking AI Zoom too, which means that it’s using some AI magic to fill in the blanks between digital zoom distances. Sure: digital zoom already isn’t winning the populace’s favor, but having another board option can’t hurt, right?

Instant Slow-Mo:

Have you ever wanted to slow down a video, only to find that it becomes choppy and unpleasant to view? Well, this one takes care of that issue via AI. Essentially, what is happening is that the AI is making up new frames between the existing frames, allowing you to enjoy a slow-motion video even with clips captured outside of a dedicated slow-mo mode.

What else do you need to know about Galaxy AI?

Two facts must be noted when talking about features, related to Galaxy AI:

• Some features will need you to have an active internet connection for them to work, and others will require a Samsung account too.
• Some AI-fueled features, related to images, won’t be supported by all social media platforms (likely, instant messaging apps too), so what you see on a Galaxy S24 phone won’t always be what other people are seeing.
• Any photos or videos, that have been produced with the help of Galaxy AI, will contain special metadata traces so that bad actors won’t be able to fool anyone.