How to Customize Touch Sensitivity on your Samsung Galaxy Phone: S10 & More

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Quickly and easily tweak your touchscreen with these simple tips
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Is the screen too difficult to control with your touch on your Samsung Galaxy phone or tablet? Maybe you need to adjust the touch sensitivity to compensate for your screen protector or thick case. This wikiHow guide shows you how to change the touch sensitivity on your Samsung.

Quick Steps to Change Touch Sensitivity on Samsung Galaxy

  1. Open Settings.
  2. Tap Display .
  3. Tap the toggle next to Touch Sensitivity to turn it on.
Section 1 of 2:

Changing Touchscreen Sensitivity

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    Open your Galaxy’s Settings. To do so, pull down the notification bar from the top of the home screen and tap the gear icon.
    • You can also open settings by tapping the app icon featuring a gear.
    • This menu is the same on all updated Galaxy phones, including S10, S22, and S21.
  2. 2
    Scroll down and tap Display . It's next to an icon of a sunburst.
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  3. 3
    Tap the toggle next to Touch Sensitivity . If the toggle is pointing to the right and is colored, the feature is on. [1]
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Section 2 of 2:

Tips to Fix Sluggish Touch Sensitivity

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    Make sure your device is up-to-date. Outdated or older software has vulnerabilities that can make your touch screen act slow and laggy.
  2. 2
    Use phone-compatible gloves. Not all gloves work with touch-screen phones, but the ones that do are usually marked.
    • Most gloves are made of non-conductive fibers and threads, so you need to make sure that the gloves you're using are conductive or have been dipped in a conductive coating. Most conductive gloves that work with touchscreens are identified by the differently colored fingertips.
  3. 3
    Make sure your fingers are clean and dry. If there's dust or moisture on your fingers, your touch screen may respond differently than you expect.
    • Dust and most moisture are conductive, meaning that you might tap in the lower left corner of your phone, but it will select something somewhere else since the conductive materials are changing the location of your tap.
  4. 4
    Don't use fingernails or a ballpoint pen to tap. Neither of those conducts energy from your body to the screen, so using something other than your fingers will result in a touch screen that won't work.
    • A ballpoint pen is not a stylus, which is designed to take the place of your finger.
  5. 5
    Make sure there aren't more conductive items nearby. Conductive items like coins or keys can add to the signal you're sending your phone by tapping the screen. This can result in the phone selecting something that you didn't mean to select.
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      References

      1. ↑ https://www.samsung.com/sg/support/mobile-devices/how-to-enable-touch-sensitivity-on-samsung-galaxy-s10-series/

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