Top 10 Hidden Features of the Nothing Phone 3a You Didn't Know Existed!

Hello, welcome back to a new video. Today

I'm going to be talking about 10 hidden

features for the Nothing Phone 3a that

you probably definitely most didn't know

about. So first of all, did you know that

if you go on to the wallpaper section and

press, uh, more wallpapers, we can

actually have an AI wallpaper generator?

So you press create, and now you can

choose between 2 different styles. You can

have sky Terrain, still life,

iridescence, or flora. And then you can

have that in a black and white style,

photographic style, painting style,

graphic style, ink, or modernist. So for

example, if you go for the painting style

and you wanted some sky kind of

background, then you could do create

wallpaper. It will now use the power of AI

to generate you a unique wallpaper. Wow,

that looks so amazing! Wouldn't you just

love to have that as your wallpaper? I

know I would. And then you can do recreate

to generate another one, and it will save

the ones that have been generated. Don't

worry, they're not going anywhere. See,

that one looks a lot nicer actually. It's

got kind of like an inky look. So yeah,

if you want to own unique wallpaper, we

can do press Surprise Me and it will just

do a random one.

And that's how you get a completely unique

wallpaper. Wow, look at that,

such a strong image. Look at the man

contemplating his life on the cliff edge,

so poetic. You've also got different icon

packs, so you've got by default the

default one, which is just, you know,

default apps. Your typical logos from

Google, YouTube, that kind of stuff. Or if

you want the simplistic look, you can

press the Nothing icon pack and then they

go all black and white. Uh, the only

downside is it's kind of hard to tell what

app is what because they all look black

and white, so it takes a bit longer to

locate what app you want, which is why I

put it back to default. Or you can add

another app pack if you want to change the

icons. Next hidden feature, if you go into

settings and type game in the search bar,

there's actually a game mode,

and this will boost, um, the RAM and the

CPU for specific games. And I turned it on

whilst playing Call of Duty Warzone

Mobile, and it actually made it a lot

quicker and improved the frame rate

massively. Also, it's not just for games,

so by default it will automatically detect

games, but you can also add any other app

to the list to enable game mode. It

doesn't have to be a game to enable game

mode. So by default it has the games as

enabled apps, but you can search down your

entire app list and you can also add them

as a game. So I don't know, maybe you've

got an app that's very intensive and you

want to boost your performance, but it's

not technically a game. You can add it to

game mode and game mode will work when

you're using it. So maybe you can add

Amazon. I know Amazon doesn't really need

game mode, but You know, you go into

Amazon and then— yeah, so we're on Amazon

now and you see this little gray bar at

the side. If you swipe it, you can see

Game Mode is on and it's boosting the

performance of the phone whilst you use

that app. So that's pretty useful. So the

useful thing about Game Mode is you can

boost the RAM up to 8GB, so it's good for

multitasking. You can choose what— how

much RAM gets boosted by, and also pop-up

view. So I don't know why you'd want the

game in a pop-up view if you're gaming.

That's not— you want it in full-screen

mode, won't you? Also, you get less

notifications and less disturbances whilst

you game. There's also a cool little

widget, a compass widget. So if you tap

it, it will now activate the compass,

and now you can have a compass. So maybe

if you're driving, put this on your car

dashboard, and then you've got little

compasses showing you which direction

you're going in. Case you need that. If

you search for double in settings,

there's a double press power button, so

you can map different actions to the power

button if you double press them.

As you can see, you can choose from these

shortcuts like camera, torch, wallet,

QR code scanner, video camera, or you can

choose from any of your apps on the phone,

which is pretty useful. So if we go ahead

and press torch, now it's enabled to

torch, and we lock it, And then flip it

over. And now if you double press the

power button, watch this, it's really so

cool. Wow, the torch comes on!

So you can add widgets and shortcuts onto

the lock screen. So you can add the torch

to the home screen— I mean the lock

screen— and then activate it like that,

or the camera. Or you can have the compass

on the lock screen, and even the pedometer

tracks how many steps you do. So I've done

169 steps today, it's pretty good.

Also, if you go into the experimental

features, you can have AirPods support if

you have the Apple AirPods, Glyph Progress

integrates Glyph interface with

third-party apps, or the dot matrix title.

So look at the title there, you can change

it to the dot matrix titles,

which I guess looks kind of nice.

You've also got this battery health thing,

so you can do smart charging mode, which

charges steadily overnight to preserve

long-term battery health. Or you have your

own custom charging mode where it only

charges up to 70, 80, or 90%. So you might

know battery health degrades faster if

you charge up to 100% every time, so maybe

limit that down to 80 or 90% just to

preserve the longevity of the phone's

battery. So I've been using this iPhone 12

Mini for like 5 years, the battery health

has degraded down to about 70%, and it,

it barely lasts an hour before I have to

charge it again. It's rubbish. Okay, this

one's actually pretty cool. So if you hold

down on an app, for example Maps, you get

some shortcuts. So if you hold it down,

you've got these 2 shortcut buttons, work

and home. So you just press home and it

will give you directions to where you

live, or work, it will take you to where

you work depending on what address you put

on those 2 things. So that's pretty

useful. So if you hold on YouTube,

it will take you to search, Shorts, or

subscriptions. It will take you straight

to the search bar. Um, so it

depends on which app you try and do that

on. Not all apps have like a shortcut

built into the long press. If it doesn't

have a built-in thing to the long press,

it will just say, uh, enlarge or app info.

So that's pretty useful. Okay,

this one's actually pretty cool. So if you

want to lock the screen without pressing a

button, all you have to do is do this.

Double tap the screen and then it locks.

And single tap, Face ID unlock.

Swipe up and double tap, and then it also

automatically unlocks without you swiping

if you do Face ID. Look, I just pick it

up.

Oh, maybe you do have to press something.

Hmm, well, it unlocks, but it's just not—

usually it goes straight to the home page.

Press the unlock icon to open.

Extend unlock.

I don't want extend unlock.

It's weird. Yeah, you can do this on-body

detection thing, so It stays unlocked

whilst it's in motion, such as when you're

walking with it. Device stays unlocked for

up to 4 hours until you put it down.

So I don't know if that's good. I could

test it. So what if I'm walking around and

then— well, how is it going to lock unless

I press the lock button? So if I'm like

moving around Is it unlocked or locked

now? Oh, it is unlocked.

Yes, because I didn't— I don't think I

unlocked it. What's that sound?

Yeah, so I'm just walking around, and then

if I unlock it without doing Face ID—

yeah, it is unlocked, but it doesn't open

straight to the home page. Oh, I see. You

have to turn off that extend unlock thing

to make it automatically open. So look,

now I do Face ID. It opens

straight. I didn't even press anything.

Look, imagine it's locked and you've got

it down there and you want to use your

phone. You just pick it up, aim at your

face, unlock straight away. Don't have to

press anything. That's actually pretty

good. Sometimes I'm getting in and out of

the car, I don't want to mess around doing

fingerprint scanning and pressing this and