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Welcome! In front of me is a Samsung Tab Active and today I will show you how you can put this device into safe mode
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To get started, you want to hold your power button and volume up
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Or is it volume down? Nope, it's volume down. So yeah, hold the power button, volume down and this will bring up your boot options
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And here you want to hold power off. This will then, as you can see, change into safe mode. Tap again to restart your tablet in safe mode
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Downloaded apps will be temporarily disabled to help you troubleshoot your tablet
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So I'm just going to tap on that once more to initiate that reboot. And just to explain this method, it is designed for troubleshooting your tablet, meaning the mode
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So in this mode, any application that you have installed yourself will be temporarily turned off and neither you nor the device will be able to start it up
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So the device kind of becomes limited. It only allows you to use a couple pre-installed applications
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And even majority of the Samsung applications will be turned off in this mode
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So if you want to, maybe you downloaded some kind of application and it's causing you massive problems, you could boot it into this mode
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Get rid of that application, assuming you couldn't do that before. And everything should go back to functioning normally once you reboot the device once more
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So here we have our safe mode. You can see it based on this marking right here and also based on the missing applications
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Or maybe not missing, but greyed out. Now, widgets don't work either, as you can see
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And any application that looks like this, this is our browser from Samsung
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And if you try to open it up, as you can see, it gives you the pop-up. Downloaded apps disabled in safe mode
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And this extends to Google applications as well. So Google TV, YouTube Music, Drive
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Photos don't even work here, which is very interesting. And we have things like Bing, RAR, obviously that's a third-party application
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Edge, also a third-party application. Assistant, Epic Games, those are also third-party
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But interestingly, we also have applications like Calculator that are turned off in this mode
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So there we go. Once you're done troubleshooting your device and you want to go back to the normal mode, just get back to your boot options
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And simply select the restart option. Once the device boots back up, it automatically goes back to normal mode
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So with that being said, if you found this very helpful, don't forget to hit like, subscribe, and thanks for watching
