Anyone using the Messenger WhatsApp may have to struggle with connection problems. A message does not come with you or sent messages not with your friends or acquaintances. Now you might ask: Is WhatsApp down?

So far you could only find an answer to the question by searching the net. Recently, WhatsApp itself offers the service to check this out. We show you how to check in WhatsApp to see if there is a network disruption. This works quite simply as follows:

1. Open WhatsApp on your Android smartphone or iPhone
2. Open the settings at the top right of the three-point symbol
3. Then select "Help" - You will then be presented with a menu in which "System status" can be found - tap this

Here you will get a status message about whether the WhatsApp service is working properly. So you can always quickly check if WhatsApp works properly, or if the error depends on your smartphone or the Internet connection.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 has implemented an auto-correction function in the keyboard. With this, it is possible to quickly correct misspelled words. However, the auto correction does not always work properly and often suggests a wrong word that is then automatically adopted.

For this reason, we explain to you how to disable the auto correction on the Samsung Galaxy S8:

To do this, open the following navigation path from the home screen:

App Menu --> Settings --> General Administration --> Language and Input --> Screen Keyboard --> Samsung Keyboard --> Text Recognition

In this submenu, you just have to set the following option to "inactive":

• Replace automatically

From now on, words are no longer automatically replaced on the Samsung Galaxy S8 when you tap the space button. This lets you decide whether a word suggestion is better and then select it manually.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 has an Always On Display. This means that when the smartphone is locked, information on the lock screen can be displayed. This includes a calendar, a private photo and a clock.

If you would like to adjust the design of the watch, you can do this using the following settings menu:

Adjust the display design of the watch on the Always On Display

1. Open the app menu and then the settings

2. Scroll down and then select "Device Safety" - Select "Always On Display".

3. Under "Content to Display", select an option that contains "Clock".

4. You can now adjust the watch style. The choice is:

• Digital clock
• Analog
• World Clock

5. When you select an option, you can change the clock style, and customize the color and background.

6. The settings are accepted with "Apply".

You now know how to adjust the appearance of the watch on the Samsung Galaxy S8 Always On Display to your own requirements.

If you discover any bugs or problems on your Samsung Galaxy S8 that you believe are related to a newly installed app, then we recommend you to start the device in safe mode. Because this mode does not load apps from third parties. Therefore, previously known errors should no longer appear.

We will show you how to install Samsung Galaxy S8 in Safe Mode:

Enable Safe Mode on the Galaxy S8 and S8 +

1. Turn the Samsung Galaxy S8 completely off

2. Press and hold the following keys to turn it back on:

• Power Button
• Volume down key

The volume-down soft key must be held up until the S8 has fully booted the Android OS. The power button can be released after the start.

3. Once Android is loaded, you will see a note with "Safe Mode" at the bottom left, meaning it is now active.

All apps that are not included in the firmware have not been loaded, which means you cannot use them. If your Samsung Galaxy S8 now works as usual, then you can assume that the error is an additional installed app.

You now know the key combination to boot the Samsung Galaxy S8 into Safe Mode.

Under certain circumstances, your Samsung Galaxy may display "IMS Service Stopped". This message often prevents you from using the smartphone more sensibly.

Because even if you close the message with "Ok", this appears immediately after about 2-4 seconds. This is, of course, very annoying and you may be wondering how to fix this error. This is exactly what we want to explain to you:

First, you must turn off your Samsung Galaxy Smartphone. Because the IMS service error is often caused by an additional installed app. For this reason, the smartphone must be started in "Safe Mode". It works like this:

Start Smartphone in Safe Mode

1. Your Samsung Galaxy must be turned off
2. To switch on, press the following keys simultaneously:

• Power On / Off
• Volume silence

Press and hold the Volume Down key until your smartphone is started and the Android menu has been booted. You should see "Safe Mode" at the bottom left.

This step is important because the message "IMS Service Stopped" constantly prevents entries on the Samsung Galaxy.

Run SmartManager service

Now you can open the settings of the Samsung Galaxy and then tap "Device Maintenance" or "Smart Manager". This should now find an app, which causes problems. Uninstall this app. Then start the Samsung Galaxy again. The "IMS service stopped" error should no longer appear on the display of the device. But if?

Then maybe a Wipe cache partition will help. This works as follows.

• Wipe Cache Partition Samsung Galaxy Smartphone
• Instructions for the S8 (Bixby Button)

We hope that our guide has helped you fix the problem.

If you've got a new pin to unlock your Sim card to your new Samsung Galaxy S8, you may find it hard to remember this new assigned sim pin. If you prefer your old pin, then you can of course change the pin for the Sim card by using the S8.

We would like to explain in detail how this works. Please proceed as follows:

1. Open the Android system settings and then "Device security"

2. From here, select "Other security settings"

3. Under the menu item "Sim lock setup" you will find the option "Change sim card pin" - Select the entry

4. You must now enter the old (new) Sim card pin and then set your desired pin. (Your old pin)

You have successfully changed the pin for the Sim card with your Samsung Galaxy S8. You no longer need to remember a new sim pin.

The Samsung Galaxy S8 locks the smartphone automatically after a certain time. This is to prevent after a certain period of non-use someone unauthorized to open the smartphone and see content in it.

The time after which the screen is locked is synchronized with the Timeout screen at the factory.

However, you can extend the time to the automatic lock. We explain how this works:

Extend the Automatic Lock on the Samsung Galaxy S8 as follows:

1. From the Home screen, open the app menu and then the settings

2. Scroll down to "Device Security" and from there to "Safe Lock Settings"

3. In the following sub-menu you can now select the option "Auto-lock". You can now select from the following times, according to which the Samsung Galaxy S8 is to be automatically blocked:

• From instant to 30 minutes

4. Select the appropriate setting. This will immediately become active.

You have just successfully extended the time to the automatic lock of the smartphone.

If you have many contacts stored on the Samsung Galaxy S8 and these are sorted by the first name, then this may be an unfavorable sorting for you. Because especially with business contacts, it makes more sense to sort the contacts by surname.

We will tell you how to proceed to sort contacts with surname first.

1. Start from the Home screen and then open the app menu

2. Tap the Contacts app.

3. Select the three-point icon in the upper-right corner, then select "Settings"

4. In the next submenu, you can now select the "Name format" entry. Here, the sequence "Last name, first name" is first selected.

5. Tap "Sort To" and select "Last Name". Finished!

From now on, the contacts in the list of contacts app with last name are listed first and then in alphabetical order. You now know how to sort contacts on the Samsung Galaxy S8 by surname.

You can arrange your apps in the app menu of the Samsung Galaxy S8 as you would like. If you do not want to use your own sorting, the Android operating system also offers you the possibility to sort your apps according to the alphabet.

The layout can be activated as follows on the Samsung Galaxy S8 by alphabetical order.

To do this, simply open the app menu from the home screen, and then tap the three-point icon in the upper-right corner. Select "Sort" from the pop-up menu that opens. You can choose from:

• Customized order
• Alphabetical order

You can now select the alphabetical order and the adjustment is applied immediately. The apps are now listed after the ABC in the app menu of your Samsung Galaxy S8.

You can use the E-Mail app on the Samsung Galaxy S8, which is installed on the device from the factory. This e-mail app offers you various settings. This also includes the polling interval also called sync frequency, which regularly checks for new e-mails on the server.

If the sync interval is too long or too short, you can customize it individually. We will show you how this works:

1. To do so, please open the app menu from your home screen and then the Samsung E-Mail app

2. Tap the bar icon (hamburger icon) in the upper-left corner, then click the gear icon at the top of the page. This will display the settings for the e-mail app.

3. Select the account to which the polling interval should be adjusted

4. Now scroll down to "Polling Settings" and tap the entry - you can now set the sync settings.

Between 15 minutes and every 4 hours everything is possible.

You now know how to customize your sync frequency e-mail settings on the Samsung Galaxy S8. If you receive a lot of e-mails, we recommend you to set it to "15 minutes".