The secret menu of Samsung Gallery that allows you to save images in PDF and lock albums with a PIN

The Samsung Gallery app allows activate a secret menu which opens a range of possibilities to users of the South Korean firm’s mobile devices, with options such as selecting a series of images to save in PDF format or protecting an album with a password.

He ‘Gallery Labs’ menu It appears in the Gallery settings when you click ten times on the version number of the ‘app’, within the ‘About Gallery’ section.

Once inside Gallery Labs, all the extra functions that can be activated are sorted by One UI version in which they were launched. In fact, the first of them is from One UI 8 and offers the possibility of choosing optional categories for collections, to organize and group several albums under a higher category.

There are some options that are enabled by default, such as ‘Use AI Zoom’, which enhance an image by enlarging itor ‘Go to Studio’, the shortcut to go to the video editor, which can be disabled if not used often.

Among all the functions included in the secret menu of this ‘app’, some of the most useful are ‘Slideshow with selected items’which allows you to select several images to create a presentation, or ‘Save as PDF’, which creates a file in that format from the selected images. Additionally, the following function allows you to print multiple images.

When it comes to video, ‘Gallery Labs’ offers the option of change player mode In the traditional way (with the typical ‘legacy’ playback bar), disable the previews that play automatically in the gallery or have the app select an intermediate or random frame as the video thumbnail.

Another option is lock a photo album with a passworda function similar to ‘Secure Folder’ or ‘Private Album’, although it must be noted that, despite this block, the images it contains are still accessible through Samsung’s own file explorer or other applications that have access to the mobile device’s storage.

Regarding the extra information it can offer, ‘Show trash storage info’ shows in detail the amount of storage it takes up the trash canand ‘Timeline in album’ groups photos by date in album view.

Finally, there is an option that allows you to revert all changes made in this Samsung secret menu, which is frequently updated by the mobile phone manufacturer.

Plus, there are more features, such as the ability to make a copy of the album database, open images in another window (ideal for multitasking), or screen mirroring mode in the viewfinder.