Many Galaxy Watch users lamented the loss of the physical bezel on the latest Samsung wearables.

But before you try them out, you’ll want to check the bezel is enabled.

If it isn’t, you could enable it in the parameters.

a Samsung Galaxy Watch on a desk

Tiles are shortcuts to the apps and features of your watch, designed to make navigating the equipment easier.

Scrolling the bezel anti-clockwise will move to the left, to the notification screen.

Scrolling clockwise will scroll through any tiles to the right of the watch screen.

galaxy watch quick settings

The more tiles you have active, the more useful bezel scrolling will be.

It is much quicker to use the touch bezel.

Because the circumference of the bezel is bigger, fine adjustments to the brightness are also easier to make.

general settings in Galaxy Watch 5

Rotate the touch bezel clockwise to take the call and anti-clockwise to reject it.

This use for the bezel is made clearer by the finger placement guides.

These appear on the right and left of the screen when a call is coming in.

the touch bezel settings

Speed Through the Watch Menus

Some of the menus on the Galaxy Watch are pretty long.

And the faster you rotate the touch bezel, the faster the menu will scroll.

But you’re free to make your life a bit easier by scrolling with the touch bezel.

galaxy watch brightness slider

This works for both still photos and videos.

It’s very handy if you’ve blocked touches on the earphones themselves.

The touch bezel is a great way to adjust the volume of whatever you are listening to.

samsung galaxy watch settings menu

This bezel trick will also work if you areusing Spotify on your Galaxy Watch.

Sliding the bezel up to the left cancels the alarm.

Sliding up and to the right snoozes it for five minutes.

text on a Galaxy Watch screen

Check out more tips for using thealarm, timer, and stopwatch apps on your Samsung Galaxy Watch.

Commonly, the bezel would become unresponsive at times and fail to register the touch of a finger.

This is a known problem.

The media player app on Galaxy Watch

All it’s crucial that you do is refresh your watch software.

you might tune up your Galaxy Watch by going toSettings > Software Update.

TapDownload and Install, and follow the update steps on the screen.

cancelling an alarm on Galaxy Watch 5