How To About-face Your Galaxy Agenda 9 Into An Iphone

For some Android users, this adviser is blasphemy — but for others, iOS is aloof an adorable operating arrangement that can be admired after activity like you've betrayed your own phone. If you're one of those Galaxy Note 9 owners that accept peeked beyond the alley and adapted an interface as apple-pie as the one on the iPhone XS Max, you can configure your Note 9 to attending like its battling with some tinkering. First off, this will not abolish the Android operating arrangement or Samsung Experience. Instead, what this does is change several aspects to challenge the attending and feel of an iPhone. With these steps... more

For some Android users, this adviser is blasphemy — but for others, iOS is aloof an adorable operating arrangement that can be admired afterwards activity like you've betrayed your own phone. If you're one of those Galaxy Note 9 owners that acquire peeked beyond the alley and adapted an interface as apple-pie as the one on the iPhone XS Max, you can configure your Note 9 to attending like its battling with some tinkering.

First off, this will not abolish the Android operating arrangement or Samsung Experience. Instead, what this does is change several aspects to challenge the attending and feel of an iPhone. With these steps, your phone will absolutely attending like it is active iOS 12 on aboriginal glance, but you'll still acquire the ability and adaptability of Android beneath it all. And aback you're annoyed of the look, you can calmly acclimatize a few settings and acknowledgment your Note 9 aback to its aboriginal look.

Step 1: Get the iOS 12 Home Screen

While it's attainable to configure added accustomed third-party launchers, such as Nova Launcher, to attending like iOS, LuuTinh Developer has done the adamantine assignment for us. Download and install his iOS 12 replica launcher from the Play Store.

• Play Store Link: Launcher iOS 12 (free)

Once installed, attainable the app by selecting the app's figure (or borer "Open" on the app's Play Store page). A alternation of permission requests will arise which you can acquire to acquire or deny. Denying them won't breach the launcher, but you'll lose some functionality such as seeing your accustomed weather.

Next, in the capital menu, baddest "Wallpaper" and acquire the any of the provided iOS 12 wallpapers. Tap "OK" and acquire whether you appetite to change the wallpaper of the home screen, the lock screen, or both. Already you do that, your phone will alert you to baddest a absence launcher. Acquire "iOS Launcher" and baddest "Always" to set it as the absence home screen.

Finally, the acclaimed iOS notification badges requires us to accredit addition option. Acquire "Notification badges" from iOS Launcher's settings card (accessible by long-pressing any abandoned amplitude on your home screen), again accredit the toggle abutting to iOS Launcher. Acquire "Allow" to add the feature.

The abutting time you attainable the iOS Launcher, this advantage will disappear. If you anytime appetite to abolish this access, attainable your phone's capital Settings and chase for "Notification Access." Baddest this advantage to accompany up the antecedent card area you can attenuate the feature.

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Step 2: Add Control Center

So now your Galaxy Note 9's home awning looks like the iPhone Xs Max, but what about Control Center? The aforementioned developer as the iOS 12 Launcher additionally created a replica of Apple's agnate to Android's Quick Settings panel, so download and install the app application the articulation below.

• Play Store Link: Control Center iOS 12 (free)

Once installed, attainable the app by selecting its icon. Acquire "Position" and baddest "Bottom" so that you would charge to bash up from the basal bend to acknowledge Control Center, the aforementioned action as best iPhones.

Step 3: Adumbrate the Cachet Bar

The Galaxy Note 9 has a affection alleged Immersive Mode which lets you booty abounding advantage of the 6.4-inch display. Application ADB commands, you can abolish the aeronautics and cachet confined on your Galaxy Note 9 so that your home awning uses the abounding breadth of the screen.

We acquire a complete tutorial on how you can accomplish this, which you will acquisition application the articulation below. Be acquainted that you will charge a computer and USB cable to accomplish this, so be abiding you accumulate that accessories beforehand. Also, the abutting footfall will adumbrate the aeronautics bar, so do not access abounding Immersive Mode or adumbrate the aeronautics buttons.

• More Info: How to Adumbrate Your Aeronautics Bar Application Immersive Mode

Step 4: Add Action Controls

XDA has created an app that provides the aforementioned action controls begin in iPhone Xs Max to any Android device. Similar to the apps before, you will charge to do some tinkering, but already done, you'll be able to cross your phone aloof like an iPhone XS Max. Use the articulation beneath to install the app assimilate your Galaxy Note 9.

• Play Store Link: Navigation Gestures - Bash Action Controls! (free)

Open the app and baddest the appropriate arrow to beforehand to the abutting page. On this new page, you'll be asked to accredit an Accessibility Service for the app to simulate the aboriginal aeronautics buttons. Acquire "Grant" and accredit the toggle on the abutting page. Already enabled, you will acknowledgment to the "Welcome" page.

Advance to the abutting folio application the appropriate arrow, again the app will ask you to use ADB commands to adumbrate the cachet bar permanently. Since you already acclimated ADB commands to access Immersive Mode, this footfall isn't too difficult.

On your computer, alter Command Alert or Terminal to the platform-tools folder. Connect your Galaxy Note 9, attainable Developer Options and accredit "USB Debugging." A pop-up should arise allurement if you'd like to "Allow USB debugging?" Baddest "OK" to acquiesce your computer to accelerate ADB commands. Already accepted, run the afterward command:

Windows users: adb carapace pm admission com.xda.nobar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS
Mac/Linux Users: ./adb carapace pm admission com.xda.nobar android.permission.WRITE_SECURE_SETTINGS

Press enter, and afterwards a abrupt pause, ADB will actualize a new line. Disconnect your phone and baddest the appropriate arrow in the Aeronautics Gestures app. Press the appropriate arrow until you ability the end, which is appointed by a white checkmark. Baddest the white checkmark to be brought to a new page, the app's capital menu.

Choose the accessory figure in the upper-right bend and baddest "Gestures." As you can see, some of the gestures are already configured, but we charge to change a few to challenge iOS properly. First, baddest "Swipe Up" and acquire "Home." Again acquire "Swipe Up and Hold" and acquire "Recent Apps."

Since the aback button is so acute for Android, I would acclaim abrogation the "Swipe Left" action as a Aback button. However, I would acclaim switching "Swipe Right" to "No Action" and "Swipe Left and Hold" to "Previous apps," but neither is necessary.

Note: Since you are application the app to adumbrate the aeronautics buttons, you will charge to unhide the buttons aural the app if you anytime acquire to uninstall it. Otherwise, you won't acquire any aeronautics buttons.

And with that, you've angry your Galaxy Note 9 into an iPhone! We did this on our Verizon Wireless Galaxy Note 9 and were thoroughly afflicted by how accessible it was to challenge iOS on Android (try accomplishing it the added way about — no chance). At aboriginal glance, you could candidly ambush your accompany into assertive you are application the iPhone Xs Max.

Whether you appetite to appearance off the customization adaptability of the Galaxy Note 9 or you absence your old iPhone, with these four steps, you can calmly about-face your Galaxy into an iPhone and acquire the best of both worlds.

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