Some Android OEMs have backed off from making tablets over the last few years. But not Samsung, though. It always seemed to have another Android slate in the pipeline, boring though many of them are. The Galaxy Tab S3 certainly wasn’t. This was a premium tablet with a sleek metal glass chassis; it shipped with a redesigned Samsung pen stylus. It was not cheap, though. Here are ten tips to help you take full advantage of your splendid new tablet.

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         Customize Air Command

Air Command offers quick access to stylus-oriented features. First, press the Samsung pen button, and Air Command will appear. But don’t let Samsung tell you what to include in Air Command. You can add your own and remove the default ones. Open Air Command and tap the Add shortcut button. The active shortcuts are listed on the right side of the screen. Tap any app on the left to add or remove it from the list. You can also hide the floating Air Command bubble when it’s not in use by going to Advanced features > Samsung Pen > Air Command > Floating icon.

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      S Pen Text Selection

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      Smart Select

Samsung brought over one of Note 7’s premiere features to the Tab S3, a screen capture tool called Smart Select. It’s accessible from the Air Comm menu. When activated, it pulled up a selection tool with options for a square, circular, or lasso mode. Click one and use the Samsung Pen to draw the selection area. It would be instantly cropped out so you could edit, extract text, and draw on it. A GIF mode also captures an area of the screen and saves the animation to your tablet.

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Set Up Custom Power Saving

          Secure Folder

When it’s all set, you can add copies of any app on your tablet to the Secure Folder. These copies will only be accessible in the Secure Folder, so the data they contain is entirely secure. The same goes for files you add to Secure Folder. There’s no way to access any of them without your unlock code. The screenshots taken in the Secure Folder are safe inside the encrypted directory.