Smart View is a great little feature that lets you mirror your smartphone screen Galaxy on a Samsung Smart TV or mirror the TV screen back to your smartphone. The second option can be useful if, for example, you are watching TV, want to go make a coffee and do not want to miss the event. With Smart View you can on your phone Galaxy watch your TV screen if both devices are connected to the same network.
The downside is that you don't have much control over your smart TV when you watch it via Smart View on your smartphone. You might imagine that Smart View allows you to control the TV's user interface using the touch screen, but it doesn't work that way.
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Smart View only offers a few buttons on the screen to switch channels or source between the TV and HDMI. You can also turn the TV on or off and adjust the aspect ratio. And you also have a rather useless "Back" button, but that's about it. You cannot access or control streaming apps in the UI.
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However, there is a way, albeit a rather tricky one, to get full control of your Samsung TV when using the Smart View feature on your phone Galaxy. It requires using possibly the strangest combination of phone features Galaxy, but it works. The procedure is as follows:
- When watching TV in Smart View on your phone, use the double swipe gesture from right to left to activate Multi Window mode.
- Launch the SmartThings app next to Smart View in Multi Window mode.
- Navigate through the SmartThings interface to access your devices and select the TV you're watching in Smart View on the other half of the screen.
- If you're using your phone in landscape mode (which is likely in Smart View mode), SmartThings will restrict you from using the remote control feature. A message prompting "Increase window size to use this feature" will cover the screen.
- The final piece of the puzzle is turning the phone 90 degrees to portrait, with Smart View playing on one half of the screen and SmartThings taking up the other. Once you do so and maximize the SmartThings window, the above prompt will disappear and you are free to access the remote control feature.
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With Multi Window and SmartThings Remote, you now have full control over your Samsung TV while watching it in Smart View mode on your phone Galaxy. It's not the most elegant method, and the Korean giant probably never intended it to work, but what's important is that it actually works. It should be noted that there is some input lag between the remote control and Smart View, but as strange as this combination of functions may seem, it works and you can use it to control your TV in Smart View without limitation.
