7 glorious Good Lock options I might prefer to see in Samsung One UI

Samsung One UI is totally filled with options, however what if you happen to want much more performance in your Galaxy cellphone? Properly, that’s the place the corporate’s Good Lock suite of apps is available in. Good Lock apps carry further settings and options to Samsung telephones just like the Galaxy S25 collection. Want extra digicam settings and tweaks? Obtain the Digicam Assistant app. Need to fine-tune your audio settings? That’s what Sound Assistant permits you to do.

In saying so, there are a couple of settings and options present in Good Lock apps that shouldn’t be hidden in a specialty app that solely geeks find out about and that I’d prefer to see constructed into Samsung One UI. Listed here are my picks.

I’m a sucker for per-app quantity controls, which permit me to independently modify every app’s quantity output. I’ve seen Xiaomi, Vivo, and others undertake this performance of their Android skins, and Samsung affords this characteristic, too, however I must obtain the Sound Assistant app to get it.

I do desire Samsung’s strategy, although, which lets me modify the quantity of particular apps through a listing in Sound Assistant with out truly opening every app first. In contrast, per-app quantity controls in different Android skins usually require you to launch the apps in query after which modify the quantity.

In any occasion, I’d positively prefer to see per-app quantity controls come to One UI out of the field. That is significantly useful if you happen to’re like me and solely actually take heed to audio in particular apps (e.g. YouTube, YouTube Music, and podcast apps), and like the others to stay silent.

One situation with the previous few Galaxy Extremely telephones has been the dangerous shutter lag delay when snapping images, which takes images half a second later than you supposed. Thankfully, Samsung provides us a Fast Faucet Shutter toggle to assist mitigate this drawback within the Digicam Assistant app and snap the second once we want it.

This toggle successfully reduces shutter lag by taking your photograph as quickly as you press the digicam shutter key moderately than while you carry your finger. It’s positively helpful if you happen to ceaselessly take images of pets, children, and different fast-moving topics, and don’t need to miss the second as I usually do after I’m carrying my Samsung cellphone. It deserves to be built-in into Samsung’s digicam, not in a separate add-on app.

The QuickStar app is one other welcome boost to the armada of Good Lock apps, letting you customise your fast settings panel and extra. My colleague and Samsung fanatic Zac Kew-Denniss significantly likes one in all its options — the choice to point out or conceal particular standing bar icons.

This selection means he can conceal icons like alarm, sound profiles, location, VPN, and extra. You possibly can even conceal icons associated to your mobile sign, IMS community (e.g. 4G, voLTE), Wi-Fi, airplane mode, and NFC. Zac factors out that this selection was truly obtainable in inventory Android again within the Marshmallow days, so it could truly be a case of Samsung bringing this again to the place it belongs.

Samsung additionally has the Keys Cafe app as a part of its Good Lock suite, and this app allows you to customise the Samsung Keyboard in numerous methods. This extends to animations, themes, sounds, and extra. Nonetheless, one characteristic I’d prefer to see in Samsung Keyboard itself is the choice to show off the Delete accelerator.

You possibly can maintain down the backspace key in lots of keyboard apps to delete passages of textual content, with the deletion velocity growing the longer you maintain the important thing. However the Flip off delete accelerator possibility in Keys Cafe lets me disable this conduct, giving me a continuing delete velocity irrespective of how lengthy I’m holding the backspace button. It’s not for everybody, however it may be useful for some customers, particularly if, like me, you’ve beforehand written paragraphs of textual content and located your self by accident deleting the entire thing as an alternative of only a few sentences.

As we speak’s smartphones are considerably bigger than gadgets from 10 years in the past, so I completely perceive if you happen to discover system navigation to be a ache, particularly from the corners or prime notification bar. Thankfully, Samsung’s One Hand Operation+ app makes life a bit of simpler.

The app allows you to allow a novel gesture navigation system that makes use of the again gesture (swiping inward from the left or proper fringe of the show). A regular inward swipe allows you to return by default, as you’d anticipate. Nonetheless, it’s also possible to map diagonal inward swipes (i.e. diagonally up or diagonally down) to numerous actions. These actions embody opening the Recents menu, going house, adjusting quantity, activating the split-screen view, toggling the flashlight, and extra. You possibly can even select to remap the usual again gesture if you happen to’d like. And that’s with out mentioning the power to customise the scale and place of the swipe space or the optionally available long-swipe actions.

It’s a really cool navigation methodology, and I’d actually prefer to see it in One UI at giant. So, I’m retaining my fingers crossed that Samsung listens and integrates this into its core software program.

Like just about all Android producers, Samsung allows you to swap out the default icons for a special icon pack. However what if you wish to customise the form and coloration of the default icons? You possibly can’t do that through One UI, so that you’ll must obtain the Theme Park app.

That is fairly annoying as many OEMs let me customise the form and coloration of the default icons straight out of the field. It will be nice (and overdue) if Samsung added this to the prevailing wallpaper and magnificence menu in One UI. My colleague Zac would additionally prefer to see extra sturdy icon pack performance within the core One UI software program. That’s as a result of Theme Park allows you to use icon packs you’ve downloaded from different sources, whereas One UI restricts you to icon packs from the Galaxy Retailer.

Samsung’s House Up app allows you to customise your cellphone’s house display screen and folders, however it additionally allows you to edit the feel and appear of the Job Changer/Recents menu. You possibly can select one in all 5 assorted Job Changer types — I fairly just like the Stack model seen within the first picture — whereas additionally selecting whether or not or to not present app labels and the search bar on this menu.

I’d like to see at the least a few of these Job Changer types constructed proper into One UI. In spite of everything, a couple of rival Android skins allow you to swap between a few multitasking menu types, so why not Samsung, too?