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

Samsung One UI is completely full of options, however what should you want much more performance in your Galaxy telephone? Properly, that’s the place the corporate’s Good Lock suite of apps is available in. Good Lock apps convey further settings and options to Samsung telephones just like the Galaxy S25 collection. Want extra digicam settings and tweaks? Obtain the Digital camera Assistant app. Need to fine-tune your audio settings? That’s what Sound Assistant lets you do.

In saying so, there are a number of settings and options present in Good Lock apps that shouldn’t be hidden in a specialty app that solely geeks learn about and that I’d wish to see constructed into Samsung One UI. Listed below 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 provides this characteristic, too, however I have to obtain the Sound Assistant app to get it.

I do favor Samsung’s method, although, which lets me modify the amount of particular apps by way of an inventory in Sound Assistant with out really opening every app first. In contrast, per-app quantity controls in different Android skins sometimes require you to launch the apps in query after which modify the amount.

In any occasion, I’d positively wish to see per-app quantity controls come to One UI out of the field. That is significantly helpful should you’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 subject with the previous few Galaxy Extremely telephones has been the dangerous shutter lag delay when snapping pictures, which takes pictures half a second later than you supposed. Happily, Samsung provides us a Fast Faucet Shutter toggle to assist mitigate this downside within the Digital camera 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 slightly than whenever you elevate your finger. It’s positively helpful should you regularly take pictures of pets, children, and different fast-moving topics, and don’t need to miss the second as I typically do after I’m carrying my Samsung telephone. It deserves to be built-in into Samsung’s digicam, not in a separate add-on app.

The QuickStar app is one other welcome addition 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 cover particular standing bar icons.

This selection means he can cover icons like alarm, sound profiles, location, VPN, and extra. You may even cover 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 really out there in inventory Android again within the Marshmallow days, so it could really 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 helps you to customise the Samsung Keyboard in varied methods. This extends to animations, themes, sounds, and extra. Nevertheless, one characteristic I’d wish to see in Samsung Keyboard itself is the choice to show off the Delete accelerator.

You may maintain down the backspace key in lots of keyboard apps to delete passages of textual content, with the deletion pace growing the longer you maintain the important thing. However the Flip off delete accelerator choice in Keys Cafe lets me disable this conduct, giving me a relentless delete pace regardless of how lengthy I’m holding the backspace button. It’s not for everybody, however it may be helpful for some customers, particularly if, like me, you’ve beforehand written paragraphs of textual content and located your self unintentionally deleting the entire thing as a substitute of just some sentences.

As we speak’s smartphones are considerably bigger than units from 10 years in the past, so I completely perceive should you discover system navigation to be a ache, particularly from the corners or high notification bar. Happily, Samsung’s One Hand Operation+ app makes life just a little simpler.

The app helps 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 normal inward swipe helps you to return by default, as you’d count on. Nevertheless, you too can map diagonal inward swipes (i.e. diagonally up or diagonally down) to numerous actions. These actions embrace opening the Recents menu, going house, adjusting quantity, activating the split-screen view, toggling the flashlight, and extra. You may even select to remap the usual again gesture should you’d like. And that’s with out mentioning the flexibility to customise the dimensions and place of the swipe space or the non-compulsory long-swipe actions.

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

Like nearly all Android producers, Samsung helps you to swap out the default icons for a distinct icon pack. However what if you wish to customise the form and coloration of the default icons? You may’t do that by way of One UI, so that you’ll have to 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 might be nice (and overdue) if Samsung added this to the present wallpaper and magnificence menu in One UI. My colleague Zac would additionally wish to see extra sturdy icon pack performance within the core One UI software program. That’s as a result of Theme Park helps 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 helps you to customise your telephone’s house display and folders, however it additionally helps you to edit the feel and appear of the Job Changer/Recents menu. You may select one in all 5 diversified Job Changer kinds — I fairly just like the Stack type 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 no less than a few of these Job Changer kinds constructed proper into One UI. In any case, a number of rival Android skins allow you to swap between a few multitasking menu kinds, so why not Samsung, too?